Game day!

Sadly I will not be there today as I continue my recovery from Egypt. The illness has completely taken it out of me, although if I can keep the weight off it might have to become a yearly trip!

I have lost count how many times this year I have blogged about how we “cannot expect another big result”, and everytime I do it we score a hatful again!

30 goals in 7 league games is truly incredible, and we have conceded just 3 goals in that time. But at some point this steamrolling still stop and we will need to fight for a scrappy 1-nil win.

I remember when we lost to West Ham, I blogged about how “that’s football”, and that we really did not deserve to lose 2-nil.

After that defeat, a lot of Arsenal fans were losing their heads and the old Arteta-Outers were crawling out from their Spanish bedsits. But the performance and statistics did not justify the response.

In that game, we had 74% possession, 30 shots and 77 touches in West Ham’s box. It should have been more than enough for us to score 5 or 6 but it did not happen.

Since then, we have produced similar stats against Crystal Palace, Burnley, West Ham (away), Newcastle and Sheffield United and not stopped scoring.

Today Brentford are without their first choice back 4, so the hope is there that we can do it again. But we need to be cautious.

The news that we have gone cold on Ivan Toney has been leaked at a bad time. He will be super motivated today and it could be a “former lover scorned” situation. Toney will be looking to prove to Arsenal what we are “missing”.

Brentford will look to slow the game down at every opportunity and play for set pieces. They will then take an age over them as they look to deliver with precision. We need to remain focused for 90 minutes.

As long as we play our game, we should come away with 3 points. And then it is feet up and relax whilst Man City face Liverpool tomorrow.

But we need to ignore that game for now and get our own job done. Get those 3 points in the bag.

Keenos