Manchester City 3:0 Arsenal (A)

Two straight losses, conceded five and scored zero. Gallas stripped of captaincy. Injury list getting longer and longer. How much worse can we get?
Alright, we don’t have Adebayor, Eduardo, Walcott, Rosicky, Eboue, Toure, Sagna, Gallas and Fabregas for this match, so I supposed a defeat was still somehow excusable. But having lost five matches even [...]

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Arsenal 0:2 Aston Villa (H)

I am running out of words to describe our players’ performance. Disgraceful? Disgusting? Lacklustre?
Wenger will have a lot of work to do. It’s only 1/3 through the league and we already have 4 losses. Fabregas looks a pale shadow of himself last season. Denilson is being forced to become a defensive midfielder when he is [...]

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Carling Cup Arsenal 3:0 Wigan (H) Players Rating

Fabianski: 7 – Not much to do, make a very good save to keep a clean sheet.
Hoyte: 6 – Did ok defensively.
Song: 8 – Good composure, solid performance.
Djourou: 7.5 – Same as Song, very calm in defence.
Gibbs: 7 – Very fast and skilful going forward, decent at the back.
Merida: 6 – Didn’t do much, had [...]

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Arsenal 2:1 Manchester United (H) Player Ratings

Almunia: 7 – Looked uncertain when dealing with crosses, but overall did well. Could have avoided the injury if he was better at handling crosses.
Sagna: 6 – Need to work a lot on his crossing and improve his link-up play with Walcott.
Gallas: 8 – Very commited, played his heart out.
Silvestre: 7 – Awful back pass [...]

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Stoke City 2:1 Arsenal (A)

I actually looked forward to watching this match, thinking that the players would go all out to redeem themselves after that embarassing home draw against Spurs. I am hoping for a convincing win. A thrashing. But I was wrong. The players don’t seem to be interested, or up to it.
My heart sank when I saw [...]

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