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.
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Typical
Horrible shit
I can get along with that line of thinking too WE. I think he may have had a chance to at some point and gave it to Laca unless memory isn’t serving me well.
Get Geun off the pitch. He receiving from Leno already caused so much trouble. It’s like Watford had another attacking MF near our box.
Fuck off Sok and Guen.
Another fucking Emery short ball by Leno
Self fucking inflicted.
Like I said, we love shooting ourselves in the foot!!!!
Emery – happy now?
Guendouzi is 19 his performances are bound to fluctuate at his age. The important thing is how he adapts and learns from these experiences.
This. It’d be a lot more worrying if he was doing it on the regular but that wasn’t the case the beginning of this season. I personally think once in a while he just reminds you that he needs to be rotated more instead of being such a starter.
Mistake and a goal. Nothing new there. Sokratis awful signing
What the fuck?
Who was the prophet who said Socrates was the worst defender ?
Moron to moron pass
Fuck this!!!
Looooool this ones on emery…
He needs to adapt
We ain’t got the players to do that.
Fucking stop it
Your ruining it for everyone.
For fuck sake!!
Arsenal are a bunch of idiots. The one team who refuse to learn from their mistakes. Always.
Had to happen. They won’t learn.
I actually wrote my comment before the goal. it’s fukcing stupid. I hate all this stupid messing about. watford were committed about 8 players forward. Hit it long and we’ll score but no we have to fucking play it about. so infuriating!!!!
Fuck off Emery. Please go now. 5 times in a row we’ve lost it their and we keep playing same fucking way. Utter fucking madness. I’d rather have Avram grant
Dumb cunts
Get rid of this ass of a coach
Long. Ball time
Mattie off
Wilcox on
Saw your comments before seeing the goal…. fuckkkkkkk.
Typical Arsenal.
They might have well kicked it into their own goal!! what a waste of time.
Everyone knows my opinion re Sokratis and him being useless and terrible. But this is on Emery really. Why force your team to do something they cannot do? Sokratis will never pass well. So why handicap your team?! Wait for Holding and Tierney to be healthy then start playing from the back. Not now. Emery’s fault 100%.
Words fail me!
Niles and Guen are piss poor, am sorry. No skills, just athleticism. They can do a performance here and there but not good enuff
Wtf is the point of taking a goal kick like that? Utterly pointless
We’ve had that coming fir the past 1.5 years under Emery
Hope he’s packing his bags already.
Now we have given a team low in confidence a lot of belief
Holding better get ready
I hope fans make it vocal in wanting Emery out
Fucking joke.
How much longer are we going to persist with this suicidal passing shite in the backline with our rubbish defenders?
Even prime Barca wouldn’t play that pass.
This is on Emery its clear that the players can’t play out from the back and it doesnt even help us offensively.
He needs to adapt to the tools he has instead he is being wenger like.
Sokratis is another clown that pulls silly faces (sounds familiar?) that needs a spell on the bench but he won’t be.
Xhaka and Sok will make mistakes and be kept in the side while the likes of Mustafi is scapegoated on a mad one.
That was purely Sokratis fault
Arsenal have turned over possession in their own third more than any other side in the league this season, and have 9 clean sheets in 43 games in the PL under Unai.
Emeryball.
WTF is this passing back bullshit????????
Please
Next game bring back chambers and if fit holding
Had it with these clowns.
What a bunch of absolute wankers, wanna showboat and take the piss out of Watford when A) They haven’t earned the right to do so and B) Have got the skill or ability cos they’re shit footballers…Cockwombles the lot of em
Now they’ll be chomping at the bit!! we bring this on ourselves!!!
Emery seriously got to go if he insists on these fucking idiotic, suicidal short balls from Leno especially the receiving player is the like of Guen.
Didn’t we want Sarr?? How ironic if he fucks us off
We scored goals because of individual quality. Our football is an eyesore. Build up is terrible. Just hand Emery his pink slip on the full time whistle. Awful stuff.
Get this Spanish cunt out of my team.
What is the one thing this clown has brought to Arsenal? The cancerous ‘Passing out from the back’.
Don’t see what mattie is bringing to this game …
He’s having a nightmare
What an easy pass that was Sok
Can’t believe it
Why are we playing out from the back come hell or high water?!? Pointless goal to concede.
Bob
I bet you never see that over the Marshes
Who on earth could be so genius to predict that pointless suicidal passing between less than elite players in your own box whilst under pressure would lead to mistakes and goals?
Apparently not emery.
Emery is a stubborn mug
It is amazing that UE has still not figured out that our team (in it’s current set up) cannot play out of the back. Displays a stubbornness that is all too familiar.
Last season we thought it was Cech…
No we ain’t got technical players to do that
No educated in that part of the game.
Maybe Lopez n medley can do that but in a few seasons
I’m going off Emery rapidly.
Ah ffs
I’m not sure which one of you cunts said Luiz and Sokratis should be our first choice CB pairing after I said Holding has to be one.
Whoever that was hope you’re enjoying this, cunt.
And they are still doing it? what they actual fuck!
Head scratcher that
That is poor poor coaching, am sorry. If you have Socrates, Guen, Niles n Xhaka and you insist on playing it out all the time. That’s bs coaching. Leno was fuckin stupid as fuck as well.
That’s a very INTERESTING sub, very puzzling
Taramasalata breathed twat.
Should be mattie
Side and back passes around the midfield isn’t the solution.
AMN just a shit RB.
Still doing the Emery plays it out by Leno. Fuck off.
Nearly all Watford attack in EH came from that.
Wrong sub.
Guen should be off not Ceballos
Fucking Watford are getting more confident by the minute.
Pepe is a show pony. At least till now.
Ceballos was giving that extra burst to defend
We do make shit teams look good
I’m still stunned at the bone headed passing out from a goal kick tactics
Emery decides to remove Ceballos in order to fix our problems. Clueless.
Emery getting booed by arsenal fans for removing our best player on the day. Xhaka survives.
I think everyone is going off Emery. Doesn’t learn from his mistakes and is stubborn.
He had us doing that with Cech in the side too and it was embarrassing then as well.
Luiz is our only defender that is even comfortable with the ball at his feet. And we’re adapting Barcelona/Man City tactics.
Laughable, Emery clueless.
We are far to slow and cumbersome in our build up play,we have a great chance of gaining on the rest of the top sides but i feel we could be seriously embarrassed here.
We ar3 always playing too fucking deep
Liverpool raped us now Watford are..
Push da fuck up the pitch
Sokratis is worse than Mustafi by the way. He acquired the label of “warrior” early on and was anointed as the solution to CB issued.
Lets be honest we are still playing unflowing disjointed football under emery.
He needs to improve our offensive play fast because our defense is basically a write off.
This is Guendouzi.
Nothing to do with age.
He’s slow, dopey, lethargic, and only has one gear.
As the season goes we will see it again and again.
I want to see someone come here and defend Emery.
Guen is also another one who will play regardless. Arsenal managers playing favourites.
Ceballos knows he was much better than Shit-show-Xhaka and ignored Waiter going out
Watford most shots on target this season. Lol.
Emery by name , Dick by nature.
Clueless
We will end up with a draw
AMN got outplayed again.
When will we ever learn,
Xhaka or Papa to give away a penalty last knockings im guessing.
It’s awful to see us pegged back by a team who are last in the table.
And getting Ceballos off. What is UE thinking???
As for Pepe, hes crap, if he had it, he would have shown it and he hasn’t ….a complete fucking flop…and don’t anyone come on here saying hes got potential, you don’t fork out £72M for that, pathetic
What happened to Pepe ???
Emery ends up sacked because of stupid, wrong insistence to play his favourites like Xhara and Guen.
Sooner or later if we continue to let ’em shoot at will around the box.
Luiz is the only footballer back there and Leno squares it to Buzz Lightyear? Odd decision.
Playing out with little to no clue too is comically poor. There’s being resolute to an approach by refining and refining, but this is Sunday league.
Ceballos leaves the pitch with both hands on his toys ready to chuck them.
Said this before the game started no justification for starting Sokratis ahead of Chambers. Chambers reads the game better and has better positioning sense, better on the ball too.
Agree Dream, he’s been the one constant in our shocking defence throughout conceding 51 PL goals last season and the lapses this season between today Liverpool and Spurs.
That’s how you get out of tight situations
we’ve struggled against Burnley, Newcastle and Watford now. None of those games have been dominated by arsenal. we’ve shown no control in any game this season. It is a huge worry with the supposed quality of player we’ve got.
Wenger- outer for years but now wishing we’d rather still have him.
That’s how bad his successor has been.
Wow…what a lesson in playing out from the back and beating the press there by Watford
How dare people without coaching badges predict that passing under pressure between average players in their own penalty box?
They cant defend for life !
Funny how we are completely ignoring Xhaka when passing out.
If we continue to play like this then I’m afraid
Emery out.
If we don’t stamp on this game then we’re going to draw or even lose this!!
Do this when we have a pucker players
Ozil is fucked and needs to come off now