TOP FOUR FLIRTS AGAIN, AS HOPE WAVES FROM THE BAR

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Ahhhhggghhhhhhhh… WHY CHELSEA, WHY?

I wanted them to win. Smash West Brom. Keep hope OUT of this weekend. Make the Liverpool game an exercise in nothing.

Tuchel losing his first league game 5-2 has opened this afternoon up. It went from largely uninteresting, to… hmmmm… this could be sexy?

For Arsenal AND Liverpool.

If we win today, we go to within 6 points of top 4. SIX POINTS OFF TOP 4 WITH 8 GAMES TO GO.

That would be tantalising. There are still a lot of teams in the mixer. Too many to topple in my opinion, but still, the Premier League season, as it stands, is not over by a longshot. Our last few games are not the worst… we also play Chelsea, who we can beat.

My worry, as usual, is we’re world-class at punching ourselves in the face. Think about the self-inflicted wounds we’ve inflicted this season. We’ve been smacking ourselves about all year, no one is better at fucking things up than us.

The Liverpool game today, at home, is not looking great on many levels.

The Xhaka haters are about to see what happens when he’s not in the side.

David Luiz, who I’ve been desperate to see out of the starting 11 isn’t going to be included because of injury.

Saka AND ESR have very late fitness tests.

We’re not exactly cooking on first-team gas here…

What do we have going for us?

Well, we’re at home. Jurgen Klopp had a lot more players away last week than us. He’s had one training session to prepare.

I’m hoping that we might have carried through a bit of belief from the backend of the West Ham game. We are playing, mostly, like a top 4 team of late. We have the players to do damage today, there’s confidence that we can come back from going down in big games, and at some point… something has to click for us.

We’re waiting for a bang-bang moment.

Liverpool is a great team, they’ll be top 2 next season… but at the moment, there is a weakness in their system.

What am I looking for from today? A fucking performance.

We gave Manchester City too much respect. We let them score early, then we spent the game trying to keep it respectable.

That can’t happen today. We cannot let Liverpool control proceedings from the off. We have to stop conceding after 6 minutes in the big ones. There needs to be a show of force out there.

Which Arsenal will show up?

As Matt from podcast always says, you’ll know after 5 minutes.

Will it be the team that bossed the Spurs game? Or will it be the team that showed up thinking about what they were having for dinner at West Ham.

These are moments Arteta needs to own. He has to get his team firing. At a minimum, we need to come away from this game thinking there’s been progress

We’ve beaten Liverpool with Arteta. This squad can do anything on its day. Let’s see if we can do it under the pressure of a ‘maybe’ run for top 4.

HUGE GAME. See you on the other side. x

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GSF & Dissenter

I was one of the people who started the talk of player poverty and we are seeing the result.

Saka and ESR out and we look like a pub team. That’s not the fault of Arteta.

Almuniasaynomore

In fairness to Arteta he did say before the game that we could treat this as a free shit. And we did!

Danish Gooner

PATHETIC rubbish

WinOrDie

Was it ESR && Saka that turned the arsenal form around OR it was the brilliance of Arteta?

Peckobill

Mr serge
I’ve invested far more time than that idiot in charge has in this team and I don’t get paid 5m a year either , trust me I’ll out see that clown in charge with my loyalty to the club . He’ll never get top 4 so I wager I only have to put up with it till next season when he gets sacked anyway

Useroz

Even a consolation goal won’t dilute the utter embarrassment

Guns of SF

Martinelli should be playing at least a half from now on.
what to lose?

Ash79

We just gave Auba a new fuckin MEGA deal. If Arteta stays, then Auba becomes the new Ozil problem for us, time isn’t on his side either.

Need a new manager

Mr Serge

Samir exactly Kronkes are worth 20b put some money in it you wankers

Gommit

We are playing like before Christmas.. Before bith Saka and ESR began to play regularly. We are missing them not Xhaka

Dissenter

The max we get from this season’s league placement is 8th/9th, at best.
Any manager who talks so much about “projects” would be giving kids more opportunities till the end of the season.
The likes of Azeez should be getting the odd 5-10 minutes by n ow.
Gawd I miss Wenger…even Emery would have blooded more kids at this stage of the season.

Samir

Gabriel gets done again.
He’s fucking terrible tonight. Worse than Liverpools binman CB.

Gazza

Our worst performance of the season imho & that’s saying something after some of our other defeats….alot of these players need to look in the mirror tonight

Guns of SF

as much as I like Jota the player someone needs to kick that rat face up his ass…. a few times
Annoying rat face

Useroz

Guns

The generational one has his process to lose…so don’t think going to happen even the right thing to do

Samir

Just wait for all the bullshit social media posts from the players after the game…

Mr Serge

Peckerbill if we were in the ground half the results would not have been the way they are this is a weird season
I mean the WBA results say it all
City running away with it everyone else a bit meh

We need a rebuild this summer

Useroz

Ref should just blow the whistle to stop the embarrassment

Guns of SF

we need Bissouma and Buendia
that power and pace is what we need.
or someone of the same ilk

Kroenkephobe

What this boils down to is one manager demonstrating he is far better at doing his job than another one.

Arteta has been completely exposed tonight. He’s shown himself to be clueless.

There is a profoundly disturbing losing culture throughout the club which has existed for years and which shows no sign of abating. Depressing does not come close.

Peckobill

Mr serge
If we were in the ground arteta would’ve been sacked in December trust me

Mr Serge

Awful 2 attempts compared to 14 the dominated our midfield

Graham

Spot on Peckobill. Those of us that actually support Arsenal rather than being inexplicably obsessed with a manager just need to bide our time.

Samesong

What a shit performance their.defenders didn’t have to bust a sweat.

Mr Serge

Peckerbill I don’t think so some of these players are just shit we have to accept this and hope he gets his players in and they are s cut above these wankers

Guns of SF

12 losses first time ever in a season
thanks Mike

Champagne Charlie

Jim Incredibly myopic to overlook a rookie manager picking us up where we were. Never mind the unusual circumstances of the last 18 months as is. I’ve wanted a complete reset for almost a decade since it got stale under Wenger. Seeing a manager with Emery’s pedigree tank the job, I’ve no qualms with us going with a rookie. The project is to clean house and redefine/assert us in the modern era. I think there’s numerous ways to go about that, and hiring young and allowing the growth is one of them. You don’t think Arteta is all that, many… Read more »

Venga, Dani

so who are we buying in midfield then? Bissouma? Sander Barge? Wonder where we rank in the league in terms of CM quality right now.

MidwestGun

Thank God that match is over.. terrible.

Leftside

Having no fans is definitely helping Arteta because that was abominable. The side weren’t trying to win that game, case in point being Elneny (how is he still here?) coming on when you need a goal.

TheLegendaryDB10

And that could have been 0-4. 😒 Embarrassing.

Dissenter

Arsenal have lost 12 games for the feast time in the premier league era.

That’s “progress” for you right there.

Why does Arteta keep starting Chambers in RB when we have TWO RBs who are fit and ready to go?

Gazzap

Shocking how feeble that was. Arteta out. He’s clueless.

Venga, Dani

Think we’re all having a laugh if we think Odegaard is coming on a permanent deal. We have a ways to go before we can attract players like that again.

Mr Serge

If these guys fought for the ball I would say cool we got beat by the better team but 7 of the players today need to do one

LeMassiveCoq

They did not give 2 fucks tonight.

Odegaard selling himself to Klopp there?

All our Easter eggs are in the EL… what are we 100-1? Should be… awful team.

Samir

We need Boubakary Soumaré. He was quality against PSG today and dominated the midfield.

Also:
Pedro Neto
Hakimi
Saliba back (start at RCB)
Torreira back (replace Elneny)
Martinelli at ST

Daveb666

Fucking hate all the smiles and back slapping at the end of a performance like that.

Should be straight down the tunnel for a dressing down.

Danny

That was like a bad pre season match, roll on Thursday when hopefully Saka, ESR and Tierney will all be fully fit.

rollen

Total embarrassment. Clowns.
Arteta out now!

Dissenter

Pedro will go back to doing the fleeting moan before returning back to waving his Arteta pompoms.

Danny S

Process or no process, I still maintain that pretty much any manager in the league right now would have had us higher than we are.

Allowing arteta to learn on the job is costing us massively this season. Let’s just hope he is learning and that next season we see the fruits come to bare.

IQ

People blaming the centre backs should remember that Arteta hasn’t played a settled pair all season. He should have played Mari if playing Holding as they know each other’s games. None of our midfield were showing for the ball but the centre backs are still forced to play out the back. This game we should have played three midfielders but Arteta the tactical genius just plays the same game with inferior players but expects the same result.

rollen

Stop talking about new players. Its pointless with this guy in charge.

Chris

Not the first time we have lost 12 games in a league season, definitely did in 92/93 and probably 94/95 I think, although they were 42 game seasons.

Br0wnie

I agree with those who believe that you have to drop the non-performers and bring young, hungry players in. At this point in the season it’s worth seeing what your young talent can do. Saka, ESR have been the saviours and you can see what happens when they’re out. Drop Ceballos, Auba and give playing time to Azzez, Martinelli. Laca hasn’t been bad so leave him in the lineup but give Balogun some time up front as well. The league is done and dusted. I can forgive errors from young players busting their asses but not the lack of effort… Read more »

Wingdings

Time to sack this fraudulent so called manager Arteta in charge.

Graham

Dissenter – he already is on Twitter.

Marco

Arsenal are helping Arteta ‘s career along instead of the other way around ! It pathetic

S23

Horrific display.
I hope now that we have nothing to play for league wise,we start playing the players that Arteta has in mind to keep.
More youngsters and start to make it clear to the others,they have no future here.
A truly woeful game from us,as poor as I have seen us in a long while.
Poor old Rocky,hope he didnt watch that,wherever he is.

Leftside

Arteta isn’t going nowhere though, in my opinion 8th-12th place we can finish anywhere between as long as he’s here. We’re too inconsistent, squad has too many holes and Arteta continually makes the same mistakes without learning for us to do anything more in the league under him, in my view.

EL or bust, but we all know how that will play out.

Bertfish

Forget the league now it’s done. All the Easter eggs in the Europa basket!

Put in a performance like this in the Europa & that will be fucked as well!

Gazzap

Have to say no matter how many rookie mistakes arteta made tonight he can’t help it when senior players can’t manage a decent touch in 90 minutes. The number of times the ball bounced off laca and Auba was ridiculous

Chris

Just checked, lost 17 games in 94/95! Got to a European final that season, so…..

Graham

I think it’s more mutually assured destruction Marco.

Samir

Also, Odegaard is good but he is overhyped by most on here.

Habesha Gooner

We have been crap for a long time because of our piss poor midfield. Even after getting an injection of quality from ESR, Odegaard and Partey it is still not enough. The LW also needs addressing. Willian was a crappy signing that wasn’t needed at all. We have put all our eggs on the Auba Basket and we need to lie in it. No deal for Lacazette either. We could have given Reiss or Martinelli and they wouldn’t have been as bad as Willian and Auba have been on the wing for us. We need to put Auba Uptop and… Read more »

Venga, Dani

This performance was exactly the performance that Arteta was brought in to end. He was meant to keep us competitive and have us out there giving 100% for the full 90. These types of performances have plagued us all season. If anything it looks like regression from last season albeit with the bright spots of Saka/ESR/Tierney.

Kendo

We have a worse defence and attack than under Emery.

Dissenter

Chambers need to be sold, that’s obvious.
We need to raise money to fund key transfers, that pretty obvious.

You can already see the slow Arteta motions to keeping him.
The persistence of playing him as RB is a prelude to making sure the club keeps him rather that put him on the transfer list.

Leftside

Two shots in 90 bloody minutes against that poverty CB pairing they had? Theres no way to spin that, its horrific.

Useroz


There is a profoundly disturbing losing culture throughout the club which has existed for years and which shows no sign of abating. Depressing does not come close.”

Sadly, the despicable mindset has corroded a portion of the fan and suppoeter base too

Venga, Dani

@Samir. Odegaard was the best player in la liga pre-lockdown last year. He can’t really do much when he gets 3 touches in 90 minutes…

Wingdings

vickingzApril 3, 2021 21:34:13
4th since december

___

Typical deluded cunt.

“Oh but we’re leading the calendar year table”.

Fucking idiot.

LoveSausage

CC,

I’ve been mildly positive on Arteta and didn’t mind us going with a rookie. But I feel this isn’t good enough. I fully expected him to make mistakes but I also expected him to learn quickly and adjust course. That doesn’t seem to be happening. If this continues it’s starting to look like that stretch of games after Chelsea might have been the anomaly rather than the stretch before.

Kendo

Arsenal winning the Europa league would bring the game into disrepute

SAGG

Arteta is 3 loses away of achieve the maximun lost games since 1975-1976 season (You need to adjust the 42 teams seasons obviously because there you have more games played)

That is generational stuff

Emiratesstroller

Our performance was “codswallop”.

Useroz

Vegas

Shows ESR was an accident when the generational one had to put him on before Christmas…

Saka was groomed by Emery…

Sad

Kendo

LoveSausage

Not good enough is a bit of an understament

Leftside

You know its dire when ES only gives you one sentence!

Samir

Venga Dani
Yeah and that’s why Madrid loaned him to us? Bullshit.
ESR is better than Odegaard at CAM. He also brings the best out of Saka.

Graham

Chris

Just checked, lost 17 games in 94/95! Got to a European final that season,

We also fired a manager that has taken us to two league titles

Kendo

Emiratesstroller
“Our performance was “codswallop”.

No it was par for the course

Jim Lahey

“Incredibly myopic to overlook a rookie manager picking us up where we were.” Why would a club the size of Arsenal ever take on a rookie manager? His inexperience is costing the club. “The project is to clean house and redefine/assert us in the modern era” ” You don’t think Arteta is all that, many important figures within the game vehemently disagree with you.” Who are these figures? Do you know who does agree with me? The league table. If that is the case, why is he offering new contracts to the links of Abua and Elneny? “I rate him,… Read more »

Dissenter

Chris
Thanks for the correction

The NBC commentator just corrected the error

Kendo

No shots on goal and first corner on the 88th minute lol progress lol

Ash79

This just fuels my belief that football is crap in general nowadays. Was a time I wouldn’t sleep after a performance like this but now so numb and accepting and more so, bored

SpanishDave

Why should Ode want to stay.
Why would Saka want to stay?
We are mid table dross with an rookie manager.
Still it goes on

LoveSausage

Kendo,

I’m trying hard to practice the Buddhist art of non attachment right now. A few other descriptions came to mind but I’m trying to hold on to my sanity.

Camden gooner

Well that performance deserves a sacking for Areta tonight, get the fucking loser out now

Kendo

Jim Lahey

Not only his inexperience but his ineptitude is sinking Arsenal

Dissenter

Pedro will need top come up with a new table to lift us up.
The “after April 1st” table will soon emerge

Samir

SpanishDave
That is the biggest worry. Who cares about Auba/Laca leaving…
If Saka decides to leave us because we’re shit…That’ll be the end of us being a decent team.

Chris

Graham

True but I think a brown envelope had a lot to do with that sacking!

Dissenter

No worries, although as others have said, need to allow for the fact it was 42 games in a season back then. 12 losses I am guessing is our worst record in a 38 game season.

Leftside

Ash,

We’ve been so poor for so long you grow a thick skin to it. You’d think Emery who finished 5th (we really should have got CL that season) and got us to a EL final was the worst thing to happen to this club. Yet we have a large fanbase making excuses for Arteta who is breaking all the wrong records at this club and his job is seemingly safe.

If they don’t give a shit why should we?

Ash79

Auba ain’t leaving lads ….

He is on massive wages, no one will pay them. He’s our new Ozil

Up 4 grabs now

Just poor, we never turned up.
Losing saka and esr was always going to hurt. But we sat back and gave them way to much respect.

Ceballos was poor, partey wasn’t much better.
The bindippers had a 21 year old Turkish centreback playing and he wasn’t troubled the whole game.
Alison sporting a Freddie mercury tache and had one shot to save.

Wish I could say I was surprised but its jekyll and Hyde arsenal.

Kendo

That’s 6 goals conceded in 2 games add on the golden opportunities missed and you’re looking at double figures for 2 games.

John T.

Crap display top to bottom. Embarassing doesn’t say enough. Players going through the motions as is the manager.

Almuniasaynomore

Cc Faith is all well and good, admirable at times even, however we are gone far beyond that now with Arteta. He has been here for a year, has played here for years, has coached in this country for years,knew/ knows all the players. He speaks the lingo and has overseen two transfer windows. No reasonable person expects the aforementioned points to suggest that he should have turned us around by now but we’re certainly entitled to expect evidence of progress. Instead we are getting worse. So please stop with the rookie excuse. Also please give up playing the pandemic… Read more »

SAGG

Arsenal summer:

Sign Luiz
Sign Agüero
Sign Xhaka
Sign Elneny
Sign Laca

Sell Saka
Sell ESR
Sell Saliba
Sell Mavro
Sell Martinelli

Great things coming

Marco

What do you expect from a rookie manager who should be in the third division proving himself !
No matter which players you bring in , Arsenal will go nowhere with Arteta . As it is , we have one of the best front lines in the world and he is clueless how to use these guys ! Auba is elite , laca and Pepe are good players , odegard is fantastic , tactics , substitutions, starting line up , instructions , etc are all sub par and rookie style !

Champagne Charlie

Jim I won’t entertain that I got it wrong because it’s far too early to make that sort of proclamation. Conversely, you don’t rate him and are making as much noise as possible in the face of poor performance/returns. Our opening 12 games this season cost us dearly and Arteta takes ownership for much of that, if not all. But either you agree a rookie manager is liable to make such errors or you don’t. But we know where you are on matters when you claim Arteta has destroyed the club. Just do me a favour and skip trying to… Read more »

Ash79

Leftside Wrong to get rid of unai, there is no substitute for experience and he was a trophy winning manager. Problem is our social media players started to disrespect him and by that I mean the senior guys. When that happens the younger players don’t care either. Unai was a guy that took the job seriously and had a plan (not perfect sure) but his seriousness got in the way of the players having a good time. I’m Arteta out tonight, no malice or hate, just want the best possible for this club. We are not here to help cut… Read more »

SpanishDave

Pedro will say we have the tenth best defense since last week.
We are on the right track , showing sauce etc.
Nuts

Habesha Gooner

Extending Elneny and Lacazette is what would worry me massively. We are trying to play a pressing game with players that aren’t actually quick enough to do the pressing. If he extends Luiz also then I am done with Arteta. He will get a bit of leeway if he wins the Europa league. But it will still tell me he prefers average senior players rather than taking a risk on youngsters that may go either way. And that isn’t a manger to follow if that’s the case. Wenger had one consistent quality about him. He gave young players all the… Read more »

Kendo

CC

He’s more experience than rookie Emery when it comes to the Premier league, so stop this nonsense and wash your mouth out.

Mr Serge

Damn there is a lot of work to do

Up 4 grabs now

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