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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.
There isn’t a huge amount that can be said about last night. Arsenal were well and truly humbled by a magnificent Dortmund performance and left the Signal Iduna Park lucky to have only conceded two. It could have easily been four or five and we were second best from the first whistle to the last.
After a deadline day which saw us pinch Danny Welbeck from Man United and a tedious international break, real football returned in the form of an early kick off against Man City. Our games against the top three of last season yielded little reward, but the positive results we did get came at home, with a win against Liverpool and draws against the other two. City were also coming off the back of a shock home defeat to Stoke, so while nobody would have been expecting a win for sure, there was room for some confidence ahead of the match up.
After the joy of scraping through to the Champions League group stages, Arsenal were brought down to earth with a bump at newly promoted Leicester City. I expected a win from this game, having seen a few improvements in our performance against Besiktas, but after five competitive games, we still don’t look any closer to coming together as a team. The draw away at Everton was a good result really, one that I’d have taken before the game, but the result against Leicester has to be seen as points dropped. The basis of our good start to last season was getting the job done against the teams we’d expect to beat and you can’t afford many slip ups like this.
