EPL : Arsenal to end 4 game home slump, surely.
Dec 16, 2020 13:26:33 GMT
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Post by staggerstag on Dec 16, 2020 13:26:33 GMT
The last time there was an Arsenal match thread it was originally titled 'Arsenal to end 3 game home slump, surely'
They didn't, so here we are for the fifth time of asking.
Four successive home defeats - with a fifth bordering on the unthinkable. Or maybe not so unthinkable when you consider the opposition. Southampton will arrive with a fully available squad where Arsenal will be missing Xhaka (banned) Bellerin (banned) Partey (injury) while Luiz and Kolasinac both face late fitness tests.
Southampton will arrive off the back of that fine 3-0 battering of - the admittedly abysmal - Sheffield United, enjoying a run of one defeat in ten league games and riding high in 3rd place whereas Arsenal are not even boasting a goal per game average, haven't scored in two, haven't won in five, have lost their last four at home and sit down in 15th spot, five points off the relegation zone.
But let's not pile on the bad news, there's always time for a revival although today Slaven Bilic would tell me to 'go away' or something like that when it came to revivals. Surely, I say, surely, Arsenal will show us something more than just another home defeat and another sending-off. Southampton are proving to be a tough nut to crack but if Man Utd have cracked it recently, anybody can.
There are usually at least two or three goals when these two meet and with Arteta installed as latest favourite in the Sack Race you have to say a defeat here will test even the Arsenal board of directors' loyalty/procrastination.
What an important match this is for Arsenal.
Arsenal 1/1
Southampton 5/2
Draw 5/2
They didn't, so here we are for the fifth time of asking.
Four successive home defeats - with a fifth bordering on the unthinkable. Or maybe not so unthinkable when you consider the opposition. Southampton will arrive with a fully available squad where Arsenal will be missing Xhaka (banned) Bellerin (banned) Partey (injury) while Luiz and Kolasinac both face late fitness tests.
Southampton will arrive off the back of that fine 3-0 battering of - the admittedly abysmal - Sheffield United, enjoying a run of one defeat in ten league games and riding high in 3rd place whereas Arsenal are not even boasting a goal per game average, haven't scored in two, haven't won in five, have lost their last four at home and sit down in 15th spot, five points off the relegation zone.
But let's not pile on the bad news, there's always time for a revival although today Slaven Bilic would tell me to 'go away' or something like that when it came to revivals. Surely, I say, surely, Arsenal will show us something more than just another home defeat and another sending-off. Southampton are proving to be a tough nut to crack but if Man Utd have cracked it recently, anybody can.
There are usually at least two or three goals when these two meet and with Arteta installed as latest favourite in the Sack Race you have to say a defeat here will test even the Arsenal board of directors' loyalty/procrastination.
What an important match this is for Arsenal.
Arsenal 1/1
Southampton 5/2
Draw 5/2
