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Arsenal 4 - 0 Crystal Palace
A brace, and perfect 10.0 performance from Messi gives us a comfortable win over London rivals Palace. Alaba and Sterling also chipped in with goals to give us a good start in October.
Swansea 1 - 1 Arsenal
Messi put us ahead after 25 minutes, but a second yellow card for Sule, early in the second half, meant we had to try to hold on with 10 men. We couldn't cope with the pressure, and Mame Diouf scored a late equalizer. Still, a decent point.
Tottenham 0 - 4 Arsenal
What a performance! We were clinical at White Hart Lane, and beat our fiercest rivals thoroughly. Injuries to Nkoulou and Umtiti left them weak at the back, but we were already 2-0 up before Nkoulou had to go off. Sterling and Messi were rampant up front, and bagged a goal each before Wilshere and Aboubakar netted in the second half. It will be hard for the Spurs fans to recover from this one!
Arsenal 4 - 0 Cardiff
Different month, same result! We kicked off November by smashing 4 past poor Rob Elliot in the Cardiff goal. Messi and Coutinho put us 2-0, but Aboubakar was the star of the show. He assisted one, and scored the 2 last goals, to win MoM with a 9.9 rating.
Arsenal 4 - 1 Chelsea
A struggling Chelsea were really hammered at the Emirates. Messi had one of those days where he can't be stopped, as he scored a brace, getting a perfect 10.0 rating once again. Sterling continued his impressive season, scoring again, and Ramsey also added to the Chelsea misery. Thiago managed a consolation goal late on, which made Ter Stegen very annoyed not to keep another clean sheet.
Man Utd 1 - 4 Arsenal
Wow! Unreal performance by Messi, two games in a row. Another goal from him, as well as another 10.0 rating. That makes it 3 times in these 2 months alone. This game was one where taking your chances decided everything. Man Utd gave us a really good fight, and had more chances, but we were clinical once again, and look unstoppable. A brace from Sterling, and another Ramsey goal helped us to a fantastic away win.
6 games played, 5 wins 1 draw. Goal difference 21 - 3. We can't complain!
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Saint-Etienne 0 - 4 Arsenal
Messi and Sterling piled the misery on the French side, as Messi bagged a hat-trick. Another strong performance, but a bad injury to Javi Martinez means he missed the next 6 weeks.
Arsenal 1 - 0 Shakhtar
A tough game, where we needed a wonderstrike from Alaba to get all 3 points. Despite being robbed of several of their better players, Shakhtar remain an impressive side.
Shakhtar 0 - 3 Arsenal
We performed better away than at home to the Ukrainians. Alaba scored again, and was helped by the usual suspects, Sterling and Messi, to all but secure our place as group winners.
Ajax 1 - 1 Arsenal
We drop our first points of the group stage in Amsterdam, as everything happened within the first 10 minutes. Aboubakar gave us an early lead, but Norwegian Southampton-flop, Vegard Forren, equalized only a minute later. Then hot-head Jack Wilshere got himself booked twice in two minutes, and we had to play 80 minutes with 10 men. A draw was fair, and means we're through as top of our group, before the last game.
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Arsenal 5 - 0 Portsmouth
Our second-strings did very well here, crushing Pompey. Young Serbian Sasa Andeljkovic scored a brace, and was helped by Oxlade-Chamberlain, Alex Song and Aaron Ramsey to give them a bashing. We face Q.P.R. in the quarter-finals.
December will be very exciting for us, as we compete in the FIFA Club World Cup. This means we only play 4 Premier League games, and might struggle to keep our lead. We start off facing a strong Newcastle side at home, a side that normally causes us problems, so we'll have to remain at our best throughout!
