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Unai Emery is now well and truly out of the Christmas crush. Arsenal have problems, they’ve been well documented this week, the only way out is world class thinking and a new approach to issues that have haunted us all season.
We go up against Chelsea, a team also in transition, a team that boasts a batch of issues not to disimilar to some of ours in the past.
They are creating chances, but they can’t finish. Midfield isn’t offering many goals and worryingly for them, it’s not offering up much in the way of fight. Jorginho is a passing machine, but his style isn’t producing enough on the pitch. Morata has been a total flop, Giroud is working hard to make shooting seem like a mainstream idea he’d like to eradicate. You’d imagine if we combined the two squads, there’d be something special there.
They need an away win, but it’s far from a cut and shut case like it has felt in the past (even though we had a good record against Conte).
The question for Emery is how does he want to play? Chelsea are good in posession and if we go toe-to-toe we could find ourselves on the back of a spanking. Chelsea have struggled against teams that pack the midfield and defence. They don’t have a striker, so finding openings is tough for them.
Our issues are the opposite of Sarri’s. We’re creating fuck all, but we have two electric strikers who can finish from anywhere. We lack width, Chelsea have great wide players.
My worry tomorrow is Hazard is always a disaster for us. One of the best in the business against an appalling defensive unit. The other player we might have to watch out for his Hudson-Odoi, who had a good preseason against us. The wantaway English wideman has a point to prove, he’s fast, direct and he will be licking his lips at the though of terrorising us today.
We have some secret weapons that could spice things up. We can call upon Mesut Ozil, who is always good after an extended holiday (Leicester springs to mind) and he had a fucking blinder against Chelsea in the league cup last season. We can also use Aaron Ramsey if we fancy. The great thing about these two players is they are both incredibly fresh. Which other teams in the top 4 have two of their best players August ready? None. We need to make something work.
The defence needs to be tight tomorrow, we need to play with discipline and the manager needs to pick a team that can stand the test of 60 minutes without a change.
I’d really like to see a plan tomorrow. This cannot be a rerun of the Liverpool game. The players didn’t believe they’d come out of that game alive, it’ll be very interesting to see how they’re feeling about tomorrow. This game will be a good indication of how the rest of this season plays out.
If we lose, we’re doomed to 6th. I’d suggest that Emery takes a new approach. Test out the kids, see how good they are, allow us to make better bets in the summer.
Right, that’s me done. See you in the comments you bastards x
Xhaka is a waste. Ramsey is off in few months. Why isn’t Emery trying AMN at CM then?
Alonso was a real nasty fucker today.
I wish one of our lads left a little something more in a tackle on him.
Cant stand the player..
Now if AMN had some balls- he should have at least squared up to his ugly mug
That blank look might be kinda scary in those situations.
Michael Meyers
Emirates agreed about guen
Becomes a liability late on
Would be crazy selling Lacazette and weaken our only strong position in the team. We should have at least 100m to spend in the summer even without CL that’s enough to buy Suarez if he works out after the loan, Fekir and Barella. That completes our attack (could maybe use another winger but Rome wasn’t built in 1 day) and midfield. We then need to sell Mustafi and Chambers, Xhaka, Elneny, Ozil and Mikhi. If we can’t get enough money for all of those to buy a CB and RB the whole club should get fired. No need to sell… Read more »
Arsenal do have a serious problem in view of what appears to be a serious long term injury to Bellerin. Both Lichsteiner and Jenkinson are not remotely EPL standard players. A.M.N is a better calibre player, but he lacks the physicality in defence and is probably better in central midfield albeit ranks behind Torreira, Xhaka and Guendouzi in those positions. I have maintained for a long time that Arsenal needs to recruit a top class defensive full-back. Arsenal’s achilles heel is that having two wing backs playing together risks both players being out of position and leaving centre backs exposed.… Read more »
Freddie Ljungberg I agree with the first part of post. Both Manchester City and Liverpool play with three attacking players in their team. If the rest of the team was solid you can play with that formation. Unfortunately Arsenal’s defence remains as ever brittle. You see that particularly at set pieces and corners. Towards end of game the defence was panicking and just kicking or heading ball in the air. Yes there are a lot of players who need to be offloaded, but the constant debate about Ozil is not productive. The only way that Ozil is going to leave… Read more »
Emirates stroller Agree. So why are they not addressing these issues.? A)Ignorant to this fact? B)incompetent? C) stubborn? Everybody knows in modern prem football – you need athleticm and power there. See man city, Liverpool, spurs array of full backs. They have Rushed backed Hector tonight. Because we have no one else in his position – now The Lad now in big trouble. Did the same with Holding (3 games in 6 days- inc a trip to Russia) They are failing to look after our players.. Arsenals tiers of management have to up their game. Deal with the problems that… Read more »
Charlie George
Emery has inherited an unbalanced squad with some serious weaknesses.
It will take time to resolve. It is not going to happen overnight and will not at all if the club are not prepared to invest. You cannot rely just on promoting from Academy and bringing in low budget players.
ES
As long as Ozil is at the club we’re hamstrung by his wages, we could have 2-3 top players that actually contribute for what he’s on, so something needs to be done. It’s clear the manager doesn’t trust him either, and with good cause.
Either way we can do all of the above regardless of Ozil, but I doubt he wants to spend his last years of football not even making the matchday squad, not great for his image.
the defence is brittle partly because our defenders are not good enough, even though Kos was great today, it’s no longer the norm for him. It also got worse when Bellerin was injured because AMN is not a right back. We extended Monreals contract 1 year so I’m guessing we’re not going to address LB this summer, which is fine, the whole team can’t be overhauled in 1 year. So CB and RB needed. The other part affecting the defense is that our midfield and attack is not good enough, Xhaka was absolutely horrendous the first 15 minutes yesterday, gave… Read more »
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Freddie Ljungberg
My guess is that Arsenal will have 3-4 wingers in the squad next season.
Iwobi is already in squad and unlikely to leave. Nelson will be almost certainly promoted to squad as well and possibly Saka will come into frame for cup games.
Also I do think that the club will buy an additional player as well who will be
added to starting X1.
Es They have bought 6 players. Only one was a right back. Lichsteiner at 34. It’s mid Jan. They have still not addressed this. It’s nothing to with time and budget concerns.( Wenger or kroenke or Gazidas) They need a right back. They should go and get one. Otherwise-lets get tiers of management that are capable of addressing our short, medium and long terms needs. They are proving to me , post Wenger( see above with injuries ) they are actually doing very little different to than what happened before. Unlike the Wenger era. We ain’t got time to waste.… Read more »
Didn’t Lacazette play 90 minutes last week at West Ham? And ended up doing nothing bar the first ten minutes.
The Fan’s aren’t helping when they boo his substitution, is the manager supposed to take a vote before making a sub?
But we don’t have the dosh innit CG my lad?
And we only have one person to blame for that. The discussion about selling Lacazette and whatnot. Reducing the immense wage Özil is on, the departure of Mislintat etc.
Moving forward, I’d like to see the diamond system in the next couple of matches. It works, as long as the hunger to press and close down the opposition is there. Aubameyang and Lacazette clearly are in sync, and I think against United, will be a great match to bring in Ozil in the 10 role. Guendouzi and Torreria were very disaplined against Chelsea, so as long as they work for the team, it works. Xhaka still worries me, and needs to keep switched on for 90 mins. And maybe with Koscielny and Sokratis together as a pair, it could… Read more »
Lacazette has cored 8 goals and assisted 5 from 14 premier league starts this season.
Only once had he completed a game.
Since 11th of November
Both Lichsteiner and Jenkinson are not remotely EPL standard players. A.M.N is a better calibre player, but he lacks the physicality in defence and is probably better in central midfield albeit ranks behind Torreira, Xhaka and Guendouzi in those positions This. AMN will struggle RB unless he has someone like yesterday overlapping with him. His decision making is questionable sometimes ,like trying to dribble in your own box when a simple boot the ball out of the box would sufice. And he physicality is also questionable. I don’t personally rate him but he Let’s see if he get a run… Read more »
Marko
Bam
Yes I think our squad of players is as good as Chelsea united and spurs
Yes we need upgrades but so do these sides.
They aren’t all that great. I’d say spurs is actually better than ours but united and Chelsea? No chance.
The only reason you argue agaisnt is beacuse you’re suffering from some wenger delusion syndrome where anything and everything directly or even indirectly starched to him is to be harshly criticized. Before yesterday this squad was utter dog shit. But we have shown that we can beat Chelsea spurs and should have beat liveoool this season so how bad can it be? And if the manager deserves Credit for those performances (rightly so) then he deserves criticism for our failure to perform with the same set of players agaisnt inferior opposition. China1 Completely agree. I think he’s mishamdling lacazette and… Read more »
Samesong
What I like about Maitland niles is that no matter what he is calm under pressure. For a top level footballer to look relaxed on the pitch is a great trate to have, as well as having good composure and rarely looks flustered, and I hope he never looses that.
It’s his concentration that worries me, its vital that Sokratis is in his ear non stop
Emirates ‘Iwobi is already in squad and unlikely to leave. Nelson will be almost certainly promoted to squad as well and possibly Saka will come into frame for cup games’ If all these happens and we are suddenly swarming with wingers, how does this affect Lacazette’s playing time? Don’t you think this means that that he gets he gets fewer minutes. He hardly ever finishes games as it stands already. There nothing ‘daft’ about sacrificing one of the sellable players to better the club. I recall you were against selling Sanchez too. We aren’t going to make progress with another… Read more »
When Arsenal play like yesterday one can under the reasoning for leaving ozil out of the side as we were aggressive in our play throughout the game . Emery did get his tactics right, he basically copied pochettino and tottenham’s tactics from the league game a while back when Tottenham completely dominated the game by putting Deli Alli on jourginho and closing down the spaces high up the pitch with aggressive closing down and so inflicted chelsea’s first league defeat. Ramsey played the Delli Alli role very well… Though our recent record v Chelsea over the last few years is… Read more »
Charlie George
How many wins did Arsenal have against top 6 opposition last season ?
Pierre
Was that the same Invincibles who Chelsea knocked out of the Champions league in 2004.
Lacazette is Arsenal’s best player.
His attitude is also superb.
If I was still able to wear an Arsenal shirt, I would proudly put his name on the back.
As i recall Spurs dominated Man Utd yet Utd held firm due to Spurs profligacy, Arsenal will not make the same mistake.
Lacazette is a major “asset”, of that there is no doubt.
For me, he is far more valuable to the club than Aubameyang, although Aubameyangs work ethic yesterday was excellent.
What is clear though, is that both these players are key to Arsenal moving forward.
I hope Emery also sees it that way.
Pierre
Anything to deny Emery credit it seems.
Can’t believe an Arsenal fan will present us as spurs-lite just to prove a silly point
So Emery ‘copied’ Poch and Ramsey just ‘played the Dele Alli role’?
‘It only worked because it’s a home game ‘
You’re over reaching in your attempts to undermine this new manager, you can’t even render praise without lacing it with bile.
Dissenter
Lacazette literally was our match winner yesterday. A game of enormous importance to our pursuit of champions league football. How after that can you advocate selling him? He’s our best player. Our only real match winner in big games.
And don’t forget. We are going to get £60m each from Emirates and Adidas per season in sponsorship but even if that were not the case, why not sell aubameyang?
Pierre
Without de gea United aren’t all that. He’s their match winner. The only reason we didn’t beat them this season and seasons past was down to him. Put a lesser man between the sticks and we clock up more victories agaisnt them. They’ve done extremely well to hold onto him for so long while they languished mid table. We’d be up there with spurs if we had de gea. Leno isn’t a patch on the goalkeepers of our rivals
Graham The whole talk about sacrificing Laca isn’t to suggest he’s any worse than Auba. Laca and Auba are the best two players we have, in any order you choose to put them; some say Laca is better, others say Auba. The question is that in era where our wallet is slim and we have to sell to buy, who fetches us more money? In other words who’s more sellable? The 30 year old limited striker who declined moving to China before coming to Arsenal OR The 28 year old more rounded player who will still be desired by European… Read more »
Dissenter I can’t be bothered making the same arguments again so I’ll just repost this: Would be crazy selling Lacazette and weaken our only strong position in the team.We should have at least 100m to spend in the summer even without CL that’s enough to buy Suarez if he works out after the loan, Fekir and Barella. That completes our attack (could maybe use another winger but Rome wasn’t built in 1 day) and midfield. We then need to sell Mustafi and Chambers, Xhaka, Elneny, Ozil and Mikhi. If we can’t get enough money for all of those to buy… Read more »
The question is that in era where our wallet is slim and we have to sell to buy, who fetches us more money? In other words who’s more sellable? The 30 year old limited striker who declined moving to China before coming to Arsenal OR The 28 year old more rounded player who will still be desired by European clubs Dissenter Yes you’re right there but lacazette is more bailable to the team. We stand more chance of winning with him being supported properly than we do with aubameyang. You’re sounding like wenger. It’s not about the money it’s bout… Read more »
Un na Lacazette is the better all round footballer. I was one of the only one here who was openly sceptical about Auba deal. I was critical and asked repeatedly why no other club competed for his purchase. I wanted us to keep Giroud as option B and sign a winger in the stead of of another striker It wasn’t the most judicious use of our scarce resources but no one can deny that we got a very world class striker in Aubameyang. For the umpteenth time, this is not a debate about who’s better; Auba vs Laca. It seems… Read more »
Freddy
Mid we sell xakha then who plays along side Torreira? Guendouzi is going to be an arsenal great but I’m not sure he’s ready to be an out and out first teamer
We are losing Ramsey too. I wouldn’t be seeking xakha until he’s ousted by a quality competetor.
What is with all this rubbish about selling our first teamsters. Not just that but we are worse without xakha. We don’t move the ball well and we have the game to chelsea at the bridge the moment we took him off.
Dissenter
“Auba vs Laca… someone has to go
I think it’s easier to sell Laca than Auba…I. could be wrong though.”
you normally are wrong …so no change there.
Freddie
No we don’t have £10 million to,spend in the summer. In fact we only spent £70 million last summer because of he player sales in January.
The size of our summer transfer budget depends on proceeds from selling players.
We can’t keep cutting around the edges and hope it will create a transformative effect.
Anyway this debate will continue and it’s a healthy talking point.
We can sell Chambers….then we have to buy a central defender,don’t we? We can sell Xhaka… we have to replace him with a like for like player We can sell Mustafi but we have send the proceeds on a defender. Mykhi?…he’s a fat 30 year old and on a fat salary…he’s not going anywhere and we all know it. Selling one of the strikers is not to just by a like for like striker. It’s to get a winger and possible a plan B striker than can hold up the ball. We could get a very good young winger and… Read more »
Dissenter
What? We have two new sponsorship deals kicking in
£60m per season with Adidas
£30m per season with emirates
£10m per season with visit Rwanda
That’s £100m per season
On top of our other revenues like tv money, league money, and ticket and merchandise revenues
Dissenter
I don’t get your hard on for selling lacazette
Your position is incorrect
We should have more than enough money this summer to add sufficient quality to the squad buffered by some of our excellent youth options
Iwobi is well worth a place in the squad. As is xakha. Why sell?
Dissenter
That’s why I emphasized “asset”
Secondly, neither should go.
Sell the car park at Colney or stop all the annual bonuses being dished out, before cashing in on Lacazette. Shite, get all the fans to contribute a few quid if we’re that desperate.
Chambers is on loan and isn’t contributing, why do we need to replace him? Mustafi and Chambers out = 1 CB in. Xhaka is one of the weakest links in our starting line up, he’s constantly costing us points, I’m not advocating selling without replacing which is why I mentioned Barella as an example of someone to bring in. We should easily have a 100m to spend in the summer with the new sponsorships kicking in. The profit from player sales last january was already spent that window on Auba. As long as we’re realistic about the price we can… Read more »
After 23 matches last season Arsenal had 39 points
44 points this season.
Make of that what you will.
I think it utterly stupid to be proclaiming Emery a pariah or hero at this stage, there’s a lot of time for things to go right or wrong.
Judge him in May.
Dissenter
Sound business acumen is not about selling your prized assets.
We did that under Wenger and where did that get us.
The pubescent overreaction would make more sense if we were running away with the league or mixing it up with relegation fodder.
Freddy
Alright. That seems sensible enough. I wouldn’t want to sell xakha myself though.
Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Mustafi and eleneny I’m all for
Radio
Just enjoy the win sour puss
Still under moderation?
Dissenter I would play Aubameyang, Lacazette + a top class winger acquired in summer in my first X1. Messrs Iwobi and Nelson on my bench and Saka remains still in U23 squad but is selected for cup games. Iwobi can also play in midfield if required there. The priorities for Arsenal is finding a top class creative midfielder if you are going to offload Ramsey and Ozil and of course sorting out our defence. Personally I was pleased that Emery reverted to a back four yesterday. I do not agree with playing three centre backs, because it impacts on our… Read more »
Un
That’s better kiddo
This summer get rid of Jenkinson and Lich, their wages would comfortably enable a new RB to be acquired without affecting the budget very much. Give AMN his chance. Personally I don’t care about his body language as some do on here. If we play a similar line up as yesterday, Torreira would be able to help him out defensively. Surprised by Guns of SF judging him as ‘medium paced’. He may be a little languorous at times but he’s undoubtedly fast. The line up we had yesterday should be stuck with. It asks a lot of the front three… Read more »
Bob
I wouldn’t mind playing ozil or iwobi if we have 3 midfielders behind them
Worrying that Bellerin looks to be our for a while
Unai,
In my opinion, yesterday was the way forward, at least until the rest of the season. Four at the back, a line of three across the midfield and the three front players: Lac, PEA and one other who are obviously focussed on attack. When a FB pushes forward one of the CMs covers. Although Guendouzi had a good game, he has to be disciplined and not get dragged across as then PEA has to come deep to support Kola which is not ideal.
Bellerin injury a real shame. Hope AMN can take his chance.
Yea don’t get the whole having to sell one of your best players to fund a winger when it’s not like we’re Blackpool or Leyton Orient. Having 2 world class strikers is our only strength in the squad, why weaken that especially with ticket prices the highest in Europe, top 10 most valuable club in the world and lots of dross to clear out before touching any of our strikers. We’re not a poor club and shouldn’t be selling to buy
Also, that lineup bar Bellerin now has to be Emery’s Conte moment. That has to be the way to go because you could obviously see a pattern. I’d probably start getting on his back if he tinkers with that lineup going forward
Agreed Batistuta,
We can sell a load of other players who need offloading/ upgrading before we sell one of our best players. Realistically speaking, we’ll probably only get rid of 6/7 players even though most of us would prefer more. If we padout the squad with youth players, we should focus on acquiring 3-4 starters.
‘We should have at least 100m to spend in the summer even without CL that’s enough to buy Suarez if he works out after the loan, Fekir and Barella. That completes our attack (could maybe use another winger but Rome wasn’t built in 1 day) and midfield.’ It wouldn’t completely out attack, there is no maybe about it we need a winger, big time. We could probably actually do with buying 2 of them in the summer because we have none right now and the only place they are potentially coming from is Nelson who is no longer making the… Read more »
Bob
Yeah I’d be happy with that. I think we’ll see Suarez take Ramsey’s place at the tip of that diamond though.
I wouldn’t rush into selling more than 4 players in the summer if we are also losing Ramsey and ozil. We don’t want to give ourselves too much to do in one summer.
Batistuta
That line up won’t work against everyone, that was specifically tailored for Chelsea in terms of stopping Jorginho and letting Chelsea have it out wide.
I want to see us stick to 4 at the back though.
Overmars being touted for that Technical Director role, that was discussed on here last year given his role at Ajax. He’s been DoF there for 7 years.
Great result yesterday.
We need reinforcements if we’re going to make top four though.
Good result yesterday, the question is why didn’t play like that against West Ham , frustrating. I think laca / Auba up front together can definitely work but need a Ramsey type to play with them as well . In the summer my players to sell would be ozil(difficult but will be done imo) , Iwobi and miki( easily upgraded for players with better end product), Mustafi. I would bring back nelson , spend as much as possible on a cb that can be captain and lead the defence for many years, any surplus money lol would love to see… Read more »
One of the biggest pluses yesterday was Kosciely who played well.
As I predicted he would figure once fit.
CBs can often continue into their mid 30s..I’ve always rated him and he’s been arsenal’s best defender in recent years.
Shame about Bellerin but I am not a fan of him at all. It seems mean to say in the circumstancez but I’m happy for a more orthodox right back to replace him.
Overmars would probably be our best signing this window !
Alexander
Koscielny has been our best defender since Sol Campbell.
He was immense yesterday and I can’t for the life of me understand why so many on le grove berate him.
Interesting stat
Xakha covered more ground than anyone on the field yesterday. Followed by Torreira. Not bad for someone static
He moved the ball well for us too. I wouldn’t get rid and emery clearly has trust in him.
CA I would play Fekir in the front 3, he’s played there a lot before and is the type of player we need. Front 3 of Fekir Auba/Laca Nelson/Iwobi Can obviously play both Laca and Auba in some games with Fekir but should be done sparingly if we also don’t get an excellent young striker as third choice, don’t think Eddie is going to make it. Not ideal and we could probably do with another winger like Lozano or Pepe but one step at a time. With 18 moths left of Fekirs contract it’s our last chance to snap him… Read more »
Freddie I would be bitterly disappointed if we went into next with no winger. We’re severely limiting our attack. Fekir is more CAM/CF, playing in the spot Ramsey did last night. We need someone with serious pace who wants to take their defender on and can take it out wide. I’m not totally sure on Nelson, I would have him as a substitute next season for sure, but I don’t think he’s as great as many think. He hasn’t really started for Hoffenheim and now he’s not even getting in the squad. I’m all for spending a serious amount on… Read more »
I have to say I really have changed my opinion on Ramsey under emery. He has so much more purpose than before. Like he knows his role and plays it. He keeps his game simple and it suits him to that. Hope he does well in Italy but serie a May not be the best fit for his style
Don
Ramsey will be fine in Serie A. He’ll score worldies and link up play well with others.
I have my doubts about Nelson as well, he probably won’t be ready to start for us next season, but needs must and we can’t (unfortunately) revamp the whole squad at once. Not sure we need a winger that takes it out wide, neither Lozano or Sarr/Pepe is that type, they’re more goalscoring, dribbling wingers, just like Fekir can be and has been at times for Lyon. Liverpool, City don’t play with traditional wingers either that takes it to the byline and crosses, we have fullbacks for that. Doesn’t really matter who it is but we absolutely need quality out… Read more »
Cesc
I actually was thinking about the 4 at the back when i posted that earlier. All the times we’ve looked better under Emery has been with a back 4.
For almost seven months, we have been trying different formations and different line combinations. Yesterday, we have finally stumbled onto a formation and line combination that best suited to Emery’s style of football. I strongly hope that Emery’s will stick with this formation as long as possible (knock on wood) no more injury. Also, we should ask Iwobi to study how Ramsey played yesterday’s game. Currently, Iwobi is the only player available who has the potential to backup Ramsey. There are so much talks about trade suggestions. I think a lot would change if we could get champions league football.… Read more »
Overmars would probably be our best signing this window !
oh, charlie won’t like that one bit.
We win and the usual suspects (gambon, and co) disappear. Just pointing to the conclusion that they don’t have arsenals best interest at heart just their stupid agendas.
I had a lot of fun watching ramsey shadow jorginho all night and kicking him on the socks every time he tried to receive the ball 😀 Chavs really strugled without him pulling the strings. 2-0 to emery vs sarri I would say! Also really gutted for hector. He was playing a good game, improved the defence a lot with papa and koz the boss. Also sadly comparing him to kola … He made kola look like total amateur as fullback which he sadly is. 🙁 I really hope that monreal gets his hammys together for a season or two… Read more »
Goon
Times move on..
We have the best boss we can at the moment…
Ok if Wenger had taken on for pep to replace him few years back like pep wanted who knows…
We are where we are …
This man needs at least three years to build his empire.
Pedro criticism of him releasing shad n that don’t cut with me…. two bosses have found no use for him , so tells the story.
Sven is different would find some way of keeping him..
Let’s rejoice the morning,
And be positive .
T
What about the Conor lad …
Non league signing ….at left back
My real concern about Arsenal is not our home form, which under both Wenger
and Emery has been fairly good in last two seasons, but how we play away from
home.
During our 22 unbeaten record I thought that we might have turned the corner,
but you need to see the away results since November and more importantly
the performance level to know that not a lot has changed this season.
Great result….look what you can do with hard work. Play shit and win….. Show that same respect to the likes of West Ham and we won’t lose to them anymore. Defend as a team…we just don’t do it enough…..end up blaming our defenders too much…..too many still have that Wenger inherited arrogance that if you play well enough you beat the opposition regardless….. Chelsea were really shit though…..anyone who can’t expose Kolasnac in a back 4 might as well give up. Now no Bellerin and no replacement. MN is shit out wide….I’d try and turn Mustafi in a right back…..he… Read more »
Un na
I think papa had a strong game…
Great player for young Zak , holding an mavapounous to learn from.
Samesong ???
Ramsey score worldies? Why break the habit of a lifetime
Pierre, You assessment of yesterday’s victory is absolutely absurd, your poor attempt to hide your discontent for Emery through backhanded compliments is clear for all to see. Anybody who didn’t watch yesterday’s game and only read your review would have thought we were peak Sam Alardyce Bolton and Tony Pulis Stoke rolled into one with peak vinnie Jones crazy gang thrown in for good measure when it was anything but. The ref wasn’t being lenient at all and didn’t give out yellow cards because none of them warranted it, simple. As for copying Poch – fucking lol! We’re you at… Read more »
@ RjM “.I’d try and turn Mustafi in a right back”
It is an idea if Mustafi is a normal defender. We have seen so often that Mustafi can go nuts with his sliding and other stupid reactions. He has his good days. But his bad days can really hurt the team.
This is our RESULTS in last five AWAY GAMES in EPL.
Manchester City D 2-2
Southampton L 2-3
Brighton D 1-1
Liverpool L 1-5
West Ham L 0-1
SUMMARY W0 D2 L3 F6 A12 Pts 2/15
Correction Manchester Utd not City
An impressive victory.
Everybody is trying to come up with an explanation, usually concluding that Emery used the ‘right’ tactics (and often going on to say, ‘I told you so’.)
What did Sarri say about the game? ‘It’s nothing to do with tactics’. A little hyperbolic but essentially true. He put the defeat down to ‘mentality’ and ‘lack of determination’.
Tactics primarily is a method the manager uses for controlling his players. Yesterday Emery got the best out of his players, Sarri didn’t.
Rapca
You know what? That was the first time I’ve really been impressed by him since he left Dortmund. He was good. Maybe Koscielny is the right partner for him. Long term though I still want holding. He has a bit of Martin Keown about him.
Un na
Don’t disagree
Can see why they got him in
Big strong good tackler right attitude to rub off to youngsters…
England is best I disgaree He out Ramsey at the tip of a diamond to nullify Jorginho which worked beautifully when we didn’t have the ball He put Torreira on the right of our midfield to deal with Alonso and his marauding runs from full back while using Bellerin as an outlet to overlap him. Essentially making Torreira a false no2 Another superb decision. He played lacazette right and aubameyang left to split their defence when we broke with Ramsey breaking through the middle which confused them in the first half and they jut couldn’t get to grips with it.… Read more »
Alone Arsenal do have the cash. It’s only because Raul and Vinai have boxed themselves in with the self sustainable model nonsense they continue to spouse. As for this Kroenke investing his own money on players nonsense. Can anyone name a previous Arsenal director who has put their own money into buying players? Or barring a few other clubs.( Man City and Chelsea) Other clubs directors who put their own cash into the purchasing of players. Vinai and Raul are now in charge of Arsenal (top 10 in world football revenues) But that’s still not enough- fans want additional spend… Read more »
No more dropping Lacazette either
West ham was the only game he’s started that we’ve lost. Some stat that.
I jus want us to replace Mustafi, Ramsey and buy a Hazard replica.
Imagine if we had VVD, Alli and Hazard in our line up?
If we sell appropriately, shouldnt cross more than 80 mil. Its absolutely doable.
Also at this point I believe if we manage to get 5 points of Manu, city and spuds game I will be very happy.
Just keep winning against lower teams and we can get to 3rd.
Also win against Manu and maybe throw the towel on FA cup, concentrate on Europa and Prem.
CG
“Arsenal do have the cash.It’s only because Raul and Vinai have boxed themselves in with the self sustainable model nonsense they continue to spouse.”
That has to be dumbest post in recent history on legrove, all the other competition is also your posts. Amazing…
Throw in the towel on europa too.
PL all the way baby.
We lost to a ‘low team’ last week.
No news on Bellerin?