Lee Hurley Archives: 09/2016

Arsenal have confirmed that Theo Walcott has not been dropped but rather has suffered a ‘mild knee injury.’

Well, it’s Champions League time once again and this season we will surely be trying to make it further than the last 16, if for no other reason than it’s just boring now.

Reports from France are claiming that Olivier Giroud will not start tonight against PSG and a tweet from Lucas makes it seem as if he will.

With Arsene Wenger confirming that he has turned down approaches from PSG on three occasions to stay at the club, it was only a matter of time before stories of other clubs approaching him started to emerge.

Gabriel has been speaking to Arsenal.com ahead of the Champions League game on Tuesday night and has revealed that Thiago Silva is a ‘big inspiration’ for him.

Hector Bellerin is sure that whomever is tasked with marking Angel Di Maria will be more than up for the task when Arsenal meet PSG in Paris on Tuesday evening.

Robert Pires has been speaking to the French media again about Arsene Wenger, a man whom he has always defended.

Alexis has picked his Ultimate Xi and not one of the player’s he selected has ever played in the Premier League.

Arsene Wenger has told the media that he feels this is the strongest squad he’s had in a while but ‘always believed we had a chance’ when he played the youngsters in the Champions League.

Arsenal’s Kelechi Nwakali made his debut for MVV Maastricht on Monday night wearing the number 10 shirt as he begins his season on loan with the Dutch side.

With Arsene Wenger throwing us a few curveballs against Southampton on Saturday, how can we expect the Gunners to line up against PSG in Paris?

Portuguese publication, O Jogo, are reporting that Arsenal and Manchester United had scouts at the game between FC Porto and Vitória de Guimarães at the weekend.

Unai Emery is ‘convinced’ that his side will respond against Arsenal in Paris when the two sides meet on Tuesday night and that, given the chance, everyone would like to be Arsene Wenger.

Virgil van Dijk has admitted his frustration with the Arsenal groundsmen after he was unable to destroy the penalty spot prior to Santi Cazorla giving Arsenal the lead against Southampton in the closing moments of Saturday’s game.

PSG have dropped Hatem Ben Arfa, with the player absent from the squad’s training session on Monday evening ahead of the match at Parc des Prince on Tuesday evening.

Arsene Wenger has confirmed that Laurent Koscielny is fit to face PSG after his facial injury turned out not to be as bad as feared.

Shkodran Mustafi’s debut performance for Arsenal came in for some criticism in parts of the media after he made the mistake of actually playing football unlike Danny Rose who was named in the Team of the Week despite not playing a single minute.

Aaron Ramsey has revealed that he dyed his hair yellow in order to fit in with the club’s new away and third kits.

Garth Crooks left Santi Cazorla out of his BBC Team of the Week despite him outscoring Adam Lallana according to whoscored.com.

With all eyes turning towards the start of this year’s race to be knocked out in the last 16, a competition others call the Champions League, Olivier Giroud has admitted that Arsenal are not favourites to win the group.