First on the agenda today. Jonathan Walters, a paragon of footballing virtue, has forced me into retracting my view on Granit Xhaka. I can criticise the man for many things, but calling it a duck after a deflection is probably TOO far.
I’m sorry Granit, I really am. Forgive me, let me be the spare key to your heart.
Arsenal are rocking another game tomorrow, there were some unfounded rumours that Kieran Tierney had had a major setback, absolutely not true, he is going to land a start in the EuroPUB League (lololol), with Bellerin the other side. That’s awesome. It’s the last piece in the ‘if Emery had this, we’d be winning the league’ jigsaw. Bring it on.
To be honest, I kind of find that competition a little bit of a release. It’s like playing football with the year below when you were young, we’re going to be totally dominant, we’ll see an electric game of Emeryball, only to find ourselves crying into a pork pie this weekend when it all comes undone.
Talking of coming undone, Spurs dropped the most humiliating defeat in ENGLISH EUROPEAN FOOTBALL HISTORY last night. Quite the achievement. They lost 7-2 AT HOME to Bayern Munich. Serge Gnabry picked up a whopping FOUR goals, then tweeted out that North London IS RED. What a boy.
Attention quickly turned to Tony Pulis who was actually on Sky and said that he thought it a minor miracle that he is where he is. I know we all banter the shit kicker, but ultimately, he wasn’t leaving elite talent on the bench to be a dick. He claimed he could rarely get the player fit.
This is another reason Arsene Wenger should be facing some sort of FIFA Panel for high crimes against Arsenal. First crime, sending a direct pacey winger that is short on loan to West Brom, a team that play percentage balls to the big lad up top. HOW IS SERGE A GOOD MATCH HERE (Ben Knapper now in charge of sensible loan decisions).
Secondly, big shout out to Ivan who elected NOT to give Serge a new deal before he went away with the national team for the Olympics. You could say he was being careful with the pennies, but let’s be real here, this is a CEO who sanctioned £52k a week for Nik B, a 5 year deal for Abou Diaby, and seriously allowed Arsene to sign a player with a broken back.
Serge always looked reasonably talented when he played for us, appreciate he might have been a bit off the boil, but wow… Bayern noticed he was good.
We’ve lost Jeff, Malen and Gnabry to free transfers… and Aaron Ramsey.
Retention policy simply has to improve moving forward.
… went off on a rant there, it’s over for Poch, right? Whatever went on at Spurs this summer has rocked his standing in the club. He might recover in the league, but beyond this season? He’s off, surely?
SHORT POST today. I’ll be back tomorrow. See you in the comments.
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Great goal
What a don!!!
Tierney changes this side, real asset for us, great crosses and great running
Ok. Tierney can cross.
Willlock should have sccored there.
Can’t believe we haven’t got a proper striker playing. If only we didn’t loan out Nketiah…
Ok that was very impressive; the improvisation was superb
The kid is staking a massive claim.
Tierney with a daft foul, bench him Unai
Martinelli is the best finisher at the club.
NOBODY else has those two goals in their locker
Amazing what a difference having a full-back that can really cross the ball does for you.
Already has more goals in 3 games than Nketiah does in the last few seasons. Brilliant stuff
Tierrney could become a real fan favorite. Amazing ability to cross the ball whereever he wants.
Martinez poor on two crosses now, needs to tighten up
I’m sure Pierre saw a huge deflection.
Martinelli can start in the A team. He has a better header than Auba. He also has a very good ball control. Typical brazilian.
Martinelli is the real deal and Tierney also.
Jesus Ceballos is actually playing
3:0 Willock.
I remember saying here a while back that despite his small frame,Martinelli is actually a good header of the ball.Anybody else noticed this during preseason?Two brilliant goals
On fireeeeeee
Fuck this. Play the kids for the rest of the season!!!
Champagne charlieOctober 3, 2019 20:20:01
Tierney’s end product is mint.
No bad for a Celt eh?
Good fucking stuff here. Credit to Nelson he’s doing that thing that people wanted him to be doing at Hoffenheim which is taking on people and dribbling for fun.
And Willock scores!!! Good to see Willock score this one.
This will make Pepe itch.
Looks like it will be a baseball score.
Good showing by the lads
Yeeeeaaaaaah
Joe mutherfuckineillock
Go tierney
Xhakas not playing , we look good , I wonder why!
This team would have beaten MU on Monday.
No sweat.
Not-up-to-Standard Liege are pony.
Home and hosed
I’m sure Pierre saw a huge deflection.
😂 Two deflections
Told you
Cup game
Emery comes to life
League and he freezes
“No bad for a Celt eh?“
His only fault this far lol
Get Pepe on, this team are Sunday League.
Bellerin still nowhere full fitness
See the difference when you have a mobile dynamic midfield who can press in a concerted way.
Willock playing ahead of Ceballos
So No Xhaka and we are back playing good football eh.
Mustafi’s header is better than PapaSok and Luiz.
Cc
No xakha, no Guendouzi and Torreira, willock Ceballos are looking good!!
Tierney looks well worth the wait.
Unaai
Yea Ceballos on fire….
This team are poo mate, bit daft championing that trio against them and Forest ffs 😂
Ceballos looks like that ugly rat fella from the mummy
Mustafi starts to make error!
AMN still tragic. Looks the worst of the bunch.
Yeah, on Nelson. Every time he gets the ball he’s running at the right back.
All you ask for with regards to your winger. Have a go at your man.
Martinelli reminds me of a young Van Persie but right footed. Not saying they are the same just reminds me a bit of him.
Samesong, I see what you mean. Agreed. No useless shit and posing. Just high % football making the right move almost every time.
GentlebrisOctober 3, 2019 20:22:38
I’m sure Pierre saw a huge deflection.
That’s too funny.
yeah winning against the subStandard Liege I sure would like to see the full Emery vision in the league now no more excuses from the Sauceless Bland One.
AMN is crap gives nothing to the team.
Maitland-Niles still fucking shit.
AMN…
Right back: NO
Winger: NO
No way Mustafi should pass the ball to Holding when an opponent was closing in. He should pass to the GK.
I love the way KT has his shorts tucked in… old skool
Early goals killed game plus the rain..
One question
Where is amn best position.?.
Interesting to know the avg age of the 11.
More like 23 or 24?
It baffles me how nonchalant AMN continues to be. He’s either very stupid or very cocky
I take it back. AMN is going through the motions.
He needs to step up massively. It’s not a given he’ll be here forever with subpar performances….
Get AMN out of the club. Ditto Mustafi.
Have to give it to AMN though, for being crap and confident about it.
Wondered why Martinez punching all the time .. weather because he catches well.
AMN and Mustafi having poor games when we are 3-0 up.
vickingz
October 3, 2019 20:18:54
“Let’s just be playing europa gaskiyah”
Gaskiya Kam we have found our level in the Europa league. I don’t believe Emery has it in him to make any improvement from our disastrous league performance last season.
Getting to the UCL and Top 4 in the premier league are well beneath him.
Ceballos looks better deep. Suddenly passing out from the back seems like something we are capable of with someone to receive the ball
Willock can run with the ball. But he needs the final ball also.
Strange.
We attack in a 4-4-2 with Martinelli and AMN centrally, but we switch to 4-5-1 in defensive mode with AMN sliding into right midfield.
Sweet pass by Ceballos. Nelson should get more out of this situation.
It was a pen no bar though why not
The more they replay the goals, the more impressive they look. Holy balls.
AMN’s proper position is the trolley bank at your local Asda. Lad’s fucking shite
Need to get Pepe on for AMN soon, give him a chance to build some confidence
How did AMN get this far in professional football?
Ceballos controls the game. But can he do it against EPL teams????
We attack in a 4-4-2 with Martinelli and AMN centrally
🙄
Dani Ceballos is playing a deeper role tonight and he’s playing it well, carries the ball well, starts moves off and looks calm under pressure.
Sadly we’re not going to get to see this sort of midfield configuration actually bed in.
Cc
Not necessarily
The team look fluid
Not sure if xakha was selected we’d be quite so adventurous and energetic
I think we can all agree this time that there was no shoulder on Martinelli’s first goal and no deflection with his second.
So much more fun watching our EL sides.
Just Another CustomerOctober 3, 2019 20:37:30
UE is at his level.
Agreed re AMN. He didn’t do much I must say.
AMN just not good enough to start, Mustafi has reverted back to garbage, no hope there…
Excellent half..
Ceballos and willock controlling the game..2 well taken goals by Martinelli.
Opposition not up to much but maybe we are making them look poor..the young lads are looking bright and inventive ,good to see…
How much more solid and disciplined does our midfield look today!
And so much more mobile.
Yet emery will go back to Xhaka at the base next game.
Pierre
What do you think of Martinelli as a striker?
Emery needs to see the fucking light and drop his big game MF for a combination of this.
Actually serve what can be a turbo charged attack.
Now get Pepe in and firing.
Cesc
Looks like we are playing a 4-2-3-1 with ceb and torr playing a defensive pivot.
Pepe on AMN can get a taxi,
If Mustafi could cut out those brain dead passes, defensively he is adequate.
What is fascinating is how our young Guns are so really up for it.
A stark contrast with what the “experienced” players do.
SpanishDave
AMN can get a taxi,
I think we can all chip in for his ride back to some obscure footballing land in Eastern Europe where he deserves to play.
Just imagine fully fit first choice fullbacks and holding back, I’d even put chambers in with holding and we’d have a much more solid back 4. 50% less mistakes.
Unaai
Behave yourself, that’s Marko talk don’t you sink to it. Pure conjecture that.
I’ll be happy to see us dominate and swarm the opposition with them on the pitch, but the PL is different gravy to early Europa. The past two seasons our under 23’s have gotten us to the quarters. No different this time around.
AMN is an adequate squad player. Would go for 20m in this market easy.
I think AMN needs to change his boot. Does he have wet weather boots? He has problem maintaining his balance.
Amazing how much more fluid and dynamic we look when Xhaka isn’t donkeying about clogging the midfield up.
What a surprise.
Freddie’s done a good job to get these youngsters ready.
Emery has to blood them into EPL games soon and not have favorites.
Ozil is now dead meat.
I like the look of Martinelli
I can’t see Bellerin will play 90 mins. AMN will be back to play RB. Maybe Pepe can come in.
Behave yourself, that’s Marko talk don’t you sink to it. Pure conjecture that.
That our midfield is performing better with Xhaka out of it? Go to specsavers for once you daft cunt
What a good pass by Tierney!!!
Another 2 lucky goals today from the head down merchant, wish we had a proper striker on.
Oh Eddie where art thou?
Tierney is going to make a huge difference when he adapts to the PL, Bellerin still doesn’t look 100%.
Refreshing to not see Turdmaster supreme slowing down our midfield, Emery needs to get a clue and bench his ass.
AMN and Mustafi still our weakest links, must have been to different coaching sessions than the rest of the team.
Tierney can certainly pick players out with crosses.
Goodbye Kos.
Tierney looks mustard. Wish he stays injury free. Would add a lot into our attack.
Lost his footing but the first touch was sublime. Had he not slipped he’d have scored