The Arsenal Chronicle
Squad14 Sep 2026
Lara Grondona damages knee ligaments — 122 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 122 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Nahuel Pezzini
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Luca Franco — 7.88
Marked 7.88. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Arsenal
Nahuel Pezzini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Lautaro Guzmán falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match12 Sep 2026
Arsenal see off Almagro
Three points for Arsenal, 3‑1 the final word against Almagro in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
One of their own: Luca Franco
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Daniel Morales joins the Arsenal first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Morales is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Valentín Serrano at his very best
Marked 8.47. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Arsenal.
In brief
- Player ratings Matías Sosa in the eights
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout No hiding place for Talo Colletta