Steve Nicol ranks his top five candidates of who will win the 2019 Golden Boy award.
Arsenal staged a stunning comeback to win 3-2 against an Aston Villa side that will be wondering how they managed to come away from the Emirates Stadium pointless.
Positives
The most remarkable part of Arsenal’s win was that they managed it while playing incredibly poorly, and with 10 men. Nicolas Pepe, meanwhile, will be a relieved man after opening his Gunners account from the penalty spot.
Negatives
Arsenal have defensive work to be getting on with on the training ground; both Aston Villa goals…
Roberto Pereyra’s converted penalty brought Watford back from their two-goal deficit, to force a 2-2 draw with Arsenal at Vicarage Road.
Shaka Hislop slams Unai Emery for his lack of leadership and Arsenal for their calamitous play out of the back in their draw against Watford.
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Matteo Guendouzi succumbed to hubris on Sunday afternoon as Arsenal played out a largely self-inflicted 2-2 draw against bottom-of-the-league Watford.
The 20-year-old midfielder goaded his opponents by making a “2-1” gesture while being booed by the home fans at Vicarage…
Matteo Guendouzi has always been looking forward. Even when he was 16 and one of the most promising talents in the Paris Saint-Germain academy, the midfielder was never satisfied with what he had already achieved — he wanted to progress even more.
That meant leaving PSG for Lorient in 2014 to have a clearer path to the first team. It didn’t take Guendouzi long to establish himself there, but within two years he had another goal to aim for: getting into Arsenal’s senior side.
Arriving at the Emirates…
Mark Ogden evaluates the current squad depth, who are the leaders within the team and what United are missing.
Steve Nicol explains how much blame should be placed on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after winning only one league game in the last nine.
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France head coach Didier Deschamps has replaced injured Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba with Arsenal’s Matteo Guendouzi for the upcoming Euro 2020 qualifiers.
Pogba suffered an ankle injury during last weekend’s 1-1 Premier League draw away at Southampton, while Guendouzi helped to secure a 2-2 draw at home to Tottenham Hotspur in the North London derby assisting Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s equaliser in a fightback from 2-0 down.
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English Premier League: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (63′) Burnley 0-2 Arsenal
Arsenal finished the season with a 3-1 victory over Burnley to ensure they finished above Manchester United in fifth place.
A double from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang gave the Gunners control of the game, before Ashley Barnes pulled one back. However, Eddie Nketiah set the seal on the victory in stoppage time with his first career Premier League goal.
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Aubameyang will be delighted that his brace meant that he was jointly awarded the Golden Boot with Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane. It…
The FC panel have a laugh at Unai Emery’s remarks on Matteo Guendouzi and debate whether Marouane Fellaini deserves a ban for pulling Guendouzi’s hair.
Arsenal head of recruitment Sven Mislintat has said the signing of Matteo Guendouzi from Lorient has proved that young players have the chance to shine at the Emirates.
Teenage midfielder Guendouzi, who arrived for £7 million, has made 19 competitive appearances, 13 of them starts, this season.
“I saw him play Lorient when they were still in Ligue 1,” Mislintat told German weekly Die Zeit. “I like that club, you always find interesting players there.
“For us, the transfer of this then 18-year-old…
Manchester United and Arsenal played out an entertaining draw at Old Trafford, with Jesse Lingard scoring an equaliser for the hosts 74 seconds after the Gunners had regained the lead.
Craig Burley and Steve Nicol break down Manchester United’s 2-2 draw with Arsenal in a game that the Gunners should have won.
The ESPN FC panel wonder why Manchester United supporters haven’t made their voices heard over the direction their club has taken under Jose Mourinho
Manchester United’s Jose Mourinho insists he is getting repeatedly frustrated by his side making the same mistakes every game but is happy with his side’s spirit.
While hardly one for the purists, Manchester United and Arsenal served up an entertaining encounter on Wednesday evening as the two sides contested a frantic 2-2 draw at Old Trafford.
With the scores level and both teams chasing the game, United sent Marouane Fellaini on for the final 20 minutes in the hope that the midfielder’s famed physical presence would make an impact.
Fellaini duly obliged, though perhaps not in the precise manner Jose Mourinho had envisaged.
Indeed, apparently overcome by…
Following Mattéo Guendouzi’s red card Arsenal were forced to dig deep to get past a valiant Blackpool at The Emirates.
LONDON — Arsenal coach Unai Emery defended Matteo Guendouzi after his red card nearly cost Arsenal a victory in the Carabao Cup, saying the teenage midfielder is playing with the “spirit that I want.”
Guendouzi helped set up Arsenal’s first goal in the 2-1 win over Blackpool but was handed a second yellow card for pulling down Jordan Thompson after 55 minutes, handing Blackpool a lifeline.
Paudie O’Connor pulled a goal back for the visitors, but Arsenal saw the game out after Blackpool were also…
Arsenal are flying high and have scored some brilliant goals of recent. Can they carry this run of play into title contention?
LONDON — Danny Welbeck kept Arsenal’s winning run going by scoring the only goal in Thursday’s 1-0 victory over Sporting Lisbon as the Gunners took an iron grip of their Europa League group.
Welbeck pounced on a defensive mistake and beat goalkeeper Renan Ribeiro with a well-taken low shot to finally reward Arsenal’s second-half dominance.
It was the 11th straight win for Unai Emery’s team, who moved three points ahead of Sporting atop Group E at the halfway stage. It means another win against…