Morning all.
Gabriel Martinelli has been named Arsenal’s player of the month for the second time running having scooped 41% of the fans votes for January. He’s been really good. He’s a workaholic down our left side, he plays without fear and causes defenders all sorts of problems. The only time I can remember him getting little joy in a match was against Nottingham Forest when Djed Spence had him in his pocket. If there’s one thing lacking from his game at the moment though, it’s goals. The same could be said about Arsenal in general though and if anything costs us a European spot at the end of the season, I think that’ll be it. Goals scored.
Man Utd dropped two points last night against Burnley at Turf Moor. I didn’t watch it but from what I’ve read, scoring goals was the downfall for both sides. Rashford, Ronaldo and Cavani yet they could only manage one and that was scored by Pogba.
Newcastle crept out of the relegation places by beating Everton 3-1.
The West Ham ‘cat kicker’ and his team scraped a 1-0 victory over Watford. If including Zouma in the team is the discipline West Ham were reported to dish out his way then perhaps Moyes should have a word with Mikel Arteta. He knows what discipline means. Footballers are no different to anyone else. Live within the law or get punished and after the Metropolitan Police declared their disinterest in dealing with Zouma, I’m so pleased that the Essex constabulary are on the case. Hopefully, the least punishment Zouma will receive is a lifetime ban on keeping animals. B*****d!
Tonight there are more fixtures, the ones relevant to Arsenal being Totts v Southampton and Aston Villa v Leeds. Two away wins or two draws would do nicely.
Arsenal have a bit of history of being sloppy after a break but that’s usually an international break. This two weeks has been all about preparing for the remainder of the season. There’s been enough time to examine Wolves tactics, where their strengths and weaknesses are too.
Just over a year ago, Arsenal went to Wolves and battered them from the off. Bukayo Saka hit the post within the opening seconds. The same player then had a goal ruled out for offside by VAR before he and Pepe saw great strikes saved by keeper Patrício. But Pepe did get on the scoresheet and it looked like his goal would be the first of a few for us that night. But then came the Luiz red card and that was it. Well, there was still time for Bernd Leno to get sent off too.
What is it with Arsenal and red cards? I know the officials are quick to wave their cards at Arsenal players but as said before, if there’s no decision for them to make, they can’t make it. If Arsenal want a top six finish, we have to finish games with the same number of players on the pitch as we start with.
I’ve waffled on enough.
See you in the comments.
Morning Rico and all
We have to get something out of every match therefore, Because we can’t score goals we collect red cards. Just kidding 😆
Morning Geoff, all.
You’re not far wrong..
Our strikers better start firing up after all it’s going to look embarrassing if our trophy for most goals scored goes to a player that plays of the bench
Morning mates.
I’m usually not this jerk, but reading the post I couldn’t help myself from paraphrasing a movie quote:
– Arsenal have a bit of history of being sloppy after a break but that’s usually an international break.
– Say that again?
– I said, Arsenal have a bit of history of being sloppy…
– Stop. That part of it you got right.
Can you guess the movie?
No idea Pbarany
Good morning Rico, worry he ye not, I like a good waffle. 😉
Usually during an international break the players are subjected to varying meteorological conditions and long plane journeys so the recent break should not have such a deleterious effect…..oh wait a minute, training in the middle-eastern desert and flying back and forth hmm. 😕
Morning Cicero, at least they’d have been back a few days. Next year Tenerife then? Lol
To harden them up, let them train on the Beeston Bump on the North Norfolk coast.
Hopefully this trip to Dubai helped them improve on their game not just their suntan
Hunting down the pack when the next ones up are Wolves .
Bet you didn’t mean it .
I did Potter, I knew someone would see it and should have known it’d be you.. 😀
Never seen it Pbarany.
You have began to see the way my mind works.
If at all.
Not a must-see classic, Rico, but mindless fun from the better kind.
Full of funny one-liners and parodistic bad-ass action sequences.
In Hungary we say “tolerable with soda” a phrase associated with wine: a med-quality product which wouldn’t satisfy a connoisseur, but could make a decent spritzer combined with soda water.
let them train on the Beeston Bump on the North Norfolk coast.
Or on Happisburgh beach , the could play avoid the houses and cafes as the climb the collapsing cliffs .
Good for the calf muscles.
Oh when the Saints go marching in…. 🙂
Nice result Sue . Is that what levelling up means
Well the results of our competitors have in general gone in our favour, sonall we need to do now is not muck up, but this is Arsenal…..
Sure is , and this is the perfect opportunity for the backwards step.
Since we are prone to concede a goal, it will be crucial to score more.
However Wolves conceded 2 goals in only 4 occasions this season in all (!) competitions – the last time was early November – and they managed to earn 4 points in those 4 games.
They are quite compact at the back, with Sa and Kilman being in particular good form. On the other hand they have lost Traore to Barcelona, while Hwang Hee-Chan and Raúl Jiménez are not the most formidable attackers even in their good forms (from which they are far at the moment), so a 0:0 wouldn’t be surprising, but surely disappointing.
Wolves 21 games scored 19 , conceeded 16 so far . Got nil nil written all over it taking our great scoring capacity into accouint.
Morning all
New post up now