via @Arsenal.com
Our first Saturday match of the season has landed and it feels good. Enjoy it, they’re going to be few and far between.
So what’s new?
Ozil has been ‘sick’ again, lolz, there are people that have eaten directly from a nuclear reactor with stronger immune strength than him.
Arsenal ditched the captain’s notes. Xhaka is the ‘Voice from the dressing room’ in the matchday programme… it’s like Arsenal is in its early twenties at a fancy University, we’ve just met an older student that’s running side classes in wokeness called Kale-isthenics, and we’ve just learned that the captain’s armband is actually social construct and is basically a form of oppression.
Emery hates it. He can’t wait to tell the captains of other clubs that they’re contributing a vicious cycle of captain-archy that’s directly contributing the anxiety of naturally weak people.
Good for Unai, but I can’t help but think a team that really lacked leadership when the chips were down last season should perhaps be making one person accountable for being the go-to for dishing out meaty bollockings.
Checklist for the captain:
- Make sure they’re not injured
- Make sure they’re going to play the majority of games
- Make sure the fans and players like them
- Make sure they are good at football
- Make sure they can battle knife crime with their BARE HANDS
Probably going to be Xhaka… guy can handle the spare key though, so who am I to sniff?
Burnley at home shouldn’t be a problem, but if we play like we did against Newcastle it might be.
They’re capable of putting the wind up us and they have some speed in their ranks… Ashley Barnes can be a bother at times and I hate playing shit-kickers with an unsettled starting 11.
Our defence put on a great show against Newcastle, our full-backs played with more discipline, which looked like a tactical decision based on ability. It’ll be interesting to see whether that holds up tomorrow. I’m also waiting to see how Emery treats Chambers now David Luiz has been with us a couple of weeks. We are one week from Liverpool, Luiz making his debut against them is a scary proposition… so is Chambers starting against Firmino, Mane or the ruthless Origi.
We need a big performance, lots of energy, lots of chances and a bit of a statement.
OVER TO YOU UNAI!
x
We need to shoot from outside the box.
Ponderous again laca.
Why don’t we just cross the dfamn ball?
Just stop with the short corners which never come to anything.
Laca has poise but lacks instinct whereas PEA has instinct but lacks poise.
AMN had his halftime splif again
I agree with Nelson sub, didn’t do much.
Good tight team Burnley.
Need a free kick for luiz .
TR7
“Laca has poise but lacks instinct whereas PEA has instinct but lacks poise”
Brilliant.
Great play there. Pepe Auba.
Auba is so wasteful, so wasteful
coming up to 60.
would be looking for kola or martinelli as a threat on the left. laca coming off and Auba going through the middle.
Much better there from Pepe and Auba.
Why shoot straight at the goalie we do this all the time.
We will struggle to win this.
Literally straight at the keeper.
Lacazette off for Martinelli? Shift Aubameyang into ST and really look to go for quick play with pace
Another header won in the Arsenal penalty area by Burnley player
Great girl Auba
Yes Yes Yes !
Yeah
Good goal
That was Henryesque
Ceballos looks really exciting.
Goal*
Need to keep this pace up. Two good chances from Auba and Ceballos.
Auba scores
This is what he does. Scores 1 out of possible 5. Auba scores
Take that
Auba on the left……
Great goal, great effort from Dani Ceballos to win the ball back
Goal! PEA!
Sweet!
Get in!!!!
Ceballos is such a scrapper
Why didn’t we get a clause on that contract?
Mission for next summer; GET CEBALLOS
What a fucking goal
Great goal, Ceballos with the all important niggly tackle.
Top class finish.
Ceballos is turning heads, raising voices and silencing some.
Ceballos assists
Great winning of the ball by Ceballos for the Auba goal.
It’s the Ceballos show here
Ceballos doing Ramsey and Ozil’s work. What a player!
Tidy finish.
Fucking Dyche looking like a bulldog chewing a wasp Allardyce esq!! LOL.
Ceballos – MOTM
A bit better with Ceballos instead of Xhaka to be honest
Well done dani
Sign him up
Woo hoo. And there was talk of selling him cause he was near 30. Smh
Auba is lethal. Reminding me of the days when henry used to score for fun.
That 2 assists for Ceballos now yeah?
awesome
Should be a booking
That’s a yellow card not given …yet again
Whoever wanted Auba sold in Thor summer is an idiot!
Ceballos is all the difference. Improved better players. Closest to CESC. Pity he will move away next year
Without him Arsenal is chalk
I would bring in Chambers now. But I think Emery will continue to attack.
Got him in my FF side for 5.5m, what a bargain.
Xhara
Ain’t getting a look in now
Ceballos doing so much work in that midfield.
I can just see Chelsea flush from a summer without spending, coming in 7th in the league trying to outbid us for Ceballos.
A verbal assurance from Madrid is worth as much as moldy bread.
Fk you Eagle. Didn’t you hear he has no end product. LoL!
Willock has been wank, no idea what some are seeing today with him. Effort and no substance
Im sort of thinking I’d like to see next week Chambers and Luiz. Perhaps Sokratis is our problem. I’m not sure.
Kola to shows some fast footed boxing moves.
Why kola again? Tis is how he spoils show, just complicating simple issues. We are going for d kill already, aren’t we?
Looks like Ozil got sick watching Ceballos in training
Good pressing from Willock
Emery going to mess this up! What’s the point of bringing in Kolasinac??
Not Kola why not Martinelli ?
“Looks like Ozil got sick watching Ceballos in training”
Comment of the day
Get Laca off now lol.
Stinking the gaf out, doesn’t look fit.
As good as Leno was last season, he still looked out of sort dealing with corners in a crowded box. Today he looks in command.
Good job by Guen
We are SO poor defensively!
Auba was not helping Monreal at all.
Pepe has deadly pace. Throwing Burnley off. Plus good pass accuracy
Good sub -Kola will give more pace
Very mature performance from willock. Playing a good role for the team..
3 at the back now.
3 at the back?
Sok is stinking up the back 4
Guendouzi gets done on another header in own penalty area.
Three times in the match.
Try playing from the back at Anfield and see what happens
He’s still a little flappy TR7 but he has improved that aspect of his game alright.
Haha rap, who said that shite about Ceballos? Definitely wasn’t myself ;
Switching to 3 at the back then. Aaron Fukcing Lennon still hanging around then
Are we switching to 3 at the back?
Agree that we need to pair Chambers and Luiz
Sok – Having a 3 foot CB with no real positioning sense is no use to us
We need to find a better way of playing from the back.
It’s too stale and predictable, Burnley sussed it out too easily.
We haven’t the players to play from the back, only Luiz looks comfortable with it.
The midfield looks so much better without Xhaka in the middle.
HighburyLegendAugust 17, 2019 13:31:17
“I hate to say this but even under Wenger we weren’t this bad defensively”vs Liverpool, vs Manure, vs the Chavs, vs Bayern Munich, etc,etc,etc…
You know what I mean, jokehead
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It would have been much better to ignore an opinion then make such petulant comment. But it’s a wider malaise on le grove so no surprises there…..
Ref cannot keep the whistle out of his mouth, it’s all about him.
Let the game flow.
Yeah I think Willock has done well. He looks good enough to be at this level to me. Just needs to get a bit more ruthless I would say. but he is comfortable in tight spaces.
Guen is still losing all headers.
Guendouzi and Willock are wank. All of are youngsters bar possibly ESR are.
Ceballos head and shoulders above everyone. He drew the press in the first half which made Guendouzi and Willock look half-respectable because they then had acres of space to run into.
I am a strong votary of playing out from the back but you can’t do it with someone as uncultured as Sokratis.
Need another. Burnley too dangerous at set pieces
Burnley with defensive line on the half way line. We just need to ping it over the top. come on Arsenal
I expect Pepe to shoot the ball harder.
Kos is as useless as no one on the flank
Tony
“Hardly trolling Pierre you should reread your Ceballlos comments since he joined us”
My Ceballos comment from yesterday ,just one of many positive comments I’ve made about him.
“Hopefully he proves to be a class player , I like him, technically very good , keeps possession of the football and looks like a team player .”
Gove up on the trolling mate ..you’re not very good at it..
Really don’t know how can you call Matteo wank Paulinho ? His role is totally different from that of Ceballos.