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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…
Bankz is here for the tr4phy again
Hello
Back again
Yesterday was a mess.
We blew it big time
Trofee
Tr4phy
Who felt like crying yesterday? I almost did. Face palm
Anyways the tr4phy was always going to be mine.
Nice try Boomslang and T….nice try.
To think that I thoroughly enjoyed the Manu game only for Mustafi the dead Mofasa to do this to me!!! O ye gods !!!
Bankz in a tough league like this I will settle for 2nd and sort out my internet transfer during the break and see you next season 😉
I knew we would lose as soon as I saw that defence and cm duo what a joke. Think too four could be beyond us now
Effective rotation is part of management, an integral part more and more so.
What this season has highlighted is you can’t ‘freeze out’ or ignore players and then expect those same players to suddenly perform to the level required when your usual lot are suspended/broken.
Elneny, Jenks, Mavrapanos, and the like, should have far more minutes this season (if they’re the ones deemed serviceable squad members) than they do. It’s not been done well at all, which could prove costly at this stage of the season.
No choice now. Need to win 4 straight (+3 Europa games for the icing on the cake).
What Emery see in this donkey Mustafi?
Surely there has to be someone in the academy much better than El Neny and Mustafi if not what’s the point of having one? Still can’t believe we paid 35 quid for Mustafi, and then actual money for El Neny
Emery again has to take the blame for not involving more youth players as the season has progressed…Doesn’t have to be full 90 mins but sub appearances here and there would have been okay for them….I’m not all that convinced by Mavropanos too by the way, looks to have an error in him. Auba might be a terrific goal scorer but jeez he’s really so one dimensional. The club has to go out in the summer and spend some actual money though none of that silly excuses thing, sell the under performing ones and get in better players, it’s not… Read more »
Pedro I think that most of the sane posters agree with what you wrote. We need now three wins from last 4 games to secure top 4 finish. I have posted already quite a lot on the last thread so I don’t propose to be repetitive. The one issue where the owner needs now to offer is a decent transfer budget and for those responsible for recruitment to be selective and buy top quality players. It is not going to be easy but where there is a will there is a way. Two seasons ago Wenger was apparently in for… Read more »
agree about guendouzi – i just can’t get it through my thick head why he’s been given so much playing time while joe willock was given … none (same question about iwobi-nketiah) i wonder what someone like jeorge bird (THE source of information about our “stars of tomorrow”) thinks about that. as for “He’s kind of fucked every way here”, i have to disagree; if come april 20-something-lads like lucas or ainsley are not fit to play 4 games in 14 days, something’s wrong with the so-called “performance” team.
anyway, wolves wednesday, COYG
I never understood what wenger saw in musti when he broke the bank a few years back.. then again it was the same thing with gallas, vermaelen and so on.. he only got it right with sol when dain made the call in his place and with mertesacker as an absolute panic buy..
Funnily enough you could say that in the 20+ years that arsene managed the club he only managed to sign 1 good centreback intentionally.. that being kozz the boss 😀
If Chavs beat ManUre on Sunday, we would need to win all four remaining games, and that atm looks highly improbable.
Kollo Toure,Campbell, Kolo he signed on a free and got 25 mil for him when he sold him to City,
Back to ‘let’s blame the manager’, Pedro? Yes, it was a rotten team-pick. everybody agrees on that, Emery, too, no doubt, but instead of the usual banal reaction, why not take a deeper look? You know, better than most, the problems Emery faces What kind of choice did he have. Play the regulars – fatigued, in need of a break? Or take a gamble that the irregulars might rise to the occasion? No choice in reality, last throw of the dice for them. Ask yourself, how big a deal is CL qualification? The money? That was Wenger’s line. Now ask… Read more »
Amazingly Arsenal would have had a better season than Liverpool if theyfail to win the Premier league and we win the Europa league.
A much more realistic and cogent appraisal from our industrious PedRo- And I thank him for it. Yesterday-illustrated how Emery came 2nd in a One Horse race in France. It showed – how his Seville team did not win one away game- a while back It emphasised The Barca/PSG debacle once again full force. this man WILL ALWAYS LET YOU DOWN! We could have got Champions League Football yesterday( £100 million minimum) -if the manager did one simple thing. Play the Thursday team against Palace – and play yesterdays team against Napoli, We would be now above Spurs- and well… Read more »
Good post Pedro
Emery had to take a gamble on the squad, unfortunately it didn’t work out.
He would have learned from that.
He was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t.
Champagne Char;ie
It’s not as if Emery just threw Mavros, Jenks and Elneny on. He had featured them in some way or the other over the last month.
They aren’t good enough means they only play when we are in a busy schedule.. There’s no satisfying you, it seems
I’m going to dissent from this chorus of he picked the wrong team.
He picked the available freshest players who are payed wages by Arsenal football club.
If you were manager in those circumstances and you had the following sequence of games;
Palace at home, followed by Wolves away and Leicester away
Which one would you take a chance on.
There’s no tactics when you have buffoons like Mustafi playing.
We have equalized early in the second half and we on the ascendancy when. Mustafi showed up.
Pedro “If he plays a full team there …” Right, but who is in this “full team” that was allegedly available to him? Torreira is nursing a groin strain. Xhaka, Ramsey and Sokratis were unavailable. Monreal is 33 and played 90 minutes in Naples. Emery really didn’t have a lot of options. Arseblog says he should have deployed a back four and three CMs — adding Iwobi or Mkhitaryan to Elneny and Guendouzi. OK, maybe that’s right, but how much better really would that central midfield have been? Better, marginally, but I don’t know that that changes the result. After… Read more »
*We had equalized
“We could have got Champions League Football yesterday( £100 million minimum) -if the manager did one simple thing.”
The much maligned Europa league is a gateway to the Champions league
Champagne
“Elneny, Jenks, Mavrapanos, and the like, should have far more minutes this season”
Wait, the problem is that these players haven’t played ENOUGH? No, sorry; the problem is they’re not good enough. And that’s why they haven’t played. Elneny and Jenkinson wouldn’t be better players if they were given more minutes; they are what they are, and neither’s limitations are going anywhere.
No, the problem is not that these players have not been given more time. The problem with Elneny and Jenkinson is that they’re in the squad at all.
Dissenter Might want to reel it in a touch, you’ve been nothing short of a bitch on here lately. Elneny has played 291 minutes in the league this entire season, Denis Suarez has played 67 minutes. Reiss Nelson has played 587 minutes in the Bundesliga, Chambers has played 2307 minutes in the premier league. It’s quite a basic point I’m making, either you consider someone part of the squad, or you don’t. If you do, as suggested by him being…..part of the squad, then you use him to keep him sharp, and keep your cream unspoiled. Instead we’ve got guys… Read more »
CG That’s all very informative but you’re missing one key ingredient in all of this, we’re still in the EL. We are also still in with a shout of qualification by finishing top 4. Wolves is now a must win. A difficult game as we all know Wolves play better against the top teams. Our squad is not as strong as it could be, we all know this, nevertheless, at least we’re in with a chance on both fronts. Yesterday’s team would have probably lost in Napoli, which I know you would have loved because you don’t rate the competition… Read more »
It seems Pedro is finally starting to warm up a bit towards Emery. A balanced post regarding our performance and the Manager. Irrespective of how lacking in quality we are in the defence and midfield, Emery has to take the majority of the blame. Considering the available options, our manager should have gone with a lone striker. It is clear that Elneny and Guendozi needed some help there. A pragmatic approach similar at home to United should have been adopted. But, we have to give credit to Emery for again going with Matteo and Mo in the middle especially after… Read more »
Charlie George
You are being illogical.
He could not play the same team as on Thursday.
1. Leno would be preferred to Cech.
2.Sokratis is suspended because of a red card.
3.Xhaka is by all accounts injured.
4.Ramsey is injured.
However, he should have played Maitland-Niles, Monreal, Torreira and Iwobi
in starting lineup.
Sadly we had no choice but to play Mustafi in view of the CB options.
– Yesterday’s game is a good example of showing how important is the defense line. If you play someone like Jenkinson, who went two yards deep from the defensive line. it really killed the defense. – There is also one general problem with our players, who like to raise the hand and try to get the Refs attention instead of get up and continue. – There is no difference whether we play 3 CBs or 2CBs, Mustafi will make those mistakes. – Our split strikers formation will work better when the two strikers move back to the midfield to help… Read more »
Emery couldn’t be arsed yesterday to motivate the players, the same against Everton and also Watford plus it’ll be the same in the final 4 league matches BUT in the Europa Cup he’ll have them firing on all cylinders, he has an absolute obsession with that competition. Its now blatantly obvious we have a new manager who only cares about one cup, the Europa one, all the rest he either thinks we have no chance with (League Champions and the Champions League) or he doesn’t care about (League and FA Cups). Maybe he’s a realist but that’s not what we… Read more »
The result yesteday was not solely the fault of piss poor players like Mustafi or Elneny. With few exceptions, the team was lethargic, one-paced and tactially inept. They played into Palace’s hand retaining possession, crossfield nothing passes and a total failure to get wide. In effect, we surrendered the whole first half.
We should also point the finger at Kolasinac, Mavaro and particularly Auba who was a passenger for 99% of the game and cannot be redeemed simply because he scored a good goal – that’s his job for FFS. He has to contribute more to the game overall !
Guendouzi was like a breathe of fresh air at the start of the season but yesterday showed he’s at least 3 to 5 years away from the final article, he can’t cross at all, he can’t shoot and he loses the ball way to often.
I actually felt bad for Jenkinson yesterday, Ozil wouldn’t pass to him and moved over to take his position on the right wing when he was there, very unprofessional from our world cup winning has been.
Charlie C
Thanks for the factual rejoinder.
I just think he’s tried to reduce his exposure to certain players whom he doesn’t trust but has to take a gamble on them when his hands are forced. We just see this differently but he’s given them a few minutes before this game.
His risk could still have payed off but for Mustafi’s error at the worst point of the game.
I’m not sure what I need to reel in tbh.
What a terribly dishonest agenda driven post Pedro, I’m really disappointed in you. No mention of WHY Emery made the changes he made. Why did Mustafi play over Sokratis? Any clue? Why did Elneny and Guendouzi play over Ramsey and Xhaka? Any idea? You know Sokratis was suspended. You know both Ramsey and Xhaka are injured. Yet you don’t even mention it. Instead you dress up an Emery out post as a selection fuck up wilfully ignoring WHY Emery HAD to make the changes he made. Torreira was also widely reported to be nursing a groin strain. But you think… Read more »
Danny
What manager left us in this Europa league you claim Emery is “obsessed about”….Very flawed argument there dude
Valentin “I think that Nkethia [sic] is ready for first team football.” Good to know. He has been in the first team throughout the season. He was on the bench yesterday. “I also believe that [Nketiah] would be a better fit than Aubameyang. Aubameyang is a pure penalty box finisher … his contribution to Arsenal play outside the box is non-existent. ” Nketiah over Aubameyang? Interesting. Because of what Nketiah would supposedly give us in build-up play? Very interesting. What is this assessment based on, exactly? How much build-up play at this level have you seen the 5’9″ Nketiah involved… Read more »
Emery couldn’t pick a whore out of a Manchester nightclub…and everyone knows that Manchester clubs are basically cat houses.
That said, the league is so shite and the teams around Arsenal are just as capable of bollocking up…so we will make top four.
Even when we lose, we win.
Arsene’s ghost is alive in Emery. Mr Fourth.
Good post, Benny.
I will be more confident about the EL if Frankfurt somehow knocks out Chelsea.
Until that happened it’s foolhardy to have our entire season hinge on one game in Bake
Guns
Your jokes stopped being funny a while back now and also how can you proclaim Emery “Mr fourth” when he’s not even had a full season here yet?
Benny
I think Pedro’s post was balanced enough.
He acknowledged the conflicted state of Emery decision making and the reluctance to wholly blame him.
Dissenter
A one off game against Chelsea I’d be more confident about, it’s Chelsea and they’re not exactly very good or consistent at the moment.
The Europa league remains our best route back but after that it’ll be all for nothing if the manager is not backed properly in the summer, we need to invest wisely and massively in the summer if we are going to do anything of note next season
Very frustrated after yesterday and I’m 100% in the Emery was doomed if he did doomed if he didn’t camp. It should also be noted that I’m not aware of any other team in the PL who have lost 3 players who are either 1st choice starters or senior backup to season ending injuries before the halfway point of the season. The chance of CL football is still in our own hands we’ve just got to find a way to make it happen. Emery has done this season pretty much what both Pep and Klopp did in their first seasons… Read more »
Bat
He’ll get fourth. And I don’t care that people find me obnoxious. I do not need validation from a bunch of faceless internet wankers.
Batistuta
I don’t disagree about Sarri’s Chelsea
It’s just that they played city very well in the league cup final and they have a certain Eden Hazard.
I just don’t want our season [and the summer budget] to depend on a one off game.
Dissenter Disagreeing is fine, but argue in favour of a manager not “trusting” a sect of his squad for the majority of the season only to have to rely on them come crunch time? It’s senseless as I see it. Elneny – 291 minutes Jenkinson – 167 minutes Suarez – 67 minutes Mavropanos – 104 minutes Spurs: Kyle Walker-Peters has 284 mins in the prem this season, Oliver Skipp has 203 mins. I couldn’t point them out in a lineup. Chelsea: Hudson-Odoi has 350 mins, Loftus-Cheek 711 mins. Also, how much of those minutes have come in the last 3… Read more »
Valentin “Willock has been tearing the U23 and reserve apart. If Emery is not aware of his talent, then he just needs to attend a game for the reserve to get the right idea.” This comment is so silly. Emery is well aware of what Willock is at the moment. He has started him in the first team this season, and he has watched him and has been given reports on him constantly. If he thought Willock could help him in central midfield, Willock would have been in the team yesterday. That he wasn’t tells you Willock still has developing… Read more »
Joe Willock – 2 mins in the prem this season.
That he wasn’t tells you Willock still has developing to do.
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and Guendouzi has no developing to do? I get your point but……
CC
El neny played in the last two league games, enough to strip him of that excuse.
Jenks was the unforced error that seemed strange because he hasn’t played much replay recently
Dennis Suarez has a grin injury, it appears it’s chronic.
@Bamford,
Nkethia has also played as a winger at U23 level. His link-up play is much better than Aubameyang. Despite his diminutive stature, Nkethia is also a much header of the ball than Aubameyang. When we play with Aubameyang on the left, he does nothing for the team. Only when Arsenal switched to a 4-4-2 did he start to make things happening.
I am not saying that Nkethia is better than Aubameyang, just that he is a better fit in the systems that Emery tends to deploy.
One thing i haven’t seen critiqued alot since the game is the way Emery and the bench even the players on the field celebrated after Ozils goal. Truly embarrassing stuff. I mean its now 1-1 and we haven’t played well. We should be picking the ball out the net and getting on with the flipping game angry and determined to win. What was all this rejoicing at an EQUALIZING goal? Was it because it was Ozil and we all desperately want him to do well and so any success is overly congratulated? Well..well done Ozil but for the rest of… Read more »
Whilst we desperately need to add some width in the summer talk of dropping Auba is daft. The guy is joint top scorer in the PL with 5 assists as well. His goals to minutes ratio is also better than Salah, Mane and Kane.
Danny
Right, Guendouzi has a lot of developing to do as well, and yet Emery has leaned on him regularly. This tells you just how poor the squad is. If Emery had better central midfield options, Guendouzi wouldn’t have been playing yesterday either.
Bamford
Agree if everyone was 100% fit we would have had the selection headache of picking from Ramsey, Xhaka and Torreira in midfield. At the back Holding would be a much better option than Mustafi, Bellerin would be in at RB / RWB which would also give us the option of moving AMN in to CM if desperate.
The squad isn’t strong enough but Emery was always going to need a season to get a real feel of the capabilities of the players.
Valentin
Huh? Aren’t we mostly playing Aubameyang through the center these days? When did we last deploy him wide left? But just so I understand you: you are arguing for Nketiah to start wide left and to start over Aubameyang? Is that right?
Sorry, but nothing I’ve seen from Nketiah tells me he should be starting. Not wide, not through the center. And definitely not over Aubameyang, who has 19 PL goals.
@Bamford,
Regarding Willock I was answering a post that stated Emery was new to the club and so couldn’t know Willock.
Willock may not be ready, but surely he could not be worse than Elneny. Elneny first instinct is to play a lateral or backward pass.
Like CC said before, we can’t ignore players all season long and then expect them to put good performance when you’re desperate for bodies. That does not work like that.
Versus
How exaclty is a team celebrating an equalizer something to moan about?
@Bamford,
On Sunday, Lacazette was playing centrally and Aubameyang was initially on the left. He was then moved to the right for Iwobi before we switched to a 4-4-2.
Dissenter No that doesn’t strip of any excuses. You can’t be on the bench for 30 games and then play two and pretend he should be up to speed. That’s ignoring the complexities of elite sport, which of course you’re doing because you’re in defiance as per. 10 minutes of football per week for 9 weeks is better than 90 minutes after 8 weeks of no participation. It’s called consistency, not an unheard of concept in sports. Let’s not overlook the context either, Spurs and United just lost. Torreira, AMN, Iwobi all took part in the end, they should have… Read more »
From Arseblog>………. Emery; ‘“We changed because we are going to play a lot of matches. We have had some injuries, like with Aaron Ramsey, and we need to protect the players. “For example, Xhaka asked to change in the second half against Napoli and today could’ve played, but with some risk. We need to protect our players and to us other players. “We are playing with a lot of players and they give us the performance, we lost today but we could also have lost with other players on the pitch.” I agree with the manager Any team with Mustafi… Read more »
When I log in the post that comes up is SweetBoots from March 22
Anyone else getting this ?
Stroller “Sadly we had no choice but to play Mustafi in view of the CB options.” I disagree…we could have easily played 4-2-3-1…we had the players available and fit. Amn ….Mavropanos….kosielny…..kolasinac/Monreal ,………………………………………………………. …………………Torreira…….Guendouzi………………………………………………………………………………………………………..Mhkitaryan/iwobi………..ozil…………….Aubamayang/iwobi………………………………………………………………………………Lacazette………………………………………………… Emery took the game too lightly , taking Mavropanos off was a mistake as we were severely lacking in height in defence without him and looked vulnerable from set pieces . as I said yesterday , having Torriera picking up scott Dann is asking for trouble . The 2nd goal may also have been avoided as Benteke had the beating of Kosielny in the air whereas Mavropanos… Read more »
10 more points and we make top 4. Bad loss yesterday but no drama.
cjkd
Before yesterday we’d conceded 1 goal from a corner so no issue with our ability to deal with balls in the air. Secondly Torreira is carrying a knock if Emery had started him and he’d aggravated it missing out on the rest of the season Pierre would have been one of the first to blame the manager for not rotating players.
@Emirates str. There are some serious questions to be asked about the referee and his assistants. The assistant on my side of field made some serious errors. I’ve been catching up on the posts, was pissed off yesterday. Mustafi , nothing more to be said that hasn’t been said already. However only two posters mentioned the refereeing. Not making it an excuse but it had a major impact throughout the game. CP 2nd goal was the result of a free kick given to CP , after their player jumped onto lacazette’s back !! That wanker ref straight away gave it… Read more »
You’re an hypocrite of the highest order, Pedro.
A few days ago, Emery was a genius teaching his lesson to the great Carlo.
But every time we lose, you turn your jacket, disgusting to say the least….
1) the team was tired after a very busy week;
2) it was, mostly, Mustafi’s terrible game which cost us the 3 points, and you perfectly know it.
Bennydevito You can defend Emery’s team selections until the cows come home but the fact is he cocked it up badly yesterday and it was quite easy to predict. Le Grove seemed to think we had turned the corner with the result and performance in Napoli but as I pointed out before yesterday’s game, Napoli were made for Arsenal and Palace would be a much harder proposition.. Our manager was naive to think he could make wholesale changes without it having an effect on the way we play . My belief is that Ramsey should have stayed in central midfield… Read more »
Ithe cjoke boys can go n be replaced with youngsters
Oh you wise one Pierre
What crystal balls you got,…
Yes emery made some selection mistakes
Amn and Lucas should have started
Mustafi mistakes were his individual defending not selection errors. He switched off Zaha completely. Mustafi is bad defender
However I think this loss can fire us up
Something to get us going again
Sok is back so that helps
We need to win at wolves
I think we will
RR
No drama?
We would have overtaken Spurs and gone 3rd
sf
Let’s hope you’re right on all counts.
Marc If Torriera was/is carrying an injury then he should not be playing …I believe he was wrongly resting him . The thing is , it all started going tits up for Torreira when Emery made the mistake of employing Torreira as a box to box midfielder which did not suit his style of play and he obviously hasn’t got the engine to play that role and started to suffer from fatigue. Recently Emery has rectified his mistake and is now playing Torriera in his best position as a holding midfielde r. However, for some reason Emery still feels inclined… Read more »
Hillwood
What’s even worse is if Auba had scored that pen and we’d have gotten results against Everton (abject performance by us rather than a good one from them and we have a good record there) and Palace (again us poor rather than them good) we’d currently be on 74 points 8 clear of the Spud’s.
Holding not rebuilding
Pierre You are full of shit. I suggested giving Torreira a week off after the New Year’s day fixture and telling him to put his arse on a beach somewhere warm and you mocked me. The guy has come from a much slower league where he used to get a winter break as well as playing for Uruguay up to the Qtr finals of the World Cup. It’s really not a major surprise that he’s suffering from fatigue and is picking up knocks. The very fact that he has best part of a month off recently is telling. For you… Read more »
Pedro Reading your recent posts, you certainly did not, ‘see that coming’. You’ve been a bouncing ball of optimism lately. Anyway, you seem angry and yet: ‘He (Emery) doesn’t have much depth to work with and that’s just the reality he’s living in.’ Which I agree with and provides a valid excuse for yesterday. It also contradicts your position. The club need to step up this summer and invest significantly in new players. No amount of new backroom staff can disguise that. For example, we need to buy a new top quality CB just for starters. . I think we… Read more »
No, in fact he’s full of nothing.
I was talking about Pierre aka “akb” boy.
Pierre Why do you try so hard to be a di*k? ‘The thing is , it all started going tits up for Torreira when Emery made the mistake of employing Torreira as a box to box midfielder which did not suit his style of play and he obviously hasn’t got the engine to play that role and started to suffer from fatigue.’ Do you realize that Torriera played central midfield as much as he played defensive mid at Sampdoria? Do you think the more plausible reasons for his fatigue is adapting to the intensity of the premier league and it’s… Read more »
AlexanderH
That line about a new specialist on vitamins was sumptuous
Marc
Torreira was fatigued because he was being asked to play a more demanding position by the manager.
He is now back to playing in his best position which is far less physically demanding.
I’m sorry if you cannot accept this….
Strange how you think Torriera should be given a nice mid season vacation but if Ozil misses a game he gets crucified..
Besides that simplistic view of the defensive midfielder role is antiquated.
That was one of the limitations. of Coquelin. He was good at breaking up play but couldn’t tell the tres]es from the forest when it came to using space or moving the ball effectively.
Torriera has that forward mode as well. He will be wasted by just siting him in front of the back four.
Was it just me – or did the players actually look physically and mentally shattered at the end of the game yesterday..( Koscielny, especially) I was right on the money( literally) yesterday with my predicted Palace goals.. I reckon by the end of the week – we might have shipped in another 4-6 goals Say- what you like about Wenger – he always had the players performing well and looking FRESH at the business end of the season. ( hence the FA Cup semi final and finals wins). But with Emerys scattergun approach to everything – I predict we will… Read more »
The morons twins are in town so I’m out of here for a while.
Pedro – as banning them would be unsporting can I suggest a shallow grave as a solution. I’ll even buy you the shovel.
Jesus Christ…
I’m with you Marc.
Marc
I am in agreement with you regarding arsenal being treated differently by the officials.
Then again ,I have been stating this point for years but for some reason (wenger) Le Grove were never in agreement with me.
Face reality folks
We have the worst coach currently working in the Prem.
Truth hurts.
Get Vieira in for gawds sake…
Delicious irony- The Emery admirers- have quitting tendencies.
What a surprise….
I usually read this blog because it has some out there opinions . Today’s blog is plain wrong . After years of deriding Wenger for Top4 trophy , now you are castigating a new Manager in the league for not making it. ( He is still in the mix ) . A chance for European Glory unlike FA Cups , A competition Emery feels comfortable in and now it also offers path to CL . Why so much hate ? The only real selection error he made was not starting Torreira . But not knowing when Ramsey will be back… Read more »
CG
You think Emery is the worst manager in the premier league?
….and you call that reality?….or the truth?