Arsenal Football Club

[Saibot1891]

- The beginning
So this is it for me, my first story at fm-base and the first one in english so we will se how this goes. I have been wanting to start a story for some time but have'nt really found a team to play with. But now when I have that sorted out why not, lets do this. I was at Emirates in December and watched the game against Chelsea so why not play with them here on football manager as well. In real life Arsenal are not that much to like at the moment when we talk about their football so my main goal will be to change that. We want to play football that is fun to see and we want to win those trophies.

I have´nt really made up my mind yet on how I will report, if it will be every month or two per season, time will tell. Time to get this underway, time for succes at Emirates.

Two of the greatest ever at Arsenal

- Info
GAME: football manager 2020
VERSION: 20.4.1
MANAGER: Tobias Nilsson
LEAGUES: belgium, england, france, germany, italy, netherlands, portugal, scotland, spain, turkey

 

[Saibot1891]

- Preseason
So time to step up the game and start focusing on the preseason because soon it's time for action. We started of this preseason by winning against our U23 team with 4-1. After that we left the UK for a game in Moscow against Spartak that we won 2-0 after two goals from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. We went back to the UK and played two games against smaller teams in Plymouth and Fleetwood. We won both of them easy (2-0 and 3-0) but the biggest win during the preseason came against PAOK. 5-0 and a really good performance from the players.

Arsenal 4-1 Arsenal Under 23s
Goalscorer: David Luiz, Gabriel Martinelli, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang x2
Player of the match: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Spartak Moscow 0-2 Arsenal
Goalscorer: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang x2
Player of the match: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Plymouth 0-2 Arsenal
Goalscorer: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Eddie Nketiah
Player of the match: Bukayo Saka

Fleetwood 0-3 Arsenal
Goalscorer: Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Bukayo Saka, Sead Kolašinac
Player of the match: Sead Kolašinac

PAOK 0-5 Arsenal
Goalscorer: Dani Ceballos, Reiss Nelson, Eddie Nketiah, Pablo Mari, Alexandre Lacazette
Player of the match: Reiss Nelson

When the last preseason game was played it was two weeks left until the first game of the season, away from home against Wolverhampton, tough one. After seeing the games from the players I think we have a good chance to be in the top of the league but there sure is some other better teams in the league. The board want us to qualify for the Europa League for next season and that should'nt be a problem. We will have to hope that our best players will stay in good shape and that we don't get many long injuries.

The preview of the upcoming seasons shows us that Liverpool are the favourites to bring home the titel to Merseyside with the teams from Manchester not far behind. Chelsea and Tottenham will also be in the race acording to medias. The medias think we will come 6th and that might be right but we want Champions League football so that will be the main target this season, to qualify for the Champions League. Will we do it with a top 4 position or will we win the Europa League, hope we can do at least one of them.

 

[Saibot1891]

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What a start from us, we are unbeaten.

August 2019

Wolverhampton 0-1 Arsenal
Goalscorer : David Luiz (pen)
Player of the match : Ainsley Maitland-Niles

Arsenal 2-0 Tottenham
Goalscorer : Bukayo Saka, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Player of the match : Mesut Özil

Chelsea 1-1 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Mesut Özil
Player of the match : Mesut Özil

Arsenal 6-0 Norwich
Goalscorer : Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Bukayo Saka, David Luiz, Granit Xhaka, Mesut Özil x2
Player of the match : Mesut Özil


Four games played and we have won three of them and came away with a draw at Stamford Bride. That's a really good start from us and I am really happy with our performance so far. We started of with a win against Wolves after a goal on penalty from David Luiz. After that two derbies. We won the most important of them against Tottenham with 2-0 after a really solid game from us. At Stamford Bridge we had a much tougher time creating good chanses but we did manage to bring a point from it. In the last game of August we humiliated Norwich totally, we won 6-0 and we are in top of the league. Impressive for sure but we have not played against the most dangerous teams in the league yet.

The groups in Europa League have been drawn and we have been handed a easy one to be fair. AZ (Netherlands), Brøndby (Denmark) and APOEL (Cyprus) are the teams that we will face and I take for granted that we will win this group, we are so much better than those teams but you never know.

 

[Saibot1891]

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We keep on doing great but not top of the league.

September 2019

Crystal Palace 0-0 Arsenal
Goalscorer : -
Player of the match : Gary Cahill

Arsenal 7-0 AZ
Goalscorer : Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang x2, Reiss Nelson x2, Mesut Özil, Sokratis Papastathopoulos
Player of the match : Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Arsenal 4-1 Bournemouth
Goalscorer : Mesut Özil, Dani Ceballos, Nicolas Pépé, Sokratis Papastathopoulos
Player of the match : Nicolas Pépé

Newcastle 0-2 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Pablo Mari, Jamaal Lascelles (own goal)
Player of the match : Héctor Bellerín

Southampton 1-6 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Granit Xhaka, David Luiz, Nicolas Pépé x2
Player of the match : Reiss Nelson


One more month in the history and this one was also a great one. We started of bad and only got 0-0 away to Crystal Palace, a team that is last in the league so far. After that three easy points against Bournemothin a game that was really good from Nicolas Pépé. To end this month we won big in Southampton in a well performed game from us. We are the team with second most goals scored so far with our 20, only Liverpool are better (21 goals) and it sure does look promising.

We have had two cup games as well. One in Europa League and one in EFL Cup. We started of our adventure in Europa Leauge by winning big against AZ in a game that both Aubameyang and Nelson scored twice. In the cup-game against Newcastle we did play a lot of youngsters but we managed to advance to the next round. The 4th round will be played at Emirates against Watford.

 

[Saibot1891]

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The youngsters keep on performing in Europa League.

October 2019

Brøndby 0-2 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Gabriel Martinelli, Bukayo Saka
Player of the match : Héctor Bellerín

Arsenal 2-0 Manchester United
Goalscorer : Héctor Bellerín, Nicolas Pépé
Player of the match : Nicolas Pépé

Leicester 0-4 Arsenal
Goalscorer : David Luiz, Bukayo Saka, Alexandre Lacazette, Matteo Guendouzi
Player of the match : David Luiz

Arsenal 1-0 APOEL
Goalscorer : Shkodran Mustafi
Player of the match : Shkodran Mustafi

Arsenal 4-0 Newcastle
Goalscorer : Sokratis Papastathopoulos x2, Dani Ceballos x2
Player of the match : Sokratis Papastathopoulos

Arsenal 3-0 Watford
Goalscorer : Gabriel Martinelli, Sead Kolašinac, Bukayo Saka
Player of the match : Bukayo Saka


Really good month from us, we played six games and won them all. We started of by winning easy with the youngsters in Denmark. After that a really big and important game against Manchester United, we won 2-0 and we are looking really good out there at the moment. We had no problems with Leicester before the game in Europa League against APOEL. We won that game as well, 1-0 and the youngsters keeps on performing. The last game in the league was against Newcastle and no problems there, safe victory and three new points. October ended with us making it to quarter final in the EFL-Cup after winning agains Watford with 3-0 and once again, the youngsters keep on performing really well.

October was a great month for us and we have to keep on focusing on the games that are coming. November is not that tough for us but we will have to build on something good for December might be tough for us with a lot of games with not that many days to rest.

 

[Saibot1891]

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Arsenal and Liverpool have a gap to the rest of the teams in the league.

November 2019

Watford 0-3 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Calum Chambers x2
Player of the match : Calum Chambers

APOEL 0-4 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Matteo Guendouzi, Eddie Nketiah x3
Player of the match : Eddie Nketiah

Arsenal 3-0 Aston Villa
Goalscorer : Granit Xhaka, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alexandre Lacazette
Player of the match : Granit Xhaka

Brighton 1-4 Arsenal
Goalscorer : David Luiz, Granit Xhaka, Nicolas Pépé , Calum Chambers
Player of the match : Nicolas Pépé

AZ 1-1 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Alexandre Lacazette
Player of the match : Myron Boadu



November was a month with five games and we won four of them and drew one. We did play Watford again after the game in EFL-Cup, this time in the league and it turned out to be a easy win for us, two goals from Chambers. The game in Cyprus was also that one easy for us, 4-0 and Nketiah had a show with three goals and one assist. We then played to games in the league wich gave us six new points. 3-0 against Aston Villa and 4-1 against Brighton. We ended this month with a game in Europa League against AZ. We came away with one point but that did'nt mind me, we have advanced to the next round in Europa.

 

[Saibot1891]

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Happy new year Gunners, we are top of the league.

December 2019

Arsenal 2-1 West Ham
Goalscorer : Nicolas Pépé, Ainsley Maitland-Niles
Player of the match : Héctor Bellerín

Arsenal 4-1 Sheffield United
Goalscorer : Eddie Nketiah x3, Reiss Nelson
Player of the match : Eddie Nketiah

Manchester City 2-2 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang x2
Player of the match : Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Arsenal 2-0 Brøndby
Goalscorer : Bukayo Saka, Joe Willock
Player of the match : Reiss Nelson

Arsenal 2-0 Liverpool
Goalscorer : Dani Ceballos, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Player of the match : Granit Xhaka

Arsenal 6-2 Southampton
Goalscorer : Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Nicolas Pépé, Mesut Özil, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Pablo Marí x2
Player of the match : Pabvlo Marí

Everton 3-1 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Player of the match : Seamus Coleman

Arsenal 5-0 Burnley
Goalscorer : Eddie Nketiah x4, Alexandre Lacazette
Player of the match : Eddie Nketiah

Newcastle 1-6 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Nicolas Pépé x3, David Luiz, Mesut Özil, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Player of the match : Nicolas Pépé


Well well well, what can I say.December is over and we are top of the league. Six points down to Liverpool but one game more played. We have won seven games this month, lost the first game and drew one. I am still very happy with how things are working out for us in the league and Europa League. We have 51 points on our 20 games played, really good to say the least. We started December by winning against West Ham and we ended 2019 by winning against Newcastle with 6-1.

Overall really pleased with everything but now I have some offers from some of the players to decide about and maby buy some new players. Two players are already sold, on to a rival in Premier League and one will move to Spain and Real Madrid. Next update will present what players that are leaving the club. One player are very close to sign with us but we will see what will happend there.

PREMIER LEAGUE - STANDING, FULL​

 

[Saibot1891]

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January transfer round-up and some great results.

January 2020

Some really insteresting transfers have been made during January in London and Emirates Stadium. On the 1st of January is was clear that Timo Werner would leave Bundesliga and Leipzig to play for us in the Premier League. The release clause of 60M euro was paid and he was given shirt #7 in Arsenal. We had more money in bacuase of the sales of three big names but all I wanted to sell because of there wages or their age. Granit Xhake went to Manchester United for 59M euro, big money for a player like him so whyt not, good luck at Old Trafford. But he was'nt the only player from us to change to Manchester United during January, Sokratis Papastathopoulos did the same, this transfer gave us 18,25M euro. We also sold Alexandre Lacazette, he went to Real Madrid for 57M euro and what they want him for I don't know, but good money in for us. Joseph Olowu went to Chelmsford on loan for the rest of the season as well. Overall a really good January for us with much money in and not quit that much out. The german wonderkid might be a really good player for us, lets hope so.

Manchester United 1-4 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Timo Werner x3
Player of the match : Timo Werner

Arsenal 4-0 Crewe
Goalscorer : Eddie Nketiah Pablo Marí, Reiss Nelson, Joe Willock
Player of the match : Reiss Nelson

Arsenal 1-0 Tottenham
Goalscorer : Ainsley Maitland-Niles
Player of the match : Ainsley Maitland-Niles

Arsenal 4-0 Southampton
Goalscorer : Timo Werner, Pablo Marí, Rob Holding, Jaanik Vestergaard (own goal)
Player of the match : Nicolas Pépé

Arsenal 3-1 Leicester
Goalscorer : Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Timo Werner, Sokratis Papastathopoulos
Player of the match : Ainsley Maitland-Niles

Burnley 1-1 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Bukayo Saka
Player of the match : Reiss Nelson

Chelsea 3-3 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, David Luiz, Nicolas Pépé
Player of the match : Tammy Abraham

Tottenham 2-5 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Reiss Nelson x2, David Luiz, Timo Werner, Dani Ceballos
Player of the match : Reiss Nelson

We have also played a lot of games during this time of the year. We won 4-1 at Old Trafford before we won 1-0 against our main rivals in EFL-Cup, semi final. After that three games in the league. Two wins and one draw. The draw against Burnley is a miss but don't really care because of the other two games. We played 3-3 against Chelsea at Stamford Bride in FA Cup and we did more that we had to in the rematch against Tottenham in EFL-Cup. We are in the final and there we will play against Burnley.

There is 18 games left to be played of this season in the league and I now think that we might get the job done. Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City of the big teams left to go up against and that should do. We can't loose focus now we have to keep on taking one game at the time.

 

[Saibot1891]

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The youngsters keeps on performing.

February 2020

Tottenham 1-2 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Nicolas Pépé, Mesut Özil
Player of the match : Nicolás Tagliafico

Arsenal 2-0 Chelsea
Goalscorer : Eddie Nketiah, Pablo Marí
Player of the match : Eddie Nketiah

Arsenal 3-1 Wolverhampton
Goalscorer : Calum Chambers, Timo Werner, Nicolas Pépé
Player of the match : Nicolas Pépé

Krasnodar 1-5 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Bukayo Saka x3, Gabriel Martinelli, Rob Holding
Player of the match : Buyako Saka

Arsenal 1-0 Everton
Goalscorer : Dani Ceballos
Player of the match : Nicolas Pépé

Arsenal 1-1 Krasnodar
Goalscorer : Pablo Marí
Player of the match : Wanderson

February kicked off with a massive win against our rivals Tottenham with 2-1 away from the Emirates. This month also gave us victorys in the league against Wolverhampton and Everton. Our 4th round replay versus Chelsea in the FA Cup ended upwith a win for us and we are now one step closer to Wembley, next opponent is Liverpool, at Anfield.

In the knockout stage of Europa League we have played both games against Krasnodar. The first one, in Russia, we won easy with 5-1 after a show from Saka. The second leg at Emirates was not that important regarding the result in the first game so a lot of youngster played this one, 1-1 and to the next round we go.

 

[Saibot1891]

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We keep on performing really well in Premier League.

March 2020

Burnley 1-3 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Joe Willock, Timo Werner x2
Player of the match : Timo Werner

Liverpool 4-1 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Player of the match : Emiliano Martínez​

Arsenal 4-1 Manchester City
Goalscorer : David Luiz, Nicolas Pépé, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Timo Werner
Player of the match : Nicolas Pépé

Arsenal 4-0 Shakhtar
Goalscorer : Pablo Marí, Matteo Guendouzi, Timo Werner x2
Player of the match : Pablo Marí

Sheffield United 0-3 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Joe Willock, Eddie Nketiah x2
Player of the match : Eddie Nketiah

Shakhtar 2-2 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Reiss Nelson, Gabriel Martinelli
Player of the match : Gabriel Martinelli

Arsenal 5-0 Brighton
Goalscorer : Eddie Nketiah x3, Cédric (pen), Gabriel Martinelli
Player of the match : Eddie Nketiah

We kicked off Match witch a big game, EFL Cup final against Burnley and after extra time we had the victory. Timo Werner the best player with two important goals. The games in the league was nothing than a plessure to watch. We started off by winning against Manchester City 4-1 and the club from Manchester might miss out on Champions League next season. Other than that two games and two wins. Won easy against Sheffield United and Brighton with youngsters and the titel just keeps on getting closer. Eight games left to be played in Premier League and 14 points clear.

We have also played the 2nd knockout round in Europa League. Also this time we had no problem to advance to the next round. We won 4-0 at Emirates Stadium and we just let the clock go in the rematch. 6-2 over two games and we are in quarter final and there it will be big games, we have been drawn against Chelsea. The FA Cup did'nt end well for us this year, Liverpool was to good at Anfield and we did'nt have a chance. 1-4 and not much to say really.

 

[Saibot1891]

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We are the champions, we lifted the trophy at Anfield.

April 2020

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Aston Villa 0-4 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Eddie Nketiah x2, Mesut Özil, Björn Engels (own goal)
Player of the match : Eddie Nketiah

Chelsea 1-0 Arsenal
Goalscorer : -
Player of the match : Tammy Abraham

Arsenal 2-1 Watford
Goalscorer : David Luiz, Dani Ceballos
Player of the match : Joe Willock

Arsenal 5-1 Chelsea
Goalscorer : Pablo Marí, Matteo Guendouzi x2, Sead Kolasinac, Timo Werner
Player of the match : Matteo Guendouzi

West Ham 2-2 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Eddie Nketiah, Nicolas Pépé
Player of the match : Issa Diop

Liverpool 2-3 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Reiss Nelson, Gabriel Martinelli, Timo Werner
Player of the match : Sead Kolasinac

Norwich 2-0 Arsenal
Goalscorer : -
Player of the match : Timm Klose

Arsenal 6-1 CSKA Moscow
Goalscorer : Dani Ceballos, Nicolas Pépé, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Joe Willock, Timo Werner x2
Player of the match : Timo Werner

We kicked of this month by taking a easy win against Aston Villa with 4-0. After that we came away with all the points from the game against Watford. We shared the points with West Ham at London Stadium before taking a really impressive win at Anfield. After 90 minutes and 3-2 win it was all clear, we are the english champions 2019/2020. After celebrating the league we went on a knock when we lost against Norwich. As you can see Crystal Palace and Burnley are relegated from Premier League.​

In Europa League we had a bad start against Chelsea, 0-1 at Stamford but a good result to build on. The rematch was all but expected. We went on and crushed them. 5-1 and we had no problems reaching the semifinals. The first game was played in London and we did secure the place in the final here, 6-1 and all we can do in ther rematch is controll and make sure the youngsters get minutes.

 

[Saibot1891]

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We are the champions, we lifted the trophy at Anfield.

May 2020

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Arsenal 3-0 Chelsea
Goalscorer : Matteo Guendouzi x2, Timo Werner
Player of the match : Matteo Guendouzi

CSKA Moscow 2-1 Arsenal
Goalscorer : Nicolas Pépé
Player of the match : Nikola Vlasic

Bournemouth 2-0 Arsenal
Goalscorer : -
Player of the match : Harry Wilson

Arsenal 3-1 Crystal Palace
Goalscorer : Nicolas Pépé, Shkodran Mustafi, Matteo Guendouzi
Player of the match : Matteo Guendouzi


The last days of the season and some really important games for us. Derbie is always special and this time was no difference, we went on and win without any problems with 3-0 after a show from Guendouzi, two goals and one assist. We then lost against Bournmouth after a really good game from their player Harry Wilson. We ended this campain bytaking three points from already relegated Crystal Palace. The last team to take the step down to the Championship was Watford, time for us to take some players from them maby. Fulham, Swansea and West Brom are welcomed to the top flight for next season.

We did manage to advance to the final in Europa League after defeat in Russia with 2-1 so 8-2 on aggregate. Manchester United won ther semifinal against Roma on away-goals (1-1) so it will be a really interesting final to be played in Gdánsk. In Champions League Liverpool are performing really well and will go up against Real Madrid in the final.

 

[Saibot1891]

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EUROPA LEAGUE FINAL
ARSENAL - MANCHESTER UNITED
Wednesday, 27th May 2020, kick off 20:00.​

Sensational, what a performance. We have won the Europa League, beating our rivals Manchester United with 3-1 at Energa Gdańsk in Poland. This is our third trophy this season with Premiear League and Caraboa Cup being won as well.

We took a earlie lead in this game with a goal from Matteo Guendouzi and we did get the start we hoped for. Shortly after the break Manchester United mad it even after a goal from Anthony Martial. We then pushed on for a goal that was gonna put us in front but it never came. When all tought extratime would be needed Timo Werner stept up, twice, just before the end of the game he scored twice and we had won the titel. Europa League champions 2020, Arsenal.
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[jarmour1991]

Great first season! Well done!

 

[HugoCaldeira1234]

Hey Saibot1891
Holy **** you won the league too easy and your better at tactics more that arteta
Where is the tactic can you make a file tactic just for me please