ARSENAL ABOUT TO BANG (WE HOPE)

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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.

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Gazzap

Horrendous. And absolutely typical of Arsenal.

Black+Snake

The explosion we were waiting for 😆

Vintage Gun

EVERY FUCKING GAME!!!

Soham

Shittyballos should be subbed off

SWG

There it is. It’s actually becoming hilarious! Fucking amateur

Black+Snake

Or is it an implosion?

Dissenter

We defend better 😉

Nelson

That pass should never have been played. Arteta must say that he asks Leno to play it that way.

Br0wnie

Ok. Whining about Ceballos is fine

Samesong

Leno = no brain

Useroz

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

DUIFG

Another game gliding, we are not good enough to manage out games, so don’t do it

Matt

It’s ok though, self inflicted mistakes shouldn’t be counted apparently so it’s really still 1-0

prvhc

That goal was on Leno

Br0wnie

Ok. Whining about Ceballos allowed

SpanishDave

Arteta cannot sort it out.
Wanker

Gazzap

What pisses me off the most is how Mikel arteta continues to claim we’re unlucky. It’s systematic. It’s not luck!!!!

Jaroda

There goes my sphincter

Valentin

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.

Graham

Agree Matt. It’s currently 4 0 to us as we missed three chances due to unforced errors.

UTarse

Bunch of fucking amateurs

Nelson

They have 8 men inside the box.

Dissenter

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.

Mr Serge

If xhaka past forward and not a slow pass backwards that mistake would not have happened we really need to sort out cm

Samir

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.

Jim+furnell

Its not Luiz, Xhaka or Ceballos, its that fucking half braon LENO, Emi should be in goal. Leno is shite.

Benjamin

Progress!!

Jamie

Luiz: I like to make dumbfuck errors!

Xhaka: Hold my beer!

Dani: fuck both of you I’m the king

TheLegendaryDB10

Fuckin hell, I go to have a wiz to overhear that Olympiakos score…..

Very Arsenal. Just saw the goal. Ouch.

JayJay

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

SpanishDave

We are a laughingstock Arteta instructs them are Keown says

MLC

Arsenal worst enemy is Arsenal, the other team just needs to watch we implode ourselfs

Jaroda

When was the last time someone scored against us where they actually created the goal?? Man City I guess

Zfree

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

Soham

Cenallos again jogging back..

Useroz

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

Foxy

But what on earth was Xhaka doing playing it back and just inviting pressure

salparadisenyc

On brand Arsenal FC

Gazzap

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.

Jim+furnell

Switch thrown, we’re now a fucking shit show

Socrates

The scum are going to tear us a new one…

Samesong

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.

vickingz

But leno is way better than Martinez, if not for leno, where would we have been?

Useroz

Low performance culture… I rather see kids trying their kuck than watxhing xhaka ,ceballks etc regularly fucking up

MD-Gunner

Arsenal does what Arsenal does best fuck their supporters and to give this a shine they have the right manager.

Valentin

Willian is going to save us again…

vickingz

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

Samir

Arteta really is a ‘boring’ manager.

UTarse

I’ll sew my arsehole up if this clown of a manager takes us any higher than 7th in any season.

TheLegendaryDB10

Vickingz

Willian started the game….

JayJay

Arteta us not a manager

Mr Serge

Now they have their tails up they are so crap as well

Useroz

Almost conceded…. we give then constant encouragement

JayJay

He is a generational coach

Matt

Where is the progress. Someone tell me where the progress is with this team!

vickingz

Olympiacos have suddenly become Barcelona

MidwestGun

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.

Valentin

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.

Zfree

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.

MLC

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

Zfree

A willian masterclass

Gooner_grower

Bring Pepe on.

Mr Serge

Scared of spurs on Sunday

Useroz

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…

Matt

Mid

Don’t you know it’s about drawing players in and beating the high press…

vickingz

@Thelegendary, his ghost must have started this game as I’m yet to see him

Jaroda

Quite Midwest. We seem to give very few away to goals teams manage to create versus ones we set up for them.

Danny+S

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.

MidwestGun

Matt-
Yep .. I do know.. I would just like to see that happen… occasionally… hahaha Modern footie.. I guess.

Useroz

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.

Matt

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.

Zacharse

Saka needs a benching. Willian has been better by miles than saka on th night. Bellerin should be benched permanently

azed

We will win this game.

You guys should chill out.

DUIFG

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

SWG

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!

Matt

Kane’s in his typical form coming into NLD.

Samir

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.

Ben D

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?

Useroz

Rubbish in game management assuming the generational one wants to win….

Nelson

We have also created three scoring chances for them….

Danny+S

Can anyone explain to me what Ceballos brings that Torreira didn’t? Both lightweight, but at least one is our own.

Socrates

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

Youdaman

Get laca and Pepe on FFS

Vinay

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

Jamie

Kane is going to shred us.

Buzzy

Its not even a fucking debate..anyone who thinks playing out of the back helps us in ANY way is just plain stupid

MilanøGunner

No subs till ’80 fellas

Matt

Ben D

No other team continues to try and play out of the band under pressure like we do. It’s pathetically predictable

Useroz

Didn’t even expect to hit the target …and he didn’t disappoint

Matt

*back

MilanøGunner

Add a couple more with a minute to go to injury time

Ben D

Odegaard has been good today

DM

We’re allowed 5 fucking subs, we have probably our strongest bench for years, and still Arteta waits

MAKE SOME FUCKING CHANGES

Vintage Gun

lets have some subs. We’re allowed four more!!!

Useroz

Willian that was