"Arsenal attack is weaker"
Last season,Havertz missed 41 games
Saka missed 16 games
Merino missed 28 games
Odegaard missed 30 games
But yet, Arsenal scored 121 goals last season, won the league with 7 points
With these players now fit, lessons will be learnt this season
Booking Mosquera who was having a great game for time wasting without a warning in a cup final was ridiculous. Saka clearly won that tackle but got booked and we were denied what looked like a clear penalty. Say what you want, but that referee was biased. 100%.
Chelsea lost their first UCL final in 2008 on pens.
Man City lost their first UCL final.
United lost their last 2 UCL finals in 2009 and 2011.
Liverpool lost 2 UCL finals in 2018 and 2022.
It's normal. All we need to do is keep arriving here. And we WILL get over the line.
Pep Guardiola said that this was the toughest Premier League he has experienced. Slot echoed that. The floor of the league is so high West Ham were relegated on 39 points and three England clubs are in European cup finals. Don’t let anyone discredit this.
ferguson won the league with below 85 points 7 times:
1992–93 — 84 points
1995–96 — 82 points
1996–97 — 75 points
1998–99 — 79 points
2000–01 — 80 points
2002–03 — 83 points
2010–11 — 80 points
and united have won the league 0 times in the last decade so why are you waffling
In 17 seasons as a top-flight manager (4 Barcelona, 3 Bayern, 10 Man City), the only manager to finish above Pep Guardiola more than once is Mikel Arteta
🚨📊| THE STAT THAT DEFINES ARSENAL'S TITLE-WINNING SEASON.🏆
Across 61 matches in all competitions, Arsenal have been behind for just 403 minutes.
That's it.
To put that into perspective, the Gunners have played 5,490 minutes of football this season and spent only 7.3% of that time trailing.
Even more astonishing?
▫️ Arsenal have trailed by 2+ goals for just 26 minutes ALL SEASON.
Those 26 minutes came in the Carabao Cup Final.
Not in the Premier League.
Not in the Champions League.
Not across a gruelling 61-game campaign.
Just 26 minutes.
In the Premier League, Arsenal have spent only 8.6% of match time behind on the scoreboard, the second-best record in the division.
This is what elite control looks like.
While other teams rely on comebacks, chaos and moments of magic, Arsenal's dominance starts much earlier:
🔸 Rarely fall behind
🔸 Rarely lose control of games
🔸 Relentless defensive structure
🔸Elite game management
🔸 Consistent for 90 minutes
The biggest compliment you can give Mikel Arteta's Arsenal isn't that they win.
It's that they almost never allow opponents to dictate terms.
For years, critics said Arsenal lacked mentality.
Now they're one of the hardest teams in Europe to put behind, let alone beat.
This isn't luck.
This is coaching.
This is structure.
This is control.
This is a champion's mentality. 🏆
🚨 Clubs Benefiting Most from VAR Errors This Season 👀
Manchester City — 17
Bournemouth — 7
Chelsea — 7
Fulham — 6
Manchester United — 6
Aston Villa — 5
Brighton — 5
Newcastle — 5
Tottenham — 4
Wolves — 4
Brentford — 3
Liverpool — 3
West Ham — 3
Burnley — 2
Everton — 2
Leeds United — 2
Sunderland — 2
Arsenal — 1
Crystal Palace — 1
Nottingham Forest — 1
This has arguably been the hardest Premier League to win. Previous champions spending £400m in the summer. Pep buying two of the best players in the league in January. Three teams making European finals. A CL team in 17th. Fewest points between 1st and 18th in over a decade.