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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2 absolute gifts for Watford!! Luiz is old enough and wise enough to know that if he leaves his leg out an attacker will fall!!!
I bet CG has made a few hundred today
Can’t be the mental strength.
It the pay they ar3 paid.
Too much money not enough care about the club.
Pepe shit
Pea shit
Papa shit
Not one good player in the squad that’s a team man
11 individuals who love themselves not arsenal…
3-2 or 4-2
All over it
We look bereft of any ideas.
Individual errors but I wish had any confidence at all in Emery….
Emery out. Asking these players to play out from the back is a sackable offense. Period.
Arsenal are a clueless shower of shit
For = fucker
We have been atrocious overall bar the build up to both goals.
UE must take responsibility at some point.
I think watford have won 90% of second balls today. its ridiculous how we cannot complete for 50/50s
Can’t be the mental strength.
It the pay they ar3 paid.
Too much money not enough care about the club.
Pepe shit
Pea shit
Papa shit
Not one good player in the squad that’s a team man
11 individuals who love themselves not arsenal…
3-2 or 4-2
Done
All over it
Pepe,,,,L’Equipe trash at it’s very best…we’ve got to fork out instalments of £10M per year for the next 5 years from our budget. Nice one Emery you wotless cunt
Such a dumb team. We outdo ourselves on a regular basis. It’s baffling
Said it time after time, the merry go round of blame can only last so long until the real issue is addressed.
We haven’t a clue how to setup as a defensive unit, that’s Emery. It’s all over the place time after time after time. Insert whoever the fuck you want as this weeks defensive villain.
Absolute shambles. 51 last season, on track for more of the same. Go on lad you can get 60.
Olumide – that will not happen under Emery. No chance. There is just no flow to our game. He is a scared manager..
AMN is a worse fullback than Santos
I said luiz head had gone before penalty
He’s cooked.
If you’re not Emery out there’s something wrong with you as a fan. I’ve had enough of this shit. We don’t owe Emery jack shit. He is failing and we need to cut the chord and move on.
We are still playing out from the back!!! Life is too short for this. This club is a joke.
Enough is ENOUGH! I have had it with these motherfuckin’ defenders on this motherfuckin’ pitch! Everybody strap in! [extracts his gun] I’m about to open some fuckin’ windows.
Luiz – 4 matches – 2 penalties
This is so pathetic
With all the investments we’ve made on the squad, should we even be waiting till the end of the season?
This team is undercoached and lacking in winner mentality
We ain’t been the same since the scuffle before half time
Like something was said.
How many times will this team dose of when up by 2.Dopey cunts a right embarressment.
Fucking goofy teethed peanut headed cunt
Why are Arsenal giving up so easily?????
This ball was going in.
Luiz saves a goal
Emery out!
Sack him
A lot of Luiz hate – I agree to some extent but I think theres a player in there – IF WE DONT CONSTANTLY LEAVE HIM EXPOSED!
Only Emery could have managed to reduce such a team of FAR SUPERIOR PLAYERD to cabbage standards
This Is a total breakdown, not just a few players shitting the bed..
Players not talking to each other, no one remonstrating with the other
This is the point you sack a manager
Where is the coaching?!
This team is good enough to beat Watford. If we’re dropping points here, it’s on Emery. Simple as that.
Can’t believe we are being totally dominated by Watford.
Who do we have next? Sok and Luiz will still start so why does it matter?
We’ll still play out from the back, so why does it matter.
Emery needs to be shown the door for me.
AMN shouldn’t be a RB
Xhara shouldn’t be near the squad
Our players are physically fucking weak. Brushed off the ball all the time.
We can’t even fight back and try to get the advantage back.
So ficking poor.
Time to knick it!
Yeah Emery has to go at the end of this season. He is really doesn’t have a clue.
Keeps playing xhaka and has david luiz and sokratis aka captain calamities playing out from the back.
We obviously have a good enough team to get three points against watford its just emery’s unflexible and unpragmatic approach to football has us forcing average error-prone players to highlight their averagness and error-prone ways even more by nonsensical playing out.
The club should pay off Luiz’s contract this week and let him move to another club.
Luiz is shit. We should never have bought him. We have enough unreliable defenders and we don’t need to prioritise Long balls from defence.
Every second ball is won by a Watford player
Emery making Watford look like peak Barcelona.
AMN again. The 5th time.
We had one shit cunt loose cannon in Xhaka. Now we’ve increased the number to two with Luiz.
And these fuckers have been unleashed in a boiling pressure madness environment of ‘pass out from the back’.
Genius coach.
We are weak on the ball knocked off far to easily and a bunch of lazy fuckers when trying to win it back. If we defend any deeper we will be behind the goaline
Why wait till the end of the season, he’s not fit for purpose and the season is young. Get Allegri on the blower.
Watford 28 attempts
Arsenal 7 attempts
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Fuck right off with any defence of us under this manager. That isn’t the level
Xhaka slow
Captain Xhaka 🙂
Spot on Elmo.
Xhaka the Clown
Pepe needs to take shots
Xhaka’s control……..
Why isn’t Emery on the line shouting instructions? why isn’t the captain rallying the team!! Absolute bottle jobs
Xhara cunt..
Purely a one footed cunt
Plenty of betters players in cages around England.
Looking forward to this new saucy manager turning this load of shite into something palatable.
Lampard has a squad full of talented athletes that play can play on the half turn.
Strikers will get goals but how useful were Shearer’s goals for Newcastle. Did he make their crap midfield any better?
Foot speed of chaka
Torriera too is shit
Is anyone else thinking Xhaka could have got that before it ran out of play?
xhaka open goal. OK i’ll just smash it out. I’m getting angry about how bad we’ve been today. It has to be on emery ultimately.
Nice control 😀 😀 😀
Wasted money on Pepe that could have been used on the defence. Utter nonsense. The management of this club is worse that under Wenger and his nitwits. And then add Granit to the mix.
Cunt xhara
The problem with the way Arsenal is playing right now is that every team will now fancy themselves against Arsenal. And that’s all on Emery.
Emery is bottom tank. He’s not good enough. But I’m sure we all know it. Their first goal was a gift from Emery.
Xhaka fast runner
How bad is Xhaka?
Greedy Willock
Willocks was really daft there
Willock…..
Give it to Pea ffs
Welcome Dissenter to the dark side.
Willock needed to pass the fucking ball to Auba
Yep… Emery out
WOW – that Xhaka pass!
Xhaka is the worst player in the prem..fucking useless
Willock too, what the fuck was that.
Terrible from Nelson.
Weak as fuck.
Nelson is shite
Leno like jesus
Diss
This team is undercoached and lacking in winner mentality
Makes you wonder what the fuck they are doing during training. We really have not improved whatsoever, particularly with anything to do with defending.
UE is a mid-table coach who should not be at Arsenal. He BS his way into the job. Gazidis, another clueless git, signed him up cause he sounded good and fell hook, line and sinker. Goes to show how Gazidis had no long term plan for the Arsenal.
Ronaldo and Messi could be brought in, and I doubt we can win the league.
People seeing how shit these players are?!
WHAT AM I WATCHING
I’m sorry
But Nelson ain’t gonna make it in the prem..
Why we let Jeff go
Emery out cunt
Nelson is weak.
Fucking got away. Leno save was pure reflex
Paulinho
That’s it mate, run interference for Emery because you spent a year blowing smoke up his arse.
It’s the players, we don’t have players good enough to better Watford on goal attempts 4/1. Amazing
You lot want Willock and Reiss to play yet they fail almost everything they touch. I like them but a better player does better and we win.
Watford slicing through us like.a got knife through butter.
We are embarrassing defensively and it is difficult to imagine that improving under Emery.
Fuck waiting till end of the season, this clown has had his chances.
How bad have we been? Hopeless.
Let’s see what Freddie can do with this lot.
Want them to score now get him gone
‘Welcome Dissenter to the dark side.’
Valentin,.looks like except Receding and Paulinho everyone has moved to the dark side. That didn’t take long.
Socratis should never play for Arsenal
Nelson has been so bad today
What a save by Leno!!
Emery isn’t “that guy”. Enough proof in the pudding. Dominated by the bottom dwelling Watford.