it’s about as valid as saying yesterday was a setback for Arsenals braveheart spirit as if North London has scottish tradition.
Nice of ESPNsoccernet to put the formations teams use underneath their names but why are Forest still playing suicidal Angeball with 1 at the back
The table compression is crazy: there’s only 5 pts separating 2nd and 13th places! For the time being anyway.
We are winning the league, but City is gonna be our competition. Now that we have played more than ten games, we can to see how the league is going to shake out.
I just tuned in, caught up with the first half, and heard Rebecca say “2-nil is a dangerous old score line“. Not sure that applies today though?
Helps when the center ref is paid by their owners. The disallowed Liverpool goal wouldn’t have happened the other way.
City wins as one would expect, we an pretty much get rid of Liverpool as competition for the title, 10 points behind us. What we will need having to face Tottenham and Chelsea coming up is a huge favor from Newcastle as they host City in City's next league game. City also has to go to Palace in December. Other than that, I'd expect City to win the remainder of the games this calendar year. We need another run of wins. We win the NLD, City draw at the Toon, we are back to 6 points and a decent buffer. The Arsenal needs a lot of buffers
Doku having a blinder. If he were ours, this would trigger a muscle injury and we wouldn't see him again until April.
And then there were two? It’s always disturbing to see Pep smiling so much. And sadly his 1000th game went a lot better than Arsene’s did.
This is the most confident I've felt about a title race. We just need everyone back because we are going to go deep into all 3 cup competitons. I am hoping City does as well. We need them to be playing mid week as well. Newcastle away, Fulham away, Sunderland home and Palace away are their probable banana skin fixtures in the league. Having to play Sunderland on the 6th before facing Real Madrid in Spain on the 10th, they'll likely rest a few key players for the league game. As we establshed before, the 2 and half hour flight to Madrid from Manchester is as easy as going up the M1 for a 2.5 hours. So, it shouldn't affect them the following weekend.
He is every chance to slip on a blade of grass next week and ping a hammy based on his injury history last season. Also just about impossible for Pool to win the league now. Haven't been able to get the data from far enough back, but in the last 15 years give or take teams at most have lost 3 games by MD11 and have won the league. 4+ losses is a bridge too far. Im sure somewhere along the line maybe someone has, but then I bet that would be a season where there wasn't 2 teams who were clearly above the rest of the league and positions 2-16 are very close.
My favourite is the way people make a lederhosen joke as soon as they meet any german. Extra points for making a lederhosen joke to a woman. I guess it's similar to thinking all Americans own a cowboy hat.
It's like an extra special class of Dad Joke that people feel comfortable making in business meetings yet is The Office level cringe
How many points ahead of City at a bare minimum will you think we are prohibitive favorites? Liverpool is 8 points behind and most are saying they are no longer title rivals.
Yup! And also, assuming that we'll have a fully stocked, fully fit squad by December, is also a fools errand IMHO. Of course we'd all love to see it, but that's just not the way lady luck tends to treat you, or at least not Arsenal FC.