After three wins in a row some gooners I know are getting a bit excited and think we've turned the corner. I hope they are right but when two of those wins only came as a result of us scoring from penalties I still think we need a top striker in the January transfer window. What do you think? But for now its Christmas and I will enjoy us being 4th. Merry Christmas everyone.
Apart from the Reading game, it has not been pretty, but that does not matter. We badly needed to build some sort of winning run and we have. Three wins in a row, with Newcastle at the Emirates next. Agree about needing a striker in January, I suspect we will get someone like Demba Ba. Would not call him top quality but he has done the business in the PL, so he will do.
Agreed, but it still doesnt fill me confidence. Dear Santa, please can we have a new striker for Christmas. I am gooner.
When I first started going to watch Arsenal play, we were pretty average. You couldn't tell from week to week whether we'd win lose or draw. Then under George Graham we started to grind out results, classic 1-0 to the Arsenal. It wasn't always pretty, but it was effective. Then when Wenger came along, we transformed into a free flowing team who scored goals for fun. Now results somewhere in between those GG and Wenger teams, but the one thing that remains the same, is that a win is a win. Personally, as long as we win, I don't care whether we win beautifully, ugly, luckily, resoundingly, narrowly, convincingly, emphatically, scoring a bucket load or just scoring the one. I'd take a 1-0 every time if it meant we won. I'd rather see us grind out results than play beautiful football that comes up short
yeh getting wins are the most important thing at the moment and the level of performances will pick up when we are able to string a few more together, hopefully this will be the start of run which we seem to do every season that stretches 2-3 months and will cement our place in the top 4.
3 wins in a row though - let's be honest it's not exactly an impressive 'streak'. It's evident our squad is simply not good enough to compete. January is nearly upon us, Gazidis has made it clear there is plenty of money available. Wenger needs to swallow his pride and spend. A couple of big players could really make a huge difference to the outcome of this Season.
When I started supporting Arsenal it was about the time Terry Neil replaced Bertie Mee so I had to wait a long time to see success at the club. What I dont want to see is Arsenal going backwards. I know its only because of stupid money going into the game, but I feel we have gone backwards in recent years more than any other time I have supported them. Oh well, I'll always support Arsenal so will just have to keep behind the team and have another Christmas drink. Cheers everyone.
The quality of our opposition has not been the greatest. However the confidence we can take from these results will help us in the more difficult fixtures I guess. We have a very hard January set of fixtures coming up. We need all the points we can get from these easier games.
Newcastle are struggling, they play United next, and will have much less recovery time than us, there really is no excuses for failing to win on Saturday. We had a good week's rest, we're at home, everything going into this game is in our favour, no excuses of fatigue, or anything.
Newcastle played really well against Utd, so they'll come into this game with some confidence. I'm just hoping that they will tire quickly after their exertions at OT. If we win this game it will be four in a row. Also Spurs have to go to Sunderland, who just beat City there and Everton and Chelsea will take points from either one or other, or both.
