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Arsenal Women draw 1-1 with Birmingham and are winless in five league games
Arsenal Women drew 1-1 with Birmingham City at the Emirates on Saturday, and for the first time ever they've gone five league games without a win. Birmingham sat deep, as others have, and Arsenal had 76% of the ball in the first half but put only one of their eight shots on target. Alessia Russo's… Continue reading
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Arsenal shelve Emirates expansion and turn to hospitality and retail upgrades
Arsenal won't be making the Emirates much bigger after all. The club has shelved plans for a major expansion. It'll put its money into smaller improvements to hospitality and retail instead. This wasn't a passing thought. A working group led by the chief executive, Richard Garlick, was set up in 2024 to look at whether… Continue reading
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Alyssa Thompson settles it as Arsenal Women fail to score again
Chelsea 1-0 Arsenal at Stamford Bridge, and Alyssa Thompson's first-half goal was the whole game. Thirty-ninth minute. Arsenal had run the opening half hour and came away with nothing for it. Renée Slegers made six changes. Anneke Borbe came in for her first start, Mariona Caldentey went out to the wing, Kyra Cooney-Cross into midfield… Continue reading
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Le Fée penalty should never have been given, panel finds
A five-person panel has gone back over the penalty Sunderland were given against Arsenal on 12 September and decided, unanimously, that it shouldn't have been awarded. The same panel decided VAR was right to leave it alone. Both findings, in the same breath. David Raya saved it anyway. Enzo Le Fée took it on 56… Continue reading
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Arteta agrees new Arsenal deal expected to run to 2030
Mikel Arteta has agreed a new contract. The three-year deal he signed in September 2024 was due to expire at the end of this season, so this was the year it had to be sorted. It's expected to keep him until 2030, which would take his reign past a decade, and The Guardian says he… Continue reading
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Holmberg equalises in stoppage time as Arsenal Women draw with United
Arsenal Women 1-1 Manchester United, and it took until the fifth minute of stoppage time to get it. Smilla Holmberg got the goal. She arrived from Hammarby in January and that's her first for the club. Renée Slegers' verdict was "we wanted to be more clinical", which is the polite version of what the table… Continue reading
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Brighton blow Arsenal away 3-0 as unbeaten start ends
Brighton 3-0 Arsenal, and the scoreline was the flattering bit. Pascal Groß and Charalampos Kostoulas both hit them from distance before the break, and Cheme Andrés made it three just after the hour. Arsenal's first defeat of the season, and nothing about it was close. Arteta called it a big lesson and said his side… Continue reading
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Arsenal open to loaning Max Dowman out to aid his development
Three days after Max Dowman scored twice at Ipswich, the BBC reports that Arsenal would let him go out on loan this season if the right situation came along. Right circumstances being the key phrase, and the club deciding what those are. I can see the logic and I still don't love it. A 16-year-old… Continue reading
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Arsenal Women can equal club-record unbeaten run against Manchester United
Manchester United at the Emirates on Saturday, 17:30, and there's a club record sitting on it. Win and Renée Slegers' side equal the longest unbeaten run in the club's history, set between 2011 and 2012. Not a bad carrot after a week of hearing about a goalless draw. Slegers' line is "we are looking to… Continue reading
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Arsenal Women held 0-0 by Crystal Palace on first home outing
Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace, and newly promoted Palace went home from the Emirates with a point they'd have taken before kick-off. Over 25 shots, and by Arseblog News's count very few of them were clear-cut. Palace were happy to sit in. Arsenal didn't find a way through them, which is a sentence WSL watchers have… Continue reading