Match Reaction - Arsenal 0-2 West Ham

[Marc Overmars]

August is extremly important if you want to challenge, win your first 3 or 4 games and you build momentum, confidence and send a message out to the rest. We always start slow, Villa a couple of years ago, last year when we droped points again at the start and now this.

Now we go to a tough place facing a very good Palace full of confidence and ability to hurt us. We lose that (likely) and we're 6 behind already and looking like relegation candidates.

By the time we start to resemble a competent Football team we will be looking at the 4th place trophy.