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Written by Jimmy Gossard

Published: Thursday, 02 February 2012 05:45

Arsenal remains winless in the Barclay’s Premier League in 2012 after a wasteful draw against 17th place Bolton Wanderers at the Reebok Stadium.

The Gunners were able to stop a streak of three league losses in a row, but were not able to make up any ground on fourth place Chelsea.  The North London club now find themselves in 7^th place, grasping desperately at any chance of qualifying for Champion’s League football next campaign.

Arsenal have taken only eight of the previous 24 points on offer.

Wasted Chances

Among the many missed opportunities for Arsenal included Theo Walcott’s wasted chance when he was in clear on the Bolton keeper and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s miss off a feed from Robin Van Persie.  Van Persie, who was the best player on the pitch by a good distance, nearly used his class to break the deadlock, but twice hit the woodwork in the second half.

The missed goal chances against Bolton have led toa big picture missed chance.  With Chelsea drawing at Swansea yesterday, Arsenal had a chance to get within three points of 4^th place heading into the weekend.  With Arsenal taking on Blackburn at home and Chelsea playing Manchester United, the Gunners could have feasibly been even on points after Sunday.

The draw with Bolton erases any chance of that happening, and the current form of the team has seen Liverpool and Newcastle pass them in the table.  Arsenal must begin to win games or this conversation will start to include supporters questioning whether the team will qualify for the Europa League.

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Written by Aasim Hashim

Published: Sunday, 29 January 2012 19:08

Well, I must say that at the end of the first half I thought that this post was going to be completely negative and be a complete criticism of the team and lack of skill that this current squad. But credit to the guys to get the job done even if it was not as comfortable as it maybe should have been.

A first half in which Arsenal did fairly well on the offensive side produced 2 goals, but for Aston Villa, a tale all too familiar for Arsenal fans.

Wenger

For much of this week Arsene Wenger was still facing his critics after the substitution decision in the Manchester United game. However, today’s game was the perfect example of why he is the manager of this club. After 2 first half goals, the Arsenal players were booed of the field at half. I don’t think the ‘boos’ were for the way that Arsenal had played, but more so because they were down 2 goals.

Of course, nobody but the players know what was said in the dressing room at half time, but whatever it was seemed to have completely lifted the spirits of the team as the performance in the second half was completely different and I for one was not expecting Arsenal to come out firing like they did.

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Written by Arsenal Latest

Published: Sunday, 22 January 2012 20:24

Only a total of three goals this time around but the result was the same as Manchester United left with all 3 points in what was another poor display from Arsenal.

Where is the Confidence?

It was certainly a tale of two halves for Arsenal in this match. In the first half we saw the type of play that is the reason behind their three straight defeats. The side appeared to be playing with no heart and no desire. They appeared to sit back and let Manchester United take control of the game. Van Persie was getting no help up front from Ramsey, who has been placed the burden of replacing Fabregas in the role of playing behind Van Persie. But with Walcott and Oxlade-Chamberlain on the flanks, Arsenal should have had no problems running at United’s defense but instead Walcott again had a very poor outing.

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Written by Scott Richardson

Published: Monday, 16 January 2012 06:16

Swansea played great football to deservedly take the points in a hard fought win over my beloved Arsenal who should be looking at themselves and wondering why they are dropping so many points this season against ‘lower’ teams in the division. The words ‘Simply Not Good Enough’ may have been popular after the game but to be fair on Swansea, who has only lost one game at home this season, but they showed how you can compete in the Premier League by playing ‘proper’ football after being promoted.

Fickle Fans

If we take a step back into the past and ask fans about how this game could pan out the popular response you’d get from most fans, either Arsenal or neutral, would be ‘Tough game, Swansea have been playing some good football and have been solid at home’. I agreed enough to worry about the fact we could drop points this weekend after Liverpool &Sp*rs failing to win so the fact we lost 3-2 hasn’t surprised me. That doesn’t mean I don’t believe in this team, it means I’ve got complete respect for Swansea and the way they play football. They took the game to us and yes they got a ‘lucky’ penalty, but they exploited our defence and took advantage.