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Analysing Arsenal’s 2022/23 Premier League fixtures

By James Cormack

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It’s quite remarkable how much intrigue and excitement surrounds the release of the Premier League schedule for the new season.

Every team will ultimately play each other twice, home and away, nothing changes.

The intrigue never dissipates, however, and once you’ve quickly scanned your side’s schedule, gazed more intently at the dates of derby bouts and see where you’ll be booking your Premier Inn on New Year’s Eve (it’s the South Coast for travelling Gooners this time around), you’re then seemingly obliged to predict how many points you’ll see your side pick up in their opening X amount of fixtures.

Some will even go as far as mapping out the entire campaign in their head as if they know whether Arsenal will turn up in an innocuous Matchday 23 fixture at home to Brentford.

“Win, win, lose, draw, win, lose…” etc, etc. Those three words have played through the minds of football supporters like an arbitrary chorus on Thursday morning.

Analysing Arsenal’s 2022/23 Premier League fixtures

In this piece, I’m not going to be predicting the outcome of every Arsenal fixture following the release of their 2022/23 Premier League schedule, but I will be running through the list, month-by-month, and offering a few revelatory thoughts on the Gunners playing every team twice in the new season.

August

Matchday 1 (05/08/2022) — 20:00 Crystal Palace v Arsenal
Matchday 2 (13/08/2022) — 15:00 Arsenal v Leicester City
Matchday 3 (20/08/2022) — 15:00 A.F.C. Bournemouth v Arsenal
Matchday 4 (27/08/2022) — 15:00 Arsenal v Fulham
Matchday 5 (30/08/2022) — 19:45 Arsenal v Aston Villa

“BACK-TO-BACK LONDON DERBIES ON A FRIDAY NIGHT TO START THE SEASON, UGH. IT’S SO UNFAIR!!!”

Get over it, folks. Sure, it’s not ideal with those chastening nights at the Brentford Community Stadium and Selhurst Park still fresh in the memory, but the Gunners have the chance to right one or two wrongs from 2021/22 on the opening night of the new season. That’s how this fixture should be viewed.

Go out and make a statement against Patrick Vieira’s Eagles.

Arsenal’s start is significantly less intimidating compared to last season. After the trip to Selhurst Park, the Gunners host Leicester in their home opener before taking on two newly-promoted sides in Bournemouth and Fulham. A home clash against Aston Villa wraps up a pretty tame August in which Arteta’s side could get off to a flyer.

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