1886 Previews

Goonersphere's match preview page covering all first team matches. Previews include up to date injury lists, match facts, interesting stats, opposition analysis, head to head records as well as line-up and score predictions.

Jon writes weekend match previews for Goonersphere but you can catch his excellent regular blogging on http://woolwich1886.blogspot.com

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Misfiring Arsenal To Face Leaky Everton

Written by Jon Shay on 18 March 2016. Posted in 1886 Previews

Match Preview: Everton vs. Arsenal - Premier League 03.19.2016

Can it be the international break already? Please? The last few weeks have been especially unkind to Arsenal, what with getting dumped out of the Champions League and FA Cup and winning just once in our last eight outings. It's hard to believe that just a month ago, there was distant talk of a treble, but that talk has slowed to a trickle as Arsenal face not only a season without significant silverware, but one in which we might finish below Tottenham for the first time since 1995. And so we go into Goodison Park clinging to slender hopes of resurrecting something from a season that feels like it's teetering on the edge of catastrophe.

Have Arsenal Found Enough Form For Another Trip To Wembley?

Written by Jon Shay on 12 March 2016. Posted in 1886 Previews

Match Preview: Arsenal vs. Watford - FA Cup Sixth Round 13.03.2016

After a frustrating season of inconsistent football, Arsenal may have finally found its footing by smashing Hull City in a fifth round replay. For the first time since September, we scored more than three goals against an opponent with both Giroud and Walcott, themselves suffering from poor form of late, bagging braces. The sting of seeing Mertesacker, Gabriel, and Ramsey leave through injury still lingers, though, and we'll have to regroup quickly before Sunday's clash.

The Most Pregnant NLD In 20 Years

Written by Jon Shay on 04 March 2016. Posted in 1886 Previews

Match Preview: Tottenham vs. Arsenal – Premier League 05.03.2016

It's been a generation since a North London Derby has been as pregnant with meaning as this one is. Not since 1993 has so much ridden on the result of this one. Much as we'd like to comfort ourselves with the fact that those twenty years and change reflect just how much better we've been than our noisome neighbours, we face a cold, hard truth and might be staring an uglier one straight in the face: Tottenham are, at least for now, better than we are. We are reeling from two consecutive defeats and are three points off their pace. Forget St. Totteringham's Day for the moment. Our season is on the line.