- Arsenal 3-1 Tottenham
Victories don’t come much sweeter than the ones over our North London rivals. Hale End graduates Saka and Smith Rowe scored and Auba got the other, recreating Thierry Henry’s iconic knee-slide celebration in front of the visiting Tottenham fans. The Emirates was bouncing.
2. Chelsea 2-4 Arsenal
Our second victory at Stamford Bridge in as many visits, but also only our second in over a decade. Nketiah scored a brace with Saka and Smith Rowe again notching the other two goals in a big London derby. The Arsenal youngsters took over West London for the night.
3. Arsenal 3-1 Manchester United
Wins over our former title contending rivals are always welcome. This one came straight after our victory against Chelsea to make it two back-to-back statement wins in our bid for UCL football. Xhaka topped off the win with a long-range screamer – his only goal of the season, and what a strike it was.
4. Norwich City 0-5 Arsenal
Our biggest league win of the season. Goals came from Bukayo (2), KT, Laca and Smith Rowe as we taught the Canaries a lesson on how to play football to raise the confidence of the young squad.
5. Arsenal 2-1 Wolves
There’s not many better ways to win a football game than with a last minute winner at home. Pepe came on and changed the game, scoring and assisting Laca who forced an own goal through Jose Sa in the 94th minute to have The Emirates bouncing. The UCL dream was still alive.
6. Leicester City 0-2 Arsenal
Our 7th game unbeaten after the disaster that was the opening three fixtures. We kept a clean sheet and won by a two-goal margin away from home against a Top 8 side. Ramsdale pulled of a save of the season contender vs a Maddison free kick which looked like it was destined for the top corner. A great away day.
7. Arsenal 2-0 West Ham
A comfortable home victory against a very good team with two goals from two of our most promising youngsters – Gabi and Emile. A brilliant night of football at The Emirates Stadium.
8. Leeds United 1-4 Arsenal
The youngsters ran the show again – Saka and Smith Rowe scored but it was the boy from Brazil who stole the headlines with a fantastic brace at Elland Road in a fun game of football. ‘Gabriel Martinelli, everybody should remember that name’ – Jurgen Klopp (January 2022).
9. Arsenal 2-0 Leicester City
A game which Arsenal controlled against the Foxes. Partey and Odegaard ran the midfield for us and controlled the game as we beat Leicester 2-0 once again. A big three points at the time in the run in for top four.
10. Arsenal 3-1 Aston Villa
Partey scored his first goal in red and white, followed by strikes from Auba and ESR to give us a 3-1 win over a feisty Aston Villa side who picked up 5 yellow cards. Smith Rowe was really coming into his own.
11. West Ham 1-2 Arsenal
A game which Arsenal had to win to keep hopes for a top four finish alive. Goals from both centre halves Gabriel Magalhaes and Rob Holding helped us to an important away win at the London Stadium right after our big wins against Chelsea and United.
12. Arsenal 5-1 Everton
A game which in the grand scheme of things meant nothing, but a game which Arsenal turned the style on in, nonetheless. Gabi, Øde, Eddie, Gabriel and Cedric all scored as we thumped Lampard’s Everton to see out the 2021/22 season.
13. Aston Villa 0-1 Arsenal
Arsenal proved that they could get a scrappy win at a tough away ground with a side weakened by injuries. Leno came in and kept a big clean sheet as we did the PL double over a club who did it over us last season. Revenge was sweet. And we won an early kick-off fixture for once! Nice.
14. Arsenal 3-0 Southampton
One of Laca’s two open play goals of the Premier League season came in this game, and it was a brilliant one, as he smashed in a powerful finish into the top corner after a sweeping Arsenal move. Quite possibly our goal of the season.
15. Arsenal 1-2 Manchester City
It might be a surprise that a defeat makes the top 15 Arsenal games of the season, but Arsenal proved that they could go toe-to-toe with the Champions. In all honesty, we deserved a lot more from the game which Rodri settled in stoppage time with a cruel and undeserved winner against our 10-men.
16. Watford 2-3 Arsenal
We may have conceded two to the Hornets (one stunner and one very avoidable goal), but the three goals that Arsenal scored were stunning. Our young Guns linked beautifully with Lacazette all afternoon, and Martinelli, Saka & Ødegaard produced 3 excellent finishes to get us the away win.
17. Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle United
A routine home win against the Magpies featuring goals from both wide players Saka and Gabi and assists from both full-backs Tavares and Tomiyasu. A nice clean sheet to go with the three points in a comfortable afternoon in North London.
18. Wolves 0-1 Arsenal
A big away win at the Molineux which was made harder than it had to be thanks to Laca’s wasteful finishing. In the end we held on for a welcome clean sheet and victory against a side chasing the European places.
19. West Brom 0-6 Arsenal (Carabao Cup)
Our biggest win of the season. It came at a much-needed time straight after back-to-back losses to Brentford and Chelsea. Captain Auba notched his second hat-trick in Arsenal colours.
20. Liverpool 0-0 Arsenal (Carabao Cup)
Xhaka let the team down and got himself sent off early on (surprise), but Arsenal’s 10-men stood firm and kept a rare clean sheet at Anfield to take the second-leg of the Carabao Cup semi-finals to our place. It’s a shame we couldn’t have put up a better fight in the second leg.
21. Burnley 0-1 Arsenal
Wins at Turf Moor are hard to come by, and Ødegaard’s free kick was the touch of magic that we needed to get over the line and leave Burnley with all three points.
22. Arsenal 5-1 Sunderland (Carabao Cup)
It’s always nice to score 5, and Nketiah scored 3 of them to continue his brilliant Carabao Cup goalscoring record. Youngster Charlie Patino netted his first goal in red & white to round off a great night.
23. Arsenal 2-1 Leeds United
A game which would’ve ranked higher had we not allowed Leeds’ 10-men to pile the pressure on us and almost get a late equaliser in a game that we were comfortably dominating. Eddie scored a first half brace a handful of games after his two strikes at Stamford Bridge as the sun shone down on The Emirates pitch.
24. Arsenal 2-1 Brentford
A pretty standard home win against the best promoted side of the season which should’ve ended with a clean sheet but for a sloppy Norgaard goal in the 93rd minute. Came in a run of 5 wins in a row.
25. Arsenal 1-0 Norwich City
Our first win of the Premier League season thanks to Captain Auba’s winner. It put a much needed three points on the board after 3 losses in a row. Goal difference wasn’t a concern, it was all about getting the victory.
26. Arsenal 1-0 Watford
Smith Rowe won us the game with a second-half strike which broke the deadlock. In all honesty, it wasn’t the best Arsenal performance, but the win made it 8 games without defeat as we continued to bounce back from the first 3 Ls.
27. Arsenal 2-0 Leeds United (Carabao Cup)
A comfortable home win in the fourth round of the EFL Cup thanks to goals from Calum Chambers and who else in this competition? Eddie Nketiah.
28. Arsenal 3-0 AFC Wimbledon (Carabao Cup)
Wins don’t come more routine than this one, as goals from Lacazette, ESR and again – who else? Eddie Nketiah, gave us victory in the third round of the EFL Cup.
29. Arsenal 2-2 Crystal Palace
A team that wants to be finishing in the top four should be beating Palace at home, and despite Laca’s last-minute equaliser, this was a disappointing night in N5 against Vieira’s side.
30. Brighton 0-0 Arsenal
Trips to the Amex are never easy (just ask Manchester United), but truth be told we deserved to lose this game and were lucky to take a point back with us to North London.
31. Arsenal 0-2 Liverpool
We got the better of the Reds in the first half and Martinelli was giving Trent all types of problems, but ultimately we folded in the second-half to Jota and Firmino strikes which brought us back down to earth.
32. Arsenal 0-0 Burnley
A game which we just couldn’t find the breakthrough in. Laca missed a golden chance to win us the game but his wasteful finishing came as no surprise at this point in the season. If we had signed a proper striker in January, we would’ve won this game.
33. Manchester United 3-2 Arsenal
A game which we should’ve got more from. Ødegaard was uncharacteristically rash to give away the 70th-minute penalty which gifted United the game. It was a disappointing night in Manchester against one of the worst United sides of the last few years.
34. Brentford 2-0 Arsenal
Opening day defeat away to Brentford had all of us feeling like it was going to be another LONG season. We conceded twice and displayed the sort of creativity issues which plagued us for all of last season.
35. Nottingham Forest 1-0 Arsenal (FA Cup)
You wouldn’t think we were 14-time champions with the apathetic type of performance that we put up against Forest. Sporting a special white kit to support anti-knife crime in London, Lewis Grabban put the sword in us in the 83rd-minute to kill our hopes of another FA Cup triumph in just the third round.
36. Arsenal 1-2 Brighton
After losing 3-0 to Palace, we simply had to bounce back by beating Brighton at The Emirates… and that we did the exact opposite of. Trossard and Mwepu’s finishes put a massive dent in our top four aspirations and had us all feeling despondent.
37. Everton 2-1 Arsenal
We lost to Rafa Benitez’s Everton side. That says it all really. Somehow, we went ahead, then squandered the lead and then conceded to a last minute worldie from Demarai Gray. This was the only game that Everton won in a run of 15. It’s mad to think that if we won this game then we would’ve finished fourth. If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.
38. Arsenal 0-2 Liverpool (Carabao Cup)
After managing to leave Anfield without conceding, our 11-men let us down at the Emirates. A win would’ve set up a Carabao Cup Final vs Chelsea, which, I believe we would’ve had a decent chance in. Jota’s brace, one either side of half-time, shattered our dreams of meeting the Blues at Wembley again.
39. Arsenal 0-2 Chelsea
Chelsea came to The Emirates on match-day 2 and completely outplayed us. Romelu Lukaku scored on his return to the Premier League and Reece James added another to finish us off before half time. The power balance between the two clubs was apparent and the Emirates was left completely flat after back-to-back PL defeats. If you told me after this game that we would’ve finished the campaign only 5 points behind them, I wouldn’t have believed you.
40. Southampton 1-0 Arsenal
After back-to-back losses to Palace and Brighton, surely Arsenal would get back in the win column with a win in Southampton? Wrong. Jan Bednarek’s goal was made it 3 losses in a row for us at a time in the season where we had to pick up points. Ultimately, this is one of the games that we can look back on and feel like it cost us a place in the Champions League.
41. Crystal Palace 3-0 Arsenal
Selhurst Park has been a bogey stadium for Arsenal in the past few years, and it was no different for this visit. This embarrassing defeat reminded me of the 3-0 loss towards the end of Wenger’s reign. A pathetic performance in which we showed next to no fight.
42. Liverpool 4-0 Arsenal
Despite getting into half-time at only 1-0 down, we truly capitulated in the second half and allowed each of Liverpool’s front three to score a trio of soft goals against us. Another trip to Anfield, another humiliating defeat. Not much changed.
43. Manchester City 5-0 Arsenal
This was one of the worst days of the season for me. Although you don’t really expect any sort of result when you travel to The Etihad anymore, you don’t expect to have your pants pulled down and be spanked 5-0 without putting up a fight. Xhaka got himself sent off in another important away game (shock) and our 10-men just couldn’t cope with City’s quality. The defeat left us bottom of the table and marked our worst start to a Premier League season ever.
44. Tottenham 3-0 Arsenal
We headed into this North London derby four points above our direct rivals (both geographically and in the fight for top four) with three games left. Whether we secured fourth place or not was truly in our hands. A draw here would’ve done it, but Rob Holding had other ideas, stupidly getting himself sent off and our 10-men succumbed to the brilliance of Kane and Son. The score-line could’ve been worse, too. A truly awful afternoon.
45. Newcastle United 2-0 Arsenal
We were still a point above Spurs in fourth place with two games to go despite losing to them in the game prior. The mission was clear – go to a Newcastle side on the beach and win, and then beat Everton at home in the final game of the season. Top four would be ours.
With the way we played, you would’ve thought that we were the team on the beach and Newcastle were the side gunning for a Champions League space. The performance at St. James’ Park on this night was truly atrocious and the players should feel embarrassed for spurning our best chance to return to the promise-land of UCL football in over half a decade. A defeat that could set us back another 5 years.
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