‘United will get run ragged by the German boys’
The coolest take of mine this week.
Getting smashed by OGS 5-0 is embarrassing. But look, that’s the reality of United, they have a lot of good players that on their night, can be absolutely devastating.
… poor Nagelsmann. That’s a real spanking. Another one of my hipster fantasies running into problems.
So, onto Arsenal.
We host Dundalk. It’s a dreamy story of a team that’s climbed the ranks with a coach that was teaching kids to play football in America not so long ago. What a day out they’re going to have.
We should beat them, but they’ll be high on life, so this will very much take on the vibe of an early-round FA Cup game. I’m praying for a win out here…
There’s a lot of misery around Arsenal and Arteta at the moment. Everyone needs to take a reality pill and get back on track with what the project is about.
This time last year, people were genuinely talking about Arsenal getting relegated. We were 12 points off 1st, and 4 points off 14th. There was no direction, the players looked uninterested, and things were about to get very, very bad for us.
We hired in a 38-year-old manager. He expertly steered us out of a hideous situation and stabilised the club. That was a huge task most thought he was incapable of.
His biggest mission has been to change the culture of the club, that takes time, especially when you can’t turn over large chunks of the squad that were badly recruited.
Arteta tasked himself with making us difficult the beat. He has achieved that. No one comes to Arsenal to roll us these days, you might think that’s no big deal, but we have literally been getting rolled by top teams for 10 years. We are good at defending. We have the second-best defence in the league and we rarely concede more than one goal. Shots against us have drastically reduced. Again, you might think that’s par the course, but it is within living memory that Watford had 32 attempts at our goal.
Part one of the job is on track. The foundation has been set. The next phase is about fixing the attack.
Here, we have to be realistic. Solving that problem with internal solutions, to the level we require, is unlikely to happen. We don’t have the attacking riches United, Liverpool, Spurs, Chelsea or City have… even Everton look like they have better-attacking options than we do.
We clearly lack a #10 or a modern #8 player. It isn’t one player either, it’s two. We don’t have players that thrive in the half-spaces. There’s no Hleb, Santi, Wilshere or Rosicky to make the magic happen. We’re currently relying on Saka adapting to that role, and that will be a huge ask. He’s more suited as a wide player.
Wide player-wise, there’s simply no world in which Arteta sanctions £72m for Pepe. He’s not playing well because he’s not that good. We hope based on his price tag, the reality is, if his name was Billy Smith and he was a youth player, we’d not be interested. Reiss Nelson is now the answer, but let’s be honest, he was struggling the break into Hoffenheim after a blistering start and we spent the summer trying to move him on. We love Gabriel, but it’s still a stretch to think he’s going to be a teenage saviour this season.
Then you look at the striking options. Auba through the middle isn’t an option because he can’t hold the ball up in the way we’d like. Lacazette isn’t right, and Eddie seems a way off ready. Fans are pumping Balogun?! That’s not right.
If we’re realistic, solving our attack is going to be very, very tough.
At the moment, our approach is to squeeze out chances to make our powerplays. The hope is that out of 4-5 good chances we create, we score one and batten down the hatches. This season, our form has been poor and we’re not taking our chances. Nothing has clicked and lady luck has covid.
You also have to accept that when you hire a young coach, they will make mistakes and misjudge situations. Arteta has a high ceiling, but he has to learn. We couldn’t afford to spend £15m on Poch, so we took a chance on potential. He will fumble, he will do odd things, but that’s a price worth paying, because when he gets it right, and he will, it’ll be worth the entrance fee.
‘SACK HIM’ is not analysis. It’s what stupid people who live in the moment say. Again, worth noting that the ‘best young coach in the world’, just had his arse handed to him by OGS. RB Leipzig is a very well assembled side deep into its development. They made the semi-finals of the Champions League last season. They are a good team, but bumps in the road are part of the journey when you bring in a young manager. Even Jose, with a far better squad than ours, tanked a 3-0 lead to West Ham.
I also find the perversion people have over William Saliba very, very odd. Arsenal are pretty good at defending. If we are not including a young player in our squad this season, there’s a good reason for it. The player had fitness issues last season, so we know there are problems there, because the Premier League is brutal. He can’t speak English, which is also tough to manage. He’s 19 years old, has just moved to a new country, and he’s dealing with horrendous personal problems. Do we think throwing a precocious talent into the first team, just because Dave on the internet saw two minutes of him on Youtube, is a good idea? Do we need to wreck him in front of millions to prove a point? 19-year-old centre backs at the highest level of the Premier League are a very, very, very rarely a thing. Arteta is protecting a player that has a very, very, very long career ahead of him. You are really struggling if your analysis of our problems right now is #FreeSaliba… but again, when things are not going well, any average idea is given oxygen.
Arteta will experiment. He is humble enough to admit when he’s wrong. He will develop his ideas. But you need to brace for the fact that the path to top 4 is not paved in goals, it’s brick walls and ruthless discipline… and the hope that January might bring a present or two.
Don’t lose faith. Don’t covet busted flushes that started with better tools. Keep the faith. This is the way. xx
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“Nelson cant get selected to play on wings over the likes of Nketiah and Willock. So your point that Nelson is better than Pepe is your personal fantasy.“
It’s my opinion, same way Saliba isn’t getting a game over Mustafi and co. He not a better footballer than him? That fantasy too? Or just the view of Arteta currently for what could be any number of reasons?
Scared of the Manutd game now
No excuses for saliba not starting in the europa cup…none
Thanks for your thoughts Mrs Arteta
Arteta has qualified for an OBE….Out By Easter !
“Then you look at the striking options. Auba through the middle isn’t an option because he can’t hold the ball up in the way we’d like. ”
What’s the point on being on this blog when the blog proprietor is this stupid?
*of
Arteta says that leicester showed respect to arsenal in last game. If his logic is anything to go by, then arteta shows respect to all the teams in PL including relegation fodders lining up a defensive side. Such arrogance by him! We all know how these kind of things end.
Supreme leader has had humble pie for appetizer, he is looking forward for the main course and some dessert
Nice to see a more rationale approach Pedro. I thought that some of your recent comments indicated that you were taking the “one game” approach where demands for a change of manager are based on the last 90 minutes. Arteta has considerably tightened Arsenal up, won the FA Cup and improved players in his short time at the club. Everybody says three transfer windows are needed so that is eighteen months; so I would suggest criticism by all means in the interim but lets’s look at the balance sheet in May 2022 (or whenever that season ends now!)
Arteta is following the footprint of Gary Neville, good talk, 0 end product.
There is no planning really at this club. One day they want to send rob holding to newcastle but next day they change their mind. One day they want to send reiss on loan but next day they change their mind for one reason or another. This is not how a club should work. If they came to a conclusion based on data and day to day performance that Rob and Reiss needs to go out on Loan why change it unless their analysis wrong on the mentioned players.
“Getting smashed by OGS 5-0 is embarrassing. But look, that’s the reality of United, they have a lot of good players that on their night, can be absolutely devastating. “… poor Nagelsmann. That’s a real spanking. Another one of my hipster fantasies running into problems.” Really? I wonder what fate besets us then? I wonder what Rashford and co will do to our high line… or will Arteta do what he normally does and park the bus. So if OSG smashes Arteta (something, which on present form, that looks increasingly likely), will that be “embarrassing” for Arteta or will that… Read more »
Nagelsman and Jose do not have relegation shots on target stats.
The main thing tonight is to play NO ONE who will start on Sunday. No excuse to not win with our b side who is still worth at least 20 times more than the opposition.
And definitely don’t play Leno. If Runar is that bad, what happens if Leno gets injured while playing unnecessarily in the Europa.
So Runar, Nelson, Nketiah, Willock, Kola, AMN (unless he starts Sunday) all should start.
” I’m praying for a win out here…”…… wow such a come down by pedro here. If we have to pray for a win against dundalk then why have a innovative manager like Arteta
“Getting smashed by OGS 5-0 is embarrassing” —– Lost all my respect for pedro here. He is another mark goldbridge, bantering about other other clubs when your own club is burning down. Why even bother to worry about Lamps and OGS when Arteta is so bad. Considering what arteta is doing now, Lamps did a tremendous job last season to finish 4th even after losing their best player.
“This time last year, people were genuinely talking about Arsenal getting relegated. We were 12 points off 1st, and 4 points off 14th.”
Well, we’re only 1 point off 14th now and how close we are to 1st is down to Liverpool and Man City both having a bit of a shit start by their standards.
“we rarely concede more than one goal” —- Pedro knows that he can no longer depend of BS MBA type defensive stats. So invents new stats. Very very embarassing.
The truth is we didn’t concede more than 1 goals because of luck… remember westham game… even city game…..don’t worry this stat can’t be used after the UTD game. We all know we are in for a spanking unless things change dramatically.
I am starting to wonder if pedro is the objective arsenal blogger that he used to be before. Folks, who should i start to follow now? Arseblog, Ltarsenal, gunnerstown….. Does any more good bloggers exists?
‘I’m praying for a win out here…’
@gentlebris give supreme leader some free tips about prayer
Over 26 PL games Mikel is doing worse than the manger he replaced. To make matters worse he has 1 point more than the manger he replace in his last 26 games. “Trust the process” really? What is the process? It’s Arsenal PLC, it’s a business if you’re out of your depth, you should be replaced. Paying CL wages to players and give the manager 5 yrs for him to finish 4th. Unfortunately that’s not how it’s works! Arsenal managers are hired to have us challenge for the league or finish in the CL spots.
I’m not losing faith but Pedro is back to defending Arteta’s decisions. Aubameyang through the middle IS an option for us as Arteta just said: “Yes, that’s a very possible thing. It will depend on the games, it will depend on who he’s surrounded with. “I think it’s very important to see who is around him and why we’re doing it. Not just the fact we’re doing it, why we’re doing that and what we’re going to get by doing these positive things. Of course, there’s a very strong possibility to play him as a No 9.” On Saliba again… Read more »
“Considering what arteta is doing now, Lamps did a tremendous job last season to finish 4th even after losing their best player.“
Arteta won the FA cup last season compared to Frank, and Chelsea and Arsenal are level on points in the league so far this campaign.
We’ve also not spend quarter of a billion on our attack in one summer just gone. So how tremendous Frank doing this term?
Buzzy
Just fuck off. The fact you turn up to a free blog and call the writer stupid only serves to prove one point. You don’t have any business here whatsoever.
Disagree with whatever you like but your continued disdain isn’t worth the price of admission.
What do you mean we’re hard to beat we’ve lost 3 out of 6
Not one first team player should start tonight, if we don’t have enough to beat them with second team we are in trouble. Need a fresh team for Sunday!
Jeez you’re all over the place. I know your a marketeer by trade but some stats / facts help. Try this article https://7amkickoff.com/index.php/2020/10/26/trying-to-trust-the-process/
We haven’t improved by any metric. I’m not saying bin Arteta off but sometimes your posts just spin a narrative without substance, facts or analysis. Stick with the line ‘he’s having a tough time and I trust him to make it better’.
I’m in 100% agreement with Pierre regarding Saliba. There is no reason he couldn’t get a run out this evening for example, in fact this is probably the best possible opportunity to ease him in as gently as possible. However regarding Arteta, any calls for his head should be treated with the contempt they deserve. I recall the majority of people here saying upon his appointment that he needed at least until the end of this season, and in reality until the end of next, to see where we truly are. This is obviously not in the event of the… Read more »
Champagne charlie, Are you pedro in disguise? Anyways i have a huge respect for pedro thats why i keep reading his blogs. That is also why it is lil bit frustrating that he is going down on levels by bantering other clubs managers when our own is no good. He constantly talks about OGS like he is some sort of roadragger who became manager. We should just focus on ourselves.
Pedro I’ve always loved your writing, but rarely agreed with much you’ve said. However that post was the most reasoned and measured argument I’ve heard you make. Champagne Charlie Building teams takes time, Chelsea didn’t sign a single player and finished 4th. This season they’ve spent £200+million, but need to build an entire new forward line. Havertz isn’t a £90 million player, he’s a £90million talent, you then need to develop that talent. Werner looks a cracking player, I’d have sold Aubameyang and signed Werner for £50million, and on half the wages, if given the choice. Zyiech for £30mill, looks… Read more »
Pedro always reframes expectations to fit his narrative. If things are going well, “I told you so”. When things aren’t, “he hasn’t got the tools”. He uses statistics to bend the narrative his way. His writing his framed by egocentricity not objectivity. Backing Arteta to be a next-level manager was a daft thing to do in the first place. How can you back a manager that’s never managed? If he turns out good that doesn’t make you insightful – you had no basis from which to make an insightful prediction. Neither does that mean Arteta will turn out bad. The… Read more »
Talk about lowering expectations and getting your excuses in first… No-one with half a brain was seriously suggesting we’d get relegated last year. Five minutes ago Ole was a chump and fourth place was the minimum expectation. The spin machine is in overdrive! Seriously though if you sweep away all the hype and the agendas we’re a top six side (or damn well should be) and top four would be over achieving with the squad we have. If MA irons out some of the tactical errors and shows a bit of flexibility he’ll do okay. In hindsight declaring him to… Read more »
“We are good at defending.” No Pedro. Putting 10 international players behind the ball and improving your defensive stats is not good defending. If you have sacrificed the entire attacking side of your game to improve defence, it is not good defending. Good defending means you are able to achieve good defensive numbers, while also having good offence. It is not easy. Jose and Wenger are both elite coaches. Neither managed to find the right balance. One parked the bus, the other did not even have a bus. Pep’s Barca team were so good at finding the balance because they… Read more »
Stings to think that we paid more than double for Pepe what Ziyech cost Chelsea.
Pierre
This one is for you. During an interview, Mustafi was asked about what he think of Ozil. Here is what he said: “Ozil is a teammate and a friend. He always trains very well. He gets along with all his teammates. He is disappointed that he is not allowed to play. But he will always have my respect.”
Pedro, “Sack him is NOT an analysis.” Agree wholeheartedly. But then again, neither is “reframing expectations” unless we want to go down Bamford/Dariano’s route of arguing that we are not a “top 4 squad” and that player X or player Y is “not good enough”. As you point out, Arteta has essentially solved the problem of our leaky defensive structure. We don’t get smashed as we used to, amd don’t face situations where a team like Watford can have 30 goal attempts against us. Now he needs to address our attacking intensity, variety and fluidity, and he needs to do… Read more »
David
My point exactly
We really aren’t making any progress.
The attack has gone stale and the link up play is fractious, so players start to wander around uninterested.
Constantly fiddling with set ups is not a strategy just an indication that he hasn’t a clue as to how to get the best out of our squad.
AC
Yes, I’m Pedro.
By what Metric is Arteta “no good”? You hailed Frank Lampard tremendous for finishing ahead of us by 10 points last season, and we’re level on points with them after 6 games so far this season.
I’m struggling to understand what you’re measuring as success vs abject failure to deem a manager no good.
WengerEagle I’m still on the fence with Pepe We 100% overpaid, you could see within the first few weeks that he was incredibly raw. But he still hit 10 goals and 8 assists last season, and was a late bloomer. He’s got qualities, he’s good in 1 v 1 situations, he can produce moments of real quality and influence a game, and he can hit a really good set-piece. And at 25, I don’t think it’s too late for him to develop his game, and become more consistent. The worry is, he’s a bit of a lightweight, but as we’ve… Read more »
Chris, No manager is given an arbitrary date to show that he can perform. It is the club duty to assess based on results, performances mood within the camp whether he is still the right man for the job. With Emery, it was clear that things were sliding toward disaster. Results plummeted , performance were abysmal and most of the players wanted him out. I would say that Arteta has until Christmas to stabilise the ship. If by Christmas we still play that turgid football and results have not improved, then KSE and Edu will have a big decision to… Read more »
“Talk about lowering expectations and getting your excuses in first…No-one with half a brain was seriously suggesting we’d get relegated last year. Five minutes ago Ole was a chump and fourth place was the minimum expectation. The spin machine is in overdrive!Seriously though if you sweep away all the hype and the agendas we’re a top six side (or damn well should be) and top four would be over achieving with the squad we have. If MA irons out some of the tactical errors and shows a bit of flexibility he’ll do okay.In hindsight declaring him to be a ‘generational… Read more »
Arsenal’s summer recruit Willian admits playing under Mikel Arteta is proving a steep learning curve – and admits there are frustrating elements to life under the Spaniard. “It’s been a cool, new experience. I hadn’t worked with a coach with that mindset,” Willian told Globo Esporte. “The positional game doesn’t mean that you have no freedom on the pitch. You have the freedom to move, but many times you have to respect the position, what the coach asks. The instructions, understanding them, that it’ll be better for the team. “It may happen that you don’t touch the ball and get… Read more »
Champagne charlie, You are still not getting to the point. Why should we talk shit about LAMPS or OGS when our manager is no good. Let is just focus all analysis on ourselves instead of taking cheap shots at the next manager.
Also, I didn’t say LAMPS is a tremendous manager but his achievement last season was tremendous given the odds.
Wengaball Actually agree to an extent, while I think that Arteta has improved us tactically, has made us more compact and harder to break through and has lifted the morale of the group as a whole, Im not sure how much it at all he has actually improved our identity, style of play and offensive football because of the reductive and conservative defensive system he employs. Sure we are harder to beat, but we are basically set up as a lower half of the table team most weeks with 5 defenders plus 2 sitting midfielders starting. He doesnt trust most… Read more »
May be no good is not the correct word….”no better” is apt for this scenario. As you exactly put we are in the same points position as chelsea and manu
Wengaball, You make the same point that I did in a much more erudite way. We are not better at defending, we just defend in greater numbers. The greater number means that the opposition find if more difficult to bypass the defense. However we have sacrificed all our attack in that process. We have three attacking players isolated and unable to create pattern of passes to score from. Nowadays a lot of teams cede control of the central midfield to better exploit the wing. We cede control of the central midfield, but because the wide players are isolated we don’t… Read more »
Here is how we have improved defensively
19th in tackles in the final third (7)
19th in tackles attempted against dribblers
12th in overall pressures applied
15th in pressures won
13th in high pressures (in the opp, final 3rd)
Valentin
Yes that goes without saying as I alluded to with saying unless the wheels came off, there is nothing wrong with voicing concerns, as they are going to be some with a rookie manager, but I don’t think we have reached the stage yet where every mistake should be hyper analysed and we forget about all the positive steps Arteta has taken.
We do need to see a more open and expansive attacking mindset, a good game to explore that mentality is tonight for certain.
Nelson’s and Saliba’s are 2 different cases. Defense is a position which we’ve improved drastically in and Saliba has had personal issues of.his own. On top of having 8 senior CB in our squad. Attack is a position which has been lacking for some time due to Arteta’s defensive approach. I dont think Nelson ks dealing with all the issues Saliba is dealing with rn. Nelson hasnt been preferred over Nketiah and even Willock on the wings. Says something. Wanting Arteta to give Nelson a look in is something. Declaring Nelson better than Pepe ( with no factual points to… Read more »
“Champagne charlie, You are still not getting to the point. Why should we talk shit about LAMPS or OGS when our manager is no good. Let is just focus all analysis on ourselves instead of taking cheap shots at the next manager.“ No I get it just fine thanks, there’s no perfect storm under which you’re only then allowed to dismiss rival managers and teams. United have enormous resources compared to us, have spent millions upon millions more than us, and have a manager that’s been there far beyond Arteta, and he’s shit. Chelsea again have mountainous resources, spent about… Read more »
Sid
Defense isnt measured in nimbers.
And if you still want to go ahead. Please check the goal conceded stat too
A timely reality check, Pedro. A dose of commonsense. For obvious reasons, Arteta’s project is a step-by-step process.
I remain oprtimistic: we can stiill win a trophy, end the season in top 4.
Tonight I hope Arteta loosens the leash on the youngsters, allows them to do what they do best: attack. Keep the defence, use Partey, Ceballos, and allow Saka, Pepe, Nketiah, Nelson, AMN, Willock
wreak havoc.
Valentin/Wengaball,
I disagree that it’s just a matter of defending in greater numbers. Under Arteta, we do actually defend more intelligently.
Under Emery, we were susceptible to the usual counterattacks, but also very susceptible to sustained periods of pressure from opponents when we had lots of men behind the ball
““It may happen that you don’t touch the ball and get frustrated, but Mikel always says that, wait a minute, the ball will arrive.”
That really rings a bell. I remembered Henry talked about his experience playing under Pep. One time, he left his position and scored a goal. Pep gave him big shit. Arteta must have inherited this principle from Pep.
“Wanting Arteta to give Nelson a look in is something. Declaring Nelson better than Pepe ( with no factual points to support this outlandish argument) is another” It’s my opinion having watched both play football. You’re not going to get “factual points” because it’s all inherently subjective views that are being shared. Is Pepe better because as a fact he cost 72 million? Because if so then Maguire is better than VVD. Cold hard facts aren’t a clear currency in football, especially when concerning two players that have largely done nothing in an Arsenal shirt. I think Nelson does the… Read more »
Sid,
The stats you quote aren’t really illustrative of defensive capability if the team manages to restrict goals against, chances against, and expected goals against.
Val You talk about Arteta organising us better and then in the next sentence say we don’t defend better, we just have more players defending – as if Arteta is fielding 14 versus the 11 of previous managers. You can pull various supportive data that shows we’re better defensively, there was a slew of it last season from heat maps, to pressure success, to average position of each player. We’re structurally a world away from where we were 12 months ago. I called it from the moment you uttered the words, you’re now in full spin mode to make your… Read more »
Pepe vs. Nelson is a bit of a non-debate. At the moment there’s no way of objectively saying who is a “better play.”
If Peo isn’t working at present, Arteta will either have to adjust his position to closer to goal and away from the touch line, or play Nelson/Willian.
Bamford back with yet another alias. He’s the new Don.
*Peo= Pepe
Dwayne
No it’s the number of games we’ve played this season, I don’t get to cite anymore for obvious reasons.
But you’re missing the point of what I said looking for a measure to disprove. I said how is Lampard hailed tremendous versus Arteta who was hailed “no good” when the former finished 10 points ahead of us last season and is level with us presently?
Jamie
You’d think he’d switch up the vernacular and linguistic styling. Beta-level trolling
dwayne, is your favourite club Leicester or Utd?
CC –
It’s pathetic.
Willian: “You have the freedom to move, but many times you have to respect the position, what the coach asks. The instructions, understanding them, that it’ll be better for the team.“It may happen that you don’t touch the ball and get frustrated, but Mikel always says that, wait a minute, the ball will arrive. I’ve been learning a lot.” Basically what I’ve been saying for a while – Arteta strives to make our play robotic, lacking any imagination. A bunch of trained combinations that repeat time and time again. It could be a good approach but at the moment it’s… Read more »
‘Defense isnt measured in nimbers.
And if you still want to go ahead. Please check the goal conceded stat too’
We have treated the symptoms not the disease, it will come back and bite,
Like Emerys unbeaten run
You can take this to the bank!
Arsenal technical director Edu managed to overrule Mikel Arteta by bringing in Thomas Partey instead of Houssem Aouar in the summer transfer window,
Why the Arsenal board always wants to interfere with the coach’s choice? The same thing happened to Emery.
Jamie
He’ll be sat with his Dali mask on thinking he’s part of anonymous as he types. ‘Ha, these suckers don’t have a clue’.
We wil have a negative GD at some point
Jamie got him so fast though lololol
“but I imagine those who rate Lampard think his teams play good football and are well-organized week to week“
54 goals conceded last season in the league, which was the worst defence in the top 10 and worst defence in the top 4 by a full 18 goals.
#organised
Jamie,
You’re pretty damn sharp to have spotted the new Dariano so quickly.
Must be your Harvard education.
We won two trophies in August., that was less than 3 months ago. We lost at City, a game where we could have got something, weren’t overrun in anyway, and where we’ve regularly been trounced 3-0 We lost at Anfield, to a team that took 3 years to assemble into the best in Europe, we were outclassed on the day, but still could have nicked a point. We lost to Leicester, who behind the scenes are one of the best run clubs in the league, in a tight game, that could have gone either way, who’d smashed City for 5… Read more »
Rich Not totally writing off Pepe either and there is always the hope that he will turn things around and re-develop that swagger he had to his game in Lille and become more assertive and sharper in his decision making and end product. But when you shell out 72million for a player, you expect one to make a vast difference. Van Dijk and Allison are 2 of Liverpool’s most important players along with Salah and Mane, people will point to Maguire at United struggling but we are not Man United, they have vastly more resources than we do and can… Read more »
Pedro
‘You also have to accept that when you hire a young coach, they will make mistakes and misjudge situations.’
Not at arsenal I’m afraid.
It’s not as if fans are going to accept failure just because Arteta is a rookie.
In an ideal world, fans would be patient enough to accept a three year slow build and other PL teams would be less competitive and allow arsenal fc to reclaim it’s birthright of top four club.
That’s not the real world though.
I’m still backing Arteta but he has to get it right and soon.
Pedro,
We are not in position to let Arteta to learn as he goes along, then bugger off somewhere else, once he’s done learning and starts succeeding. Simple.
Trust the process, you say, but you don’t even sound particularly confident about winning against some shitkickers from a non-existent league.
Why are people making Pepe a scapegoat for Arteta’s failings.
13th in pressures in the final third yet we play Auba on the left because he doesnt press?
Willian, nketiah Laca are in reality just running around like headles chicken.
Dwamford 1. Well-organised = less goals conceded and less opportunities for individual performances to derail you. So you’re waffling good and proper to claim 54 goals was down to excellent organisation and merely a poor CB. 2. The “ton of goals” they scored was a whole 2 more than Leicester, and 3 more than United. In fact they scored 13 more than “defensive” Arsenal with their 3 managers and only bettered us on goal difference by a balmy 7. 3. Top four quality squad? Took you long for the Dali mask to slip. Three separate accounts to troll an Arsenal… Read more »
Pedro
The exclusion of Saliba from the EL squad is mistake
Why put Journey man Pablo Mari who was returning back from long term injury ahead of him?
I bet Fofana too doesn’t speak the language and yet he’s starting premier league games for Leicester
The chip Bamford has on his shoulder is a result of him finishing bottom of his class at uni and then having to teach creative writing to a bunch of middle school rednecks in Florida for a living. I’d love to be a fly on the wall when he visits his alma mater. All his old chums titans of industry and then there’s fat Bamford making £20 bets with strangers on the internet while he smashes a box of twinkies into his gob. Create more aliases. Seriously. That way we can all keep laughing when you cite ‘honesty’ and ‘reason’… Read more »
The last two EPL games, we lost 1 – 0. I am really worried that will be the norm. Our defense has improved but it could still give up a goal per game. If our offense continues to suck, we could have a lot more 1 – 0 score.
“then there’s fat Bamford making £20 bets with strangers on the internet while he smashes a box of twinkies into his gob”
Hahahaha I just can’t!
Better at defending is not just measured at how many chances per 90 minutes a team give away. But also how many chances they give away when they are losing the ball. How good is the team during transition. Some teams hog the ball so much that they defend by dominating the ball and pressing in number to quickly retrieve the. They suffocate their opponents. Liverpool and ManCity are the best at that approach. It is a high risk, high reward approach. They are willing to take the risk that their opponents beat their press because very few teams successfully… Read more »
Nah jamie, its the other way round, if you have a chip on your shoulder you finish bottom of your class and end up teaching in the appalachians
Jamie,
Part of my disappointment is in the choice new alias.
Dariano was dashing, evil and mysterious, a kind of modern day Moriarty.
But “dwayne bngham”?
Wtf is that? Even for a middle grade creative writing specialist based in Florida it’s really shit.
“If I could stay at Arsenal, it would mean a lot to me,” says Mustafi.
Let’s face it, Mikel won’t have the heart to get rid of him. So let’s just accept that both him Xhaka will remain at the Arsenal well into their thirties. 🤦♂️
Once val has made up his mind, goodluck trying to talk sense into it. Saying we haven’t improved defensively we just defend in numbers? Are u dumb? We DEFEND AS A TEAM, all teams defend in numbers, that is the best way to counter your opponents because guess what? They attack in numbers too. I’m sure you’re bitter that arteta didn’t do what you think is best but pleaseeee spare us. You said Leicester beat us with a simple game plan but they should/could have lost the game in the first half had we taken our chances and not have… Read more »
Lmao, Bam just cant help himself, can he?
We have our own Le-Grove inception going on here, Dwayne Bngham soon to be channeling Bamford’s spoken word via Dariano’s writings.
Jamie sussed him out faster than a rat up a drainpipe, not that it took a massive effort haha. Lacks the self-awareness to even change up the writing style for a trolling second.
Take a few notes from Redtruth.
Bit of kook aid drinking going on here, saliba is an issue, you don’t sink 28m into a player and then wait 2 years to play him, we are not Chelsea, resources are finite, in what world leaving him out of a europa squad to play 4 gks is right I dont want part of it.
I back arteta but there are issues in certain areas that he seems tk be making hard. I can bet as way martinelli will be marginalised and we bemoan our wide options again when we have abuba wide and laca central all year
If we don’t win by 3 or more tonight Arteta should get the sack. Sorry but this is a pub team we’re playing, if we can’t at least increase our goal tally against these lot then he has to go. No excuses
Do we know if Dwayne has venmo too?
https://www.gunnerstown.com/arsenal/author/dwayne-bingham/
I AM DEAD 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Kris
This is actually a concern of mine regarding Artyrta even though I generally back him to do well. Xhaka and Mustafi. The latter is nearly always a disaster waiting to happen, and the former limits our midfield play and has down for years. If it is true that Arteta views Xhaka as the heartbeat of our midfield then our progress will be slower.
Giroud can press better than Willian, Laca, Nketiah
The fuck is a “Gambeano Snitch” ??? hahahahaha