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Morning. Let’s start today with the draw for the FA Cup third round, and this time around it’s a trip to Portsmouth, who currently third from bottom in the Championship. It feels like during Mikel Arteta’s tenure we haven’t always had the easiest opposition at this stage of the competition, but we’ve also had some […]

Welcome to another Arsecast Extra, the Arsenal podcast, with myself and James from @gunnerblog. In this episode we look back at Saturday’s 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa, our first loss in 18 games. We chat about the team selection, the goal we conceded and how much that contributed to Mikel Arteta making half-time substitutions. Leandro […]

Morning. I went back this morning to try and find something I thought I’d written in our big season preview back in August, but it must have been elsewhere. Maybe it was something I said on the podcast. I can’t recall exactly, and I don’t suppose it matters too much really. Basically though, my contention […]

Match report – Player ratings – Arteta reaction – Video Well, here’s an unfamiliar feeling: sitting down to write a blog about a game Arsenal lost. The last time I did that was on September 1st, the day after a late goal from Dominik Szoboszlai won it for Liverpool. Yesterday, defeat came even later, a […]

Join us for live blog coverage of our Premier League clash away to Aston Villa, kick-off 12.30. We’ve got up to the second live text commentary, updates, goal clips, observations and occasionally witty asides. If you want to join the chat, register an Arseblog Live account. To do that, go to Arseblog Live – click […]

Morning all. It’s an early start today, a 12.30pm lunchtime kick-off as we face Aston Villa away from home. As you would expect, Mikel Arteta was giving little away when it came to team news, basically saying that he’d have to wait and see with regards Declan Rice, William Saliba, and Leandro Trossard. We have […]

Morning. How does Mikel Arteta prepare his team properly for the game on Saturday? Arsenal played on Wednesday evening, as did Aston Villa to be fair, and yesterday would have been a day for recovery more than any real training. Today, there’s training in the morning, and I assume some kind of team meeting about […]

In the Premier League this season, Riccardo Calafiori has averaged 1.83 shots per 90. That is more than Mikel Merino, Noni Madueke, Martin Odegaard and just shy of Gabriel Martinelli’s 1.89 per 90. The average distance of the Italian’s shots is 14 yards, so these are not speculative efforts. According to fotmob, 10 of his […]

Welcome to another episode of the Arsecast – the Arsenal podcast. In this episode I’m joined by Phil Costa to talk about the 2-0 win over Brentford on Wednesday night. We chat about the impactful return of Ben White, Mikel Merino’s goal and his crazy stats in 2025, as well as his position in the […]

Match report – Player ratings – Arteta reaction A 2-0 win over Brentford last night reestablished Arsenal’s 5 point lead at the top of the Premier League. Mikel Arteta made some changes to the side, handing starts to Ben White, Martin Odegaard and Noni Madueke as Jurrien Timber, Eberechi Eze and Bukayo Saka dropped to […]