It is a HUGE game today. All the usual suspects won their games… bar City, they lost in an embarrassing 2-3 thriller away at Norwich.
What a result for Premier League new boys. They were well worth it as well. Very organised. They ran their guts out. They took their opps when they were presented to them and they carved out one really awesome counter-attacking goal.
I loved reading the post-match commentary from the fans. Raheem Sterling is now average. Pep has finally been found out. Manchester City are certainly losing the league to Liverpool.
You couldn’t make it up.
In a post fan tv world, the only place to exist on the radical edge of everything.
For me, what is clear is this… Arsenal are winning the bloody league. Yes, fellas, Unai is bringing it home.
First up, we have to destroy Watford by 11 goals to climb second (from 7th). Be realistic, probably 12 or 13 because the chances of us keeping a clean sheet are pretty slim.
We’re in a post-Lacazette world for the next month. There’s a lot of fans getting their panties in a twist over the lack of an Eddie in the squad. I think people need to remind them of the troubles the young forward was having when he was getting game time with us.
I assume the thinking from Emery will likely be to have Auba as the lead striker, and if he needs a rest, we’ll slip Pepe in there. He’s very comfortable through the middle and offers all the same attributes as Auba… bar the unreal finishing (in England at least).
Also worth remembering Lacazette is not good away from home. His record is very poor, I think Tammy Abrahams has more goals this season than Laca had in the entirety of last year. He’s also not hugely prolific. He scored a Premier League goal every 192 last season. I know he does a lot for the team, he landed 10 assists, which is impressive for a striker.
Anyway…
I think where we’re going to see the innovation is out wide. The manager has quite a few players to choose from. We have a lot explosive pace this year, and starting your career out wide is a lot less stressful than through the middle. I think Reiss has a huge chance to lay claim to a first team spot. I think Saka has always looked very promising when offered a chance to stretch his legs, he also looks very ready from a mentality perspective, no fear in his eyes. Then we have wildcards like Gabriel, who IS the new Anelka… and potentially ESR who has a lot of versatility.
In short, I think Eddie is going to learn more out on loan this season with Leeds, versus playing a bit part role when his confidence was looking pretty touch and go.
We know what we’re going to get tomorrow. Bullied.
Watford are playing under Quique again, he’ll bring a lot of energy, he’ll make them work like dogs and I’ve no doubt we’re going to be penned into tight areas all game long much in the same way we were against Burnley.
I’ll keep on saying it, but I truly hope Emery has learned his lesson with three holding midfielders. We’re not built for deep blocks and I don’t think players care for the pragmatism. We’ve been porous all season. We shipped lots of shots against Spurs and Liverpool. The same happened against fu*king Burnley of all clubs.
The manager needs to take advantage of the technical superiority we have over Watford, that’s not going to come from attack-minded players shutting up shop.
Let’s stretch them, let’s play the beautiful game, let’s bring some excitement to the pitch… we need a performance. Chelsea looks great yesterday, there’s no reason we can’t offer up the same type of decisive output.
Right, just a short one today. I’ll see you in the comments where I shall eviscerate your challenges with word bullets.
x
Look at the way Norwich beat Man City yesterday by beating and evading the high Man City press in their own deep areas.
Seriously have Arsenal shown they are capable to do this in such an impressive manner? No because the hub of the midfield is a snail and quick slick football from deep areas is impossible with the personnel in there.
That Emiliano Buendía put in a performance yesterday that no Arsenal player has matched for god knows how long. Pressing, winning the ball back. initiating attacks. And quickly. .
Also Wenger wouldn’t work with someone who did the signings. Case in point whatever the fuck happened with Lucas Perez.
My first choice, outside of the likes of Simeone, was Brendan Rodgers.
That’s how bad the options were/are.
Is hola70
Arsenal will finish higher than Norwich so your analysis is pointless….
Brendan Rodgers that’s another one. Okay we have Rodgers Allegri Howe Freddie and Marcelino. Improving us as is? Again still sceptical. I can see one or two of them doing it by replacing certain players though.
There has to be some very serious discussions in the Arsenal boardroom tomorrow morning.
Totally inept and devoid of passion and intensity. The players look confused and demotivated.
Name me one player that looks genuinely happy?
Emery out!!
Graham
Ozil was right all along…
Redtruth
“Arsenal will finish higher than Norwich so your analysis is pointless….”
Au contraire.
Just because a club has limitations in terms of squad ability overall doesn’t mean that you can’t take on board certain elements of their play.
“We’re conceding 31 shots against watford and our approach is to stack their half with players on the off chance we get a few turnover and can look to spring a counter? Are we Palace?”
I never claimed his teams were easy on the eye. He plays a high risk game, and if we lose battles we are ridiculously open and ripe for conceding chances. On the flipside, you have better players you win more of those battles and find yourself peppering their goal or looking like scoring with every attack.
You know exactly what’s going to unfold as the season goes on. Bellerin will come back, he’ll inject some much needed pace, recover well and seem more assured. Then be culpable for a goal or a daft moment and on his back people will jump with his fashion sense inevitably getting a mention. Holding will come back, play well immediately, get lavish praise and Emery will get the story of how any other side would do without their best Cb. Then he’ll have an extended run under Emery finally and inevitably make some errors, play poorly, get caught in a… Read more »
Ozil starts for Arsenal and bingo we’re back to square one again
Also major alarm bells when your captain for the day and seemingly front-runner for the gig comes out and publicly talks about being afraid of Watford. What more do you expect I suppose. Sackable offense if he’s made permanent captain
“You can take that to the bank.”
And told to fuck off for saying water is wet.
Arsenal are prone to the high press because the team play like snails from deep areas in their own half and how do you expect anything otherwise with how the team is set-up.
“I never claimed his teams were easy on the eye. He plays a high risk game, and if we lose battles we are ridiculously open and ripe for conceding chances. On the flipside, you have better players you win more of those battles and find yourself peppering their goal or looking like scoring with every attack.“ Right, and most shots conceded in Europe’s top five leagues so far is probably sign that your approach is wrong no? I’m not even talking aesthetics, I’m talking pure function. If we were boring our way to 12/13 points from 15 you’d hear very… Read more »
We are still having possession for possessions sake just like under Wenger.
Slow possession in midfield.
Means nothing.
You can take that to the bank.
Interesting take we’ll see. Another thing we can take to the bank you incapable of telling me what it is Xhaka is good at
The guy in the opening photo of this post
looks like he could do the job better than
Old gurning face.
“I’m not even talking aesthetics, I’m talking pure function. If we were boring our way to 12/13 points from 15 you’d hear very little grumbling from anyone.”
One point off from Champions League last season, after being twelve behind the season before.
Not bad in terms of function.
And you were the one talking about too much emphasis on 1-0 results without looking at performances last season. We got a good points total and were exceptionally functional in the first four months of last season and still plenty of ‘grumbling’.
Xhaka gets on the ball deep or central.
Plays it sideways and across. Always done very methodically and very slowly. Done with great care as if great technique is needed to execute a ten yard sideways pass.
Then the stattos tally up his passes in the match.
“Another thing we can take to the bank you UNINTERESTED in telling me what it is Xhaka is good at“
Fixed it. I’ve said three times now I’ve not interest going there with you about Xhaka, move on you sad, desperate, cunt.
Diss I’m surprised it took so long for us to get punished for playing of the back like snails. Same here. I just hoped that somehow the players would learn but it so clearly obvious that UE defensive knowledge is = 0. Today’s game just showed how far out of his depth he is as he is still incapable of organising a defence. That 2nd half was an abomination. I do not know what was said at half time but my god whatever was said did zilch in making us going above and beyond to secure a win. If any… Read more »
Alan Smith, who doesn’t particularly strike me as a shit stirrer, came out with the telling rumour that the players were confused about Emery’s tactics. It’s one thing the fans being confused but when the players aren’t sure, a coach is on borrowed time. Will be interesting if Raul or Edu speak up. On a separate issue, there seems to be pretty much universal agreement that Emery is not the man. In this circumstance I think we should all be sympathetic towards the young players who are being asked to come into a confused set up. Sure Nelson and Willock… Read more »
That was a horrific shit show from a team that looks virtually set to be relegated…aside from auba….disgraceful…
I cannot believe what I saw.
“Paulinho, ‘even Bob N16’- you do come out with some drivel”
‘Drivel’ that you belatedly realise is true years later.
Wasn’t actually meant as an insult – more a reference to you usually being loathe to criticise one of our players in such colourful terms.
I still think it’s too early to want emery sacked….we are building a better squad of players.,aside from Luiz…….
But in fairness I do think he needs to turn results and more so performances round quickly otherwise the sacking demand will gain rapid momentum.
We are at this moment at that crucial balancing point.
“A proper owner that is daily invested in the club will fire Emery this autumn.”
We’ll see how much patience LeGrove’s Joshie K ass-munchers around here have for him sticking with Emery.
Talk is cheap.
Paulinho, fair enough, felt a little bit like a cheap shot but I’ll take it if you’re suggesting I avoid the hyperbolic rather than I sit on the fence too much! I was being over sensitive.
Wenker-wanger
“We are at this moment at that crucial balancing point.”
Whats the tipping point for you
Having Watford cut us open like knife to butter isn’t enough for you?
Bob16 – It was a compliment. I wish I had similar restraint during games.
Paulinho, Not sure what your ‘belatedly realise’ comment is based on mind you.
Paulinho, you should hear me swear at the tv. My wife hates it! Don’t think she believes I show any restraint!
I’m out…..
Dissenter…yeah I’m gutted…but in the context of Man city losing to Norwich and spuds losing at home to Newcastle…I think it’s emotion over common sense to jump on him that quickly. . Ok…answer me this….11 players on that pitch were either crap or barely adequate….all eleven are down to emery?…
Sure he should take some blame and should now be under real scrutiny….but AMN Dhaka sokratis, Pepe…? Why were they so shit?
But yeah I’m not as confident in emery as I was say 6 months ago…
Bob
2 hrs was good especially with the potential for all the football injuries
Monaco having a nightmare lol, worse than us.
Were leading 2/0 thanks to a Ben yedder double.
Marseille back on track now with a 4/2 lead with a good Payet and a Benedetto brace.
Bob16 – What is being said about Xhaka now is what I was saying about him in his first few weeks at the club, and I’m assuming (being one of those fans that likes to give players a chance) those vitriolic criticisms wouldn’t have gone down well with you at the time. Wallace was riled up beyond belief and he is cut from a similar cloth to you in terms of temperament and approach to supporting the players/club.
Even if by the stroke of luck, Emery take us to top 4 please he should be shown the way out,I just can’t continue seeing this. I stopped watching Arsenal games years ago but started watching a few last season believing they change in manager will do some little magic but how wrong was I,at this rate I might have just be reading legrove for update and move in with my life,Unai Emery is a bastard no apologies,I usually don’t abuse people but am so angry right now,the humiliation I took from guys today is horrible because of Emery and… Read more »
There’s no way Emery gets the sack if we get top 4 imo
Wenker-wanger
Hmmm, its not like Watford scored two from two shots at goal. They dominated us for 60-70 mins and should have won that game. It was so bad that there was no discernible pattern to what ever we were trying to do.
I’ve done the blame player for individual error thing. Surely it’s happened so often that the manager has to be responsible.
If you have players who are rash and don’t have composure on the ball, why persist in playing out of the back. Emery did this with Cech too.
Emery should go back to the basics.
4-2-3-1 every game until the players know their role.
The game is getting crazy now.
4/3 now and Monaco could have scored two more goals.
Cc
That is exactly what’s going to happen with holding bellerin and tierney
To the letter
Best to just sit tight and wait. Emery is just a ticking clock. They won’t be renewing his contract at the end of the season
Edu will be making moves now for his successor. Vieira will be contacted among others and emery will head back to mid table Spain with his tail between his legs
Ustyno
If you don’t watch the games then you really don’t have a right to comment. Only a knob would admit that and expect his comment to carry any weight on an arsenal blog
Emery is going to stay with Xhaka till the bitter end. He replaced Guen and Ceballos by Torr and Willock while keeping Xhaka. He still played Xhaka as DM and the other two as CM’s. Couldn’t he see that Xhaka didn’t offer protection for the CB’s. For the penalty, we let the opponent carry the ball to the box unchallenged. Where is Xhaka when the team needs him the defend the space in front of the box? Our defense will continue to suffer as long as Xhaka is our DM.
“Edu will be making moves now for his successor. Vieira will be contacted among others and emery will head back to mid table Spain with his tail between his legs”
Arsenal will not be paying compensation for any manager so unless Viera resigns or he is sacked, he will not be our next manager.
It’s fundamentals though. It’s not like we’re trying the same way, seeing progress then being unlucky.
It’s the same constant tinkering every game, not knowing his first 11, changing it, regretting the change. Instructions for players on the pitch.
Everyone see’s the same thing and issues all the time we play.
Tough game on Thursday against Frankfurt. They’ve started well in the Bundesliga, won’t be an easy game.
He’ll start again with a different formation and first 11…..
Like I said…I believe emery is not a bad manager…he has players that don’t have the fight…whether they would fight for another manager is conjecture. We don’t have a leader…..A leader would force players to fight or that leader would storm into the manager and say so and so and so isn’t doing it and we should get rid.
Strength of a team comes from a tough captain. We have no leader or even a leader in the making.
Emery needed a tony Adams to pull his tactics together on the pitch.
That’s one issue….there are others…
Wenker-wanger It is all about the confidence that a manager instill in a team. UE has so far given none to the team. This much is obvious so far as current team performance shows. I have listened to UE post match itw: – He states that we controlled the game. … Really??? – He them talks about improving, “doing our way better”…. Well haven’t seen any improvements so far, so not sure what he is expecting if he can’t instill any defensive discipline in a team. Talks about having a bad moment. .. Well for me that was the full… Read more »
Pierre
Just a pity Ozil is who he is.
I was prepared to give Emery his two years but after that horror show I say good riddance.
An EFL league one team would have put up a better show.
It was if the players didn’t care.
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Bob
Thanks but only back for a short while.
Like you, I can’t wait for the Rugby WC.
Good end to the Ashes.
Smith, I mean Australia, deserved to win it.
That second half…..I mean we just got battered by a team with one point. Couldn’t pass a turd, it was horrific. Emery just lost bucket loads of support, it’s worse then a lot of wengers end of days bollox.
Un na naai
Did you read the part I said I will be getting updates from legrove if I don’t watch the game? Or you just want to start an argument.
Not watching the game doesn’t stop me from wishing the team to do well,maybe I don’t have the patience to keep seeing the shit show every now and then.
I look forward to Receding and Chris comments tomorrow trying to justify that shit show and blame it on the players or Wenger.
Think Dixon summed it up quite nicely
“The worst performance without the ball for a very long time. No accountability what so ever. Game management zero. Game understanding zero. Responsibility to others zero. Very very poor”
I know Xhaka is the favorite scape goat here but today he was one of our better players and he was constantly covering for Kolasinac who spends more time in the opposition half.
Last season was the players, this season it’s Emery. By now, he should know the strength and weakness of all the players.
Our coach was just stupid with his substitutions. He never helped our team. This guy is such a dimwit. Your team is struggling in mid field and then you decide to bring light weights
Pedro’s post called for a performance but I don’t think that he has that kind of performance in mind.
At least now we know that the people still defending Emery are part of the Emerysta EKB. Whatever happen on the pitch it will never his fault but those of the players, Wenger, Gazidis, Kroenke, the referees, the fans, Raul.
@legendaryDB10….
I never heard Emery’s interview…he sounds like he has no balls…
I gave him the benefit of learning the aggressive premier League style of play..it’s a culture shock of football….but if he is saying the team has no confidence against a team with one point…then I’m seriously having major doubts about emery.
Like i said….for me the next 5 games are crucial…..anything less than 10 points and he should be replaced.
We moan about ozil…
Maybe his wages do upset the team ..
rid.
But xhara constant mistakes an then being made captain is risible .
The players can’t accept that.
A players who makes incessant mistakes gets the armband.
Only at our club.
Emery needs to ditch a few or he will be ditched by Easter.
Valentin
Wow.
At what point today have I defended Emery? Absolutely no where. No defending what transpired today (pun intended).
I wasn’t happy with how he lined up the team against Spurs either by the way, but you just go ahead and believe whatever you want to believe.
Valentino its like you believe Wenger was a good manager post 2010..!
Emery hasn’t lost 6-0 or 8-2….when he does I will say he is equal to that fraud Wenger.
Emery is struggling now…but way off the Mr Magoo Wenger standard.
With the way Emery continue to set up the team to play am afraid it will be very hard for us to make significant progress,we keep making the same mistake every game,we can still make top 4 because the teams we are competing with will implode too but I still will advocate for his sack,he is not good enough,he won’t improve us no matter the personnel we employ
Watford had the will to fire a coach four games into the season so why not us? Arsenal values ugh? Bullshit. United fired one of the most successful club managers of all time last season when they saw it wasn’t working, and I doubt OGS will be there to see out the season. But never Arsenal. We should be waking up tomorrow to the news that Emery has been fired but you just know no way, this is Arsenal. And so we have to sit back and watch out team doing jungle wrestling every week with teams that are supposed… Read more »
There’s a saying in American Football, Offense wins you games but Defense wins you championships. I think it can be applied to footy as well. We scored 2 goals in the first half but never looked comfortable. Nothing has changed since last season. We’re still making the same stupid mistakes and we’re still extremely vulnerable in the back. Everyone and their mama knows what our problems are but Emery seems to be completely oblivious. Forget top 4. We’ll struggle to beat teams like Leicester, West Ham, Everton, and the likes. Until the idiot in charge is gone Europa League will… Read more »
Wenker-wanger You should. And you’ll understand the jibes from Hillwood. His broken English is awful to hear, but this is something else. You can see in his face how nervous and the lack of confidence he has in the team. And that is a worry in itself. For me, as displayed in his arrogant confidence that we would win the EL, he can’t see the forest for the trees. He is incapable of stepping back and re-assessing himself. He will still play from the back. We are in for a real ride. He will be sacked. It just depends when.… Read more »
‘Valentino its like you believe Wenger was a good manager post 2010..! Emery hasn’t lost 6-0 or 8-2….when he does I will say he is equal to that fraud Wenger. Emery is struggling now…but way off the Mr Magoo Wenger standard.’ This is just Wenger hate. Emery has only spent a season and we already have records like 5-1, 4-1. I was relieved to see Wenger go but this guy is far below Wenger’s league. Wenger did a lot of beautiful things before he lost his way. PSG made a mistake and corrected it, we chose to take the mistake… Read more »
Gentlebris
“Wenger did a lot of beautiful things before he lost his way”
You mean Bergkamp did
..
31 shots with 10 on target for Watford vs 7 shots with 3 on target for Arsenal. Watford with more possession, more chances created, more big chances created, more corners, better passing percentage, etc, etc, etc. We were outplayed and outcoached in every single department… by the team in last place. Now let that sink in for a second.
Wenger wasn’t a manager..he had NO TACTICS….he was exposed when the great back 4 retired…..
Emery hasn’t had 9 piss poor years of that clown Wenger had…..but yes emery is not doing well…
I don’t hate Wenger….I fukin loathe the arrogant egotist…sitting in the job being paid for screwing us over..
We all know the history…just wake up and forget the unemployable charlatan….
Wenger,
I would just point you to my 19:02 comment.
Here come the “what about Wenger past bad results” brigade!
Nobody care about Wenger past bad results against top 4 clubs.
TODAY, we are not getting good result against the BOTTOM club. Not just a bad result, but a performance so atrocious that we got schooled by them. The draw was a travesty and entirely due to the quality of Aubameyang.
Take your “I HATE WENGER MORE THAN ANYBODY ELSE” blinders and look at the current situation of the club.
If Raul and Edu decide to continue with Emery longer than this, it will ruin this project for them.
We are desperately in need of CL football NOW, and fortunately we have two of our competitors technically handicapped this season but unfortunately we have Emery as coach.
If we don’t get CL now, Chelsea and ManU will sure be stronger next season. And if we spend five straight seasons in Europa, forget what anyone tells you, Arsenal is finished.
So Raul and Edu should pay attention.
4hrs late, still numb. Can’t believe Arsenal almost lost this game. What a poor 2nd half. Jesus, Emery is poor.
Wenker
What does Wenger have to do with today’s performance? Fuckface who can’t put two words together is in charge of the club now. The one who plays Xhaka every game. The one who bought Luiz. The one who insists on playing out of the back. The one who doesn’t have a clear plan. He’s the one responsible for our current mess, not Wenger.
Wenger is fuckin gone…….we’re talking today.
Wenker,
he was exposed when the great back 4 retired…..
As we all know the defense of the invincibles was entirely composed of players left by George Graham.
I think not.
Wenger did lost his way but to pretend that he could not build a defensive team is just ridiculous. You don’t go unbeated for 49 games without a good defense.
’31 shots with 10 on target for Watford vs 7 shots with 3 on target for Arsenal. Watford with more possession, more chances created, more big chances created, more corners, better passing percentage, etc, etc, etc. We were outplayed and outcoached in every single department… by the team in last place. Now let that sink in for a second.’
I think Raul or Edu should give an interview and explain why this should continue for one more day.
5 games in and we have had 96 attempts on us, with 31 on target. Clearly we arent doing anything in midfield to break up attacks. Thats on average 20 attempts per game with 6 on target, add that to 3 penalties given away in 5 games, Leno is in for a ride. Seeing us trying to play from the back even with 5 Watford players closing us down just shows that Emert doesnt have a plan b when his go to tactic doesnt work. I was wrong about him, he is clueless and the sooner we get rid of… Read more »
‘You mean Bergkamp did’
Redtruth,
Tell yourself some redtruth. Wenger was so brilliant that he became the face of modern football. Wenger’s Arsenal became popular all over the world for beautiful sexy football.
I guess Bergkamp did all of that for him.
I just want UE out. I have been avoiding his interviews as his English is awful. But watching that post match interview was cringeworthy. You could clearly see a manager with no confidence whatsoever in his team. And this naturally translates to the players. We need someone with belief and with a clear plan. UE is a just a mercenary just milking this huge paycheck which he does not deserve(c.f. the work done on his teeth this summer; this sounds like someone who just knows he will not last and is making the most of his newly found fortune.) Or… Read more »
It honestly doesn’t take litany of excuses or second chances to know what a coach is all about. Didn’t take long for klopp, didn’t take long for pep, conte and even lampard. You can watch chelsea’s games and can practically tell what lampard is trying to achieve with these academy players. Please, what can you say about emery? His sheeps keep giving lots of excuses ranging from player’s individual errors, player’s laziness and bad attitude, player’s injuries but never emery’s fault. This arsenal team is short of everything decent. Emery out
“UstynoIf
you don’t watch the games then you really don’t have a right to comment. Only a knob would admit that and expect his comment to carry any weight on an arsenal blog”.
Listen, Ustynolf, I’m not what they call it where you’re from, but in this country (Denmark), you just got virtual bitch slapped!
Were you just going to allow him to insult your homeland, and family?
Is this what we’ve become?
Emery talking absolute shit in the post match pressers. Basically his line is to focus on the younger players and say it’s about experience. He wants to give out that it is a team in progress because of lack of experience. Absolute shite. Players that are not good enough and are old enough with plenty of experience are players such as Papa Sok, Kola, Xhaka, Ozil. But to admit that more than enough senior players are not up to the task is too much for him because he can’t fall back on his gradual team improvement line. He’d rather blame… Read more »
DB10
Completely agree. His English is horrible, and that’s coming from a foreigner. I can’t stand him and I can’t stand his interviews. The man is lost on and off the pitch, and it definitely has an effect on players. The confidence is lost and I don’t see any other way of regaining it besides sacking the moron in charge. I have absolutely no doubt that with a competent manager we’d be doing much better.
Clearly a very fucked up set-up when younger players are being blamed to shield from criticism the below par senior players in the team.
Emery out now.
To completely overlook Papa Sok’s mistake today and let off the hook yet another Xhaka error EPL match before and try to lay blame on youngsters in the team is very poor indeed. Very poor.
Need to move on pretty swiftly from Emery now.
Also very fucked up set up when a manager has no choice but to play the aforementioned shit youngsters because the club sell more experienced options over his head without properly thinking it through(i.e replacements), and accurately assess how this might impact the actual season that counts (this one).
Also no mention of David Luiz of course in these last few matches
Emery can’t do that he is a senior player. Got to protect him and put the blame on a younger player.
Get him out. Emery out.
If Emery had 70% of the fanbase still tacitly behind him going into today (obviously the figures for LG are much different), I think this was the game where he looked so clueless that there’s now a majority who think he’s not up to the job.
Good to see Ishola grabbing a gun.
Where is your brother Ishola?
The one with whom you rotate the baton when defending Emery.
Because of his poor English, it looks like Emery is throwing Guendouzi under the bus, but I don’t think it is the message he wanted to convey. However independently of any language barrier, his non verbal communication is also poor. His nervousness is transmitting itself to the players. Rather than calm, reinsured them and reinvigorate them, his fidgeting and constant tinkering on the side just convey fear and malaise to the players. Combined with that idiotic decision to always start from the back and you can see the confidence ebbing away from the players. I don’t know if it was… Read more »
Emery needs to go we look terrible and he has no idea how to organise a defence
You can’t play luiz unless it’s in a back 3 him a xhaka are liabilities
Emery out now
Emery is trying to teach Fourier analysis to a bunch of pre schoolers and he’s wondering why it not working.
4-2-3-1 when attacking, flat 4-4-2 when defending.
You can change personnel, but not formation. When the players get comfortable with this formation, you can thinker.
Pedro Ya hearing?? We all want UE out. Go for it. Tear into this git with your Monday mornin’ post. For me personally the last straw was when we lost to Chelski in the EL final. I kinda hoped he would learn from his mistakes this season. Well he sure as hell hasn’t. We went from one stubborn manager to another. I’ll be frank. As much as we wanted to avoid a Manure in the hiring of a manager, it was inevitable thst this would happen. His appointment clearly shows how much Gazidis had no clue on how to move… Read more »
Emery has his favourites, Sok who has been woeful this season, Luiz who has already been culpable for at least 3 of the goals conceded and his most publicised favourite – Xhaka.
This team is going nowhere as long as we field those chumps. AMN really needs to be taken out of the firing line also.
Even if we get back into the champions league we need to do away with him. The EL final was pathetic, especially considering that we just needed a point from our final run of games and we couldn’t even achieve that.
I’m sure we’ve kept one clean sheet in the league with Chambers in the side. He’s been hard done by to be taken out of the side for a rash Luiz who has bags of experience but doesn’t seem to learn from mistakes. I don’t think Chambers or Holding will drastically improve matters but they won’t be as our error prone as our 30+ CB pairing currently.
Unai Emery: “It was two different halves. In the first we controlled the match how we wanted, in the second they pushed for our mistakes, and we did more than we wanted to do. We need to think about how we can improve, how we can do better.”
Your coach thinks he controlled the first half…… just because Auba scored two goals.
Gentlebris You are talking rubbish. Someone on here regurgitated one of my old posts when Emery first joined and I said I doubted that he would qualify for CL in either of his first two seasons. He may prove me wrong in his second season but overall what was being implied was that I didn’t think much greatness would ensue under Wenger. But giving the guy a bit of time is not tacitly supporting him. It’s being a mature adult and not wanting to see him sacked after six months in the job. That’s just childish. As for thinking now… Read more »
Injured Holding aside, Luiz is probably still our best defender. Now that’s a scary thought. Auba can score goals every game but it still won’t get us anywhere as our defense is completely atrocious. And I have zero confidence that Emery can sort it out.