The show DOES go on. Unai Emery racked up an impressive 8 wins on the bounce, the first time we’ve rocked that many since 2015. That year we finished 2nd to the mighty Leicester and won an FA Cup. I’d take that this season.
So what did we learn?
Well, we’re good at beating shit teams. The Europa League is our level currently, and we’re very good when we get to strut out stuff on trendy Thursday nights. Emery is still trying to work through style challenges, this competition gives the players on the fringe the chance to click with his system.
Guendouzi was impressive, scoring the third goal from a low dragged shot from the edge of the box. His range of passing is impressive and against weaker opposition, you could really see the sort of player he could become.
Smith Rowe took a while to settle into the game, but again, you can see where his career is heading if he keeps his focus. His power is immense for someone of 19 and he’s already scoring. His goal from a well-timed Iwobi pass was clinical.
Iwobi, player of the season so far (I jest, kind of), put in another great performance. He’s very much focused on an end product this year and he’s using his brain to open up space with clever runs into space.
I also thought Kolasinac as a left wing-back was impressive. He dropped some outrageous skills, always looking to be found out wide, making some incisive passes.
The win was fairly straightforward, but let’s be honest, simple games in Europe have been anything but under Arsene Wenger.
Overall, the team still needs a lot of work if it’s going to push for top 4, but as plenty have said in the comments, if the club can make CL through the back door, who wouldn’t take it? It’ll give us the money to hire in better talent.
All eyes on the next game that sees us heading for a Sunday matchup against Fulham.
Can Emery see in the big 9? We’ll see… onwards and upwards!
@raptora, I’d even give Ozil the benefit of the doubt if it was a one off, but it isn’t it’s every single game.
He’s a senior player and if he’d gone and celebrated with the new lad when he scored imagine how he would have felt!
Instead he looked like CR7 when ever Benzema scored!
To do it once = auto correct or typo
To do it twice = Thick twat.
I’m 47 btw, only fair as you say.
P.s autocorrect to a word that doesn’t exist? very clever arent you 12 year old?
P.s.s funny how you didn’t address the foremost part of my comment on you comparing Emery’s Arsenal to Stoke ?!
If you had Ozil in your work place and you were his boss, how would you deal with him?
Let me get you started-
“Mesut, can you come to my office, we need to have a wee chat”……………………….
What would you say to him?
No expletives please.
N5
“There have been enjoyable moments, but I feel Arsenal are more like the pre-89 Arsenal at the moment where we were the underdogs each big game winning ugly. I hope that sentence makes sense?”
It doesn’t make sense at all, …when have Arsenal been.underdogs in our 8 game winning run..
Red I didn’t say they have. I said each game has that feel to it, that you’re scrapping a win rather than it being easy.
Michal24,
Here’s your P45.
I’m typing from a cell you mug
Actually find it a bit tiresome as opposed to the tab
47? Uh,looks like your behaviour on here actually betrays your age
Didn’t think the saying that a fool at 40 is a fool forever had any credence to it
Now I’m having a rethink.
Winning 3-0 is winning ugly lol.lol
Might have exaggerated a bit with the stoke comparison but you should get the drift, more like the stoke of the top 6 currently
didn’t you admit you were pissed all through the match against watford? Wonder why is that
Red. I won’t get into a back and forth with you because I know you deliberately misread things.
Did you think we dominated the game yesterday? do you think that 3-0 tells a full story? if they’d been a more clinical team in front of goal would that have been the final score?
Anyway, I’m an Emery fan, I was defending him saying that it’s wins first beautiful football 2nd, surely you agree with that and if you don’t, then nevermind
Because I had drunk a few beers before the game maybe?
Playing badly and winning is a sign of a good team..
Also, it’s “dominates” not “dorminates” you thick twat.
haha, he’s such a bellend its unreal
I agree Truth. I wasn’t arguing against that. I was more saying we’re winning in spite of our bad defending.
Did you think we dominated the game yesterday? do you think that 3-0 tells a full story? if they’d been a more clinical team in front of goal would that have been the final score? Very few games unfold were the opposition does not have a sniff on goal, i think a lot is made of the opportunities the opposition get where we play them. It’s like many expect that once we change managers we will play games were the opposition get zero chances and the keeper is a spectator. I am more concerned with the fact the players are… Read more »
Look at the extraordinary Liverpool. You think they’ve dominated teams?! Well look at their results: W 4:0 West Ham W 0:2 Crystal Palace W 1:0 Brighton W 1:2 Leicester W 1:2 Spuds W 3:2 PSG W 3:0 Southampton L 1:2 Chelsea D 1:1 Chelsea L 1:0 Napoli All of them close games, like ours: L 0:2 Man City L 3:2 Chelsea W 3:1 West Ham W 2:3 Cardiff W 1:2 Newcastle W 4:2 Vorskla W 2:0 Everton W 3:1 Brentford W 2:0 Watford W 0:3 Qarabag The excellent bindippers with their extraordinary front three and magnificent manager have scored 19… Read more »
Because I had drunk a few beers before the game maybe?
Lol, sure nothing at all to do with the football,bravo
Leftsidebitch
GET BACK INSIDE YOUR HOLE.
Many thanks.
Vic
I just have one simple question, please don’t dodge it.
If we were so dominant, why did we come 5th and then 6th ? who is to blame there ?
the manager ? the fans ? The players ?
it’s a simple question.
“Last season was a debacle but we 18 wins on home soil not playing like stoke but completely dorminates teams it feels nice to be in control of matches,dictating matches and putting in that fear factor in the opposition before a ball is kicked” That shiet cracked me up. LOOOOOOOOL You really talking about last season? “Fear factor in the opposition before a ball was kicked”?! Really?! We had 15 W, 2 D, 2 L at home but geez the fear factor though. 4 wins out of 19 games away from home. Literally 1 win every 5 away games. Teams… Read more »
Victorious, lol your real brave from your pc over there in Nige land aint ya. When your not typing with a dictionary/thesaurus to hand your there berating Arsenal at every turn yet you call yourself a fan.
Your a little pussy
we were dominant last season? Lmaoooo what an absolute idiot. Why are guys of your ilk so indebted to Wenger? Knowing how you roll, you was probably wearing a Leicester shirt a few years ago when they won the title too.
Fair enough guys! Good points especially receeding regarding implementing the managers instructions!
I’m not niave enough to think no team would get chances if playing well . But I can’t serioysly be the only one concerned with our defending?
Vic
You really dodged my question twice. Are you sprouting things even you don’t believe to be real ??
N5
the defending is actually better than last season. You can’t expect miracles but it’s improving.
How about forgetting about the win yesterday for a minute and celebrating Santi’s equalizer in the last-minute for Villareal against Spartak Moscow.
Somehow I missed this interview, but it’s an amazing comeback.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/sep/07/santi-cazorla-villarreal-injury-arsenal-interview-sid-lowe
and in case you missed his presentation at Villareal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFRDAIKWp8E
@gonsterous, which highlights just how bad it was last season!
I’m really happy Arsenal are winning. I’ll take winning ugly, I’ll take winning unfairly, cheaply, beautifully, against the gameplay or dominant play. A win is a win is a win.
My response which has got way bigger than I anticipated was just in reply to Victorious who asked if I was enjoying the games? I said I’m enjoying elements of the games but some have been untidy. That’s really all I was trying to say.
We should have kept Cazorla and Wilshere
Let Elneny and Ramsey go instead. Santi could still dominate prem matches
Raptora
You make a solid point about our record vs liverpool
Chelsea are hardly blowing me away too. We could have beaten them. Should have actually. We could make top 2-3 if we sort our defence out which, since the inclusion of Torreira and Holding is starting to look like a distinct possibility.
Not to mention of the three teams, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal the former 2 are far and away more balanced than Arsenal. Emery was left with a mess where Sarri inherited a side that is well balanced and won the EPL the year before last, Klopp has spent a large amount of money building the exact side he wanted. If you were to ask Emery privately whether this side was close to what he wanted I would imagine he would laugh at you. Not a surprise having only been able to spend £70 Million and only having had one transfer… Read more »
“Lol, sure nothing at all to do with the football,bravo”
LOL me up buttercup.
A man boarded an airplane and took his seat. As he settled in, he glanced up and saw the most beautiful woman boarding the plane. He soon realized she was heading straight towards his seat. As fate would have it, she took the seat right beside his. Eager to strike up a conversation he blurted out, “Business trip or pleasure?” She turned, smiled and said, “Business. I’m going to the annual Nymphomaniacs of America Convention in Boston.” He swallowed hard. Here was the most gorgeous woman he had ever seen sitting next to him, and she was going to a… Read more »
People made fun of our buying as well, but considering we only had £70 Million to spend it looks like Leno, Sokratis, Torreira and Guendouzi are going to prove to be at least good and potentially great buys.
Dominated teams Hahahaha
We were boring as fuck last years and have been for years.
At home and away
Slow crab sideways backwards football
Dominating hahaha
Joe,
it’s dorminated, please.
U Tarse
My bad. Auto correct
Arteta could have also lost 8 in a row.
I mean his record is 0-2
with a much better team as well. lolz
With the Banega and Almiron rumours it could be Arsenal are going to bolster their midfield for a relatively low spend possibly allowing us then to spend a larger amount on Pepe who will likely cost more than both of those combined.
If ozil worked for me he wouldn’t last 3 days
He’s only producing at 50-60% capacity. It’s not acceptable in any other line of work apart from some form of state funded job of course
CA, I want us to get a winger as well and I believe that it’s absolutely mandatory we do it, but 3 decisions in January made the arrival of a winger very hard. 1. The Sanchez – Mikki swap; 2. Ozil’s renewal; 3. Auba’s arrival. All 3 of the players are occupying the position of a winger. All 3 of them are high profile. None of them has the ability to consistently beat an opponent 1v1 and to deliver or score afterwards. Because of it we lack width and threat. If we don’t change formation, we are going to put… Read more »
Raptora
This was my worry all the way through the summer, would renewals etc stop us from actually building a side?
Ozil should be a player we try to get rid of soon as really. We don’t have a future as a team with him at CAM.
Raptora “Weird that no sight of Pierre slating Guen for being so deep in opposition half away from home when we are leading and we have to make sure we are solid in the back. But when it’s Ramsey, he wastes whole paragraph explaining how wrong to the core of it that is. ” Is this a serious comment?….if it is then there is no helping you I’m afraid….I will try to explain the differenc e from what Guendouzi did last night compared to Ramsey. At the start of the move Guendouzi was on the edge of our own area… Read more »
gons If we were so dominant, why did we come 5th and then 6th ? who is to blame there ? the manager ? the fans ? The players ? it’s a simple question.” Apologies for the late response, actually at work also dont fancy writing from the cell either but as you’re reasonable, I’ll indulge I never said we were overall a dominant side( if you cared to ready properly )last season but that in patches at home we were,at least better than what’s been served up thus far, you don’t just win 18 matches at home a season… Read more »
Pierre,
Thank you it helped me tremendously. You are fantastic. Your football knowledge is transcending!
And thank you again for yet another long paragraph.
After my exchange with CC yesterday, I get the allure of a rogue signing like Arteta. The Arsenal hierarchy would essentially be swinging for the fence. No guts no glory. That said, there’s a fine line between bravery and recklessness, so I think they chose the 3rd, ‘safer’ option. Happy for Arteta to spend more time learning from Pep, and I would be even happier if he cut his teeth with Huddersfield and got them a 10th place finish. My line of work makes me decidedly risk-averse, so I’m completely on-board with ‘safe-hands’ Emery. He’s probably got the best credentials… Read more »
Raptora
No problem…
I would normally charge a fee but in your case I will forego any charge to you…..
complict? complicit no?
Leftsidebitch
Good to know you’re fixated with my every posts and literally hang on to every word to proofread for me.
Good work man,keep it up
Victorious
If it didn’t get ugly, Wenger would still be in charge. He’s outstayed his welcome by at least eight seasons.
Time of taking piss out of Arsenal is behind us.
One thing I don’t understand, how can any genuine Arsenal fan not be happy after eight wins in a row?
So, just to recap then. Arsenal fans after years of being passive and watching our club sink further into mediocrity dared get fed up and have a voice and exercise freedom of speech for change, that ultimately resulted in the desired outcome is disgraceful and no class?
Do you realise how forgiving the AFC fanbase is and I don’t mean this to cause offence although it may do this are quite fickle. Wenger blamed fans for our failed challenge a few years ago? Where is the class in that.
Where is the hypocrisy also?
Also left…
You made mention of me being in Niger.. I mean you’ve literallyade your life aim to monitor my person, both online and offline
Wow,where u from btw?
@ED, because he’s a fan of Wenger thats where the problem lies. He puts his adulation over Wenger over any love for Arsenal
Leftsideb*tch, try harder village boy
Ed, as CA said last night. At this point these comments can only be agenda driven because there is nothing to currently be unhappy about!
You made mention of me being in Niger.. I mean you’ve literallyade your life aim to monitor my person, both online and offline
Bit hyperbolic isn’t it? I’ve been an reader/poster for years on here so its not uncommon for me to remember the information posters have offered up at free will. The difference is, you talk so much trash I can’t help but retort back. I’m done for the day.
You might want to brush up on your grammar too village boy.
Ed
One thing I don’t understand, how can any genuine Arsenal fan not be happy after eight wins in a row?’
And who is this fan?
EdtheRed
“One thing I don’t understand, how can any genuine Arsenal fan not be happy after eight wins in a row?”
I agree….I presume you are talking about 3 years ago when about 90% of the posters on le grove hated the fact that Arsenal were on such a fantastic run..
It’s really difficult to understand the mentality of these people who call themselves supporters of Arsenal.
Thanks for pointing that out Edthered
Here Ed is Cesc’s comment from last night. It’s much more eloquent than what I could muster. “I don’t think Emery was the first choice for many, if any, on here. But what most sensible people can agree is that given what we were going through, given Wenger’s total mess, given our financial situation and massive structural shifts he was probably the most sensible option we had.Does not require massive amounts of spending, is not a rock the boat type of manager and has overachieved at clubs with less status than Arsenal. Accepted wages less than half of what Wenger… Read more »
Vic
That’s what you have to deal with on here i’m afraid, give a particular pov and you’ll have several others assigned to you by proxy. It’s quite comical watching the same names do it time and again.
Pierre,
We both know that isn’t true (apart from Steve perhaps), it’s just that we knew how it would end up and Wenger was past his sell by date at that point too.
Difference is now, there is cause for optimism in the future – we also have no idea how this will play out. Some people downplay how much the predictability/tedium wore down fans who were patient in blind faith for years.
‘Your a little pussy.’
Is that an English line?
Tell me when we are done hitting people on the head for common typo.
Ed
Part of the remit of a club owner is to call the shot on when to pull the plug on any failing employee,not to allow it turn into messy situation where the fans turn on their club because he litetally is out of his depth in how a football owner should act,the behavior (or lack of) of a
large part of the fan base last season has left a lasting damage to this club I love so dearly.
Oh dear Btec Vic,
Needing some attention too buttercup?
“large part of the fan base last season has left a lasting damage to this club I love so dearly.”
How so Vic, do you mean reputational?
CC
That’s what you have to deal with on here i’m afraid, give a particular pov and you’ll have several others assigned to you by proxy. It’s quite comical watching the same names do it time and again.’
Very true
take this buffoon ‘leftsidebitch’ as an example never seen him present an argument or counter it but always count on him to come out with unpleasant stuffs and gutter language. Place becomes tedious
Oh Apparently doesn’t know where he’s from either.
Sad really
Vic, I could care less about your brothers in arms coming to fight your honour. Where am I from?
Joke Friday – A boy says to a girl, “So, sex at my place?”
“Yeah!”
“Okay, but I sleep in a bunk bed with my younger brother, and he thinks we’re making sandwiches, so we have to have a code. Cheese means faster and tomato means harder, okay?”
Later on the girl is yelling, “Cheese cheese, tomato tomato!”
The younger brother says, “Stop making sandwiches! You’re getting mayo all over my bed!”
I’ve also just countered your argument earlier, let’s not get emotional now
jwl,
LOL
Ha ha, you can always count on jwl for the Friday joke.
JWL lolol filth but good’un
‘I agree….I presume you are talking about 3 years ago when
about 90% of the posters on le grove hated the fact that
Arsenal were on such a fantastic run.’
That’s exactly my point, maybe I was one of those who ‘hated the fact’ then, just not on here.
And now, since double standard is not my thing, I will ignore the fact that we are winning to insist that our defence is still shit, as shit as under Wenger if not more.
N5
Who do you blame more for our current predicament/level
Clueless Yank ,Wenger,the plastic fans or players?
Le grove makes me laugh, not because it’s funny but its because it’s embarrassing. 1 manager used to routinely win 5,6,7,8 games in a row but it was immediately rubbished by these so called supporters saying ‘we haven’t played anyone’, ‘we were lucky’, ‘it doesn’t matter cos we won’t win the league anyway’. 1 manager now wins 8 game in a row and none of the excuses are used against him or the team but excuse are made for him. What ever happened to perspective and being realistic? The usual cunt suspects would have more credibility if they were even… Read more »
Vic
‘‘I agree….I presume you are talking about 3 years ago when
about 90% of the posters on le grove hated the fact that
Arsenal were on such a fantastic run.’
100%. And now these cunts are self proclaimed super fans. Couldn’t make it up.
“Who do you blame more for our current predicament/level”
Ivan, Wenger and Stan. The 3 Stooges.
The usual cunt suspects would have more credibility if they were even handed in their analysis and assessment of games, players and season under both regimes but that’s far too hard when you’ve had an obsessive agenda for so long.Certain arsenal fans, cos they aren’t supporters, are the biggest joke in football.’
well Said, I mean the double standards is disturbing to witness even if it’s online
only hope is their lives off internet doesn’t mirror what they show on here, now that’d be horrible.
100%. And now these cunts are self proclaimed super fans. Couldn’t make it up.”
In no particular order…
Joe
Leftsidebitch
utASS
Marko
etc..
Stefano, that is the same on both sides of the fence. People that cheered Wenger now berating Emery. And vice-versa. It’s all agenda driven and ironically most can’t see they are now arguing from the other side of the spectrum in a 360 from their last opinion. I’ve always tried to sit on the fence and see things from both sides. I hate to be definitive in my comments because that way you’re either right or wrong. I’d prefer to be on the bandwagon so I can change my mind and still seem like I know what I’m talking about… Read more »
Pierre
Actually, it does make sense: our left side was too vulnerable with Kolasinac in a more advanced role and less so with him in a traditional fullback role.
When playing with three CB’s, the wingback has to be smart, quick and responsible about covering the space behind him; Kolasinac isn’t quick enough or good enough defensively to do this well.
It’s essier for him to simply play the traditional left-back role.
(He’s poor defensively, though, so even as a fullback he leaves us vulnerable.)
What is a super fan?
If you paid enough attention you’d know that just because I had issues with the previous “regime” if you will, I still regularly went to games. That renders what your saying as worthless.
Stefano, it’s literally pot kettle black it just depends on what side your sitting on.
EdtheRed
“One thing I don’t understand, how can any genuine Arsenal fan not be happy after eight wins in a row?”
Ed …something tells me that you wished you hadn’t said that…
Nice bit on Szxzesny on the BBC website if anyone is interested.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45761597
Seems like he’s grown quite a lot as a player and a man.
Stafano14,
Honestly, I find them funny.
I used to take them serious, I thought all they wanted was a team that would play better.
Now the team plays same way and goes on a run we have all seen before, and suddenly they are full of praise, just because the man they hate is gone.
Ivan, Wenger and Stan. The 3 Stooges.
True except only one man truly has the power there to EFFECT change, wenger and Ivan we’re accomplice but the fans didn’t turn on who utterly was responsible and deserved to be pelted with shit, they instead turned on the club amd and dent our global image by being utter negative twats, I mean what type of fans would want results to go against the club ?played down any positive and just made it altogether disgusting aligning oneself in the name of supporting the club.
100%. And now these cunts are self proclaimed super fans. Couldn’t make it up.”In no particular order… Joe
Leftsidebitch
utASS
Marko
etc..
At least I’ve actually been to matches and watched the arsenal play live
You plastic tv wenger fan boy
Exactly. Which is why the reasonable supporter is just as critical and questioning today as he was when Wenger was at the helm. Get players are playing with more desire. This is good to see. We are getting results. Also good to see. What other improvement are we seeing? Hard to say. Maybe little, maybe none. Maybe some, though, maybe we’re a little more solid defensively? Hard to say. But it is perfectly reasonable to look at what we’re seeing thus far and say: I like the improved desire, I like the improved results, but I’m not yet all that… Read more »
Victorious, most of the fans at the ground were not like that I can assure you. I know the TV would zoom in on the 10 or 20 that had Wenger out signs but right up until the day Wenger left he still had support. I went to his last game in charge and the respect he was shown was massive! the entire crowd stayed behind after the game to cheer him and sing his name. Most of us understand what he did for the club and you’re right Stan is the most responsible. However Wenger was the closest the… Read more »
Victorious
You say you are typing from a cell
You in jail ?
I think he means cell phone HillWood
Oh joe the super fan
I’ve been to live games too but I’m not disclosing shit to you
looking for armchair and plastic twats?
Look no further beyond your mate marko.
Victorious
No one turned on “the club,” mate. What complete and utter nonsense. People turned on Wenger and for good reason — and Wenger is not and was not “the club”.
Your narrative is completeky fucking bogus. Front to back, top to bottom, beginning to end. Bogus.
Lmao Hillwood
Bamford “When playing with three CB’s, the wingback has to be smart, quick and responsible about covering the space behind him; Kolasinac isn’t quick enough or good enough defensively to do this well.” So are you saying that when he played full back in the second half he didn’t need to be “smart,quick and responsible about covering the space behind him” . Personally I would have thought playing at full back it would be essential to be these things. And as for saying “Kolasinac isn’t quick enough of good enough defensively to do this well”..that doesn’t make sense…why would you… Read more »
However Wenger was the closest the fans could get to the board so he took the blame for not just the on field stuff but the off field too. N5 Bollocks He took the blame because he ran the club off the field as well You know that. We all know that. Transfwr were all him. To spend or Not to spend we’re all him Until the last 6 months he did it all He deserved all the blame. And also when wenger won the matches in Row we all knew it would crumble anyway as like clockwork it did… Read more »
Sure you have Vicky. I’m sure you have.
You’re nothing more than a like on FB to
Arsenal
Joe, you don’t blame for Stan not getting rid of him then? I was talking about no Arsene related decisions, such as who would be his successor and when
N5
How could he sack wenger when super Uber fans like Stephanie, Pierre and Vicky were singing one Arsene Wenger at his computer screen?
Akbs made the decision for Stan. Then
The real fans got vocal and made the decision easier for Stan.
N5 Of course they showed him respect at the final match. The man had been at Arsenal for 22 years and had accomplished many, many great things. Of course you give the man a respectful send-off. However this comment of yours — “Stan is the most responsible” — is rather strange to me. The only thing Stan was responsible for was keeping Wenger at the helm; Wenger was responsible for every other problem, every other mistake, every other inane aspect of Arsenal over the past ten years. Wenger signed the players, Wenger trained the players, Wenger resigned the tactics, Wenger… Read more »