Loose Cannon Reviews

Goonersphere's match review page covering all first team matches. Reviews include scores, injury updates, match stats, and player ratings.

Sam Stubbs-Benbow, known on Twitter as @sambangsdrums, is a student in Sound for television and is a keen musician. He has been following the Arsenal all his life and more widely, is a football nut, keen on anything to do with the beautiful game. You will find him at most home games and a few away ones and will be providing match reviews for Arsenal first team games this season.

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Underrated Giroud The Spark Against Southampton

Written by Sam Stubbs-Benbow on 04 December 2014. Posted in Loose Cannon Reviews

Match Review: Arsenal 1 Southampton 0 - Premier League - 04.12.14

Southampton at home would normally be the sort of game you’d expect three points from comfortably every season. But football landscape has shifted dramatically since last year and while Arsenal have been toiling and struggling, Southampton have made a mockery of those who tipped them for relegation and have rocketed into the top four. Their incredible form has been such that there’s actually been talk of Champions League football at St Mary’s, even at the expense of Arsenal. So Wednesday night represented a crucial win for us against an excellent side and may go a little way to slowing the Southampton hype train.

Exceptional Welbeck Won The Points

Written by Sam Stubbs-Benbow on 29 November 2014. Posted in Loose Cannon Reviews

Match Review: West Brom 0 Arsenal 1 - Premier League 29.11.14

Arsenal are finally back to winning ways in the Premier League, but the 1-0 triumph in the midlands was not a comfortable affair. It’s one to file under ‘gritty away wins’, an important, if unglamorous victory. However, we’re certainly in a recovery/rebuilding phase at the moment, so any win, no matter how ugly is worth its weight in gold.

Better From Arsenal But Do Injuries Threaten To Frostbite Budding Revival?

Written by Sam Stubbs-Benbow on 27 November 2014. Posted in Loose Cannon Reviews

Match Review: Arsenal 2 Dortmund 0 - Premier League 26.11.14

Wednesday night saw the meeting of two teams struggling for domestic form. Dortmund are in the relegation zone in the Bundesliga and suffered a run of five straight defeats plus draws against the likes of newly promoted Paderborn. Meanwhile Arsenal have endured their worst start to a season since the eighties, having drawn five and lost three of twelve premier league games. But unlike Dortmund, Arsenal have been struggling in the Champions League too, having been beaten in Dortmund and struggled to an away win and home draw with Anderlecht. So, with Dortmund already through and almost certain to top the group, it was perhaps more important that Arsenal got the win and thankfully we did.