I think the most likely Arsenal / City result is a draw , failing that I fancy City to turn them over … and we’re really fretting about scraping a point at Bournemouth ( where we’re 3/1 on to win ) ?!
We’ll be even further ahead after this week-end’s games.
More in the match thread when the time comes, but if we play to the level we have been in January, Bournemouth is going to be a real problem. They tore Forest apart in the 2nd half. Inattentive fullback play will kill us.
If we’ve been playing to the level we played in January… bar the Man United match we’ve played some of our best football in January.
We are level on points over the same period to them.
I think Bournemouth have won more points than anyone else during the same period. 
Also, that Forest side was on the back of six successive wins before our boys came to town. I love it when we play league’s in-form sides away. Not.
Last 5 games we’ve won 11pts each.
If you take it to 6 we won and they drew. Newcastle have 12/15 over 5 and 6 games and Man City have 13/16.
Over 10 we are tied with them and Newcastle.
The biggest threat to us winning the league are the owners that brought us the coaches and the players that have us 6 points clear with a game in hand?
That’s not heresy, it’s just silly.
We smashed Leicester who were in a similar vein of form during our trophy winning season. That after coming back tired and jetlagged after winning the club world cup.
Bournemouth is a really good side playing under a really good coach. But newsflash , so are we.
We play close to our best. There’s no side in the world who can keep up with us. We’ve shown that with Klopp before and with Slot now.
Do we win against Bournemouth? I hope we do. It’s going to be a cracking match and I hope Slot does get his tactics right.
Forest? A draw versus Brentford but for late heroics from Darwin?
No question, if we play to our best we will run Bournemouth off the park.
A game when we dominated against Brentford?
The last 30 against Forest, it’s been some of our best football regardless of when we won the games.
As someone pointed out the goals Forest conceded were mistake ridden bar the first.
But ok we will lose badly, in fact let’s just give Arsenal the title.
All the time you’ve got Arsenal not particularly playing well and grinding out results but apparently that’s a positive and us doing more isn’t.
As I said this attitude is fucking tiresome.
Dominating a game probably involves converting time in the opponent’s end into goals. That stopped being easy for a bit.
It isn’t a matter of giving Arsenal the title. In the end, it is simple convergent mathematics. Arsenal need to make up 2 points every 3 rounds to draw level. This cluster of 3 games (excluding Everton) is their best chance to make up ground, because we face City and Bournemouth away. If they cannot pick up 2 points (or worse, see the gap widen if we can scrap past Everton), the logic starts turning relentless.
These next three games are a chance to all but close the door.
If there is a leveller to this game… We play midweek, they don’t
Not to mention, the one managing the football side of the operations at the owners is the one idolised by so many as some kind of actual transfer god.
Ayden Heaven, 18 year old CB, is leaving Arsenal to go to Manchester United just as Chido Obi-Martin did earlier this season. Quite surprised as Heaven has had first team opportunities this season such as coming on in the Carabao Cup.
He’s very raw for a defender, defending is clearly not his favourite task, and I actually think he looks a much better player when he gets the ball in midfield and drives forward with it.
I know that Lewis-Skelly and Nwaneri have made the step-up now at Arsenal but I do wonder if there is a feeling among their youth that it’s too difficult to get chances. Nwaneri and Lewis-Skelly are two talents that cannot be denied, simply, they’ll both be England internationals and long time Premier League players. However they are also the only two players U21 to make a league appearance at Arsenal since Arteta took over 5 years ago - with the exception of Saka who was already an established first team player.
In the last two seasons they’ve lost Owen Asemota (to Aston Villa for 1m after he rejected a scholarship), Chido Obi-Martin and Ayden Heaven to Man Utd and Macauley Zepa to Fulham. It’s not unusual to see players moved on from an academy of course but reports are that Arsenal wanted to keep all of these players and they refused to sign contracts to move on. Martin and Heaven could be accused of chasing a pay-day at Man Utd but Asemota and Zepa going to Villa and Fulham don’t seem like cash-grabs.
Lots more players have left besides those four, as is normal, but those four in particular seemed to sting Arsenal’s staff a bit.
It also seems a little strange that they’ve been putting 22 year old winger Nathan Butler-Oyedeji on the bench recently. I understand giving him a reward of a couple of minutes in an easy CL game like they did against Zagreb but he’s consistently been on the bench for the first team and quite frankly he’s kind of rubbish. He’s way too small and just not technically of the quality of a Premier League footballer. It’s all a bit odd.
Mini-Guardiola at the wheel!
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It would actually suck camel balls if they were deducted points this year.
Its the arsenal thread…so…they appealed the red card for Lewis-Skelly.
Given the PGMOL said they backed the red card, hard to see it being overturned now. Personally, thought it was yellow card worthy challenge, but can see why Oliver gave the red, and therefore not clear and obvious (plus everyone is scared of Oliver).
Shame Arsenal managed to win the game, as without that really shite win, they would have blamed the refs for more points dropped, and not for being shite at football and Arteta being Pulis 2.0.
Ban has been overturned
I don’t know whether to be disappointed or to laugh at how this will make them even angrier
Moved some discussion of FSG to The Owners thread. Doesn’t have much to do with Arsenal
Makes PGMOL look even more daft. What next, footage of Howard Webb taking ketamine and then coming out as gay.