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Hello top 4 my old friend.
I’ve come to try with you again.
Here we are AGAIN people. Spurs shit the bed against Bournemouth losing two players to red cards. Chelsea has a London derby against Watford tomorrow morning. We have to face off against the MIGHTY Brighton at home in a later kick-off.
This goes down to the last day if we can pull off a win. It’ll be a classic top 4 face off where any of 4 teams could sneak it on the last day. Who really needs a title race when you have a battle like this going on?
United are taking 6 points, no doubt. FIXTURE FRAUD RIFE AS USUAL.
Last game for Spurs is Everton, which won’t be easy.
Last game for Chelsea is apparently one of the most underrated midtable teams in the world… Leicester.
We have to go away to Burnley, which is never easy… because 1) we are Arsenal 2) it is away from home.
All we can do is win both our games and pray for an upset. Incredible that we’ve lost 4 of our last 5 games. A travesty.
Still, worth remembering we have two chances at the promised land. Europa League is looking good for us. Mulling over whether I’d prefer Chelsea or Frankfurt… at least we know we’ll turn up if it’s Chelsea.
Alex Iwobi, had something to say on his record this season.
“I try to dwell on the positive and not dwell on the negative as much as I can. If I make a mistake I try to use it as a lesson and try to improve on it. We have a lot of good fans as well.”
“They are entitled to their own opinion and I am happy with the progress I have made this season. I have been able to get more goals than I had in the previous season and I have”
Not exactly a ringing endorsement of himself here. 4 assists and 5 goals across 48 games is a pitiful record in his third season. That’s the sort of return you’d expect from a decent full back. Not someone who in an attacking role for a team trying to be protaganists. If you’re brutally honest, it’s not good enough and it’s hard to see when it comes good. He lacks physicality, offers up little pace and the decision making hasn’t gotten any sharper.
As we rebuild this summer, the focus really has to be on players that aren’t happy with ‘a few assists’, we need to bring in electric pace, and a brutal winner takes all mentality. We’ve really struggled out wide this year and it’s the excuses are running out because he’s been given a huge amount of game time.
What would Saka have done with that many games? Maybe we should find out… or just pony up the money and bring in Pepe, Sarr, or Zaha?
Alex Lacazette took the player of the season. There’s been some fierce debates in my chat groups. No one really stood out majorly this season. There was a lot of ok or good form in spits and spats. Dare I say if Ramsey hadn’t have been benched for the first half of the year, he’d be taking that? Him or Leno for me. But hey, I love the Frenchman. He works hards, he makes so much out of nothing and he’s popped up with important goals all year. He and Auba have had a far beyond average impact on our conversion rate in front of goal and we are very lucky to have the both of them.
Emery was asked by a paid-up journo whether winning the remaining two games was important. Imagine that being the extent of your questioning when you’re handed the mic?
Good afternoon. We need to win the next match and if we win against Brighton we are going to the last match against Burnley with the possibility to be in the top four. It’s not in our hands, but we need to win our matches and the first is Sunday. It’s not easy to win each match – for us and for other teams – but the focus for us is to win against Brighton for different situations. We are going to play the last match at home. We are going the play the last match with Petr Cech, with Aaron Ramsey and also I think we want to finish at the Emirates with a victory. The first objective is to finish in the top four and it will give us the chance.
The ‘good afternoon’ is a lovely touch. Interesting that we might start Cech. He had a good game against Valenica, but this game isn’t a dead rubber.
The manager was asked if he thought we’d progressed.
Yes I am. Our progress I think – when we started the season we lost against Man City and Chelsea and we worked for this process, little by little and at the end of the season now we are with this possibility. I think when we started we would have been happy to have today these two opportunities in the Premier League and Europa League to reach our target.
I think he’s trying to say that we are competing for top 4 this season, which hasn’t been the case. He’s right. If we make top 4, it’s hard to argue about his success. It’s like the FA Cup final in 2005, it was grubby, but we did it. However, if you are into reality, he’s not progressed the club like most of us would have hoped. But, he’ll get the next season to stamp his authority… I’m sure there will still be those that can’t tolerate any critique until he’s purged every last binman that was under Wenger’s control, but there we go.
One step at a time… Emery HAS to put on a show tomorrow. Send the fans home with a smile and make sure they’re hanging back for that lap of honour!
Right, see you in the comments x
Nobody in our team can put a tackle in
Why are we working so hard for top 4 when clearly Europa is our level?
Goddamn our midfield is shite. We can’t even get the ball into their final third, ozil and laca having to drop into our own bloody half just to pick up the ball.
Great header. Laca. Ffs
Emery fucked up there
Changing three players ninth 75 minuet was rather dumb because they won’t have time to settle in
That killed the game off
Utter utter shire. Can’t wait to go back to NZ
We have ourselves to blame, chance after chance we’ve been gifted in recent weeks and failed to take any.
I’m all football’d out for the season, without drastic reinforcement in the summer it’s debatable if theres even any point following religiously.
Stupid time to make those subs, we had the momentum. All puff now.
Pathetic team of bottlers
Not the Hobbit shire but shower of shite
Iwobi…I rest my case.
Good cross by Kolac. Rubbish jump by Auba.
Result of ball playing style!!
Emery brought his love child guen on and killed it
Shit decision to triple sub by Emery. Shit decision, shit coach, shit players. All around shit show.
If Xhaka ever wears an Arsenal shirt again Emery should be fired on the spot!!
Reality is both those cunts will be representing our club in a few days time…
Fucking depressing
They don’t deserve a lap of honour and should thank their lucky stars if the stadium is still half full.
Spanish Waiter used too mucho óleo de oliva on his head. Nothing in his brain
Very simple: these players aren’t good enough. Starting with Xhaka. Xhaka out, Mustafi out, Ozil out. Build a proper squad.
This is now our level.
Low of the low.
One of the highest wage bills for this utter shite.
Emery has achieved nada.
How can Iwobi be a pro footballer?
Iwobi fucking never learn
Only 3 min???
Manure would have 6
We are so predictable in attack. Idk if Emery’s ideas are dull or if he can’t communicate them to the players or what, but there is so much standing around, no dynamic movement. Dull to watch, easy to defend.
We need a director of football
There’s a lot of work that needs to be done off the field
So much work
No UCL
Yaaaaay
We need a new team.
Fuck off. Iwobi. Put the ball in the box
Rambo RamseyMay 5, 2019 16:08:49
Would anyone be surprised if we fail to beat Brighton today
Yup, Rambo Ramsey knows these stuff
Season Over, and thank fuck for that because its not even a joy to support this side.
We are not good enough
Auba should have scored that chance
Kroenke out
At this point in time we’re a shit club from top to bottom, and there’s no real reason to believe anything should improve.
What a fucking embarrassment this team is…
Leno only person who saved from ignominy.
Spanish Waiter booed
Complete shite
Rightly booed.
when will they play the third half?
If Miki don’t make that shit pass they don’t counter attack and Xhaka doesn’t give away pen.
This is completely on the poverty of the players available to him — starting with Xhaka — not on the manager.
Let the boos ring out. Let’s not accept mediocrity for years again. Wenger was the problem, but Emery, to my eyes, doesn’t look like the solution.
That was and has been all season, shite
We need to win a game and we only have Guen,Iwobi and Kola ro bring on
We need two sign a DoF and start planning for next 2-3 seasons.
Id doesn’t matter whether it is Emery or not, we need a DoF.
deserved boos all around
fuck off with that frustrated look Mustafi
that captures it when that Brighton player laughs behind the sitting distraught Monreal
That was bad
Dropped all 12 points in 4 games.
Can’t get a win at home with BHA.
Deserved it.
Squad OUT.
So full of crap.
Pathetic display all over the pitch yet again….bunch of losers and pussies
Bunch of pussies
Mission failure.
No manager is the “solution” to the problems we have in this club.
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It goes deeper than the manager
Xaka ,
shit ! Well fucking done Xaka.
I’m not an Emery hater by a long shot, but I’m also in agreement with others that he needs to go. We know he won’t be given any funds in the summer, and this season has proven he’s not the right manager to get the best out of ok players. I didn’t expect the quadruple this season, but WAS expecting some kind of improvement. He’s had a season now and I truly can’t see much difference or how we’ve improved under his reign. Defensively we are still shockingly shit, but for laca and auba’s goals, we would of been fighting… Read more »
The manager needs to be sacked immediately
Make no mistake, he has made a terrible team worse.
The least number of shots per game than AFC have ever had.
It’s absolutely shameful
We look like the away team in almost every game, even against absolute nothing teams.
I don’t want us to go through on Thursday. This team deserve nothing, and Emery doesn’t deserve to have his huge cracks papered over.
Fuck Kroenke. Fuck Kroenke Jr. Fuck the rest of the board. We’re sure giving ManU competition to see who can be run worse.
Xhaka and Mkhitaryan should never play for us.
I’m just having a big smile on my face and I don’t know why….
What’s a manager to do when Myhki meekly gives the ball away when he could have taken. shot…then Xhaka does all the rest.
Also Auba should have scored there
So much went wrong at the end of the season
Emery has to be accountable for several mistakes in the three previous league games.
no discipline what so ever. Fullbacks in a back four shouldnt be bombing forward in a 1 nil lead.
Sure lich f’d up big time but all xhaka needed to do was show him the line. We will win nothing òr progress with xhaka in the middle. He is a complete liability.
Hahaha that’s more like it gambonito.
….but Emery wants top 4……..
Leave it out.
There we go.
That’s 3 years in a row we’ve finished outside of the top 4.
That’s the best Arsenal manager of all time and the worst Arsenal manager of all time both failing to get this top 4 quality side into the top 4.
Why is that?
Oh yes; because we are NOT a top 4 side!
How many weeks have we actually spent in the top 4?
Exactly.
Top 4 side my arse.
Where do we go from here?
Assuming we don’t win europa losing our best player and got 45 million to buy 5 new starters.
I’d have a modicum of hope if we had a diamond in the rough spotter , oh wait we sacked him though so emery and Rahul could bring in Denis Suárez who played the sum total of about 12 minutes competitive football.
There’s no point talking about “this player shouldn’t play for us again”
Who’s going to move them out?
We don’t have a DoF.
“Make no mistake, he has made a terrible team worse.”
I agree with this. He’s got his defenders here, but he’s done just as shit as Wenger without the occasionally pleasing football.
In all seriousness, to be played off the park at home to a team that had to wait till 2nd to last game to avoid relegation….. That’s bad. Really bad. Well done kroenke, thanks for everything
And that faux outrage and disappointment on their faces is pantomime acting.
To pick up a grand total of 4 points from Everton, Watford, Palace, Wolves, Leicester, and Brighton is disgusting.
These players never have been good enough and never will be.
“Rotate for the EL” as if this lot will beat Chelsea, Arsenal are an unserious football club and most of their fans are no better.
Horror result.
The sad thing is Brighton thoroughly deserved their result.
Xhaka must be sold. Yet again showing what a liability he is defensively for the Brighton goal.
Saying all that though it wasn’t good enough overall from all the players and from Emery himself.
Can’t be struggling to get a result at home to Brighton however much they may be playing with more freedom and handbrakes off after they knew they were safe from relegation.
It came down ton the same shitty players that were inherited;
‘Mykhi, Mustafi, Xhaka, Ozil , Iwobi
Our centre backs took the absolute puss today showed no respect to Brighton, trying to dribble through midfield and run into their box.
Absolute disgrace.
All on EL now so.
And pressure will be all on us if we play Chelsea in the Final as they’re already guaranteed CL football next season.
I wouldn’t even bother wiping my dag-riddled arse with the team sheet from today.. Get fucking rid of the dross. Fucking disgusting shower of shit. Booed off? They should have benn fed to the June June pigs .Cunts, the fucking lot of ’em.
Mikki, Xhaka and Auba take a bow you cunts.
The 15 mins after the break was disgraceful, pedestrian.
Pl these days there are no easy games, if you are not on it you get punished .
why bother wasting my energy on here posting shite??? when the game of thrones will be out in the next 15hrs????
the only heartbreak I have this season was the amount of data I wasted watching live stream arsenal matches during the course of the season…
AFC, may it never be well with you.
Xhaka is a pointless footballer. Can’t run. Can’t tackle. Can’t deliver corners. Doesn’t score. Can’t dribble. Can’t hold the ball under pressure. And bloody stupid as all hell to boot.
Spuds are celebrating St. Woolwich Day or their equivalent to St. Totteringham’s Day
😡
Xhaka being handed a contract at the beginning of the season is a farce.
The players again I’m guessing?
Nevermind that Emery horror show, insipid approach, not a clue how to impose anything on a game, could barely open up the 17th placed side in the league.
Backing him to bring players in to fit his vision? pfft, do better.
Yet again
An xhara error cost ipus points
Shoot the cunt . You would if he was an horse
Useless cunt. Worst arsenal midfielder ever…
An there have been some shit ones.
1 point from 12 does not deserve anything. Fucking shite. Pathetic.
the kind of smile I have right now… is that moment when we all see xhaka and mustafi in red and white colours come august.
At least we have a fall-back for EL
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They have to clear their heads quickly for Valencia because they can easily beat us 2-0
Our current form is pathetic, 1 point of 16.
Wer have to dig in to go past Valencia.
I mean what’s Emery to do, Brighton man for man are a better side than us so no shame in dropping points to them…
Look at the empty seats, exactly what they deserve.
i-woeful…….
No much more than that idiot Emery…as bad substitutions as I ever saw Wenger make….besides maybe Ox against ManU!
We were battering Brighton for a short spell and he makes 3 shit subs….Leich more likely to do something than i-woeful!
Don’t deserve top4…..
We are fucked. Have no confidence any good decisions will be made I the summer…..probably end up fucking signing Suarez permently… ..wouldn’t put anything past these idiots running out club like it’s a bank.
weagle
Bang on, the whole world knows it too.
I did say playing ‘safe’ sides was of no advantage. Chelsea another one in the EL final IF we can get past Valencia.
*Chelsea ‘safe’ in the knowledge they’re in next season’s champions league.
It’s about time the match going supporters start to strongly display their displeasure towards the club ownership.
Like Dissenter said, we are having massive issues at the club. The manager and players are just a consequence.
The worst part of this is that Chris Hughton managed to get his team to play vs us even though they are safe. As for UE, well … we have an actual target to achieve but strangely enough we managed zilch (alright I am being harsh: 1 pt) in the past 4 games…. what kind of management is this?
Let’s not pretend though that another season in second tier europa if that competition is not won this season is a shock to the system.
The way this club as a whole has been run for far too long now only deserves second tier.
The club is dead,
Blame the new stadium
Blame wenger
Blame Stan.
Burn down the stadium and rebuild it as a ciommunity centre.
We can move back to woollwich and challenge charlton .
Clubs dead.
Bye
I’m sorry but Unai Emery and about 80% of this squad should leave this summer
I wonder whether it is Emery’s game plan to attack so slowly. They always let the opponent to have so much time to set up the defense. Our two strikers can’t run the channels and our midfielders and forwards can’t pass through the channels. We have no winger. Our strikers can’t head the ball. The result, our attack sucks.
Fuck this is breaking me, fuck that’s sad, we are shite and leaving our best performer go
1 point from games against Wolves, Brighton, Leicester and Crystal Palace. You can debate about quality of our squad all day long but one point against these 4 teams is simply unacceptable. Even 10 men Watford dominated us. Sub-standard Emery was never the guy to take us forward.
5 games into our easy run in of 6 games and we have won 1, drawn 1 and lost 3. We won’t win our last one either. Oh and we won’t win Europa either. Europa is our level and has been for the last 10 years
WHAT.A.SHIT.SHOW.
No wins in the last 4 league games.
Complete shitfest.
I thought Leno was supposed to be a good penalty stopper.
Not having a go at him though but shame on the rest.
Ramsey what picture.
Bati
Seen the light mate?
Granit Xhaka
Lucas Perez
Mustafi
All cost a grand total of 100 quid…..