Arsenal Thread | 2025/26

waspish said:
Why they irate and panicking they are 2 points in front and Villa are a very hard place to go plus it’s only 14 games in!
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Exactly. Ahead of the pack. However I think their upset will be that they've been very, very good and we've been shite, Liverpool have been shite and they're only 2 points ahead.
 
malg said:
Exactly. Ahead of the pack. However I think their upset will be that they've been very, very good and we've been shite, Liverpool have been shite and they're only 2 points ahead.
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I think to be fair the fixtures have been harder for Arsenal, plus Arsenal have played 1 more away game than City but also that point against 10 man Chelsea isn't looking quite so clever now.

Just need to get through the Xmas break, must play the Carabao team against Bruges midweek, beat wolves on Saturday and move on. Only City away stands out as a difficult game although we are home to Liverpool in the new year who I imagine may be rejuvenated with a new manager in place.

All the talk about us being 10 points ahead by now is nonsense - we've been good at home but away it has been scraped wins at Old Toilet and Newcastle, 1-0 win at Fulham and a routine win at Burnley which you'd expect us to do. We lost at the Dippers and now Villa, and drew at 10 man Chelsea and Sunderland. Not exactly terrifying form. It's the Emirates that is a fortress and will need to remain so.
 
bridgeno1 said:
I think to be fair the fixtures have been harder for Arsenal, plus Arsenal have played 1 more away game than City but also that point against 10 man Chelsea isn't looking quite so clever now.

Just need to get through the Xmas break, must play the Carabao team against Bruges midweek, beat wolves on Saturday and move on. Only City away stands out as a difficult game although we are home to Liverpool in the new year who I imagine may be rejuvenated with a new manager in place.

All the talk about us being 10 points ahead by now is nonsense - we've been good at home but away it has been scraped wins at Old Toilet and Newcastle, 1-0 win at Fulham and a routine win at Burnley which you'd expect us to do. We lost at the Dippers and now Villa, and drew at 10 man Chelsea and Sunderland. Not exactly terrifying form. It's the Emirates that is a fortress and will need to remain so.
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I think they'll have expected to be more than 2 points ahead. However I do get the fixtures stuff.

I'd rather it was this close though, we don't want the league to be finished by February.

Again, we'll have a better view of the race come February. I'd still have Arsenal as favourites. I think the last few years will have made them stronger and maybe, just maybe, Arteta will have taken a lot of lessens on board.
 
bridgeno1 said:
Tactically I can't figure out what Arteta was doing in the 1st half - at times Calafiori was inverting into a 10 position and Eze of all people was supposed to be covering back for him, but fell asleep for the Cash goal.

2nd half we started well but once we equalised we took the foot off their throats. Whilst we were bringing on Lewis-Skelly to try and defend out the game Emery brought on attackers to try and win it. On balance of chances I can't begrudge them the win - Watkins should have done better with a couple of moments he had and we didn't seem to have much urgency apart from the 15 mins after half time.

The centre back situation is a problem- seems Saliba may be out for most of December. Strangely we play Villa again this month at the Emirates.
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We play Sunderland again soon.

The rags play Wolves on Monday and later in the month.

I think it’s the same for all 20 teams.
 
No surprise at this result, no real backbone. Absolutely no striker. Spunked nearly €80M on a championship striker - bizarre. Good to see though haha
Seems the bottle loss has started early
 
Fun aftet that resuly telling tarquins that if they had kept Emery thry would have already won the league again and see them meltdown that he was shit and arteta is better.

One man got a season and a bit the other 5 years and going on.
 
bridgeno1 said:
I think to be fair the fixtures have been harder for Arsenal, plus Arsenal have played 1 more away game than City but also that point against 10 man Chelsea isn't looking quite so clever now.

Just need to get through the Xmas break, must play the Carabao team against Bruges midweek, beat wolves on Saturday and move on. Only City away stands out as a difficult game although we are home to Liverpool in the new year who I imagine may be rejuvenated with a new manager in place.

All the talk about us being 10 points ahead by now is nonsense - we've been good at home but away it has been scraped wins at Old Toilet and Newcastle, 1-0 win at Fulham and a routine win at Burnley which you'd expect us to do. We lost at the Dippers and now Villa, and drew at 10 man Chelsea and Sunderland. Not exactly terrifying form. It's the Emirates that is a fortress and will need to remain so.
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You almost make sense until I politely point out that the Dippers of last season who probably were slightly better than your current lot but not by much would have been almost out of sight by now.

They did what you are failing to do and that was have the league sewn up by Christmas and in doing so killing off any moral and hope from other potential title challengers.

You talk about having hard games out of the way but in a tight title run in there are no easy matches and the quality of teams usually takes a backseat to who can hold their nerve and have a better mentality. This is usually where City come into their own. We only lose if you blow us away early. Invite us into the race (which your doing) and recent history says it’s not going to end well for you.
 
TonyColemansbagofapples said:
Reaney was a dirty twat but, as you said, Madeley not too bad. Cherry could put it about once he joined them. From later years, McQueen and, especially, Joe Jordan were animals.
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Always makes me smile thinking back to the old days
McQueen and Jordan..Dirty players,.both played for dirty teams,who hated each other.... for Money.
Lovely.
 
bridgeno1 said:
Given that virtually our entire forward line was out for much of the season and now the defenders are out, if we win the title this season is that the most impressive title win given the circumstances?
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I think any team will struggle to win a title more impressive than City on 2018/19. It often gets overlooked as a consequence of the Centurion and Treble seasons but to win the last 14 games of a PL season, and to have to win every single one, whilst simultaneously fighting for three other trophies (and winning two of them) is a truly incredible sporting achievement. City actually won 18 of the 19 games that comprised the second half of that season which encompassed every other team in the division. If one of those 18 games had been a draw Liverpool would have won the league.

The mental strength to do that is simply off the scale, irrespective of ability.
 
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