Arsenal’s away form last season was impressive. Arsenal lost just three of their 19 away games last season. Newcastle United, Fulham, and Aston Villa were the three teams that denied Arsenal on the road.
Nonetheless, the North Londoners had the opportunity to pick points on the road from some of the Premier League’s most formidable teams, like Manchester City and Liverpool. However, the key to Arsenal’s strong performance last season other than their away form was their defensive consistency; they only surrendered 29 goals (the fewest in the league) and maintained 18 clean sheets.
In 2024, it is worth noting that in the ten away games they have played, they have only conceded three goals, winning nine and drawing one. Martin Keown, speaking on Arsenal’s pillars to a successful run over the last few months, has emphasised how the Gunners’ strong away record is laying the groundwork for their being considered one of the best. He observes their defensive rigidity and ability to perform on the road, manifesting their champion-like mentality.
“When you look at how many goals they conceded in recent times, the number of clean sheets away from home, their away record, that’s when you start to look at Arsenal and think they’ve now got that pedigree of Champions. Their away record is quite phenomenal,” said Keown on talkSPORT.
Two victories and one draw. Arsenal has enjoyed a favourable start to the 2024–25 season. They’ve only played one away game, at Villa Park, where they defeated the Unai Emery-led side that denied them all three points on the road.
If Arsenal maintains their defensive solidity and away form, they have the potential to challenge Manchester City’s dominance and establish themselves as a serious contender.
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Just read that Odegaard has now been injured and is a doubt for the NLD!!
I was thinking 2-1 Arsenal but if he’s out I would take a draw ?
We could still steal a win …it all depends on how we setup, we still have the players that can pull it off….kdb didn’t play a lot last season for man City but they managed and won the league……for us to be champions, we need everyone to play their part……I actually feel jorginho can play that odegaard role with his passing range while timber and partey have enough steel and technical abilities to dominate the midfield……then the speed of sterling , martinelli, saka and havertz positioning can be too much for the highline defence of spuds to handle……victory shall be ours, as far as our gaffer doesn’t overly change the team structure with trossard or havertz in the midfield which has shown time and time again to not work……….or a pivot of jorgi and partey might be aging legs for a spuds counter attack ….timber needs to join that defensive midfield for now…..let’s see how it goes
Arteta’s tactics have made Arsenal very strong in away games
Unfortunately, we’re plagued with injuries and Sesko/ Vlahovic refused to join us
@Gai Odegard a doubt for NLD is a bad news. But this is an opportunity for Arteta to reshuffle his lineup. May be Nwaneri & Kelly can get some minutes. I also want to see RSterling get a game time. IMO the gaffer should change his formation may be 4:2:3:1 to enable Pathey & Jorginho seat in front of the defence.
I heard Jesus could be in contention for the game NLD but wether he will be in form is another thing.
We are lucky the injury to the Boys wasn’t before Aston Villa game.😊
We should keep using Arteta’s successful 3-2-4-1 formation, which will change to 4-1-4-1 when we are defending
We have used 4-2-3-1 for more than fifteen years without any major trophy and we don’t have Tierney/ Tavares to play with an attacking LB in that formation
And what major trophy has the 3-2-4-1 won ?
Hope we can replicate this strong away form in the Champions League. It would be crucial.
The Fullham game where we played with 10 men with Havertz being virtually non existent and the loss to Villa at home cost us the title. We should have won it in one of the last two seasons. It seems the injuries lot has fallen on us this season and we will have it very rough. Of course I inwardly hope we win the title, the prospects are just lower this time round.
With Odegaard the latest player to be injured, adding to a growing list of possible absentees, our away record after the upcoming Sp*rs and City games may not be quite so “phenomenal” as Keown suggests it is now. We need to concentrate on the short-term, not what may or may not happen by next May.