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Where is Arsenal's 22–23 season heading?

Arsenal have recorded three consecutive draws in the PL following their disappointing 3-3 stalemate against the PL's bottom-placed club, Southampton. Like Benfica and Napoli, Arsenal are enduring a poor run of form at the business end of the season, which is the worst time to hit a lean patch.  Although Arsenal lead Man City by five points, City have two games in hand and a face-off against the league leaders at Etihad. It's an advantage to City. Man City's domestic form in the business end of the recent seasons have been tremendous, and no one more than Jurgen Klopp has suffered because of it. If you ask Klopp the question in the title of the article, he would say it's heading towards a heartbreaking end. To make matters worse, Arsenal's last six opponents are Man City, Chelsea, Newcastle United, Brighton, Nottingham Forest, and Wolves. As many as five of the teams have extra motivation to win their match against Arsenal: City for obvious reasons, Newca...

Frank Lampard's second stint as Chelsea Manager ends in a defeat against Wolves

New Manager, Same Old Chelsea!!! Chelsea Football Club suffered another defeat in the Premier League on Saturday, as they were beaten 1-0 by Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux. The result, which leaves the Blues in 11th place in the table, seventh points behind Champions league places, was a huge disappointment for Frank Lampard’s team.  The game began with Chelsea seemingly in control. The opening exchanges of a poor first half were dominated by a flurry of corners - 12 within the first 25 minutes - but there was still little goalmouth action. However, it was Wolves who took the lead in the 31th minute, with M. Nunes scoring a superb goal from the edge of the box. The second half began with more energy from Chelsea but the Blues' gung-ho mindset led to two glorious counter-attacks from Wolves, who should have added to their lead but made the wrong decision on both occasions. Chelsea would finish the game with over 60% on target but just Felix's first-half strike i...

Chelsea has sacked Graham Potter: Another one bites the dust

Chelsea has sacked head coach Graham Potter on Sunday after less than seven months in charge. Chelsea fell into the bottom half of the Premier League following Saturday's 2-0 home defeat to Aston Villa, Potter's 11th defeat in 31 games since replacing Thomas Tuchel in September. British Government can remove the man (Roman Abramovich), but not the ideology. The decision comes after another PL manager, Brendan Rodgers was sacked by relegation-threatened Leicester City, earlier in the day. Potter failed to weave his magic on the team. Toddy Boehly and Behdad Egbali have confirmed that Bruno Saltor will serve as an interim manager until the end of the season. Chelsea have 10 PL games remaining and play Real Madrid in 10 days in the UCL QF. The sacking was imminent after Bayern’s ex-manager Julian Nagelsmann’s availability on the market and Chelsea dropping to 11th on the PL table, with just the teams battling relegation below them. Nagelsmann is now the favorite to bec...

SEVEN STRAIGHT PREMIER LEAGUE WINS FOR ARSENAL

An emphatic reply from Arsenal after City’s win earlier in the day. Arsenal keep their 8 point lead over Manchester City having played a game more, Points on the board is better than games in hand at this stage.  The Gunners were under pressure to win as Manchester City had won earlier in the day, Saka missed the game due to an illness, Jesus partnered Trossard and Martinelli in attack.  Jesus won a penalty early on to set Arsenal on their way. At halftime it was quite close, Leeds were in the game. Then second half, Arsenal came quickly out of the traps. A low cross into the middle from Martinelli and White arrived at the back post to finish. Jesus got his brace as Trossard pulled the ball back from a tight space into the box and put it on a plate for the Brazilian who couldn’t miss, A striker’s finish. Leeds got a goal back but Arsenal scored their 4th. Odegaard was given lot of space and the Norwegian put his head up and picked out Xhaka with a cross...

Premier League Weekend Recap

Manchester United: After a stellar 2nd debut performance by their homecoming star Cristiano Ronaldo and a berserker by Bruno Fernandes, Manchester United clinched the top spot by beating Crystal Palace. Pogba, who has 7 assists in 3 matches, is most by any player after initial 3 opening matches in Premier League. Man United 4-1 Crystal Palace Chelsea: It seems Chelsea finally got a striker who's capable of delivering standard performances like Costa or Drogba. The former Inter Milan man opened up the scoring against Aston Villa and scored his second with a banger from 18 yards away. Mateo Kovacic also scored by taking advantage of Tyrone’s mistake to make it upto 3-0. Chelsea 3-0 Aston Villa Liverpool : Mohamed Salah put Liverpool 1-0 up from Trent Alexander-Arnold‘s precise cross, before Fabinho doubled his side’s advantage in the second half. Sadio Mane completed the scoring late in the day to make it 3-0. But Elliott had sadly suffered a dislo...

ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE SEASON 2021-2022 PREVIEWS

Pep Guardiola successfully guided Manchester City to a seventh Premier League title, but they face stiff competition this season A new season is almost upon us, meaning fans across the nation are scrabbling to get the latest info on their teams, as well as devouring league previews and predictions.   The 2021-22 Premier League season will begin on Saturday, August 14 after a summer filled with international football action, with attention now turned to who will be named English champions. it would be Manchester City who are favourite at the beginning of the season. They have the manager who has been there for few years. The team is settled. The relationships are in place. The core of team is constant. They know how the other teammates are going to play. They have won it many times in the past. They know what it taken to handle the pressure and win key games. Premier league is more about consistency over the year, City are the best team in produce result...