Here we are, match day blog time.
Mikel Arteta has finally caved to Martinelli in the starting 11. All the noise I hear is that he’s been electric in training. He needs to channel some of that ESR mentality. Play like you belong, don’t give an inch to the manager, and take the chances afforded.
Nicolas Pepe has also been rewarded after his cameo on Thursday. He’s another one that needs to keep showing that he can be relevant for 90 minutes. He needs to take his chances, impose his bag of madness on a weak defence, and be decisive.
Main point of concern for the game is the the lack of creativity. Ceballos, Xhaka and Partey doesn’t scream fast breaks and threaded balls. Dani really needs to show up, he has to move the ball fast, and he has a rescue a reputation that’s in the gutter. If he’s shite, I’d love to see Azeez given a bit of a role.
Overall, this game has ‘WHY AM I PLAYING’ vibes about it. This squad of whiners switches off all too regularly when there’s nothing on a game. I really, really, don’t want to see another slow start and another shite performance.
Let’s see what we get…
See you in the comments. x
Gabs !
Martinelli
2 up
I think he will be fine. It’s a minimal impact injury.
Martinelli!!!
Gabi in!
Hope it’s only a dead leg, if it’s a quad pull, he’s out for the rest of the season…..
Now lets just hope saka recovers
Yes…… Pepe to Marti…… nice.
Gabi!! My boy!
Head down merchant, lovely stuff
There you go. A threat all night and he is a player. No more fucking willian please.
Martinelli….. At last
There you go GB!!! Better not be dropped again rest of the season.
Martinelli had a real predator instinct
*GM
Now cushioned… just don’t self destruct or getting injured
See that was a centre forward scoring that goal. Not a wide player.
Strange to see us getting excited beating the worst team in the league.
That’s how bad it is
Foxy
“Martinelli had a real predator instinct”
Yes centre forward instinct there.
Sheffield just going to kick our lads from here out………
Martinelli lurking around the box like a 9..
Martinelli has predator instinct but our Sauce puts him in a chicken coop . Sets him to fail
Pk? ok… guess not.
Chambers really does have a good final ball delivery.
Sucks he lacks some qualities else he’d be perfect for that rb role.
I think my 4 year old could have got more power on that free kick then old man willlian.
Haha what a free kick from Willy !
Had to miss Martinelli score due to my stream screwing up at the wrong time. Typical but very happy to see GM score!!!
Who fucking shoots frome there? FFS.
I. Convinced Willian will never score for us
Xhaka is in his natural position, where he cannot pass too far back. Incidentally doing well too
If saka isn’t fit to play LB and cedric starts there then Martinelli has to start at left wing for us to have any sort of width ..not Auba
What’s the card for?
Willian and Tets out.
Elneny for Partey??
I’m sensing a 2-2 here
Willian and now Elneny, when will Arteta make decent substitutions?
Willian really is an absolute sack of shite!
Spanishdave
“Strange to see us getting excited beating the worst team in the league.”
I would think everybody is completely calm or should be.
The game has an end of season feel to it especially from Sheffield United.
Why not play one of the young players?
This game is done and dusted.
Saka and Martinelli have made some great runs in the box and hopefully would stay a feature
Knew he was gonna find a way to take off Martinelli. Better start that young man on Thursday.
Delighted for Martinelli, that goal will do his confidence a world of good.
Martinelli scored through a pain barrier, it now appears. Was proper he was substituted. But why Elmeny ! ! !
Yep Sheffield have nothing left it must be hard on the players in this position.
We need to sharpen up for the run in.
That turn from Partey, absolute class!!!
Laca 3 up
Brilliant thru ball by Partey
Yes Lacs put them to the sword
Game over.
Elneny is pure shit, amd Laca nails it, give Azeez a pop surely?
Laca laca boooooooommmmmm
Can we play you every week 🤣
Azeez would have had a great time out there. But Elneny is the future you see.
Where are the Partey haters
S Asoa why not it’s academic strengthen the midfield for final 10 mins
50th PL goal for Laca
50 th pl goal for Laca
Good pass from Partey to Laca
3-0
Good finish
Best thing Partey has done for us for some time
Lacaaaaaa
Sheffield United wide open and Laca punishes.
Haha TYAG, ain’t that the truth.
West Brom and Sheffield Utd every other week would be an enjoyable season.
Great from Partey
Lovely spin and release from Partey, clinical from Laca this time.
Hojbjerg would never…
Partey turned a near hospital pass into an assist great game from him plus much more positive finish from Laca
Nice to see us not playing like shit for a change.. Yeah it is Sheffield, so there is that … but still fun to watch. We have to play them so… might as well kick their ass.
Shieffield Utd rivals Derby for the worst ever PL side. Something tells me the Arteta groupies are going to be raving over this result.
Back up to 9th, wahey.
Arsenal need to stop today this poor run of conceding goals in games today as well.
No conceding a late consolation goal to Sheffield United
Eddie sighting… Pierre will be happy.
Xmon Pepe take the shot
Holding has his best games playing with Mari. Those two seem to have good chemistry. Mari plays way more composed than Gabriel. Guess it is Sheffield but I noticed Mari’s calmness before in that run he had a while back. Can’t figure why he isn’t first choice.
That’s what proper technique from Laca looks like in that situation.
Against Slavia he never looked up even once before shooting.
It feels weird being more comfortable with Chambers than bellerin. Really shows that we need a right back.
We are pretty much locked in on 9th place this season … we own that shit.
9th place trophy
Might get out first clean sheet ever here
Jim+f,
Elneny is pure shit, amd Laca nails it, give Azeez a pop surely?
That would just make too much sense……
Paddy don’t jinx it we have a min to go
This not the second decent performance following an Aubameyang drop? Spurs being the other.
Not a great look.
Now ,focus on winning on Thurs ! Even with some injuries…
Pepe, on short term loan to Leeds will improve dramatically. Likely the iffiness overdo might be ironned out. A deadly winger ,on the left after that
Arteta just had to play Saka and now he’s injured, what a cunt.
Very satisfactory.
Sheffield United looked like a team that are down and out today but that was what was in front of Arsenal and they dispatched them with relative comfort with some nice pieces of play as well.
The much more serious game comes up in Prague.
https://www.101greatgoals.com/news/gabriel-martinelli-willian-stat-that-emerged-during-arsenals-clash-with-sheffield-united-highlights-why-youngster-should-play-over-ex-chelsea-man/
Martinelli has attempted more shots in the first half than willian has done all season. That is shocking. Willian needs to go.
Differende betw 8 or 9th only means couple of mils extra in reward money we’d use for the budget perhaps. The only way out is Europa…
Excellent from the sauce back up to 9th.
Sauce knows
Play Xhaka on the left looks more balance than Cedric, who gifted the goal last game.
Well that’s about the weakest premiership team you can play against (despite Pedro’s desperate attempts to lose expectations) but under Arteta nothing is certain. So the win is a relief and will hopefully give the players some more confidence ahead of Thursday.
On to Thursday then… got a little confidence going … at least.
Danny how can he not play Saka ? Everyone else is injured would you prefer he played willian ?
Willian totally ineffective 15 minutes. Not even an impact sub it seems. No hope.
Good interplay out there regardless of opposition
Why the subs of Willian and Elneny ild never know when Azeez and Nelson were on the bench to be brought on
Arteta puts sauce on tactics and jump starts the process with scintillating win at Sheffield
Title of tomorrow’s post.
Our aims for this week was 6/6 in the league, and to qualify for the Semi Final
That’s one leg down, it didn’t need to be pretty, but we played relatively well, and were well worth the three points
Lacazette MOM tonight, and Ceballos had a decent game as well
S Asoa
“Pepe, on short term loan to Leeds will improve dramatically”
I don’t think Bielsa would be interested in him.
As well as passing Bielsa demands of his players high work rate and overall team work. I don’t think Pepe would fit that requirement.
Pepe is too many times a wishy washy character on the pitch even with the talent he may have.
I still want Pepe to start in Prague though from the off purely because of his pace which Slavia didn’t look too comfortable against in the first leg.
Will be interesting to see how much Pedro will milk this result.
missed ze game how did my man martinelle play?
Mr Serge
April 11, 2021 20:58:28
Danny how can he not play Saka ? Everyone else is injured would you prefer he played willian ?
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For this match against the worst team in the history of the premier league, definitely.
London gunner
“missed ze game how did my man martinelle play?”
Half decent scored a predators goal.
We will only get to know how good Martinelli is or will be for Arsenal when he plays in the centre forward position.