A second dreadful day in the office for Mikel Arteta where questions will rightly be asked of his in-game management. After taking the lead against Brighton, his players managed to flunk out again and lose to 2-1 to a side that hasn’t been able to score all season.
A lot of fans are rightly looking at the subs he made late on that looked confused and woefully naive.
The themes of Arteta with this squad so far have been: 1) Fairly solid 2) Bereft of creativity 3) Poor in-game management
We saw all three of those on display today. Arsenal controlled the game against a side that is pretty good in possession, we create limited chances we should have done better with, we took the lead with a piece of exceptional skill… then we let the game go to shit.
Everyone switched off to a pre-planned corner straight out of the fantasy training ground. Then, the man that wiped out Leno early on the game scored late on when we drifted off in the 95th minute. Abysmal, distressing, very, very sad.
Was the reffing absolutely shit? Yes. But it’s not an excuse. You have price that in. This is the Premier League.
Were Brighton overly physical? Yes. But come on, this IS the Premier League. We cannot continue to moan about this and play the victims all the time, we’ve been doing it for 15 years. The character of the players was perfectly summed up when Maupay caused a horrendous injury to Leno and the only person to give him shit was… Leno, who took a moment out from excruciating pain to give him shit. Where was Auba? Where were the 8 players around the ref demanding justice? It was pathetic to watch. No fire whatsoever.
Our midfield continues to be a problem. No control, power, pace or vision. Dani Ceballos was terrible, constantly slowing the pace of the game. Matteo doesn’t know what he wants to be in life, he’s a clogged, he offered very little. When the engine of your team is that bad, you have no chance.
The season is finished, but I kind of hoped this squad would be able to give a little more than this.
There is a lot going on behind the scenes. We have players contracts that are expiring, 4 of them, and that is a problem. We cut players pay by 10%, that could be a factor. We have players who have no security around their future. Then we have Mesut Ozil, our best player, as a grey cloud again.
Outside that, nothing seems to work on the pitch. We have no balance, we lack power, the intensity of pre-covid has disappeared, there’s no creativity… and look, it’s the same with Ozil in the side, his contributions to the team recently have been as midtable as our general output.
Also, we lack leadership. It’s so apparent. No one stood up today, bar Saka. It’s a team of soft boys outside that.
So where do you go from here?
The kids aren’t good enough to go it alone.
The senior players aren’t up to it and lack character.
The blended mix of the two hasn’t worked for three managers in a row now.
It is not a good time to be heading into the transfer window with very little money to make a difference.
The rock bottom I spoke about the other day might come faster than we thought.
Here’s to another shitty weekend courtesy of Arsenal.
Have a good one, go get drunk, let’s talk next season xxx
@China, I agree. I think the fuss over formations is a huge distraction. It’s spirit, drive, teamwork etc that win you games. And we have none of it. It’s early days but I also worry that whatever Tets is practicing in Colney is simply not working. We can have the best formation in the Premiership but we will still fuck up since we’ve conceded more goals from set pieces (or was it corners?) than any other this season. Arsenal over the last 15 years or so has been typified by poor discipline, lack of strength, weak team spirit, soft management.… Read more »
For all the arguments and counters on here I only have one thing to offer: If we have no player poverty to affect Arteta’s saucy management, where everyone recognises Arteta as a rookie, then why is the rookie Lampard’s Chelsea sitting in 4th place and we are in 10th and visibly regressing as the last 2 games show? Can’t be RA’s money as we have a squad capable of just missing 3rd & 4th last season and then added Pepe, Tierney et al. Surely a head coach of Arteta’s vastly gained experience from Pep should rise above the glaring shortfalls… Read more »
I still don’t understand why refs don’t protect the keepers more? How many times have we seen it in the past where a forward goes for a ball too far away only for him to injure the keeper.
Also auba has to be up there as the worst captain we have ever had. Why can’t we get someone who stands up for the team whilst also holding them accountable when they don’t turn up?
Don’t understand the people having a go at guendouzi, he’s not the best player but he is very young and inexperienced. He is a squad player that can improve.
Dani and xhaka are the useless ones, over 25 years old and still play like they are in the U18s team.
Also I hope this puts to bed the arteta and his sauce bs.
Guns laca’s link up with auba on the edge of the box was decent yesterday but he rarely got involved nearer the midfield so we always looked out numbered But this is a problem very specific to arsenal this last 18 months where there is always a huge gap between midfield an attack that makes looking dangerous always such a challenge Considering how much we struggle with offensive transitions and to controlling the midfield I would play a 4-4-2 with auba and martinelli *both* as false nights dropping very deep regularly By doing that we could frequently flood the AM… Read more »
Gonsterous I actually think usually keepers get way too much protection. Yesterday Leno wasn’t, but as a rule of thumb in most games keepers randomly get given free kicks for really innocuous stuff like a striker just jumping for a ball near them
I really have sympathy for Arteta . He already inherited a poor squad and now its ravaged by injuries. 1st choice keeper gone , 1st and 2nd choice defender Mari and Luiz gone , 1st and 2nd choice midfield unavailble Xhaka and Torreria . Expecting Guendouzi to play like a midfield lynchpin ia too much . Ceballos actually plays with heart but lacks a reliable partner in midfield , often he has to pass back to his defenders. But I still want to know why the fuck Arteta is not playing Martinelli . That is one of the most baffling… Read more »
Gonsterous our previous captain told the fans to fuck off! We seem to have a recent history of problems with the captaincy which started ever since wenger devalued it and started giving it to whoever he wanted to stay. Then we had gallas… Arteta was an entirely forgettable player and captain (though not bad), we’ve had Kos who was a good player but not a leader and cried because his kids asked why we are shit lol, per was quiet and not an elite player, then we had the calamity that was the emery 5 captains including xhaka and ozil… Read more »
If this is sauce, its utter tosh
Mikel from Spain, has caused some pain
This day was plain and full of stain
We thought Arteta would make us better
Lets wait till summer, dont bring no drama, just blame the scammer
He is so lego, was told by pedro
I’d really feel a lot better if auba leaves we literally just had no captain u til someone earns it
The captain needs to be a nailed on starter who makes the team better, fights for the team, lifts morale, keeps people focused and honest etc
Who can do that job? No evidence anyone can so far so just bin it and let them all fight for it. Pick a captain next Jan 1st or postpone if there’s still no obvious candidate
China
You forgot the main role of the captain in our club. Needs to attend the coin toss, they are great at that.
Apart from the coin toss, they have literally no other role as captain.
Epic comment over on F365 following a piece on Mesut Ozil’s situation and how the club want to get rid this summer but he’s determined to see out his contract.
This reply from Mkwazi Uzulki (I’m guessing that English may not be his first language but he nails it nonetheless):
“Village invite cockroach to feed on corpse cockroach stay till is corpse is gone. Not fault of cockroach.”
Good post! The truth.
this club is dead for now
Tony
Frank has had a full season and he’s also had his ups and downs. Why cant people understand that this is only the second loss under Arteta.
Wasi – we lost to Chelsea also remember?
Not that I’m calling for his head.
Oh, and Olympiakos of course.
“Village invite cockroach to feed on corpse cockroach stay till is corpse is gone. Not fault of cockroach.” Haha. True. Our mismanagement at all levels of the club is pretty much unrivalled, at least in the Premiership. We didn’t learn from Edu leaving on a free and have been through that cycle time and time again. We have to change an ingrained culture at the club. A culture of no accountability, weak mentality, sulking and laziness AT ALL LEVELS. That’s not easy, but it’s a challenge Arteta will have known well as it was well ingrained when he came to… Read more »
Wasi
But Arteta had Pep to learn from and become the 2nd coming of the saucy one.
Yet still doesn’t have a clue about in game management.
What people can understand is Arteta’s limitations as a head coach that comes from lack of experience. Arteta can’t learn on the job with The Arsenal; however, Arteta doesn’t seem to be able to do that either.
Very Wenger in that respect where he just keeps making the same mistakes.
Let’s just get the season done and see what happens over the summer.
Arteta needs a full season and his own players, system and style. If it doesn’t work or shows no signs of improvement, he moves on.
I see Lampard’s thanking his owner Openly for backing the club’s financial dealings this “summer” (which on paper look excellent). This is an owner who was refused entry to the UK and had to become an Israeli – and he’s still backing the club.
We won’t get any backing and will fall further behind. I think we can probably accept now that we are at beat in the second tier of English Football. No way we can back into the TOP five for a few years.
Fair enough in theory Guns but Arteta is going to pretty much work with what he’s got. We’re not doing much in the TW this summer.
Tony; in Arteta’s favour, this season is gone. It doesn’t much matter now what he does. Likely as not a second and maybe further phases of the virus will fuck up next season too. If he tries to integrate the kids into the team ahead of next year, particularly considering our zero Budget for transfers in, it makes a lot of sense. Win or lose now means little. It’s about a Long term plan of building for the future, in a world where we have little In the way of competitive advantages Against our competitors. Ironically, it’s quite like Brexit… Read more »
Also Guns, we’ve had a couple of months for Tets to get his ideas implemented into the thick skulls of our players. Yet We have had a zero from six start and are looking worse than anyone in the league. As has been said, he won’t be getting new players, so he has to do the best with what he has at his disposal. I’m not seeing it. I give him time as I like him as a guy, a presence and a Football brain. The question still remains if he has balls made of brass. If not, this team… Read more »
EPISODE1
CG investigates a charismatic figure whose followers believe he can perform miracles; he may be a divine entity or a dangerous con artist.
EPISODE 2
A throng (CC, GOH, UN, WASI) follows a man they call al-Masih into the desert, which raises suspicions in the Le grovers.
EPISODE 3
Inexplicably appearing during an Emirates tornado, al-Masih quietly moves supreme leader Peh Droh to embrace a new purpose — but CG and New york New york quickly close in.
andy
I was only talking about the league. But my bad I forgot about the Chelsea defeat.
Tony
Learning from Pep doesn’t make him as good as Pepe right away. I do agree his game management has been pretty poor and that he will learn with experience. I hope he learns fast.
Moray
Appreciate what you’ve posted but it concerns me that inexperience is not what our club needs, especially in rebuilding.
I was hopeful at Arteta’s appointment even though my gut said it wouldn’t work.
There is a world of difference between an assistant coach to being head coach, which history has proved time and again.
Arteta is just adding his name to the list of fallen assistant coaches who never made the grade.
Sid
I dont get the plot of your 3rd episode !?
Pedro,
Arteta is pandering to cliques within the team. That’s all it is.
“let’s judge Arteta next season”
That argument relies on the fact that he needs time. Fair enough, but what about the fact that he’s incapable of playing the right players, the team selection and subs. That kind of thing has nothing to do with time. It’s just a stubborn personality trait and I’m afraid that isn’t going to change no matter how much time he gets. That’s the main reason why this whole thing feels like a never ending shit storm. Arsenal made the wrong choice in hiring Arteta. Simple as that.
No way Emery has us on 40 points, I would say closer to 52 points had he remained in charge.
I don’t agree that in game management is something you learn on the job Unless you’re trying to do some next level left field tactics, things like subs are largely quite a simple and mundane part of the game When chasing result and not playing well, make positive subs. Bring off players unlikely to make the difference and bring on those who can. Give the players enough time to impact the game etc Whilst the choice of players or an adjustment in formation requires some nuance, this is largely speaking quite a routine thing that not just manager but most… Read more »
Moray As peter has stated many times, the players, staff and CEO are un-coachable. They all have their own agendas, personal goals…which don’t appear to be football related and the fanbase is a joke. We’re a club on the down, I’m afraid and we have to be realistic about where we are. We can moan all we like about Arteta not being experienced etc but I doubt any manager out there could coach this rabble. And that includes a peak Ferguson. Arteta needs at least one full season to be judged on whether he’s the future of Arsenal FC or… Read more »
I can only imagine he was running down the clock by making 3 subs otherwise what would be the point in making 3 subs so late in the game.
Guns, I agree there. It the question is what do we need to do to sort out this shit show? I doubt we can afford any ins, other than Saliba. We will barely be able to offload any of our 10CBs, Ozil, Xhaka etc. Our board are useless and the management continue to make stupid and irrational decisions which cost us money. If we end up mid table which is probably a best case scenario at the moment, it’s not going to mean these pricks suddenly wake up and start playing or the management stop paying millions for shit players… Read more »
Picking wrong players making predictable substitutions, lack of organisation and tactics combined with inane jargon got Wenger the sack.
“Picking wrong players making predictable substitutions, lack of organisation and tactics combined with inane jargon got Wenger the sack.“
At least a decade too late.
Is it fair to say that arteta had new coach bonce? And now it’s gone, the players have reverted to type?
Though that doesn’t excuse dropping certain players or playing players out of position.
Also getting Mari seems like a waste of money. Why would a south American player cost 14m? He should not be costing more than 8m.
A bit surprisedPedro you gave Maupays goal a 6% chance of going in.?
That was a quality goal he gave us far more trouble than our two superstar strikers.
As i said yesterday Laca looks ready for his pipe and slippers.?
Redtruth
“I can only imagine he was running down the clock by making 3 subs otherwise what would be the point in making 3 subs so late in the game.”
I think he said he wanted to bring the subs on a bit earlier but there was a miscommunication or something with the officials.
That doesn’t look too good either.
If Laca or Auba played for Brighton they’d probably score s hattrick against our shit defence.
Pedro
I’m sorry but Martinelli not playing is beyond stupidity and unless he has failed a drugs test, has been diagnosed with covid 19, or slept with Arteta’s wife, he should be playing.
The biggest mistake Arsenal made back in December was not getting in Ancelotti when they had the chance.
Yesterday was an unmitigated disaster against a team and club I respect and admire( my community team) and who I want to stay up. We should have been two goals up before Pepe scored.
What happened after that was a predictable embarrassment, both for the team and Arteta.
My take on the game is that we were a little unlucky. On another day Aubameyang could have had a hat trick. Lacazette had a couple of chances and Saka hit the bar.. Brighton created next to nothing and Mustafi and Holding look a solid pairing. Aubameyang always looked dangerous coming on from the left that is why it Is his best position. We should have had a penalty 2nd half when Kolasinac was clearly brought down but the ref saw a foul by Nketiah that didn’t actually happen and of course it wasnt referred to VAR , if it… Read more »
Pierre
Tbf the gameplan wasnt the best yesterday. Could have been better. We had lots of possession but we were just playing pointless sideways passes. Not enough off the ball movement from our midfielders and wingers to get on the ball when Playing out from the back.
Pierre
Agreed, we should have won………but we didn’t.
It was worrying to see, especially against a team fighting to stay up and playing their first game for more than three months.
What is more concerning though is Arteta is already showing flaws.
Very worrying indeed.
Reflecting after yesterday’s rants….whichever way you look at it, it was shite. Saints away next with a buzzing ings and martinez in goal, that’s an L I’m afraid. Then it’s the 4 tough ones, Leno will be badly missed for those. All in all not much to get excited about.
Emery got sacked for far less than these set of results.
Let’s not forget Man City had lost more games than Arsenal before they played us.
We conceded both goals because of bellerin, simple as.
For the corner, he went to defend the back post, when he’s a RB.
And he was absent a lot of times at rb( maybe arteta asked him to play more forward) when the opposition were attacking and guess what they scored coming in from the right side again.
We really are big trouble if he continues to play week in, week out.
Pierre
“there was little wrong with the performance yesterday other than switching off for the goals and getting punished for it.”
lol this has been happening for nigh on ten years.
This is what makes the defeats even shittier.
Arteta is just a Wenger ‘Mini-me’. If a player is shit, just keep playing him, he will get better right? We have one of the best strikers in Europe…..stick him out on the wing game after game, good decision Wenger….errr I mean Arteta. We have a fantastic young talent in Martinelli, the only ‘gamechanger’ we have……no, we’ll play Eddie, a championship player who will NEVER be a PL regular (except at Arsenal of course). Don’t get me started on Willock and Nelson, another two who will never play for another PL club. He could have brought on Steve Bould, Vic… Read more »
Leon’s unfortunate injury again shows the weakness in our goal
keeping set up.
Bad management again.
TeeGee
Welcome aboard, but there’s not many of us who can see the bleeding obvious.
Knew Arteta was not up to it, early doors. 1. The Round Appointment. Should have chosen an experienced no.2 that actually been a success not a failure. 2. Bringing Luiz back into the side in his first game against Bournemouth. Great opportunity to bin him, immediately. He didn’t grasp it. HE STILL HAS NOT GRASPED IT! 3. Scruffy appearance on the touchline. He genuinely believes if he duplicates all of Pep’s methods – things will work out here. 4. And most important of all- he has allowed Edu and Raul to dictate to him. He should have demanded full control… Read more »
Ten substitutions in two games and we still haven’t seen Martinelli.
Another thing, anyone who feels Maupay was in the wrong yesterday doesn’t understand football.
The kid didn’t deserve that.
Based on these last two games and Arteta’s failings to date, I predict we will finish with no more than 46 points.
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Trump. What a frigging asshole.
A racist rally, in front of dumb and ignorant people.
Armbands for Arteta. Way out of his depth here.
CG
Emery got sacked 13 games into the season which left plenty of time to turn things around.
The fact the season has tanked is all down to the impostor in charge.
Teecee It would be a little silly for Arteta to come in and tell the players “you’re all shit and I am going to replace you” . He had to build the players confidence and up until the lockdown he had succeeded. He has no money to spend , the squad is young but it is still a talented squad with a few deficiencies. Let’s see how the transfer window goes before making a judgement. He has had no pre season with the players and hasn’t been able to bring in his own players other than a couple of loans… Read more »
Red Truth
“””””CG Emery got sacked 13 games into the season which left plenty of time to turn things around.””””
Disagree.
Emery was so bad he has got Arteta and probably the next manger the sack too.
The Clown was the worst manager ever to set foot upon the British Isles.
Him and Raul , have put the club back a decade.( minimum).
I still can’t believe that the fullbacks didn’t cross the halfway line until the last 5 minutes of the match.
Come on this is Brighton.
You see Crystal Palace second goal last night just after 20 minutes with their fullback Van Aanholt bombing forward and assisting the goal.
You didn’t see ours for 85 minutes.
‘We conceded both goals because of bellerin, simple as. For the corner, he went to defend the back post, when he’s a RB.’ What great analysis!! No offense but it seems like you watched your first football match yesterday. If that was how you defens set pieces then there should only be the CBs and the GK in the penalty area and other players in their respective positions. Brilliant. CG ‘Because we would have gone down if Raul persisted with his Clown( which he wanted too).’ Not a day goes by without you moaning about Raul , does it ?… Read more »
Sometimes people who’ve been starved of success see success where it doesn’t exist. Arteta was exactly that. He benefited from the kind of over-zealous hype whose origins lay in nothing more than wishful thinking. It was pure blind faith. There was no track record to speak of, no experience, no trophies, no competitions, no pedigree and definitely no evidence of anything that would qualify him to start his managerial career at a top club in the PL. I don’t know of any profession where you are given a top role without first having proved yourself at least a little bit… Read more »
Graham “Another thing, anyone who feels Maupay was in the wrong yesterday doesn’t understand football.” Maybe if he had told the truth in his interview afterwards one would be more sympathetic towards him . Despite what he said, it was a deliberate attempt to push Leno out of the box. If Leno hadn’t been so close to the line the brighton player wouldnt have tried to push him out of the box, plus Leno wouldnt have twisted his knee through trying to stay in the box. The Brighton player trying to act the innocent and then goading the Arsenal players… Read more »
CH
Don’t be silly, don’t let your passion for Wenger get in the way of the facts.
The fact is Arteta is out of his depth and should be cutting his teeth in the lower leagues.
Numerous problems with this club and there clearly have been for years , one of the many things I find baffling is the amount of chances some of these underachieving players are given by every manager that we employ ! How many chances should a poor player be given to keep showing that they are not good enough ?! Now patience is not my best quality but I know when a poor player is a poor player and they would be gone after half a dozen fuck ups and 20 poor performances , gone , moved on , replaced ,… Read more »
Pierre desperate to roll back his ‘careful what you wish for’ shit from yesterday after Pedro challenged his commentary.
Shameless.
Arteta is way way way out of his depth. We are a laughing stock in world football. I’ve already received about 10 jokes about Arsenal today from my mates.
“If Martinelli isn’t playing, there’s a reason…” You see here’s the thing: When you need to win, you do everything at your disposal to ensure that you do so. In 10 substitutions, TEN, in JUST TWO GAMES we have not seen Martinelli not even once. We now trying to come up with convoluted arguments to suggest why that may be… Perhaps the answer is as simple as it was when Wenger used to play Bendtner as a winger or thought it would be a good idea to continue to play expansive football whilst having gone 3-0 down inside 15mins, or… Read more »
It’s is pretty worrying what we are seeing from the manager right now .then we have supporters saying we are not winning games because Ozil is not playing ….jesus we are in a worst state than America and that is saying someting , has Arteta been re-tested as he appears to be making some very strange decisions , maybe he is not feeling right
Pierre
It’s a contact sport with robust challenges being part of the game.
Leno should take up bowls if he doesn’t like being bullied.
Who would blame Pepe for low morale after yesterday
Low risk low reward tactics again yesterday,
The most we get against Soton is a draw, the only games we are capable of winning are dead rubber games,
then we will head into next season with a false sense of security
Im telling you for free!
Out of the remaining games left, I can only see us beating Norwich and losing to everyone else.
Arteta coaches like he used to play for us: dull, no creativity, slow.
Mr J Very good. I have a very simple take on all of this. Arteta, just like his predecessors, is trying to be too clever. Trying to prove a point is clearly not working. It didn’t work for Emery and it didn’t work for Wenger. Arsenal have to make the most of what they’ve got and when you’ve got someone in your ranks that has the hunger and ability that others clearly lack, he should be utilised. If Martinelli has kicked off in training or behind the scenes, that’s not a bad thing. That’s a positive from a young man… Read more »
Yesterday Pedro’s argument is getting so wild. He is equating Arsenal’s failure to defeat BHA, who hasn’t won a game in 2020 to SPUDS tying Manure who has defeated Mancester City and Chelsea in 2020.
Arteta probably still will play Martinelli on the left if Auba leaves. In the future, however, Arteta has admitted that Martinelli could move back infield for him. As it stands though, and especially if Aubameyang leaves in the summer, more of Martinelli on the left can be expected. “He can play any of the three positions up top depending on where you ask him to do and the type of movements and type of positions he needs to take but he can be comfortable,” Arteta said in January. Also didn’t we fans say Cahill was not good enough for Arsenal… Read more »
1. Leno is a GK. 2. He has many choices to make. Some instinctively. 3. He ran at speed to the edge of his area, away from goal, to deal with a high bouncing ball. He could have headed it out. 4. He jumped up to catch it, with an opposing forward bearing down on him. He got nudged. 5. He tried to put the brakes on and came down awkwardly. 6. The consequences were horrific. 7. If the shoe had been on the other foot, people would be defending Auba/Lacazette etc for the very same incident. 8. As RT… Read more »
Jamie “Pierre desperate to roll back his ‘careful what you wish for’ shit from yesterday after Pedro challenged his commentary.” You just can’t resist making snide remarks can you Jamie. Did pedro challenge my commentary, I wouldn’t know as I rarely look back at the comments. I’ll have look later, obviously must have taken exception to the WOB remark . I doubt if Pedro ( or anyone else) has challenged your commentary as you have yet to say anything worth challenging. If I was you I would stick to doing your very good impression of Bamford in correcting punctuation errors,… Read more »
Graham
All he had to do was admit that he pushed Leno deliberately to try and win a free kick for hand ball, instead he had to act the innocent in the interview and spouted bullshit.
Goading our players at the end was not exactly a clever thing to do either, taking into account the injury earlier that he caused.
“Goading our players at the end”
😂😂
Pierre, taking umbrage at perceived ‘snide remarks’ and then delivering several of them yourself makes you at best a hypocrite, although a boring repetitive hypocrite with no self awareness would be closer to the mark.
Yep, Pierre is the ultimate hypocrite on here.
Blame that golf.
I always have.
ondon gunnerJune 20, 2020 20:53:37
Pedro has and is losing all credibility with this remark.“If Martinelli isn’t playing, there’s a reason. Unless you think he’s intentionally keeping him out the team to spite you?”His obsession with Arteta over the club. I’ve thought this for a while but Pedro has some kind of agenda and his incredibly biased. With emery wasn’t playing martinelli pedro would be calling him out.
London it took you that comment to realise that Pedro has decided to go to the deep end with arteta? There’s no turning back now,refer to the gazidis situation
Arteta sacked yet?
You’re an idiot, Pierre. You and CG two peas in a pod, although at least CG has the balls to respond to Pedro directly when he quotes him. You always cower away like a genuine wimp.
Tell le-grove again how arsenal supporters are getting what they deserve for hounding Wenger out of the club. You alluded to it as recently as last night, just as I predicted you would.
Worst poker face ever. Try harder.
Pedro has zero credibility left to loose at this moment
Im telling you for free!
We all have our flaws, I know I have.
Pedro was pushing for the Arteta appointment prior to Emery arriving. Now that Arteta is here, he has every right to stand by his man.
The thing is there are clear signs that Arteta is also too stubborn for his own good.
He doesn’t have long to sort it out, especially when some of his mistakes are very basic.
Have we won back t back in the league under Arteta.
Have we dominated a game or won decisively?
I had my come to Jaysus moment in the loss to Olympiakos, since then I dint like what I’m seeing about Arteta. Being Pep’s side kick doesn’t translate to greatness as a head coach. Domenec Torrent spent longer with Guardiola and is still mediocre.
Is this going to be another Pierre against the world day?
Stance, grip, swing, contact point, follow through.
Stance, grip, swing, contact point, follow through.
😩
Next post should be titled.
‘The rise and fall of our shining star Gabriel Martinelli’
IMO I reckon Nketiah will be sold in the summer, hence why he is getting all this game time.
Graham –
I suspect Arteta has until the end of next season to show tangible improvements. No easier way to measure improvement than the obvious final league position, and goals for & against stats.
I think we can forget about the xG and xGA trends crap until we need to analyse why we’re only just scraping a run wins. Let’s get a bunch of ‘undeserved’ wins first please and worry about trends later.
I also think Pedro underestimated just how mentally weak some of our players really are. Arteta isn’t a wizard.
5 years under Arsene Wenger still scares me.
scraping a run of* wins
We are tenth in the table. We won’t hold that position but fall lower to somewhere between the relegation places and mid table this season. This will happen because: (1) there’s nothing the team can set their sights on as a suitable target (Europa League isn’t a suitable target for Auba and a few others); (2) we can’t make the best of what we’ve got in midfield. It’s not great, but it probably includes Torreira (injured), Xhaka (injured) and maybe Ozil (away with the fairies). That gives you an energetic defensive midfielder who if instructed to protect the back line… Read more »
@Graham62 “I have a very simple take on all of this… Arteta, just like his predecessors, is trying to be too clever.” This and other things also. Isn’t it strange, that some of the same idiotic things in team selections, formations and subs, Wenger used to make towards the end of his tenure, Emery made… And now Arteta is making them? Most of these examples used to be called out on this blog with an explicit degree of accuracy and were met with copious amounts of disbelief, annoyance and distain, are now being overlooked? What does that suggest?? What does… Read more »
China1June 21, 2020 01:30:37 Wasn’t there a stat that the last time dunk scored (maybe at home) it was against arsenal all the way back in 2018?Serious question, why do we always seem to be the one to break these kinda records?Every time there’s a shit record we let teams beat them.Haven’t won in 10 games? Come play arsenal! Haven’t scored in 20 years? Come play arsenal! Not sure of the rules of the game? Come play arsenal! Had 6 pints and a packet of pork scratching a before the game? Come play arsenal! Hunchback cunt? Come play arsenal!We are… Read more »
I don’t know if the comment about Covid was meant as a joke, but there could actually be something in it. People who have had Covid struggle for some time..
BUT, I am worried that a rookie manager who is desperate to emulate his hero, Guardiola, but doesn’t really seem to have a clue about team selections is a dangerous situation for Arsenal.
He is perhaps weak. We know he has helped with coaching, vis Sterling, but does he actually have any tactical skills?
Answers on a postage stamp!
It is certainly depressing to be very concerned about an upcoming game against Southampton, a place where we have suffered some embarrassing defeats in recent years anyway. Indeed Shane Long has put a couple past us also, he is the type of busy striker who gives our static defence problems.
As others have said previously, let’s hope to see us move the ball quicker and more positively. This was something happening in Arteta’s first few games but seems to have reduced since we returned from the lockdown.
Mr J – “What does that suggest?? What does this all mean??” To me, it suggests that Arteta doesn’t know who his strongest 11 are. Injuries haven’t helped. We’ve conceded 8 goals in the last 3 games we’ve played (ok, 1 was a friendly). I never cared much for xG because we had a solid finisher in Auba. Our xGA has always been poverty, and therein lies the issue. Soft underbelly for 15 years and counting. Something about the culture at the club is rotten. Arteta won’t correct that overnight. Better to write-off this season to avoid further disappointment. Give… Read more »