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Ugh… the disappointing taste of, “I saw that coming”, is festering in my mouth this morning.
Let’s be real here, Unai Emery fucked up his selection. It’s hard to look beyond him for this one. He greatly underestimated one of the best teams on the road this year and he paid the price.
Almost a complete rehash of the Everton game a few weeks ago, except Emery doubled down harder on selecting players we absolutely know are thieving a living.
I understand the need for rotation. I am aware that it’s exciting to imagine a Europa League win crowning your maiden season. However, sometimes you need to be a bit realistic about how shite certain players are.
Elneny, Mustafi, Jenkinson and Guendouzi in the same starting 11 was NEVER going to deliver a result against a team that bullies like Palace. We all knew what was going to happen when that line-up was revealed and it happened.
Jenkinson is sweet and the banter thing was fun for a while… but he’s not good enough. It’s embarrassing this joke has gone on for so long. It has to stop this summer. The kids behind him cannot be any worse?
Mustafi is a fucking car crash. He has been the whole time he’s been here. Tim Stillman made an excellent point when he said that all his mistakes generally come from him shirking personal responsibility. That exit strategy approach couldn’t have been clearer yesterday when he shat his pants at the on-coming Benteke and just let a bad thing happen to him. Sunday league stuff. Coward behavior. Emery was correct after the game when he stated that he’d been very consistent this season… consistently horrendous… my question is this… why does he keep starting him?
The Matteo and Elneny midfield is just bland. A teenager should not be asked to put in a shift to help a player well out of his depth. The young Frenchman is an excellent prospect, but I can’t for the life of me understand why Emery keeps putting him through this weird hazing. He’s never going to succeed like that and it’s sad that he has to keep trying it. Mo is a nice guy… great at Twitter… but when are Arsenal going to come down hard on these types of players being part of the squad just because they are fun to be around?
We flunked that test yesterday. It was incredibly disappointing. Emery made an error. But you know what? He’s kind of fucked every way here. If he plays a full team there, we’re tired for Wednesday in a very tough game. He leans into his squad and the players aren’t there. He doesn’t have much depth to work with and that’s just the reality he’s living in.
However, no excuses people. That’s his last error of the Premier League season. Top 4 is still in our hands. Europa League CL entrance is also in our hands. Chelsea has United Sunday. United has City midweek. This can still all work out well for us, but we MUST beat Wolves.
There can be no more fuck ups.
Emery has to shape up, and he has to take some risks on fitness because we cannot afford another shitty team selection like this.
Onwards and upwards…
Henry, the level of debate on here is exceptional.
Hey Pedro, no anti-Emery post today ??
Wow
Henry root
Great post
It turns out that man inhabited North America 130,000 years ago!!
There was Scientific consensus that earliest man existed only 14,000 years ago. Careers have been lost due to it being dogmatised!!
So Espirito is saying his team is going to go all out.
Stupid- they just dropped some major $$ on Jimenez. Why risk all of them? They have nothing to play for- no cups no nothing just pride.
So lets see how much pride he has instilled in his side…. They are fighters for sure and gave us a really hard time in Nov.
Im eager to see which coach has motivated their team more. I want to see Arsenal with no handbrake. Put them to the sword asap and all game.
Time to dig deep
Our defense at set pieces is one of the few things that worked well last season and this season. I still do not understand why Emery took the decision to switch our defensive system from a mix of zonal and man marking to a pure man marking system.
Against Crystal Palace we were shambolic and lucky before finally being punished. Having Torreira marking Scott Dann is beyond ridiculous, it’s criminally insane.
Anybody knows if it is true that there has been a fallout with Steve Bould and that one of Emery’s Spanish assistant is taking over his role?
Valentin
Emery rolled the dice …. it didn’t pan out
That’s what managers do sometimes, they give other players a chance to be counted or rule themselves out.
You keep talking about ‘still do joint understand’
It’s called rotation, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t
Tits
Yes, I think we can all agree that Mustafi is not “Vorsprung durch technik”.
Guns of SF
Actually having Wolves go all out is good for us because that’s not how they typically play.
Dissenter
I think he means they are going to try and win the game with stoic determination. In other words, they are going to be focused and ready to bring it.
So be it.
We know teams that have nothing to play for, play us hard. Look at last Sunday with Palace
Wolves outplayed us in Nov. We need to show up tomorrow big time.
“Against Crystal Palace we were shambolic and lucky before finally being punished. Having Torreira marking Scott Dann is beyond ridiculous, it’s criminally insane.”
You really think Emery told Torreira to mark Scott Dann on set pieces when he was about to come on?
Hello my fellow Gooners! Back from my forced exile (Easter holidays) where I tried to avoid the real world. I did keep a (very lazy) eye on the game vs Palace. I’ll just say that when I saw that both Mustafi and Elneny were selected my first thought was: oh fuck. But I could see that Unai basically set us up more or less like vs Napoli but with the 2nd string players. I thought, fuck it let’s just hope we can at least get something out of this. I realised that Unai wanted to rotate but somehow felt, in… Read more »
Azed
“You really think Emery told Torreira to mark Scott Dann on set pieces when he was about to come on?”
Yes of course he did ….why else would he be marking him.
Pierre
Or this could be down to a complete lack of leadership on the pitch and no one pointing out the obvious when organising the team to defend the corner.
You really do not know whether UE has told this to Torreira, so why act like he did?
Ah yes, I forgot. You have an agenda to stick to.
TheLegendaryDB10 Better late then never DB10 – good post Re your last point. I think Sanllehi is just another Gazidis with a dinosaur football knowledge and contacts’ rolodex with better snake oil to sell albeit oil past its sell by date. Raul will surround himself with scapegoats and last for as long as he can he’ll be throwing people below him to the wolves until it’s obvious what he’s doing. That said I’m happy to be proven wrong – humble pie doesn’t taste that bad because it means we are doing well. However, I, and many, many more, were right… Read more »
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/transfer-news-live-manchester-liverpool-14448318
Re above link “Arsenal identify possible Aaron Ramsey replacement “Arsenal have reportedly identified Dennis Praet as a midfield replacement for the departing Aaron Ramsey. The Gunners were interested in the 24-year-old Belgian last summer but cooled their interest and a transfer never materalised.” Arsenal agree deal for first summer transfer Arsenal have reportedly agreed a deal to sign Brazilian youngster Gabriel Martinelli. The Gunners have been keeping tabs on the Ituano forward who had a trial with Manchester United in 2017. Barcelona have also been linked with a swoop for the 17-year-old but it is Arsenal who have reached an… Read more »