Arsenal Match Centre Archives: 12/2019

Bernd Leno has called on his Arsenal teammates to spend the next week looking at their own mentality, convinced it is not the coach that is causing the problems.

After Arsenal’s latest defeat, interim head coach Freddie Ljungberg has publicly called on the club to make a decision about the manager’s job.

Alexandre Lacazette, Mesut Ozil, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Lucas Torreira seem unlikely to be Arsenal players this time next year and the decisions made around the Manchester City game seemed to clarify that and a number of others who could go.

Gabriel Martinelli is the second highest scoring teenager in Europe at present and you can’t help but think if he was English or at another club the mainstream media would be wetting themselves over him.

When you read about an Arsenal centreback saying the team are ready to ‘explode,’ you should probably check what he means.

Arsenal host Manchester City on Sunday, a difficult end to an otherwise vaguely encouraging week for Freddie Ljungberg’s side.

Arsenal fought back from 2-0 down to secure a draw and top their Europa League group on Thursday night, though not entirely convincingly.

Arsenal sealed top spot in their group and ensured a more favourable draw for the knock-out round of the Europa League, but it was not pretty.

Tyreece John-Jules, James Olayinka and Robbie Burton could make their Arsenal debuts on Thursday, joining the first-team squad in Liege.

Arsenal’s women were unsurprisingly delighted as they spanked nine past London Bees on Wednesday night.

Paul Pogba could return from injury in time to face Arsenal, according to Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

Arsenal have racked up a total of seven players unavailable for the trip to Standard Liege on Thursday thanks to injury or suspension.

Freddie Ljungberg may have to call on a number of the young players in the Arsenal squad for the trip to Standard Liege on Thursday.

John Stones, David Silva and Sergio Aguero are all yet to return to training after injury setbacks, as of Tuesday morning.

A 3-1 win and, hopefully, the start of a new era at Arsenal, but for one long-time supporter, the evening left her “with a sick feeling in my stomach and an overwhelming sense of disillusionment with attending live football.” 

Bernd Leno says Freddie Ljungberg told the team to be braver in the second half against West Ham, and he gave them the freedom to be the ‘real Arsenal’.

Ahead of the game against West Ham on Monday night, a number of mainstream media outlets tried to claim that the Arsenal players were not behind Freddie Ljungberg.

No one matched Gabriel Martinelli’s energy in Arsenal’s victory over West Ham United on Monday, as the teenager made his first Premier League start.

Arsenal finally got a win on the board against West Ham on Monday, coming from behind in a 10-minute blitz at the London Stadium.

It was the team all Arsenal fans wanted, for a little while at least, so there was much excitement ahead of the game followed by a lot of sadness, some jubilation and a weird sense of disbelief that Arsenal actually managed to win a match.