Watford – Arsenal : 1-3

By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team that started: Cech, Bellerin, Holding, Koscielny, Monreal, Cazorla, Xhaka, Walcott, Ozil, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Alexis. On the beach: Ospina, Chambers, Gibbs, Coquelin, Elneny, Wilshere, Giroud   So a first start for Özil this season after the euro’s. A midfield combination of Xhaka, Santi and Özil for the first time.  Giroud on the …

Watford v Arsenal – the analysis. Wait, intercept, if that fails, foul. (And that’s not the Arsenal game plan).

by Bulldog Drummond. A cheeky football journalist (you know the type – asks a stupid question and the writes down something the respondent never said) asked Mr Wenger this week if he thought that, given the fact that transfer doorway (or “window” as it is often known) expenditure had already exceeded last summer, and we …

Watford v Arsenal Sat 27 August – The Match Officials

by Andrew Crawshaw A quick review of Mr Clattenberg’s performance last week First half he was terrible overall although he had a good start when in Min1 he adjudged the holding between Holding and Huth to be six of one and half a dozen of the other and rightly said no penalty.  He was 5 …