Arsenal Match Centre Archives: 10/2016

Ainsley Maitland-Niles played the full 90 minutes for England’s u20s as the defeated Germany 3-1.

Tottenham have been handed an apparent massive boost ahead of their first cup final against Arsenal this season with the news that Harry Kane should make his return from an ankle injury in that game.

Arsenal Ladies were playing a postponed game from the first half of the season at bottom of the table Doncaster Belles and came home with a 5-0 win.

Theo Walcott has now become Arsene Wenger’s longest serving player in 20 years having been at Arsenal for 3910 days.

Reading have found demand so high for their EFL Cup tie against Arsenal at the end of October that they have activated their additional allowance, almost doubling the number of fans they will bring with them to Ashburton Grove.

I know, I know, nobody should listen to what the Sun has to say, but the problem is, millions of people do, so their bull needs to be addressed.

After two exhilarating champagne and caviar displays against Chelsea and Basel, Arsenal were very much back to sausages at Burnley, but managed to escape Turf Moor with all three points after a somewhat fortuitous last-minute winner.

Sean Dyche spoke to the media after his side were denied a hard-fought draw at Turf Moor through Laurent Koscielny’s last second winner.

When is a handball not a handball? When you know the laws of the game.

Arsenal travelled to Turf Moor on Sunday on the crest of a massive wave but what did we learn from their struggles?

Ask most people who was Arsenal’s worst player against Burnley and they’ll likely tell you ‘Mesut Ozil’.

Theo Walcott is a changed player but he still seems to hold the ability to frustrate, especially against defences which give him little space as Burnley did on Sunday. Is Theo just a ‘big game’ player as we all assume?

Arsene Wenger has revealed that he was ‘fuming’ with Arsenal’s decision to take a short corner just before they scored the winner in the dying seconds against Burnley at Turf Moor.

Arsenal squeezed home against Burnley with a last minute goal we possibly, maybe, didn’t quite deserve, so how did the players do?

It seems, at times, that there’s nothing that the media love more than to whinge that Arsenal shouldn’t have won when they’ve pulled off something dramatic.

Arsenal couldn’t replicate their form of recent weeks but somehow grabbed a last-minute winner against Burnley as we head into the international break pondering familiar problems.

It’s the final Premier League game before the second international break of a season that isn’t even two months old descends upon us and bores us all to death.

Following their 5-0 thrashing over Leicester last weekend, Arsenal’s u18 side continued their impressive start to the campaign with a north London derby victory over Tottenham.

Having extended our unbeaten run to eight matches in all competitions, as well as four consecutive league victories, it’s fair to say that Arsenal are beginning to build momentum with the month of October having begun this weekend.

Arsenal travel to Turf Moor on Sunday hoping to continue their run of positive results.