Stewart Robson breaks down tactically how Unai Emery has improved Arsenal.

Craig Burley explains what Arsenal’s draw and the wins for Liverpool and Chelsea mean for the Premier League title race.

Craig Burley explains what Arsenal’s draw and the wins for Liverpool and Chelsea mean for the Premier League title race.

Arsenal’s winning streak may have ended with Sunday’s 2-2 draw at Crystal Palace but the sense of a new beginning still possesses the club. Those 11 victories, Arsenal’s best streak in a decade, came parallel to a palpable sense of progress in a time of considerable change.

In a little more than two weeks, Unai Emery will have been Arsenal manager for six months, a period in which a club held in stasis for so long under Arsene Wenger has been undergoing rapid reinvention. In conjunction with a…

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ESPN FC’s Craig Burley thinks Arsenal still has room to improve, but for now Unai Emery has the team thriving with a clear plan of attack.

ESPN FC’s Craig Burley thinks Arsenal still has room to improve, but for now Unai Emery has the team thriving with a clear plan of attack.

Arsenal win their 9th game in a row and have been on scintillating form since their consecutive losses to Manchester City and Arsenal back in August.
More confident, more capable, more consistent. A renewal of promise and potential. Growing ever more impressive by the week and shaking off the baggage of a frustrating period of underdevelopment.
Such plaudits might be applicable to Arsenal as a whole since Unai Emery took charge, but if there is a player who is the embodiment of the progress made, it is surely Alex Iwobi.
The 22-year-old did not, like Aaron Ramsey, net the goal of the season so far in the 5-1 win at Fulham — Iwobi was one of…

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Arsenal win their 9th game in a row and have been on scintillating form since their consecutive losses to Manchester City and Arsenal back in August.

Arsenal extended their winning run to nine matches but also produced by far their most convincing performance of the season to thrash Fulham 5-1 at Craven Cottage.

Alexandre Lacazette was the cornerstone of the victory, producing two expert finishes either side of a strike by Andre Schurrle when the match still seemed in the balance. But the highlight of the match was Arsenal’s stunning third goal.

Immediately after coming on as a substitute, Aaron Ramsey produced a superb flick to win possession…

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Arsenal picked up their 7th consecutive win albeit fortunately against a powerful Watford side.

Germany’s Joachim Low admitted he was disappointed that Mesut Ozil didn’t want to talk to him like his fellow German team mates did when he attended Arsenal’s training recently.
The look on Aaron Ramsey’s face said it all. Hauled off after 63 minutes of a then-goalless affair against Watford, the midfielder frowned and shook his head repeatedly as he made his way to the bench. How has it come to this, he seemed to implore? Named Arsenal’s Player of the Season in May, the club may now have to try to sell him for whatever they can get come January as his contract expires in the summer with seemingly no prospect of getting a new one.
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Ramsey’s…

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Arsenal picked up their 7th consecutive win albeit fortunately against a powerful Watford side.

Arsenal won their seventh game in succession in all competitions on Saturday, with two late goals in the space of two minutes seeing them beat Watford 2-0 at home.

Watford proved stubborn opponents for the majority of the contest and, following a string of missed chances for Alexandre Lacazette, the visitors could have stolen in front when Isaac Success clipped the post on 74 minutes. But Unai Emery’s substitutions helped transform the match and the lively Alex Iwobi had a hand in both goals….

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Craig Burley believes Unai Emery has done well implementing his style, but still has his reservations about Arsenal playing out from the back.
In a season of considerable flux further up the pitch — a campaign of tweaked formations, uncertain positions and half-time substitutions — Arsenal’s defence has been surprisingly consistent under Unai Emery. It has proved either resistant to shiny new signings like Bernd Leno or Stephan Lichtsteiner or, in the case of Sokratis Papastathopoulos, the back four has congealed around an influential new face who will be sorely missed if his absence is confirmed this weekend.

In the Premier League,…

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Arsenal manager Unai Emery wants his goalkeepers to get used to his style of play as soon as possible.
Unai Emery’s first European game as Arsenal head coach ended in a 4-2 home win over Vorskla, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scoring twice.

It was an insipid first half hour but the game sprung to life on 32 minutes when Arsenal profited from a miscalculated dummy to launch a rapid counter-attack, finished off by Aubameyang. Danny Welbeck claimed his second of the season when heading home after 48 minutes and Aubameyang made it three as Vorskla continued to crumble on 56 minutes, curling home a…

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Ten goals, ten different goal scorers: Arsenal’s season so far has been an exercise in shared responsibility. It would be a good enough situation for most clubs — especially those with a new head coach, keen to see players playing themselves into form under a new structure — but as a recipe for long-term success it is inherently flawed. Nothing gets the heart beating faster and the points flowing as readily as a striker in red-hot form bagging chance after chance.
The fact that Arsenal’s admirable…

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Whether executing dance routines on the training ground, fooling around in ice baths during preseason or combining to precise and deadly effect on the pitch in the Premier League, it’s clear for all to see that a perfect “bromance” is blossoming between Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

The manner in which the two forwards combined to score Arsenal’s second goal in the 3-2 win over Cardiff on Sunday showed that an intuitive understanding is developing between the men born two…

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