By: Shard aka @ShardGooner Arsenal have ended 2021 in pretty good shape. In 4th place, semi-finals of the League Cup, and over the last month or so, playing quite well. But the new year is going to bring new challenges. Starting with the toughest of them on the first day….
December 2021
In recent victories over Leeds and West Ham Arsenal has created 20 shots in contrast to earlier in the season when they barely scratched single digits in shot creation. On the evidence of these two matches, highlighted by the goalscoring of Gabriel Martinelli in particular, a relevant question is whether…
#ARSWHU match review by @ShardGooner Arsenal took on West Ham in a possibly crucial top 4 shootout. But you’d hardly have known it as all the pre-match discourse was dominated by Arsenal’s announcement that Aubameyang had been stripped of the captaincy and dropped from the side. Predictably this led to…
Match preview by @ShardGooner Having unsurprisingly failed to deliver on hope and expectations, Arsenal wisely went into somewhat of a media blackout. Sticking their necks out just enough to take us on a pleasant trip down memory lane with retro kits. The ‘Saka with dog’ photos were an additional work…
#EVEARS match preview by Shard aka @ShardGooner Another game, another defeat, another argument about the culpability or lack thereof of the manager in his team’s fortunes. No point going over all that again I suppose. This is just who Arteta is. In his play and in his deflections. I do…
YouTube Match Review: In the post-game match review with Blackburn George, Ehab and yours truly, we share the disappointment and frustration of most Gooners in losing to a poor, disjointed, hesitant Manchester United team but emphasize the fault is not the players. As it has been all season, this team…
Match preview by Shard aka @ShardGooner To Old Trafford to play the old enemy. Both clubs aren’t where most of us believe they ought to be and that makes it an intriguing battle. ManU of course decided they needed a change because their targets were more oriented to a title…