Amrit Rai

As you were no doubt told when you first started watching football, going in 0-0 at half time of an away game is no bad thing.

Arsenal should have been out of sight by halftime in the north London derby, so how did Spurs end up with a draw?

On 4th July 1998 in Marseille, Dennis Bergkamp turned in a performance that for 89 minutes of the match was considerably shy of his brilliant…

When something isn’t going your way, you either try to work harder to make it happen, or you try to work smarter; in the final 25 minutes against Sunderland on Saturday, Arsenal did a bit of both.

The midfield configuration in Carlo Ancelotti’s great Milan side had the technical prowess and brains of Andrea Pirlo at the base, Gennaro Gattuso as the pitbull ballwinner slightly ahead of him, and then the creative spark of Kaka as its number 10. Arsenal have Francis Coquelin

Mesut Özil rightly took the plaudits as Arsenal’s standout performer in last night’s 6-0 win over Ludogorets, as The Perfect 10 crowned his sublime overall performance with his first ever senior hat-trick in the second half but it’s the Ox who we taker a closer look at.

For many, the highlight of Saturday’s win against Swansea was birthday boy Mesut Özil’s sumptuous volley.

After two exhilarating champagne and caviar displays against Chelsea and Basel, Arsenal were very much back to sausages at Burnley, but managed to escape Turf Moor with all three points after a somewhat fortuitous last-minute winner.

In the first of his regular post-match tactics pieces, Amrit Rae explains why it’s taken so long to integrate Granit Xhaka at Arsenal