The Arsenal Sentinel
Match24 Oct 2029
A European night to remember for Arsenal
1‑1 against Alanyaspor, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Match27 Oct 2029
A 2-goal lead gone for Arsenal
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Middlesbrough kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Arsenal will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings29 Oct 2029
Nobody could get near Kai Havertz
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match27 Oct 2029
The wait goes on for Arsenal
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad29 Oct 2029
Bukayo Saka in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Arsenal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Oct 2029
Words at Arsenal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nathan Collins is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad29 Oct 2029
The manager makes an example of Jurriën Timber
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad29 Oct 2029
Joseph Pearson out for 35 days
The medical room confirms 35 days on the sidelines for Joseph Pearson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings29 Oct 2029
One of those days for William Saliba
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.19, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Match Arsenal and Middlesbrough take a point apiece
- Market The William Saliba question follows Arsenal around
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Radu Drăguşin