Posted in Match Report on Aug 22nd, 2026
Arsenal opened the season with a comprehensive 3-0 victory over promoted Coventry amid a joyous atmosphere as the Champions showed an incredible appetite to expand the range of their play by adding creativity all over the pitch to a gegen press that emphatically put Coventry in their place. It had been an unusual day for […]
Posted in Match Report on Aug 16th, 2026
After a gap of 6 years, our season kicked off with the Community Shield though this year it’s in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium not Wembley. We have won the last five Community Shields in which we’ve participated though the last time we lost this match was at this very venue (then called the Millennium Stadium) in […]
Posted in Match Report on Aug 13th, 2026
Embed from Getty Images And so, to the last of the pre-season friendlies. The Arsenal team contained a few surprises, and a few still, thankfully, missing, e.g. Zubimendi, Rice and Saka. The starting team was: Kepa Julienne Gabriel Salmon Hincapie Nwaneri MLS Eze Dowman Jesus Martinelli We had our first sight of goal in only […]
Posted in Match Report on Aug 9th, 2026
Mikel Arteta made two changes from the team that started against Betis for the Emirates Cup starting line-up against BVB, bringing Gabriel in for Hincapié and Ødegaard for Nwaneri. New signing Guimarães neither made the team nor the bench but did take the field wearing a home shirt to wave to the crowd from whom […]
Posted in Match Report on Aug 6th, 2026
So, after the farce of the Girona game where Arsenal’s IT department managed to prove that ,in an increasingly tech-savvy world, there is still a place for the enthusiastic amateur, we move on to Betis. The starting team was identical to that which took the field in Spain. Betis had Bellerin, resplendent with full-on “1970s […]
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