Sounds a little bit like a track title for an Adele song. BUT IT’S NOT OK? It’s about the game today.
Top 4 was the stretch target this season, especially after the shocking opening we had… but the more the season goes on, the clearer it is, that the objective might not be that outrageous.
You gotta dream big (ish). The power of ambition in an organization cannot be underestimated. It sets the tone, it keeps people excited, and sometimes… it pays off.
Just look at Arsene Wenger when he told the world we might go invincible. Hadn’t been done before. Will never be done moving forward. The ambition was ridiculed, it was put on Spurs market stall merch… but who was the one laughing in the end? Wenger.
Our ambitions are a little lower right now, but everyone has to start somewhere.
Beating Everton would be a very good indicator that we’re less fragile than we were last season. Losing to United was upsetting, but they are a good side, and Old Trafford is always going to be a difficult place to go. We can beat them in the return leg. I don’t think we’d won there in 17 years until last season. Not like beating them is par the course. It’s also not like there crisis was that terrible either. Ralf Rangnick is one game into his tenure and he’s 3 points off top 4. Their crisis is they aren’t winning the league.
Goodison Park? Now, there’s a game that you lose if you’re not Top 4 serious. In fact, it is a game we actually did lose last season, 2-1, when Carlo was there. We can’t be that team this season. Beating the teams below us and around our level is how we’re going to progress.
Rafa Benitez is a very good coach. I’m actually surprised he’s still in charge though. The Director of Football, Marcel Brands, left their business yesterday… so maybe not for long. As I said yesterday, we’re either going to see a big reaction from Everton this evening, or we’ll see a non-reaction if the players can taste blood in the water and they don’t like what they’re getting from the exScouse boss.
Arsenal have injury concerns. The biggest one is ESR. He has a tight groin. Our #10 wasn’t great in the last game. He might just need a rest in general. That’d put a lot on the shoulders of Odegaard, but if we have Saka in the side, hopefully it won’t be too telling.
The biggest reboot I feel we need is in attack. Will Arteta persist with Auba in the side? Or is he going to cave and give his captain some time out? It’s a tough call. If you persist with an underperformer for too long, it starts to impact your standing with the other players. No one is undroppable. If you have a high performance culture and you talk about it… you have to live up to it.
He could play and score a hattrick. He could play and drop another disaster class and make it feel like we’re rolling with 10 men.
Auba is part of the reason we struggle with chance creation. If you striker can’t hold-up the ball and link play, the whole system is going to struggle. That’s why Lacazette has been so important. He brings others into the game. The issue with him is he doesn’t have the speed to be a threat coming deep and holding the line.
It’s a messy balance that needs to be struck… but we have to find a way this evening.
The curve ball inclusion might be Granit Xhaka. He’s making good progress. We know he’s made of iron. We could see him on the bench. That’s good news for squad depth when you hit mid-December.
3 points puts us back where we need to be. Anything less and it’s going to ramp the pressure up again.
December is the month for heroes. Who is it going to be? My hope is Martinelli gets a run again. It seems more likely if ESR is out again.
Let’s see what happens. See you in the comments. Watch our video or plug our podcast right into your ears.
Nothing special about Odegaard
Lacking of shooting opportunities likely caused by the negative, restrictive style of play … no risk no return
C’mon Odegarde！！
How many points are we off 4th now?
#perspective
We are so fucking poor it is embarrassing.
Looks like it will be a jolly fun December for us…
Ode looks like he the most likely to score but he takes an age to shoot.
Tragic….
Hi all. Me again. Hey peds hows it going. I’d just like to say.
Fuck this manager
Fuck his process
Fuck his team selections and substitutions and
Fuck his non-negotiables.
How much money did kronke give him again?
Attack has been piss poor
Artitaball…
Haha go fuck yourself arteta.
Arteta to blame. We can play much better. Tragic.
Well fucking hell lol
Xhaka let him through and guess what.
Spin this Pedro
Ah cock nobs. Fuck it.
Lol.
Still progress?
Lol
The game is wide open now if we could string more then 2 forward passes together. Of course we are just as likely to get scored on
And there it is.
Not beaten Everton in 3 games!
There we go.
Crisis club Everton stuff Arsenal.
Go on Pedro, excuse this one.
Ffs
WELL WELL WELL….
ARTETA CAN STAY AT EVERTON ..REJOICING
FUCK OFF
3 LOSSES IN A ROLL
GO JOIN OGS
We deserved that
Wow
Just sack him already. Negative tactics every game costing us points.
Ladies and gentlemen that’s the end of our journey with the Spanish Chris Hughton
Pedro is bought! No other explanation
Arteta fuck off out of this club and your delusional following too
Another shit show just not good enough or any sign of improvement ? ARTETA OUT
And that’s the difference between a team at least trying to playing football despite their limitations and the cowardly shit we do.
Sack this useless cunt already
Truly embarrassing !!!!
Top4 you’re having a laugh – think we’ll get 7/8th
Suck the cunt ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Xhaka was exquisite with his tackle avoidance
We got what we deserved. Fucking miserable performance all round.
Nice of Ben White to show him onto his stronger foot.
No that’s it now. Sorry this is bollocks. Enoughs enough. There is no progress no project just a manager so far out of his depth it’s unreal. Yes the goal was a worldy , but we created nothing and a shockingly shit team were better than us , so where does the leave us. Fucking joke of a club
Disaster
It’s been a disjointed performance today I knew they would score again ffs I hate football
Fucking shit. Same shot he hit the crossbar for Richarlison’s goal. Got a bead on it and nailed it this time. Criminal not to close out on him there.
who’s calling for.more fuxking.time for.aeteta.can fuxk off too… totally self-inflicted
This isn’t one dreadful performance , one of many. Another day of zero creativity. More bizarre deductions.
Wheels coming off again.we may win a few more to make us feel better but this pattern is set
They deserve that. Two good goals to one for us.
As always, if your team is in desperate need of a win, there is no better team to play than arsenal.
Money won’t solve this crisis, the rot goes deep
That’s really 4-1 Everton ..
Pedro, you need to step out of this hypocrisy.
Arteta can’t even lace Wenger’s shoes.
This silly experiment is over. Sack this clown.
As much as we keep saying that we will need a striker, I think midfield is more important. we do not create chances
Terrible, what a bad performance, we go in the lead and just collapse again. No leaders
I’m so tired
Arteta is unsackable he will not go.
Benitez out of jail.
This shit will go on and on.
You Can Lose to Everton but not this Everton side it is embarrassing
Heads be going down now.
Well, best Eddie doesn’t sign,
Sides in shit form and can’t buy a win always seem to get back on track against an arteta side . Everton lost the most home games this season . We are 2 1/5 years in and he still can’t get us scoring . We’ve hit peak arteta, there is no more to come
So generational, so classy. Potter couldn’t deliver this.
Pathetic performance, when are people going to realize our centre midfield is rubbish and our system sucks
Omg this is purgatory
Masterclass in in-game management by Ole Gunnar Arteta.
Too bad Conte went to Spurs
Was coming as again we tried to sit on a 1-0 lead just not good enough Arteta
I informed Pedro this type of football not sustainable. We can’t depend on luck.
The man is Mr averageness
Now, can we have him out of our club?
And that’s what happens when White
Fly’s
Up
Field
Struggles to get back in position.?
That goal was a worldie though. Gray such a talent
I hate Arteta so much. He needs to leave.
STOP WORRYING, GUYS!!
Rio Ferdinand said he was impressed with us, remember?
It’s all good.
Tets dresses well tho
Allegedly
Consolation
Its been two years of this shit show.
With nothing to show but fucking meaningless soundbites.
Enough is enough already, sack him and appoint an actual manager.
Now I am getting messages from spurs cunts fuck sake
Psrtey an xhaha No wonder our team keeps losing
Need a look in the mirror. Excuses on age, project, individual players needs to stop. The club clearly knew all these when they start a campaign.
Ready made Ben Godfrey excuse incoming….
Will be mad if.iwobi scores ffs
Arsenal should change the name of the club to the Spanking Boys..if you notice if any record has to be broken for the good or if any team needs to change its form from losing or drawing to winning its always fucking against Arsenal..
Partey looks embarrassing
Iwobi is Iwobu or it would have been 3.
Arteta defends a result with 10 players in our own half – again.
Versus a team in crisis – again.
We should have won in both games if it wasn’t for Arteta.
Ben White 50 million 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 fuck me. A poor man’s shit Maguire
Iowbi typical Arsenal .. lol
Honestly, everytime I see a glimmer of hope with Arteta, he still shows me we are still playing the same sort of football when came in. Small margins closing out games. And that’s not good enough. I won’t say Arteta pit or anything tonight. But if he finishes below 6th with this turgid attacking football then he needs to go then. We couldn’t put two defeated teams in United and Everton to the sword. And that is on Arteta.
Ahhh. So ok. I think we’re all on the same page now. Yes? Got it out of our systems yes?! We are Arsenal fans first yes?
Time to move on now. Agreed.
We lost that in midfield today slow xhaka and awful Partey with useless strikers to boot
What a joke!!!
Fucking joke. I couldn’t care less if Arteta is the man to get us winning and challenging, but he just clearly isn’t that man, we are rudderless. We have some decent players, we shouldn’t be getting beat at a crisis hit club who haven’t won in 8 games. Everton have been so poor, so why does it say about our manager that we were poorer ?? Xhaka straight back in, our shape was awful… our intent in this game was to sit back… against a dogshit team
Or was this another free hit?!
We deserve this, not because of Arteta but because all of those who support him!
Anyone still talking the project, process?
Fuxk off Auba
Lokonga been our best midfielder all season now he is shunted out for Xhaka & an out of form Partey
This is a joke.
I can’t wait for Pedro trolling us with his limited football knowledge.
@Time Up –
I have said it before, Pedro would rather see us in the Championship with Arteta than in the champions league without him.
And Auba can fuck off too for that miss. Fucking criminal.
You still trust the process. It is the same old Arsenal. Away we suck.
24 months now and still timid insipid and boring
Auba is done that could have saved us
Zero goal threat, slow turgid, dependant in individuals( saka esr) . There is nothing here
Auba ffs
That scorcher…… fuck.
We are just awful.
Our MF is non existent.
Our front line in serious need of surgery.
Other than that, all is good.
Trust the process I am told.
How long are we supposed to wait?