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1.        VAR Points out the Obvious Watford’s game plan is in tatters after just five minutes. Our opponents today really need the win, so this early goal leaves it nicely poised for an enjoyable 90 minutes if we can punish them on the break. For Aubameyang to claim the Golden Boot, he needs to score a hat-trick without reply from his rivals today. Lacazette won a penalty after being clearly clattered in the box. Aubameyang put the cross in and a Watford defender bulldozers into the Frenchman as he waits to collect the ball. Typically, Mike Dean doesn’t want to give it, and there’s not much of an appeal from the Arsenal players. VAR steps in and awards the penalty, while Lacazette is still laying on the floor. Aubameyang steps up, sends the keeper the wrong when and put the ball low into the corner. A well-taken penalty. 2.        First Arsenal Goal for The Club Playing from the back is really effective when it works because it leaves huge spaces across the pitch. W

What’s better? Giving a team a good old thrashing or going behind only to overcome the odds and come out on top? Deciding the best comebacks take into accounting the strength of the opposition, the rivalry, the occasion and the score-line overturned.   5.   Bolton 2-3 Arsenal, Premiership, 2008. An away to trip to Bolton was rarely enjoyed by Arsenal. Ever since their promotion, Sam Allardyce and his band of aging bruisers, with their ‘they don’t like it up em’ philosophy, had quickly become our bogey team. By half time, the wet and windy game at the Reebok Stadium looked like it was going to be our most embarrassing and frustrating slip-up to date. Arsenal were losing two-nil and down to ten men after Diaby got a straight red for an ugly, late lunge. Luckily, Arsenal kicked into gear with around 30 minutes left. Goals from Gallas, a penalty from Van Persie and a deflected Fabregas shot in the 90 th minute, were enough to secure the three points. Allowing us some relief from the

A Fluid Rock-Like Consistency Arsenal fans have craved consistency- it’s been a good few years since the gunners have had a predictable line-up or even formation. However, the first eleven games of the restart have seen Arsenal play in a 3-4-3 structure, and it would be a shock if that changed in the last two games of the season. It appears to be a more defensively focused formation, but on its own; it doesn’t confirm a team’s mind-set. The attitudes of the players have a far greater impact. Having said that, our defence looks more comfortable and is conceding less goals than previously.   Bee’s Around a Honey Pot Oh, dear. It’s not been the most entertaining match and to make it worse, Arsenal are now losing. A casual bumbling of the ball from Arsenal players sees us concede a corner. It was like you’d given a ball to three aliens; they look at it, look at each other and then kick it away. The out swinging corner nodded on by Mings at the near post and went straight out to