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Man City 1-0 Arsenal: Hearty performance gives hopeTue 20th Dec 2011 The solidarity of this Arsenal side is a world away from the nervous and vulnerable squad that last made the trip to Manchester but we still didn’t quite have enough quality to take a result from Lee Dixon’s homeland.
Bolton 2-1 Arsenal: Faded and JadedMon 25th Apr 2011 Another season has drifted away and the only thing that this Arsenal side has proved is that they do not respond well to defeat.
Man Utd 2-0 Arsenal: Depressingly Familiar Match Raises Depressingly Familiar Questions.Sun 13th Mar 2011 We dominated the opening exchanges, failed to take our chances and were caught out by a clinical attack. Barcelona are the only team who can dominate us but even Birmingham can exploit our obvious weaknesses and Arsene Wenger can not or will not adapt.
A disciplined Arsenal side, marshalled by Johan Djourou, eased to victory last night against a Stoke team intent on exposing our vulnerability from set pieces. It was an understandable tactic as over half of the goals that we have conceded this season have been from set pieces, the highest percentage in the division, but Djourou attacked every ball and ensured we quickly resisted any pressure Stoke attempted to build from Rory Delaps tortuously long throw ins.
Since our humiliating second half at St. James’ Park, results elsewhere have helped to ease the pain but at 5pm on Saturday it felt like one of those games that would signal the beginning of the end of the title race.