Dan Critchlow Archives: 10/2019

Another international break is now over, with 18 Arsenal players featuring for their countries at youth or senior level this time around.

Eddie Nketiah believes he should be playing more than he is for Leeds United, and he’s glad he’s had a chance to prove as much on England duty.

David Ornstein claims tracking data in training sessions is one of the factors keeping Mesut Özil out of the Arsenal team at the moment.

Eddie Nketiah scored four goals for the England u21s over the international break, despite having a penalty saved.

Sven Mislintat has been singing the praises of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, claiming the Arsenal striker is one of the best professionals around.

David Ornstein has revealed he was told Arsenal would have signed Antoine Griezmann in 2017 if they’d qualified for the Champions League.

Bristol City will move for Eddie Nketiah if they believe Arsenal might recall him from Leeds United, but no such talks have taken place between the player and his parent club just yet.

Jordi Osei-Tutu made his comeback to the VfL Bochum team last week, playing his first game under Thomas Reis, so we got a match report on his performance from Bochum themselves.

Sam Greenwood kept his excellent recent goalscoring record for the England youth teams going with a winner against Slovakia on Monday.

The logical feeling is that Freddie Ljungberg would get the interim Arsenal head coach job if anything happened with Unai Emery, according to David Ornstein.

Olivier Giroud says he can’t accept his current role at Chelsea and he believes he won the battle for a starting position against Alvaro Morata and Gonzalo Higuain.

Excluding penalties, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has the best conversion rate of any Premier League player with 10+ goals since he joined the club.

Santi Cazorla says he’s just taking things day by day, refusing to get carried away with the possibility of playing in the European Championships next summer.

Alexis Sanchez has dislocated tendons in his left ankle, picking up an injury whilst on international duty with Chile.

FC Barcelona are planning to rival Arsenal for the signing of Donyell Malen, according to reports in Spain.

VAR official Anthony Taylor reportedly believed Nicolas Pepe should have had a penalty against Bournemouth, but he didn’t overturn the referee’s decision.

Nicolas Pepe scored a flick from close range for Ivory Coast in his first game of the international break, assisted by Wilfried Zaha.

The Premier League have introduced a Young Player of the Season award for this season, so let’s have a look at the Arsenal stars who are in contention for it.

Mesut Özil and Per Mertesacker recommended to Joachim Low that he call up Serge Gnabry back in 2014 before the winger suffered an injury.

Dennis Bergkamp says Arsenal’s current situation is difficult and it hurts sometimes, and he believes they should be doing better than they are.