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[Perryashburtongroves]

FFS their two central defenders are 33 years old. Surely a bit of pace down the centre should have been utilised. Didn't exploit them at all.
But for the newly signed contract surely Mikel would be rightfully out.

Exactly that. We made life so fucking easy for them because all we do is push it out wide and that's so easy to defend against. We have nobody making a run through the middle because we have nobody who knows how to make a striker's run. That's fucking shameful mis-management at this level.

[xgtdec]

https://www.football365.com/news/opinio ... kel-arteta

Once you see this narrative starting it wont look good, Senior Board figures at the club need to be on the ball this time to avoid another 5 years of this.

[Perryashburtongroves]

https://www.football365.com/news/opinio ... kel-arteta

Once you see this narrative starting it wont look good, Senior Board figures at the club need to be on the ball this time to avoid another 5 years of this.

Hard not to disagree with it. This is where we'll see the media narrative change as the season goes on. It will be clearer and clearer that we're regressing into the Wanker days with no plans, more transfer dealings and a complete inability to made the necessary changes during a game. That performance could have been any time from 2008-18; no energy, no likelihood of scoring, no threat at all and no plan to get something from a game when you're not playing well.

[John F]

FFS their two central defenders are 33 years old. Surely a bit of pace down the centre should have been utilised. Didn't exploit them at all.
But for the newly signed contract surely Mikel would be rightfully out.

Exactly that. We made life so fucking easy for them because all we do is push it out wide and that's so easy to defend against. We have nobody making a run through the middle because we have nobody who knows how to make a striker's run. That's fucking shameful mis-management at this level.

What was winding me up the most was the amount of times Havertz was pulling out wide as well leaving no one in the box to receive the ball.

[Perryashburtongroves]

FFS their two central defenders are 33 years old. Surely a bit of pace down the centre should have been utilised. Didn't exploit them at all.
But for the newly signed contract surely Mikel would be rightfully out.

Exactly that. We made life so fucking easy for them because all we do is push it out wide and that's so easy to defend against. We have nobody making a run through the middle because we have nobody who knows how to make a striker's run. That's fucking shameful mis-management at this level.

What was winding me up the most was the amount of times Havertz was pulling out wide as well leaving no one in the box to receive the ball.

Saka puta ball across goal in the first half that was exactly what a goalscorer wants all day every day. We had nobody there. That ball in at the end that Rice headed wide, same thing. We don't have players capable of doing the things we need to change games because the manager has refused to buy them. Nobody wanted Sterling, nobody said we needed two more fucking goalkeepers, nobody thought Merino was the point of difference. The one fucking area anyone with any fucking sense said we needed to make progress, was a fucking goalscorer. He's had the three or four windows to sort this and hasn't. Now we're seeing the results of this. Opponents have worked out how to stop us based on what they know about us and we haven't adapted so those plans work time and time again.

[OneBardGooner]

BBC Player Ratings:


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/li ... 2t#Arsenal

22 David Raya 4.44
7 B. Saka 4.30
2 W. Saliba 4.11
6 Gabriel Magalhães 4.11
12 J. Timber 4.06
41 D. Rice 3.99
53 E. Nwaneri 3.92
5 T. Partey 3.83
4 B. White 3.66
23 Mikel Merino 3.64
11 Gabriel Martinelli 3.57
17 O. Zinchenko 3.54
9 Gabriel Jesus 3.50
19 L. Trossard 3.50
29 K. Havertz 3.44
20 Jorginho 3.34

After the opportunity to rate players has closed, the score displayed represents the average from all the submissions by BBC Sport users.

[OneBardGooner]

By Close Of Play Tomorrow We Could Well Be SIXTH!

[John F]

According to the BBC, Arsenal have had only 37 shots in five away league games, the second-worst number in the League. They played like they had drunk 37 shots before they came out.

[Bob Bayliss]

Two words: Victor Osimhen.

[Perryashburtongroves]

Two words: Victor Osimhen.

Either him or that ex-Coventry one scoring loads in Portugal. He'll be off to Manure though next July. Either we'll be so far off the pace by January, anyone we could be after won't make any difference at all, or we'll just buy another midfielder from Brighton or a Chavs reserve.

[IW8Goalmachine]

Two words: Victor Osimhen.

Should have been done in the summer.

Some on here said he's not good enough. Well he's better than the shite we have at the moment

[TeeCee]

Two words - Gareth Southgate,...... That's who Arteta has inexplicably morphed into for no apparent reason. He's scared, scared to lose, scared to drop one off the 'regulars', scared to really go for games, we're defensive, hesitant, slow, predictable and mentally weak (still)!

We're a shadow of last year's team and it's because we have changed the way we play. Injuries are not that big of an excuse.

[Step]

Quite simply we have been shite for the past 4 games and got what we deserved.
Defeats in Milan and at The Chavs will probably follow because we have a manager that does not look at the opposition and as a result does not sort out his formation/tactics accordingly.
This fraud has got away with it for the past 3 years.
There is no progression. We are at best treading water.
He comes on and says we dominated the opening stages but what use is that when we have no proven goal scorer to turn that into goals.
No plan B (no Plan A come to think of it) and playing Poor Man's Gilberto (PMG) at full, back doesn't help.
Totally expected I'm afraid.

[General]

According to the BBC, Arsenal have had only 37 shots in five away league games, the second-worst number in the League. They played like they had drunk 37 shots before they came out.

Skewed by playing 2/5 away games with 10men

[madjens]

Wouldn’t say he’s a fraud after taking us to within a whisker of the title. But he does only have one way of playing, and when that’s not available we are not good. Then again if you look at the personnel we have available it is not surprising.