That’s all folks! The 2007-08 season came to an end today with that most famous of Arsenal score lines, 1-0 to the Arsenal.
Theo Walcott’s excellent solo effort 24 minutes into the first half was all it took to ensure that the Gunners finished the season on 83 points, four behind champions Manchester United, and two behind second-place Chelsea.
It does nobody any good to think that had we won just two of our draws against the likes of Birmingham or Wigan in late February/early March, this post wouldn’t even be up yet, because we’d all be too drunk/busy...
The last televised match of the season is a contender for worst match of the season, as a second-string Gunners side defeats an over-cautious Everton 1-0 at the Grove this morning.
After ManUre’s big win over West Ham yesterday, Arsenal really had nothing to play for, so Arsene sent a lot of non-starters out on the pitch, continuing the trend started at Derby on Monday.
There were very few chances for either side, but finally in the 76th minute, Nick Bendtner headed a cross into the net to give the Gunners the 1-0 win.
Adebayor’s hat-trick plus goals from Van Persie, Bendtner & Walcott earned Arsenal a 6-2 away win and moved the Gunners to within 4 points of Man Utd and Chelsea at the top of the table.
In the opening 20 minutes or so, Derby had a decent spell putting Arsenal under pressure. Things changed in the 25th minute when Moore gave the ball straight to Bendtner who put Arsenal ahead in the 25th minute after exchanging passes with Van Persie. Unfortunately, the lead didn’t last too long as a set-piece led to Derby’s McEveley tying things up (31st min). But Van Persie restored...
Arsenal finally put a win in the home games column matching the scoreline of their last home win against Blackburn. In the end, it looked like a routine victory that Arsenal were getting in the first half of the season but given how the past few weeks have been, it was a much needed win.
The game started off slowly but somewhere around the 25th minute mark or so, Arsenal’s play noticeably moved up a few gears. Theo raced on with purpose and it appeared that a goal was in the offering. The now familiar corner routine between Cesc and Van Persie provided a genuine chance in the...
In the future when football scholars will look back at the 2007/08 season, they may prefer to use the format from Jared Diamond’s book Collapse to examine what went wrong with Arsenal. Diamond’s book examines how and why some of the world’s greatest civilizations disappeared. Well, Arsenal have collapsed in the worst possible fashion, losing all 4 titles by defeats to their bitterest rivals.
Same Same but different
The First half: Arsenal played well, moved the ball with purpose but could not take the lead. Adebayor...
The Gunners are left frustrated as Benitez’s game-plan worked to perfection. The Scousers nicked an away goal at the Grove and then soaked up the Arsenal onslaught to earn a 1-1 draw in the first leg of the Champions League Quarter-Final.
After an relatively uneventful first twenty minutes, Arsenal began to exert themselves on the match. That pressure resulted in the first goal coming in the 24th minute, a smashed header off the head of Emmanuel Adebayor.
The joy was short-lived however, as it took only two minutes for Liverpool to reply. Steven Gerrard’s whipped...
The first half started well enough, with Arsenal creating a few chances, and generally dictating the play. However, Bolton played a quick counter-attack, and yet another ball in the air beat our defense, and just like that it was 1-0 to Bolton.
Things got worse around the half-hour mark when Abou Diaby made a very dumb, very dangerous tackle for which he received a straight red. 1-0 down and reduced to ten men, things looked pretty bleak for the Gunners on a rainy day in Bolton. As if things couldn’t get any worse, Mathieu Flamini...
The forces of evil prevailed once again today as Didier Drogba scored twice to help Chelski overcome an early second-half goal by Bacary Sagna to beat Arsenal 2-1. Coupled with ManUre’s demolition of Liverpool today’s loss by the Gunners finds them fall...
I was visiting friends and family this weekend - with no Fox Soccer Channel, and so I haven’t seen this game yet. I can only imagine the frustration level of everyone who did watch it was dangerously high, much like the past several league matches.
What I do know from text messages (Thanks Cam!) and reading other reports is that Boro took the lead thanks to former Gunner Jeremie Aliadiere, and then we were profligate in front of goal until Kolo’s header in the 86th minute. Thank God for that. It’s bad enough to have dropped five points to Boro, but all six? Anyway,...
Frustrating. If there’s one word to describe yesterday’s draw away to Wigan, it’s “frustrating”.
To say that the team suffered a post-Milan hangover would not be accurate. In fact, they played fairly well. I thought Senderos had a good game, as did Gallas. The problem was the attack. I can’t even remember how many times Adebayor got the ball yesterday. He had that one good chance early on, but were there any others?
I suppose a lot of people will point to the condition of the pitch, and they’re right. It was absolutely pathetic,...
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