Arsenal fulfilled their side of the bargain but late winning goals for both Chelsea and Spurs may have shifted the momentum away from the Emirates in the race to secure a Champions League qualification spot. The win against an already relegated QPR side should have been substantially easier than it turned out to be with [...]

When home-grown talent to likes of Carl Jenkinson, Kieran Gibbs, Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Theo Walcott signed a contract extension at the Emirates, Arséne Wenger had said that it was his dream to form a British Core and that the 6 men will bring back the glory days for Arsenal. Everyone had [...]

Two the Premier League’s possession orientated teams met at the Liberty Stadium on Saturday and produced a game with some fine passing but very little in the way of clear chances until the latter stages of the game. Having secured an essential three points however, I doubt Arsene Wenger will be complaining. Line Ups Laudrup [...]

In hindsight, a nervous and far from capacity Emirates Stadium saw a predictable result. While Arsenal have a habit of grinding out an important win after major setbacks, Aston Villa have made it a habit of conceding late goals to drop crucial points. In this aspect, Paul Lambert needs to take a hard look at [...]

In the 21st century the media is more prevalent than ever. There’s the traditional broadsheets of course, but now there are blogs, fanzines, television shows from every country, and pundits. Everybody’s a pundit. Of course in the 21st century information is also more readily accessible than ever before, which means that theoretically, all this conjecture [...]

Robin Van Persie has always been a talented striker, but perhaps only last season did Arsenal fans truly appreciate what the forward could do when given an uninterrupted stretch of games with which to work. The Dutchman stopped involving himself so much in link-up play, foregoing a deeper role in order to provide the too-often [...]

Arsenal earn an important three points with a slender victory which should have been more comfortable than the score-line, and the last ten or so minutes of the game, suggested. When these two sides met early in the season, Arsenal dominated the game but failed to find the breakthrough against a deep-lying Sunderland side. A [...]

Manchester United’s Tom Cleverley and Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere are both excellent players, so to compare them with the intention of deciding who is better would be a wasteful exercise. Instead, it is more relevant to the interests of the Premier League and the England set-up to examine the respective strengths and weaknesses of the players [...]

Lucas Podolski assisted three goals, in their encounter with West Ham at the Emirates, and in doing so became the first player in the 2012/13 season to grab 3 or more assists within one game. Those three assists have propelled Podolski straight to the top of the Top Assists chart on our EPLIndex Stats Centre. [...]

With his third penalty in three games Mikel Arteta was the match winner for Arsenal in a closely contested game in which Wigan just edged the possession. Below you’ll find a graphic of the Match Stats from our Stats Centre (powered by Opta). If you do use these stats please do credit EPLIndex.com. All of [...]