Unai Emery reversed the fortunes of last season’s openers with his second win in two games. For a brief moment, we are/were top of the league.
The game boasted lots of positives as the club looks to settle a squad of new players. David Luiz and Dani Ceballos earned starts, Auba moved out wide with Lacazette through the middle, Reiss and Willock retained their places.
The first half was pretty bland from a footballing perspective, but ultimately, I think you just have to accept that Emeryball is never going to get you off your backside. My main critique of our style is that we’re very predictable, more so than last season since the club added better ball players to the squad.
We are militant about playing out of the back even when it’s not working for us. Burnley penned us in our own half and it felt like were constantly turned the ball over needlessly. Liverpool will eat up that sort of approach if we don’t put a bit more variety in our build-up play.
The second slight bugbear is the lack of urgency in our game. We give the opposition all the time in the world to reset as we meander the ball forward from wide positions. I don’t think there’s an excuse for slow and methodical in year two.
That said, we’re more interesting when we do click into gear. David Luiz certainly has a lot more authority in defence than we’ve seen over the last ten years. He’s an attacking threat and the opposition knows it. His passing wasn’t elite today, but there’s a lot of variety in the balls he plays. He’s no 5 yard pass merchant.
I thought the passes that came off were excellent. Additionally, he’s a talker and an organizer. When you’re up against it, say what you will, but I’d rather him on my side… and I’d certainly rather him over Mustafi.
Back to the game. The deadlock was broken by Lacazette. He picked up a front post corner, used his weight to lean into those around him, then slid the ball into through Nick Pope’s legs when he was falling to the ground. Very Lacazette.
Something that’s very Arsenal, conceding sloppy goals. Ashley Barnes, the new Kevin Davies, managed to squirm between Luiz and Guendouzi to poke home.
The second half saw an immediate change, the manager introduced Nicolas Pepe. His introduction gave us a little more control out wide and a lot more know-how.
The football sped up a little, generally driven by the hugely impressive Dani Ceballos. He serves two purposes for me, firstly, he does all the things Mesut Ozil doesn’t want to do (turn up to work). He presses, he pesters, he tackles and he makes himself known. He dropped 7 balls recoveries and attempted 5 tackles. Secondly, he’s a better technician than Aaron Ramsey. He’s grown up thinking about the game differently, so hopefully he can give us a little bit of the best bits from both players. I have to say, I am super impressed how quickly he adapted to the pace. He touched the ball 97 times and created 4 chances.
It was the Spaniard that shut down a counter with an aggressive press, Auba picked up the ball, drove at goal, drilling a low shot past the impressive Pope. Our striker really is one of the most potent forces in world football at the minute. He looks so confident and so fit at the minute.
I’m not sure Emery’s defensive subs did much to calm the game. We looked nervous and it gave Burnley a bit of wind in the last twenty minutes. Bernd Leno had a very poor game, he was targetted with high balls into the box all game and it affected him. For me, if you’re going to flap at a ball with a single fist, don’t do it half-hearted. He’s usually so calm, the game reminded me of when Bolton were shooting from corners at Fabianski. I hope his coaches can nip this in the bud and it’s not an ongoing issue.
Mike Dean gave the game an extra 1 minute 40 and that was that, 3 points and an excellent afternoon in the sun for the fans.
Conclusion
A largely positive day at the office. I think we’re in for a shock against Liverpool next week if we don’t button up. We’re still shaky in defence and I think some of our play of the back has a touch of the kamikaze about it. Against rapid opposition with clinical finishing, we could be in a spot of bother. They haven’t been great against Southampton, but they have some many players that can decide a game in a flash.
I’m also hoping we can start to offer a little more variety to our play. If the gameplan is clear, it’s easy to counter. When we have great central players, why not use them?
The positives… Willock looked very good today. He’s rough around the edges, but you can see he’s going to be a very important player for us over the next few years. He created two chances today. Reiss has to impose himself a little more in games. It was notable how much more of a threat we were when Pepe came on. You have to take your chances, he has to keep pushing forward. That said, I thought his tackle early on was great and he was a shoulder away from a good goal.
Also, from a numbers perspective, we created chances. We had 9 shots on target, a huge improvement on last week. Dani Ceballos found an Arsenal player from all 6 of his corners (wow). Pepe, Willock and Ceballos had 11 successful take-ons between the… we’re running at players. Great to see.
Big week ahead…
Raptora
He had a showdown with Wenger and demanded to have money invested in the side as he wanted to win the title.
The meeting didn’t go as he wanted and he left a month later.
Not sure about the contract set up but if it’s true then it’s just another sad example of how the club was being run since DD was forced out
“Have you guys not thought about RvP being the massive c*nt he’s always been (and a phenomenal striker) wanted to stir drama in a team that is on the rise?”
Maybe some butt-hurt AKBs hold residual hatred for RVP having been “unfaithful”, but anyone who’s head isn’t up their own ass recognized a long time ago that Robin saw the writing on the wall and got himself out of shit situation.
I am with Un na nai…a loss by an embarrassing scoreline at Anfield will piss me off. We have been humiliated there now for three seasons running. Sort that out Emery.
Arsenal still doesn’t practice aggressive pushing high and attempting a quick 2nd after 1st success. Lack of urgency was all over the 90 minutes. Even Auba was casual in the 1st half – poor 1st touches.
AMN was good yesterday. Had a pretty much safe, flawless game. Was the Burnley LW too poor to trouble AMN?
RH Ceballos played some lovely stuff yesterday. I have to say. If he continues to perform like that he will fast become a favourite. With him and Pepe we could really see a hugely improved attacking threat. Agree with Pedro though, the lack of urgency is frustrating. I think Ceballos and Pepe will change that as they go through the gears Aubameyang isn’t an “urgency” player but lacazette is so with Ceballos and Pepe to play off an Aubameyang sauntering into space I don’t think it will matter These 4 will create space for each other in a variety of… Read more »
Good performance yesterday but not good enough. Its still our strikers carrying us , scoring half chances but there was definitely improvement in how we were playing and attacking. Ceballos was definitely a livewire and MoM but Guendouzi and Willock werent bad either. Our midfield has been very static the past seasons with Xhaka and Ozil both being very less mobile players. But against Burnley we had 3 active,mobile energetic midfielders with points to prove and places to fight for. It was a very fluid midfield, constantly exchanging positions and making space for their teammates. It will be interesting to… Read more »
Nelson was the swiftest of the entire Arsenal team yesterday. prob, in his quest for swift moves he loses possession. How can such a good kid be made great? He needs to loaned out once more to the BL. Will there be a BL team still interested in him?
Wonder how last year’s champion brat Torreira has fallen the pecking order. Emery has tp find a way to harness the guy’s immense fighting instinct. Else, sell him.
Lacazette was horrible yesterday, just horrible.
Pepe might have tried some I’ll advised trickery in his own half but you could see how eager he was to take the game to Burnley. Tierney will also help in that regard. Ceballos was great but he could have released certain passes earlier.
The movement from our two strikers was mediocre all game. Still a lot of work to do. Move the ball faster and it would have been four or five goals to us. The botched 2v 1 by Pepe and Auba was infuriating.
peanuts
Nelson needs game time sure . But its not necessary to loan him out. He is 4th choice attacker and will get a lot of game time this season. If he has it in him to make it he will probaby show it this season with us.
Un na nai last time Torriera played at Anfield he was lying on the floor for some reason while Firmino scored.
RH
Pepe has only nearly played 70 minutes with our strikers . How do u expect them to show gr8 movement. It will take time. It was Laca’s first game and he did score the goal out of nothing. So it evens out.
Rh He’s a terrier. He presses hard. He tackles hard. He holds his position. He’s he a decent passer. I want him on the field vs Liverpool. If he goes with the midfield 3 from yesterday or swap one out for xakha I can see us getting overrun We need an actual defensive midfielder in there. Liverpool play two pretty frequently to allow their full backs to join the attack. AMN and monreal are going to have two each to mark We really need 2 sitting midfielders who can tackle and close down quickly and who won’t be looking to… Read more »
Arsenal to win at anfield, Law of averages, you heard it here 1st!
Wasi
Agree
Lava had his ore season interrupted too with a niggle
Rh knows full well when lava is fit he is a fucking nuisance. Constantly on the front foot. He’s a little fighter and Aubameyang is nowhere near the same olayer without him on the field
Lacazette is his enabler
SidAugust 18, 2019 07:17:55
Arsenal to win at anfield, Law of averages, you heard it here 1st!
That doesn’t count in football
Chelsea destroyed us every single time we played them until Drogba left
Law of averages didn’t matter
Dont know about the law of averages but i think we do stand a chance. Imo id play Torreira over Willock for The Liverpool game . Our defense is going to need all the protection they can get. Guendouzi and Cabellos in the other midfield positions.
Un na naaiAugust 18, 2019 07:19:08
SidAugust 18, 2019 07:17:55
That doesn’t count in football
Chelsea destroyed us every single time we played them until Drogba left
Law of averages didn’t matter
It matters as long as the manager isnt Wenger, see our recent results against top 4 teams
“It matters as long as the manager isnt Wenger, see our recent results against top 4 teams”
It doesn’t matter at any time, because:
“The law of averages is an erroneous generalization of the law of large numbers, which states that the frequencies of events with the same likelihood of occurrence even out, given enough trials or instances.”
Issa Diop atrocius yet again, whos the grover that was beating his drum during the transfer window
“THE GREAT VAR DEBATE: Technology is not yet advanced enough and said Raheem Sterling was 2.4cm offside… but allowed for a 13cm margin for error in making the decision
VAR is being implemented for the first time in the Premier League this season
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7367673/THE-GREAT-VAR-DEBATE-Tech-said-Sterling-2-4cm-offside-allowed-13cm-margin-error.html
So it begins the VAR teething problems. Doe that mean Monreal was onside yesterday with the margin of error taken into account?
Man city easy to beat, cloag the middle play the counter, with tierney and pepe it can be done
Sid
Too many variables to consider in a football match
We aren’t talking a coin flip here.
Wasi
Yeah I’d probably go along with that. Bet he will go for xakha though if he’s fit. With Ceballos and Guendouzi/Torreira
I think Man City’s weakness on some occasions is straight through the middle and onto their CBs
With Lamela’s goal the centre of Man City’s defence was soft. They parted wide open and gave the attacker too much time to pick his spot.
You can usually get at teams from out wide but in Man City’s case looks like straight through the middle a bit of a weak spot.
Ceballos makes a huge difference to our midfield, and is a class player. The problem is that our midfield can be overloaded when we play three in that department as we did yesterday. Personally I don’t think that playing both Willock and Guendouzi is a strong or experienced enough combination in that department of the game. Guendouzi in particular is easily disposessed and Dyche comments about falling over and cheating relate probably to this particular player albeit that the comment was ridiculous. If we are going to play only three conventional midfielders then we need to operate with wingers who… Read more »
ES
“He moved regularly into central areas of the field and is very difficult
to dispossess”
Except when he was dispossessed when he thought it was a good idea to try and dribble past an opponent deep in his own half got dispossessed and Burnley were straight away on the counter straight on Arsenal’s penalty area.
He’s got to cut that out pronto.
I would actually want Pepe to be a “conventional” winger rather than going in all different areas.
Man City and Liverpool get a lot of joy offensively with inside forward play.
This is what I want to see from Pepe inside forward play. That means sticking to your area of play most times and being direct in that area and driving forward direct on goal.
Ishola 70
Pepe played in second half of match on side where I sit. He was dispossessed only once during the time he played.
He is a very strong and well balanced player and if you had watched the half time warm up between him and Freddie Ljungberg you will have seen exercises which worked on his balance and control.
As I suggest he is not your typical winger and once he is match fit and settled will add a lot to the overall play in team.
Stroller I was thinking the same thing over Pepe and Bale Someone commented yesterday how he lost the ball in our half by trying to turn his man and run at the space behind. Well that’s classic Bale. Once Pepe finds his feet it will be that sort of manoeuvre that will have us all on our feet willing him forward. It’s that sort of turn that opens up games It appears that both he and Ceballos have that in their locker and after yesterday’s showing I would be delighted if we can secure this lad on a permanent from… Read more »
ES Yes he was dispossessed the one time but it was a serious error from him nonetheless. It was naive of him to try to beat a player so deep and in front of his own penalty area. Hopefully this happened because of over exuberance and wanting to impress a little bit too much on his home debut. I’m not interested in Pepe trying to be like a Mesut Ozil type floating about everywhere. I want him to be direct in his play and get at teams primarily from inside forward position direct on goal from out wide. Guy has… Read more »
Ah it was ishola.
Ishola. He doesn’t need to cut that out. We need more of it. He just needs to show less of the ball. He’s in a faster and tougher league
It will come
Don
What is good enough for the two top teams in England offensively should be good enough for Arsenal.
Both Man City and Liverpool have forwards that are direct in their play most times. Driving in on goal from wide positions.
This is what I want to see from Pepe. Not him trying to be too clever or cute. Direct.
Ishola
And how is turning his man in our half and running at the space and centre backs behind not direct?
Don
It was the wrong decision from Pepe from him that play to try and dribble past his man so deep in his own half.
The proof that it was the wrong decision was that he got dispossessed and Burnley were straight on Arsenal’s penalty area.
So it’s about decision making. On that occasion he made the wrong decision. I’m fine with him keeping it simple in deep positions like that. More interested in him being direct and taking players on further up.
I hope Emery watched the video of the last 10 minutes of the game. Our best tactics and formation, with our current available players, is 3 5 2. We have two super fast attackers and a weak defense. We should play defense and fast counter. We could see more often Pepe and Auba running wild. Our two current FBs are weak. They are more suitable playing as wing back (I mean Kola and not Monreal). I would prefer Torr and Willock sitting in front of the 3 CBs and Ceballos playing in front of the two DMs. This could work… Read more »
The composure of Willock on the field really impresses me . A new player coming into the team will often try too hard to over impress the fans and the manager . I don’t see that with willock , I see a player who understands the game and the role he is asked to play …he is a team player first and foremost. Yesterday he was happy to take a back seat to Ceballos , he never occupied ceballos area on the pitch and allowed him the space to flourish . When Ceballos was substituted , willock played more advanced… Read more »
Ishola Maybe. But that’s not to say turning a man in your own half is always the wrong decision You implied you think he’s going to have to cut it out altogether. I disagree. Turning a man in any area of the field opens up the game in a way passing and moving cannot. Ceballos illustrating perfectly how to do it yesterday on several occasions Once Pepe finds his feet he will open the game up with his turns and direct running. To try and prevent that would be to deny a beautiful element of his game. Almost Mourinho-esque i… Read more »
Don
It was a bit too deep though and too narrow where he decided to try and dribble past the opponent.
That’s where his decision making was wrong in that play.
Pierre
He looks able to tailor his game to the role he’s being asked to play
He can do the Ramsey runs behind
He can play the perfect box to box
He can sit deep, defend well and keep it simple
He finds spaces on the edge of the box and has vision. Some lovely little passes already from him.
The kids is going to grow into a very very good player. Seems to have an old head on young shoulders
How did you enjoy Ceballos performance Don?
You were another who was massively questioning him pre-season.
You must have been pleasantly surprised.
Un/Pierre
One more observation. Willock is physically stronger than Guen.
Pepe did lose the ball once ( big deal) . It was more or less the first time he touched the ball , he quickly learnt from that and didn’t make the same mistake again. After that he was bright ,inventive and linked up well with his team mates. The new signings have definitely giving us the wow factor and I can see much more entertaining football at the Emirates this season The liverpool game may be coming a few weeks too early for the new players as it will be a completely different test to Newcastle and Burnley. We… Read more »
Ishola
Yeah. Perhaps. But Santi and jack used to turn in this spaces and open the field up immediately
It will come and when it does those turns are going to be an asset for us.
He will learn when to do it and when not to but AMN does it to good effect for us sometimes which often gets overlooked on here. Plays out beautifully in tight spaces at times that lad
Ishola I was. I’m not the type to double down. He’s exactly the sort of player I love to watch on yesterday’s showing so yes he’s out my concerns to bed immediately and adapted much quicker than anyone would have expected When I’ve watched him for Madrid he was very conservative and seemed to play with the handbreak on. Like he was scared to let himself and his manager down. He played with freedom yesterday and I was delighted to have my concerns shoved down my throat. Really clever player by the looks of it. But like myself in the… Read more »
Ishola
Hurts to watch though because Jack Wilshere was every bit as talented if not more. He should be that player for us. Still. I’m happy we have someone to take up that role as that’s the sort of player that I love to watch. Exactly how I played the game when I was younger.
Pierre If we get a result so Liverpool it will enhance the feel good factor I thought there was plenty of flair on show yesterday anyway I wasn’t bored by the performance at all and it’s only going to get better Saying that we started off the season like Brazilians last season only for it to die off. The 5-1 at Fulham and 3-1 at home to Leicester were wengaball at its best and our 1-1 draw with Liverpool was a beautiful attacking performance too. Should have won that. Would be in the champions league now had Leno not given… Read more »
Ishola70 It was clear that Pepe is still not 100% match fit. However, he is a physically strong player and it was clear on a couple of occasions that even when confronted by two Burnley players at close quarters he could still override their tackles and beat them. We know also that he has strengths which our team urgently needs such as crossing a ball accurately, taking corners, free kicks as well as being a specialist penalty taker. What I liked also about his game was that he does not just play on the touch line waiting for the ball… Read more »
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/arsenal-starlet-joe-willock-smuggled-18955401.amp
What tosh
He’s a bad boy cos he’s shagging birds??
Christ. Every lad in London must be a gangster then. What do they think a 19 year old on his money is going to be doing? Playing fortnight? 😂
Sid No matter how you see it. City are not easy to beat. They are probably the hardest team to beat but no one is unbeatable. And they are at times soft in the centre of the pitch. That is because bothbof their advanced midfielders (de bruyne and gundogan yesterday) are looking for underlaps. And when underlaps the opposite midfielder makes a late run into the box. Honestly Teams should have already figured out this tactic of Pep. This is their main strategy from last season and I still dont see teams trying to deploy tactics to stop the midfield… Read more »
Un
Man is banging on and off the pitch. LitErallY.
Arsenal are a work in progress, but if both Pepe and Ceballos play consistently and to their full potential I see no reason why we cannot finish in top four. Watching Spurs yesterday they look a very average team. Their primary strengths are organisation and work ethic. In normal circumstances a team which has over 30 shots on goal as Man City did should win this game comfortably. Spurs got a lucky outcome starting off with disallowed penalty. Had that been given and scored Man City would probably have been 2-0 ahead and would have then gone on to win… Read more »
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W1fs4E85Voo I don’t blame him one bit for leaving. The club didn’t do enough to keep this utter goal machine or cesc in my book. Wenger subscribes to Buddhist philosophy and Buddhist teachings encourage you to let go. To never hold on and to go with the flow. This was responsible for a lot of the best and worst in wenger for me. I will never forget though, the 2-2 draw at home to Manchester United while we still had rvp and the Ox was tearing untied apart. We had them on the back foot and a winner was coming… Read more »
I think Kane is never going to be the player he was. He’s lost a yard or two and now will require perfect delivery. He’s lost his mobility and can no longer take the game to the opposition the way he did in his prime. This should be his prime but the injury curse robbed him as it did to Shearer, Owen and Fowler before him.
All 4 should have been absolute world class legends. Shearer wads. The rest lost their best years through injury.
Imo last year we only played really good football a few times last season
Even in the games we won well and our best performances, it was as much about being clinical and well taken goals, good work ethic etc. I don’t think we were actually that pretty to watch for the most part even in our best run
Stroller
Tonhe honest spurs executed a game plan at city and it worked. That’s how youbhave to play city
Don’t forget they knocked them out of the champions league playing exactly the same way a mere 4 months ago.
If we can do a similar job at the etihad and anfield I’d not complain at all
China
Napoli
Valencia
Chelsea
Liverpool
Spurs
Leicester
Fulham
All games where we played some really really good attacking football. We are better equipped this season to produce it
I’m just not sure it’s emery’s favoured route to 3 points
As much as I don’t like Kane I don’t think him losing a yard of pace will hurt his game that much. The guy reads the game well, makes space for himself in the box. Sniffs our chances before defender notice. Can score with his head, get tap ins and pick his spot from outside the box
He’s a complete gorm, but I don’t think he needs to be brutally quick to be effective. He will get 20+ goals this season if injuries don’t interrupt his season too often
China
He will always score off instinct alone but he was a force of nature for 3-4 years
Un na naii
Spurs strength is teamwork, doggedness and work ethic. They are a good “old
fashioned English Team”
However, I don’t see a “classy” team. This team even with addition of Ali and Son are not going to compete for League Title.
Maybe my serves me incorrectly but I don’t remember finding some of those games that attractive even when they were great wins.
A lot of great hard work and some brilliantly taken goals but outside of the goals I don’t remember it being wengerballesque, assuming wengerball refers to arsenal at least 5 years ago ofc
Stroller
Yeah that may be their strength but I don’t agree that it’s all they have.
I’m not a massive fan Ali. Utter disgrace that spurs have managed to integrate him successfully while we failed with jack Ox and Ramsey who were all much better footballers than Deli Ali
Arsenal missed a top 4 finish primarily because of the number of goals conceded. It remains to be seen whether we can improve in that department. However, when you compare our goalscoring with that of our main rivals you get a different picture. Arsenal 73 Spurs 67 Man Utd 65 Chelsea 63 Arsenal will improve this season in that particular department with the arrival of Pepe. On the other hand Chelsea have lost Hazard and Man Utd have lost Lukaku. Neither club have managed to replace these two players with goalscorers. Spurs have retained their main goalscorers, but have not… Read more »
Ishola
You didn’t like it too much when Pépé played in a lower position but that was only to help us carry the ball forward as it was taking our midfield ages to do so at times.
Can’t be complaining about that.
United will be better in attack without lukaku clogging up
They already look far more fluid
Solskjaer knows what he wants from his forwards
Top Four???? After that showing yesterday. Do folk actually believe this tripe? After the next sequence of results we will be mid table. Liverpool Spurs Watford (We made Burnley look like Liverpool at times.) our last 3 home game results Arsenal 2 Palace 3 Arsenal 1 Brighton 1 Arsenal 2 Burnley 1 Every game is an effort and a grind under The Clown Under Wenger- we would smash the likes of Burnley, Palace and Brightons at home with free flowing, mouthwatering and mesmerising soccer. Now we have dirge every game. We need and we will receive x 3 successive trouncings… Read more »
Stroller
Do you think we are playing with a little more discipline in the full back areas and centre midfield.
To me , it looks like the defence has more protection , we are not as open down the channels and are not looking so stretched at the back.
Though we have only played Newcastle and Burnley this season , we still struggled defensively against the weaker sides last season, so to only concede one goal in 2 games is a positive.
Of course , the next few games will tell us a bit more .
Gawd knows what a fresh Liverpool front 3 of Sane,Salah and Firmino will do against alleged back 4 is frightening.
Then Son,Kane Alli and co will run utter riot at The Emirates
Then Watfords battery of strikers.
At a conservative estimate
I will be buying in the ballpark these results.
Liverpool 5 Arsenal 1
Arsenal 1 Spurs 5
Watford 3 Arsenal 0
We are utter garbage.
And no one can admit it.
Fail to Prepare
Prepare to Fail.
T.h
CG
As usual you talk tripe.
Give it a rest.
When Auba retires pepe moves to CF we can get wingers or martinelli/saka will have come good
If anyone still had any lingering doubts that CG is a gibbering madman I present to you evidence number 257 above. Case closed.
Es
Only time will tell.
But If you think a back 4 of sok,luiz ,monreal and AMN ain’t going to get ripped to smithereens against the CL finalists- you are deluded.
Because they will.
End of.
Fact.
Yesterday Burnley did manage to break through few times on AMNs side in the first half.
Dint happen that much in the 2nd half.
We shouldn’t be giving that much space to Liverpool else we will get punished.
Sick sock should be doing altar boy duties go on they are waiting for you at the monastery
Pierre Monreal has been disciplined in left back position. However, I am not sure that he is able to maintain performance for 90 minutes. However he will be good back up for Tierney when he recovers from injury. I do have concerns about Maitland-Niles. He is too often out of position. He needs to focus more on defence and less on attack where he is fine. The arrival of both Pepe and Nelson alleviates the requirement of playing with wing back on this flank. You know my views on Guendouzi. I am not a fan of his. I like Willock,… Read more »
Too many non gooners on this blog.
If Burnley are averaging an attempt at the AFC goal every 4.5 minutes on our patch- you know we have fundamental problems within the team set up.
Better teams will utterly annihilate us this season.
You know it.
I know it.
But you just cant admit it.
I can.
I will.
I have.
CG
I have expressed concern about our defence, but it does not mean that we
are going to lose games heavily.
Last season we beat Spurs at home and drew with them away from home. So
your prognosis about the result against them is ridiculous.
I have seen nothing sofar from Spurs that suggests that they are better than us. As I said they are a well organised team, but certainly not title potential
as some suggest.
Karim “You didn’t like it too much when Pépé played in a lower position but that was only to help us carry the ball forward as it was taking our midfield ages to do so at times.Can’t be complaining about that.” Well of course there will be complaints Karim if Pepe gets dispossessed like that in the future in really deep areas trying to dribble out and the opposition score from it. That’s the way of it. Fingers will be pointed at Pepe for losing the ball in such a dangerous area in relation to the opposition. That’s the way… Read more »
Ishola
I trust once Pepe is bedded in with the team, he won’t need to do it alone.
RH, it seems you are gradually becoming obsessed with Torreira. He may not be physically imposing but is strong. Guy’s good. He can make it in the PL. He compensates his lack of physicality with good technical attributes.
Ishola, you are taking this Pepe mistake way overboard. He made a mistake and he never repeated it.
I’m very confident on the Liverpool game.
Leno disappointed me yesterday. He could have started some counters quickly and this playing from the back is too boring and predictable. We almost suffocated ourselves with some atrocious decision making by playing from the back.
You don’t need to be protective of Pepe Karim.
I have every hope like so many others that he will become a very important player for the side. Not just hope but expectation.
But this doesn’t mean he shits golden nuggets is above criticism at certain times.
ES
If you really think – Arsenal are currently better than Spurs in any shape or form – you are simply lying to yourself.
They are miles better.
And we a need a Quality coach to close the gap- otherwise the gap will become a chasm.
When Wenger was in charge at Arsenal- we were always better and certainly bigger than Spurs.
That ain’t the case now.
Dont lie to yourself, young man.
It’s not healthy.
When Wenger was in charge at Arsenal- we were always better and certainly bigger than Spurs.
Troll troll troll
Guys relax.
All that is being done is pinpointing one piece of play where his decision making was a bit off. That’s it.
As said before it was probably down to over exuberance and trying to over impress on his home debut.
CG, who allowed Spurs to be better than us? Emery or Wenger?
In fact there are so many anti arsenal fans on this blog.
Wenger beat Spurs once, lost 3 times and drew 4 times. Thats his record against Poch. Does that look like a record of a manager and team that show they’re superior than their counterparts?
This place has fast become a joke. Why bother anymore with idiots being allowed to say what they want, and if we retort we get called bullies.
Look at Wengers 20 year record over Spurs.
75% win ratio.
You lot cant admit- we have a gormless Clown* in charge and Spurs are streets ahead of us.
*RVP totally correct in his assessment of The Clown
He is Making it up as you going along
No strategy
No philosophy
Why dont folk want to tell The Truth
Denial is ridiculous…
Spurs were a joke for most of Wenger’s tenure.
Their defending was comedy central until Poch turned up.
SidAugust 18, 2019 10:50:07
Sick sock should be doing altar boy duties go on they are waiting for you at the monastery
This is a deeply offensive and political comment that has no place on a football blog.
Pedro. If we are cleaning up then let’s clean up.
I honestly believe CG tries to wind people up on purpose, he can’t really believe the rubbish he posts.
Yes
Ishola
Fair comment.
See what a Great manager can do.
(They improved rapidly under Poch)
They have one
We dont.
Quite simply
They are improving
And we are deteriorating.
Am I right or am I right?
Exactly right backpass and while guys here keep getting sucked in he will continue what he does.
“When Wenger was in charge” we were conned into thinking that we were going to compete with the very best, so , in that respect, being bigger and better than Spurs should have been irrelevant.
Could have also said that “when Wenger was in charge” we sat back and accepted 4th best as being a success.
Many more in the library.
Cheers!
The deteriation materialised under Wenger coupled with other teams improving.
Team is in a transition period and hopes that they can improve this season.
Plenty of changes already in the first XI since Wenger left and a few seasons down the road side will be indistinguishable from when Wenger departed.
Complete transition.
And in a short period of time.
Not easy and not plain sailing.
CG
You are becoming obsessive and ridiculous.
The idea that Spurs are so brilliant that they are going to beat us 5-1 at home as
you suggest is complete and utter nonsense.
Es.
We will see but
Buy Spurs Goals now….
The market fluctuates
E.g
After Liverpool spank us.
The price for Spurs Goals goes down.
And why you are at it.
Buy Watford goals.
Because after Liverpool and Spurs have spanked us.
Watfords Goals price goes down.
Got it.
The End is Nigh!
Our squad still has some weaknesses but emery has no excuses for not getting top 4 this season barring an injury catastrophe
We have a much better squad than Chelsea and utd imo and possibly better than spurs or similarly good on balance
Top 3 should be the aim, not too 4, though we may end up needing to settle for 4th.
We should also be winning a trophy this season. Top 4 and any trophy will be a job well done on the path to making another step up next season.