Poor show from Arsenal; but still we have the grand Alexis plan – and it could work rather well.

By Tony Attwood I must say I think Arsenal.com and via them the club as a whole did us all rather poorly over the match against Bayern.  Licensed to an obscure channel through which one had to pay for a month’s football to watch one’s match, and know that they will put the credit card …

Arsenal – Bayern : 1-1

By Walter Broeckx Arsenal : Cech, Bielik, Mertesacker, Monreal, Maitland-Niles, Coquelin, Xhaka, Kolasinac, Ozil, Welbeck, Lacazette Arsenal substitutes: Giroud, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Iwobi, Martinez, Elneny, Malen, Nketiah, Walcott, Bramall, Nelson, Ramsey.   A last minute change in the starting formation as Per was sick prior to the game and so we had Elneny in his place in the team. That …

Arsenal v Bayern Munich in Shanghai. The teams, the mind games, the TV options.

By Bulldog Drummond Bayern have played one friendly so far this summer – against Erlangen Bruck, a team that plays in the Landesliga Bayern-Nordost, the sixth tier of German football.   Erlangen Bruck has a ground capacity of 1000, and they lost 9-1 to Bayern. As far as I can see other than that, this is …