STALEMATE AT VILLA PARK

Benteke and Arteta going for the ball

ARSENAL was not quite up to the mark against Aston Villa at Villa Park last night. Things doesn't seem to go their way and with the slippery pitch - did not help either for Arsene Wenger side. Wenger made three changes to the line-up by resting skipper Thomas Vermaelen, Bacary Sagna and Jack Wilshire with Kieran Gibbs, Carl Jenkinson and Aaron Ramsey in their respective position.

A MUCH BETTER DISPLAY

 

ARSENAL continued to march into the knock-out stages for the 13th consecutive straight run in the Champions League with a 2-0 win against Montpellier at Emirates, last night. Midfielder Jack Wilshire scoring his first goal after his long lay-off in 50th minute before Lukas Podolski grabbed the Gunners second in the 63rd minute.

 

Truly last night it was a much better display shown by the Arsene Wenger side. There is little bit of composure and confidence but cohesion wise the rusty is still there. Overall the performance level is showing sign there are going on right direction.

 

Knowing the visitor is already out of the competition, Arsenal needing a win to qualify and hopes a Schalke win will see them both through into the quarter-finals. And it did which saw Arsenal won 2-0 and the Bundesliga's side winning at home 1-0 against the Greek's champion-Olympiacos.

 

Arsene Wenger made only one changes with Alex-Oxlade-Chamberlain made the starting line up on the right taking over Theo Walcott who was injured in their last Premier League match against Spurs.

ARSENAL BACK FROM THE DEAD.

Emmanuel Adebayor one foot high challenge turn the tide into Arsenal favour.

SPURS manager Andre Villas-Boas strategy by deploying Emannuel Adebayor upfront to partner Jermain Defoe hoping the Togolese international could hurt Arsenal and his former boss Arsene Wenger and turns the Emirates to boo their team - backfired.

FULHAM MADE ARSENAL SWEAT

Arsenal got their first Premier league penalty but Arteta blew it

ARSENAL once again just fail to hang on to their 2-0 lead against Fulham at the Emirates on Saturday but they were made to sweat to clinch a 3-3 draw. The Gunners drew first blood with a fine taken goal by Olivier Giroud in the 11th minute for his first Premier League goal at the Emirates. Podolski then made it 2-0 in the 23rd minute with a simple tap in from Mikel Arteta.

ARSENAL HANGS ON BY THE TEETH

Theo Walcott scored Arsenal first goal in the 18th min

ARSENAL clung on to claim a point against Schalke in the Champions League at Veltins Arena, despite being 2-0 up after 26 minutes, Schalke came back to grab a vital point at home. Arsene Wenger repaid Theo Walcott's recent good form with a start tonight, and it appears to have paid off when Walcott put the Gunners ahead in 18th min, nipping in to tap into an empty net, before Olivier Giroud grabbed his first ever Champions League goal with a well-executed diving header from Lukas Podolski's cross six minutes later.

WENGER NEEDS A LOT OF CATCHING UP TO DO

ARSENAL trip to Old Trafford on Saturday can be considered as lucky for not being hammered severely by the Manchester United front men. The 2-1 scoreline did not totally really reflect the actual game itself.

ARSENAL'S FAIRY TALE STUFF

ARSENAL players celebrating...Chamakh, Walcott, Koscileny and Giroud

WHAT a night. What a grand finish. Two hours of top class football fill with drama, passion, glory and the agony of defeat. Goals extravaganza pure class entertainment of football.Never seen such a dramatic come back made by Arsenal before for so many years under Arsene Wenger.

ARSENAL LEFT IT LATE..TO WIN

Mikel Arteta...celebrate after scoring the winner.

 

ARSENAL deserved to win. But they left it late to bury in the winner against Queens Park Rangers at the Emirates on Saturday. After being inflicted with two defeat in five days the Gunners seems to be haunted by the loss and nearly settle for draw but former Everton's man, Mikel Arteta gleefully tucked in the winner - his first Premier League goal this season.

SCHALKE 04 SHOCKED ARSENAL 2-0.



FLYING DUTCHMEN..Hunterlarr and Ibrahim silence Arsenal at the Emirates

FIVE days two defeat. First to Norwich City (0-1) at Carrow Road on Saturday in the Premier League. Last night saw a Bundesliga's side Schalke 04 outclassed Arsenal (0-2) in the Champions League at the Emirates inflicted Arsenal worst run which saw the Gunners proud Champions League home record since 2009  shattered.

ARSENAL BOUNCE BACK

ARSENAL 3
OLYMPIACOS 1

Gervinho..man in form for Arsenal

ARSENAL made amend of poor first half display and snatch a vital home win against Olympiakos of Greece 3-1 to go top of Group B after two matches. Gervinho (42nd), Podolski (56th) and substitute Aaron Ramsey made it three in injury time scored for Arsenal while Kostas Mitroglu replied for the Greeks champion.

 

Arsenal started unconvincingly and they certainly looks lethargic despite playing at the Emirates. With the rain starting to pour in, the slippery pitch didn’t help it either and the home side struggling to get their act together.

 

ARSENAL MUST PUT THINGS RIGHT TONIGHT

PREVIEW:-

 

Olympiakos go into Wednesday’s Champions League Group B clash at the Emirates Stadium tonight without leading goalscorer Rafik Djebbour and defensive lynchpin Vasilis Torosidis.
 

They face a determined Arsenal side desperate to get back to winning ways following defeat against Chelsea last Saturday.

 

Gunners boss Arsene Wenger will know all about Wednesday’s Champions Leagues opponents after being pitted with the Greek champions for the third time in four seasons in Europe.

 

Last season’s fixture in north London saw Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain net his first Arsenal goal, while the reverse game in Piraeus finished 3-1 to a powerful Olympiacos side.

CHELSEA TRIUMPH AT THE EMIRATES

Poor Koscielny...two costliest mistake saw Arsenal beaten run came to end 

ARSENAL saw their unbeaten run in five matches came to an end after suffering to their first home defeat at the Emirates to European Champions, Chelsea in a London derby match. 

Two goals both from set pieces in each half was enough for Roberto Di Matteo side to avenge their 5-3 loss last season.

Gervinho scored but it's not good enough

ARSENAL GUNNED DOWN COVENTRY CITY 6-1

Arshavin is back in contention

ARSENAL 6

COVENTRY 1

ARSENAL march into the fourth round Capital One Cup with another thumping 6-1 win against Championship side Coventry City at the Emirates Stadium.

 

As we all hope, at last Oliver Giroud did find the net with a dink shot six minutes before the break to open the floodgate.

 

But the big question lies whether the French Ligue top scorer did have the ingredients to be a worthy goalscoring machine when he miss from the spot.

KOSCIELNY SAVE ARSENAL FROM DEFEAT

ARSENAL showed they are no pushover against champions Manchester City when they fought back late to secure a valuable 1-1 draw at Etihad Stadium on Sunday.

 

Julian Lescott put Roberto Mancini's side ahead in the first half.

 

But Laurent Koscielny effort level the tie late in the second half to give Arsene Wenger a valuable point.

ARSENAL GRABBED THEIR 1ST CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WIN

Football is all about winning. And that's is what Arsenal just did. Arsenal open up their Champions League campaign Group B match with an important away win at the Stade de la Mosson against unlucky Montpellier Herault FC side. 

Earlier Montpellier were awarded a penalty kick. Arsenal's skipper Thomas Vermaelen may have got away with this in the Premier League but certainly not in the Champions League, although the main issue was whether the tackle was made inside or outside the box.

It seemed as if Montpellier got lucky as Belhanda looked as though he could have been outside the area — just — but the midfielder dusted himself down to deliver a classy dinked penalty kick, sending goalkeeper Vito Mannone the wrong way. It was only the second time Arsenal had conceded a goal this season but impressively, they hit back with a stunning double blow.

Prince Poldi on target again

Two goals in the space of 120 seconds, in fact, with Podolski looking every inch the quality international player he is.

Santi Cazorla, who has also done well since his arrival, found Giroud who teed the ball off for Podolski. The German took one touch to get the ball inside the area before firing it past keeper Geoffrey Jourden.

ARSENAL ON RAMPAGE AGAINST THE SAINTS

 ARSENAL thrashed newly promoted Southampton 6-1 in a Premier League match at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday.

Gervinho, playing as a central striker, scored twice, the impressive Lukas Podolski netted with a terrific free-kick while Theo Walcott — jeered by some fans when arriving as a sub — completed the rout against his former club.

Arsenal’s opener illustrated Podolski’s bloody-minded attitude. He had initially lost the ball to Jos Hooiveld but showed power and determination to win the ball back.
 

The German raced forward before threading the ball between Jose Fonte and Nathaniel Clyne towards Kieran Gibbs.

 

The defender’s cross was parried by Kelvin Davis but the ball hit Hooiveld and trickled into the net.

Hooiveld’s disastrous afternoon was soon ended by a calf injury and it all continued to get worse for Saints boss Nigel Adkins when Podolski managed to swing a free-kick over the wall and into the net.

A difficult challenge for the visitors became an impossible one.

PODOLSKI FIRST PREMIER LEAGUE GOAL

LIVERPOOL 0
ARSENAL    2                                                                                            


 ARSENAL came out on top at Anfield with a calculated 2-0 away win against Liverpool. Newly signings Lukas Podolski and Santi Carzola both turn in a great style to give Arsene Wenger's a memorable victory over newly appointed Liverpool manager Brendan Roger's side.

 

Podolski score his first Premier League goal.

This is Arsenal first league win after two matches resulting in a stalemate against Sunderland and Stoke City.

The win did put a huge relief especially towards Arsene Wenger's new signings to have really giving an impact to the team.

Infact both combined well for the two goals with the German fed the Spaniard Cazorla but kept running 50 yards to take a beautifully-weighted return pass into space Glen Johnson failed to fill, picking his spot to squeeze a left-foot shot past Reina.

It was Arsenal’s first goal of the season and should have been followed with a second before the break. But Olivier Giroud, with Kieran Gibbs screaming for the pass that would have handed him an open goal, swung his left foot and sent the ball into the Kop.

LUKAS PODOLSKI JOINS ARSENAL

ARSENAL will land Lukas Podolski after the 

11 million striker snubbed Manchester United.

The German ace is set to earn £5.2m a year when he joins the Gunners from Cologne.

Although United are the current Premier League champions and Arsenal have not won a trophy for seven years, Podolski was lured to the Emirates by boss Arsene Wenger, who speaks fluent German.

Podolski, 26, has 95 caps for his country and spent three years at German giants Bayern Munich before returning to his home-town club Cologne for a second spell in 2009.

His move to London was due to be confirmed this week but was put on hold as Cologne are struggling in the Bundesliga.

Gunners' German international Per Mertesacker has also told his pal he would enjoy life in North London.