The real season starts here people. We had a nightmare opener, the worst in 20 years, and don’t kid yourself, Wenger wouldn’t have come away with anything more impressive than Emery.
We now have 8 games to find our stride. Work out who can do what. Find the best 11. Search out missing form. Rack up 24 points. Go into the Liverpool game living our best damn lives.
Well, that’s the plan. If we can achieve 21-24 points, that’ll have us within spitting distance of the top 2 or 3 teams and it’ll give us a tremendous platform to push through into the dark months of November and December.
Emery has a few very important jobs to do in the next few months.
Firstly, he needs to establish who is first choice centre midfield. I appreciate he’s mixing up his formations, but I feel like we need to find a bit of consistency. If the problem you’re seeing is the problem that’s been at Arsenal for the last 3 years, just nix it. I think LT and MG are going to be a solid choice. I also think Emery has to give up the idea that Ozil is going to be able to do the defensive side of playing as a modern #10. He can’t do it for Germany, he won’t be able to do it for Arsenal. Put him out on the right.
Up front, it seems like he’s settled on Auba. Lacazette is a lethal finisher, but he doesn’t allow us to stretch teams because of his lack of pace.
I’d imagine he’ll continue to play Petr Cech who has done nothing to suggest he’d be dropped tomorrow. I also think the defence is settled until Koscielny comes back. Under any normal circumstances, Bellerin would be dropped, but I struggle to see how the manager can roll with a 34-year-old in the Premier League. We’ll see though.
It’s a big game tomorrow. West Ham have a very good manager, he’ll have made the right changes in the week and they’ll come all guns blazing tomorrow.
Hopefully we tear them a new one!
Right, last chance on the podcast. See you on the other side.
This is worse than a poor Wenger side.
Emery makes it difficult start again – with Socrates Slow Papa against a fast West Ham.
Down 1-0.
But Arnautovic missed 2 earlier which shows defense (is) still in toilet
Will Emery be gone by Christmas? 🙂
Fuck off.
It was 5 vs 2 and still conceded. Ffs.
Iwobi, Ramsey. Just rubbish to be cleared. Do fucking making anything.
If only we had 5 Guendouzi…
Look flat, passing is listless, midfield feels as if it has no control.
Not good at all.
The defence really does not inspire confidence.
The squad severely lacks quality but Emery should be getting more from them than this.
Fuck off kroenke. You skint yank twat. Fucking knew the moment he took over Arsenal was finished.
I don’t see improvements in our pressing
I don’t see improvements in our defense
I don’t see improvements in our attack
That’s what I’ve been saying tactics and a new manager was never going to be enough we need better players.
Ramsey wants 220k weekly!
Fucking not skint
We are looking at bottom half of the table this year
I’m just grateful like 90% of Arsenal fans saw that this was a bad lineup.
Emery’s teams do love comebacks tho.
Brilliant take & turn by Auba for that ramsey chance btw
west ham looking the better team. I don’t think emery knows he’s allowed to start different players each game.
We’ve not lost our first 3 games of the season since 1954 !
He isn’t even getting the best out of Aubameyang and Lacazzette…Wenger was getting that.
Now we look worse or same at the back while offense has been dreadful.He is doing something not right obviously.
Old reliable
MonREAL
Get in.
Bellerin can’t even throw the ball in to one of our players. Jesus Christ. What happened to this kid?
I pity Emery who inherited this half pile of shite.
It had to be our real STRIKER….
Monreeeeeeaaaaallllllll!!!
1 – 1
Nacho to the rescue
1-1
Let’s go!!
Bellerin
Mustaphi
Xhaka
Ramsey
Iwobi
I’m sorry lads. I hope you are succesfull in you’re new clubs.
Not a bad cross, though. 1-1.
we are trash
Monreal the hero again.
We have to start better, always takes a goal to wake us up.
Montreal activates beast mode again
Nacho !
Emery isn’t even getting the best of Aubameyang????
What about Auba buring the sitters that come his way?
To all you haters,dont forget it is the Hammers we are playing !!!!!
“but all people will see is Xhaka.”
He put in an awful pass in minutes before the goal conceded.
Arsenal equalise.
Bellerin is going to be a big offensive weapon for Emery this season.
This better go 5 or 6-1 otherwise fkn groundhog day all over again
Good run from Bellerin, good one-touch pass from Mkhitaryan. Good finish from Monreal.
We always beat West Ham they make it interesting though
Totally open defensively again.
Split with one pass.
Bellerin is about as bad as it gets defensively as a RB
Monreal levels. But surprising and unusual of West Ham defence who gave him all the time.
But nice to see Auba responding. Disconcerting to see that West Ham countering his pace
A very good cross from Bellerin in an otherwise dismal first half from him
All 3 games have been far too end to end. No control.
We need to get Torreira up to speed and we need a CAM/CM just as much as we need a CB.
Bellerin dreaming again lucky whoever the west ham forward was just as bad
Ffs. Ramsey. Play the darn ball. You aren’t Messi.
Hammers should’ve been 4-1 up by now
Bellerin is super super shiiiiiiit!
Classy D getting in each others way
Make that 5-1
Bellerin is regressed . Is a liability today. New #8 LT when ?
My goodness our defence is pants. It’s Westham ffs!
Defensive mistake by the kiddie on the edge of the area.
Never seen Arsenal look so vulnerable defensively at home against a fodder team.
Ramsey can f*ck off
Bellerin is regressing with every game. He really has been so poor for too long.
To all those saying Emery out,he has only been given 70 mil to sort all those problems inside the club,he gradually needs to inforce his own system upon the players,you dont do that in three games and a pre season,he has got major problems already with a dissenting Ozil and a threadbare defense,lets all help him and support him,in may 2019 we can judge him.
Monreal has been our pound for pound best player for 3 years in a row.
Emery’s let Guendouzi get ahead of his position too much.
His main value is from deep and quick transitions from deep
There must have been 10 occasions so far when he was farther up field than Mikki
Emery needs to tell guen to sit more
Did you see how out of position Mustafi was there? Terrible defending.
Frankly why isn’t Torriera starting? What’s Xhara or Ramsey really giving us? We have little control / composure in our defensive half.
See!! Ramsey should have cut back and he went for his yet another selfish Bollywood shot.
Mikki getting it in last 10 min…keep going
Was Arnautovic offside there? Very close.
This is very poor defensively.
Arnautovic would have been through on goal again.
Clean through West Ham with just a couple of passes.
Commentator is right: Mkhitaryan’s passing has been the best thing about our attacking play.
We should be able to overrun West Ham in the second half.
Bellerin is really bad
Maybe doesn’t wrk well with him as well.
Mhiki’s been our best player. But there’s no control in midfield
Out attempt by Auba ,but good try. Nice to see Auba getting there
Ramsey is the one who needs to be taken off
Try telling that to all his supporters here.
Thought the rumour mill says our ex England star wilshere joined west ham??
That was a nasty potentially leg breaking challenge on Auba
I hope he’s wearing good shin pads
Luke Fabianski > Cech + Leno
We look so vulnerable man. Don’t understand what we’re trying to do. This type of match is our bread and butter. We rarely lack control against bottom half at home
Guendouzi or mkhitaryan off for Lacazette. Looks like we’ll need to score four to get all three points
You get some players that are brilliant in training but crap on match day. That’s what we’re probably seeing at Arsenal.
Wenger had Auboom scoring for fun. Maybe he is better drifting from wide after all?
@paulino yeh just like napoleon said at waterloo
Few inches higher Diop would have broken Auba’s knee cap. Nasty stud up…
Absolutely. good reading China
lol Emery’s face on the touchline is like he is sucking on a lemon.
Unfortunately we are going to see more of that sort of face through the season.
Xhaka is… still wank. Also a dirty cunt too
I have to say it’s a pretty special achievement for monreal to be probably our only player to be with us throughout the shittiest era of post invincible arsenal and maintain majorly positive rep
That was a hospital ball from Bellerin
That’s a hospital ball from Bellerin to Xhaka. We underhit quite a few of our passes
Xjaka late in the tackle.
What a surprise.
The xhara collision was all because of bellerin’s rubbish pass. Definition of a hospital pass to a team mate.
Raise your hand if you’re surprised that xhaka almost had his leg broken as a result of a classic BELLERIN hospital pass
Fucking numpty our rb is
What is the job of an AM? A no.10? How often do you expect them to be on the ball. How many chances are they supposed to create?
What impact should we be seeing?
Ramsey…
West ham in again exploiting the high line.
Ramsey is really shite in this game.
Total waste of space.
Is he match fit?
How many fucking times has Ramsey fucked up a simple pass and caused a counter??
kin ell.
In yet again West Ham.
Cech saves the day.
D always ball watching no spatial or man awareness…
Sounds like there is no cohesion in our team…
He needs to throw a few youngsters in there…
Eddie Eddie Eddie….
Shit defence.
I just don’t know. Every single time an attack breaks down Bellerin is caught out. The defence is worse. If Emery doesn’t address things he’s not long for this job
Imagine that. Wenger’s defense was better.
Bellerin playing everyone onside again.. smh
We’re playing worse than we did against City and Chelsea
West Ham have made bits of us this half. Not sure what the game plan with this team is.
I don’t think I have ever seen our passing so poor.
Ramsey has looked fucking awful
This team is hopeless honestly..Just only getting worse each season.
I Love Emerys passion but hes inherited rubbish and it looks also he has no magic to make them even look half decent.
Ramsey doesn’t even deserve what he’s earning right now.
Ramsey and Bellerin have been shite. Bellerin is fucking awful. I’m not sure that he’s coachable, he isn’t just positionallynpoor, he’s technically piss too
Apart from pace (of which he appears to have somehow lost a yard in recent years) he has no redeeming qualities
Iff Ramsey won’t commit to a contract
Drop him and play Elneny or Torriera going forward
Emery is experimenting too much
Did Ramsey inherit Girouds Tongue out head to the sky disappointed celebration?
wow
What a reality check if that were needed.
Awful defensively at home against a fodder team.
No control and real confidence offensively.
There is huge work to be done for this team to be anywhere near being good enough for top four. Huge work.
I can’t fucking understand this.
I mean is this Emery’s ball?
This disjointed shit?
I’d make Ramsey a new contract offer of 70k and say take it or leave it lol
The word I would use is limp. No one on our team has assertive possession skills, not Ramsey, not Ozil, not Mkhitaryan, not Xhaka. No one in that Fabregas style of dictating the game. It hurts us massively. Then you have 75% of your back four ranging from shaky to total shit and rookie mistakes like playing a high line when there’s no pressure on the ball and you are slow as shit. That is Emery’s mistake. Ramsey has been shit, Iwobi after last week has reverted to a bit of a nothing, maybe take Ramsey off and put Torreira… Read more »
I will send a virus thebway of anyone who wants to squeal Xhaka when Ramsey has been far worse this half.
All he has is an eye to grab the spotlight and score the goal.
Put Torriera in Ramsey’s spot and Lacazette for Iwobi
Ramsey and Mkh have the same problem. Terribly inconsistent passing. Less said about Iwobi, the better.
We’re going nowhere with these clowns.