Poor old Unai, even Danny Murphy is jumping in with the two footed special.
“Alright, Arsenal had a tight four and it was hard [to break down] but you can’t play against a top team and let them get so high up the pitch so easily in wide areas, especially with the full-backs they’ve got.
“If you go to Liverpool every year and get done, why not try something different? It looked like a system that had been put on a board and they hadn’t worked on it.”
I think the above is a fair point, but honestly, have you watched Liverpool?
Push up against their pace and you’re fucked. Sit deep against their technical prowess and you’re fucked. There are very few ways Emery was going to get out of that game alive with two ghastly errors from his lead center-back.
It’s frustrating that we have to play second fiddle against teams, even after the manager has blown a huge amount of cash, but the reality is we’re still in a rebuilding process… the deeper worry is that even when this squad is settled, I’m not sure peak-Emery is taking it to the promised land. That said, we’re in great company, because United and Chelsea look frail.
For now though, I’m quite content that we executed a fairly ok game plan, against a world-class team.
Spurs on the other hand are not so world-class. Their squad is under attack from clubs around Europe, their two best defenders have had their heads turned and the coach looks utterly furious. I think most people must realise he’s coming to the end of his cycle, if the players feel that, they’re in big trouble this year.
We have to attack their weaknesses this weekend, there’s no better time to get at them.
Let’s see what Unai has to offer.
In other news, it seems like Monreal is going to be granted an exit to Real Soceidad. Interestingly, the club are apparently going to waive the fee so we can land first option on a number of prospects in their ranks. That’s very smart and again, a new type of transfer strategy we’ve not seen before.
Back to the player. I’d be very sad to see the Spaniard go. He’s been an underrated gladiator for Arsenal over the years. He’s reliable, productive and has always had a superb attitude. I think everyone is a little uneasy that Kola is going to be our left-sided option for at least the next 6 weeks.
Rumours are that Tierney doesn’t join full training for at least a month. That’ll mean 2-3 weeks until he rejoins the first team. Then he has to adapt to a faster league. We could be in need of him, so there’s the risk of a rush and return to injury that sets him back again.
It’d also be great if Nacho was mentoring Tierney.
… still, we’ve splurged an horrendous amount of cash this summer, moving people off the wage bill has to be a priority at some point.
GOOD NEWS THAT HOLDING SHOULD RETURN AFTER THE BREAK.
Right, see you in the comments. x
RH, Emery’s football is one gripe of many.
Chris i personally thought we should have gone for Conte. Yes he has this legal thing with Chelsea which may complicate things but he is a winner and a level above Allegri
Pedro
What are the others?
Kos knew that he couldn’t handle another rumble tumble in the league, homeboy had aged faster than Barack obama. He was especially scared of another Anfield trip so he ran.
Personally I think that man deserve a trophy cuz he saved Arsenal a 60 goal conceded season.
Stop crying about his departure.
We better kick spurs ass this weekend
“RH, Emery’s football is one gripe of many.”
Is there anything positive about Emery Pedro?? Anything at all?? This garbage manager how has he operated for years as a coach if he is indeed total garbage?? How does he win matches against good football coaches and even bad ones?? Garbage is below bad you see ….how did he arrive at one of the most competitive leagues in Europe with a squad many didn’t rate and finish just a point below Pochettino and two below Sarri (special managers).
You can continue dismissing Rafa, or whoever else, in defence of Emery.
Eh sure. Defence is it? Sure. Killing it again Charles.
Alex,
He lacks communications skills
His tactical ideas are bland and confuse players
He has very little charisma
He has very little pedigree for improving defence
But…
He does have a lot of luck.
Has nice teeth this season
Says good ebening, which I enjoy
How many Arsenal fans would swap places with Juve as a dominant domestic side who challenge on the continent with an apparent issue of pragmatic football that doesn’t entertain?
We aren’t entertaining to watch and we’re an irrelevance domestically, and in the Sunday league version of European football.
Of course the usual suspects would hang on ‘Allegri plays boring football so he’s no better than Emery’. Incredibly dim
“He does have a lot of luck.”
Ok i have my answer, he has lucked out for a decade and more. I need lottery numbers from him
Pedro setting the bar really high for the next Arsenal manager already. Vieira or Nagelsmann better be producing good football from the off or else. No seriously we as Arsenal fans demand trophies pretty football and a great defence or else. Seemingly
“How many Arsenal fans would swap places with Juve as a dominant domestic side who challenge on the continent with an apparent issue of pragmatic football that doesn’t entertain?”
Juventus are not a dominant domestic side because of Allegri..keep up
RH
Conte is proven no doubt and I wouldn’t have been upset if we had taken him, out it that way.
Where I would have had doubts would have been if he was willing to work within the structure we have now, given his struggles in his last year at Chelsea.
Cc
I would be surprised if given the choice (if there were such a thing) any sensible Arsenal fan would choose to retain Emery over hiring Allegri. Emery ain’t half as bad as some say he is, but Allegri is simply better.
“Juventus are not a dominant domestic side because of Allegri..keep up“
He was there 5 years and won the league 5 times, the Italian cup 4 times, the shit Italian cup 2 times.
They were dominant for that period largely because of him. Pop your head up from Unai’s lap and ask how easy it was to continue being a dominant side at PSG.
He lacks communications skills Adrien Rabiot on Emery: “Blanc had certain things going for him, but I think Emery is a little closer to the players. This is a coach who really communicates with everyone. “He is asking us our opinion after the sessions, what we liked, what we didn’t like. He asks if you are not too tired after training. “This is really important for the staff to know as they can then adapt [the training sessions]. They need to know if we can withstand the workload being asked of us. “Communication is essential, not only in football but… Read more »
How many Arsenal fans would swap places with Juve as a dominant domestic side who challenge on the continent with an apparent issue of pragmatic football that doesn’t entertain?
Is that a possibility? It’s not? Oh okay cause since we’re wishing for things I want us to be like those mighty ducks in those movies. Your fetish for Allegri aside he’s not dominating shit in English football pragmatic approach or not.
Love Ray Parlour!
https://twitter.com/RealRomfordPele/status/1166375660908089347?s=20
“I would be surprised if given the choice (if there were such a thing) any sensible Arsenal fan would choose to retain Emery over hiring Allegri. Emery ain’t half as bad as some say he is, but Allegri is simply better.“
Agree Chris, but some provide evidence almost daily of their total lack of sensibility. I imagine whoever the next manager is will be scrutinised hard by those militantly defending Emery at present. As you say, Allegri is a step up but look at some of the comments at the mention of him.
“Pop your head up from Unai’s lap and ask how easy it was to continue being a dominant side at PSG.”
You are confusing me with yourself, i am not the one giving (or was it receiving) head while arguing with strangers on line that the football manager we have has done more damage at the club in one season than whatever it was the one we had for 22 years did
“I imagine whoever the next manager is will be scrutinised hard by those militantly defending Emery at present. ”
Again you are projecting your feelings onto others, whoever the next manager is i will respect what he has done before, evaluate the job he is doing without bias and cut him some slack when the circumstances arise
The only person showing militant behavior here is you
Oh look, no I have a fetish for Allegri, says wet wipe.
Weird that every time I have a view that isn’t as he likes it’s a fixation, fetish, infatuation…
Couldn’t be the wild idea I rate Allegri more than Emery. That’d be too obvious.
Chris i for one rate Allegri higher than Emery purely based on his ability to organize a defense, but we are not dominating English football with him in charge, not if Pep and Klopp still have jobs in England. Nor are we playing exciting football.
They were dominant for that period largely because of him. Pop your head up from Unai’s lap and ask how easy it was to continue being a dominant side at PSG.
8 titles on the spin Conte won 5 trophies in his 3 seasons there and got them rolling. Even Gentlebris and his approach to management would yield results over there. They’re just that dominant and it’s just that poor of a league. Helped tremendously by the decline of such clubs as AC and Inter Milan
“You are confusing me with yourself, i am not the one giving (or was it receiving) head while arguing with strangers on line that the football manager we have has done more damage at the club in one season than whatever it was the one we had for 22 years did“
What are you rambling on about? Do you even know? You keep making BJ references, how is your Dad anyway?
“What are you rambling on about? Do you even know? You keep making BJ references, how is your Dad anyway?”
You type a lot of nonsense so you rarely keep track and that is understandable, weren’t you the classy fella who responded to a post from someone asking you to relax with something about having a woman’s mouth around your phallus?? Or am i lying against you again????
As for the dad question………zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
What players could we be lookin* at that Sociedad have …?
Anyone got an idea
The amount of needless name-calling that occurs here is just laughable.
Can’t we all just disagree and still get along?
“weren’t you the classy fella who responded to a post from someone asking you to relax with something about having a woman’s mouth around your phallus?? Or am i lying against you again????“
Does multiple question marks add something I’m unaware of????????????????????????
You really harping back to me backhanding Cutter from his usual bollocks? What a chode.
Algeria will end up at united .
RH To be honest it’s that resolute defence that I have missed most about Arsenal in recent years. Obviously willing to wait and see how our new defensive signings bed in this season but in the spirit of this discussion, like you say Allegri should be taken for his defensive nous alone. Also wouldn’t hold say he had it easy at Juventus. Juve are a win at all costs club that are not tied down to having to play pretty football. Winning is their philosophy as such. With that comes intense scrutiny every game. I recall he was under pressure… Read more »
People don’t know how to disagree without being disagreeable anymore, Dissenter.
Swearing and name calling is what you do when you don’t have an argument to make but feel like you have to say something anyway.
“Swearing and name calling is what you do when you don’t have an argument to make but feel like you have to say something anyway.”
jwl you mean names like wet wipe, spanner, cunt, baldy add nothing to your points?? Who would have thought
It’s funny but Emery has gotten dogs abuse for taking a pragmatic approach to the Liverpool game and here we are talking about the most pragmatic manager in European football. Loves a diamond in midfield as well
Receding hairline aiming for the moral high ground, you love to see it.
“This season I am interested to see what Juve do. Now that Sarri is there he will obviously bring his expansive style and what with Conte and Ancelloti in the picture I don’t think winning the league is a given for them this season.”
yes Chris, i am watching Serie A with interest this season, Conte will breathe some life back into it and Sarri will be under pressure to play good football he might just let it slip
You really harping back to me backhanding Cutter from his usual bollocks? What a chode.
Chode. That’s a new one for Charles he’s been to the library recently
Chris
Juve would walk the league here again man, bigger squad, better players all round, would take a monumental breakdown for them not to win it.
Inter have improved but not enough
Napoli just didn’t do enough so same
Milan are shit(pains me to say it)
“It’s funny but Emery has gotten dogs abuse for taking a pragmatic approach to the Liverpool game“ This is complete rubbish, a lot like saying people moaned at us losing against Liverpool which clearly wasn’t true. Emery got dressed down for not having a clue and watching us get mauled. Allegri’s pragmatic is done so with tactics discipline, players knowing what the fuck they’re doing, and flexibility to the situation at hand. None of those things can be applied to Anfield. We went there, played a flawed cautious game, then had no clue how to develop as the match wore… Read more »
Receding hairline aiming for the moral high ground, you love to see it.
Yea try it sometime, your first impulse us to abuse once you sight the name of certain posters, really means you do not trust yourself to beat their points with well reasoned arguments
You asked me the other day who said Emery was a buffon, well read Pedro’s garbage comment and his response when Alexander Henry asked him what was good about Emery, one would be forgiven if he thought Emery was indeed talking about a buffon….teeth, good ebening and luck….jeez
Marko
You have arguably the most limited vocabulary on here pal, half your words are utterances and you’re shown up by guys who literally have English as a 2nd or 3rd language.
Would stay in your lane a touch more on such topics.
We’ve gone for pragmatic steady pair of hands hire already I thought we wanted the next manager to be young and potentially exciting. That ain’t Allegri so what’s the point of the discussion? Oh Charlie wants to dominate the comments section again. Oh do carry on
“Allegri’s pragmatic is done so with tactics discipline, players knowing what the fuck they’re doing, and flexibility to the situation at hand.”
They lost 3-1 to Barcelona and 4-1 to Madrid in a final, not a lot if flexibility was shown that day
You guys should get organise a royal rumble and be done with it
Yea come on guys, the game was Saturday, if you’ve not moved on from that defeat maybe you need to get some sort of life off this place
Would stay in your lane a touch more on such topics.
On name calling? Oh that’s fine you can be the dominant force on that front pal. I’ve got no interest in going up against someone that uses such insults as chode and wet wipe and pretending that someone’s sister is giving him a blowjob while he’s commenting. It’s just too good mate genius in fact. We’re all really in awe of your commentary Charles
By the way our players looked like they knew exactly what they were doing on Saturday , i have never understood the school of thought that they were confused or anything
Billionaire completes takeover of OGC nice for 100m. Squad value of the club is at 128m on transfrmarket. I dont get the maths . Someone please explain. They also got some good talents in Atal and Sarr. We payed nearly the amount of a whole club for 2 players.
Special mention for Danny Murphys bitterness today also.
Insults like chode died out in secondary school. Sad a grown man thinks penile related insults stands him out vocabulary wise on a blog for adults
Why isn’t Britain’s richest man buying a club in the UK?
Pedro Klopp couldn’t sort out his defense until they got in Alisson and Van dijk for comnined 140 mil. Pep needed 250mil + to sort out his defense. How do you expect Emery to fix his defense with an 8 mil acquisition of Luiz and 17 mil Sokratis. Emery wants to speak in English which is why he has got poor communication skills. About lack of charisma. Well many of his players have come out and stated the passion he has for the game and that he literally eats and sleeps football. He is always animated on the touchline .… Read more »
Problem is our midfield is not physically strong enough.
Guen – powderpuff
Xahia – slow, sloppy, say no more
Willox – too green
Torreira – too small
Torreira was a mistake signing. Needed to get a brick..house. Not a midget.Now paying for that error.
You could have Ronaldo, Messi and Maradona upfront but with a lightweight midfield and no pace will always struggle against big boys and pressing teams. Liverpool game showed that vividly.
Marko
Meanwhile your elite input has everyone sat up in anticipation. Can’t wait until you go all ‘scout Marko’, that’s where you really shine.
Receding
You forever put two ends of different points together to make up some other drivel. Guess all should aspire to be more like you, oh wait, think I’m ok thanks.
Whatever formation or selection we are going with this weekend, guenz shouldn’t be near the starting lineup. Someone said he should be used because of his pressing energy, PRESSING ENERGY??? Running around fearfully doesn’t in any way amount to pressing energy and who’s he gonna press against? Sissoko? Kane? Eriksn? Moura? Well, he should sit this match out.
Hitman
Bit early to call Torreira a mistake imo, but he’s trending that way in much the same manner Xhaka does for suitability.
Kante was the reference for short players, but Torreira doesn’t have those sort of legs on him and that ability to cover the ground. Both him and Xhaka suffer for rapid 5-10 yard movement which is killer in the prem.
Can’t wait until you go all ‘scout Marko’, that’s where you really shine.
Oh good one. From the guy who suggested that we bring in Antonio Valencia this past summer that one really hurt. Owwweeee
@ Champaign charlie, i’m trying not to blame emery over torrera’s performance since the second half of last season. This guy was bought as a dm but can’t honestly remember when last emery played him as one. Since he scored against spurs and one other club I can’t remember now, he’s been saddled with the responsibility of venturing into opponent’s half and not doing the dirty works we bought him for. He was in top notch when he first came and was playing in front of the back 4 till iniquity was found in him, hahahaha
Marko
You’re still a guy that thinks Emery is mint so I’d go for a walk on that one, all the more laughable you brought Benitez up out the blue earlier.
The bit you constantly miss is that you argue things that cannot be proven and think you’re absolutely sound. It’s a lol-a-minute sewing people like you name drop the likes of Arteta and Rafa like there’s some big burn. For all you know we’d be further up the ladder for their appointments, you’d just sooner argue conjecture and consider yourself a sage.
Torreira a mistake. Where is this coming from. outrageous tenacity,passion winning mentality. Dont even tell me he is not good enough just because his first season in the prem didnt end as good as it starter because he was playing every 3 days + no winter break + international duties. Man gives his 110% whenever he is on the pitch. Be it a 10 minute cameo or a full match. Next youll say Pepe a mistake we needed a Messi.
Vickingz
While I’ve no issue with goal scorers from Cm (it’s necessary to a degree imo), I have to agree with you. Not sure what he currently brings to the side, seems his physical limitations really are hindering him.
Or Emery doesn’t know how to establish a balanced midfield, that too is possible with the variance we’ve seen there since he came.
Danny Mill’s combined Arsenal/Spurs 11 is a joke, blatant WUM.
Harry Winks, seriously, the modern day Didier Deschamps (water carrier)
Torriera never played as the deepest lying midfielder for Pescara,Sampdoria or Uruguay. He is not a DM. He is a CM and really doesn’t carry much of a goal threat but he is young and it may still come. Even when we dispense with Xhaka I wouldn’t want Torriera to be the deepest lying midfielder shielding the defense,he simply hasn’t played there before
If Emery is boring then Allegri is soporific. I hope once we are done with Emery, we sign a dynamic manager who plays quality football and has a long term vision for the club.
Torrera’s TM profile have this to say about his playing positions, seems he’s more of a dm or maybe TM is lying
https://www.transfermarkt.com/lucas-torreira/profil/spieler/318077
Who is Lucas Torreira? What will he bring to Arsenal? And what sort of World Cup did he have? Here are quick facts about Arsenal’s new sign-on: • Arsenal signed him on for $35.8m. • Uruguayan midfielder Lucas Torreira, is 22-year-old Uruguay international. • He arrived in Italy as a teenager in 2014 and made his way through the ranks at Pescara. • He is often compared with Marco Verratti, an Italian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the Italy national team. • Torreira played as a striker in his formative… Read more »
Emery is doing to torrera what wenger did to song when he scored and suddenly turned assists provider. Song became so unaware of his responsibilities as a dm, he was venturing forward at will, leaving us open to counter. This really really dealt with us and wenger simply turned a blind eye. He was satisfied with the praises he was getting over how he turned song into a state of the art dm, smh for wenger
In other news Ramsey has withdrawn from the Wales squad without a reason given, has to be another injury, so glad we got rid.
Someone forgot to give Nelson the memo about Emery:
https://www.goal.com/en/news/this-could-be-my-time-nelson-hails-arsenal-boss-emerys-youth/1e8gw7hudbz1bzuc5u0iv1t5p
Quick question….why do people abuse each other so much around here?….Just my take but I think fully grown men calling each other ‘cunt’ and ‘moron’ or whatever it is is childish,you can actually even see the bitterness and anger haha
Today I’ve read from Marko that Ceballos isn’t a CAM even though he has played the last 2 games as a CAM. Maybe he will try and convince me that he didn’t play as a central attacking midfielder in thise 2 games but from where I am sitting, against Burnley he played behind the strikers with willock and Guendouzi in the holding midfield role. V liverpool, he played behind pepe and Aubameyang with willock, Guendouzi and xhaka behind him holding the middle. The question is Marko, if Ceballos isn’t a CAM then why does the manager play him in that… Read more »
You’re still a guy that thinks Emery is mint so I’d go for a walk on that one
Is that it. I’m actually counting the days until one of Vieira or Nagelsmann takes over which is the end of the season not after a defeat at Anfield. I’m pretty consistent/realistic with regards to the position of manager at Arsenal these days. Unlike yourself who’s only found his critical voice since the summer of 2018 and who takes things far too personal.
Today I’ve read from Marko that Ceballos isn’t a CAM even though he has played the last 2 games as a CAM.
He is a CM. He played CM the last two games. You being an expert on the position of CAM I’d assume you could tell
Vickingz
“Emery is doing to torrera what wenger did to song when he scored and suddenly turned assists provider”
Spot on .. I made the point many times last season that it was a mistake to move torreira from the DM role .
Our results and performances suffered as did torreira’s performance suffer with his change in position.
didier deschamps was a midget by all accounts but he is still a world champion. both as a player (while being a captain for his team) and a coach.. I thought that only tottenham and stoke supporters would be dumb enough to think that you cant win without “brickhousing” and “thuggery” 😀
Guess I was wrong!
I really don’t get this narrative some are trying to perpetuate that any poster here has ever displayed any kind of long term allegiance to Emery, at all. It’s decidedly never happened. It’s petty bullshit insinuate otherwise.
Luteo, it’s about as bullshit as saying we should all ignore the obvious because one day, Emery will be sacked.
Marko
“He is a CM. He played CM the last two games. You being an expert on the position of CAM I’d assume you could tell”
He didn’t, we played 4-2-3-1 v Burnley.
The 2 central midfielders were willock and Guendouzi.
He did most of his work in the attacking third.
Liverpool…top of the diamond , behind the strikers though he rarely touched the ball as we played long 90% of the time.
Pedro while you’re here just wondering if you bipped Marc
There’s no Emeryistas on here.
Only those that dislike him.
He’s out if he doesn’t get top four simple as that.
And if the powers that be don’t push him out if he fails to get top four it won’t be Emery’s fault it will be those that makes those decisions over his head.
He’s a CM Pierre try as you might he is a CM not a CAM. Played in a 3 against Burnley and played in a diamond against Liverpool sure but he didn’t play like a CAM in a diamond.
Well said Ishola
Do you also think Torriera is being misused??
Pedro I don’t anyone is saying just that, though. If you discuss Emery in a vacuum with any of his “defenders”, we will all have ample criticisms. It’s not like people are talking in maths, it’s been discussed here at length. Anybody standing up for Emery has mostly done it with context. There’s an agenda that has taken precedent that conveniently ignores that fact. And even it was, that’s still nothing to do with the fact that a false narrative that decidedly never happened is being pushed onto a section of posters and accepted as reality. It’s fake news, end… Read more »
Receding Hairline “Do you also think Torriera is being misused??” It’s Pierre’s imagination that Torreira was sitting deep as DM during the unbeaten run and it’s to beat Emery with a stick with. And as we know the unbeaten run coincided with having more shall we say comfortable games after the Chelsea away defeat. Torreira came to the attention to buy at Sampdoria where he wasn’t a sitting DM at all. Sampdoria played with a three in midfield and Torreira would fight and go hunt for the ball a bit further up and another mid would sit in behind him… Read more »
You also see him play like that for Uruguay.
Not sitting DM for them either.
The game is not about sitting DMs anymore anyway.
Both Liverpool midfield and Man City midfield press as one. You even see players termed as DMs doing this such as Fabinho.
It’s called a higher press.
Torreira can do the higher press, Guendouzi has shown that given a bit more time he will be able to do the higher press. Xhaka can’t do the higher press.
Luteo There’s no false narrative being perpetuated unto anyone. Last season some posters were critical of aspects to do with Arsenal and Emery and the same names appeared in militant defence of what was being said despite many of the factors being reasonable. The subsequent conversations then descended into erroneous claims about the other persons pov and here we are a year later with numerous bs claims as pseudo-facts. Forgive me for dismissing the idea a manager can’t be critiqued or discussed because ‘if he doesn’t get top 4 he’s gone’. If that attitude was taken to most subjects there’d… Read more »
Marko “Played in a 3 against Burnley ” We didn’t play with a midfield 3 or a front 3 v Burnley as you are implying . Lacazette was up top , Ceballos was behind with Aubameyang and Nelson the wide players with willock and Guendouzi sitting in central midfield . It was noted how many times Nelson tracked back to defend in front of our full back . If he was playing in a 4-3-3 he would not be tracking back to his own area as the 3 midfielders would be strung across the field to give protection to the… Read more »
Where is Marc with a c…
Serious had he been binned ?
Keeping the CAM role warm. Lmao. You make me laugh. Against Burnley, there were so many times that Ceballos came to receive the ball from Leno or a CB. A CAM wouldn’t do that. Ceballos is a CM.
In our best formation and line up, there’s no space for Özil. The sooner you get used to it the better.
People just make things up to sound informative even when informations online say otherwise. Sampdoria primarily work with a diamond formation in which Torreira acts as the base of the three man midfield. When you watch them play, you can see how much compactness is stressed with the high volume of short passing in their build up play, creating shapes within the pitch for passing outlets as they progress the ball in such a methodical manner that will eventually lead to shooting opportunities. It allows Sampdoria to create situations where the opposition are attracted so much by the passer and… Read more »
Torr has to start Saturday…
Over xhara .
Fact.
Ishola/Receding,
Pedro’s default position these days (not to mention quite a few posters on here) is that anyone who disagrees with him and is not frothing at the mouth at the disgrace that is Emery is automatically an Emery Ultra.
Any call for patience (after 3 matches!!!) or perspective is summarily dismisses.
Personally, I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that we lost away to Champions League winners Liverpool. Simply not good enough.
Silverhawk
I look forward to seeing Ceballos play in this CM role as I’m sure he will excell.
Who do you think should be his central midfield partner.
Game over for leeds it seems
Vickingz
Like a true Wengerite you are only focusing on what Sampdoria did when Torreira was there when they had the ball.
When they didn’t have the ball and were defending on many occasions Torreira wouldn’t sit as a old fashioned DM at all. He would go further up to press and another midfielder would sit just behind him.
He also goes hunting and pressing in centre mid for Uruguay when they are on defensive mode.
Try again.
Ishola, It’s not Pierre’s imagination that Torreira was sitting deep as DM during the unbeaten run. After Emery did try to experiment to move him further up back to the role he used to play at Sampdoria and Uruguay. He was trying to find a new formula without Özil and Ramsey. Unfortunately that did not work because Xhaka was lacking mobility and Guendouzi was lacking defensive awareness. Yes Torreira was used at Sampdoria and with Uruguay higher up. However in both team he had no attacking responsibility. As soon as the team recovered the ball, he was passing the ball… Read more »
Silverhawk
“Ceballos is a CM.”
Against Burnley , did you think he played alongside our other central midfielders (willock and Guendouzi) or behind them , or in front of them .
Pierre
I prefer a midfield of
Willock Torriera Ceballos.
Has everything and will improve with time.
Most especially in the goals department.
Everybody knows that Emery is not going to sacked by Raul before the end of the season, unless something really bad happen.
However that does not mean that we cannot criticise the manager or the player before the end of the season.
Also the narrative that people are upset by the result. Like most people have said: it is not the result it’s the manner that is the issue.
Bad tactic and no corrective movement until way too late.
@ ishola70, is it that you can’t read or that you just can’t understand or you just don’t want to understand? Argue with Transfermarkt, whoscored and every respected sites naming Torreira as a dm and please don’t ever call me a wengerite. If you’ve been reading well, you’d have seen where I talked about Wenger and what I said about him.
Against Burnley,
The formation was a 4 3 3
The mid 3 were
Willock Guen Ceballos
He and Willock interchanged alot. Picking moments to attack, to defend, etc