the new era

by Omkar Rege Its no secret that Arsenal last won the Carabao cup or the league cup as it was known back then way  back in 1993 in the George Graham era. Despite not winning the gunners have had their moments in the competition under Arsene Wenger notably making it to the final in 2007, 2011 and most recently earlier this year when they got battered by a quality Man City side. However new manager Unai Emery made his intentions about the competition known when he picked quite a strong side against Brentford in the third round of the Carabao cup at the Emirates on Wednesday evening. It came as quite a surprise to the fans as this competition is one that previous manager Arsene Wenger never took seriously and was known for always picking a pretty inexperienced side in these games. Well it looked like Emery got it right in the end as Arsenal won the game pretty convincingly scoring three past a Brentford side who had nothing to lose.  It started with some positive foot...

One of Arsenal's biggest victories in the premier league last season was when they taught Everton a serious footballing lesson at Goodison park and the Emirates by beating them on an aggregate of 10-3 scoring five at both venues. That wasn't quite the case when Arsenal hosted Everton again on Sunday evening in the premier league of which Arsenal fans expected a similar performance to last season's fixture.That was not to be as the new look Everton side under new manager Marco Silva turned out to be quite resilient to Arsenal's advances and kept goalkeeper Petr Cech on his toes for majority of the 90 minutes. In spite of having 62% of the ball Arsenal only managed five shots on target and scored two of them in what turned to be quite a low scoring affair at the Emirates as the gunners won the game 2-0 with both goalscorers Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang nabbing their second premier league goal of the season in a fixture which is known for the massiv...

One of the biggest questions since Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang joined Arsenal back in January is how is he going to fit into the side considering we had just bought Alexandre Lacazette from Lyon six months ago and he was supposed to be our central striker. Well for the first few games, it was an easy decision for then manager Arsene Wenger since Lacazette was injured, Aubameyang naturally became our main striker and he scored a few goals in those games, but it became quite a conundrum for Wenger when Lacazette returned from injury. Not being known for changing formations frequently, it wasn't a surprise when the manager just deployed Aubameyang on the left wing and Lacazette as the central striker. Despite not looking all that comfortable playing out wide, Aubameyang still managed to get involved and scored some goals and assisted a further few rounding up to an impressive tally of 10 goals and 3 assists in his first 14 games for the club, 13 of which were premier league games.   ...