Arsenal winning games makes life better. It’s as simple as that. In a complicated and stressful world, football is the antidote. Mikel Arteta has not made life easy over the past year, but it’s clear, if things get better over the next two months, fans will get back on side… because it’s hard to be angry when your team is winning games with style.
That won’t happen this weekend.
We’re probably going to get pasted.
BUT, I would like to see a concerted effort to show up and play some pragmatic football.
The Chelsea game was naive, probably on purpose. I don’t want to see that against City. The moron brigade demanding we go up North and put on a show are painfully deluded about where we are with this project. I want to see a shithousing. 3 at the back, everyone dying for the cause… Auba with a 78th-minute chance that could decide the game. This squad can defend, we’ve seen it against good teams, I’d like to see a boring starting 11 with a street-fighting attitude.
That might involve a really boring performance from Mo Elneny in midfield, but if it’s what we need to get the job done, let’s have it. It certainly can’t involved Kola as centre back or any other galaxy brain move.
The WBA outing might have been against meek opposition, but it was with our first team, and it was beyond a conventional win. If you are a striker, you don’t say after a hat-trick, ‘well, that didn’t feel great because it was against kids’, confidence doesn’t work like that. All the players will be feeling like some ideas clicked that they can take into the next game.
Auba has the confidence that he can score with limited chances, but more importantly, he will feel confident that if he makes a run, there are players in the starting 11 that can find them with accurate balls over the top.
Everyone is going to feel a little sexier having Odegaard in the starting 11, because he will make that tough first time pass someone like Granit will shy away from.
Saka looked on fire in the week, that’ll give him confidence he can make something happen.
I don’t need to see an evolution of style in a game we have almost zero chance of winning. I want to see spoiler tactics and ruthless discipline.
The transfer deadline is fast approaching, here’s what we ‘think’ we know:
- Torreira will move to Fiorentina for the season and get games
- Eddie will move out of the club, probably to Palace for £11m
- Kola will have his deal terminated and likely head to Besiktas
- Willian has scrubbed his feeds of the Arsenal name, Corinthians looks a real possibility
- Reiss will have to find a club, he cannot possibly think it wise to spend another season rotting away
- I’m not sure what the deal is on Ainsley, I’d love him to stay, but only if he’s considered a serious squad player
- There’s talk Lacazette will be exited, but I’m not sure about this. We are SO late in the window. Lacazette moving only works if there’s a deal coming the other way.
There’s talk of Jovic moving if Mbappe goes to Madrid.
There’s talk of Calvert Lewin, though this feels very fanciful
I’m just not sure what to make of it all.
All I know is this… I really hope Trippier ends up at United. Arsenal shelling out on a 31-year-old really doesn’t sit well with me. Trippier would basically be the Lichtsteiner move this summer. He’s a good player, way better than what we have, he’d also be the only senior defender we’d have… but it’d be expensive and our funds really should be going on a player with more long-term in the tank.
This is Arsenal though… every time we right an expensive wrong, we jump right back in and do it again.
Ok, quick one today, I’ll see you in the comments… watch my damn video or listen to the podcast.
Have to admit I want Arteta to be tarred and feathered in this game.
Had a feeling Ferran would score
Generational conman, and generally just a shit manager.
Best defense since Xmas heh?
same, I thought that, why didn’t he command his area?
lol two I’m done
Fucking banter !
Xhaka completely miss kicked an easy clearance!
This could be 5-6
wtf fucking bent as fuck
What’s Arsenal worse ever defeat?
8-0 in 1896 this could be close to that
OOOUUUUUTTTT!!!!
Foxy,
Cedric not Xhaka.
Ball bounced right by Xhaka and Cedric. Chambers looks like he is going to cry.
Grealish will join the party soon. Expecting a 5-0 thrashing unless Pep decides to sympathize with his diet copy.
60-7 spent on our defence and we’ve got the Punch and Judy show at the back.
I want City to thrash this Arsenal Team.
Fucking clueless
I don’t even feel sorry for this unlikeable cretin, just want him out of my club.
At the start of the second half someone tell arteta to fuck off back on the Man City game . Surely there’s no one on here who’s that fucking dumb who wants to stick with this turd . Not only are we bottom he got us playing like a bottom side . Who the fuck comes out with that line up
I don’t think I can watch this anymore. Could be another 8 goal mauling.
Even the cricket can’t save me as we won haha
Ode will put a transfer request in!
Give that man Arteta a lifetime contract, this is some sauce coaching pure elite stuff.
We need a wake-up call. This might be it.
Who is actually coaching this defence?
They look like conceding whenever attacked
I have no words, championship teams defend a lot better than this.
@Tits
Me too. Hate the arrogant fucker with a passion
Someone throw arteta back on city’s bench
let Xhaka off I think it deflected off an arsenal player in front of him and wrong footed him
Auba’s limping
“Don’t worry, Arteta won the second half the season”. Aye Peter?
commentators confused as why we are not player two holding MF’s like say Chelsea
There were some people predicting that we were going to win this game looool.
We need to concede 3 more to be dead last
This is surreal. Like City playing an amateur team in a charity match. Two of our defenders can’t even connect with a soft ball right through the middle. Cringe making to watch. Even Pep is probably embarrassed for his former coach.
Who is coaching our defence? The same guy who’s coaching our keepers? This is the worst Arsenal back line I can remember and Wenger had some horrors towards the end.
Why do we have the shit still at the club – cedric kola xhaka chambers leno
PEA limping?
Far too many players are struggling already and the game is 17 minutes in
Our defence is so fucking useless, we’re better off attacking non stop.
No he’s ok they look like they can score each time they get in our box
At least West Brom used kids against us. OMG, today we will learn how it feels.
City carving us up through the middle at will.
Wish we were playing West Brom again
Who’s our defence coach ?
Should be shot
We need to keep buying defenders and holding midfielders, we’ll never have enough with this guy.
In fact we need to petition FIFA to change the rules to allow bus field extra 5 defenders for this sauce project to work.
The football this chap is trying to bring to Arsenal has not been seen before so much so it requires a rule change.
If you think Arteta is throwing matches. How in hell could you support that… Peds has lost his mind I think. Anyhow.. it looks like they didn’t practice this formation for more then 5 mins in training.
Just get kola off and put in lokonga.. revert back to 4-2-3-1. This isn’t working !! They don’t know what to do
Lol, turning this shit off and having mercy on myself.
Enjoy your weekends fellas.
We are parking the bus but the players are not defending.
Why does he refuse to play AMN at RWB instead of Cedric. Utterly mental
Bruno G plus Aouar as a start for the midfield.
Unbelievable, how many let that ball go through them?
Pure reality of our level. No matter whether Gabriel and White come back.
Pep didn’t even celebrate the 2nd goal. just clapped with pity in his eyes
All the Arteta’s lovers have been backpedaling on their unicycles.
We have a “”Please Be Patient” Student Driver Vehicle Bumper Magnet attached to the club
This team is not properly coached
This team is not properly prepared
This team isn’t set up properly on match days
The leaner driver can’t even make the right adjustments during games.
Arteta is going to break a record and be the first manager to lose three league games since the 50s, this bum is hell bent on burning any thinning credibility we have down to the ground.
The first 5 minutes of the game ESR, Saka and Ode played some nice football. 2 goals down and now they will spend all the time tracking back to help our defense. Even against Chelsea the same story, once we conceded a goal we gave up.
WE, no words. You just did a favor to yourself.
You can’t keep changing your defenders and formation every week and expect a tight ship
Will Peter Wood be showing his face today? Or will he just delete comments and bin people that call out his favourite manager?
We will be chasing shadows for the rest of the match
……….. or this could be Arteta’s masterplan to convince the board to buy more players. 🤦♂️
Arteta is a very lucky boy this isn’t a home game
Guys.Arsenal will be around the relegation places this season. Arteta will never take points off another EPL manager in his life.
Commentator reckons they don’t know who to pick up when we haven’t the ball…….isn’t that Arteta’s job?
Don’t worry.
We bought Ramsdale and White? Quality
Right Pedro?
ESR desire almost got a goal. But the ungrateful, obscene, pervert sob Titties will want to push him out and destroy his mojo
Arteta once again, like his mentor, works out a genius plan on paper, without preparing or coaching the players on that formation. Difference is Pep has world class players, we have a motley crew of chancers and hackers sprinkled with some actual talent.
Have Ødegaard, Nolasinac and Aubameyang even touched the ball yet?
Even ManCity think that they have a chance with long throw against Arsenal!
Generational defensive coaching…
For me games like this is how good you see how Holding is.
The typical 3 nil down in the first half hour still on course
What a shame that ESR doesn’t punish Edersons’ carelessness.
Switched to a back 3 and the defense is still loose.
It really comes down to coaching or lack of it in this case.
Yep Tr7 we have to score first or it’s over.. and basically we have yet to score a goal in 5 halves. Kola in defense is just insane though… we sent Saliba on loan.. hahaha crazy.
“Arteta is going to break a record and be the first manager to lose three league games since the 50s, this bum is hell bent on burning any thinning credibility we have down to the ground.”
First time in 119 years of top flight football, Arsenal lost the first two games of the season without scoring a goal. Today Arteta can break his own record.
Why wait 10 games to fire Arteta?
He’ll never be able to turn this around.
Ederson is an idiot
How come the shit players never get Covid ?
Damn… I think that Arteta is pretty stupid person. He got me for a second that he is smart, and the propaganda of course that he is a genius…
City are taking the piss.
Cedris ! Fucking idiot
Completely clueless…The team are capable of more than this but the coach doesn’t have a clue…So this is what we have to endure until he’s replaced …
This is Arsenal summoned up over the last 15 years,every big decision has been a wrong decision.
So much money spilt on rubbish players with no talent it would have been better if we just didnt buy players for a couple of years and then spunked it all on quality instead of shit players like Cedric and Pablo Mari and Xhaha.
People going on about KDB out. Gundogan can do a job.
Even for fanatical Arteta apologists, this is becoming wat too disrespectful to history and pedigree of great club. Arteta a just cuntish conman who needs to be chased from this club.
Cedric!? Kolasinac? What the fuck is Arteta playing at?
Fucking pathetic.
Cant even fucking last 10 minutes without conceding.
Fuck off Arteta.
Absolute joke.
Why don’t they make this young manager dress up properly on match days
He’s no Pep, that one.
Good thing we had that confidence boost earlier in the week eh? Lol
Zambian Gunner, too right. This is humiliating. Ederson is having a laugh while legohead screams terrible instructions on the sideline.
Haha cedric and kola in the book ! Clowns
We gifted them 2 goals and they are taking the piss now!
Arsenal – official pantomime horse for the PL. A talented, at times scintillating, front half with a plodding confused back half which can’t co-ordinate its limbs and falls down. Most times the two halves are disconnected, or held together by a thin piece of stringy Swiss cheese.
Is this the worst back 3 we have ever put out?
Saliba in France and Pedro is crying tears that united are spending 30 m on the golden boot winner from France. Arteta has broken this club
Pedro
Post Christmas table again this season ?
Good thing we spent fifty mil on a center back and held tight in midfield.
Ref can’t wait to send somebody off
Re sign Squillaci !
It is criminal negligence to keep Artets beyond tomorrow. The shittiest coach in the EPL will get a better performance from our players who are pretty good. However naive fans fall for Arteta and his ” support system handful ” , and chorus everyone is shit and needs firing. We spent 130 million and it would be the cheapest and most effective thing to pack off the FFRAUDTETA, would have cost just 6 million
Harsh yellow on Sead
Insane clown posse what I would call this defense.