A very quick post from me this morning as I am heading in for my first game of the MIKEL ARTETA ERA GET IN CAN’T WAIT WOOO #1 FAN OVER HERE WITH THE A4 BANNER SAYING #ARTETAIN!
I have no idea what to expect. The manager is dealing with something of an injury crisis, we could be missing a lot of players today. Tierney, Kola and Sokratis are certainly out. There are also doubts over Gabriel, Holding, Ceballos and Hector… there also might be questions over whether Xhaka plays if his mind is on the Hertha Berlin move.
The players he did have ready trained on the pitch yesterday. I like that. For no reason. If Emery had done it I’d have lodged a complaint with the local council, Arteta does it, I find it the sort of elite thinking a progressive young coach should be showcasing.
Chelsea are in a bit of a mess at the moment. They followed up a super defeat of Spurs with a shocking show against lowly Southampton. Some of their fans are predictably on his back, but I think the bleating will be ignored, Chelsea are building up with kids and shit performances are part of the deal there.
Arteta spoke about getting his players to think quicker and work harder off the ball. We saw a taste of that against Bournemouth, today, I hope that continues. I’m looking to see good structure, I’m hoping that against a really good counter-attacking team, we can concentrate, and I’m hoping the players put it in until the very end. Wouldn’t it be great to see us pressing for a second game in a row? I’m living for it.
I think we’re up against it today, it’s going to be hard to extract anything from the game, but at the moment, I’m just looking for progress as we build to a brighter future. A win would be exciting though, can’t say it hasn’t passed my mind.
It’s absolutely freezing out, so if you’re going, wrap up warm and hope the football on show gives us an added boost of warmth.
Right, that’s me out, see you at the game. xx
We look ragged
Laca should be taken off. Tired and on brink of a red.
Nelson has put on a good defensive shift so far
Put ourselves under pressure playing stupid passes
All doen to Laca not shielding the ball in the first place.
Oh my God
Lol..
Leno you tosser
That cunt shouldn’t even be on the pitch
Leno ffs
Leno resorting back to his reputation
He should be off but my god what is Leno doing
Rubbish
Fuck off ref.
Jorg should have been off.
Leno Leno. Leno. Why o why
Bad from Leno but Jorginho should be on the pitch
Gift…. by Leno… disappointing.
Yeah got to say Lacazette should have done much better shielding against Jorginho, then a needless foul leading to that goal.
Leno makes an error but anyone getting on his back needs a word with themselves. But for Leno Arsenal would be in the relegation zone this season.
Doesn’t change the fact Jorginho should have seen a second yellow.
Fucking hell
Jorginho had to be red carded 15 mins ago. Fk all the English refs and Mike Riley. Corruption of the highest order. Pieces of shit.
Disaster for Leno
What the f***, Leno? That was poor. Hugely disappointing given the massive effort the rest of the team has put in.
‘Leno resorting back to his reputation’
Oh fuck off.
What Arsenal’s player of the season literally staving off embarrassment on the regular.
Have a fucking word with yourself.
Lacazette shouldn’t have fouled on that play
Pepe getting 6 mins when we’ve been hemmed in our own half for 15 minutes is not good
He has to catch that.
All that work tossed into the dust
Rubbish from Leno…..
Pfffff. Typical really. With all that extra time coming up, can we score a 2nd one???
The approach by Arteta was very good, but we don’t have the squad to carry it off.
The club has to back him in January.
Arteta’s locks are going to look like Pep’s by the end of the season with recurring moments like that for fuck sake.
Guendouzi jogging back misses the header ffs.
Worse case when ref influences result.
Fucking joke
tbh Arsenal have been sitting on the previous 1-0 lead too much in the 2nd half.
Bang ….
The pain continues
This was always going to happen.
This squad has the mental strength of a 3 year old who’s lost his mum in Tesco.
Loss is definitely on arteta.
Very poor use of subs, in a game we should have won.
Fk the sauce.
Shhhhhhhhhhìiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Back to the past.
Mustafi fuck off
Smash and grab. It’s typical Arsenal
Fuck it
Ahhh damn maaan
CORRUPTED PIECES OF SHIT. LAUGH AT ME AND PIERRE AGAIN. IT’S ANTI ARSENAL. ITS BEEN FOR YEARS. PIECES OF SHIT
Fuck sake
Terrible , Pepe wtf so casual all the attackers
Special sauce.
We will go down playing like this every week…shite
Absolutely gutted.
‘tbh Arsenal have been sitting on the previous 1-0 lead too much in the 2nd half.’
100%
Will say Arteta has been too slow with substitutions.
Quite clear the side was knackered.
The squad is NOT GOOD ENOUGH though.
Guendouzi jogging back and flailing his arms
My worst nightmare is Arsenal being bogged down in a relegation shitfight.
Why both CBS backing off again again again??!?
We had the whole fucking half pitch to stop the guy even pull them down.
Rubbish defending
Incredible capitulation.
Always coming… everyone thrown full forward … and Mustafi and Luiz the last line of defense. .. Fuck.
This is the most Arsenal of losses.
Unfortunately.
Laca let the side down today. Hes been pants.
Very lame. I’ll let others tell the truth about why this game slipped out of our fingers, but it’s certainly not on Arteta. Team was well-organized, players all put in a shift.
What a fucker
Such a shame but the team have been in their shell too much in the 2nd half as well as Chelsea improving
Lampard changes things in the 22nd min when it wasn’t going well.
Our saucy manager, sticking with the same game plan for 80 mins till we are down 2-1
Oh dear
Where has the sauce gone?
Jorginho should have been sent off ffs and shouldn’t have been on the fucking pitch to score from that Leno fuck up.
Where was the defending then for Abraham’s goal ffs!!!!!!!
Bottle job as usual. No backbone at squeeky bum time.
Special sauce had Chelsea completely outplay is the whole second half
Special sauce made the subs
Special sauce has us down 2-1 from 1-0 up in the 82nd minute
Special sauce is special sauce
Great first half and very poor 2nd half and dire refereeing
Loss on the refs. If that ref is a joke why didn’t VAR looked at it for possible red cars offense?! Cunts are corrupted its so obvious.
Good while it lasted.
Just fell apart in the second half.
Ref won’t send them off for rotating fouls.
Sad football.
Lampard is clearly the one with sauce.
‘Team was well-organized, players all put in a shift.’
True.
Substitutions are completely his fault though.
Arsenal got deeper and deeper, more tired and more tired and he did nothing.
Always felt like if Chelsea get one that would be it.
Shame.
We deserved more from this.
Lacazette has to step up.
Pepe needs to be more bold as well.
Players still hiding
Chelsea look likely to score more
Luiz, international,do me a favour,look at his positioning.Terrible.2 nd goal.
Frankly Laca gave the stupid foul that led to the equaliser. Kenos mistake is something else. Remember Laca used to do that a lot.
And Laca should have taken the shot and not passed to PEPE.
Martinelli is clearly the best youngster, why isn’t he in the squad? Why is pepe only coming on in the 85th min when the role of an impact sub is 15-20 mins.
Arteta may have improved something’s but his inexperience is showing big time.
How the fuck are they “knackered” what do the do in training?…they are suppose to be pro’s….lazy cunts
7 – Bernd Leno has made seven errors directly leading to an opposition goal in the Premier League since the beginning of last season, the most of any player. Howler.
You don’t wait till the 70-something minute to make subs in a game in the thick of there holiday period.
Why the fuck wasn’t var used to look at the Jorginho 2nd yellow???
How the fuck was that a yellow for AMN but not Jorginho??
FUUUUUUUCCKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!
Ref bottled a big decision and it’s ultimately cost us but look Arteta gets tremendous amount of credit today for the performance he has to get criticism for his in game management. We were being swamped and Laca and a couple others looked goosed and he didn’t have any answers to it.
Is that Edu’s mum?
All our players were dead on their feet at 75mins
We didn’t get the second goal when we should have. These are things Arteta has to sort out
But positives are there!!
Get behind our team. Arteta is the way forward
Coyg
Yeah I can’t understand why Martinelli isn’t an automatic starter at this stage either, he’s generally looked like one of our best player every time he’s featured and he scores goals.
Very lame. I’ll let others tell the truth about why this game slipped out of our fingers, but it’s certainly not on Arteta. Team was well-organized, players all put in a shift.
We’ve been completely outplayed 2nd half
Bad subs.
Blew a 1 nil lead at home in the last 10 min.
Of course it’s on special sauce
Not the time to appoint a novice manager. He is on a hiding to nothing. Has no experience to fall back on.
But our players lack game intelligence.
We should employ psychometric test when recruiting players.
Mentally weak players need not apply.
Long ball into the box time.
This loss isn’t on Arteta though.
This one is on Leno.
Another loss.
We look horrifically tired. 🤨
Arteta is not as bold as we expected. His substitutions don’t make sense. I think we would have been better off with Ancelotti.
Why took that shot torreira?? Stupid.
Ffs shut them down quicker
Benny
“Why the fuck wasn’t var used to look at the Jorginho 2nd yellow???”
VAR can only look at incidents potentially worthy of a straight red, so they wouldn’t have even looked at it.
Lost the shape completely
Lol. Chelsea have been winning away all season so I’m not surprised when all we did was stay pegged back when Chelsea have a shit defence. Arteta set the team to defend and with this lot its bound to fail . There needs to be a balance. Only defend when you have a 2 goal lead otherwise keep attacking. We don’t have defenders FFS why set up to defend that long? Fucking bullshit. I’m afraid it’s going to be a fight to stay up only we spend in January. Bou a fucking fullback, a box to box CM and a… Read more »
New manager bounce lasted about 40 minutes.
Lampard won the tactical battle once he made that sign in the middle of the second half…we just seem to lose our way.
We bossed the first 25% of the game, the rest was Chelsea’s.
Auba worked so hard today.
Every game one of our defenders gifts a goal.
Basic errors.
The players we have are very poor.Who brought them?
Run at then and get a fFK so PEPE can shoot
Goona
They have been jogging around in recents games and now they have been made to go at it 100%. They’re not use to it
75 mins and we were the better team. Arteta will get them to find the extra 10% needed whether that be mindset or in gave recovery
*made that change
Ancelotti wanted to become the Arsenal manager after Wenger was kicked out , but we went with Emery instead.
Carlo would have delivered the top 4 finish last season itself.
Some of you are so agenda driven it is pathetic. The team played well, the best we have seen in months. We lose Chambers due to injury, Willock misses a sitter, the referee should have sent off Jorginho who eventually scored their first goal due to a rare fuck up from generally reliable Leno but yes serve us the boring ‘Arteta has no sauce’.