The National’s Sport cover for the Tuesday, November 24 issue, featuring Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud as the team prepare for an all-important Champions League clash.
Richard Jolly details the (predictable) depletion of Arsenal's reserves as December arrives:
“Here they go again.
“Few teams do heroic failure quite like Arsenal. They can win while exiting competitions, departing with a sense of frustration at what might have been while offering the promise of what could be.
“They are a side who win the majority of their games but possess the fragility to suggest they could lose any.
“They are a futuristic team but history repeats itself. The difference this season is that the sense of deja vu may arrive sooner.
“That underachievement could come at a considerable cost. For the first time since 1999, Arsenal could be turfed out of the Champions League before Christmas.”
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