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Three Arsenal pre-season games that fooled us all By Jack Lacey-Hatton Are pre-season friendlies ever an accurate indicator of what is to follow? Trying to predict how Arsenal will get on over the next nine months can be a tricky task at the best of times. It is made near impossible when you throw some rogue friendly results in before the season starts. To some they are just glorified kickabouts, to others they offer an important temperature check on the forthcoming season’s fortunes.  Here are some of the Gunners’ most memorable warm-up matches from down the years. 2015 v Lyon It may be regarded as something of a light appetiser, but the truth is there are few pre-season games of higher quality than the Emirates Cup. The traditional two-day tournament is only ever contested by top sides and 2015 was no different. It was when Arsenal produced a stunning performance to dismantle a talented Lyon team, which featured former Gooner Alexandre Lacazette, 6-0. The team went on to ...

Arsenal's five most underrated players since The Invincibles By James Reid It has been almost 20 years since the famous invincibles team swept everything before them to claim Arsenal’s 13 th  and most recent league title.  It was an iconic team packed full of some of the very best to wear an Arsenal shirt.  Since then, we have seen a wide range of players don the famous red and white, from some of the very best all the way to the very worst.      We took a look at some of those players who flew under the radar and didn’t get as much love as they should have done during their time in North London.  Alexander Hleb  Anyone that moves on from the Emirates to Barcelona is surely a top player, but Hleb was an underrated figure on the wing during his time at the Gunners.  The Belarussian arrived from Stuttgart in 2005 and became a key member of the side that reached the 2006 Champions League final in Paris.  Hard-working and technically gifted,...