#afcvscfc

[julianmesut-blog]

#MyManMesut〽 in action at yesterday 2:1-win against Swansea at the #EmiratesStadium.⚽👊🔥@m10_official #MyManMesut #Mesut #Ozil #COYG #Arsenal #AFC #PremierLeague #AFCvSCFC

[julianmesut-blog]

Matchday!⚡#WeAreTheArsenal #MyManMesut〽 in #training yesterday. ⚠️Mesut fit and in the squad⚠️ 🆚 Swansea 🏆 Premier League 2017/18, Matchweek 10 📆 October 28, 2017 ⏰ 3pm BST 🏟 Emirates Stadium ⚽️ #AFCvSCFC Come on, lads!🔴⚪〽🔥@m10_official #MyManMesut #Mesut #Ozil #Matchday #COYG #Arsenal #AFC #PremierLeague #AFCvSCFC

[we-gunner-girl-thailand-love]

#พี่ขอซักแชมป์เหอะ @Alexis @Sanchez at @WembleyStadium : vs Man City = ⚽ vs Aston Villa = ⚽ vs Reading = ⚽⚽ vs England = ⚽⚽ vs Chelsea = ⚽ Big game player 😎👏 #COYG #Arsenal #londonisred ❤️#AFCVSCFC #AFC 1 : 0 #CFC (at Amphoe Muang Phuket, Phuket, Thailand)

[pedro-demetriou]

On our way to the @arsenal wearing my new top from @elidemetriou #arsenal #football #afc #afcvscfc

[atafc]

Progress, Check! vs Progress check...

After another quite good weekend of football where a fair few results went our way, namely ours and that of Chelsea and to a certain extent the Liverpool result as well you can't help but be a little happier and walk with a slight skip in your step come the first morning back at work. I really have no idea what's happening to Jose over at the bridge but I can't say I'm not enjoying it. The man has begun to blame their computer equipment, which is downright hilarious. It makes for what might be an odd game next weekend, as even though Chelsea don't look the same outfit as they did last year we don't quite look on song either. My money would be on a draw as we just don't seem to be quite clinical enough but a result in favour of either club will be monumental. A win for us and the monkey is well and truly off our back and we can focus on a potential title challenge. Defeat for us means that the same old soft underbelly exists for "when it really matters" (more on this statement later). A win for Chelsea means that the first few weeks were an anomaly and it will well and truly kick start their season, whilst defeat for them will mean that questions will be asked of Jose Mourinho. Losing 4 of the first 6 games doesn't tend to keep you a job at the bridge, however there is some room for sentiment where Mourinho is concerned, but even that will be tested if we manage to come away with all the points. Onto our performance, and having seen the game back and read the transcript of events on Twitter, we really ought to have been home and hosed by the half time mark. Though a combination of great goalkeeping and some not quite up to scratch finishing we could only unlock the Stoke defence once in the first half. And it took until the 85th minute for us to make sure of the result. A 2-0 win was a pretty just result and it really should have been more. The finishing doesn't however need to be an 'issue' every week. We were 2nd in the table after 5 games and by some fans post game thoughts you would have thought we were in the predicament that Chelsea find themselves in. I do wonder about Twitter sometimes. It's a great platform for debate and discussion for sure but as I've said before, it's also a platform for pockets of fans to impart their depressive demeanour unto the rest of us, who actually might be enjoying the fact we'd just won a football game. It's the same when we miss a couple of chances and you start seeing the "here we go again" and "WE NEED A WORLD CLASS STRIKER FFS WENGER". Sentiments that we can all identify with however don't these people get bored? Week in week out its the same message. It's come to the point that certain fans won't even tweet the joy of a goal if it's by a player they regularly lambast cough Giroud cough cough. The phrase cutting off your nose only to spite your face comes to mind. This week is going to be a pretty huge one in our season, in fact the next couple will. We now have 4 away games on the spin. Zagreb, Chelsea, Sp*rs and then high flying Leicester. We need to ensure that we don't fall apart this month as City continue to march on. We'll need at least a point at Chelsea and then have to win at Leicester in order to maintain our momentum and stay in touch at the top. The Zagreb game is again a toughie and a tricky start to our Champions League campaign. Winning is a habit and it's something that we need to try and get used to even when we're not at our best. That's what is required to mount a title challenge and that's what we need to begin showing. A big week ahead but it's still a joyous day when results go your way on the weekend. Have a great week! Follow me on Twitter @MiteshLakhani1

[atafc]

Dull

Hi folks, the interlull is here and we’re all well and truly bored. San Marino, aka plumbers FC, got their usual spanking from any opponent, this time being England. I saw bits of the game during a post game drink off the back of yet another 1-0 win for my Saturday side. Incidentally we’ve played 2 and won 2, both 1-0. Solid is the word. The pitch that England played on was diabolical. I’m sure that the quality replicated what I had just played on myself, if not, worse! It screamed “injury to Oxlade Chamberlain” but thankfully the Gooners on show remained unscathed. It actually turned out to be a fairly successful evening for The Ox (assist) and The Walcott chipped in with a couple of goals. The first of which was a tap in, preceded by a good run however and the second was a slide rule finish. Strikers are all about confidence and even though it might have been vs Plumbers FC, apologies, San Marino, it will help in the confidence he can bring back to Arsenal. Lord knows we’ll need it because Danny Welbeck is now out until Christmas it seems. Last year it was at CB we didn’t really have the cover for and this year it’s now at CF. We all knew it was a case of one injury away from the bare bones and we now have 1.5 strikers until the turn of the year at which point Welbeck will be “like a new signing” and January will bring us false hope all over again. It just smacks of poor planning all over again and really does make me question what we had been doing all summer. Last season we needed to stay in touch and make the correct buy in order to challenge. We made the correct buy, but we failed to stay in touch. Although the start hasn’t been all bad we sit 5 points adrift of a quite impressive City and the worry does remain over our form. Groundhog Day by the looks, but I hope that as our squad is actually slightly better than this time last year, we may actually be able to stay in touch come Christmas.

Other than that we have one more round of internationals to get through before we can breathe a sigh of relief on the injury front. I would imagine as England have now qualified that The Ox may get a rest and Theo may start, which I would actually love to see. The Ox is game ready and a rest would help whereas Theo needs a little sharpening as he’s not quite at it yet. Lord knows we’ll need him so a start would help us as a club out.

This weekend sees us take on the Orcs who were beginning to humanise ever so slightly before Charlie Adam reminded us of the enormity of their Orcishness by getting sent off last weekend. Thankfully I think that enables that monstrosity of a “footballer” to miss our game and thus give us a little more chance of keeping all our players’ bones in tact. We have them at home and really need to get out Emirates form back on track. It’s a great opportunity to make up ground and also put further distance between ourselves and others this week. Chelsea face a tricky away trip to Everton, Palace host City and Utd play Liverpool in a weekend where we can really get close to the leaders. Palace should be bouncing after that win at Chelsea, equally Chelsea are likely to be more cautious vs Everton. Utd v Liverpool should also be interesting as they’ve both come off disappointing results. As I said, a potential opportunity could arise.

There’s nothing much else going on other than myself turning 29 this weekend. 1 more year left in the prime of life and then it goes downhill from there, or so I’m told.

Have a great week.

Follow me on Twitter @MiteshLakhani1.

[atafc]

Dull

Hi folks, the interlull is here and we're all well and truly bored. San Marino, aka plumbers FC, got their usual spanking from any opponent, this time being England. I saw bits of the game during a post game drink off the back of yet another 1-0 win for my Saturday side. Incidentally we've played 2 and won 2, both 1-0. Solid is the word. The pitch that England played on was diabolical. I'm sure that the quality replicated what I had just played on myself, if not, worse! It screamed "injury to Oxlade Chamberlain" but thankfully the Gooners on show remained unscathed. It actually turned out to be a fairly successful evening for The Ox (assist) and The Walcott chipped in with a couple of goals. The first of which was a tap in, preceded by a good run however and the second was a slide rule finish. Strikers are all about confidence and even though it might have been vs Plumbers FC, apologies, San Marino, it will help in the confidence he can bring back to Arsenal. Lord knows we'll need it because Danny Welbeck is now out until Christmas it seems. Last year it was at CB we didn't really have the cover for and this year it's now at CF. We all knew it was a case of one injury away from the bare bones and we now have 1.5 strikers until the turn of the year at which point Welbeck will be "like a new signing" and January will bring us false hope all over again. I just don't quite understand how our planning has been so poor in this window and it could well cost us all over again. Last season we needed to stay in touch and make the correct buy in order to challenge. We made the correct buy, but we failed to stay in touch. Although the start hasn't been all bad we sit 5 points adrift of a quite impressive City and the worry does remain over our form. Groundhog Day by the looks, but I hope that as our squad is actually slightly better than this time last year, we may actually be able to stay in touch come Christmas. Other than that we have one more round of internationals to get through before we can breathe a sigh of relief on the injury front. I would imagine as England have now qualified that The Ox may get a rest and Theo may start, which I would actually love to see. The Ox is game ready and a rest would help whereas Theo needs a little sharpening as he's not quite at it yet. Lord knows we'll need him so a start would help us as a club out. This weekend sees us take on the Orcs who were beginning to humanise ever so slightly before Charlie Adam reminded us of the enormity of their Orcishness by getting sent off last weekend. Thankfully I think that enables that monstrosity of a "footballer" to miss our game and thus give us a little more chance of keeping all our players' bones in tact. We have them at home and really need to get out Emirates form back on track. It's a great opportunity to make up ground and also put further distance between ourselves and others this week. Chelsea face a tricky away trip to Everton, Palace host City and Utd play Liverpool in a weekend where we can really get close to the leaders. Palace should be bouncing after that win at Chelsea, equally Chelsea are likely to be more cautious vs Everton. Utd v Liverpool should also be interesting as they've both come off disappointing results. As I said, a potential opportunity could arise. There's nothing much else going on other than myself turning 29 this weekend. 1 more year left in the prime of life and then it goes downhill from there, or so I'm told. Have a great week. Follow me on Twitter @MiteshLakhani1.