The Gunners are now mentality monsters and our away record in 2024 proves that.
The Gunners got one over our bitter rivals this past weekend with a hard fought one nil win courtesy of a goal from the ever reliable Gabriel Magalhães, the win meant we can now turn our attentions to another away trip to Atalanta four days after the win against Spurs.
Despite the plethora of absences for the game Arsenal still managed to win their 10th premier league away game of 2024, impressive! It’s even more impressive considering we’re unbeaten in all the 11 away games in 2024 so far with the only dropped points coming in the form a nil nil draw to arguably one of the best clubs in the world, Manchester City.
Our defense has been the most important cog in the current run with us only conceding three goals from those 11 games, keeping 9 cleansheets along the way. We’ve truly been dominant away from home in the league this calendar year, to put it even more into perspective we’ve gone to grounds like Villa park, Old Trafford, The Etihad and White Hart Lane twice! Without losing once, furthermore in over 990 minutes of football in this current run, we haven’t gone behind once!
These are outrageous stats which even the best of the best in the world will struggle to pull off, however we are currently doing it!
Gone are the days where we get criticized for our poor away record, characterized by a lack of character and elite mentality for wanting to win at all times. The “soft underbelly”, as often stated by pundits at the the time, was that we struggled in the past, especially away from home.
However this is a very different case today with us having mentality monsters littered all over the squad. This has been testament to the amount of work the management, and Mikel Arteta in particular, have put into improving our playing squad over the years.
What I just love about Mikel is his ability to adapt by recognizing when an opposition is stronger than us and therefore adjusting accordingly, wether it means being pragmatic and sacrificing a lot of the possession to play on the counter. It has helped us in a lot of instances this season, and now more recently in the game against Tottenham.
Having two away games next, I’m even more confident of us getting results in those matches after the recent win, regardless of the absentees we’ll still be having for these matchs.
Will our away form finally be the difference in the title race this season?
KENNETH BENJAMIN.
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Mentality Monster, I like that , yes our away form could certainly do the trick, we seems fearless on the road.
It could be a factor certainly, but as always, it’s form over an entire season that matters and so far, we’ve played two away EPL games in 2024-25. Both good wins, but two, nevertheless.
There’s nothing wrong at all with being positive – it’s a pre-requisite of success – but I think we should see how we’re doing by, say, the end of the year before getting too carried away now on what could happen come May 2025.
Arteta’s tactics have made us very tough to beat in away games, but Man City are just too perfect to usurp in EPL
I think we can only win EPL if Man City lose Haaland for a few important games or if they got badly affected by the legal punishment due to the 115 charges
This is exactly the truth I’ve been failing to say. About the scenario of man city losing halland for us to win the epl
@Gai I think you need to believe and be more optimistic. There comes a time The front runner(MCity) relinquish the baton wether it us planned or not and it could be this season. Two seasons ago it was 5 points that seperated Arsenal and Cry, last season it was 2 points and Arsenal was unlocky. Spurds could have beaten City on a good day at home but that’s football.
Arsenal are improving every season and gaining more experience. We took 4 points last season against City and already rewrite our last season wrong against Aston Villa.
City aren’t perfect no club in Epl is, they haven’t even replecate Arsenal “invincible record” so they aren’t perfect. I am sure Arteta and his Boys are pepped up for Epl this season after beating Spuds at home despite key players injury.
City can’t depend on Halaand throughout the season and KDB, Rodri & Gundogan aren’t getting younger I don’t see them matching Arsenals physicality in midfield.
But the problem with that analysis is that is assumes Arsenal will inexorably improve on their last two season’s efforts, but City won’t – they will remain frozen at their standard of last season or even decline. It could happen, but it’s by no means certain. Also, it may not be the two horse race that most of us think currently.
City aren’t perfect of course, but they have, so far, shown they’re less flawed than any other team since 2019-20. Also, I would just say that nobody, and I mean nobody, thought at the start of the 2003-04 season that Arsenal would go unbeaten so if another team should do it, it will be equally unexpected.
I agree with you that City can’t depend upon Haaland (or others) across a whole season, but neither can Arsenal with key players, can they. It all depends how things pan out. The “known unknowns”.
I think the truth is that the title will be determined only on the 38 games this season – not after a handful played so far, or reading across from last season to this. We all hope Arsenal will win it come May of course, but nothing is somehow pre-determined one way or the other.
I hope you’re right, because Man City have been unbeaten in 23 EPL games this year
@gai, better not to place hope on the effect of any punishment on City because that would only come (if it ever will) long after this season has ended
I hope they’ll get relegated as the punishment
@Gai if anyone thinks City would be relegated Yes it can happen. But only in a dream world😁
Imo their financial muscle is the reason the jury has been out on them for this long and I don’t see anything changing soon. Football politics is very real. If it happens it would be the biggest unbelievable Epl surprise of a century.
They’ve got to be found guilty first, and on enough charges to warrant anything like that punishment, and after their appeal fails against any verdict like that. There’s a long way to go on this yet.
The issue is City record in 2024 is just as good