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Since 24 August 2019 Arsenal FC has lost no competitive game. No wonder that the London club, which this summer for the second time in a row failed to qualify for the UEFA Champions League, is currently looking very good in the table.
An away trip north of the country and the Gunners would return to third place after Leicester and Chelsea’s victories, where they are currently Manchester City’s main pursuers behind the already defeated first-placed Liverpool FC.
At Sheffield United against Arsenal, the odds of the bookmakers as a whole also clearly in the direction of the men of Unai Emery. No wonder, especially Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang meets these days practically at will. Alone in the Premier League scored the former Dortmund already seven goals in the first eight league games.
At least the outlook of the Gunners, however, is strongly expandable. Since the 1-0 in Newcastle from the first matchday there was no league victory in the distance, which should certainly be considered at Sheffield United against Arsenal for the forecast.
But: The Blades in turn took only three of their nine points at home Bramall Lane. Thus, we recommend you to go with the favorites and play at Sheffield United against Arsenal the tip on the away win.
Sheffield United:
An English championship is for the traditional club Sheffield United to book, although this already goes back two millennia. That’s how the Blades first came to fruition at the end of the 19th century in 1898. Much has happened since then. Was Sheffield in 1992 still a founding member of the Premier League, so it went two years later in the second division.
2006/07 then followed the return to the upper house of English football and immediate re descent. Then even the case in the third highest division of the country, where the former national champion spent six years. Now the blades are back and want to keep the class at any price, for which the horrendous television revenues, which are also part of every newcomer, have been invested on a large scale.
Converted to the 50 million euros Sheffield spent for new staff, poaching but hardly abroad, but instead brought instead established players from the first two leagues of the country. The interim conclusion is correct: With nine points from the first eight games, the Blades are above the line and would stay there even in a home defeat against the Gunners.
This is remarkable as Sheffield United has already played against greats like Leicester City and most recently over-flyers Liverpool FC – and lost both times just barely. Last against the Reds with an unfortunate 0: 1 at home Bramall Lane.
The secret of success: The defensive. Only seven goals conceded the Blades since returning to the Premier League – and thus represent the second best defensive of the entire Beletage of English football behind the reigning Champions League winner. Only the Torausbeute must increase so slowly but surely.
So Sheffield United against Arsenal in the odds of bookmakers is still the blatant outsider, since only seven times could be used in the opposing box – the third worst yield of the league. Although new strikers Oliver McBurnie, Lys Mousset and Callum Robinson were all in the scorers’ list, all but just once.
It is clear that the climber does not have to hide from Arsenal FC. But it is also clear that for a threesome against a very well placed opponent, not only once more the defensive must remain error-free, but also the offensive must go a step further.
Arsenal:
Although the season goal with a three in Sheffield would still be achieved and the Gunners then back in third place, it is still very restless in the environment of the 13-time English champion, this summer for the second time in a row the Champions League missed.
In the attack virtually no way leads past Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and in the midfield may be lacking in quality in the game structure. No wonder, because with Henrikh Mkhitaryan a playmaker was loaned to AS Roma, while Aaron Ramsey went on a free transfer and Mesut Özil plays no role in the plans of Unai Emery.
The ten’s role was last reserved for Dani Ceballos, who was loaned out by Real Madrid and has a downright catastrophic season in the Spanish capital. Really he could fulfill the expectations so far as little as the just 20 years young Mattéo Guendouzi, who although already came to the Gunners in the summer of 2018 and graduated in the preseason 33 league games, but rarely provides ingenious moments.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s strike partner, Alexandre Lacazette, is also currently injured, which means that virtually everything has to be done about the Gabon striker, who has scored seven goals in eight league games, almost single-handedly Gunners are so well off the starting blocks. The downside is that the defensive Blades certainly will employ all the staff on the 30-year-olds.
Sheffield United vs. Arsenal are unlikely to be out for the away win, as London only narrowly won their first away game in the Premier League 1-0 in Newcastle. It followed the 1: 3 defeat in Liverpool, after which it was not enough at Watford FC (2: 2) and Manchester United (1: 1) to another threesome. Two teams from the lower half of the table, which you have to beat if you want to go to the Champions League.
That’s not the reason why there are no away weaknesses – after all, there are no further defeats on the credit side since the Liverpool bankruptcy on 24 August. Conversely, the Gunners have not lost all competitions across the last eight competitive games (five wins, three draws). Nevertheless, there is a lot at stake on the away trip to Sheffield.
If the threesome remains with a newcomer who has to defeat a club with the ambition to finish in the top four, the team of Unai Emery would decide the day of the match again only on a Europa League starting place. It is all the more important that the match plan mentioned by the coach in the interview takes effect.
Sheffield Utd vs Arsenal head to head matches
23.09.08 EFL Arsenal Sheffield Utd 6 : 0
31.10.07 EFL Sheffield Utd Arsenal 0 : 3
30.12.06 PL Sheffield Utd Arsenal 1 : 0
23.09.06 PL Arsenal Sheffield Utd 3 : 0
01.03.05 FAC Sheffield Utd Arsenal 0 : 1 (0 : 0)