Aston Villa v Arsenal 24/08/24 1730

[HCZ_Reborn]

It's definitely not as simple as just buying a striker but you definitely lessen your chances from coming back from a deficit if you don't have a decent one that can stand up to the added pressure of going a goal (or two) down and putting the chances we inevitably create away.

Not wanting to go down memory lane, I do remember AW's successful sides easily coming back either twice in a game or even from two goals down (didn't this happen like twice against Boro or so). Even the more recent sides that he coached that weren't that great still had that ability (don't forget Liverpool 4- Arshavin 4). I'm sure if I check, Emery's sides were still able to do this to ie. the last regime our forwards actually looked menacing.

Anyway, lets just keep our fingers crossed that Villa doesn't take the lead again today..it'll be a shame if Emery beats him 3 times in a row using the same trick.

Erm I’m looking at games purely where we concede the first goal in a game

The Arshavin game at Anfield, we scored the first goal, and in fact were only behind once during the game


We actually gave away the lead three times in that game at 1-0, 3-2 and 4-3


We also came back from 3-0 down against West Ham under Arteta to draw 3-3

Came back from two nil down against Chelsea and when Chelsea twice took the lead against us despite playing the majority of the game with ten men.


You can always find examples of where we’ve come back in games under any coach


But under Wenger there were also loads of games where we conceded first like in the opening five minutes of a game and despite all the huffing and puffing couldn’t break sides down