Arsenal Match Centre Archives: 10/2018

Rafa Benitez has been fined £60,000 for his comments about Andre Marriner before Newcastle’s game against Crystal Palace despite simply stating a fact.

On Sunday, Arsenal travel to Craven Cottage, on the hunt for a ninth straight win in all competitions.

This week I made the trip to Azerbaijan to watch Arsenal face Qarabag, in the club’s first ever match in the country, and it was all a bit of an adventure.

Arsenal will wear their away strip on Sunday afternoon when they face Fulham at Craven Cottage.

Arsenal picked up yet another win in their trip to Azerbaijan on Thursday, defeating Qarabag 3-0.

Unai Emery insists Arsenal will show their Azerbaijani hosts respect when they meet for the first time on Thursday night, although that doesn’t seem to be a two-way street.

Arsenal face some heavy trekking thanks to their Europa League trip to Azerbaijan, but how is it all going to play out?

We all know Mesut Ozil is something special, well, those of us paying attention at least.

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.

Tottenham face Barcelona in the Champions League on Wednesday night and ahead of the game Harry Kane has revealed he wants to score more goals than Lionel Messi over the course of his career which is so hilarious I couldn’t not comment on his assertion.

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

David Ospina is apparently Napoli’s ‘talisman’ ahead of their Champions League clash with Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool on Wednesday night

If you were to ask most Arsenal fans they’d probably tell you that Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang hasn’t really got going this season.

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.

Unai Emery will conduct Arsenal’s final training session ahead of their Europa League tie against Qarabag in their stadium rather in London as Arsene Wenger preferred to do towards the end of his reign at the club.

Arsenal will face Blackpool in their Carabao Cup Fourth Round game on October 31 with a 7.45pm kick-off.

Alexandre Lacazette seems to be Unai Emery’s main man when it comes to Arsenal strikers, so let’s have a look at how the Frenchman’s second season at the club is going.

Mesut Ozil earned a spot in Garth Crooks BBC Team of the Week after his goal against Watford at the weekend but Crooks still managed to make himself sound like an ill-informed arse.

Another Sunday and another inept referee. I really wonder if English referees are told not to worry about the players’ physical integrity because it is a recurrent problem at every level.

Arsenal face Qarabag and Fulham this week, but where can you watch the games if you aren’t going to be at them?