IT’S WELBZ TIME
Arsenal’s draw against Sporting Lisbon was spoiled with a horrendous injury to the main man, Danny Welbeck. He was challenging for a cross and it looked like his ankle crunched with an awkward fall. The man is the unluckiest guy at Arsenal. Absolutely awful to see.
The added layer of toughness is this: his deal runs out in the summer. I know Arsenal aren’t a charity, but it’s going to be tough not to have a heart for someone whose money will dry up in June with an awful injury.
What do you do there? I trust in Arsenal here. Not like the man hasn’t gone all out for us whenever he’s been given a chance.
As for the game, what can you say? Sporting didn’t register a shot on target in either leg, we’re on top of the group, we’ve qualified in that position if we finish off the next two games without hiccup.
There was additional bad news as Stephen Lichtsteiner proved that despite protest, his body isn’t actually that of a 28-year-old as he pulled up with a strain. I can recognise his leadership skills, but it does seem quite irresponsible of us to have had him as back up this season. We’re going to struggle on the right if we don’t address the weakness this January. AMN will help there, but it’s not his natural position.
There’s not really that much to talk of regarding moments on the pitch. No one really stood out, though I did think we were worthy of the win after creating some good chances, particularly in the second half.
The positives are that we’re unbeaten in 15 games. We drew after making 9 changes. It’s also very tough for a team to pick themselves up after a horrific injury to a teammate, as Emery pointed out.
“The worst news is injuries. He was working well, having a good game, he had a chance to score. When you are playing football, when you are playing competitive matches, it can happen. You don’t want that.
“But that is our profession. When a player is having an injury like that the players on the pitch look at it, and in your mind you are thinking of the player. At the end of the match the players asked for him.”
The most important game is this Sunday. Wolves are going to stretch us after a European game, so we have to be motivated and sharp. That game is a real banana skin. Lots of good players, lots of potential. All very exciting. Still can’t believe we’re not 19 points behind as we usually are at this stage of the season.
Right, that’s me done. See you in the comments for a fight. x
Dissenter
Fine thanks. I have been watching from a distance.
I’ve been very impressed by Emery over the past couple of months. Credit where it’s due and he proved me wrong.
I’m not keen on the last few games but hopefully he will get to grips with the complacency that appears to have crept in.
Why not throw Eddie on for the last 20…
Don’t start having faves dick…
Guendouzi is a class act, for a 19 year old CM he has a lot to his game.
Kolasinac is a fat waste man
Hello boris
U cool ?
What’s wrong with Sead. Auba was already making a run and he fucking dilly dally.
Guns
I dont think its complacency.
We were unbelievably lucky during that 11 game winning run. The luck has run out and we’re finding it harder.
We brought in a better manager, but kept nearly all the failures that have repeatedly let us down.
Arsenal have no answer to Wolves’ pressing
Gambon
Agreed that the 11 game run was against cannon fodder and made us out to be a lot better than we are/were.
I thought perhaps the Liverpool game was a bit of a watershed moment for us. Apparently not.
Sorry, there’s no other way to explain away losing to Wolves at home than to describe it as an utter cock-up.
I don’t care who they recruited, we ought o be beating them.
Perfectly summed up Gambon
In fairness, we burned ourselves the moment we conceded to an ultra defensive side early in the first half.
They just have to mount two banks of four at the back, soak up the pressure and use counters.
On an unrelated subject. Rashford is utterly shit. Also, that fat lump Lukaku is leaving holes in the grass every time he runs.
Heavy. Not as heavy as Mikki but close. Let’s hope those two never bump into each other…I think it would create a black hole.
Emery needs to make changes now. Bring on Eddie but who else ?
Mikhi is poor and Ramsey is a waste of space.
If we don’t buy a LB and winger January, we can kiss goodbye to a top four finish.
Leave it out GOH, Lukakus looking like WWE’s Mark Henry nowadays.
Rspc
Good mate! Just think the squads still pretty shit, we got no dribblers, no 1-1 specialists, which is exactly what you need against a well drilled functional defense.
Liverpool have salah and maine
City have silva, Bernardo, sane, sterling, mahrez, aguero
Chelsea hazard, Willian
Arsenal 0
Aaand Xhaka the Wanka starts to give away foul after foul.
Shows Ozil is useless largely.
Guendouzi only hope realistically.
Don’t you fucking train Bellerin. Can’t always hide behind the “no left foot” excuse.
We are never doing better than what wenger offered under kroenke
Never
I Dion’t think Eddie Nketiah is good enough to count on in these moments.
Welbeck would have been great, but Eddie….he’s an unknown at this level.
Leftside
Lukaku could outlift Mark Henry.
City will have to relay the pitch tomorrow. It looks like they had a monster truck rally on the grass.
Ridiculous
Should be 2-1 up
How did that not go in.
How the fuck is that not in the net?
Shows Ozil is useless largely.
Guendouzi only hope realistically.
Don’t you fucking train Bellerin. Can’t always hide behind the “no left foot” excuse.
Ffs. Auba. You can’t miss this sort of ‘open’ goals time and again. Chelsea. Now??
Hollywood Ramsey on for Sead. About fucking time.
Mikki for Ozil.
Such a flat insepid performance, we aren’t winning this
Bulletin cost us 2 points last week with the left footer he missed
Possibly another 2 points this week.
He has to hit the target on both attempts
Aubu with the miss of the season
Be careful what you wish for!!!!!!!!
We’ve gone sideways
But we did draw at home with liveryrhoygh so we’ve employed a tactical mastermind
Do me a fuckin lemon
I think we will lose this game.
It’s not just our day.
Can Mustafi stop those rubbish long passes. U got no talent
Aubameyang is the complete waste of space on the left I always thought he would be.
Boris glad ur good..
Squad is a mess
Xhara mustsfi ….list to long only fresh faces will save the day bad culture bred in the club… It ain’t a gravy train
Cech
Xhara
Mustsfi
Ozil
Jenkin
Kos
Montreal
Welbeck
Rambo
Need selling
I had serious doubts about top 4 after the palace game, a draw simply was not good enough.
If we lose to wolves it’s game over, bar spurs having some kind of injury crisis, we have to be winning against all these small teams because we aren’t good enough to beat the top 4 teams.
We had to consistently grind out ugly wins against the bottom. Half of table and we have failed to do. That.
Come on mkhkt and Ramsey
Prove me wrong
We can chase the draw all we like but that’s not good enough. No excuse really with large parts of this team having been rested.
Worked so hard to get a point against Pool only to go and get beat by fucking Wolves one week later?
Rspc
I think the only chance of top 4 is europa, I think emery has enough tackle savy to win it with this comparively shite arsenal team.
Emery has taken too long to take that FRAUD Ozil off.
Unbelievably unlucky tonight.
“I think emery has enough tackle savy to win it with this comparively shite arsenal team.”
I disagree.
The second we come up against Chelsea or maybe Spurs, we will fold and lose the away leg 3-0
The banter is going to be hilarious today
The way forward is Ramsey-Torreira in the middle. We have nowhere near enough goal-scoring threats in the side. Lacazette only one capable of big goals.
Joe
There are sufficient grounds for anyone to savage Emery is we lose to a newly promoted side today.
Accept that and stop defending Emery like Pierre defended Wenger.
Mikkiiiiiiii
1 – 1
Go for the kill now 5 min at least
From unlucky to lucky lolz!!!
Looool
Comedy gold that goal
Paulinho
“The way forward is Ramsey-Torreira in the middle”
You just can’t help yourself with the Ramsey fetish.
How can Ramsey be part of the future when he’s leaving on a Bosman in the summer?
Let’s win this!!!
1-1…. Phew… Never really doubted it…..it’s what this emerys-arsenal do……despite some ropey players as we point out continually.
Cant afford to draw this game.
Still, this goal had no skill, we are struggling as a team right now.
Come on smash and grab
Dissenter – Get this season out of the way.
Emery will have no choice but to go to eventually. Might as well quit messing about and just do it.
Gambon
I mean with the proviso we don’t I counter Chelsea in the europa league.
No way will we beat any of the top 4. (baring exceptional circumstances, red card, injuries ect)
Very disappointing that we have again thrown points away through our own mistakes.
Two points thrown away versus Crystal Palace.
Two points thrown away versus Wolverhampton.
Completely nullified the point gained versus Liverpool because I can’t see the teams above us losing to Wolves.
Ffs. 5 min fergie time?????
10 min more like.
Fucking refs
Ramsey offered up more goal threat in 5 minutes than the joker Ozil did in 70
Leeds
“Completely nullified the point gained versus Liverpool because I can’t see the teams above us losing to Wolves.”
Wolves 1 City 1
Leno is fantastic. What a steal holy fkkkk!!!!! FANTASTIC!
Leedsgunner
Spurs grind out a win against Palace we drop two points. This will happen again. We aren’t getting top four. Team is too unbalanced and missing in key archetypes in terms of player functions/abilites/roles. Aka we don’t have one fucking dribbler on the team. When ideally we need two, one for each flank
Honestly Wolves will rue not winning this. Leno with some great saves.
Bad result. Looks like our spot of magic at finding second half wins is starting to evade us
Drawing with palace or wolves is ok. You can’t win em all. Drawing with both, as well as an average sporting side at home is not good form tho
I hope emery can dig us out of this rut sharpish
Jesus Christ almighty…
Who should we bring in in January??
Wolves deserve their draw. There was nothing lucky about it.
Today’s culprits : Xhaka and Auba.
Motm Leno.
@london : the rumour says no one coming in january.
That could be a real problem.
poor game, only played with purpose for the last 30 minutes or so
Poor result. Chelsea drew, United lost we needed maximum points to keep pace with Spurs. Disappointing after last weeks showing. Where was the same commitment and energy today?
Disappointing to say the least. Positives Xhaka and Torreira were decent and Leno was excellent. Kolasinac is an obvious weakness and I’ll be honest I cannot wait until we see the back of Ozil at Arsenal. Nothing worse than a great player having one good game in the midst of so many bad/average ones. What is the issue? I get that he doesn’t want to be here but does he even want to be a footballer anymore?
We had our chances to score the first goal much earlier. Bad misses by Laca and especially that Auba miss… Wolves are a good team. Don’t make it bigger than it is. London Gunner I think, said that spuds are grinding wins, when we did that it was luck, no?! Spuds have been getting jammy wins for a while. Manure got several jammy wins. Pool have been barely winning by a goal margin and Chelsea got found out today and it could have happened much earlier. It’s a dog’s game. Teams make mistakes. But don’t make it sound like we… Read more »
Even worse when most of us would love to see the back of Ozil. After the summer he had you’d think he’d be intent on performing this season aswell.
Wengermerry It is .
Emery is not good enough.
Not forgetting Wenger left his turd with an obscene salary for loser Ozil no one wanted
FFS.
6 pts dropped in 3 games
5 min viewing cheated… even though result could go either way.
Poor, poo, poo game.
Auba can’t go on missing those 5 yard open goals.
Sead is just a lump of useless meat loaf. Spend to get a real LB in Jan ffs
Back to the goal, how did we concede with a (Gk+ 5) v 3 can someone explain?? Xhara was defo an fucking idiot never learned.
Still some dross around by the look of it.
Or is it Europa taking the toll?
A big worry for us is that we’re tied to Ozil for 4 years and there will be a compulsion to play him given his wages. He really is a bad CAM for us. He’s the Walcott of CAMs. When in form, great to watch. But that is 1 in every 10 games. If he isn’t scoring or assisting he’s offering nothing on either side of the ball. Ghosts into the game, ghosts out of it. No control, no dictating of play, no pressing. This is a huge problem for us because it leaves a black hole right in the… Read more »
” Positives Xhaka and Torreira were decent”
Marko….did you watch the game?
Strange behavior from Emery today, less demonstrative than usual + waits the 75th minute for the subs…
At best we are a sixth placed team. No doubt, Wenger left a muddle here. Can’t understand why some of you lot thought we are a top four team.
Reality is that this team today played with all the marks of a last season Wenger team.
Actually feel sorry for Wolves.
They deserved all the spoils.
Emery better get his finger out. If a team can’t be bothered to start well, it’s going to catch up sooner or later.
And it’s beginning to catch up, sooner …
Emery’s And Xhaka, Like Wenger and Ramsey
Don,
Stop trolling, you infantile
The left side of our back four is a problem.
Holding and Kolasinac are a massive downgrade in comparison to the injury orone Koscielny and Monreal (who are both in decline). We know Kolasinac is subpar, but Holding is not a first choice CB for a club that wants to be in the CL. He doesn’t have high potential.
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MoTM can only go to Leno
Everyone has been getting a bit lulled into this whole top 4 thing.
For me, top 4 was never a goal this season, it was just getting the squad sifted and things solidified.
Although some of emery’s selection choices are suspect, there’s not much more we can expect at the moment.
Things already look better, that’s all we can ask for at the moment.
Always maintained that what we do in January will go a long way towards whether or not we finish top 4 and I still maintain that. Do nothing and it’ll be a struggle and we’ll ultimately fall short. Bring in a couple and it might be enough to get us over the line
These players need to go asap
1. Kolasinac
2.Xhaka
3. Mustafi
Whoever signed Kolasinac should be sacked if he’s still in Arsenal. Wenger binned him for AMN. We need at least two dribblers and a pacy winger. Bellerin is limited.
I’m afraid Danny’s got a point…
” Positives Xhaka and Torreira were decent”Marko….did you watch the game?
Bounced from stream to stream but I get your point. Relative to everyone else. I think we nearly lost/just snatched a draw today because of our forward/defensive players today. The lack of creativity
Top 4 the goal, but the club think their best route there is Europa.
Really poor performance today. Emery riding his luck very hard this season. Very worried about the Spurs game.
Its no coincidence that we have started to drop points. When we were winning game after game it was against teams you’d expect us to beat and we were still fortunate in some games.
Now the fixtures are getting harder and poor team performances (Pool aside) and individual mistakes from the usual culprit(s) are setting in.
Xhaka has put in somewhat improved performances, Mustafi too but over the course of a season they’re mistakes will cost us. They shouldn’t be in the side.
Pedro, thats the kind of game where we’ll cover ourselves in “glory” before putting in a horrible performance at OT.
To be fair they were worried about the Liverpool game and we stepped up to it. Wolves today showed how to beat us (nearly) sit back and counter with pacy forwards. Spurs will play some more so it’ll be a different game but for sure big improvements needed we need to get back to winning
Hopefully the Lacazette-Aubameyang bromance ‘understanding’ tripe is well and truly binned from now on.
Arsenal is not like a mid-table team. The deficiencies are clear . There is too much acceptance on not buying in January. Considering the circumstances this is unacceptable.
Time we raised Cain . What happened to the Club’s 200 million warchest ? Kept as guarantee for Kroenke buying off of Usmanov shares ?
A
Really poor performance. How many goals has Xhaka cost us this season?
Attack still an issue. Almiron and Pepe would help some in January
Sounds and the Utd matches won’t be as bad for us as the other matches. We’re creating less with less shots than last season. If this keeps up, we’re going to continue to drop points against the bottom 14 sides.
Bournemouth away next. They should have put away Man Utd in the 1st half last week. They’re a fit team who start fast. Might be another draw at best
HL: “Strange behavior from Emery today, less demonstrative than usual + waits the 75th minute for the subs…”
He did a half time sub lolz
This team can never get going in November aswell. We have to start better, we’re riding our luck hard.
Our best line up right now is, Leno, Bellerin, Sokratis, Holding, Monreal, Torreira, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Mkhitaryan, Iwobi, Lacazette/Aubameyang.
By no means perfect, but it is the best and most balanced side we have. I would have had Welbeck in there but obviously not possible.
That is unless we go for the 4-2-2-2 we played at Fulham which in my opinion was out best performance of the season, missing a certain someone as well from that side.
On the plus side of everything our transfers have been great aside from Lichtsteiner who was free.