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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.
Arsenal just aren’t in good form at the moment. Every game is a struggle and at the Stadium of Light, we were a little fortunate to come away with a victory. Having said that, there was a noticeable improvement in the performance and whilst the goal came from Sunderland mistakes, the overall showing from the team was a lot more positive than on Wednesday night.
Arsenal fans have long had to put up with the team making it hard for themselves, just look at the way we won the FA Cup. But Wednesday night’s game in Belgium was quite ridiculous, even by our standards. I’m struggling to think of many less inspiring performances we’ve produced, especially against an opposition we should have been beating with ease. For ninety minutes we pretty much embarrassed ourselves, yet somehow, despite going a goal down, we turned the game around in stoppage time to steal the points.
An international break after a loss can go one of two ways, it either gives your team the time to refresh as they mentally separate themselves from the club whilst on national duty or it can turn into an elongated hangover as the opportunity to set things right as soon as possible was interrupted. Sadly, for Arsenal it looks as though the latter is applicable this weekend.
