Cole Palmer has not trained this week since he injured his knee against United. Rumors are that he might be out for three weeks. Don’t want anyone injured but If we don’t have to deal with him that will be a sigh of relief
It's the lack of pace up front and the lack of creativity in midfield thats killing us. Also up top Martinelli has been woeful it's fine if Kai is holding the ball up and bringing players into the attack but the wide forwards need to score more, like Liverpool's do In gakpo,luiz and Salah.
If you stifull Saka we are not doing shit. Martinelli plays with his head down receives the ball with a defender to beat and does nothing game after game. He does not have the skill to beat his man, he needs to go. I am fed up with him.
Kai is as quick as has land or Darwin and his link up play is superior
Martinelli is as fast as anybody and Saka is fast skilful intellegnt can play with 2 feet scores goals and makes assists can pass and cross
There’s no reason why this front 3 shouldn’t be getting goals if they were set up corrrectly
It’s absolutely a case of the system stifling attacking players
I still don’t believe martinelli is cut out for this team but you could take any left forward I the world snd put them in this system and slowly they would choke
I'm really getting tired of our attacking approach, there is just zero pace in our attacking play, even when we do intercept the ball in the middle or final third, we literally go back or wait till the other team's defense gets into shape and we revert to horseshoe football. Ditch this inverting nonsense and instruct these players to play free flow football. Inter basically played through our press countless of times in the first half with speed as well while ours was sluggish and indecisive
It’s how the team is set up which is stifling us. No doubt we’ve lost 3 clever creative players which hasn’t helped but Arteta is asking us to play this way and it allows teams to overwhelm
Is defensively
His tight margins football has been found out. We could easily have won the last two games
It could easily have went the other way but his low risk game is now too risky to play
Yes he could and should have invested in players capable of causing opponents damage but I’ll guarantee you if wenger had this lot they would be producing far more fluid snd lethal attacking performances. It’s not like we are rock solid at the back atm either
We’ve lost that stability.
I think playing full backs who overlap would give our wide players more room to move and an extra creative 8 in front of 1 holding mid would do wonders
Also, let’s just be honest, martinelli ain’t it. Hes all huff and puff.
Raptora: If we had Rice available as we should have had, in Merino's place, we would have walked over Inter tonight"
If Rice was available, Arteta would play Partey at RB and play Rice and Merino through the middle. We'd then play worse and probably concede a 2nd goal. We have seen that major enough times already.
We played very well today. By far the better team. Unlucky penalty decision and bad luck in our finishing proved the deciding factors.
When we played bad against Newcastle, Arteta said: "We deserved to lose. No complaints."
But today was very different and I'm annoyed fans don't see that it was very different. Oh well. Hopefully the luck we didn't have today, smiles on us against the Chavs.
Inter 6 shots, 0 on target, 0.4 xG, average xG per shot 0.07
Mikel Arteta: “I’m very proud of my players & the game we played, the level of domination that we had. With the amount of situations that we generated, we should have scored a couple of goals at least & that’s on us, but again, the way the team played, that was us tonight.
Today was decided by the boxes, which is the Champions League. Every decision in the box makes a difference, it’s clear.
The team plays the way we played tonight here, we can go to Chelsea, we can win."
Cole Palmer has not trained this week since he injured his knee against United. Rumors are that he might be out for three weeks. Don’t want anyone injured but If we don’t have to deal with him that will be a sigh of relief
Let Edu do us a parting favor. Can he take Arteta along?
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It's the lack of pace up front and the lack of creativity in midfield thats killing us. Also up top Martinelli has been woeful it's fine if Kai is holding the ball up and bringing players into the attack but the wide forwards need to score more, like Liverpool's do In gakpo,luiz and Salah.
If you stifull Saka we are not doing shit. Martinelli plays with his head down receives the ball with a defender to beat and does nothing game after game. He does not have the skill to beat his man, he needs to go. I am fed up with him.
But out front 3 are quick
Kai is as quick as has land or Darwin and his link up play is superior
Martinelli is as fast as anybody and Saka is fast skilful intellegnt can play with 2 feet scores goals and makes assists can pass and cross
There’s no reason why this front 3 shouldn’t be getting goals if they were set up corrrectly
It’s absolutely a case of the system stifling attacking players
I still don’t believe martinelli is cut out for this team but you could take any left forward I the world snd put them in this system and slowly they would choke
Chelsea next. Three Ls in a row? Surely generational won't let that happen.
Hmm. Simple. He will play for a draw. Easypeasy for dietPep
This feels like the not so good days of Mr. Wenger. The typical season collapse in November lol.
Wenger season does not normally collapse in November. Something like February or March. He normally eases past the group stage of CL.
I'm really getting tired of our attacking approach, there is just zero pace in our attacking play, even when we do intercept the ball in the middle or final third, we literally go back or wait till the other team's defense gets into shape and we revert to horseshoe football. Ditch this inverting nonsense and instruct these players to play free flow football. Inter basically played through our press countless of times in the first half with speed as well while ours was sluggish and indecisive
Trossard has been a wide forward for majority of his career, he is now playing up top in a 442 since Havertz drops into midfield as 2nd striker
There isn’t enough balance
Hes just blasted joginho and xinchinko out
Put partey at rb again and totally killed the balance of the tesm
Why does he do this
This stubborn player killing
He killed esr for vieira and martinelli and now all 3 are useless to us
I think everyone is missing the reality here
This team is capable of scoring plenty of goals
It’s how the team is set up which is stifling us. No doubt we’ve lost 3 clever creative players which hasn’t helped but Arteta is asking us to play this way and it allows teams to overwhelm
Is defensively
His tight margins football has been found out. We could easily have won the last two games
It could easily have went the other way but his low risk game is now too risky to play
Yes he could and should have invested in players capable of causing opponents damage but I’ll guarantee you if wenger had this lot they would be producing far more fluid snd lethal attacking performances. It’s not like we are rock solid at the back atm either
We’ve lost that stability.
I think playing full backs who overlap would give our wide players more room to move and an extra creative 8 in front of 1 holding mid would do wonders
Also, let’s just be honest, martinelli ain’t it. Hes all huff and puff.
Raptora: If we had Rice available as we should have had, in Merino's place, we would have walked over Inter tonight"
If Rice was available, Arteta would play Partey at RB and play Rice and Merino through the middle. We'd then play worse and probably concede a 2nd goal. We have seen that major enough times already.
No Raptora, we suck at shooting finishing composure etc
PGMOL fucked us and this affected whole team, also not much sauce from Arteta.
No win in 4 is not acceptable at the top team, add shitty predictable defensive football and its not good look.
No one cares about secondary stats when football sux and we keep dropping points and under performing.
Inter literally couldn't go past the half line for the whole second half. As one of the top teams around. But I'm to believe we had a bad game.
If we had Rice available as we should have had, in Merino's place, we would have walked over Inter tonight. Frustrating but what can you do...
We played very well today. By far the better team. Unlucky penalty decision and bad luck in our finishing proved the deciding factors.
When we played bad against Newcastle, Arteta said: "We deserved to lose. No complaints."
But today was very different and I'm annoyed fans don't see that it was very different. Oh well. Hopefully the luck we didn't have today, smiles on us against the Chavs.
Generational has to say nice things because the situation is tense since Edus depature.
Agree
Without the penalty:
Inter 6 shots, 0 on target, 0.4 xG, average xG per shot 0.07
Mikel Arteta: “I’m very proud of my players & the game we played, the level of domination that we had. With the amount of situations that we generated, we should have scored a couple of goals at least & that’s on us, but again, the way the team played, that was us tonight.
Today was decided by the boxes, which is the Champions League. Every decision in the box makes a difference, it’s clear.
The team plays the way we played tonight here, we can go to Chelsea, we can win."
How many shots on target did Arsenal have without the Corner kicks?