courtesy @allthatchas
The final hurrah of Nacho Monreal sadly will NOT be scoring a 32-yard screamer against Spurs tomorrow. The Spanish left back will instead be heading back to sunnier climes, choosing Real Sociedad to see out his career.
I think I speak for most Arsenal fans… no… ALL Arsenal fans, even you @BREXITGOONER1 (my dad), when I say: Bit of an odd one, this.
We’re banking on Kola learning how to defend, and we’re putting a lot of chips on Tierney 1) Adapting to the league like VVD 2) Breezing past his fitness challenges of the last year.
Still, it is what it is. Nacho is getting on a bit and his hamstrings and body parts will all be a touch more brittle than in the past. I’d imagine he’s at that age when you grunt when you pick up a slipper and he’s at that age when the slipper is probably his. He’s also probably wearing those slippers to the newspaper shop as well. Age is a bitch, but damn, we’ll do it in M&S levels of comfort.
I get the logic behind not having 3 left backs as well, we can’t keep pumping money into the ether. I just thought that if anyone set a great example for professionalism at the club, it was Nacho. He never let us down. He was a true warrior. He was an excellent player.
I remember about 5 years ago, Arsenal let a bunch of us interview him. His English was a bit broken and he was asked a question about what he thought we needed.
‘Someone who can score more than 20 goals a season regularly’, then his agent whispered something to him and he backtracked as hard as his words would allow. We went off the record so as not to cause a stir. But today, I’m causing a stir because Giroud is at Chelsea and who really cares this far out?
Manchester United drew with Southampton today. A great start to a big weekend for Arsenal. Only thing that’s bothering me there is that OGS is going to end up getting sacked before Christmas if he doesn’t pick things up a little. Would love him to have the whole season. Give him a chance, Ed.
The news coming out of the Spurs camp is delightful. Poch is unhappy. His team is disrupted. He has four players angling for an exit, names like Aurier, Eriksen, Vertonghen and Toby. Their squad is finally picking up injuries, there should be no Ndombele, Dier or right back tomorrow. The press were asking if he’d leave this week.
Spurs are there for the taking.
My hope is that Emery can avoid being timid in this game. I don’t want to see us lined up with a deep block on the edge of our box. I don’t want to see us persisting with playing out the back if it looks like Spurs have that sussed. I don’t want us playing for a quick counter-attack at home.
We have the tools in our squad to play to win. Spurs are in a bit of a hole, if we gift them too much respect, we’ll make it hard for ourselves. When confidence is shaken, strike hard and strike first. Test their collective resolve.
I talk like Spurs are totally shite, chances are they’ll turn up because of the magnitude of the game. I just hope we’re positive. Emery plays with too much fear and indecision in big games. I hope that’s just Liverpool jitters… because the fans are not going to gift him a 50/50 split on tomorrow regardless of what he does tactically. It’s a must-win against a team that finished 1 point ahead of us last season.
Win this, and we’re telling the league that we’re here for the top 3 this year, lose, and you’ll start to worry if Emery has the beans to push the squad forward this season.
Our underlying stats have been poor this season. You only have to take a cursory looks across the numbers sites to see that we’re not in great shape. This from Statsbomb.
‘It’s well known that shot rates tend to increase as matches progress, so even when you see a 30-plus shot beatdown, most of the time, the shots get racked up in the second half. And that’s true here. Only four times in 2018-19 did a team reach the half time point having allowed 15 or more shots.’
That number above is quite staggering to read when you’re setting up to stifle attempts at your goal. Add to that, Arsenal has turned the ball over in their own half more than any other team in the league, and you can see a problem brewing. I say brewing because Liverp0ol was a particularly bad execution of what could be passed off as a new strategy against a new rule (I am reaching so badly for the Emeryista here).
A pal in my ArsenalMensSupport chat groups pointed out, Arsenal’s lack of expenditure at the back this summer points to a club not taking defence particularly seriously. The statistics early on this season point, mapped against last, point to a manager not capable of creating a defensive structure that can serve an elite team.
I don’t know what the exact solve is, but my amateur thoughts have led me to this:
- Be less predictable. If you play out the back every time, you make it easy to set up against. Being dedicated to an idea is commendable, but if it’s not working, mix things up. It shouldn’t take 80mins for a keeper to go long once. Even mix up the variety of how you do it. You can play from the back and have a more vertical approach.
- Do it faster. If you are slow and methodical at moving it out the back, you let teams reset, which again, makes it easy to play against you.
- Stop playing staff that are prone to being targeted. Xhaka is well known to be awful when put under pressure. Stop playing him.
Let’s see what Emery has in store tomorrow. He’s a tactically flexible coach, he needs to think a little deeper about what he wants from his defence this year. Hopefully, there’s a simple solution he can adopt.
In other news, Elneny is off to Turkey. Nice guy, about as useful to the squad as a motivational bus driver. Mustafi did not leave, an absolutely disgraceful indictment on his passion for the game. I really hope Emery doesn’t start using him. Keep him frozen out. Mesut Ozil also didn’t leave, he’ll be a bit part this season until he moves on to DC. Say what you will about the German, he’s at least useful.
Finally, listen to our pre-Spurs pod.
Hairline
Think you’ll find it was Sokratis who was getting turned by both Kane and son
What game were you watching?
Either way. Emery dropped the ball agian
Hardly out of the blocks well this year is he?
Narrow wins to Newcastle and Burnley playing bore ball and now 1 point from 6
Quick- how can you blame this on wenger? Think damn you think
Nothing new at Real Madrid.
Still dodge.
Now get your head around the notion that Emery may be playing Xhaka in some deference to the past set-up. Protaganists, on the ball, dont give a fuck about defence.
Ish
Can you give any hard evidence to back this up? You claimed it was well known when emery signed.
You on the acid again bud? That shit will fry your brain
It was foolhardy to assume we would steam roll Spuds, very basic and emotional thinking.
It was always going to be a close game but we made it really difficult for ourselves.
Our starting central defense won’t be Sok and Luiz next season, Emery in or Emery out.
Ishola
Said Xhaka’s tackle was the dumbest thing you’ll see in 2019, and called him a twat for doing so.
Some deflection that.
Double negative
Its either I am looking to start an argument or I’m not.
Nice lineup of excuses for Jardim by the way ..they have played Metz,Nimes and Strasbourg, most of those teams were in ligue 2 not long ago.
I don’t really care about Jardim or Monaco, just pointing out the hypocrisy. Funny today when you sensed we might win you rattled off a post saying we will do so inspire of Emery. When Emery leaves which he will, it will be assuming reading some of you making excuses for the next guy,providing you happen to like him.
Well his message to the fans of winning 5-4 rather than 1-0 will come to fruition nearer to the 5-4’s than 1-0’s if he keeps playing Xhaka.Xhaka linked to message to fans about not being fucked about defence.Emery out.
Ok. As hard as any of your gobbledygook is to decipher I think I’ve got the gist.
But please tell me how any of that is linked to Wenger and who on earth would sack a failing coach and then instruct the new one to mimic the old one?
One flew over the cuckoos nest
Un na nai Son is a winger, he comes from the wings so has to square up to the full back, I didn’t notice a right full back there when he kept breezing through first half to terrorize the center backs.
“All I know is that Jardim is not happy with the team that he has. ”
Have you asked Emery he is happy with the team?
Last season when Emery had no winger at the squad, you said it was no excuse and lambasted Emery for not playing youth players… How come that doesn’t apply to Jardim?
Tee
That’s right. Someone actually is claiming that emery has been forced to adhere to wenger’s tactics and to continue playing xakha out of service to him.
Toke and pass ishola. Stop hogging
Dissenter,
We can’t use the Wenger “jam tomorrow” mantra. Next season we may have a better defense, but so will Chelsea and ManUtd.
Spurs were ready to be taken today. We missed a great opportunity to put down a marker. The decision to play Xhaka is on Emery and Emery alone and not some Wenger ghost.
I could accept if he had no other players, but he has. Emery made the conscious decision to name him captain and to always start with him if fit.
Don What do you make of Emery’s statement that he prefers to win games 5-4 than 1-0 when he first joined? He wouldn’t get away with that comment at many clubs because that infers sunday park football winning games 5-4. But he got away with it. Does Emery really not give a rats arse about defence or does he think that this club has been Wengerised so much before in being shit defensively that he will just continue traditions? This in relation to Xhaka of course because playing Xhaka amounts to being shit defensively. And you yourself up until today… Read more »
Rh
Son is a wide forward who runs across the opposing defence
Not directly at the full back to the byline. It’s why he’s so difficult to track
He ran across Sokratis throughout the first half.
Ishola
So how does the 5-4 comment prove that he plays xakha as a homage to the previous manager? You said gazidis made him but gazidis is gone too.
So who now forces this scenario with both Wenger and gazidis gone?
How old are you ishola? 12?
Valentin
Was Emery at fault for City drawing with Spurs?
Emery has pretty much made Ozil a non entity, drove away Elneny and told mustafi to do one.
If he didn’t rate Xhaka and Mhki they won’t see game time.
We did beat Spurs well last season so this idea him starting with Xhaka today was somehow throwing the game is nonsense. We have won big games at home with Xhaka. Funny he isn’t getting any credit for playing Guendouzi.
I can (just about) understand Emery’s “stupid caution” in selecting experienced Xhaka.
But, even after the unnecessary penalty he gave away, Xhaka continued to make errors and concede unnecessary stupid fouls.
He stayed on for the full 90. Why? What did he add to the team?
For the life of me I can’t understand that why Emery kept him on.
“Emery has pretty much made Ozil a non entity, drove away Elneny and told mustafi to do one.”
I agree, many commentators have made note of how Emery is not nervous of dropping popular players so he wouldn’t think twice if he didn’t rate the guy. He obviously thinks Xhaka can provide something.
Regarding Xhaka, I have never seen someone with this job role who couldn’t tackle before. He’s always getting yellows for late or clumsy tackles, does he train at all?
Don
Emery is playing Xhaka because he thinks he can get away with it.
Just like he got away with his 5-4 remark.
He wasn’t pulled up on his 5-4 remark was he. Should have been. Piss take remark really.
Or was it an Arsene FC remark? Walking into Arsene FC. This is what the fans want to hear.
Xhaka is captain of Arsenal FC. Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear Don.
Valentin I’m not championing Emery and I really do not care if we make Donald Duck the next manager. We have a lot of brain dead players that have individual errors irreversibly ingrained into them. No manager can change this. These players have to go. Xhaka- no need for any commentary Mustafi – who’s refused to leave Mykhi- I would have ditched him after he refused to travel to Baku [unapologetic for that viewpoint] Ozil- what a waste Kolasinac- he can’t cross and cannot defend, what position can he really play? Regardless of the managerial situation, these players have to… Read more »
“He wasn’t pulled up on his 5-4 remark was he. Should have been. Piss take remark really.”
We don’t know he wasn’t. It was a soundbite and nothing much more. It was his first interview and we don’t know how much got lost in translation. On the face of it, it’s a silly comment, but my god, name me a manager that hasn’t said something that once dissected doesn’t sound arrogant, silly or nonsensical.
I think we may need to go in the january market and buy Zaha, a cm and a proper CB. I would look to get shot of a few players.
Having zaha lw, pepe rw laca in the first half and auba in the second half to counter would be devastating.
We need to steam roll the lower teams and flat track bully until we reach the cl and start buying some serious players and gain a proper manager.
We need max points until we face man united.
Leno was very bad for that first goal.
Very very bad.
Rh He played Guendouzi all last season. I’d actually credit not just emery but the coaching staff and Guendouzi himself for his ride in performance levels. Playing xakha didn’t really cost us the game today. It was the negative set up in the first half which gave spurs the impetus. We conceded the ball in the middle of the park rather than trying to control it. Playing Torreira as our attacking midfielder was ridiculous. In truth we were quite fortunate that we didn’t lose the game in the last 5 after Kane played through Sissoko who had a couple of… Read more »
Last season, and partly understandably given the injuries to other central defenders, Emery persisted with Mustafi.
Mustafi persisted in letting Emery and the team down.
This season, Emery must absolutely not persist in selecting Xhaka, except in matches against low grade opposition, or in Europa/Carabao/FA cup matches which either frankly don’t matter, or where his limitations are not exposed.
Otherwise history will repeat itself and last year’s experience with Mustafi will just be repeated with Xhaka.
5-4 remark was simply his way of saying he prefers to attack rather than defend. Just as well. Look at his signings or player profiles he specified and you understand that clean sheets aren’t a priority for him.
Although it has to be said if he got the Nzonzi he wanted and most of you didn’t Xhaka wouldn’t be on the pitch.
I think Emery was right to rest Willocks today.
The lad has to be handled right in his first season as starter.
CC pointed out how Torriera has been just has bad. I wish he had moved to Milan last summer.
We need a proper clear out of the midfield. Hopefully we make top-4 and use the CL to attract good central midfielders.
DonEmery is playing Xhaka because he thinks he can get away with it.Just like he got away with his 5-4 remark.He wasn’t pulled up on his 5-4 remark was he. Should have been. Piss take remark really.Or was it an Arsene FC remark? Walking into Arsene FC. This is what the fans want to hear.Xhaka is captain of Arsenal FC. Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear Don.
Ishola
Right so now he’s not playing xakha has homage to Wenger but he did make a silly remark when he first joined
Ok then…..
That’s about it for me.
“Playing Torreira as our attacking midfielder was ridiculous.”
Un
We played a 4-3-3 so I don’t know where you got this idea that Torreira played as an attacking Midfielder.
Azed, If life give you lemons, make lemonade. Emery may not have been happy with the team, but he never tried different players in the premiership. I would have love to see Saka play twenty minutes against tired premiership defences. Van Gaal had the courage to throw young players instead of relying on the same failed players: Rashford, Lingard, Pereira and a few others. Not all were success, but he did not hide behind that. For somebody who want to be a protagonist, Emery behaved more like victim of circumstances. Also if you don’t have wingers, you don’t devise game… Read more »
Don nothing negative about the set up. Spurs didn’t win the midfield, first goal was a hopeful punt up field. At no point in this game did Spurs own the midfield. And of course they had chances, they are a potent attacking force especially on the counter, kind of fanciful to assume playing Ceballos eliminates spurs attacking threat, he handed them three counters in the last 15 mins by being too cute
Dissenter
“Leno was very bad for that first goal.
Very very bad.”
Yeah weak.
He also spilled another shot he should have gathered easily.
Made a few smart saves in between though.
I think Emery has built his house on Saka by making him captain
For that reason alone, he ought to get sacked.
Willock would have been a disaster in place of Xhaka so enough with the youth nonsense. He hasn’t been outstanding in the three games he started, what exactly is he a CAM or a CM?
Would have gone with Martinelli in place of Mkhi although Mkhi had a respectable game when he came on at Anfield. Nelson is too timid, Martinelli runs at people
Hairline
First goal comes from both xakha and Sokratis losing a high ball into midfield
Second goal comes from bad tackle from our our deports midfielder
Kane hits the post after a neat interchange with Kane and their midfield player, Eriksen.
They nearly scored a winner twice through Sissoko breaking through from midfield
Yeah erm. Did you forget all of that or did you just not watch the game?
So angry with Emery,the earlier we get all points the better for us,that game was supposed to be a win for us,if he continue this way top 4 or not he should step aside next season….when you win this kind of game you start creating a little fear in teams that are not Mancity and Liverpool
Emery the over thinker
Everyone has eyes on Luis,waiting for the mistakes so they can say “told you so” while Sokratis gets away with murder
I hate to be the soggy wet blanket here, poopooing all the conventional wisdom 2- 2 is a good result for this game I was uneasy for some reason before the game and I’m just glad that we showed character to come back from two goals down. We would have won it had it not been Kolasinac’s boxer fists being off. Two individual errors cost us The manager has to be brutal and start acting like his job is on the line He has to take good risks, playing Myhki today made no sense when Nelson was available to talk… Read more »
Dissenter, I agree with your assessment of the players. However a manager need to be ruthless in his assessment of players. Last season, it took nearly half a season before the penny dropped that Lichsteiner could not play at that level anymore. Same thing with Mustafi. This season we start the same cycle with Xhaka. Against Liverpool he needlessly conceded the corner from which Liverpool scored. Against Spurs he conceded another brain dead penalty. And let’s be honest, he could have been send off in view of the number of fouls he committed. By the time, Emery realises that he… Read more »
I never said playing Ceballos eliminates their attack. But playing the right combination and executing the right game plan would have helped us get on the front foot more and pin them back.
Getting chances on the counter is not controlling the midfield Don…they didn’t control the midfield. I already said earlier they will get chances good counter attacking team they are but its kinda silly to say they controlled the midfield because we played Xhaka
Everyone has eyes on Luis,waiting for the mistakes so they can say “told you so” while Sokratis gets away with murder
Rh
That was last week. Were you not reading the comments during the game? Sokratis got panned first half
Also Luiz did make two mistakes today
Agreed Dissenter, 2-2 is an OK result in a NLD. Even when Spurs were shit they’ve always managed to pull out all the stops when they meet us hence the tie being unpredictable.
It would have been a great time to get 3 points which we didn’t, but at least they didn’t either.
I’m OK with 2-2.
Receding
I was afraid for Luiz, have to admit after his poor game at Anfield.
In the end, his defensive partner was terrible and took all the spotlight from him.
They reviewed the first goal and showed Xhaka telling PapSok to get back. He didn’t and contested the same header as Xhakand was bought out…then he stopped running to react to a rebound.
The club is already planning beyond both of them so I’m not that worried.
What I don’t get is xhaka is supposed to be the captain and lead by example , the manager obviously thinks highly of him but the example he showed today was how not to play in a high pressure game. Besides giving away that penalty, I put him as solely responsible for our inability to keep the pressure on a Tottenham team that was there for the taking after we equalised. We were in total control of the game at this stage , Tottenham couldn’t get out of their own half, then in stepped xhaka with his fouls , one… Read more »
I didn’t say they controlled the midfield I said we conceded the ball in midfield too much In the first half
Not by playing xakha but by not playing Torreira deeper and not keeping hold of it for long enough
As soon as Ceballos came on this Improved
The only player we had in the pitch trying to hold onto the ball before that was lacazette. The rest were kicking and running
What’s this mythical right combination? We had two mobile central midfielders and one deep lying play maker.
Spurs never had the initiative in this game, never deserved to be 2-0 up. They had two goals handed to them by brain dead defending and weak goal keeping, no combination eliminates that. Ceballos gave the ball away three times in the dying minutes,what was to stop him doing it all game if he started?
All I want to see is Xhaka pay for his mistake, ride the bench. Others do so when they mess up
Receding Hairline “Getting chances on the counter is not controlling the midfield Don…they didn’t control the midfield. I already said earlier they will get chances good counter attacking team they are but its kinda silly to say they controlled the midfield because we played Xhaka” Yeah they didn’t dominate midfield at all. Not in the first half and certainly not in the second half were Arsenal were pushing them back and Spurs were on the back foot. But Spurs are always going to be a threat counter attacking with Son and Kane and they know how to get the ball… Read more »
Un na nai what stops Torriera holding onto the ball farther up the pitch? What’s all this deep stuff when he is mentioned? Why must he play deep to be reliable in possession?
@Pierre Xhaka played like an ass last 15 minutes, he just kept fouling like he needed to get booked.
Ishola Arsenal are the worst team in defending the edge of their own box, and its because the guy at the base of the midfield can’t trust himself to make a clean tackle, and one of the defenders prefers wrestling to football.
Most times we retrieved the ball during a spurs attack was guendouzi rushing back to get between man and ball,that young man had a stormer today, really made his coaches proud.
If life give you lemons, make lemonade. How come this doesn’t apply to Jardim? Emery may not have been happy with the team, but he never tried different players in the premiership. I would have love to see Saka play twenty minutes against tired premiership defences. Last season, we had Mustafi, AMN, the Lich, Bellerin and Jenkinson play right back alone. A manager can only make 3 subs in a game and you don’t expect Emery to keep one spot for a youth team player. Also if you don’t have wingers, you don’t devise game plans that relies on them.… Read more »
“Should our manager be criticised for first selecting him and then defending him after such a performance that lacked awareness and understanding of what was needed at that particular time in the game, who knows.”
Yes Emery should be criticized for selecting Xhaka.
No Emery should not be criticized for defending him in the interview. We don’t want the Manager blaming players during post match interviews.
Apparently Mkhi in talks with Roma
Would be hilarious if so, look at the replies 😂
https://mobile.twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1168271093938839553
If Mkhi is in talks to leave WTF was he sent on?
But if Jardim is given Lemons he loses to teams from Ligue 2 while Valentin writes his excuses for him.
CC
If Mkhitaryan leaves for Roma, the Raul deserves a stand named after him.
Azed, You keep deflecting. Your “what about something else” tactic is getting tiresome. I have already said that I have not seen Monaco play this season, so I won’t comment. You trying to bring Jardim into a conversation that is strictly about Emery. Jardim may have lost his mojo, that would not change the facts about Arsenal. I did not say anything about Lacazette injury. I respect what Pochettino has done under financial constraints, however I have never hailed him as the second coming of Pep and Klopp. I believe that he is a good builder of team and club.… Read more »
The number of times we leave ourselves over exposed at the back when we lose the ball is ridiculous In the first half today ,Tottenham had numerous opportunities when all they needed was a decent final ball from deep in their own half and they would have been through one on one with our keeper. Of course there are many on here who are reluctant to give any sort of criticism to the managers tactics and formation , but who else sets the team up . Maybe as ishola believes, Wenger is influencing Emery’s decisions, so the blame actually loes… Read more »
I think baldness plays a huge part in a mans psyche. You either take it on the chin, rise up and in football terms become arjen robben, gravesen hardman or you turn in to a pum pum like MKhi.
Looking at the squad i still wouldnt get shot off him. The season is long and hard and bodies may be needed to close the season out.
I see the problem with Mhkitaryan as two folds. His preferred position old style No10 does not exist anymore in modern football. Teams don’t play with a No10. It is too easy to stop. Man mark him and unless he is Messi he is out of the game. Teams have pod of players interchanging positions within the pod. A trio of attackers, a trio of midfield. In the International setup, he is the main man and he can shine in that position. International football also tend to be slower which lead us to the second reasons of his decline. He… Read more »
Interesting that it seems as if Mourinho is openly flirting with Arsenal.
Not my pick to replace Emery, whenever that might be, but he seems to be giving Arsenal the eyes.
It has to be a loan, right?
If we get a fee for Mkhitaryan when he’s on £200 000 a week then Sanllehi has done brilliantly.
At this rate I’d have anyone at the bottom of that diamond ahead of Xhaka.
CA Mourinho has said himself, he is desperate to go back to management. He has been trying his best to get a job at PSG but he also know that he may not enjoy working there with Leonardo. So now he is openly batting his eye lashes at Arsenal. Trying to ingrate himself as a possibility to Arsenal management If Emery is sacked or not renewed. I am not so sure that he would be a good fit. With him at the helm, we can forget about buying young upcoming players as he only want ready made experienced players. Those… Read more »
Fuck Mouriniho. Would hate him at Arsenal at any cost.
I couldn’t support him at all.
Don’t care about his track record.
I don’t care who’s in charge. Just would be nice to know and eventually grasp what we stand for on the pitch.. so unpredictable these days, that’s what’s boring.
Arsenal were outplayed for 30 minutes in first half of game due to poor midfield and defensive organisation. There were time when our so-called wing backs went forward like last season at the same time and left the two centre backs exposed with little or no cover. I have not been one of the major critics of Xhaka in the past, but his constant poor decision making and the manner in which once again he conceded a penalty was dreadful. His performance level almost cost us the game. Guendouzi had his best game in an Arsenal shirt. Emery needs to… Read more »
“Arsenal have recorded 13 errors leading to goals in the Premier League since the start of last season – the most of any club in the competition. Goalkeeper Bernd Leno is responsible for six of those errors.”
Surprise! What’s the name of the villain, again?
“I have also stated that replacing Lacazette for Mhkitaryan to play left winger when we had Nelson on the bench was ridiculous.”
Nelson played against Newcastle and Burnley and was timid in those games.
As much as I dislike Mhkitaryan , I don’t think Nelson is better right now.
He might get better as the season improves but as of today, Nelson hasn’t shown he deserves to play before Mkhitaryan or Ozil.
Who might’ve known that we’d still have people on here unable to call a spade a spade (xhaka is shit)
Luiz has a crap first half. It’s starting to look like we are getting the erratic version every week… Sokratis pissed me off near the end of the game with his stupid wrestling match on the touch line He was fouled or whatever but he was so busy trying to show what a tough guy he is that we wasted about 4 whole minutes watching him endlessly argue about it. We got stoppage time added but that killed our Momentum. I really don’t understand how players can be too dumb to recognize that when you have momentum in the final… Read more »
That stat is clearly bogus. We’ve had a lot more than 13 errors leading to goals. So far this season we’ve had about 5 no joke.
The way those stats are calculated makes no sense.
Mustafi alone made more than 6 errors leading to goals last season. Kos plenty as well. Xhaka? Even ozil did.
You can at least double that figure
I’m very concerned about Luiz
He looks cultured on the ball for sure, but he’s either largely or partly to blame for a really high percentage of the goals we’ve conceded this season
He was cheap and may yet be more useful than mustafi but unless he sharpens up fast I want to see him dropped
Holding plus an elite CB looks like what we need. I wonderful if the club will be willing or able to go hard for a top CB in January, and if we’ll manage to get one
Saw the game in Coney Island…
Great venue Ruby’s …
Leno played well I think..
Xhara
How long can it go on…
Continuous mistakes every week
No he not for me.
Luiz is never going to last in Arsenal more than 2 seasons, and that’s how long is his contract in the club. I know I prefer him to the wrestler Sokratis who with his dirty/unclean game will cost us directly and undirectly so many goals throughout the season. Sokratis is the Xhaka of central backs. Holding cannot become available soon enough. Not that he is a top defender but he’s clearly a smarter player which is a big plus in a role where you constantly have to make important decisions. We basically played with our reserve LB, reserve CB and… Read more »
Look
Play chambers n sok
Luiz in front of those two…
Leno
Amn papa chambers sok
Luiz
Wilcox Guendouzi
Laca pea Pepe
Offers cover
Rap
We’re talking now…
“Arsenal new boy Kieran Tierney told a fan he will be ready to make his Premier League debut in two weeks’ time.”
God bless. Huge news for us.
Rspc you’d drop Ceballos for willock???
Luiz at dm might not be a bad idea, though you can’t drop guen right now
Guen and Luiz partnership at DM would be hilarious to watch lol
Pedro, you should gather the match day comments in here and compile them into a book. Comedy gold. Maybe title it Fickleness of Le Grove.
Leno responsible for first goal, definately should have held onto the ball.
Xhaka responsible for the second. We were the better team on the day and sometimes shit happens.
It’s fair to say that the majority here think Emery should be shown the door. Also fair to say the majority think if Emery keeps playing Xhaka he should go. Then logically speaking you should be wanting Xhaka in the team every week to hurry up Emery’s demise
Agree with CC re Witcher rpg series. Top games.
There are a couple of posters here that should definately look for another team to support. Maybe they already do support another team and just come here to troll.
When will Pepe score a goal for Arsenal?
Till he gets penally for himself…ha ha ha
Pepe? What about Lo Celso? He’s played a total of 44 mins in 3 games. Has shown 0 so far. We can see Pepe has tricks in his locker. Ceballos has shown more than Lo Celso so far.
Xhaka and mhiki were horrendous last night. Not to mention sok whose getting worse and worse.
Should really have bought on willock who has been excellent so far.
A goldie from twitter:
Analytical Sam: “Easy to blame xhaka. Apart from that tackle which to me was not a penalty, he had a good game. Mistake lead to goals. That’s football. Great game of football in the end.”
Some people…
“In 90 minutes, I am very proud of his work,” said the former Valencia and Paris Saint-Germain boss. “Some mistakes we can have and I want to use [them] to progress and improve. There are more positive things collectively, individually and also with Xhaka for me. “The penalty is really one action that is very disappointing. He worked very well. He played very well. If we won the match, maybe we’d speak about the mistakes less.” ________________ Except he didn’t work very well or play very well and we didn’t win the match because he is braindead. Emery was “proud”… Read more »
Something I forgot to mention earlier. Guendouzie… MOM by some distance.
Does Xhaka know how to speak Spanish?
True .. Matty G balled out today and I feel like we definitely would have lost today had he not stepped it up.. Emery does deserve some credit for sticking with him and letting him develop over last season and so far this one.. which makes it even more perplexing that he would stick with some of the older players who clearly are a liability at this point. Like I said ..Blindspot.. might turn into our Achilles heel over the course of the season.
It’s astounding how quickly so many of you are changing your views on David Luiz
You were all crowing over him when we first got him
Shiny new toys eh? Sokratis and Torreira losing their appeal now. Not new enough.
Luiz was always an accident eating to happen. Even in a well marshalled Chelsea side. What did you all think was going to happen when he was dropped into this calamity? He’d all of a sudden become Tony Adams and start running things?
Chambers and holding please
Is emery out yet? I remember saying no miracle would stop us from losing should emery play guen and zhaka but on the contrary, we drew the game, I now believe in miracle. People saying spurs didn’t control the midfield, did arsenal control the midfield? When is emery going to get anything right? What was sok coming to contest for the ball leading to our first goal for? And whatever injection given to guen at half-time, I suggest he keeps getting that injection. With emery in charge, you are not sure of winning even this dead man utd side. Smh
As soon as I saw Xhaka as a starter here before the game started, I knew we would struggle and possibly lose the game. Mikhi for Laca? Pure incompetence by Emery. I have always stated that I’d give Emery time this season if Emery didn’t keep repeating mistakes from last season. It’s becoming abundantly clear Emery is flawed with his game management decision making and team selections. Raul and Edu are going to be complicit in Emery’s repeated errors that mar Emery’s head coach’s role if they do not police/oversee Emery’s work. If this continues to be the trend with… Read more »
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Emery is a clown. Sooner we get rid the better. Anyone with a brain could see he was the wrong appointment from the start.
He’s just a ticking clock now. Only lacazette and Aubameyang saved him last season and it’s only those two dragging him out of the fore this season.
All these individual errors can be worked on and this is why I question what exactly do they do in training. Players can’t be making mistakes every week and the coach wants me to believe he’s not seeing these mistakes. What video does emery watch then? Hollywood it seems. Ceba has only played 3 matches and all the flaws to his game are in the open which I believe a coach should’ve seen and come up with a “fix it” training, same with pepe, same for all the players. I just don’t get what they do in training cos their… Read more »
Tony Could t agree more. Spurs were there for the taking yesterday. Leaving xakha on and bringing Mkhitaryan on were two major mistakes. Mkhitaryan has 3 great opportunities on the left, one on one with a defender and support all around him and he fluffed his lines again and again. Couldn’t get the ball under control, couldn’t get his head up. At 2-2 we were like headless chickens with no lacazette on the field to get the ball down and hold onto it only Guendouzi and Ceballos (sometimes) managed to use the ball properly but when it went to the… Read more »
You don’t play two harum scarum as your CB when you have a cool headed chambers who’s afraid of going forward but only fixated on staying back defending. It cost us against Liverpool, now against spurs. Emery is just falling even at the basics. You played a midfield combo that offers no pace, none of them could hold the ball, none could dribble, just running like crickets all over the field knowing we don’t have 2 & 3 to support our attacks and get balls to our frontline. Spurs was there to be killed and done over with but emery… Read more »
Front three
Guendouzi found Pepe who played it to Lacazette in the box. His first touch was a delicious Amuse-bouche, his second a tasty appetiser, and his third, as he slammed the ball into the net with his left foot, was a succulent main course with a mouth-watering side of Tottenham tears. What a man. His performance yesterday, until he signalled he had to come off, was fantastic. The way he tries to influence games even when he’s disconnected and not getting any service is a measure of his character. From arseblog He is our main man and we are blunt without… Read more »