Arsenal get the job done at Everton
Review of Arsenal’s win at Everton in December 2025
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12, 2025
Fresh legs vs. old habits: Can a rejuvenated Arsenal finally find the clinical edge against Everton?
I have mixed feelings about tonight's game away at Everton, you know. One the one hand, we have had a full week of training for the players, there are plenty of training pics that show key players are back in the squad and fit for tonight, plus we got an update from Mikel that Big [...]
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12, 2025
Arsenal need to ‘unlock’ the first half goal conundrum
Morning Gooners, we all good? I have to admit, I was kind of sad that I didn't watch the batshit-mental football match last night that was Man United 4 - 4 Bournemouth. Looks like a Christmas hum-dinger of a game and one in which I saw Jamie Carragher describe it as "the best of the [...]
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12, 2025
Arsenal scrape by against Wolves in another worrying day at the office
That was objectively bad yesterday. No 'ifs', not 'buts' - Arsenal just sucked a bit against a team who have made scoring goals and keeping them out look like Mission Impossible this season. I spoke about Wolves' form, about the problems they have, about the fact that they an injury to a key player and how [...]
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12, 2025
Concentration, taking chances and dealing with a low block: Wolves preview
Mikel Arteta was his usual coy and non-committal self when it came to the injury update in yesterday's press conference. So we got merely the continued "matter of days" schtick with regards to Saliba, Trossard and Timber, whilst Rice was the same with the manager admitting that it was an illness that he picked up [...]
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12, 2025
A look at Wolves’ numbers ahead of Arsenal’s game tomorrow night
It's Friday, it's press conference day and with Mikel Arteta having bedded back in some of our strikers in midweek's Champions League win, I'm interested to see in what kind of mood he might be today. Hopefully it is a jovial one, because the frustration and annoyance of last Saturday's defeat has been countered with [...]
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12, 2025
Arteta’s two directions for tonight’s game at Brugge
Feels like there's a couple of ways that Mikel Arteta can look at tonight's game: Get the points and automatic qualification lined up so we can properly rest players for the final two matches Rotated heavily to preserve some players for Wolves and Everton in the league, which as I mentioned yesterday, has a full week [...]
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12, 2025
December’s remaining fixture schedule gives Arteta an opportunity for refresh
Before we talk The Arsenal and look ahead to the game tomorrow night in Belgium, let's spend a minute or two talking about the Mo Salah situation, eh? Because as Arsenal fans, we've seen this stuff play out a couple of times and we know how it goes: Big Name ageing player on big money [...]
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12, 2025
Villa away: A curious opponent for The Arsenal today
Didn't manage to compile some thoughts on Villa, what the pundits are saying and also how they play under Unai Emery this season, before the managers did their press conferences. But a lot of what unfolded yesterday with the pressers was kind of pushed to the background when, yesterday afternoon, Sami Mokbel broke the news [...]
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12, 2025
Merino kicks Arsenal off again as Arsenal do the business against Brentford
That was one of those ‘on paper’ routine nights, wasn’t it? Arsenal had a job to do. They needed to avoid a banana skin. They needed to de-risk the whole evening. They needed to make this a perfunctory three points. Brentford are not a team to be trifled with. Yes, they have a pretty shoddy [...]