Last night’s 5-1 win over Shakhtar Donetsk was one of the easiest European victories in recent seasons. We’ve thumped Slavia Prague 7-0, crushed Braga 6-0 and thrashed countless other teams, but it is hard to remember a more comfortable Champions League fixture than Shakhtar, a club that I believed to genuinely threaten us for top […]
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Arsenal play host to Eduardo and his new buddies from Shakhtar Donetsk tonight in a game that Arsene Wenger believes will “give us an opportunity to basically think we have qualified” if three points are secured. A quick glance at the table shows he’s probably right: both Arsenal and Shakhtar sit on six points with […]
The AFCB’s newest writer, Andrew Luck, already gave his view from the stands of Arsenal’s important 2-1 win over Blackburn, so it would be redundant for me to run through the whole match again. Instead, I would simply like to give my thoughts on the important points from the contest, focusing on the controversial moments […]
Football is a game of stories. After a flawless performance that included a marvelous penalty save against Partizan Belgrade, Lukasz Fabianski’s Arsenal story is set to run a little longer. Arsene Wenger’s consistent faith in Fabianski suggests there has to be a good goalkeeper in there somewhere. For the first time in a long, long […]
I wonder what J’ammanuel Egnoue will have to say about this. F*ckin’ LOL. Thoughts? Have your say on Eboue’s antics by leaving a comment.
AFCB writer Adetuwo ‘Yemi Jr. fills in for the absent Andrew Weber to review Arsenal’s 6-0 win over Braga… In the build up to this game, all the news relating to Arsenal focused on how unlucky we have been with injuries and how the absence of these players will affect our title challenge. Personally, I […]
Arsenal’s Champions League campaign kicks off tonight at Emirates Stadium against Portuguese runners-up Braga. The team news going into the game is mixed: Thomas Vermaelen is still out, Abou Diaby joins him on the injury table while Samir Nasri is fit enough to start. Whether he does or not is another matter, the manager may […]
There will undoubtedly be a lot of articles over the next day or so that label Arsenal’s Champions League draw as “easy”. In truth, it is anything but. Shakhtar Donetsk, Sporting Braga and Partizan Belgrade are not big names in European football, but once the novelty factor of Eduardo’s early reunion with Arsenal subsides a […]