It’s going to be a tough away day at the worst new stadium in the country. We head east to play WEST Ham. There’s a confusing one for you non-London folk.
Anyway, I’m worried about how our defence is going to hold up tomorrow. On the one hand, I’m excited to potentially welcome back Hector Bellerin, on the other, I’m deeply concerned about how we’re going to deal with Mustafi, Koscielny and Monreal playing together.
Arnautovic is a man-beast and unplayable when he fancies it. Felipe ran rings around us last time he played. Antonio is also more than capable of causing us problems. If you remember last time we played West Ham, we really were lucky not to come away from the game losing. Now Pelligrini has had more time, we should expect just as tough a game as before. Our last 4 away Premier League games have seen 2 draws and 2 loses. We really need to get back on track and it’s imperative we don’t lose more ground on the top 4.
We have a squad as fit as it can be at this stage of the season. Will he play Ramsey? Will he go with two up front away from him? Will he start Auba and Laca? So many questions that need answering.
In other news, Cesc Fabregas has ducked out of the Premier League to join Monaco on a 3 and half year deal. Thierry has dropped a steal there… not quite sure I’d be giving someone with his injury record and pace that money, but whatever. I loved Cesc. One of my all-time favourite Arsenal players. When you talk about attacking footballers playing in a banter team, that was Cesc, and he fucking owned it. No bitching, mincing out or failing to score goals because that’s “not his thing.”
I remember him bursting on the scene with his mullet and rat tail. He looked like he was going to sell you a banging pair of fake Rayban’s, and he defo knew someone who could by you some South African skunk. But as his hairstyles improved, so did his ability to control games on the pitch. He was a revelation, one of the first midfielders of his type in the league. He had no pace, no physical presence, he just had this incredible ability to always find space… and his range of passing was out of this world. Then the goals came… then the interest came.
I don’t want to talk about how he left. I think the strike thing was massively overblown. Really though, who can blame him for going to play in that Barcelona side? It was the greatest of all time. Doesn’t matter that he didn’t really break into it. He went there to win trophies and that’s what he did.
Would I have wanted him back at Arsenal? For sure. We held out for him for a summer and didn’t fill his position because Wenger didn’t want him going to United. He kind of strung us along to get assurance from Barca, then he stayed and was fucked over anyway. We eventually moved hard on Mesut Ozil and that was that. Cesc was over for us.
What a career he’s had regardless. He’s lived in London, Barcelona and now Monaco. I have so much love for how that guy has run his career. A true role model if ever there was one.
Good luck Cesc!
Finally, Bielsa admits to hiding a spy in a bush and there are people out there defending the actions like that isn’t utterly abhorrent behavior. I saw a French publication justify the Leeds managers decision by saying there is no law against spying, and it was basically fine because he was chasing perfection.
Hmmm… pretty sure the police wouldn’t have picked up the perpetrator if there wasn’t something legally dubious about what he was doing. Additionally, don’t be a cu*t and play the strict interpretation of the rules card. Life is not about living by a strict legal code, there’s such a thing as norms, if you think there is anything upstanding in spying because no one thought there was a chance an opposition manager would go to those lengths, you’re full of shit.
Someone could stab someone in the leg before a game and there’d be a dickhead on Twitter lining up to tell you that taming player passion was a bad thing and if we punished the stabbing, it could be the end of the game. Not all opinion is born equal and the internet levels a cesspit of horrific views.
Right, that’s me done, enjoy the West Ham game! x
We’re playing so badly, makes me wonder if this 12:30 kick off is just too early for the players, I mean it’s seriously too early to do anything.
“Emery has broke a premier league record for most subs at/before half time”
Did I hear that right? :/
Gons
That was Gambon’s.
Our forwards, defence and midfield are mid table at best. No goals and our passing is so predictable.
I don’t see a future for this team or club.
dissenter
Westham have more money-to-spend than Arsenal.
this can’t be right. wtf
I have to admit that Nasri is a good player. His touch is far better than all our players. So sad.
Even if it was a 3pm we’d still stroll out on the pitch with no endeavour, theres something wrong with this team. Beforehand, we waited till we were going a goal down to start playing and now we give away a whole half.
Sub Xhaka with Torreira to get some creativity . Xhaka is the least creative player in the top half of EPL.
Even if it was a 3pm we’d still stroll out on the pitch
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I guess your right, maybe I was just searching for an excuse for this awful match.
AMN is not a right wing back!
He is central midfielder of prodigious talent
He lacks confidence.
He has been asked to play left wing back, first game of the season. Where because of Emery s folly. Got a 10 week bad injury
He is now being asked to play right wing back.
Would torreira , e.g. excel if he was played in a wing back role?
Stick with AMN.
OODLES of class. Must play him centrally.
Must get his confidence high.
That is Emerys job!
I would go forward without the expectation that Ramsey will amount to much fore the rest of the season.
Surely he has to stay fit till he passes his Juventus physical. He has to avoid 50-50 challenges and restrain himself from tackles. He has avoid making that extra burst of sprint to save his hamstrings.
It’s a bit naive to expect that Ramsey will still be a game changer. It’s self-preservation for him and who can blame him?
Idiot Mustafi. Why went to ground. Better not concede from it.
Dissenter
Even with Miki and Ozil in the team we rarely had good attacking quality football
Most of our goals have come from the brilliancy of our 2 best strikers
Emery’s strong point was supposed to be the attacking department right? Except right now he looks shit in how to set up a good attacking team and as always remain clueless defensively.
West Ham are playing the better football. More quality, more fluidity, more combination play.
We insist on playing out of the back, but we aren’t particularly good at it. I’m not sure three CBs is best for dealing with the press anyways.
Emery is beginning to look a little lost tactically. Yes, the squad lacks quality, but we should be playing better football than this at this point. Emery’s selections and formation decisions are lacking, I think.
He’ll have his contract signed up by Wednesday Dissenter. Doesnt matter what happens afterwards.
nice clearance
Guys,
EMERY IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH..SIMPLE AS ABC
LMAO….
Fuck…. that didn’t last long…. pffffffff
Fuck right off. They just stood there.
Now these pricks will start playing.
Terrible clearance header by Xhaka.
Xhaka with another error leading to goal.
That didn’t take long.
Shambles. Wengers defence was better.
Terrible going forward, cant keep the ball.
Absolutely shocking by Xhaka. Surprising no one. You literally cannot teach that or unteach it
What a stupid header clearance from Xhara. Awful.
Now we see some fucking urgency after woken up.
Wot a weak pass/shot from Laca.
Its possible to say we won’t keep more than maybe 2 more clean sheets for the rest of the season. So poor.
See West Hams own home grown lad has scored.
Just yesterday raptora said our best CB is Mustafi..plonker
Another gift from Xhaka
Emery out.
We are terrible.
He took Wengers list dressing room and made it worse.
raptora
“He’ll have his contract signed up by Wednesday Dissenter. Doesnt matter what happens afterwards.”
Nope.
He’s signing a PRE-CONTRACT. He can’t have two active contracts at the same time.
His pre-contract is contingent on passing a medical in the summer.
Good little soft pass from Nasri. He was always one of my favorites.
Xhaka’s arrival coincides with the club’s nose dive
How was that Mustafi’s mistake lol? It’s 100 percent on Xhaka you dumb fuck. Put your glasses on.
Guenduzzi stats when starting are poor. I like him but when he plays we struggle
Gone behind again. Is that 24 times this season or 25?
Defence Iwobi the only outlet lol.
I question Emery cos of his Ego or whatever.
Ozil frozen.
Xhaka is his main player and the guy is ordinary.
TACTICS is zero.
We have regressed in team play but time.
Why do we not win in first halfs??
I am beginning to dislike the guy and am sorry to say.
So we’re blaming others for individual errors now? Fair enough.
Nasri best player on the pitch so far
Theres nothing to say about Xhaka at this point, he will keep making mistakes and will keep starting games. That, is on Emery.
Rubbish defending since 1H away. Just that WHU lacks quality or we’d have been down at HT.
The front is so disjoint. And dysfunctional.
No MF effectively. Xhara isn’t helping attack nor defence.
Auba too casual Iwobi isn’t good enough.
Does any another manager make this squad better without a hacksaw?
Nope
This is as good as it gets until we make some difficult decisions regarding personnel.
If there was stats for most passes back to keeper we would have the record!
Conspiracy.
Arsenal hire Emery to make Wenger look good. Get Wenger back.
Fans appeased.
arsenal do not have one single player who can grab a game by the scruff of the neck and change it up.
Also v poor WB play today. Toothless Kolac and AMN.
You will win nothing with xacka, ponderous with a weak mentality
We look shit. Heads all down.
7 fucking corners?
Westham outplayed us in the first half of the reverse fixture if my recall serves me right.
No surprises here
Only Fulham & Bournemouth have conceded more away goals than Arsenal this season.
Emery doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Nasris first competitive match in a league game for 18 months and we’ve made it as easy as possible for him.
It’s fundamentally unbalanced. Shoehorn lac in and you get a non effective pea. He needs to decide who he wants up top and sort out the ozil debacle
bamford
Good little soft pass from Nasri. He was always one of my favorites.
lmao, the prick
This is fucking garbage. The fat lesbian is the best player on the pitch.
They are first to everything , we have ZERO creativity. We cant defend. im going out.
we have two problems. One is a poor back four, the other is about the midfield engine and creativity. Emery can do something about both with the current players, so Emery is not blameless for our current issues. I heard emery doesn’t use ramsey because he likes to use a number 10 with his back to goal not a deep midfielder who likes to run onto chances. This could be a fundamental mistake being made by Emery.
The player on the ground is the one that gets the foul called upon
Ramsey + Torreira coming on.
Keep Guendouzi on Emery whatever u do
We’re not good enough to be resting Torreira either.
Some huge pulling up of socks needs to be done. And now. Emery’s side is dreadful in confidence. This ship could go down very swiftly from here. OMG!
get fucking useless turd Xhaka OFF now
Why would Lacazette commit that foul?
Nice from Felipe Anderson there.
We are in a tough spot Rambo gone, no money. Ozil gone, the cupboard is bare
Finally that idiot is off the field.
After city and Chelsea I called for Emery’s head. I will will be accepting apologies throughout the day.
The man can’t manage a team like this. That’s not his fault. This job was too big for him…perhaps too big for anyone???
Either way, this is a poor appointment.
Gonsterous
Yes, he is and was a prick, but he’s also a very good player.
Great subs I have to say. Bad starting 11. 1-0 down. see what we can do. agree that we’re not good enough to rest our best player. especially with a week until next game.
Get useless AMN off..is this coach blind FFS?
That’s the second or third time Kolasinac has ducked out of a header. What can you do about someone like that
Only Fulham & Bournemouth have conceded more away goals than Arsenal this season.Emery doesn’t know what he’s doing.”
Arsenal have not led at half time in all away matches played so far this season
Emery continues to brake the wrong records
Guns of Hackney
“The man can’t manage a team like this. That’s not his fault. This job was too big for him…perhaps too big for anyone???”
It wasn’t too big for Pep’s assistant, you plonker.
Rather than AMN play the simple pass to Torriera, he gives Lacazette who is marked.
Bishop
“Get useless AMN off..is this coach blind FFS?”
Who else is there to play the role?
Regardless of having zero creativity and error prone players, we should at least be causing them problems with our movement. They are not a compact team and we have the personnel on the pitch to cause them problems.
The fact it appears we aren’t doing that is on the manager. It shows poor preparation
Dissenter
Yawn. Arteta would have been different. If you can’t bloody see that…stop.
Really dumb foul from Kolasinac. That is the problem with him as a fullback (rather than a wingback).
Is AMN ill? He does not look right
Rambo already made a clear difference.
AMN and Iwobi share one bad trait that’s going to stop their rise to good player. That is the usual poor weight and precision of their passes. In almost all games.
Idiot
If only that could be the last we see of Xhaka
Auba misses too many chances
FFS
I wouldn’t trust this manager with any money.
They want it more. Simple as. No urgency or pressing from our useless fucking lot.
Auba just pissed it over the bar from 6 yards.
Going out. Definitely
on comes a player who can change a game – ramsey – and he is getting let go on a free – wtf is going on here?
Arteta may not have been amazing but he wouldn’t have been worse than emery.
Auba is a rubbish Andy Cole.
Bad execution.
Poor pass by Kolac tbh.
Not early enough.
Weak pass and Aub needed to move left for it.
Useroz Iwobi tif has been not bad of late,he keeps the ball at least
We have a wage bill the size of Alaska and do not have a SINGLE dribbling player on our books
Hard to pin down what our style of play is, and what the plan for this match was. We’re a goal down with 25minutes to go and we’re not showing urgency.
Pellegrini is an excellent manager.
Reason why we can’t rely on Aubameyang only.
Dissenter
Iwobi is a dribbler. Look at his always open mouth.
Emery is shocking
Bellerin on for Amn?
Ramsey showing that he had to start. Emery and the club at fault.