By Walter Broeckx Arsenal starting eleven : Cech, Maitland-Niles, Sokratis, Koscielny, Monreal, Kolasinac, Torreira, Ramsey, Kolasinac, Ozil, Lacazette, Aubameyang On the beach: Leno, Mustafi, Elneny, Guendouzi, Suarez, Iwobi, Mkhitaryan Arsenal attacking from the start and pushing the visitors back but only winning a few corners where the ref sees a foul as the Napoli defenders …
by Bulldog Drummond We know that Arsenal results can be more or less predicted by simply looking to see if Arsenal are playing at home or away. So it is worth looking to see if we can gain a similar perspective from Napoli. Here are their last six away games. Date Home team Score Away …
by Tony Attwood Of course as a regular football supporter who is not a criminologist I can’t give you a definitive answer to that question in the headline. But I can raise a point that I think is sometimes missed in the debate. At the moment racism in football in England is big news. “Resurgent …
By Tony Attwood There is a sponsored article being advertised on one or two newspaper sites which tells the tale of the richest players who have played in the Premier League. These sponsored pieces are generally not very exciting – the whole point is to get you on the site in order to sell something …
By Walter Broeckx The injured players didn’t return so no Koscielny and Xhaka in the team. Ramsey got a place on the bench after comming off against Newcastle. Elneny gets a rare start and Guendouzi also comes in the team. Up front Mkhitaryan also starting the match. Aubameyang starts on the bench so we have …
By Bulldog Drummond After a poor run of form in January, Everton have picked up of late… Date Game Res Score Competition 02 Feb 2019 Everton v Wolverhampton W L 1-3 Premier League 06 Feb 2019 Everton v Manchester City L 0-2 Premier League 09 Feb 2019 Watford v Everton L 1-0 Premier League 26 …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal are the most fouled team in the Premier League – by quite a way. At least that is “most fouled” when the count is taken of fouls awarded by the referees. The table that shows this is provided by Footstats.co.uk. I’ll comment a little on the sources of the data in …
by Andrew Crawshaw A quick preview this week as I still don’t have the usual time available (Cancer is a bitch). Here courtesy of Premierleague.com are the Week 33 matches and officials Friday, 5 April 20:00 Southampton v Liverpool Referee: Paul Tierney Assistants: Stuart Burt, Darren Cann Fourth official: Graham Scott Saturday, 6 April (all matches 15:00 …
by Tony Attwood In the last article – Why Arsenal and Tottenham will end up with identical points this season – I started to outline the idea that one can use home and away tables in order to predict final outcomes for the season. Continuing the theme here are the home and away results of …
By Tony Attwood Take a look at Arsenal’s remaining league fixtures and what do you find? Away to Everton, away to Watford, home to Palace, away to Wolverhampton, away to Leicester, home to Brighton, away to Burnley. Nothing too frightening there surely. At least no other top six clubs to worry about. And there is …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team at the start: Leno, Maitlan-Niles, Mustafi, Sokratis, Monreal, Kolasinac, Guendouzi, Ramsey, Iwobi, Özil, Lacazette. On the beach: Cech, Elneny, Suarez, Nketiah, Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang Arsenal having most of the ball in the opening minutes and Newcastle defending deep and in numbers so not much room to create much openings. Arsenal get …
By Tony Attwood (part way through packing for the journey across the world tomorrow) It struck me, peering at the league table from the far side of the planet, just how the league has divided itself into groups in a way that it has not done before. I might be wrong in that memory and …
