A quick post today because I am writing this yesterday and I am tired from having to do back to back meetings for more than 13 minutes today.
Things that are interesting today.
Alexis Sanchez plods out of United to Inter Milan on a loan deal for the season, with no view to a permanent deal.
Makes you laugh. Money aside, he escaped one shit tip and landed in another… but in Manchester. The most important thing he did at United was start the movement for BIG twitter announcement videos. I often ask myself, if Sanchez didn’t do that, would Kos have done what he did for his new club? I am often very bored when I ponder this thought.
Eddie scored again… against Stoke, but he couldn’t prevent a loss. Still, three goals is quite the haul. This is HUGELY valuable for him. The lad needs 20 goals. That’ll set him on the path to being taken very seriously next summer. GOOD FOR YOU EDDIE, WE LOVE YOU.
We’re getting a SECOND transfer deadline day to look forward to. Spurs will be panicking Aurier, Vertonghen, Eriksen or Toby will leave. We’ll be cracking open the Pringles and Peroni PRAYING that Mustafi and Elneny fetch at least £30m. I won’t be happy if Nacho moves on, but god damn, if the old goat gets a 3 year deal, I’ll shed a little tear for myself, and maybe misery eat that Vienetta I have in the freezer. God bless you Nacho. I have a fun story to tell you if he goes because I’ve met him and I am not his best friend, but I’d say I’m his best passing acquaintance. That make sense?
Bolton FC. Going under. Sad face.
Jokes aside, it really is miserable that all those football fans don’t have a place to go to watch football. I don’t quite know how I’d deal with that sort of loss. It’d be a death that’d ruin the sport for you, forever. You can’t suddenly start supporting another team. You’d forever watch football as a passionless neutral. You’d have to start telling people at parties you mostly supported England.
… worse. You’d have to get a Harlequins season ticket and tell people how they have a really nice craft beer you can drink in the stands.
‘Billy, to be honest, I just think rugby fans are better natured’
You’d end up buying a gilet, then you’d start to see the practicalities of a coffee flask (because you can finally take one in the ground because you’d stop seeing it as a missile), then it’d all be over when you start packing sandwiches for the game.
My god. Football needs to start taking these abysmal owners more seriously.
Anyway…
I did a damn fine podcast. There’s some interesting gossip for you to digest about how Arsenal funded this summer… I put it in the middle so you’d listen intently to the content. I need you to like my work. My personality is so wrapped up in grown men giving me attention on the internet it’s embarrassing. I defo would have been a Babestation girl in another life.
TUNE IN BELOW:
Maybe he died.
Whenever someone that’s not been around for awhile comes back, can’t help but wonder if the one’s that haven’t are dead already.
Keyser if you’re still alive somewhere, hang in there mate.
Keyser was old so who knows.. Prefer to think he actually retired and started that garden he was working on… where he was going to use a flame thrower as insect control.
Pedro said everyone got unbinned at the start of the new season, I’ve been able to post again since then so I think everyone else who was binned before that point is free to post as well. If they haven’t, they haven’t out of their own accord.
Luteo/MidWest,
Ah ok, guess he’ll be back at some point (assuming he’s still alive)….used to enjoy the Daniel Levy takedowns we used to have.
Alexis was one of the 5 best players we’ve had in the last 10 years alongside RVP, Laca, Auba and Santi. People have short memories but those first two seasons for us he was breathtaking. He basically ran himself into the ground for club and country, his personality wore on his teammates and he left us at just the right time. If we had just sold him outright and replaced him with Laca instead of swapping for Mkhitaryan then it would have been a great transition. We dodged a bullet there and I’m just delighted we aren’t buried under both… Read more »
If we had just sold him outright
Seriously should have sold him to City and taken the money to reinvest. The Mkhi swap has been pointless. As if our not selling them Alexis has impeded their progress one bit. They would have won the titles they did anyway, at least we could have gotten some cash out of it. Arsenal being too clever for their own good. Imagine RVP’s success at United and the bashing the club took for that had something to do with it.
Azed, I am not denying Klopp philosophy quite the contrary. Receding is the one who until recently denied the concept even existed. What I am stating is that intensity is not a full description of his football philosophy. I can’t think of a single philosophy that would describe itself as not intense. There is a difference between a long quote explaining his philosophy and one word intensity. The fact that you felt the need to put that long quote from Hasenhüttl is just proof that the word Intensity is not enough to fully describe his philosophy. I never said that… Read more »
Luteo, I don’t think that the swap Sanchez Vs Mhkitaryan was something Arsenal requested. It was a way for both clubs to save face with their fans, get rid of a troublesome player while gaining a player better suited to their playing style. Of course we know now that was a doomed deal for all four parties. Sanchez has been a disaster both financially and on the football pitch. Wenger wanted Martial, but Ed Woodward against Mourinho wishes wanted to keep him. Gazidis negotiated so well that Mhkitaryan ended have a huge raise from the transfer. For Arsenal, He has… Read more »
Wenger told me he wanted Mkhi or no deal
So we have Nottingham Forest at home in the Carabooboo cup. Should be a good run out for some of the kids like Saka, ESR, Martinelli etc. Good opportunity for Nelson to stay match fit too. Rumours that Tierney will be back quicker than expected, he’ll kind of have to be if Monreal leaves, although I think we can live with Kola for a couple of matches. The international break actually benefits us for once, we need our fullbacks up and firing asap. Holding has 2 or 3 90 minute games for the u23s under his belt now so should… Read more »
Seems like le Grove is back to normal again. 2 or 3 posters getting gang banged. Good to see. The match analysis was getting tiresome.
“Cheers Tony, what’s going on with you at present?” All good here, thanks Charlie. Just very busy with the remodeling additions to our house; builders and hot dust everywhere. Never easy building during the rain season in one sense, but more positively the new roofs (3 levels) get deluges for days at a time, so also a good test for the tradesmen’s’ workmanship. The cinema sound proofing construction is very complex but necessary as, although our property sits on 3/4 of an acre, we live in a city with bordering neighbours where the tech in the cinema has a max… Read more »
N5
Good to see you’re here again with your voice of reason tinged with humour.
Look forward to reading your posts.
Bojangles
You’re next bud, keep em spread.
“If this was prison you’d be sleeping on the bottom bunk curled up in a ball waiting for permission to sleep.”
Speaking from experience, Marko? Something you enjoyed or did you request a cell change for a bigger guy?
Lutein GuenreiraAugust 29, 2019 02:52:34
BojanglesYou’re next bud, keep em spread.
Lol… The anticipation is greater than the spuds game.
Very funny article Pedro I loled I read that Bolton got saved at the 11th hour so I guess they’ll survive one way or another Monreal is not at the top of our must be binned list and is probably the only long term player who has had any dignity over the last 2 years with us. Also I’m concerned about kolasinac, but even tho selling Monreal might be slightly premature, he’s not a long term option and his best days are behind him, so it is still a proactive move from the club, even if it’s a few months… Read more »
Does Emery and Xhaka himself do not realize he is such a drag on this team? Only acceptable weapon is his long range pile-drivers. Why doesn’t he try to get into those positions even twice or thrice in a game from where he can have a SOT???
Valentin is the guy that said Guardiola gave Messi his debut, when I debunked it, instead of walking it back he made 2 or 3 more points to prove he wasn’t wrong. Y’all know nothing. Best believe whatever Val says and have your peace 😁😁
Peanuts, he’s like our deepest midfielder right? Why does he need to get into positions to score? Even though he does get into positions to score once in a while. Xhaka should be knocked rightly for what he has done wrongly or where’s he is deficient in the remit of his position not for not getting into scoring positions
I never denied philosophies exist. I said it is not necessarily the same with style of play
Valentin you said the Dof determines the style of play not the coach, you also said Fergie’s philosophy included putting pressure on the referee and opponents, is that a style of play???
You are a guy who says a lot of wrong things, when pulled up on it you argue with long posts and irrelevant quotes then you post hours later pretending you never said anything on that topic.
RH, good morning. DOFs do determine philosophies or style of play in a way. They do this by hiring coaches who fit the philosophy they want or prefer. There has to be a synergy between the DOF and the coach. However a DOF cannot hire a defensive coach and tell him to set up offensively.
I also believe philosophy and style of play can be used interchangeably when the need arises. Both are not militantly different. Both can assume the broad role depending on what’s discussed, IMO
Morning Mystic
Yes depending on what’s discussed both can be interchanged
Where this started was he said the Dof determines the style of play while the coach trains the players, I don’t think a coach can train players to play in a way he doesn’t believe in.
You have been off here for a while, how is it going
From @mrarsenictm
“Jorge Sainz [Diario Vasco]: Monreal communicated to Emery his desire to join Real Sociedad who are offering a 2+1yr deal. Unai was sympathetic to the player’s wishes and is open to his departure. #AFC and La Real begun exchanging transfer docs last night.”
Similar from Monreal to Koscielny. Players looking for job security later in their careers, in a favourable location. Seems Arsenal aren’t looking to offer two or three year deals to soon to be 34 year olds.
I’m not xhaka’s biggest fan ( or biggest critic ) but some of the criticism he received for his liverpool performance was bordering on the ridiculous considering he had a decent game. AMN also received copious amount of unfair criticism. Ceballos seemed to be excused from any level of criticism. He provided absolutely nothing offensively and nothing defensively due to the position he was asked to play by the manager . The game passed him by completely , we were effectively playing with 10 men . It was apparent within 10/15 of the game starting that Arsenal were going to… Read more »
N5
Welcome back mate! Good to see ya! About time! 😉
Pierre against Liverpool we played with four midfielders on the pitch. Out of possession Ceballos always dropped back into central midfield. I don’t really get the point you are trying to make. He had a poor game because he was no match for the Liverpool midfielders physically not because he was isolated or starved of the ball, the moments his team mates got the ball to him he simply lost possession.
Kay/Tony/Leeds, hello all. Sorry I lightweighted out and fell asleep so apologies for the late reply.
Glad to see Tottenham getting the hump with their manager over Vertonghen still being sidelined!!
MysticLeaves , I did acknowledge that I made a mistake that Franck Rijkaard was the one who gave Messi his debut. I also said that I always forget him from Barcelona history. However for the rest, you seem to forget how the conversation went. Reread your own posts because our conversation was about when Messi became the main man for Barcelona. I said that Guardiola is the man who trusted Messi with the responsibility of Barcelona. Deciding to sell Ronaldinho was a bigger momentous event than giving him his debut. You stated that the season 2005-2006, Messi was the main… Read more »
RH If ceballos, as you say ,always dropped into midfield to form 2 banks of 4 , we wouldn’t have allowed their full backs so much space..he didn’t, hence willock and Guendouzi were continually having to cover large area of the pitch. The argument for allowing the liverpool fullbacks to have so much space to push forward continually to the edge of our area is that they didn’t have a final ball , in the first half anyway.. This is a futile argument in my opinion because if we had played with 2 banks of 4 then our wide midfielders… Read more »
Receding, Now that you have been cornered by others on the responsibility of DoF, you are back to your natural harping on a irrelevant point. You asked what Fergie philosophy was. I answered that His philosophy was to put pressure on the opposition via great wing play. He switched systems from 4-4-2 to 4-5-1, but whatever system he always had great wingers. I joked that if that did not work, he was also not afraid of putting pressure on referees. Now you latch on that and keep harping on me saying that that was part of his philosophy. Putting pressure… Read more »
“Now that you have been cornered by others on the responsibility of DoF, you are back to your natural harping on a irrelevant point” I was not cornered by anyone sorry, you said the Dof determines the style of play, claiming you used style of play because i did not believe in a philosophy which permit me to say is BS. “You asked what Fergie philosophy was. I answered that His philosophy was to put pressure on the opposition via great wing play. ” The referee and the opposition, referee, if you are going to accuse me of lying don’t… Read more »
Pierre what was Ceballos doing when we were not in possession in that game if not dropping back into midfield???? Are you saying Willock and Guendouzi went to cover areas out wide leaving only Xhaka central??
Used to enjoy Geoffs posts.
RH Did you watch the game? How often were the liverpool full backs confronted by willock and Guendouzi in the midfield area…never. Up until the 3rd goal , Liverpool were regularly able to go from back to front to the edge of the Arsenal area along the flanks without any contact from willock or Guendouzi because they were playing narrow , hence they were always struggling to cover the wide area due to not wanting to leave the centre mid vacant. The first area of contact was on the edge of the Arsenal area . If we had played 2… Read more »
“How often were the liverpool full backs confronted by willock and Guendouzi in the midfield area…never.”
how often were the Liverpool full backs in the middle area??
You haven’t answered my earlier question, what was Ceballos doing out of possession if he was not in midfield??
To answer your question Yes i watched the game ….twice
Ronaldinho and Eto’o the main guys for Barca in 05/06, with Messi/Guily also.
Seem to remember Messi got injured against Chelsea in the CL. Bad challenge by Del Horno resulting in him missing the rest of the season?
Pierre
Don’t you think we should all move on from the Liverpool game and look ahead to Sunday?
Regarding the tactics employed last week some people have their views and others have different ones and it is painfully obvious that it is a case of agreeing to disagree.
The point is that by Emery making Ceballos redundant by playing him in a position where he was bypassed offensively and defensively, it put enormous pressure on the rest of the midfield to cover large amounts of area which liverpool were easily able to expose.
Was it a coincidence that we looked better when Ceballos went off and torreira came on .
Before the change ,liverpool were threatening to run riot so was it liverpool slacking off or Arsenal bringing Torreira on that brought about the improvement.
I’ll go with the latter.
Yes Chris i think we should all move on from Saturday
Pierre in light of that i rest my case
Pierre
Liverpool basically stopped playing went they went 3-0 up. Job done.
You could see them ease off in the match.
What Arsenal did or didn’t do after going 3-0 down shouldn’t be looked at too literally.
Chris,
Messi got injured a lot the season 2005-2006.
Reading some biography, Barcelona thought a lot of the muscular injuries were due to Messi and Deco trying to follow Ronaldinho party playboy lifestyle.
I think that the CL game in which Del Horno got send off was past the group stage and did not cause any lasting damage.
RH “You haven’t answered my earlier question, what was Ceballos doing out of possession if he was not in midfield??” Ceballos was asked to shadow Fabinho who was the deep lying liverpool midfielder which was pointless as the ball was played down the flanks 90% of the time during the first hour or so. Chris Last season , Emery was found tactically wanting and in the first real test this season he confused everyone with the tactic of allowing their full backs the freedom of the pitch. My point was actually to do with Ceballos and my fear that he… Read more »
Of course you want to toe this line and Pierre because you are continuing your Emery vs Ozil spate. Ceballos was not shadowing Fabinho in the match. Ceballos was forced back behind the ball like virtually all the Arsenal team bar Auba and Pepe because of the high pressing from the Liverpool midfield primarily Wijnaldum on Ceballos. After Ceballos got substituted Wijnaldum came off soon after. He was primarily tasked to put pressure on Ceballos and this he did. Liverpool earmarked Ceballos as the player Arsenal would look to for outlet balls to the attack and they completely snuffed him… Read more »
“Steve Dale is a businessman who took over control at Bury in December 2018. A worrying 43 of the 51 companies Dale has been associated with have been liquidated. Dale had promised to work closely with the community to ensure the club became financially viable after years of cash problems. The EFL admitted they did not put him through the usual process of due diligence when he took control because the club’s future was under threat at the time. Dale had wanted to sell the club, and initially came up with an asking price of £2million.” Fitting the Bury players… Read more »
Torriera referring to his first NLD.
“You don’t realise how special and unique that game is until you’re in the middle of it. A few people had tried to tell me about the passion, but it was an eye-opener for me. This just isn’t a normal game.”
Receding,
Stewart Day (previous Bury owner prior to Dale) and
Steve Day: unfit and improper persons.
Receding,
Stewart Day (previous Bury owner prior to Dale) and
Steve Day: unfit and improper persons.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/aug/27/bury-historic-club-football-league-financial-ruins
Liverpool and Man City show that there can be no passengers in a side. All players are expected to press the opponent off the ball as well as attack. I saw the waif Mahrez even doing this against Bournemouth when he ran back to win the ball back. For those that still want players in the team that are passengers off the ball they are living in a past time warp. We already have Xhaka who is a passenger off the ball the team don’t need even more of these type of players. What Liverpool and Man City do even… Read more »
Words really unfit…i don’t get the part where he bought Bury for 1 pound from Stewart Day, i assume he paid off certain debts. Now asking for 2m to sell the club.
A lot of clubs in the EFL suffers from the same problems that affected Bury and Bolton. Some are structural, some are due to the type of personality football clubs quite often attract. Conmen who see it as a quick get rich scheme. Narcissist who want to be famous and don’t necessarily have enough money to match their ambition nor enough common sense to make it work at a lower level. Also on a more general notes, British commercial law are so lax without any control that it is quite difficult to stop industrial failure. As the British court rarely… Read more »
Ishola,
That’s a great definition of pressing: earning the right to show off your attacking prowess.
“Liverpool and Man City show that there can be no passengers in a side.”
And their attacking numbers have not suffered from this.
This idea a player needs certain unique conditions to do his job simply because he believes himself to be a CAM is baffling. Thankfully only one poster is wedded to this viewpoint.
A player doing nothing off the ball, just waiting for others to retrieve the ball for him to make a key pass ………is that person a team player??
@Bojangles it’s nice to read that kind of comment. It’s really different for them (especially at home) because suddenly there is an incredible atmosphere which obviously isn’t there week in and out.
It doesn’t quite rival El Classico or the Fenerbahçe vs Galatasaray, but it’s certainly is one of the most electric in the UK.
Liverpool vs Manure is a good one too.
Tierney, Bellerin and Mavropanos now all expected to return to full training in September. With the international break we could have only a couple of more games to endure before we have our complete backline playing. Holding back after the break too.
The EFL do not filter the money down to smaller clubs to assist them.
It’s all about big clubs getting richer and players getting ridiculous wages.
Many more smaller clubs will fail, but the old farts don’t care.
It appears Roma have agreed a deal for the loan of Chris Smalling
We may still see Mustafi here when the European window closes
We have Villa at home 22nd september. Would be good if our fullbacks were ready to get some minutes in that game before we go to old trafford the following weekend.
Tierney reported to be “ahead of schedule” just as Monreal is being sold lol. Love this club
Emery is too busy solving puzzles from the opposition to create his own.
We have an embarrassment of attacking riches and he is too scared to use them.
I really feel like Mavropanos can be a solid CB for us.
The hell Emery got against him ?
Don
embarrassment of attacking riches, really? We have 3 great attacking players, 1 didn’t have a preseason and has been eased in, 1 have had a slight knock and missed a game + some training. Ridiculous agenda after 3 games.
GOB
Mavro has wilsheritis bad, can’t stay injury free for more than a couple of weeks at a time, last year when he did get the chance he wasn’t very good, think his chance has passed if he doesn’t step up massively this year if he gets a chance.
“I really feel like Mavropanos can be a solid CB for us.The hell Emery got against him ?”
Same Mavropranos that started a league game against Palace last season? A league game Emery has since been accused of throwing??
Like Freddie said to be picked you have to be fit, he is injured again.
Spanish Dave, The bad redistribution of the money came from the bad deal signed by the league during the creation of the Premiership. Personally I think that the EFL is not fit for purpose, but there are lot of fans who don’t care about the financial shenanigans their club get up to until the consequence are really dire. Bury got promoted to League 1 by buying players they could not afford. If last season a system had been put in place where they had to show at the beginning of the season they could afford them, they may not have… Read more »
Valentin
Don’t remember which club in the EFL that was mentioned on radio recently, but that club was spending 106% of it’s revenue on wages. It’s unsustainable.
Thanks for that Valentin.
The EFL obviously just sits back and let them get on with it.
As the Premiership is grossly rolling in money owners want to get some of it.
It has to stop,
Freddie
We were the third highest scoring team in the league last year before we signed Pepe, Ceballos, martinelli and Luiz the pass master
You don’t think Chelsea, spurs and United would lookat our attack with envy?
So yes. An embarrassment of riches. So much so that emery is constantly leaving out a crucial component of our attack in the name of negative, you move first sir, football.
“We were the third highest scoring team in the league last year ”
Under which coach??
Don
So who are we leaving out exactly that has been fit and ready to play?
We scored that many mainly because of Laca and Auba yes, what is your point exactly? Are you advocating for Martinelli to start? Wouldn’t exactly count Luiz as an attacking player either but go ahead if that suits your agenda. He has played the last 2 games though so again what’s your point? That Emery doesn’t play someone that’s injured or not matchfit? Lynch him I say.
This is you being patient right? I feel for everyone around you then, I really do.
Rh
With a squad capable of scoring the third highest amount of goals. Whilst continually deploying negative tactics and dropping key attacking players.
Stop moving the goal posts too.
This squad has an embarrassment of attacking riches and he’s constantly playing negative shit football rather than giving our opposition puzzles to solve
Dream10,
It is worst than you remember.
Looking at previous years records:
Total Championship wage cost ratio rose to 106%
L1 wage ratio went up to 94% its highest ever,
L2 up 78%.
https://www.drfc-vsc.co.uk/index.php?topic=273740.0
As according to the same Deloitte reports, there are Three EFL clubs had parachute payments accounting for 65-75% of total revenues. So that means that in the Championship there must be at least six clubs with wage over revenue ratio close to 200%.
Like you said that is not sustainable.
Nobody in their right mind would run a business like that.
Don
Last year Iwobi was our 3rd best attacking player behind our strikers, we had no real CAM and no wingers. This season we have played 3 games, won 2 and lost away to the best team in Europe atm with key players either injured or not fully up to speed yet, gracious of you to be patient though.
Embarrassment is the right word your just applying it to the wrong person.
Un,
Yes we were the third highest scoring team in the league last season
Nonetheless, we had two clear problems:
1) we had a poor defence
2) we had a poor away record.
It looks like this summer transfer window, Raul and co decided to focus on primarily addressing the second problem by acquiring Pepe and Ceballos to make us more of a counterattacking threat away from home.
High risk, yes, but if the strategy works and we get a champions league place, next season we will have Saliba and the funds for another big established defensive name.
Freddie
He dropped lacazette and focused on sitting in front of our own goal instead of using the considerable attacking talent at his disposal. Playing in front of our own goal gave Luiz no space to pick out a pass and isolated Aubameyang who clearly needs lacazette to flourish
This was a free pass. Nobody expected anything from this game so he had a blank cheque to go out and play and see what damage we could do
He instead chose damage limitation of the opposition and we all saw the result.
Dog shit football and zero attacking ambition
3 games
Just 3 games
2 wins and a loss
Everybody here acknowledged we may not see our strongest lineup until later in the season, i don’t for the life of me understand why a defeat to Liverpool is so hard to digest for some simply because it was not lost guns blazing…you disagree with the tactics used, all well and good. Move on already!!!!
“This was a free pass. Nobody expected anything from this game so he had a blank cheque to go out and play and see what damage we could do”
Or what damage could be done to us
Lol at the blank cheque part by the way
Yea sure we would all have been quiet and understanding if we went to Liverpool and lost 7-1 playing attacking football…keep telling yourself that Un na nai.
RH, I don’t believe anyone thought we’d go to Anfield and get a win or even a draw! The issue was how easily exposed we were. we do have new players and they need time to bed so it’s not a massive surprise, but the goals given were a copy/print of the usual defensive deficiencies. I also got frustrated at how they managed to control the flanks ending with diagonal runs for such a huge amount of the game time!! why wasn’t our tactics adjusted to deal with this? I can name you another manger that didn’t mid-match manage!! The… Read more »
Words
Yes. And you don’t think it might be a better idea to give the front 3 as much game time as possible in those tougher games? We have more chance of winning with Pepe laca and Aubameyang on the furled surely? Certainly with Aubameyang and Lacazette
So why drop them? Why play the diamond? Why out pressure on Luiz through negative tactics?
The issue was how easily exposed we were.
We weren’t really were we N5??
They had 25 shots on goal yes but could only get 5 on target, besides the three goals can you really recollect a period when Leno was being bombarded with shots??
Yes the tactics was not to everyone’s taste but i really doubt there was much more we could offer up to the force that is Liverpool, others disagree fine. Let’s move on already.
Hairline
It should have been a far bigger drubbing than we received last week playing shit negative football anyway and wasting our £180m strike force to boot.
RH, Maybe not on the final third, but I certainly think they controlled the flanks. Exposed possibly wasn’t the correct term, but it all felt very familiar.
I still feel positive but we’ll see.
N5 we have a big local derby against a team that we are on equal footing with at home this weekend. Let us concentrate on that.
I feel very positive about the season as a whole and if as the season progresses we do not get better as a team we all know who to blame for that. Very good work has been done in the transfer market.
It is now time to stop talking about our process and show it.
N5
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner, I just pop in when I have the time.
I don’t think, judging by his comments, Torriera had played in a game of such intensity, took him by surprise, handled it bloody well though. He should be up for it Sunday. Be great if he can make it 2 from 2.
Yea the Un..ed v pool games are entertaining. Have a friend who’s a hammer supporter, they hate spuds almost as much as we do so that’s another game I look forward to during the season.
“The positive is that we’ve got the Anfield trip out of the way!”
But not the City one… too soon ??
RH/Bo, I agree we need to look forward to the NLD now and concentrate on beating the smallest team in North London 😀
‘Arsenal provide positive injury updates on Hector Bellerin, Kieran Tierney and Rob Holding’
Marko may turn out to be right after all.
Is anyone here going to the NLD?
They had 25 shots on goal yes but could only get 5 on target, besides the three goals can you really recollect a period when Leno was being bombarded with shots?? Rh Hahaha We are arsenal not Dag and Red You’re bragging that we reduced Liverpool to 25/5 when we should be looking to take the game to them this season. Jesus. How the bar has dropped all of a sudden. Couple of yours ago you were screeching that just participating in the champions league and finishing 2nd wasn’t enough. Now you’re happy keeping Liverpool down to 5 shots on… Read more »
Un,
I have a feeling we will still see an (adapted) version of the diamond against Man C, and maybe one or two of the top 6 sides away. It will be away against the Wolves, Evertons and Leicesters that we’re more likely to see ALP play.
“Now you’re happy keeping Liverpool down to 5 shots on target”
Un na is correct here RH, 25 shots is way to much for a club at our level. 5 being on target wasn’t down to defensive pressure but more down to attacking error! 25 shots is awful! Does anyone know how many shots we had?
Is Un Dos Tres can do other things than moaning ??
I doubt it…
Jesus Christ, that game is gone, we have a huge clash on Sunday.
https://www.arsenal.com/news/team-news-good-news-bellerin-tierney-dinos
‘We weren’t really were we N5?? They had 25 shots on goal yes but could only get 5 on target, besides the three goals can you really recollect a period when Leno was being bombarded with shots??’ They had 25 shots on us and we shouldn’t consider our team exposed? See it’s better we leave the Liverpool game behind. All these weak points in defence of Emery’s calamity against Liverpool is not sitting well with me at all. Let’s look forward to Sunday and hope the man turns his back on his weird tactics for once. The things United and… Read more »
And here comes Un’s brother, aka Gentlebrismoron… wonderfull.
Talking of NLD, what’s the issue with Vertonghen. Has he fallen out with Pochettino? the Spud fans seem livid that he may miss the derby!!
“They had 25 shots on us and we shouldn’t consider our team exposed?”
I thought maybe RH had a different definition to me for exposed so conceded I may have used the wrong term. However, same defensive deficiencies I stick with.
HL
Yeah
I can do cheese fondue whilst also performing the can can in skinny jeans while blindfolded