Well hello.
Arsenal are playing in the League Cup. Patino might start. But who can see it? Just the season ticket holders at the ground. Weird move to not show the game this evening.
Checkout my Patino song:
(to the tune of the Vieira song)
PATINOOOOOO OOHHHHH OHHH PATINOOOOOO OHHH OHHHH HE COMES FROM WATFORD TOWN, HE PUT PHIL JONES ON THE GROUND, PATIINNOOOOOOO OH OH OHHHHH
So sad that I can’t sing this at the computer screen tonight.
Onto other news. There’s been a lot of ‘NOTHING HAS IMPROVED’ with the football, but there are some swanky new stats from Crab Stats that point to green shoots here (full read is great).
Overall Arsenal have moved the ball into the box on 23% of their possessions this season. That ranks 3rd in the Premier League this season, with only Manchester City and Liverpool doing more.
PLUS
Arsenal have 209 final third entries this season, averaging 41.8 per match, ranking 7th in the Premier League at getting the ball into the final third, overall Arsenal have touched the ball 816 times in the final third which is 8th most. For Arsenal this is a bit of feast or famine, against Brentford (58), Norwich (60), and Burnley (50), Arsenal are averaging 56 final third entires per match and against Manchester City (21) and Chelsea (20), Arsenal are averaging 20.5 final third entries.
The thing to consider with the numbers:
1) These stats would be far more impressive if we didn’t have a COVID/injury nightmare at the start of the season
2) They’ll get better because we won’t play the Champions League finalists every week.
Onto the actual data, it’s encouraging. The purpose of the summer was to bring in players that could move the ball vertically at speed because last season we couldn’t get the ball into the box. Well, the new signings are doing the job we brought them in to do.
The concern? We’re shite at turning the better possession into shots on target at goals. What positives can we draw from that?
1) The players we have are all very new to each other. As they learn what the system is about, spend more time with each other, and adapt to the cognitive style of football we’re trying to play… those final third passes will get better and so will the runs to find them.
2) We have good players that aren’t firing right now. Nicolas Pepe will find the target at some point. Odegaard, ESR, and Saka will find their shooting boots. Auba, our most potent striker, will work out some chemistry and the hard work will eventually bang. Good players find the net in the end.
So in short, when people say nothing has changed, they are talking nonsense. The eye test told you that, the individual comps that fly out after every game evidence it, now you have the stats… we’re missing the final pass and shot. When that drops, we’ll start doing more damage to teams.
Hopefully, that’s soon and it starts tonight. See you in the comments, but the only way you get into the comments is consuming the podcast with your ears or eyes.
I don’t think he is even in the squad at least according to Football London.
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Tr4phy
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ITK again Pedro.
Why is 6 afraid of 7?
Art8ta
Not sure why Eddie starts over Balogun and partey should be wrapped in cotton for Spurs game
Because 7 ate 9
not in Europe and they’re not showing the game!! insane
Patino not even on bench
In the modern age how is it possible for a game of football not shown anywhere globally? Not like we’ve gone to a stadium where they don’t have the facilities, the game is at the Emirates. Shambles!
PARTEY STARTING WHAT IS HE SMOKING
At this stage, relying on Auba and Pepe to bang in goals when recent evidence suggests the opposite
to be more likely, is Flat Earther territory.
I have to admit that I was until recently, a Pepe’s gonna come good supporter. This was based on nothing but irrationality, but even so, I held the belief that he was going to become a superstar.
Why on Earth is Partey starting??
Shame Patino isn’t in the squad. Thought he would of had a little 20mins or so tonight. Oh well, lets just get through unscathed.
Also despite looking sharp in pre season i would have started Balogun over Nketiah whom wont sign a new deal or leave before the close of the window.
Thought Balogun was 3rd behind Auba and Laca.
arteta is a partey pooper
the only logic I can think of for starting Partey is he’s gonna use this mid for the nld. tbf that’s our strongest mid.
Partly needs minutes
Nketiah being getting a lot of light on the socials post injury. Would be good to see him come through with a big performance. Agree does seem weird given his resistance to sign a new deal etc etc. But sure Balogun will get a fair shift if we stick a couple goals in early doors. As always the cup is a good opportunity for those on the fringes to push on, thinking of Martinelli included in this too. AMN #10 tonight also interesting !
Curse or more likely he will bring xhaka back in
Both Partey and Sambi starting tonight means one thing.
Xhaka starts at NLD. Good lord. Shocking if true…
Klopp played 16 year old Gordon last night.
Patino should be on the bench at least
It’s Xhaxa and elneny starting against spurs isn’t it.
The eye test, Pedro??!!!
Hand on heart, can you say we’ve had a good overall attacking performance in any of our 5 Premier League games?
Pedro I get it if the Arsenal PR are dolling benefits to post the sky backdrop.
If Partey becomes injured and becomes unavailable for NLD, Arteta is going to look very very silly. Partey should be nowhere near that starting lineup. Let’s hope he comes through the first half unhurt and pulled at half time.
Would like to see some goals and the players being happy.. no JDP.. Joyless defensive play.
Anyhow.. interesting lineup … I guess its gonna be a 4-3-3.. with Partey and Laca responsible for creative play in the middle of the park. Don’t kid yourselves y’all Xhaka will be back for NLD.
Anyhow.. have to find a dodgy streaming link .. I guess. as Espn+ decided Arsenal aren’t one of the “selected” matches.. So much for paying them $6 a month for the Cup matches.
Nketiah shares the same agent as Balogun. That agent took the Balogun deal down to the wire and he’ll do the same with Eddie.
No harm in starting him. He looked much stronger pre-season.
Muppetman, I thought Xhaka would start this to get back to match fitness if that was the case. guess we’ll see.
It’s Xhaxa and elneny starting against spurs isn’t it.
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Elneny is injured I believe.. My guess is Xhaka and Partey unless of course he gets injured.
Partey will play an hour
Interesting that Hein is the Backup Keeper… and not Okonkwo,
Partey asked to play apparently to build up his fitness ahead of the NLD
Not upset that we went strong for this one. But I will be disappointed against spurs if the Lokonga- Partey pivot isn’t back. If this somehow means Xhaka will walk straight back in to the XI against spurs, I will lose it. He deserves to earn his place back and we are doing much better without him.
The fact that Xhaka lost his head against city and cost us even a chance of getting back in the city game, and now would be forgiven to comeback will be a disgrace. Remember Arteta completely not protecting Pepe when he was sent off against Leeds last season? But Xhaka has 9 lives. All is forgiven whatever he does.
A few things of note w/ lineup Leno relegated to the Carabao squad as others have said Partey getting star is odd considering fitness issues.
Martinelli in with moment to make that space his, hope he grabs it we need him making runs nobody else can be bothered to.
Just put tweet out to ESPN+ cunting them for not broadcasting this one.
Curse pretty sure he is still suspended as was three match ban
Watched the youth match with Chelsea (6-1 defeat of the pensioners) and was extremely impressed by Mika Biereth.
Pity that he is not on the bench.
What is Arteta doing?or rather what is he smoking?
I felt deflated,was expecting Patino and Balogun in the mix for starters, but Patino is not on bench.what can Elneney show us that we don’t know already?
Then he went ahead and start one man Party along with dear Sambi, that risk can only be excused if he wants them to work on their on-field chemistry with eyes on North London derby on Sunday.
I hope his fear of losing will not make us loose our highly rated kids…… I betcha,the under 23 team would make mincemeat of this mighty Wimbledo!
Muppetman, he hasn’t served that yet? cool, looks like he’s trying this mid out then to me
Leedsgunner
Interesting that Hein is the Backup Keeper… and not Okonkwo,
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Hein had a fantastic game against Chelsea (U23).
Crazy to risk Partey in this match.
Surely Balogun deserves a chance to start after committing to a new deal while Eddie who wont commit does start….but what the fuck do I know
Sal-
Ha .. yep I wrote them an angry text, too. I know they don’t care but it made me feel better.
Pepe will score soon. ESR, Saka and Ode will find their shooting boots. Is there any data that backs up that statement or is it just speculation. I hope they do because if we don’t start scoring more than 1 goal a game we are in trouble.
Pedro
That chant doesn’t scan properly. Very ordinary. I’m afraid it’s nul points from me.
Why are Kola and Elneny on the bench rather than young players like Patino?? And I agree with all that this lineup has Xhaka starting the NLD written all over it, if right MA will lose the little good will he has gained from the fans over the last 2 weeks..
Link anyone?
I rest my case in respect to Arteta.
Partey!
What a joke.
Why?
Anyone with links to the game?
Link guys
Dude
You also got his pob hopelessly wrong. He’s from Luton who also happen to be Watford’s biggest rivals and therefore in a different county.
So as an alternative to your effort (Watford Town? Wtf?).
Patino o o etc.
He’s not from Hertfordshire
He’s got two massive ears…
Pedro
This is why Arteta is not and never will be fit for purpose.
It’s not on live TV. You can listen to live commentary on the .com
Martinelli wins penalty, Lacazette scores. 1-0.
Another injury at OT caused by the artificial grass around the perimeter.
Shouldn’t be allowed.
Can someone share a live stream link..thanks
Yep.. modern technology and I have to listen to the game like it’s 1922.
Good for Gabi and Laca.
But yeah, no cameras for even a stream in 2021.
Carabao can fuck off.
Not even Rwanda Sports TV still trusts the process.
Strangely enough they have a camera on the 2 dudes talking.. also the dude doing the play by play isn’t very good.
Can’t find a working stream anywhere, all full of pop ups and junk and the only ones working are showing the man utd West Ham game and not Arsenal.
Its not on Benny..audio only on the Arsenal.com.
TV rights are fucking annoying. The .com should be allowed to show all Arsenal games!! It’s an Arsenal site after all. Lol
So this is about Arsenal nt showing the matches or the various channels? I don’t get it
It’s 2021 and we’ve been reduced to watching one of footballs biggest clubs on a twitter livestream from a bloke sat at the stadium on a burner account, the state of it !
( https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1vOxwEdXZDVGB – ended for the half don’t know if will be back)
https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/news/arsenal-vs-afc-wimbledon-live-21643163
Half Time ratings
Leno (6), Cedric (6), Holding (6), Mari (6), Tavares (5), Partey (6), Lokonga (6), Maitland-Niles (6), Martinelli (7), Nketiah (6), Lacazette (6).
Martinelli won the penalty after a great pass by Nketiah.
From what I gather.. Martinelli is playing like a wild-man…. getting all the chances and getting fouled a lot and created the pk. perhaps got injured though and slowed down. Other then that… the audio dudes leave a lot to be desired.
I can’t find a way to see the match. Guess it is really not televised anywhere. Even the highlight of the penalty Lacazette is a footage from fans.
There is actually zero TVs showing the game.
Zacharse
thorough
i bet bissoumas wages would have been 2-3 times that of lokonga if wed signed him. i’d like to see him at arsenal but the reality is thast xhakas gotta leave before there’s going to be room for another proven talent inExactly why the team containing Bissouma doesn’t include Xhaka. It takes a ridiculously dumb coach to miss out on 2 chances of selling Xhaka.It takes a downright moron to offer him an extension.
Shit!
This is fucking Wimbledon man.
These use to be fun nights for us under Wenger, who stepped down rightly I must add.
These were the games I looked forward to.
I can’t forget us going toe to toe with Liverpool with the Denison set.
I remember us playing a more or less full Blackburn rovers team and winning.
Is Arteta so scared of losing?
The state of this clubs ffs, literally no tv channel want anything to do with the club, Jesus
https://footybite.cc/event/arsenal-afc-wimbledon-live-stream/697853
Yea dont think any of these are connecting either…
bummer
When will we score from open play again ??
Guns
It’s not available anywhere. These are fake links.
I’m pretty sure if the providers had the opportunity to broadcast it they would.. This is how providers like ESPN make their money. They aren’t carrying the LC city game either so that game must not be televised as well plus a few others. So it must be Carabao cup organizers and they way they have their tv deals structured.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ASPRIV999/status/1440764914050605060
Literally the only way to watch the match 😂😂😂
Thanks Jim.
Haha hope he charged his battery before the match.
Bernd Leno is now at the end where the AFC Wimbledon fans are and it’s safe to say they’re trying to make the German feel as uncomfortable as possible.
They’ve started jokingly singing “you’re just a s*** Aaron Ramsdale” to the Arsenal stopper. Ramsdale of course spent half a season on loan with the Dons and won their young player of the year with his performances.
Bless this gooner live streaming to more than 8K of us.!
my god it is a shit kicker game.
Pablo and Holding are playing the game at a snails pace.
Bless this gooner live streaming to more than 8K of us.!
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Famous last words as his battery goes dead…….
Wolves 2/2
Haha yep.. twitter dude crashed.
Spurs falling apart at wolves after going ahead 2:0
I hope the manure loses…
ESR on for Partey.
How the xxxx are we only 1-0 up with the team we have put out?
Dude is back on. But he is trying to pay his rent or something off of desperate Gooners 😂😂😂
That stream is taken from a smart phone. He moves the phone too quickly.
That bloke’s third phone battery had now died and now all links have gone again!
At least you hear the fans singing “ARSENAL”
Looks like receding hairline in the stream
He went up to 60k viewers … haha wow.