Are: Swansea (H) West Brom (H) Reading (A) Wigan (A) West Ham (H) Newcastle (H) Arsenal have so far won 5 / 14 this season. That's simply not good enough. The next games *ARE* winnable though. Of all of these, Reading should be the easiest, but in my opinion Arsenal need at least 4 victories from these 6 to progress up the table. What are your hopes and expectations in the next 6?
Win Depends if the Brummies form is over, but draw. Win draw Win draw. 12 points. But we're bound to have at least one horrible loss thrown in there. Maybe we'll still win 4 though cos they're all winnable.
Form and results must improve soon. The bookies gave Arsenal an average handicap to City, of just over 11 points before the season began. City have caught that up in just over a third of the season!!
Swansea (H) - Win West Brom (H) - Win Reading (A) - Win Wigan (A) - Draw West Ham (H) - Win Newcastle (H) - Win To be honest, we should really be winning most, if not all of them. I can't see us losing any of them. With a full strength squad (Diaby is a pipe dream), we shouldn't have too many problems with these teams. Only problem i have is our rickety defence. Stick to a back 4 of Gibbs, Verm, Mert,Sagna and tighten up our midfield, we should be ok. We should create enough with Carzola, Wilshere, Areta and OXO against all those, add Rosicky for a late burst, then we are good to go. Wilshere should also be ready for full games now.
Swansea (H) - Draw West Brom (H) - Draw Reading (A) - Win Wigan (A) - Loss West Ham (H) - Win Newcastle (H) - Draw Really not confident the way the team is playing atm. i think lots of fans will be disappointed.
For whats it worth, heres last seasons results: Swansea (H) - Won 1-0 West Brom (H) - Won 3-0 Reading (A) - n/a Wigan (A) - Won 4-0 West Ham (H) - n/a Newcastle (H) - Won 2-1
Way too negative bro. Swansea will come and play football and with Carzola and Wilshere back, we should keep possession better and beat them. Same thing with Wigan who will come to play. By that time, Rosicky should be match fit and adding to our midfield. But seriously, we can't play any worse with the players we have. I must be one of the few who thinks our squad is underperforming. I would even go out on a limb and say that they should be challenging. We are a much more rounded team than last season, a team that heavily relied on RVP.
Seeing as we have not won back to back games in the league since September, I am not that confident. As mentioned above, there will be a silly loss thrown in there. Swansea - A very narrow win. WBA - Draw. Reading - Win. Wigan - Loss. West Ham - Win. Newcastle - Win.
I'm going for 6 wins from 6! I know we tend to throw in the odd facepalm result every now and then but this is probably the first string of games we have had without disturbance from a big game - either CL or top league opposition. This will be our first run of games against teams we should be beating. I think Giroud is gonna have a really good few weeks now. I think he'll get at least 4 goals in our next 6 games! Wigan have caused us trouble in the past and WBA have been playing well - but honestly i can't see us losing a single one of those games. We may draw a couple but i can't see us losing. Wenger will be telling the team now is the time for them to perform. Rosicky is back in action, Wilshere has added such much needed energy to our central midfield area and other than Diaby we seem to have a fairly fit squad. If we had diaby i'd put money on us winning the next 6 in a row due to the sheer depth of class we would have available to us in the midfield and attacking roles. Even without him i think Walcott will keep his form up and we have more than enough to see off the 6 teams we face.
Exactly, no real danger from any of those teams. As long as we don't have any clangers at the back, we should be unbeaten.
There'll be a point this season where we show decent form and we start to think a slip up from City/Utd/Chelsea here and there and we could win the league, then we'll **** up at Swansea or Reading or somewhere and there'll be a dozen point gap again and we're back to cementing the 4th spot.
I think it depends on how we do against Swansea and WBA, if we can win those games then I think we could go on a good run. Even if we win one and not the other, as long as our performances are good, then I don't see why we can't start turning draws into wins. The teams we face are all beatable and as long as we keep the right attitude and work hard, then we've got more than enough talent to win these games
I agree PISKIE. Arsenal actually started on top against Everton, they just let them grow into the game. The defense looks OK, the attack looks decent (missing one or two key ideas), at present it's the midfield that's letting it down. If the MF starts to fire properly, Arsenal will move up the table quickly.
Nah, even if Arsenal get 18 points Utd and/or City will pick up 12+ from their next six (although they do play each other) so the gap will 6-8 and then when Arsenal get some tougher games it will go back up. Arsenal are 70/1 to win the League!! Best bet is to lump a wedge on now, hope for a good run in the next 6, then lay it off at 20/1 or better
We will be favourites in all of our matches up until the man city game in january, i don't expect us to win them all but it would be nice to put a run together like we do every season because in january we have city, chelsea and liverpool all in a row.
This season is weird...I worried that we'd go on a terrible run after being twatted by you 2 weeks ago but have responded well...I also thought you'd kick on but have stumbled a bit ( although a point at Everton is a decent result in my view). I think that you'll have a hard game away to west brom and wigan but reading will be ok. Swansea, toon and west ham don't travel well so I'd have thought you'd win those. But that's easy for me to say...I remember lots of my gooner mates moaning that we'd beat wigan and go 5 points clear of you a few weeks back but I was not so confident and I couldn't see us beating Liverpool either!
