Arsenal News Archives: 02/2017

On Tuesday every outlet online seemed to be reporting that Laurent Koscielny had criticised Arsene Wenger’s team selection against Chelsea at the weekend.

Arsenal are currently fourth when it comes to teams that have scored the most goals in the 16/17 season so far across Europe.

Takuma Asano impressed as VfB Stuttgart prevailed, whilst Kelechi Nwakali started and others featured for their respective sides away from north London.

Ronaldinho insists that Barcelona never doubted they could beat Arsenal in the Champions League final, despite needing the Gunners to be down to 10 men for the majority of the match to achieve it.

Arsenal Ladies played their second pre-season friendly in Portugal and lost to Wolfsburg, while the Development team defeated Reading in the FA WSL Development League cup quarter-finals.

Arsenal announced a few days ago that they released youngster, Tyrell Robinson, from the club, and here at Daily Cannon we understand that his attitude played a part in that decision.

Arsenal and Sutton United are set to receive £247,500 after their FA Cup fifth round tie was selected for television.

Arsene Wenger has admitted that watching his Arsenal side against Chelsea was ‘difficult’ and that the result against Watford had a bigger effect than expected.

After Arsenal’s 3-1 defeat against Chelsea, Laurent Koscielny was asked to reflect upon another frustrating afternoon in the Premier League.

A look at the world of football this week through quotes.

Time continues to tick on Glen Kamara’s future at Arsenal failing to land a loan deal with FC Twente after January trial.

According to a recent report, Arsenal are in danger of being left behind by other Premier League sides aiming to reintroduce safe standing in England’s top flight.

Calum Chambers made a quick recovery from his stress fracture to start against Tottenham in Saturday’s evening kick-off, and emphasised his importance to Middlesbrough with an excellent defensive display.

There were starts for a few of Arsenal’s players out on-loan during Friday and Saturday’s fixtures across Europe, with contrasting results.

Jack Wilshere performed well again but ended up on the losing side as Bournemouth recorded their 12th loss of the Premier League campaign during a nine-goal thriller at Goodison Park.

Chelsea’s manager, Antonio Conte, believes that it is legal to elbow players in the head with such force they are knocked out because Marcos Alonso jumped higher than Hector Bellerin.

Arsene Wenger didn’t mince his words when asked about Marco Alonso’s elbow on Hector Bellerin.

Second-half goals from Trae Coyle and Yassin Fortune weren’t enough to stop Arsenal u18s from suffering a 3-2 defeat at the hands of Fulham on Saturday morning.

For this week’s player profile, I chose one of my favourite current squad players, Carla Humphrey

Calum Chambers picked up a stress fracture of his foot just over a week ago and has been named in the starting lineup for Boro’s game against Tottenham.