I am so BORED.
Yep, I’m one of those children this week. Someone tap me out of international week. What a waste of fucking time. The fact a team as ‘ok’ as England hadn’t lost a qualifier in 10 years until last week tells you what a total nonsense having an ‘everyone can compete’ qualifier is.
Anyway, AMN, fresh from bitching about playing in the wrong position / taking a red card to end the experiment… is talking about how bloody marv Freddie Ljungberg is as a coach.
“There’s quite a few things [I have learnt] really,”
“He knows me as a winger, so attacking-wise he’s helped my game a lot. Defensively, I go to someone else to help me because they’re two different styles that I have to play.
“Him personally, he’s pulled me to the side a lot and has shown me different techniques and ways of beating players, ways of crossing the ball and shooting. It’s helping me and I’m happy to have him around because he’s such a big figure in the team.”
If this is the first piece of evidence in the deep state conspiracy to overthrow Emery, the comments Raul made about Freddie are the makings of case, with David Ornstein’s puff piece on the man being the smoking gun.
You don’t need me to punch the numbers into your pocket calculator… I am not going to be vaccinated. Simple as that my friends. #FreddieIn
The pinch of ‘hmmm’ you have to take with these stories: Does Freddie look so damn good against Emery because he can do the basics really well… you know, like speak the language? Mad piece of intel is he’s learning Spanish so he can talk to the Emery. How mad is that?
It’s also not difficult to see who has more sauce unless you’re a weirdo on the sauce spectrum. He’s literally a legend in the eyes of those kids. They’ll have grown up on his partnership with Bergkamp, the flash of red hair, and all the trophies.
I remain sceptical, but it’s hard to when you keep hearing kid after kid going out of their way to talk about how incredible he is.
If I were Emery, I’d get on the double sessions of Rosetta Stone, because outsourcing communications is a sure-fire way to lose authority… I just pray he never loses that ‘good ebening’ opener.
In other news, can everyone jump online and celebrate this elite piece of journalism penned by the mighty Rob Smyth?
He works for a paper that truly believes Twitter is a barometer for what’s really going on in culture, if we create enough noise around this story, maybe The Guardian will rally around a ‘Save OGS’ agenda.
That’s something I could live with. #SaveOGSHeDeservesRespectAndLongDeal.
Right, that’s me done. See you in the comments. Listen to my podcast. Sound is a bit off for the first 9mins, but then it gets better because I fix the mic problem (turned it on).
LOVE YOU xxx
Marc Spot on mate. Not to mention the jobs they create and who in turn pay their won lesser taxes The rich are already taxed to the hilt. You ever see that video where they are asking all the socialists if we should pay more “Yeah”they say. “Would you be willing to pay more?” They are asked “If it helps to bring about bla bla bla equality and bla bla bla environment climate bullshit bla bla” So the guy pulls out his iPad and says he has the forms ready to go and you can legally offer as much tax… Read more »
Un
Did you see the letter signed by 100 celebrities supporting the Extinction nut jobs? Benedict Cumberbatch got caught at one of their protests after advertising cars so all these celebs come out with we know we’re hypocrites but it’s the industry we’re in yada yada yada. No talk about giving the money earned to a charity, no talk about no doing it any more just a bunch of cunts preaching on how everyone else should live their lives whilst living the high life.
Nothing worse than lefty cunts with money.
Marc
That boney faced cunt is the worst
Would have been great to see him get dragged off the top of a tune carriage
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=28_jE8Yk2hc
Here this backs up your earlier post
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jae7WSKYZqE
Marc
Watch this. Nails him
Arsenal fixtures that have been rearranged for Dec and Jan
December 5 – Brighton and Hove Albion (H)
December 9 – West Ham United (A)
December 15 – Manchester City (H)
December 21 – Everton (A)
December 29 – Chelsea (H)
January 1 – Manchester United (H)
January 11 – Crystal Palace (A)
January 21 – Chelsea (A)
Finland is the happiest country in the world, says UN report Nordic nations take top four places in happiness rankings, with annual study also charting the decline of the US The study reveals the US has slipped to 18th place, five places down on 2016. The top four places are taken by Nordic nations, with Finland followed by Norway, Denmark and Iceland. The report, an annual publication from the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, said all the Nordic countries scored highly on income, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, trust and generosity. The rankings are based on Gallup polls of… Read more »
Un
That’s funny especially the trippy hippy with the guitar on his back making reasoned economic comments!
Un
In the second video – isn’t that the dopey fuck who works for the Guardian (or other left wing shite) who got beaten up a little while ago?
Mate I’m on that jury and the accused walk – “but we’ve got a confession” fuck off he deserved it!
The greedy bankers who caused the financial crash in 2008 left the Country skint. Corbyn was right to oppose the deregulation of banks.
Finland show how a high tax economy can work for the many and not the few.
Red
You really are a cock of epic proportions. The following is a few countries placing’s in the world ranking of suicides per 100,000 in 2016. Obviously the lower the ranking the worse the number.
Rank
22 – Belgium
32 – Finland
34 – USA
51 – Sweden
74 – Norway
89 – Denmark
109 – UK
Yeh Finland has he highest suicide rate and the highest alcohol problem.
They drink like fish, maybe that’s why they are happy.
What’s on the Internet is not always true.
A list of intention murder rates per 100,000 – the figures vary for different countries by year but over a pretty small window.
91 – Canada – (shocked me)
94 – USA
172 – Denmark
174 – Finland
180 – Norway
181 – Sweden
185 – UK
Those Fin’s must love going to funerals if they’re so happy.
Marc
Today, Scandinavian countries – Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland – have very high rates of happiness and relatively low suicide rates. However, the dark winters – 20 hours of darkness or more in each day in some areas – causes seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a form of depression, which has been known to correlate with higher rates of suicide or.
Marc, you are a fuckin banana
Red
The financial crash which you’ve admitted was caused by the deregulation of the Banks – er Bill Clinton revoked the Glass Steagall act which was brought in after the Great Depression to stop a repeat. A Labour Government in the UK that split the responsibility for overseeing the banking sector between the Treasury, Bank of England and the FCA.
Great to see the left wing heroes doing such a great job there.
Hahaha
Rt mugging himself off again.
Red
Fuck off Red – you can’t claim to be happy one minute and then off your family the next and blame it on “I was a bit sad cause it was dark”.
MarcToday, Scandinavian countries – Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland – have very high rates of happiness and relatively low suicide rates. However, the dark winters – 20 hours of darkness or more in each day in some areas – causes seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a form of depression, which has been known to correlate with higher rates of suicide or.Marc, you are a fuckin banana
Soooo
They still kill each other and themselves at high rates and have high rates of depression and alcoholism but are really really happy???
Baaaahahahahahaha
All in the same comment
Hahahahahaha
Un
Maybe they’re happy because all the left wing cunts are being killed off!
RedFuck off Red – you can’t claim to be happy one minute and then off your family the next and blame it on “I was a bit sad cause it was dark”.
Do you know what I mean
Straight out of the labour mong book of how to fuck yourself in a debate
Marc
Or maybe it’s the forced diversity making the go “SAD”
Un
Crazy thing is if you take the extreme lunatics out of the conversation people that I’ve met over the course of my life Labour voter’s tend to be more racist than your average Tory.
Personally I love foreign food, foreign footballers, the overseas climate etc etc etc. I just don’t want to be governed by them.
Marc
“Labour Government in the UK that split the responsibility for overseeing the banking sector between the Treasury, Bank of England and the FCA. Great to see the left wing heroes doing such a great job there.”
Blair modelled himself on Thatcher, you fuckin halfwit lol
Red
And you voted for him!
Three times!
Marc
You fuckin cunt, it was turnips like you who voted for Blair lol
Red
Never voted for Blair or Labour in my life – always voted Tory in General Elections.
Red
Do the happy Fins suffer from the lol’s
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
Marc
“Never voted for Blair or Labour in my life – always voted Tory in General Elections.”
You voted for Theresa May lol lol lol.lol lol lol
Anyone of you were standing on top of the subway train this morning????
Nelson
You just know that that’s such a Legroove thing to do.
Here we go again, Wenger basking in the limelight yet again, but still no meaningful management offer from a top club except a made up and inconsequential post job offer from FIFA. It’s not ‘Life After Arsenal’ it’s ‘I can’t live life without fame’ Why can’t the man who was a fraud and failure with 3 FA cups in 14 years and no European trophies in his career or any PL trophies for 14 years just retire gracefully? Why couldn’t have Wenger left after his 1st 10 years where certainly I would have remembered him fondly and being grateful for… Read more »
Goober enjoy the game tomorrow but keep the tissues handy lol
England v Australia should be a momentous game from the first whistle to the last.
England should shade it on form, but we can never rule out Australia discovering their best form.
Other predictions:
Wales to beat France
NZ to beat Ireland
SA to beat Japan
Correct or not these 4 games will be exhilarating to watch.
Off topic interesting read:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7581745/Comfy-retirement-Youll-need-1-million-pension-pot-experts-reveal-save.html
“Finland show how a high tax economy can work for the many and not the few.”
Only works if your country is flushed with gas.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7547691/The-race-Champions-League-claim-coveted-four-spots.html
DM tipping Leicester to finish 3rd with us 4th.
Liverpool 1st & City 2nd
What’s really saddening about our democracy is as with America party comes first. Public interest, truth all that stuff is nonsense Boris is a cunt. This much is a fact. Meanwhile he has actually managed to get a solid deal – one which layout would love if they’d been the ones to negotiate it. But since they’d be conceding high ground to Boris and the Tories we now hear the predictable concerns about how this deal is terrible after all. It’s trabsparent and agenda driven as hell. All this talk about how with this deal we’ll roll back on regulations… Read more »
Tony
Goodmorning.
Ouch! That’ll get a few heads spinning this morning.
“A fraud and a failure”
To be honest, I find it rather pathetic that a 70 year old is still trying to convince others that he is still fit for purpose.
The truth is, the Footballing world made their minds up about Wenger years back.
As for the Rugby, I see the England/Australia game going down to the wire.
Hopefully England will sneak it.
Don’t write off the Japanese against SA.
Population of Finland 5.53 m
Poulation of UK 67.53m
Area of Finland 338,500km2
Area of UK 242,500km2
Id be fudging HAPPY if I knew I’d have the M25 to myself on a Monday morning.
Why are you even bothering to bring this up?
I forgot, it’s joke Friday.
Population
As I highlighted the other day, there is no other country In Europe that would have voted to remain in the EU if they had our land mass, our leadership, our infrastructure and our potholes!
The fact that 48% don’t agree with me shows you just how many selfish/ignorant people live in the UK.
Shoot me.
Let a Finnish family come and stay with me for one week and I gurantee I’d soon wipe those smiles off their faces.
Even though he is fit and well more so than your regular 70 year old, and he obviously loves managing, I do hope in a way a job offer he likes doesn’t come in for Wenger (as much as it would be very interesting to see how he does). I don’t think he has anything in particular to prove to anyone and you don’t want to see him in the bad way he was in the last few months with us again.
A national team manager job or the FIFA role looks more sensible from the outside in.
Athletic subscribers. A new article this morning on Emery’s failings by James McNicholas. A balanced piece.
Good morning Graham Agree with you the Australia game; it will be close. Also agree I’d love Japan to beat South Africa, but just can’t see it unless SA lose players through ill discipline. They have a speed merchant on the wing that I think is faster than Habana. As for Wenger he brings it on himself; he can’t go gracefully and enjoy his money. Just sit back now for the insults to fly from the usual suspects and laugh my socks off at the irony. Fortunately Brexit doesn’t affect me other than my holding around £20k in sterling waiting… Read more »
Tony I find it very sad that you find great pleasure and are full of jealously and envy in abusing a guy that was the most successful manager we ever had (number of trophies won is how you calculate that by the way). He’s left yet you can’t resist having a pop. You favourite rag have decided to do an editorial piece on him as he’s turning 70 yet it’s his fault for them writing a story? Made up jobs, a fraud for winning trophies? You’re all over the shop. Get yourself an appointment with one of those lady boys… Read more »
Graham
I’m sure you would!!
G62
‘Shoot me’
I’d fudging love to. Pushing you off the pier would be easier.
Normski
Stop crying my friend and grow up a bit.
Life is about seeing things from different perspectives.
Also, you’ve shown your own ignorance to life by directing foul and abusive language at other posters who have a completley different opinion to yourself.
Get over it. As I’ve said on numerous occasions before, Wenger was once a decent manager with an exceptional squad at his disposal. Unfortunately, he got lost in his own hype and systematically destroyed the club.
Who’s the bitter one?
Politics appears to bring the worst out of some people. Diversity of thought should be encouraged not insulted. People have entrenched views and pour scorn on people who’s views don’t match their own. This does sound familiar though on here, mentioning no names. Personally speaking much of what the politicians get their self-interested hands on should not be party political issues for example education, health and the environment. We should have informed experts advising the government (I know we have civil servants) to ensure realistic, beneficial standards are met. I am a fan of experts. Hard to predict our game… Read more »
Life is about seeing things from different perspectives.
That’s not what life is about Graham.
Thats a very west London, privileged thing to say.
Bob, it’s going to be an amazing weekend of rugby.
Agree with all you say and also hope Nowell recovers ready for the semis should we get past Australia.
N16
Experts have prejudices and politics too. And most of them incline to the left. This is partly because the entire vision of the left privileges articulated knowledge over the wisdom dispersed across the population and embodied in processes, traditions and customs. That’s one reason why, if you gather 100 experts in any field other than economics, a large majority will lean left on political matters.
There is a lot more wisdom and information embodied in the market than can be contained in the head of any expert, for example. But the left don’t like to hear about that.
https://arseblog.com/2019/10/tactics-column-ozils-absence-makes-xhaka-redundant/
Xakha being misused
As I said
Same as Torreira. As I said
Eduardo, I accept experts have agendas too. Gathering an informed opinion is what is the wise thing to do. Just as when one reads a historical account, one has to consider the bias, as you need to do with ‘experts’. What I suppose I was saying is that when someone discounts experts I’m very suspicious of their motivations. There is far too much self-interest in politics, it’s a human trait but considering others who are less fortunate must be a guiding principle. Our society is surely judged by how the least advantaged are looked after. I’m sure many will simply… Read more »
N16
Fair comments, I don’t disagree with that at all.
Un Excellent analysis in the arseblog article, though a damning indictment on Emery’s tactics . It shows how we are regressing in so many areas of our midfield and offence compared to Wenger’s last 2 seasons, which were considered his poorest in his 20 years at the club. Our lack of possession and composure on the ball is killing us. We are where we are in the league due to our good fortune. Will Emery’s luck hold, I can’t see it. What I do see is a similar scenario to last season where we had everything go our way for… Read more »
United to draw or sneaky win vs liverpool, u heard it here 1st!
Good morning, Just finished rewatching the bournemouth game. It was a pretty solid win, where bournemouth for all there huffing and puffing had a few half chances and one cleared off the line. It’s fine lines because it could easily have been 1-1 or a 5-0 win for arsenal. Auba hits the post last minute, chambers mis hits a volley wide. Pepe curls one just past the post, throw in the stonewall penalty where he’s rugby tackled to the ground. And it’s a whole different story. If it’s 5-0 Are we then discussing ozil absence and a lack of creativity?… Read more »
Sid, quite fancy a 1-1 in the bindippers utd game.
It’s one of those games where form goes out the window, Utd should get ripped apart with no de gea or pogba and in such poor form. But could see them frustrating the bindippers.
Party politics is just a massive load of wank Just as MPs put political grand standing and party politics ahead of the national interest, people bizarrely believe that party A or B really gives a toss about them and that their favored party is full of righteousness and the other side of the isle is stupidity personified No party really gives a toss about you, is the sad fact. The ultimate example recently was when Lib Dems have had the chance to get what they want by compromising with Corbyn they refused. They didn’t refuse because it was against the… Read more »
Let the Scots be free. Bring back Hadrians wall I say.
In other news Pierre and Unaii have decided to set up their own football club. Acolytes United in order to find Wenger a new lease of life. In 20 years the new club will have qualified for the CL 5 times in a row
The lib dems are just full of bitter people., they will happily jump in bed with the Tories but hate the idea of a Labour government. I wouldnt be surprised if they vote FOR Boris` deal just to spite Corbyn.
“Auba hits the post last minute, chambers mis hits a volley wide. Pepe curls one just past the post, throw in the stonewall penalty where he’s rugby tackled to the ground.” Auba’s chance is in the 94th minute – it’s basically meaningless. Chambers’ shot was closer to the side the corner flag than to the goal and it was a really tough shot to make plus the position wasn’t good either. https://streamable.com/0kg6p Pepe’s shot wasn’t close. https://streamable.com/b0uhw Penalty wasn’t stonewall as VAR didn’t give it. The defender plays the ball cleanly and whatever happens afterwards, I still don’t know if… Read more »
Global, the lib dems are the most pro European party in England.
A cold day in hell before they side with the Tories and brexit.
There still hoping for another referendum to stay in!
Raptora, There was two penalty incidents. One which was debatable, the other was the holding and pushing down of pepe. Yes it went to var and they did nothing about it, clear as day penalty though. Why is Auba hitting the post in the 94th minute meaningless? Would it be more meaningful if it was the 10th minute? Yes chambers shot was wide, I didn’t say it was close. And pepe curler was close enough to be unlucky. I’m not saying we were perfect, what I’m suggesting are the fine lines in games, we could have drawn 1-1 but could… Read more »
Raptora,
Also listen to the commentary, his says pepes shot is nearly in the far corner and the pepe tackle is a penalty.
It’s all about fine lines. You don’t think either incident are close. I do. The commentators on your clips do.
As I said 5-0 are we talking about chances created?
We all know that Sheffield United will be well organised and up for the game.
It’s also bound to be cold and damp, a typical autumnal night in Sheffield.
Unlike the Liverpool game, they will genuinely believe they can win the game.
One hopes that Emery is aware of this.
Gulp!
Has Eddie Jones made the right call by dropping Ford?
Time will tell.
Graham the good thing about this sheffield utd side is they try to play football.
This isn’t like visiting stoke where you’ll have 90 minutes of players being kicked lumps out of.
Will be tough though, especially after an international break.
Let’s hope xhaka is on paternity leave!
#XhakaOut
#EmeryOut
#OzilOut…. same old routine.
U4gn
True.
England 24 Australia 18
Japan 26 South Africa 24
NZ 34 Ireland 16
Wales 22 France 14
Man Utd 0 Liverpool 3
Spuds 2 Watford 2( I hope)
Sheffield United 1 Arsenal 1 or, hopefully, we scrape a win.
Graham I don’t see a worry from Ford Being dropper.
Jones likes impact subs with Ford being just that.
Jones can bring Ford on any time to change to the Ford Farrell axis, but I would imagine he’ll want the Aussie’s worn down before employing that tactic.
Ford also is the 3rd back up for scrum half as he left D Care out of the squad only leaving us with Youngs and Heinz.
Dropped*
Graham can’t stand rugby so your on your own there.
Bindippers and mancs 1-1
Spuds and Watford 1-0 lucky Kane goal off his ugly face knowing him.
And 1-2 arsenal Auba and laca.
Up4gn
Not quite.
Tony and Bob are connoisseurs of the game.
I always enjoy reading their extensive take on things.
Anyway, off up the M25 now.
Wish me luck.
Ta ta for now.
“Ole’s vision maps exactly to the core three football objectives we have: we must win trophies, we must play attacking football, and we must give youth its chance,” said Woodward.” ‘WE MUST PLAY ATTACKING FOOTBALL!’ I wonder if this objective is part of Emery’s mandate. If Emery has a mandate to play attacking football and he plays like he does now then he should be relieved of his job pronto. If there is no such mandate, then I think Raul should pull Emery to one side and whisper some wisdom to him along these lines, because we are looking really… Read more »
Up 4 grabs now, I love winning 3 pts regardless of how they’re won. Ten years ago people would say that the way we won was the mark of a title winning team. Truth, however, is that we haven’t controlled a single game in the EPL. Our midfield is nonexistent, our defence is still left on it’s own, error prone and in attack we have struggled to create many chances for our forwards. We are getting away with it thus far. The hope is that the return of our starting full backs + Holding will change our fortunes. Truth is… Read more »
Game was over a week ago, can’t believe folks are still micro-analysing the same thing over and over again…
Raptora
I agree that we are not controlling games in the PL, but we did control the Burnley and Newcastle matches, I think. As for the midfield, I agree this is our weakest area, but this isn’t down to Emery — aside from the fact that he is selecting Xhaka — it’s down to the weakness of our midfielders. Even if he selects the right midfield three, it’s still not going to be a great or dominant midfield in the PL.
Up for Grabs talking sense.
Who’s lying . Raul., last week…” play the ones who work hard in training and reward the effort with playing time” Emery yesterday…””After that he was sick for one week and then he lost a lot of training to keep his fitness. But in the last two to three weeks he’s improved with us in training and I think it’s good” Ozil ..2 days ago ” i’ve trained at the same level my whole career but because I’ve not had minutes , I’m doing extra work with the fitness coach and in the gym to get even fitter than normal.”… Read more »
Pierre “I see the shit hitting the fan earlier this season.” That makes a lot of sense, given that we now have Tierney, Bellerin, Holding and Luiz where last season we had Maitland-Niles, Kolasinac, Mustafi and Sokratis. In truth, you WANT us to do poorly, so as to advance your agenda; there is no reason to SEE us doing poorly, as all evidence points in the opposite direction. We have a better defense, better attacking options, better organization, and more depth. We will undoubtedly have a setback or two, but there is no reason for some of the extreme negativity… Read more »
Pierre
As I said yesterday, you need to speak to a professional. I am being serious.
Chris
How about copying & pasting that Athletic piece in here? That would be helpful to us non-subscribers. Cheers.
Bamford
I’ve Never wanted arsenal to lose a game of football in my life …
The likes of you and the geriatric goons (Graham and tony ) are the ones desperate for Arsenal to lose under Wenger, even in cup finals…..
I am just being realistic…
…
Laca back in training!! Fuck yeah!!
lol Pierre.
Emery just does not handle conflict well with big name players. Neymar got him fired at PSG and he’s frightened to death of repeating the same mistake with Özil.
Why do you give a leadership role to someone you don’t want to play? He says now he has no problem with Özil… thereby losing face.
Errr, sorry Emery that ship has sailed.
You’re not just a very good man manager and incredibly timid.
Not good enough for Arsenal.
Laca goals back!
Whoopie. Now we have someone else to watch that makes football seem as complicated as String Theory.
I’ve heard rumours that our next penalty will be taken by Pepe. Basically Arsenal are hoping it spurs him on.
Personally, I don’t think buying a £72m penalty kick taker was what we had in mind but hey ho.
Emery out.
Bamford It’s a repeat of last season , Emery has learnt nothing from the mistakes of 12 months ago . From un’s link earlier “Attacking moves in the centre of the pitch (per Whoscored) 2016-17: 32% (most in the PL) 2017-18: 32% (most in the PL) 2018-19: 24% (15th PL) Under Emery we tend to be pushed wide, either reluctantly or through choice, and don’t play with the patience of Arsene Wenger’s teams. Possession and passes per game (per Whoscored) 2016-17: 56.5% , 563 ppg 2017-18: 58.5% , 619 ppg 2018-19: 56.1%, 548 ppg 2019-20: 53.3%, 482 ppg That’s fine… Read more »
Pierre
Well, he does need to take Xhaka and Ozil out of the side — the first is something we’ve been saying here for a long time, the second something he’s already done — but not for the reason you’ve cited above. They both need to be out because neither is suitable to top level, PL football today. Xhaka because he is slow of foot, slow of thought, reckless, mistake-prone and poor under pressure; Ozil because he is a listless and ghostly shell of the player he once was.
I almost thought Pierre wrote this and I was going to congradulate him on the analysis. Sadly it isn’t him. It is a good analysis through stats though. 99% of the Arsenal fan base has been knocking on Emery’s door to finally play couple of games in a row without Xhaka and with Torreira in his place but there’s no response from the perpetual lime eater. If he thinks that our game is going to be even worse without Xhaka, then so be it. Let us see it with our own eyes. Until he benches Xhaka in 3 or 4… Read more »
You’d think we were 16th and hadn’t won a game all season but what do i know… Really hope Emery plays Ozil for the next couple of games so we can finally start to control games to be honest
Pierre “So why has the Swiss been made captain and turned into an ever present if he can’t even help …?” I have explained this several times now. It is because Xhaka is seen as a vocal leader, a warrior, the player who speaks and urges and cajoles when the team huddles together or when it’s under pressure. This is why his teammates voted for him as captain. Starting him and making him captain are mistakes, but there is a reason that Emery and the team are making this mistake. “there has been a hefty dip in passes completed within… Read more »
Raptora, The only time in the EPL when we have controlled the midfield was against Burnley and Aston Villa second half. The thing that they have both in common? Xhaka was benched. We played with Guendouzi, Torreira/Ceballos and Willock. Dynamic trio who was able to press in a concerted way to force turn-over. They are also able to directly run at the opposition defense via the middle stopping them from covering the outside. That then leaves more space for our wide men to attack. Emery will not bench Xhaka, because he does not see what we all see. He see… Read more »
Bamford
I have said many times on here that leaving Ozil out of the side is perfectly acceptable if the team shows improvement in some areas on the pitch .
However in league matches , without Ozil, the team have shown NO improvement in any area of the pitch .
However , in the cup competitions our pressing has been good with Martinelli up top .
So instead of continually making futile remarks about Ozil, I suggest you look at the bigger picture and recognise that Emery is making decisions that are detrimental to the team .
What’s the point of posting these stats. We all know Emery is not the man to take Arsenal forward.
Who really gives a shit if Wenger’s figures are better than Emery’s. Wenger is not coming back. Get over it.
Or are these stats for Özil’s benefit. We’ve had a week of nothing but Özil. Either Emery will select him or he won’t. Give it a rest FFS.
I think we can all agree. Emery has much more coaching experience than Mikel Arteta. I believe that when he came to Arsenal, he did have a football system/philosophy in his mind. Unfortunately, he couldn’t train his players to execute his system. You can’t blame it on the players now, after two Summer TW. The most obvious failure is playing out from the back. It is a good idea to keep procession of the ball. Why couldn’t his coaching staff train the players to do it properly. He also started with a high defensive line. It is a good idea… Read more »