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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TheLegendaryDB10

Vickingz

🤣

Yep… And we are still waiting to hear his name.

I in fact just saw an apparition…. makes sense. 😁

Socrates

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

Exactly this.

Willian still looking for his first goal, let that sink in

Samir

Arteta bringing on Elneny to get the draw!!

Great result for us.

prvhc

What is Arteta waiting for ?

MilanøGunner

Here comes the Mo, a popular sub here.. I guess

Glad Willian is playing so well and keeping Martinelli out the team

Useroz

Fuck off, Arteta, if you put Elneny on

Valentin

Did you just see both Gabriel and Xhaka refused to pass to Leno when he was the obvious choice? Looks like they don’t trust him not to drop them into it.

Arteta can talk all he wants about unity, but if the players start to have doubt their goalkeeper, there will be some resentment bubbling below the surface.

SpanishDave

Putting on our leading backpasser on.
Only in Arteta s world

DM

OH MY FUCKING…

I CAN’T EVEN.

ELNENY.

HE BRINGS ON ELNENY

NO WORDS

DUIFG

Fucking hell, arteta out, these subs are fucking atrocious

TheLegendaryDB10

Socrates

1-1 and Arteta is twiddling his thumbs…

Generational coaching I tell you!

SpanishDave

Has Auba had a shot?
Is he on?

El fucking Neny are you sure. Ffs. Jesus Christ Arteta what’s the fucking problem with you

DUIFG

Hope martinelli pepe and saliba leave and have good careers, they are lost at arsenal

Let’s apunk another 100mil worth of twlent up the wall

Jamie

Elmo bang bang, am I right?

raptora

Gabriel what a goal!!!

Matt

Great header.

Dissenter

Is Pepe injured?

Useroz

Gabrielle

2

JOEL

When Arsenal attack its like watching a pub 5 a-side team slowly trying to pass around the opposition defence before giving the ball away.There is just no cutting edge or pace to anything that they do…And talking of a lack of pace…here comes Elneny when they have a bench thats filled with players of greater attacking flair.

Danny

Great header Gabriel!

Mr Serge

Well done Gabriel great stuff come on Arsenal let’s get a 3rd

MilanøGunner

What.A.Header!!!!

raptora

This goal is all Gabriel! Flying header!

Chris

That’s a towering header! Get in, Leno and Dani C breathe a huge sigh of relief!

azed

Goal!!!

Samir

Willian assist.

Start him in the next 200 games Arteta

Matt

They can’t rule this out.

Mr Serge

Var wtf ?

Zfree

What a header.

Gooner_grower

Willian’s got another assist

MidwestGun

Gabs……. Yes!!!!!!!!!! nice… header..

Useroz

The defender wouldn’t want to get up of course….VAR tume

Mr Serge

This is a joke now

MilanøGunner

So, no sub till ’80 lol

TheLegendaryDB10

Gabriel!!!!!!

Yessssssss!!!!!

karim

Doomed

Paddy+Gooner

Gabiiiii

Zfree

Their number 6 just got posterized (American basketball term)

Buzzy

That was one of the best headers i have ever seen

Zfree

Oh this’ll be VAR’d. Of course, it’s arsenal

Dissenter

Papsok wants a free kick
Can’t win the ball if you don’t jump

MidwestGun

No…. not Var…

Useroz

Pepe coming on

Paddy+Gooner

Willian the assist king

Nelson

Good header!!!!

Soham

Has Arteta got something against Martinelli ?

Useroz

Esr also on for Ode

karim

Thought it was being checked at first. My bad

Paddy+Gooner

Smith Rowe back

Dissenter

M’villa is embarrassed
He just got dunked

Danny+S

How many games since Gabriel last played?

Samesong

That’s a goal no way is that a foul.

TheLegendaryDB10

What A looping header.

///

I agree that the subs are really late. Wtf???

Samir

That was all Willian with a sublime assist! What a player …put it on a plate for an easy nod in for Gabriel!

I wouldn’t worry if I was the Greeks. We’re bound to give them another chance before the game is out, we’re good like that

Raulishuss

Val you’re an idiot with your stupid takes and lies. Now is the players resenting the goalie you’re a clown sometimes

MidwestGun

Yes.. Karim me too… Whenever they say VAR .. I get nervous.

MilanøGunner

But.What.A.Header

Vintage Gun

Go for another!!

We’re obviously gonna need it for the 2nd leg

Useroz

Soham, yes… most definitely

Socrates

MO will never make at Real Madrid, might find a home with us though, considering how low our standards are.

Graham

2 1 is so so much better a result than 1 0

We learnt that to our cost last year.

Paddy+Gooner

Attacking subs on when we need to protect a lead

Gazzap

Fuck me. It counted !! In the PL VAR would try so hard to disallow that. Because it’s Arsenal.

Useroz

Leno will be in trouble…. he kicked long once!

Dissenter

Surely with two away goals in the bank, we should be okay

Matt

Ha ha.

Useroz

Elneny

3

Socrates

Pepe cones on and we instantly look better , go figure

Danny

3-1!!!!

raptora

3-1 finally

Nelson

Auba day dreaming.

Samir

Apologise to Arteta.

Great sub; Elneny SCREAMER

karim

Elneny lol !

MilanøGunner

Mo Mo Mo!! Generational sub :p

Nelson

Mo scores….

AFC Forever

Get in. Three away goals!!

E L N E N Y

azed

Game over!!!

MidwestGun

Ohh… somebody just needed to sneeze on it.. would have scored.

Valentin

Their GK is absolutely pants. Two of the goals are on him.

Zfree

Moooooooooooo

DM

I knew it. Elneny!!

🤣🤣🤣

Buzzy

LOL

MidwestGun

Nevermind… Get in Pyramid Pirlo!!!

Dissenter

El neny

What just happened

Matt

Olympiacos are very poor. We should have won this by 5 or 6 goals.

Paddy+Gooner

Moooooooo

Useroz

Willian and Elneny both signing a 5 year contract extension…right after the game

Gazzap

I love Elneny. ❤️ Lol

Jamie

Like I said, Elmo bang bang!

Radio Raheem

Long shots against this goalie the way to go.

Vintage Gun

ELNENEY???

Jaroda

Don’t shoot Mo

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’ve always rated El neny

JOEL

Unbelievable!!

Nelson

Their players were all sitting inside the box.

Raulishuss

We know Val you’re pissed. Tell us how the players will start a revolt around Leno?

TheLegendaryDB10

Lolz!!!…

Elneny of all players to score!!!