Posted in Match Report on Nov 30th, 2020
The architecture of footballing success is a less definitive and structured endeavor than what the aftermath of success deludes us to believe. There is no one grand plan where everything comes together by their logical inevitability, but a series of steps executed with different degrees of convictions, often arriving at the right combination of things […]
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Posted in Match Preview on Nov 28th, 2020
What Is and what might have been When the Premier League fixture list for season 2020-21 was released on August 20th, it was immediately apparent that the early set of fixtures would represent a real challenge for Mikel Arteta and the Arsenal. Before this season’s opener, there was good reason to be confident that, going […]
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Posted in Match Report on Nov 26th, 2020
An Arsenal squad that has, this season, both raised our hopes and dashed them horribly, made their way to the frozen north aiming to cement qualification for the Europa League knock-out rounds. In the PL we have averaged just over 9 shots per game yielding a mere 9 goals in 9 games whereas in this […]
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Posted in Match Preview on Nov 25th, 2020
Remember, Remember the 5th of November? A few short weeks ago on that very day we welcomed Molde FK to The Arsenal on the back of an enjoyable victory at Man United. You might even say a roseate glow gleamed across the golden Goonerverse as we sailed serenely through seas of sunken Solskjaers. How I […]
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Posted in Match Report on Nov 23rd, 2020
After a fortnight of international football where most Arsenal players needed to travel around the world while a pandemic is raging, the team regrouped only a few days back to prepare for what was expected to be a particularly difficult away trip against the newly promoted Leeds, managed by the managers’ manager, Marcelo Bielsa. The […]
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