Greetings and welcome to episode 4 of this save with Arsenal.

Game 17

Arsenal 2 – Coventry City 1

In many saves Coventry has stopped on my tracks when trying to progress into cups, or a continuing winning streak, so in a sense of way I’m wary if this time will be anything different.

Coventry striked first and the «here we go again» line crossed my mind. But Ruben Sosa and Bergkamp came to the rescue and knocked Coventry down. We take the 2-1 in front of our crowd

League Cup 4th Round

Leeds United 1 – Arsenal 1 (won 0-3 on penalties)

We got ahead early and we were managing the game quite well until the very last minute when Dixon had the misfortune of commiting a penalty. In the extra-time we traded blows but neither team could break the other. The penalties (thankfully!) were a whole different story. Seaman stopped the first two and Hasselbaink blasted the third one wide, whilst our players scored their shots. Lucky escape, huh?

Game 19

Bolton Wanderers 1 – Arsenal 0

The first half is the worst display of football so far, a complete snoozefest. Things were looking a tad better in the second, with us pushing upfront for the victory. However, a corner kick by Pollock met Cox’s head and the ball went into the net. 1-0 loss at the Reebok Stadium.

UEFA Cup 4th Round Leg 2

Arsenal 3 – Helsingborg 1

Ian is back in the starting lineup as Ruben Sosa can’t play until QF

Damn right!. We didn’t give Helsingborg a chance to get into rhythm and we ended up taking the game 3-1. Onto the next one!

Our next game against Southampton is 11 days away so I guess there will be some news coming our way in this period of time. And a few days later, indeed there are news. In this case, good.
We received an offer for this guy:

We’re well covered in the midfielder department and I don’t really have him in the plans, so I’ll just let him go.

Honestly I expected I would receive word from Eintracht in a matter of days but luckily the business was done quite promptly.

Great, I’ll start looking for a right full-back as an alternative to Lee Dixon.

The first name that came to my mind was Vikash Dhorasoo, but he’s contracted to Sporting Gijon and is listed as Unavailable, which means I’ll have to scout in the market for other players of good calibre to join Arsenal

This guy looks quite interesting:

While we await for Torgeir’s decision, the Southampton match arrives.

Game 20

Arsenal 5 – Southampton 0

Grab your popcorn folks. It’s a show in Highbury!. Ian netted two early and we were up 3-0 by half time. Bould converted a header from a corner kick in the 59^th minute of the game and Garde managed to score from a deflection by Southampton’s GK, which fell to his feet.

Game 21

Crystal Palace 1 – Arsenal 3

The triumphant road continues. We had the game decided in the first half. In the second half, the team just cruised around and Palace took the fight to us. At the late minutes of the game, they managed to score one, but they couldn’t do much.

A few days later, Torgeir arrives to be presented at Highbury

FA Cup 3rd Round

Arsenal 2 – Stoke City 1

I’ll be giving our new man a chance to get himself into our squad. Therefore, I’ll have him as a sub for this game.

Some debut for Bjarmann, huh? Murmurs roared in the sky after the misfortune of the own goal. Nevertheless, Stoke were never in the picture and we advance to the next round, courtesy of Ruben Sosa and Luis Boa Morte’s goals.

That brings this update to an end for the day.

Join me soon for the next episode of this save. See ya!