Arsenal started their season with two goalless draws against Sunderland and Stoke to the frustration of some impatient fans and critics who keep an eagle’s eye out on the club, waiting to stick their claws and rip out whatever evil press they can no matter the positives.
With the departure of former captain Robin Van Per$hit, the prophecies of Arsenal’s doom and another trophyless season began to rain in. This mounted more pressure on our players to score, especially our strikers (Po-Goal-Ski and Giroud), but Arsene Wenger knew best as it was only a matter of time before the former scored Arsenal’s first goal of the campaign and slowly making butterflies in our tummies with the sight of him playing alongside our Spanish maestro Santi Carzola, who scored the second goal against Liverpool.
Clearly, both Cologne and Malaga have to feel ripped off seeing their former players performances in the red and white jersey.
Having two of the three new signings looking ever so effective when called upon, preying eyes could not help but tag Oliver Giroud a flop after just two and a quarter games, mainly due to the squandered chances he had in his first two games. Much shouldn’t be expected from him as other players doing the scoring seems to be helping the Frenchman seeing he is still bedding in at a slower rate than the other two signings with a few missed chances and an assist to his name so far this season.
The Gunners can take a lot of positives from his good run onto balls and the goal which will kick start his Arsenal regime is only a few chances away. I do not see this young man, who was the highest goal scorer in Ligue 1 last season, doing any worse than Fernando Torres at Chelsea or Andy Carroll at Liverpool.
Six goals after, the question of Arsenal’s ability to score without their talisman was indeed buried, prompting a new one – are they truly title contenders?
It was a dream start compared to last season which included our infamous 8-2 thumping at Old Trafford.
We are currently third and two points behind table toppers Chelsea and one goal conceded and with the highest goal difference in the league of +7, the question wasn’t out of hand despite it being the early stages.
I haven’t been this excited to Arsenal’s start in a while and maybe there is reason to be hopeful towards ending the trophy drought. The players are not popping the champagne bottles yet, as they know this weekend against the champions, Manchester City, will go a long way to answering the question at hand.
If we manage to bag all three points, even one against City and keep a clean sheet, then confidence will be sky high. And if we do not, it won’t be the end of the world as we will still have 33 games left to play.
With a bit more luck, a shorter injury list and the current effort of the team, why can’t they challenge for the title? We clearly leave teams on life support when we rock their venue and as Wenger would say, ‘judge me at the end of the season’.
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Why do this to yourself, we haven’t been title contenders for eight seasons now, I haven’t seen anything that will be different, disrespect the FA Cup, and drive for 4th spot to make profit, this is Arsenal and will be til the dictator goes, don’t be so deluded, accept we are a selling club who put profit before trophies
=)) Van Per$hit =))
So funny! 😀
As far as Wenger continue his policy of selling exp nd quality players,i don’t see us winning a spoon.
Arsenal are not title contenders, not yet anyway. The problem is Manchester city and Chelsea, they just spend stupid amounts of cash, nobody can compete with that, just look at Manchester united, they lost out on the title to fucking man city..man city! Can you imagine saying that 3 or 4 seasons ago? And the same for Chelsea..the jokers of the premier league.. nobody’s.. 1 billon pounds later and 3 premier league titles and a champions league medal, if you’d have said that 10 years ago people would just think you had problems. Whatim saying is if man shitty and the chavs didn’t become some billionaires plaything then I’d say he’ll yeah!!!! Arsenal can win everything!! .. But no.. As long as those two clubs are around and spending it large then I’m sorry to say we are all kidding ourselves thinking we can challenge for top honours.
So many pessimistic gunners, I wouldn’t start calling us title contenders just yet, we will have to see how Arsene deals with tough situations, for example what happens if Carzola, Diaby, Arteta etc, become injured. I still hold hope of a strong finish and I believe silverware will definitely be with us this season.
Whether it’s Champions League, The Premier League, Capital 1 Cup or the F.A Cup remains to be seen at this point in time.
Stay hopeful, In Arsene we trust.
The reason why poldi and cazorla have hit the ground running is because the German league is very similar to the epl and we HAVE been playing a style that suits Spanish midfielders.
Not too worried about giroud, he makes good runs to set up opportunities and he bagged an assist the other game. He’ll find his niche in our system and goals will come.
Thanks for reading the article and the comments. Much appreciated. I agree there is still a long way to go and the coming week will help mould our faith for the season. If Montepllier can do it against PSG, why cant we? I did say a couple of factors are necessary like no major injuries (as someone mentioned if Carzola, Arteta and the likes got injured) cant remember City losing Toured and Silva or Nasri at the same time with no full back and a bit of luck anything becomes possible. E,g Chelsea in UCL.
Cant remember Chelsea playing any good football, yet they did a double 😉 just keep the faith guys and in Arsenal we trust.