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There is a belief in football that you should not change a winning team and that is what Arsenal have had for the last three games. Arsene Wenger had suggested that Olivier Giroud would return after his suspension and that Mikel Arteta would not be able to play due to his calf problem, but that seems to have been intended to keep the Newcastle manager Alan Pardew and his players guessing right to the last minute.

Szczesny
Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs
Arteta, Ramsey, Rosicky
Walcott, Podolski, Cazorla .......Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger has been talking about who will replace the injured Mikel Arteta in Arsenal’s crucial match against Newcastle tomorrow, and although he says that Jack Wilshere is the obvious replacement, he will leave it up to the player himself to decide if he can handle the pain.

Wenger said: “That is one of the things I have to evaluate before Sunday and talk to him as well,”

“He will have the final say in that because you cannot force a player, they have to be comfortable. I will only do that if he feels completely comfortable with the idea. .......Read the full article here

Should Tomas Rosicky still be at Arsenal? by SS

It is a tough question because during his Arsenal career he has always been injury prone and missed large chunks of the season. Even when he has been fit and playing matches he has sometimes underperformed compared to the rest of the team but then again in some matches he has been the driving force for an important win. .......Read the full article here

It was not too long ago that a lot of Arsenal fans thought that the inclusion of Aaron Ramsey in the Gunners starting line up was a bizarre form of torture inflicted on us by Arsene Wenger for some reason. It was also a clear sign, for some, that Arsenal were not going to win the game and was further proof of the French manager’s decline into senility.

Well the calls for Wenger to leave the club have largely disappeared and Ramsey has kept working hard and getting back to his best. That consistency and improvement have led to the young Welshman being voted as the Player of the Month by Arsenal fans on the official website. .......Read the full article here

Sir Alex Ferguson famously spoke the words “squeaky bum time” about the nervewracking end of season games, and it certainly is for fans of Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham at the moment. This is a time for the players to try and approach each game calmly and confidently and not to let the nerves affect their game.

With this in mind it seems that Wenger is intending to stick with his experienced players at this time of the season, and that may include the depressingly out-of-form Bacary Sagna. The Frenchman said on Arsenal.com: “There is a lot of disturbance in the environment,” .......Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger takes his Arsenal team on the short journey to Loftus Road to face QPR today and one of his main messages to the players this week will have been to expect a tough game. The Frenchman knows that a team playing under pressure to stay up can suddenly play much better once they are down and they relax.

“It can happen, yes, that they play under less pressure, with less fear. It can of course be very dangerous,” said Wenger.

QPR have some good players, although they haven’t been showing it much recently. With Remy, Zamora and Taraabt, they have pace and skill up front, while Granero and Jenas add a touch of class in the middle and Samba and Bosingwa are both quality defenders. .......Read the full article here

Missing: Jack Wilshere. Reward if found. by DS

After being injured for what seemed like an eternity, Jack made his comeback against QPR on 27th October, a game we won 1-0, producing a man of the match performance. He followed this up with a string of superb performances (aside from a red card against Manchester United) and capped it all off with signing a new long term deal and even being nominated for PFA young player of the year.

However on 3rd March, Wilshere picked up another ankle injury (the other ankle to the one whose injury had kept him out for over a year) in the 2-1 loss to Spurs. .......Read the full article here

This is the big one for Arsenal. Forget all the hype and the talk of van Persie and the guard of honour, this is the most important game for the rest of the Gunners’ season. A win against the newly crowned Premier League champions will put us in a fantastic position with three games against struggling teams left.

A good performance and result will also give a huge confidence boost to the players and should help to ensure a top four finish. With Wenger being promised a decent transfer kitty this summer, as long as Arsenal are in the Champions League, it is more important than ever that we finish strongly. .......Read the full article here

Any Gooner who watched Arsenal struggle against 10 man Fulham at Craven Cottage may be surprised at the staistics, especially the one that shows that the Gunners registered an astonishing 90 percent pass success rate, with 84 percent of their final third passes finding the target as well. Arsenal also made nearly three times as many passes as Fulham in the game.

Normally when you see statistics like that, it means one team has completely dominated the other and the scoreline normally tells the same story, but that was not the case on Saturday. It was Fulham who looked more likely to score in the second half, even getting the ball in the net after Szczesny could only parry a Richardson free kick to Manolev. The offside decision was correct though. .......Read the full article here

This is an absolutely must win game against a Fulham side we have failed to beat in the last four meetings. There is no reason that the Gunners should not break that unwanted record today and claim an important three points in the race for a top four finish in the Premier League.

Arsene Wenger has decided to rest Kieran Gibbs and Jack Wilshere, with Nacho Monreal and Tomas Rosicky coming in to the starting line up. That means that Santi Cazorla will continue in his role on the left of Olivier Giroud, with Theo Walcott making up the front three. Lukas Podolski can count himself unlucky to start on the bench after making impressive contributions when given a chance recently. .......Read the full article here

Wojciech Szczesny can probably not believe his luck, while you have to feel sorry for his main rival for the number one shirt at Arsenal. Lukasz Fabianski has cracked a rib, which has put a stop to his run of games in which he was finally shaking off his unfortunate nickname of flappy-handski. After being on the sidelines for so long, Fabianski stepped up brilliantly after Szczesny was dropped for the Bayern Munich match. It didn’t look like he was going to let his Polish international team mate get another chance until he damaged his rib against Norwich last Saturday. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal vs Everton preview, predicted line up and score line prediction by KJ

This is going to be arguably the biggest match in our final run in. We are both top 4 contenders and a win for Everton blows everything wide open and makes sure that the race for top 4 is not in our hands. But the Arsenal is in some pretty good form at the moment and after somehow managing to get a win against Norwich, they’ll probably be buzzing about the potential of making the gap between us and Tottenham 4 points. .......Read the full article here