Lucas Perez Archives: 09/2016

Mesut Ozil has already taken to Twitter to share a selfie of himself, Granit Xhaka, Lucas and Shkodran Mustafi in the dressing room at the Emirates, celebrating a brilliant win over Chelsea.

It is a thankless task writing about football, or any sport come to that.

Many teams are accused of being a one-man show, but it seems that might be a little too close to the bone for Deportivo La Coruna who have yet to score a single goal since they sold Lucas to Arsenal this summer.

Arsenal spanked four past Nottingham Forest on Tuesday night, the first time they’d scored four in back-to-back games since 2015, so what did we learn?

Arsenal’s comprehensive win over Nottingham Forest wasn’t on TV in the UK because, you know, morons. Here are all the goals.

Lucas announced his arrival on England with two goals on Tuesday night as Arsenal thrashed Nottingham Forest with a team of youngsters and fringe players (and Xhaka).

Now that the chaos of the transfer window is behind us, and Arsenal have played a couple of games will all of our new players available for selection, what can we ascertain from both the starting XIs that were picked and how they were deployed tactically?

Did you know Shkodran Mustafi used to be a striker, that Arsenal were supposed to sign Adrien Rabiot or that you can’t appeal yellow cards? Then read on.

Lucas Perez recently spoke to the Arsenal website about his time in the Ukraine and how it made him realise that he’d like to play in the Premier League (or La Liga) one day.

Reports from France are claiming that Olivier Giroud will not start tonight against PSG and a tweet from Lucas makes it seem as if he will.

Paul and Sylvain join Matthew to run the rule over the new signings’ debut, debate the rules re the penalty against Southampton, have a peek towards PSG away, and celebrate Nicklas Bendtner’s signing for Nottingham Forest.

Along with Shkodran Mustafi, Lucas was handed his Arsenal debut as Arsene Wenger rested Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud after their midweek travels (and with one eye on PSG on Tuesday.

The Premier League returned this weekend and with it, a healthy dose of Arsenal-induced heart attacks. Here’s what we learned from Arsenal’s 2-1 win over Southampton

Arsene Wenger admitted that both Lucas and Shkodran Mustafi were ‘surprised’ by the pace and commitment of the Premier League but has back the duo to adapt.

Granit Xhaka has returned to Arsenal safe in the knowledge that his red card for Switzerland means that instead of heading on international duty next month, he’ll be able to have a holiday.

So I’ve been off the grid for two weeks, swallowed by acting work, and have emerged to a rather different Goonersphere.

It turns out that Arsenal could have been following Lucas Perez for far longer than we realised.

Lucas Perez may have arrived as a striker shorn of the world-class tag that many Arsenal fans wanted to see this summer, but he looks like he could well be a very shrewd bit of business in what was a crazy window.

Olivier Giroud insisted after France’s 3-1 win over Italy that he’s not worried about his place in the team following the signing of Lucas Perez.

The Arsenal squad set to face PSG on the 13th of September has been announced and there are a couple of – sort of – surprises.