By Walter Broeckx A match with nothing at stake apart from Tony being in Leicester. Wenger picked a team that would give whoever the new manager will be to have a look at some youngsters in the squad. Starting Xl: Cech, Maitland-Niles, Holding, Mavropanos, Kolasinac, Xhaka, Ramsey, Iwobi, Mkhitaryan, Welbeck, Aubameyang On the beach: Ospina, …
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by Bulldog Drummond The big stat doing the rounds for this game is that Arsenal are the only side without an away point in English league football in 2018, having lost all six of their matches. Well, I think we knew that. But what you might not have seen (although it has turned up in …
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by Andrew Crawshaw I have just checked my database and Man United also joined Chelsea in the “SIXER” club last weekend having had Craig Pawson in charge of six games this season. Tonight’s match is the rescheduled game from matchweek 31, deferred due to cup commitments (Leicester, not us). Referee – Graham Scott Age 49 …
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ByBulldog Drummond The injury file doesn’t look too good at the moment, given that it contains Laurent Koscielny, Santi Cazorla, Mesut Ozil and Mohammed Elneny, and it is a good job we are at the end of the season. But thankfully the days in which the media printed the endlessly recycled “Arsenal have the most …
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