{"id":35177,"date":"2021-08-20T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=35177"},"modified":"2021-08-20T18:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T17:00:28","slug":"expect-more-pain-for-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=35177","title":{"rendered":"Expect more pain for Arsenal \ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Arsenal might have\u00a0completed the signing of Martin Odegaard<\/a>\u00a0this week,\u00a0with Aaron Ramsdale to follow suit<\/a>\u00a0shortly, but this season already looks like we’re going to see more of the same from Mikel Arteta’s side.<\/p>\n\n\n

We touched on the sad state of affairs at the Emirates in last week’s newsletter, highlighting a worrying lack of progress in the transfer window ahead of their humbling 2-0 loss to Brentford<\/a> in their Premier League opener.<\/p>\n\n\n

It seems almost fitting then, that Odegaard was signed too late for him to feature against Chelsea on Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who was one of four players to test positive for Covid-19<\/a> before the Bees clash, should be available for selection, but the captain’s form has been awful in recent months \u2013 and Alexandre Lacazette is still recovering from coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n

Arteta has been looking for positives of course, but his assertion that fans will \u201clove\u201d Ramsdale<\/a> once he arrives was more amusing than comforting. Ramsdale might be a wonderful person, but one doubts the Gunners faithful will \u201clove\u201d their club spending \u00a330 million on a back-up goalkeeper.<\/p>\n\n\n

Things will get better soon though, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

Unlikely. Chelsea’s new signing Romelu Lukaku is fit and ready to play on Sunday<\/a> \u2013 as is N’Golo Kante \u2013 and anything other than another loss for Arsenal would come as a massive shock.<\/p>\n\n\n

They then take on West Brom in the Carabao Cup in midweek \u2013 a match Odegaard could feature in \u2013 but the Baggies have been in fine goalscoring form, notching 13 in their last four matches. <\/p>\n\n\n

\u25aa\ufe0e By Goal.com Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arsenal might have\u00a0completed the signing of Martin Odegaard\u00a0this week,\u00a0with Aaron Ramsdale to follow suit\u00a0shortly, but this season already looks like we’re going to see more of the same from Mikel Arteta’s side. We touched on the sad state of affairs at the Emirates in last week’s newsletter, highlighting a worrying lack of progress in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":35178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5778],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}