This is going to be a power blog today.
Sven Mistlinat dropped an excellent interview with Rapha Honigstein in The Athletic. He basically defended all his signings and gave clear rationale as to why the club made the decisions. He also pumped Matteo and Mavrapanos, saying the Greek defender is the fastest defender in the league, and Matteo should have stayed with us.
Without doubt, we’d be a stronger club with Sven here. A lack of leadership didn’t work out well for his tenure at Arsenal. If Ivan G had stayed, he would have managed the process a little bit better and Raul wouldn’t have been allowed to run roughshod on him or the Arsenal brand. It is what it is… he’s doing a good job in Germany with a young collection of players. Hopefully Edu can do something similar with us this summer.
Arteta reckons we’re about to bang.
“This is where we are but sometimes it is difficult to see the moment now, but I’m sure [of] where we are going.
“We have created a really strong group, a really strong bond with our players, with our fans, with our staff and that is going to pay big in the future.
“If you are not inside the club every day and know exactly what is going on within the club, the only way to convince anybody is to win
I AGREE.
Points follow performances… Unai Emery was winning points without performacnes, and it caught up with him. We are performing but not winning points.
Cut out the errors in both boxes and this team will fly.
Our summer is HUGELY important to the revolution. The Arsenal machine has some parts that will always break down. We need to address those and Arteta needs to be fucking ruthless about that instead of believing his own coaching hype like he did last summer. Some things cannot be fixed.
My hope is that we start to match results to our performances starting now.
My second hope is that the plan going into the summer is sexy and clear.
Get rid of the dregs. Sign in young players with high ceilings. Hit the ground running next season.
There is a lot to be excited about. Don’t listen to the moaners that can only make a point by considering the entire season in the worst possible light. This was a transition season. It was a pandemic year, which is why you can’t compare it to any season EVER. The key point… we have found something. The coaching is starting to pay dividends. We are on the right track with the right coach.
What are the chances we could have an easy night for once this season?
It’s a huge game. Let’s see what we have. Let’s keep ’em crossed for a big win.
See you in the comments.
Horrendous. And absolutely typical of Arsenal.
The explosion we were waiting for 😆
EVERY FUCKING GAME!!!
Shittyballos should be subbed off
There it is. It’s actually becoming hilarious! Fucking amateur
Or is it an implosion?
We defend better 😉
That pass should never have been played. Arteta must say that he asks Leno to play it that way.
Ok. Whining about Ceballos is fine
Leno = no brain
Why are players who fucked up play the next games????
No fucking consequences… no lessons learned that’s why they keep fucking do it…
Coaches out Arteta out for instigating
this rubbish playing from the asses
Unacceptabke
Another game gliding, we are not good enough to manage out games, so don’t do it
It’s ok though, self inflicted mistakes shouldn’t be counted apparently so it’s really still 1-0
That goal was on Leno
Ok. Whining about Ceballos allowed
Arteta cannot sort it out.
Wanker
What pisses me off the most is how Mikel arteta continues to claim we’re unlucky. It’s systematic. It’s not luck!!!!
There goes my sphincter
I wonder if people will start to accept that Leno is not a great goalkeeper. His distribution has been poor and he keeps putting his teammates under pressure where mistakes are quite often punished.
However statistically the one with the mistake that directly lead to a goal is Ceballos when it is clear that the goal stems from another risky pass from Leno.
I feel so sorry for our attack I really do. They’ve got their work cut out with these fucking defensive mistakes we keep making. Ffs.
Agree Matt. It’s currently 4 0 to us as we missed three chances due to unforced errors.
Bunch of fucking amateurs
They have 8 men inside the box.
Arteta should have tarred and feathered Xhaka last week for that error
Instead, he waved it off an an acceptable risk of playing from the back
Now it’s the norm.
If xhaka past forward and not a slow pass backwards that mistake would not have happened we really need to sort out cm
Leno has no competition now…he’s gone back to being shit.
Arteta deserves this also, this is his system and his crappy team selection. So stubborn.
Its not Luiz, Xhaka or Ceballos, its that fucking half braon LENO, Emi should be in goal. Leno is shite.
Progress!!
Luiz: I like to make dumbfuck errors!
Xhaka: Hold my beer!
Dani: fuck both of you I’m the king
Fuckin hell, I go to have a wiz to overhear that Olympiakos score…..
Very Arsenal. Just saw the goal. Ouch.
I hope barcelona really want arteta, take 50mil for him and bellerin, give them Luiz, xhaka and willian as a bonus and the future is bright again
We are a laughingstock Arteta instructs them are Keown says
Arsenal worst enemy is Arsenal, the other team just needs to watch we implode ourselfs
When was the last time someone scored against us where they actually created the goal?? Man City I guess
Arteta should say something like he demands the short cute play inside our own box and does not want them ever playing long clearances. Otherwise the players are just gash and making the same dumb mistakes time and time again. But I really think this is what the coach demands
Cenallos again jogging back..
Some were critical on those who suggested Leno could have done better in the xhaka saga… and should share the blame
Well, it’d seem that Leno has an acquired taste of prosuxing assists for the oppositions
But what on earth was Xhaka doing playing it back and just inviting pressure
On brand Arsenal FC
Not even West Brom make such school boy errors in giving goals away than us. It’s a bit like the players are thinking I don’t believe in this playing short game so I’m going to deliberately fuck it up.
Switch thrown, we’re now a fucking shit show
The scum are going to tear us a new one…
Arsenal players lack serious motivation.
When we went a goal up it was only a matter of time before they scored.
We think scoring 1 goal is enough and we can relax and play stupid back passes
We deserve to lose this.
But leno is way better than Martinez, if not for leno, where would we have been?
Low performance culture… I rather see kids trying their kuck than watxhing xhaka ,ceballks etc regularly fucking up
Arsenal does what Arsenal does best fuck their supporters and to give this a shine they have the right manager.
Willian is going to save us again…
Arteta should bring in willian, there’s no point not playing willian in this match because we need to score goals
Just makes you sick when we do it every game. Jesus if we stopped fucking up in defence and giving goals away we’d probably be in top 3
Arteta really is a ‘boring’ manager.
I’ll sew my arsehole up if this clown of a manager takes us any higher than 7th in any season.
Vickingz
Willian started the game….
Arteta us not a manager
Now they have their tails up they are so crap as well
Almost conceded…. we give then constant encouragement
He is a generational coach
Where is the progress. Someone tell me where the progress is with this team!
Olympiacos have suddenly become Barcelona
Some stats dude somewhere needs to work out how many goals playing out from the back gets us versus how many stupid goals we give up. Seems like a crazy bad disparity towards the negative in our case.
I’m all for live by the sword, die by the sword.. if we actually live by the sword.. seems more like we are just bleeding out from Hari Kari. Anyhow.. Come on … now… lets not give up//// sheesh/ that was close.
If Bellerin had not lunged at the player, Olympiacos would have scored. We are in the ropes.
We need to replace Ödegaard as the team looks like crumbling.
Let’s have it right – we have created fuck all this match. So it’s not even just the brain dead moments. Bad everywhere you look.
Sorry guys, our team is too soft to win the EL…. by the way since partey was subbed we lost the midfield
Up to 55 min the Greek scum haven’t been in the game. Then Arsenal being Arsenal we give teams a lifeline
A willian masterclass
Bring Pepe on.
Scared of spurs on Sunday
Jay Jay… he must be or why would.the club pays upward of £5m pa for a complete novice manager. Don’t suppose the management is full of stupid idiots…
Mid
Don’t you know it’s about drawing players in and beating the high press…
@Thelegendary, his ghost must have started this game as I’m yet to see him
Quite Midwest. We seem to give very few away to goals teams manage to create versus ones we set up for them.
People need to stop worrying. We are 4th in the league since Xmas! We’re fine. Plus we apparently have the 2nd best defence so the fact we haven’t kept a clean sheet on 9 games is irrelevant.
It’s all good. Tets has us firing on all cylinders.
Matt-
Yep .. I do know.. I would just like to see that happen… occasionally… hahaha Modern footie.. I guess.
Cebakloa doesn’t shoot from there?? Gutless
@Zfree
I’m arteta’s biggest critic but I think you’re wrong. We’ve had at least 4 good chances. In first 20-35 min we’d had at least 8 shots on goal with 3 really good chances so I wouldn’t say we’ve created nothing.
Mid
I was being sarcastic. I am with you and said the same the other day. The risk/reward of doing it is massively skewed to the risk side.
Saka needs a benching. Willian has been better by miles than saka on th night. Bellerin should be benched permanently
We will win this game.
You guys should chill out.
Arteta is killing us with subs,
Party was plain weird, now we need a goal and nobody comes on, this is poor managemt, we need people to take people on
It’s crazy, I’m sick and tired of it as most of you are! Our “rivals” (not that they would consider as rivals anymore) gift goals like we do about once or twice at a push all season. We do it every week, it’s genuinely laughable. We have become a fucking joke with these players!
Kane’s in his typical form coming into NLD.
We really are shit! We look clueless in our attacks! Clueless in defence, clueless in goal.
Clueless manager.
Not happy. There’s no chance we’re going to win the EL.
Why are we so error prone? It doesn’t make any sense at all. We seem to make mistakes that no other teams make, not even Championship teams. It’s so frustrating.
Are there any consequences at all at Arsenal?
Rubbish in game management assuming the generational one wants to win….
We have also created three scoring chances for them….
Can anyone explain to me what Ceballos brings that Torreira didn’t? Both lightweight, but at least one is our own.
1-1 and Arteta is twiddling his thumbs…
@Zacharse
Totally agree with you about Bellerin. Can’t believe Barcelona and PSG want him as he’s shit. Can’t defend and can’t attack
Get laca and Pepe on FFS
I can’t stop laughing. We are so shit. The total lack of movement with players waiting for the ball rather than making a run to receive the ball is embarrassing.. I really don’t like our style of football, if you can call it a style at all. It’s boring and I’m sorry, Arteta is clueless
Kane is going to shred us.
Its not even a fucking debate..anyone who thinks playing out of the back helps us in ANY way is just plain stupid
No subs till ’80 fellas
Ben D
No other team continues to try and play out of the band under pressure like we do. It’s pathetically predictable
Didn’t even expect to hit the target …and he didn’t disappoint
*back
Add a couple more with a minute to go to injury time
Odegaard has been good today
We’re allowed 5 fucking subs, we have probably our strongest bench for years, and still Arteta waits
MAKE SOME FUCKING CHANGES
lets have some subs. We’re allowed four more!!!
Willian that was