Arsenal Match Centre Archives: 01/2017

It looks as if Bayern Munich will be without centreback, Jerome Boateng, for their clash against Arsenal mid-February.

Arsenal face Southampton or Norwich City away in the fourth round of the FA Cup.

Bayern Munich manager, Carlo Ancelotti, has revealed that he believes Thiago should be available for the Bundesliga team’s Champions League clash against Arsenal in February.

Arsenal made heavy work of their third round FA Cup game against Preston Saturday, but they’re in the hat for the draw. Who can they face?

Chuba Akpom started and played the first-half of Arsenal u23s’ 2-1 victory over bottom side Derby County on Friday.

Squad rotation was always likely with Arsenal’s FA Cup clash away against Championship opposition, and Ainsley Maitland-Niles made his third start for the senior side this season after impressing in previous fixtures.

Arsenal failed to demonstrate their fabled mental strength at Deepdale by only coming back from one goal down to win – a feat easily achieved by lesser mortals with no such strengths.

Edward Nketiah scored his fourth goal at u23 level to secure a slender but deserved victory for the Young Guns, as they returned to winning ways after a 3-2 away defeat against Liverpool in the second week of December.

Arsene Wenger has explained why Olivier Giroud was named captain against Preston North End in the FA Cup on Saturday.

Following Arsenal’s 2-1 win over Preston North End in the FA Cup, Olivier Giroud was keen to point out in his post-match interview that what we saw in the first half ‘wasn’t Arsenal’.

Lucas Perez is very quickly becoming a player I like a lot.

Arsenal took it as a personal challenge to make this “easy cup fixture” more entertaining for the neutrals.

Olivier Giroud has now scored five goals in five starts.

It wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t easy, but we finally managed a win against Preston North End in the FA Cup.

According to The Stats Zone, Arsenal have the easiest run of fixtures in January.

Arsenal and Preston North End have faced each other a total of 79 times in our history.

Arsene Wenger is the only manager (except for George Ramsay in the late 1800s) to win six FA Cups with his club.

With Arsenal traveling to Championship side, Preston North End, this Saturday, an upset could be on the cards.

Arsenal have won the FA Cup 12 times.

With Arsenal struggling to draw against Bournemouth in the Premier League just days ago, could Preston North End cause an upset in the FA Cup on Saturday?