The Arsenal Thread XXII

Just looking at the form tables and only Liverpool have scored more points than us in the last 10 games (24 compared to us on 22). Monaco has been the exception to our form since the turn of the year, although Liverpool are definitely a team to be afraid of from the looks of it, keep getting better and better

all you can do is win your matches and build a lead
you're 3 points clear, and since we have city this weekend it's likely that will jump to 5/6.

i don't think you'll have a problem for top 4.
i think it'll be united scraping wins and trying to limp over the line to 4th before we catch them.

Hmm, but if you beat City and we win we'll only be 4 behind them

We should comfortably get top 4, Southampton and starting to lag, Tottenham are the inevitable inconsistencies, but you're playing well, could easily see you leapfrogging us if we aren't careful. Then you have United clawing points back after playing ****, I think if we beat them in a few weeks it'll knock the stuffing out of them, but like others have said, we're guaranteed to drop 5 points Chelsea and United so we need to build up a lead.

Hmm, but if you beat City and we win we'll only be 4 behind them

We should comfortably get top 4, Southampton and starting to lag, Tottenham are the inevitable inconsistencies, but you're playing well, could easily see you leapfrogging us if we aren't careful. Then you have United clawing points back after playing ****, I think if we beat them in a few weeks it'll knock the stuffing out of them, but like others have said, we're guaranteed to drop 5 points Chelsea and United so we need to build up a lead.

Anyone know when the return fixture is for Monaco?

Or you could say every season since 05 (bar maybe 05/06 for the CL final and 13/14 for the FA Cup win) have been bad seasons, we're just used to them and see them as average.

You may as well flip a coin in August because Arsenal seasons only ever go 1 of 2 ways

- Sell key player(s), start the season poorly, have loads of injuries, go on a good run to end the season and scrape the last CL place
- Start the season well, everyone thinks Arsenal have turned the corner, have loads of injuries, completely fall apart in February/March and scrape the last CL place, with the occasional run in one of the cups.

This season looks like it'll be the former. Last season was the latter.

Only this time Arsenal didn't sell key players (Vermaelen wasn't "key" at all)

Except we didn't sell key players, we didn't replace backup players. Bit of a difference...

You lost Sagna to Man City's bench and you've struggled in that position this season.

^ Would have provided some vital experience, considering Per is ******* up big time and you have a new young right back,

That's not how it works, we replaced him with Debuchy, the latter got 2 3 month injury lay offs. Hardyl anything the club can do (besides sort out the obvious injury issue). We weren't going to keep 5 RBs on the books were we?

Only because the replacement got 2 3 month injuries, there's no guaranteeing the same wouldn't have happened to him had he stayed.

That's really not the same thing as you were arguing and you know it. If Sanchez got injured and wasn't playing much you could say "well you never got the LW you needed". Fact is we did replace Sagna, it was Vermaelen we didn't replace.

Lmao Tottenham are suddenly irrelevant again now people realize the extent of their reliance on Kane scoring tap-ins

Well it doesn't say much for the club when a stalwart of the side for the past 7 years decides to leave and sit on the bench somewhere else does it?

Well it doesn't say much for the club when a stalwart of the side for the past 7 years decides to leave and sit on the bench somewhere else does it?