Late-breaking post today because I feel… err… a bit warm… and I… have a… k… kind of…cough.
SHUT UP IT’S NOT THAT YOU DRAMA QUEEN.
Quick post regardless.
LT has broken his ankle. We’re really in a bit of a rut when it comes to injuries. Some unlucky, some fatigue looking, some that are just the aftermath of people feeling sad that we really gave Emery 18 months. Yes, it’s a fact that sort of shit can play HAVOC with the muscles. The manager had this to say.
We don’t know! I could not tell you with points. For sure since I joined, the amount of things that happened is enormous, but we just have to try to adapt. It’s part of football. It doesn’t only happen to us, unfortunately it also happens to many other teams. So we cannot be crying about that. It is what it is. Sometimes it’s bad luck, sometimes it’s part of the game we play and sometimes things that we can avoid and do better as well – the coaches or fitness coaches – but it is what it is.
The only silver lining with LT is that he seemed to be fairly out of favour. I think he’ll be shifted back to Italy in the summer if we can find a buyer. We need someone that’s more athletic and about 6 inches taller. Super basic, but I do think this team needs more power in midfield. I think a profile like Denis Zakaria (6’2) would fit really well for us, though I’m sure he’ll have sexier suitors than us this summer… maybe we go younger and a little more inexperienced.
Arteta wouldn’t be drawn on whether he thinks the top 4 is a possibility this season, probably a smart move, the team is very up and down and we’re a bit all over the place.
Beat West Ham on Saturday and we are closer. That’s all I am thinking because a few weeks ago it looked impossible and if we beat West Ham it will look more likely. So that’s the only aim. If game-by-game we go and start grabbing three points and three points and three points, and then we’ll have a chance in the last three or four games of the season.
He won’t say it, but I will. We should be making a very good go of the next 6 games. We need to, at the very least, be in with a shot of top 5 by the time we roll into our stick run of Wolves, Spurs and Leicester. By that time, it’s with the gods, but if our next 6 see 5 wins and a draw, I’ll be very pleased.
One thing is for sure, the remaining fixtures are going to be about the kids and blooding them.
I have to manage the resources that I have at the moment, and they are a big resource at the moment. It’s not just because they are young and they can be good because they are already very good. Some of them can be phenomenal. But they can only be phenomenal or very good if they play in a consistent way and we get them surrounded with good coaching, with good club culture and also with good players around them. We have to support them. I’m ready to support them and they responded.
If we don’t make the Champions League this season, it’s going to be all about the youth next season and we’re going to have to rebuild like Dortmund are. I’d be happy with that, expectations would lower, fans would get behind the team, and we’d probably like the team a lot more than we have during the expensive years.
… but, it would be nice to make the big trophy.
Right, that’s me done. BIG GAME, really need us to be delivering an aggressive win.
Nelson for who?
I hope Ozil
Mike dean sitting behind VAR??
We also need Martinelli not just Nelson.
Laca was a bad sub
Paulinho. When will Arteta play his top class CF in the CF role? Till then don’t come with the player poverty bs. I guess Sheffield United have better team than ours.
5 Arsenal ‘defenders’ around 1 Westham player and he still gets a shot on target!
This game is actually built for a protagonist like Martinelli
Arteta didn’t see him playing when he was 14 years old so he won’t ever be the manager’s boy.
Dani is playing kinda good in spurts..
His passing is off but he is trying to make something happen
Struggling today – versus West Ham – is beside the point.
Are we playing shit football?
Yes we are. Playing West Ham or not is irrelevant.
Just hope Nelson is consistent enough for two consecutive games !
Weird sub. Pepe has been doing well. Don’t understand the in game management of the saucy one.
Fucking commentators so fucking one sided!
Auba’s touch is so bad.
Pepe!!! Hes taking off pepe!!!????? Well that confirms it. Arteta has favourites. He wants no smoke from the seniors. shook
Fucking diver. Replay shows no contact from Ozil.
Luiz hurt
Martinelli has been the 5th choice attacker. Behind Auba, Pepe, Laca, Nelson. And behind Willock as well. If we need a goal Arteta has played Willock and Nelson but not Nketiah. I swear something doesn’t fit?!?!?!?
Why can’t he just play Auba in there center and put either of Pepe, Nelson or Martinelli around him.
Player poverty can’t be used to excuse some of the shoddy management decisions that we have been seeing.
Hammers look more likely to score.
Arteta definitely has favourites. He wouldn’t touch Ozil for what? 10 games in a row or more?
we’re really struggling today to get anything going. Game calls for Martinelli.
Martinelli has scored 10 fucking goals hasn’t he?
Yes something doesn’t add up.
Atkinson is another fucker.
something about Arteta and Gaby..
This entire protecting the young man is such fucking bullshit.
Protect from what????
He is fit and can play… why keep him on the bench because he is young? can get hurt???
Makes no sense… we need him and Arteta is stupid not to play him
Well you guys have your favorites too. Pepe was really ineffective and was rightly subbed off.
If someone can explain to me how is Martinelli benched and unused in another game we have to score?!?
Noble is a diver he knows the ref is weak
Noble is just diving every time
English players have bridged that diving gap
what is that horrible noise… US viewers??? some sort of vuvuzela??
yeah arteta has his favourites. He isn’t playing anyone due to form. he is just playing his favourites.
Another drab performance from Ozil as well. Still gonna complete 90 mins though
C’mon Antonio! Time wasting. Isn’t this what commentators say 50/50?
It is horrible football full of simple basic flaws a Real embarressment
Ozil with another failed try to assist. Keep him another 90 mins.
Shoot you mother f*ckers
Our retreat when losing the Ball is woeful.
“Well you guys have your favorites too. Pepe was really ineffective and was rightly subbed off.’
So says the manager’s parrot
Yo were happy with us just having good performances and results didn’t matter.
Now we can’t even perform well but you still keep up with the excuses.
Ozil sums up what’s wrong with this team.
Don’t shoot from 15 yards and made yet another stupid pass and West Ham has a counter!!
Ozil should have shot
Goddamn Ozil was through
Guns.. no.. just some azzhat fan screaming in the microphone. I think they mike up the away fan section purposely louder to promote the idea of rivalry.
why doesn’t Ozil shoot there??!! FFS
Guns of SF
It was a fan behind the microphone
We are crap
Midfield and attack difunctional
Arteta not doing it we’ve gone back to type
That’s the problem with this team no one bloody shoots.
Who’s going to be able to reach that ffs. Xhara.
Ceballos the only one that turned up today
Really disappointed w ozil.
We have our favourites but we are not PAID to produce the best team possible to win the game. Pepe was more effective and impactful than most of the players still on the pitch. That sub doesn’t have ARSENALS best interests at heart. That sub was a man avoiding problems for himself. Over doing whats best for Arsenal. How can you justify a professional manager choosing favourites over choosing the best man for the job? Ridiculous statement from you, mate.
Fucking offside?? Really??
Xhaka did well there defensively.
Goal LETS GO
Laca you fick
Arteta has to try and play two wingers either side of Auba through the middle.
Neither Laca or Eddie. Just Auba centrally. Martinelli/Nelson/Saka/Pepe
Either side. Let the goalscorer do what he does. Leave him where hes most effective.
Who’s offside?? Not from replay.
OBVIOUS GOAL LETS GOOOOOOO
It’s not offside
Fuck sake.
Go to court if this isn’t a goal
Get in.
Freaking goal
ozil onside
Auba created this with his failed shot.
Mike dean calling mike Riley???
Why can’t Ozil just shoot ffs?
Why is taking so long
VAR is embarrassing
Should be a goal
Dissenter
Can you find one comment of mine making excuses for Arteta or is it you making up stuff as per ? Pepe was ineffective, Laca has done.more.in 10 mins.
This is corruption
that’s a goal – that is NOT offside. that has to stand. MUST stand.
VAR is Mike Riley’s corrupt tool.
First VAR call going our way
goal@
It’s a goal and they are trying their hardest to disallow it
Gooooaalllll
Var fuckers.
They were desperate to not give that goal.
Good subs…
Common sense prevails at last
10 hours later….
Finally… my God.
TR7
Laca stepped into the Nkettiah role
Nothing to do with Pepe
Try to keep up
still waiting. VAR is a total farce. who the fuck is in control of this??!!
Please do not concede now….
Super fkin obvious they didn’t want to give this goal away. Fkin hell. As obvious as it gets.
Watch us concede now 🤨
It was so obvious that it was a goal!!!
Come on The Arsenal!!!
Unbelievable. An actual VAR decision went our way!
Paulinho
:”They were desperate to not give that goal.’
Precisely the point
They should be favoring the attacker.It’s all about protecting the referee’s blushes.
FFS. You can tell on TV VAR in 3 seconds
Fucking Mike Riley clowns hiding behind the VAR took ages!!
Destroy the PL as a global product. Corruption at play for sure.
We needed that. Fuck me. VAR – that’s crazy to see how long that took to do that.
The money in football, had that been disallowed with no VAR. Wed all hate it.
The wait sucks. But that’s the fine margin from being in the CL to not.
Fans have to deal with it.
Un
Absolutely.
The cunts
He will give a penalty Forna Mark Noble dive
fucking VAR desperate not to allow that goal. Wankers! was a mile onside.
Oh shit
Keep attack going. Don’t think only defending for the remaking 8 mins.
Asking for trouble already.
We haven’t been good tbh
The scoreline is against the run of play
Leno again
That silly lineswoman and var are a joke
Really need to win this
‘Laca stepped into the Nkettiah role
Nothing to do with PepeTry to keep up’
No the point is not abt who replaced whom. It’s abt how you judge effective contribution. Pepe wasn’t that good today. Laca has come in and made a difference, that’s effectiveness.
Leno done very well today …
Auba is getting me mad today wtf is he doing.
We can’t stop crosses and can’t defend
Leno to the rescue …. again