Arsenal have had a great year in 2015. They beat all the top-6 teams of the premier league (of 2014/15 season). The last time they achieved this feat they won the league that season.They are currently in second and have a great chance of winning the league due to their excellent form having losing just thrice this league season .We review their 2015:
Arsenal started their 2015 horrendously losing 2-0 at Southampton with Wojciech Szczesny making two errors causing the goals. This was to be his last match as a first-team keeper in the team.
This was followed by a 2-0 win in the FA cup with Sanchez and Mertesacker scoring their first goals of the year. The Gunners then faced stoke city in their first league home game of the year and comfortably dispatched them 3-0 to win their first game of 2015.Alexis Sanchez was involved in all three goals, Scoring two and assisting one. The first big-game followed as Arsenal went to Etihad to face nd place Manchester City. In the 24th minute,Most people had Manchester City as the favourites but what followed was absolutely remarkable.Vincent Kompany fouled Monreal on the edge of the box. The resultant penalty was calmly converted by Santi Cazorla. Arsenal plyed with a defensive mentality and attacked on the break.The Second Goal came in the second half, Santi Cazorla putting in a peach of a ball for giroud to head goalwards. This victory put arsenal in high stead winning in Manchester for the first time in almost 5 years.
Arsenal countinued this form with the trashing of Aston Villa 5-0 at Home.Mesut Ozil marked his first start of 2015 with a goal while Hector Bellarin scored his first ever goal for Arsenal.This was followed by the north-london derby which was against tottenham. Mesut Ozil gave the lead to gunners after placing a mis-hit Giroud shot into the goal. At the break, Arsenal led the game but an in-form Harry Kane equalised in the 55th minute for Spurs. Kane then scored again in the 86th minute to give Spurs the lead and they hold on to win the match 2-1.
This loss was followed by an 8 game win streak in which Olivier Giroud netted in 6 consective games and even won the 'Player of the Month' award for March. This run included a 4-1 demolition against Liverpool and a 3-0 win against West-Ham.4 out of these 8 games saw arsenal winning by a scoreline of 2-1.
Between this League Run, Arsenal faced Manchster United at old trafford in the fa cup and beat them 2-1 with Danny Welbeck scoring the winning goal. This was a huge result the club who had not won in Manchester in almos 5 years, beat both Manchester clubs in Manchester inside the first 3 months of 2015.
Their League Win-Streak though was broken by Chelsea who played out a 0-0 at the emiratess.This Draw was followed by a 3-1 win at Hull with Sanchez and Ramsey staring in the game. Then they played the FA Cup Semi-Final against Reading in which Sanchez scored a brace in 2-1 Extra Time win. From this game, Arsenal had a poor run of form losing 0-1 to Swansea at the emirates before drawing 0-0 against Sunderland at Home as well. After These Disappointing results, Arsenal went to Old Trafford to face Manchester United in the League and played a 1-1 draw. Their final game of the league was an exciting one with Theo Walcott scoring a first-half hat-trick while Wilshere scoring a blinder as Arsenal went into half-time 4-0. They conceded once in the second-half as the game 4-1 in heir favour. The Season was not over for Arsenal as they faced AstonVilla in the FA cup final. There was a gulfing class between the two teams. For the first 35 minutes, the game was balanced. The rest of the game Arsenal absolutly battered Villa. Theo Walcott opened the scoring in the 40th minute to give Arsenal a 1-0 lead at the break. Arsenal then scored early in the second-half through a Sanchez Long-shot before Per Mertesacker made it 3 in the 62nd minute. Olivier Giroud came on as a substitute and scored in Stoppage as Arsenal won the FA Cup Final with a 4-0 win. This was their 2nd consective FA Cup in a row.
Arsenal were not really active in the off-season with only 1 major signing, Goal Keeper Petr Cech from Chelsea for 15 million pounds. Sanchez and David Ospina went for international duty at the copa america with Sanchez leading Chile to Copa Glory while Ospina putting great performances including a cleansheet against argentina.
Due to this, this duo was not fully fit to face Chelsea for the community shield in Arsenal's first official game of the season but new signing Cech did play his first game against his former club.
Arsenal scored in the 24th minute throuh an oxlade chamberlin left-footed finesse shot and then defended really well to stop chelsea from scoring. The full-time result was Arsenal 1, Chelsea 0.
This was morale boosting for Arsenal and especially Arsene Wenger who finally beat a Jose Mourinho team.
The team went it full confidence for their first league match against West Ham.
Arsenal started their 2015 horrendously losing 2-0 at Southampton with Wojciech Szczesny making two errors causing the goals. This was to be his last match as a first-team keeper in the team.
This was followed by a 2-0 win in the FA cup with Sanchez and Mertesacker scoring their first goals of the year. The Gunners then faced stoke city in their first league home game of the year and comfortably dispatched them 3-0 to win their first game of 2015.Alexis Sanchez was involved in all three goals, Scoring two and assisting one. The first big-game followed as Arsenal went to Etihad to face nd place Manchester City. In the 24th minute,Most people had Manchester City as the favourites but what followed was absolutely remarkable.Vincent Kompany fouled Monreal on the edge of the box. The resultant penalty was calmly converted by Santi Cazorla. Arsenal plyed with a defensive mentality and attacked on the break.The Second Goal came in the second half, Santi Cazorla putting in a peach of a ball for giroud to head goalwards. This victory put arsenal in high stead winning in Manchester for the first time in almost 5 years.
This loss was followed by an 8 game win streak in which Olivier Giroud netted in 6 consective games and even won the 'Player of the Month' award for March. This run included a 4-1 demolition against Liverpool and a 3-0 win against West-Ham.4 out of these 8 games saw arsenal winning by a scoreline of 2-1.
Between this League Run, Arsenal faced Manchster United at old trafford in the fa cup and beat them 2-1 with Danny Welbeck scoring the winning goal. This was a huge result the club who had not won in Manchester in almos 5 years, beat both Manchester clubs in Manchester inside the first 3 months of 2015.
Their League Win-Streak though was broken by Chelsea who played out a 0-0 at the emiratess.This Draw was followed by a 3-1 win at Hull with Sanchez and Ramsey staring in the game. Then they played the FA Cup Semi-Final against Reading in which Sanchez scored a brace in 2-1 Extra Time win. From this game, Arsenal had a poor run of form losing 0-1 to Swansea at the emirates before drawing 0-0 against Sunderland at Home as well. After These Disappointing results, Arsenal went to Old Trafford to face Manchester United in the League and played a 1-1 draw. Their final game of the league was an exciting one with Theo Walcott scoring a first-half hat-trick while Wilshere scoring a blinder as Arsenal went into half-time 4-0. They conceded once in the second-half as the game 4-1 in heir favour. The Season was not over for Arsenal as they faced AstonVilla in the FA cup final. There was a gulfing class between the two teams. For the first 35 minutes, the game was balanced. The rest of the game Arsenal absolutly battered Villa. Theo Walcott opened the scoring in the 40th minute to give Arsenal a 1-0 lead at the break. Arsenal then scored early in the second-half through a Sanchez Long-shot before Per Mertesacker made it 3 in the 62nd minute. Olivier Giroud came on as a substitute and scored in Stoppage as Arsenal won the FA Cup Final with a 4-0 win. This was their 2nd consective FA Cup in a row.
Arsenal were not really active in the off-season with only 1 major signing, Goal Keeper Petr Cech from Chelsea for 15 million pounds. Sanchez and David Ospina went for international duty at the copa america with Sanchez leading Chile to Copa Glory while Ospina putting great performances including a cleansheet against argentina.
Due to this, this duo was not fully fit to face Chelsea for the community shield in Arsenal's first official game of the season but new signing Cech did play his first game against his former club.
Arsenal scored in the 24th minute throuh an oxlade chamberlin left-footed finesse shot and then defended really well to stop chelsea from scoring. The full-time result was Arsenal 1, Chelsea 0.
This was morale boosting for Arsenal and especially Arsene Wenger who finally beat a Jose Mourinho team.
The team went it full confidence for their first league match against West Ham.
This was to be a shoking match lost 0-2 with both goals due to Petr Cech's mistakes.
After this shock, Arsenal started their recovery with 2-1 win at Crystal Palace. This was followed by a poor performance in which Petr Cech produced one of his carrer's best performances to keep a cleansheet against Liverool in a 0-0 draw at home.This home result was followed by 1-0 victory at Newcastle from a colocini own-goal.This away win was followed by Arsenal's first home win against Stoke, winning 2-0. Arsenal then played Chelsea for the second time in the season, this time losing 2-0 as arsenal ended the game with 9 men. Kurt Zouma opened the scoring just after the second half and Calum Chambers delected Eden Hazard's shot for the second goal in the stoppage time of the second half.This loss was followed by a 5-game league win-streak including wins against Leiceister City and Manchester United. The Streak started at Leiceister where Jamie Vardy opened the scoring before Walcott equalised to make it 1-1, then Sanchez scored a beautifl hat-trick before Vardy and Giroud scored as the game 5-2 in the favour of Arsenal. This league win was followed by a second consecctive champions league loss, this time against Olympiacos.The scoreline was 2-3.This loss was followed by a 5 game win-streak in all competitions. First Up was Manchester United who had just become the league leaders. What happened in the game was sensational. Arsenal went 3-0 up in the first 20 minutes .Even though, the score didn't change from 3-0, the chances arsenal had, they could have had atleast 6 goals.This was a huge resut for then under-pressure arsenal (beause of their champions league).
This win was followed by another one against Watford of the identical scoreline with Giroud,Sanchez and Ramsey scoring a goal each while Ozil assisting two of those. Then came the big Game, Arsenal vs Bayern Munich, Champions League. Bayern dominated the game creating chances throughout the game but still failed to score. Arsenal hit Bayern on the break and Giroud Scored in the 77th minute to make it 1-0. Arsenal sealed the game late on as Ozil scored in the stoppage time of the game.Final Score Arsenal 2, Bayern 0.
This Mid-week win was followed by another won in the weekend Everton, Winning the game 2-1. Arsenal had more chances but Everton could have have equalised but cech had to make a few good saves to save the victory. This victory was followed by argubly Arsenal's shock of the season, losing 3-0 at Sheffield Wednesday in the league cup.
Arsenal did recover from this shock with a 3-0 win at Swansea in the premier league. Giroud, Koscielny and Campbell scoring a goal each. This was to be their only win in the next 4 games as Arsenal went on a poor run that started with 1-1 in the north-london derby before losing at West Brom and then drawing at Norwich. In between, this poor league run was a champions league victory against Dianmo Zagreb at Home, winning 3-0. Ozil opened the scoring before Sanchez scored a brace to seal the game. As of 25th December, Arsenal haven't been on a win-streak of 4 in all competitions since drawing at Norwich. The Streak started with a 3-1 win over Sunderland with Olivier Giroud scoring for both teams.This was followed by a 3-0 win at Olympiacos with Gioud scoring a hat-trick to ensure arsenal reached the knockout rounds.
This performance was followed by another clean-sheet in a 2-0 win over Aston Villa which was to be Petr Cech's 169th Cleansheet in the Premier League.Olivier Giroud and Aaron Ramsey were on the scoresheet for this game. This win was followed by another one aginst title contenders 'Manchester City'. Walcott opened the scoring with a great shot before Olivier Giroud scored just before half-time. Both Goals were assisted by Mesut Ozil. Yaya Toure pulled one goal for Manchester City in the Second Half but that the visitor's only goal. The final goal was Arsenal 2, Man City,1. With this win, Arsenal were 2nd in the table.
After this shock, Arsenal started their recovery with 2-1 win at Crystal Palace. This was followed by a poor performance in which Petr Cech produced one of his carrer's best performances to keep a cleansheet against Liverool in a 0-0 draw at home.This home result was followed by 1-0 victory at Newcastle from a colocini own-goal.This away win was followed by Arsenal's first home win against Stoke, winning 2-0. Arsenal then played Chelsea for the second time in the season, this time losing 2-0 as arsenal ended the game with 9 men. Kurt Zouma opened the scoring just after the second half and Calum Chambers delected Eden Hazard's shot for the second goal in the stoppage time of the second half.This loss was followed by a 5-game league win-streak including wins against Leiceister City and Manchester United. The Streak started at Leiceister where Jamie Vardy opened the scoring before Walcott equalised to make it 1-1, then Sanchez scored a beautifl hat-trick before Vardy and Giroud scored as the game 5-2 in the favour of Arsenal. This league win was followed by a second consecctive champions league loss, this time against Olympiacos.The scoreline was 2-3.This loss was followed by a 5 game win-streak in all competitions. First Up was Manchester United who had just become the league leaders. What happened in the game was sensational. Arsenal went 3-0 up in the first 20 minutes .Even though, the score didn't change from 3-0, the chances arsenal had, they could have had atleast 6 goals.This was a huge resut for then under-pressure arsenal (beause of their champions league).
This win was followed by another one against Watford of the identical scoreline with Giroud,Sanchez and Ramsey scoring a goal each while Ozil assisting two of those. Then came the big Game, Arsenal vs Bayern Munich, Champions League. Bayern dominated the game creating chances throughout the game but still failed to score. Arsenal hit Bayern on the break and Giroud Scored in the 77th minute to make it 1-0. Arsenal sealed the game late on as Ozil scored in the stoppage time of the game.Final Score Arsenal 2, Bayern 0.
This Mid-week win was followed by another won in the weekend Everton, Winning the game 2-1. Arsenal had more chances but Everton could have have equalised but cech had to make a few good saves to save the victory. This victory was followed by argubly Arsenal's shock of the season, losing 3-0 at Sheffield Wednesday in the league cup.
Arsenal did recover from this shock with a 3-0 win at Swansea in the premier league. Giroud, Koscielny and Campbell scoring a goal each. This was to be their only win in the next 4 games as Arsenal went on a poor run that started with 1-1 in the north-london derby before losing at West Brom and then drawing at Norwich. In between, this poor league run was a champions league victory against Dianmo Zagreb at Home, winning 3-0. Ozil opened the scoring before Sanchez scored a brace to seal the game. As of 25th December, Arsenal haven't been on a win-streak of 4 in all competitions since drawing at Norwich. The Streak started with a 3-1 win over Sunderland with Olivier Giroud scoring for both teams.This was followed by a 3-0 win at Olympiacos with Gioud scoring a hat-trick to ensure arsenal reached the knockout rounds.
This performance was followed by another clean-sheet in a 2-0 win over Aston Villa which was to be Petr Cech's 169th Cleansheet in the Premier League.Olivier Giroud and Aaron Ramsey were on the scoresheet for this game. This win was followed by another one aginst title contenders 'Manchester City'. Walcott opened the scoring with a great shot before Olivier Giroud scored just before half-time. Both Goals were assisted by Mesut Ozil. Yaya Toure pulled one goal for Manchester City in the Second Half but that the visitor's only goal. The final goal was Arsenal 2, Man City,1. With this win, Arsenal were 2nd in the table.
