Premier League Archives: 12/2019

Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal faced Bournemouth on Boxing Day and while he didn’t get the win his side’s performance deserved, there was a lot to be happy about.

Mikel Arteta wasn’t even on the bench for Arsenal against Everton on Sunday and for the Mail on Sunday, that was all they needed to take their first dig at the new Arsenal head coach.

Calum Chambers was named Man of the Match after Arsenal’s game against Everton, but the centreback tweeted about his disappointment following the game.

Arsenal kept a clean sheet for the first time since October 6th in a boring 0-0 draw against Everton on Saturday lunchtime.

Freddie Ljungberg says he wouldn’t have picked Mesut Özil to travel to the Everton match even if the German had been fit.

Everton have confirmed that Duncan Ferguson will manage their team against Arsenal on Saturday, as they close in on Carlo Ancelotti.

Arsenal travel to Everton on Saturday, with Freddie Ljungberg set to take charge of the match regardless of the appointment of Mikel Arteta.

Arsenal fell apart in the first half against Manchester City on Sunday to concede a 3-0 lead they never looked like coming back from.

Freddie Ljungberg took Mesut Ozil off against Manchester City and replaced him with 19-year-old Emile Smith Rowe because he wanted more energy in the side.

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.

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.

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.