Loss against Bournemouth not good for our title aspirations but they’ll be so much twist and turns ahead.
After the weekend’s round of Premier League fixtures were played, anyone of an Arsenal affiliation would have viewed the loss on the south coast as a missed opportunity to stay close to the summit in what will be a captivating season of Premier League football ahead.
That loss would have stung the more when John Stones netted another stoppage time goal for Man City against Wolves on Sunday to seal a come from behind victory, Liverpool also made hard work of beating Chelsea but extended the gap between us later that day, ahead of our mammoth encounter at the Emirates next weekend. Man City were probably 30 seconds from dropping points at the Molineux to a Wolves side that has registered only a point this season, and that tells me that we should be upbeat after that loss, considering the many twists and turns that this campaign will serve up.
We’re only eight games into the PL season and there’ll still be so much to play for between now and May next year, this means that not only will there be opportunities given to us by our rivals to climb the table but also that we’ll have the chance of taking points off our biggest rivals in the race for the crown as well. We can only get better considering the amount of injuries and suspensions we’ll have in the coming games, but first on our list of priorities in the Premier League is a small matter of hosting Liverpool at the Emirates in our next fixture. It is imperative that we come away with something from the game.
Some gooners are already doubting our title chances this season after that loss but believe me, a lot will happen between now and the end of the season, it’s too early to write ourselves off!!!
Confidence levels on a scale of 1 to 10 gooners?
KENNETH BENJAMIN.
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We have traversed this nonsense before and let us Forget about the title. MA is not the answer. Enough is enough.
Your solution being…..
PSV or sporting CP head Coach could be
We’ve lost one game and you write us off and the manager! FFS !
It’s up to you to believe that we are in title race. The passage of time has bought no respite only a sense of stagnation as the same issues continue to plague us season after season and this season it’s no exception at All
I’ve seen many of these types of optimistic feel-good articles over the past few seasons and they’ve not taken us anywhere.
Exactly twig
Let’s see where we are after Christmas.
At least this article has some sensible thoughts on our loss rather than all the doom and gloom pessimism that has been written since Saturday.
We haven’t really been playing well, looks to me like we are on handbrakes . Last season we started with a bang scoring freely 4,5,6 goals in our first 9/ 10 games. What happened to blowing teams up in the opening minutes? Why has Arteta suddenly become extremely Conservative? Yes the season isn’t doomed yet but could end up being one lose too many. I haven’t yet seen as press at all this season and that in itself is worrying.
I’m certainly not writing us off, we’re only 8 matches in and the teams above us don’t look that special. That said, we should not have lost to Bournemouth, even with 10 men and if we lose to Liverpool I might start to worry a bit
Long way to go but my gut feeling tells me that if we don’t get at least six out of the nine points in the upcoming games against Liverpool, Newcastle and Chelsea we could be playing serious catch up.