Arsenal FC - Is winning a trophy as hard as it looks?

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Arsenal FC

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Breaking News

Thomas Hickman is named new manager of Arsenal Football Club. What has happened to Arsene Wenger is unknown but this is a strange development coming from north London.
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Arsenal FC

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Summer Transfer Window 2013

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Players In

Kourt Zouma

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Matt Lowtow

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Leandro Damiao

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Pre Season

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A mixed bag of results from pre season with fitness being the main issue worked on over this period. Also losing to Celtic was a blow as it was our own cup we lost in the semi finals.


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Arsenal FC

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August 2013

Premier League
Southampton (Home)
Won 3-1
Goal Scorers - Laurent Koscielny, Mikel Arteta (2)

Champions League Best Placed Playoff (Leg 1)
P.Ferraira (Away)
Drew 1-1
Goal Scorer - Jack Wilshire

Premier League
Manchester United (Away)
Lost 4-2
Goal Scorers - Olivier Giroud, Lukas Podolski

Champions League Best Placed Playoff (Leg 2)
P.Ferraira (Home)
Won 1-0
Goal Scorer - Tomas Rosicky

Premier League
Aston Villa (Home)
Won 2-0
Goal Scorers - Mesut Ozil, Mathieu Flamini

Review

A topsy turvey month in which the season got off to a good start with the win against Southampton before the Champions League in which we dominated and didn't take our chances and then they ended up equalising in the last minute. The game against Manchester United was poor and we conceded 4 goals in 6 minutes in the second half before winning the second leg in the Champions League playoff and finishing the month strongly against Aston Villa.

Awards

Mikel Arteta won the Premiership player of the month award

Champions League Group
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League Table
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which formation do you play. hows Damiao?

 

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which formation do you play. hows Damiao?

here are my tactics
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In terms of Damiao, he's been rotating with Giroud but hasn't scored yet but its early days so hopefully will get better

 

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September 2013

Premier League
Liverpool (Away)
Drew 1-1
Goal Scorer - Laurent Koscielny

Champions League (Group A)
FC Kobenhavn (Away)
Lost 4-2
Goal Scorers - Leandro Damiao, Per Mertesacker

Premier League
Norwich (Away)
Drew 1-1
Goal Scorer - Mikel Arteta

Capital One Cup (3rd Round)
Swansea (Home)
Lost 2-0

Premier League
Chelsea (Home)
Won 2-0
Goal Scorers - Own Goal, Matt Lowton

Review

In what mainly was a disappointing month with the defeat in the Champions League to the weakest team in the group and getting knocked out of the Capital One Cup to Swansea ended in the win against local rivals Chelsea which was a nice way to finish a disappointing month.

League Table

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October 2013

Champions League (Group A)
Atletico Madrid (Home)
Won 4-1
Goal Scorers - Own Goal, Aaron Ramsey, Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Premier League
Sunderland (Away)
Won 4-0
Goal Scorers - Jack Wilshire (2), Olivier Giroud, Lukas Podolski

Premier League
Stoke City (Away)
Lost 3-2
Goal Scorer - Mikel Arteta

Champions League (Group A)
Juventus (Home)
Won 2-1
Goal Scorers - Santi Cazorla, Laurent Koscielny

Premier League
Cardiff (Home)
Won 2-0
Goal Scorers - Lukas Podolski, Jack Wilshire

Review

The only bad result of the month was the loss to Stoke but two wins in the Champions League was a upturn in fortunes for the team. Also two further wins in the league have kept us in the hunt for European qualification for next season.
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Champions League Table

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November 2013

Premier League
Crystal Palace (Home)
Won 4-0
Goal Scorers - Per Mertesacker, Laurent Koscielny, Jack Wilshire (2)

Champions League (Group A)
Juventus (Away)
Lost 2-1
Goal Scorer - Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Premier League
West Ham (Away)
Won 2-0
Goal Scorers - Mesut Ozil, Per Mertesacker

Premier League
Manchester City (Home)
Drew 3-3
Goal Scorers - Olivier Giroud, Theo Walcott, Mesut Ozil

Champions League (Group A)
FC Kobenhavn (Home)
Drew 1-1
Goal Scorer - Own Goal

Review
In terms of the league, it wasn't a bad month with 2 wins and a draw against City in which we threw away a 2-0 lead and then went 3-2 up for them to score a minute later. In the Champions League the group is still all to play for with a trip to Atletico Madrid to look forward to in December as a decider.

League Table

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Champions League Table

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