UEFA Champions League
Arsenal Back in Driving Seat As Challengers Stumble
The football gods have gifted Arsenal a mulligan after yesterday’s putrid performance against Norwich City, as top-four challengers Tottenham and Newcastle both dropped points Sunday. Though Newcastle was widely expected to go down to Manchester City, who only need to win out to secure the league title, Spurs followed the Gunners’ lead in failing to deliver when it mattered most. After […]
Chelsea Succeeds Where Arsenal Could Not
Arsenal’s crosstown rivals capped a very bad week at the Camp Nou with their thrilling 3-2 aggregate win in the Champions League semifinal earlier today. Gunners fans who watched this game, as well as the first leg last week in London, must have been reminded of last year’s tie between Barcelona and Arsenal. In that matchup, Arsenal […]
Postmortem: Arsenal (3) 3-0 (4) A.C. Milan
UEFA Champions League (Knockout Round, Second Leg) Arsenal unleashed an all-out assault on the visitors during the first half and made believers out of all of us, but it was not enough to overcome near-impossible odds. A strategy based on full-blown attack left the home side’s starters gasping for air by the hour mark, with […]
Game Info: Arsenal v A.C. Milan
UEFA Champions League (Knockout Round, Second Leg) Format: Tie. One match is played at each team’s home stadium, with the team cumulatively scoring the most goals advancing to the next round. In the event of a goals-scored tie, winner is determined by number of away goals scored. If teams are still even, extra-time and ultimately a […]
Ugly Defeat a Harbinger of Annual Late-Season Collapse
Arsenal’s disastrous blowout loss to A.C. Milan in today’s Champions League match could mean that not only are they basically out of that competition, by Arsene Wenger’s own admission, but that they are in serious danger of sliding into their seemingly-annual pattern of late-season self-destruction. Fans will no doubt remember the Gunners’ swoon last season starting with the February […]
Postmortem: A.C. Milan 4-0 Arsenal
UEFA Champions League (Knockout Round, First Leg) A beatable A.C. Milan side thoroughly dismantled a Gunners squad which looked largely inept on both ends of the pitch. Arsenal’s attacking mentality was poorly supported by its advanced midfielders, who could not get the ball to Robin van Persie up front. The defense had no answers for Milan’s front-line […]
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