Arsenal Match Centre Archives: 10/2016

After a 4-1 victory on Saturday afternoon away against Sunderland, Arsène Wenger’s side will be eager to continue their winning ways ahead of a crunch month of fixtures in November.

With a huge North London Derby coming up on Sunday, could Arsene Wenger choose to rotate as Arsenal travel to Bulgaria to face Ludogorets?

Since Arsenal beat Ludogorets 6-0 at the Emirates a few weeks ago, the Bulgarian team have won all three of their matches.

Toby Alderweireld was taken off during Spurs’ 1-1 draw against West Brom in mid-October and it looks as if he’s going to miss the North London Derby.

Arsenal Ladies failed to qualify for the Champions League for the fourth consecutive time, a worrying trend for a club that used to dominate English football for more than a decade.

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.

It was a case of Arsenal’s most notable loanees in action against each other on Saturday as Middlesbrough hosted Bournemouth.

Edward Nketiah scored his 8th goal of the U18 Barclays Premier League season in a slender 1-0 victory for Kwame Ampadu’s side at home against Norwich.

Goals from Reiss Nelson, Kaylen Hinds, Chris Willock and a Stephy Mavididi penalty were more than enough to sink an overwhelmed Sunderland side as Arsenal’s crop of u23 players returned to winning ways after a frustrating defeat away in Manchester on Monday.

Arsene Wenger met with the press for his usual post-match obligations after his side brushed Sunderland aside.

After a poor display from Martin Atkinson in Arsenal’s win over Sunderland, our resident laws-of-the-game expert, got a little bit worked up…

Martin Atkinson did not have a good game on Saturday afternoon when he took charge of Arsenal’s trip to Sunderland.

If you had to guess who made the most ball recoveries and tackles for Arsenal against Sunderland, you’d probably pick Francis Coquelin or Mohamed Elneny. You’d be wrong.

Mohamed Elneny came in for a lot of criticism for his pairing with Francis Coquelin in last week’s draw against Boro, but the Egyptian really stepped things up this week against Sunderland.

Mesut Ozil grabbed another assist on Saturday as he delivered the corner Olivier Giroud headed home to score his second goal just seven minutes after coming on.

Arsene Wenger hailed Olivier Giroud as having an ‘absolutely fantastic’ mentality after the Frenchman scored two goals with his first two touches against Sunderland.

Arsenal should have been out of sight against Sunderland in the first half.

Mesut Ozil couldn’t wait to get on Twitter (or get his ‘people’ on Twitter) to hail Arsenal’s 4-1 win at Sunderland on Saturday and the team mentality to come back after their equaliser.

Arsene Wenger believes that it was important that Arsenal defeated Sunderland on Saturday after the disappointment of last weekend.

Arsenal needed the power of Olivier Giroud and the injustice of a terrible refereeing display from Martin Atkinson to see off Sunderland on Saturday lunchtime.