Arsenal head out on the road this weekend after not winning in 6 games. Fear not, Emery knows what the double-flip is going down.
“My first critic is myself. We can make the top four, but we know it’s not easy.
“We are strong at home, but I think we need to do better away. We started very well, changing our mentality to get more points away. But now we need to recover our confidence and performance.
“Also we know defensively we need to do better. We tried to play with three and two centre-backs. Be passionate, be calm but above all work.”
Away form is an odd one. It’s all in the head. I find it interesting that something like that can impact elite athletes, you’d kind of think they were a bit above that? I understand the butterflies might be on fire in Istanbul, but at Huddersfield this Saturday, I’d hope less so?
We take on bottom of the table Huddersfield. They recently agreed to part ways with the excellent David Wagner. He was replaced by Dortmund first-team coach, Jan Siewart. Not sure I can speak about him with any sort of knowledge, so I won’t even try and Google research him. Huddersfield take chances on managers in the same way I would, and it’s paid dividends for little investment.
I have my doubts they’ll have enough to take down Arsenal at the weekend. We have Mikhi coming back into the fold, which I would hope could give us a little more width and creativity from wide positions. However, it’s clear that the most important thing is to keep a clean sheet. The team really needs to get back to basics. We were overrun by Cardiff at home a few weeks ago, that’s not a good look.
Emery needs to get his season back on track, he needs to get him best players on the pitch and he needs to find a system that he can roll with for more than 24 minutes.
Finally, Hector B has dropped a fan TV channel. He’s talking about his surgery, sure, I love that, but be real, when is the high-end fashion chat dropping? I wanna see the latest Balenciaga sneakers I can’t by because I’m old. I want to know about OFF-White print shirts. I wanna know when the male sarong is coming back?
Good luck sir, and don’t get downbeat about the muppets in the comments.
JUST KIDDING GUYS, see you in the comments. x
Iwobi is just awful, what a deflected goal
China
Any stream tends to be 30 seconds behing unfortunately. So we indeed find out here before we get to see the goal.
Their keeper looks shit we should shoot on site.
Batistuta and Dissenter smh
Mustafi is terrible.
No one near him and Mustafi just brainlessly heads the ball into danger
Score goals and plenty.
Don’t hold back.
We need to improve GD…
DB10 I am well aware of Arsenal’s high ticket prices; however, this would only constitute “fleecing” if there were something dishonest about it, e.g., the owner is simply pocketing that money, they have no intention of spending this money on good players, they have no intention of competing. None of that is true. Arsenal must compete on the basis of its operating revenues, part of which is ticket revenues. Until you have evidence that there is something dishonest about what they are doing, they aren’t “fleecing” anyone; they are trying to maximize revenues so that they can compete with the… Read more »
Laca has been utterly tripe
He’ll probably still score but he’s been poor
For those who want to watch the game go on ronaldo7.net. click on live; click on our match; scroll right down until you see a long list of links. Pick and choose. Unfortunately some links are shite so you have to fiddle around. The price of watching it free I am afraid.
I find AMN increasingly annoying to watch
For someone who loses the ball so often he should look far less confident lol
Clear handball by Koscielny, we got very lucky there.
how shit is Maitland-Niles. bottom half championship bench warmer at best .
China1
He’s bad
Dissenter?. Where did you you Laca and his wife?
Bamford the fleecing comment is fair because fans are charged elite prices for second class tat
And they get away with it because football fans are loyal, not because many of us fans think the prices are actually reasonable
Mustafi. bad
AMN bad
Lichsteiner terrible
Yet some think we have a good squad.
Huddersfield haven’t scored in 8.5 hours of league football
They will most likely score today.
Fans needing to pay Barcelona prices for the privilege of watching iwobinho Abdul mustafi is the dictionary definition on fleecing
Bamford
It is fleecing considering what we are being served in terms of football. Yes it is a strong term being used but it is not far off being true. Prices have not changes since we downgraded to Europa league. See it from that perspective and you will understand.
If we were seriously competing, winning stuff, no one would be complaining.
That was a handball and a penalty.
Pierre – I thought there was a bias against Arsenal?
“see”
If we can’t score plenty today blame no one…
AMN exhibits insufficient ball skill, poor decision and wayward passing….leaving soon at this rate.
Slightly better MF and forward connection but still don’t click often enough. Little end product , a deflection aside.
More goals. C’mon
Global
I didn’t quite get the comment about Lacazette’s wife
Almost 7 players starting that shouldn’t be if we’re a serious team
DB10
Do you have evidence that they’re not trying to compete? If so, please point to it. I agree that the product on the field isn’t great, but that’s a very different thing from the claim that they aren’t even trying to put a great product on the field. Very different.
Maitland bitch-Niles finds way to lose the ball again.
That’s a red card
Can’t believe the linesman missed that. Your man left his foot in for so long
12 years ago arsenal moved into a new stadium
Fans have been paying some of the highest ticket prices in football since then and this January the club had ‘no money’.
This summer apparently the ‘war chest’ will be a paltry £45 million.
And yet some fans – thankfully a minority – see nothing wrong with this and think the club is in good hands.
I have no idea how they reach this conclusion and frankly, it’s so deluded and idiotic, I don’t care.
Some people still think the world is flat.
Laca and his misses. I chose to read it as missus
Maitland Niles is such a poor poor player
Alex too much truth
I’m sorry, AMN I s not the answer at RB, at this point we might as well see Jenkinson back in the team above AMN and Lichsteiner.
Maitland-Niles is a disgusting thing to watch.
What is it that AMN is supposed to be good at? Genuinely curious he’s certainly too lightweight to be a CM
Thankfully Kos has been very solid in this half. AMN has been awful
Jesus Christ, that was poor from AMN.
Bamford
I am not talking about now. It’s been line this for a long, long time us having the higher prices. It hasn’t just happened this season.
You can’t admit you are wrong and don’t know what you are talking about. I don’t know, just look at the last 5 years (or whatever)… you know exactly what we mean. Our football hasn’t been that stellar to warrant such prices.
We have no control of the game despite playing relegated Hud
What a goal by Wijnaldum. Underrated player. Breaks from midfield and gets into the box regularly
So many error prone players, its not even fair on the manager
Mustafi and
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the ball keeps coming back because arsenal have no attack
Mustafi and AMN have given the ball away like 10 times alone.
Nice strike iwobi! Why can’t he do that more often!
I’d probably bite my fingers off i had to manage Mustafi every week
China
No, it’s just a dumb, superficial take.
Iwobi was offside but the ball deflected off a Hudd player. Should’ve been a goal
The more I see of Emery, the more I get convinced he was a poor choice to replace Wenger. His playing ‘style’ is more predictable than that of Arsene and extremely boring.
Some ref decisions make you wonder if they do eye test or just self declare 20/20 vision??
Hud max out all dirty tricks on home turf and Moss obliges.
Niles not having a good game, but far from worse which is the picture a good few is painting here
He isn’t playing in his natural position and what other choice do we have really, I mean he is by far the the better option to a geriatric Lict.
Mikhitaryan has been a breath of fresh air up from today….. Should score there though
how is Maitland-Niles playing in the premier league. should go join he’s overrated Englsh mates in Germany.
Iwobi and AMN are as good as it gets from our academy
Enjoy them
DB10
Right, but we have been spending tons of money. Look at our fucking wage bill. Look at Auba (57m), Laca (55m), Mustafi (35m), Xhaka (35m). That the football has been shit is down to poor decisions re personnel and poor management on Wenger’s (and maybe Emery’s part), not on penny-pinching. This is why your argument (and Alex’s) is dumb.
No fluency in central midfield.
Victorious
what’s his natural position?
Tr7
Arsenal hasn’t played entertaining football for a very very long time so which is it results or sexy football
Bamford. You have a shockingly short memory.
Lacazette has been poor so far
We haven’t played with style for years and neither do we have the players in that squad to have any definite style no matter who the manager is
Have Bob and Charlie George been introduced yet?
QNA
What is it that I have forgotten?
Bamford except it’s not though Who is happy paying arsenal prices except corporate hacks and tourists? It’s neither dumb nor superficial. Football clubs are easily able to fleece their fans because football is not a normal business. It’s not like a restaurant or a supermarket where people will just stop going if you over charge for shit products and service. For most of the people in that stadium, they’ve been going for decades, week in week out. Generations of families have been going. Through good times and bad, they’ve been in the stands from childhood until old age. Football clubs… Read more »
Error prone sums up the away team alright.
Hopefully a goal ahead no less…at HT
Clean sheet for 3 more min boys
10th for Laca
2 up
I’ve enjoyed watching Mikhitaryan
A little breathing space.
This summer apparently the ‘war chest’ will be a paltry £45 million.And yet some fans – thankfully a minority – see nothing wrong with this and think the club is in good hands…Some people still think the world is flat. Connection? Yeah some people don’t believe it Alex. You see you want to believe it because it ties in nicely with everything you got going on and that’s okay I personally don’t believe. You notice how it was 30 million at the beginning and then it became 35 million and 40 million and now it’s 45 million from John Cross… Read more »
Very casual goal, but clinical and technical
AMN to Lacazette.
Lol
Decent ball by Niles
lacca is magic
All he needed was encouragement.
Iwobi and Mkhitaryan have been brilliant this half.
Bamford
It cost £90+ quid (upto a £100+ if choosing to sit in the middle) to watch a game vs Manure; Chelski, Pool of piss and Shitty. These are Category A games.
The food and beer is expensive but completely shit.
We are talking about the cost for a regular punter to go watch a game.
Get off your high horse and come over and watch a game to see for yourself.
Nice goal. Seemed like mikki had fucked it again but recovered well
Iwobi and Mkhitaryan’s performance reminds me of Fulham away, operating in those gaps.
Iwobi and Mkhitaryan have been brilliant
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Brilliant? If you say so…..
Mhkitaryan is quality …intelligent movement off the ball
Bamford. That Arsenal haven’t been spending the money they make. That they have been selling players and not reinvesting. Building up cash reserves that are the greatest in world football. All the while they fleece their fans with the highest ticket prices.
Bamford arsenal charged over £100 a ticket for a preseason game against Chelsea in Beijing two summers ago
Pray do tell me more about how the fans weren’t fleeced when we were 3-0 down or so by 30 mins of the first half
Niles with the assist
Eggs,faces and all that
Mkhitaryan coming back after missing two months could be big for us in the run to the end of the season. Relatively fresh player, still not ideal in CAM but he is our most balanced CAM.
Good to have Mhiki back. We’ll need him firing in the second half of the season. Really he should be playing for his future
Kos, Mikki and Laca are our three best players
China
Excellent take down there.
Any arsenal fan who think the current ownership have brought anything but a whole lot of nothing to our great club is a total fool.
In fact, I’ve posed this question many times on here and have yet to receive a single answer. I’ll try again:
Can anyone think of a single positive kroenke has brought to arsenal?
Niles with the assist Eggs,faces and all that
Yeah we’ll just forget how shit he is generally. Ndombele meanwhile…
Maitland Niles is another shit player who won’t make it at Arsenal.
Marko
Let’s wait and see how much we actually spend net.
I keep saying, Iwobi isn’t bad to use in games like this. The manager needs to manage him well.
The second goal makes 2H much ‘easier’.
Played okay and 2 up.. another win ugly game.
Need 3 more to boost GD.
1H takeaway :
Mikhi isn’t prolific but connects much better than Iwobi and Ozil (current version), even Ramsey.
Imagine Mikhi scores 10 more goals…we can sell him for 20m in the summer!!
The high ticket provers were to pay for the Emirates –that’s a fact It predated the entry of Kroenke We have the highest ratio of gate takings to total revenue in the world. That’s part of why Kroenke bought the club – easy money. Easy money from game day revenue made the club complacent I think in pursuing other revenue sources. Wenger was known to detest pre-season tours to far flung places and would rather the team went to the same Austrian camp. Same for post-season tours, many big clubs do them but we don’t because Wenger didn”t want it.… Read more »
Victorious
nothing tondo with eggs and all that, good assist and all that but he’s been poor
Like to see Mac’s, Willock and Suárez get on in the 2nd half
Bamford arsenal charged over £100 a ticket for a preseason game against Chelsea in Beijing two summers ago
70 quid for the cheapest ticket to see them just this preseason in Dublin.
Mavs*
China Sorry, but you’re conflating different meanings of the word “fleeced” and you’re mixing various arguments up and getting them confused. Yes, Arsenal fans have been paying top dollar to see very “meh” football. However, no one is trying to “fleece” Arsenal supporters. The men who run the club are trying to compete; they have yet to succeed, however, and they have made a number of bad decisions, the most important of which was allowing Arsene Wenger to stay on in his role for as long as he did. Please refrain from insulting my intelligence. This is a Charlie move… Read more »
our ball possession has been so poor. definitely need more flair players. Flair players that’s don’t lose the ball. Big diff.
Hope we spank them in the second half, we need to up out GD.