Dan Critchlow Archives: 10/2018

Petr Cech, Alex Iwobi, Alexandre Lacazette and Lucas Torreira are all up for Arsenal’s Player of the Month award for September after the Gunners won every game over that period.

Arsene Wenger is top of Fenerbahce’s list of four managers to potentially replace Phillip Cocu at the club.

Unai Emery has made another minor change from the way Arsene Wenger used to do things, with his post-Qarabag plans for the Arsenal squad.

Alex Iwobi is happy with Unai Emery’s decision to have the team train in Baku instead of London Colney, ahead of Arsenal’s clash with Qarabag on Thursday.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Aaron Ramsey and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang are all set to miss out on Arsenal’s clash with Qarabag on Thursday, for various different reasons.

Unai Emery’s men travel to Azerbaijan for the second game of their Europa League campaign on Thursday, with Qarabag FK standing between them and three points.

Alex Iwobi has admitted he celebrated his first ever Arsenal goal by going to eat at Nando’s with his family, but nowadays he has to go undercover.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, has suggested that Mesut Özil and Ilkay Gündoğan were ‘excluded’ from Germany because of their roots, and called the treatment of the pair ‘racism’.

Rob Holding says that Unai Emery told the Arsenal players when he arrived that he wanted to bring a winning mentality to the club, and that’s helping them go into games with confidence.

Arsenal are picking up more points than the expected goal stats suggest they should be, according to software company Gracenote.

Nico Yennaris admits he’s amazed by what Harry Kane has gone on to do, particularly considering Benik Afobe was the main man when all three were in the Arsenal academy.

Sol Campbell has confirmed that he’ll join up with the England u21s to work alongside Aidy Boothroyd for a couple of upcoming international matches.

Didier Deschamps has sent members of his team to watch Matteo Guendouzi in recent weeks, ahead of his France squad announcement on Thursday.

Joe Willock, Eddie Nketiah and Emile Smith Rowe could all feature against Qarabag on Thursday, after they were rested by Freddie Ljungberg in the u23s’ win over Leicester City on Monday.

Arsenal’s u23s overcame a fairly strong Leicester City side, whilst missing some key players of their own, to go second in the Premier League 2 table on Monday.

Arsenal are reportedly ‘keeping tabs’ on exciting Lille winger Nicolas Pepe, but they face some competition from other major clubs around Europe.

Aaron Ramsey was snapped alongside Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain at the Ryder Cup over the weekend, amid rumours of a possible move to Liverpool.

Former Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has praised Bernd Leno for his on-pitch qualities but says the German will have to win something to be a success at Arsenal.

Matt Macey made an impressive double save as one of two Arsenal loanees to feature over the weekend, but both were on the losing side on this occasion.

Arsene Wenger briefly made his return to management over the weekend, taking charge of a Premier League Masters side in a charity match.