A VISIT FROM THE FOREST
Hello, and hope you survived the International break. Now the nationalism is swept away under the carpet for a bit, we can get back on with the PL. Saturday 13th of September sees the Mighty Cannon witness a visit from the waistelands of England to play Nottingham Forest, kick off 12.30pm local time.
OUR VISITORS.
Forest during the break have had a topsy-turvy ride, going in with Nuno and coming out with Postecoglou, which surprised everyone.
This of course will bring up lots of speculative ink on the subject of whether Ange can continue the good job Nuno did at Forest.
Last season Forest finished seventh, and qualified for the EL. Ange won the EL, but finished 17th with the Spuds (stop that laughing!). Ange says he has ‘nothing to prove at Forest’, which doesn’t make sense, aside that nothing doesn’t exist, I would have thought that every manager/ coach has to prove themselves, but you know what thought did? He’s on a two-year contract. If Kyogo falters at Birmingham I can see him potentially bringing him in next season, if the moneys there. Ange certainly got the Bhoys playing very well in his time at Celtic Park…
It must be tough for everyone at Forest to have lost Nuno at such an early stage, and have to adapt to Anges ways? So far Forest have W 1 D 1 L 1 and are in 10th place.
Our pals at Statto HQ have given the Gunners a 68.9% chance of winning and Forest a mere 12%. After the frustrating loss to Liverpool, this game will be certainly an interesting one, to see how Arsenal keep developing.
Mills.
So the International break is over, we all take down our England flags until the next break, or the next hotel opens it’s doors to a migrant. ( a bit of political satire there). We can get back to watching our beloved team, with the second worse chance created from open play and the worst big chances in the whole league. First and second eh? What other manager could do that and still have us in the top 4 ? eh? EH?
Something has to change, if we carry on creating nothing, reality will kick in and our league position will plummet, OR……. we can create more and take advantage of the best back 7 in Europe. And lets be fair, we are outstanding at defending. But that comes at a cost. It puts a heavy burden on our front 4, especially when their primary job seems to be helping to defend, rather than scoring goals.
I don’t think I can take another 35 games of paint by numbers safety first football. I don’t want to sound all negative, but perhaps it’s a byproduct of Artetaball? Surely we can’t go through the season saying “only the result matters”?
Is it just me?
Is it?
Pedantic George.
Positively Arsenal 
COY.
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COYG.
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I’ve killed the blog?
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Thing is what can we do to give it some life?
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every time we play forest I can’t help but think what could have been if Arsenal had gone for Brian Clough to replace Bertie Mee instead of Terry Neill, how that could have changed the club decades before Arsene Wenger came in and done it.
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Charles Watts
Main headlines from Arteta’s press conference: –
Saliba back training already –
Saka progressing, but not ready for tomorrow –
Contract talks with Saka/Saliba are ‘very, very good’. He says ‘the players want to remain here and be a big part of our history’ –
Havertz ‘walking freely’ and starting to put load on to his knee –
Jesus not expected to start training with the group until December
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Arsenal Women beat West Ham Women 5-1 away, they went a goal down when the keeper fumbled a cross against the woodwork and it hit her and went in. Our 4th goal was a real banger from Russo from the edge of the area.
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Arsenal U18 team v Chelsea (Arsenal): Porter, Owusu-Gyasi, Onyekachukwu, Hamill, Chapman, Ogunnaike, Murisa, Hashi, Julienne, Thompson, O’Neill.
Subs: Talbot, Tahou, Phillips, Bailey-Joseph, Frohock
Emmanuel Eboue’s son is a sub for Chelsea
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Arsenal: Raya, Timber, Mosquera, Gabriel, Calafiori, Merino, Zubimendi, Odegaard, Madueke, Eze, Gyokeres.
Subs: Arrizabalaga, White, Lewis-Skelly, Hincapie, Rice, Nwaneri, Dowman, Martinelli, Trossard
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HT in the U18 game and its 1-1, Hamill with our goal, the game is live on youtube
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Odegaard off injured, Nwaneri on
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FT: chelsea U18’s 1-1 arsenal U18’s
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Zubimendiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii makes it 1-0 to Arsenal with a worldie from the edge of the area with his first goal for AFC
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the goal
https://x.com/i/status/1966835299407057049
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HT: Arsenal 1-0 Nottingham Forest
Zubimendi with a screamer to give us the lead. We have dominated almost completely, Madueke been very impressive, but despite our domination we have not managed to create a clear cut chance for gyokeres. Odegaard gone off injured again.
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Gyokeres makes it 2-0 to the Arsenal, Eze with the assist
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Forest very close to scoring, hit the bar and took a great tackle from Mosquera to stop a tap in
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Gyokeres comes oh so close to another goal, hits the post with a powerful shot
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Calafiori off, Lewis-Skelly on
Gyokeres off, Rice on
Merino goes up front
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Martinelli and Trossard on
Madueke and Eze off
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Zubimendi heads in to make it 3-0 to the Arsenal from a Trossard cross
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FT: Arsenal 3-0 Nottingham Forest
Zubimendi x2 and Gyokeres with our goals. Madueke probably man of the match. A totally dominant performance, and we currently sit top of the league.
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Arsenal U16’s beat Chelsea U16’s 4-3 today and Ethan Nwaneri’s younger brother Emerson, scored 3 of our goals. He is normally played at right back, or in central midfield but sometimes is used on the wing. No word on what his position was today.
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Thought Mosquera was MOM for me, excellent display over 2 games home and away from a 21 yr old in a new team and country. Didnt seem to miss Saliba today.
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Thanks for the previews and the comments, and sorry to have gone MIA.
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It’s a very different team than the one we finished last season with, and yesterday the first time we’ve seen the new front three from the start. I’ve only caught a few highlight reels but from those it seemed we had a fluency that has been lacking for sometime. I’d love to hear from anybody who saw the whole thing as it unfolded.
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Good to see you Heady!
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George, sent the preview over. COYG!
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New post is up .
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