I suspect that interest in this game among Arsenal fans is far higher than it would have been had the club not made the decision to part company with Unai Emery this week. Freddie Ljungberg will be in charge today, assisted by Per Mertesacker no less, and like all of you I'm hoping they can get this new era off to a winning start. After the weekend's fixtures we sit 9th in the Premier League table, and whatever you felt about the former head coach, the reason he was let go was simply because results were not good enough. Performances were also bad, but the fact we haven't won a game in the league since October 6th – almost two months – meant we had to do something to arrest the slide....
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