Arsenal News Archives: 03/2020

Arsenal beat Portsmouth in the FA Cup on Monday evening so with most of the news centering around that, let’s look at the stories doing the rounds today.

Arsenal knocked Portsmouth out of the FA Cup in a fairly comfortable night for Mikel Arteta’s side, despite a fast start from the hosts.

Mikel Arteta was happy with what he saw from Pablo Mari against Portsmouth as Arsenal made their way into the next round of the FA Cup with a 2-0 win on Monday night.

Gabriel Martinelli says he had four trials at Manchester United as part of an agreement between the club and his former team Ituano.

William Saliba continued his increasingly positive run of form against Lyon on Sunday, but he still ended up on the losing side of the derby.

February was a largely positive month for Arsenal until we got to the end of it, so let’s take a look back over its 29 days and see who stood out with our February player ratings.

There has been some recent criticism of the Arsenal manager and rightly so on certain occasions as the manager is judged on results, but I have read over-the-top criticism that does not make sense to me as I believe he is still the right fit for the club.

Mikel Arteta remembers what it’s like to play at Fratton Park, and he’s expecting it to be a tough place for Arsenal’s FA Cup team to go.

The Premier League will review how they use VAR for next season and the offside rule will be changed to give the advantage to the striker – something it was already supposed to be doing.

Mikel Arteta has admitted that being out of the Champions League for three seasons has caused ‘really big damage’ to the club which makes you wonder just what a fourth would do…

Henrikh Mkhitaryan provided an assist for his third consecutive game on Sunday, as well as scoring in an AS Roma win over Cagliari.

Jordi Osei-Tutu got his first start in over three months for VfL Bochum on Sunday, and he made full use of it with a goal and an assist.

Mikel Arteta has admitted that Arsenal won’t know what will happen with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s future until the end of the season.

Arsenal are looking to bounce back from their Europa League exit as they travel to Portsmouth for the FA Cup on Monday, the final trophy they can still win this season.

Portsmouth boss, Kenny Jackett, thinks that the ‘Fratton Park faithful’ can help Portsmouth beat Arsenal on Monday night when the two sides meet in the FA Cup.

Mikel Arteta praised Bukayo Saka for his recent form on Saturday, amid the suggestion of a possible England call-up from reporters.

Huddersfield boss Danny Cowley says Emile Smith Rowe was tiring and feeling his back in the latter stages of the Charlton game, but it wasn’t a serious injury.