As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
Just what I was about to post! The run across the edge of the box, followed by the swinging left foot. Beautiful. Had a cheeky tenner on Martinelli first goal as well. Sweeeeet!
I haven't enjoyed an Arsenal match like this one for a very long time. Everyone played well tonight including Clubfoot even if he did make a few minor blunders. Let's be honest, it'd be petit to pick fault with anything. Well done Arsenal.
Good game played by The Arsenal, from start to finish in good control, only for a few minutes when they went down to 10 men we wobbled but Saka and Smith Rowe combined again, great finish.
I've been critical of Martinelli this season and he looks to be back into the groove and showing his quality. his work down the left was excellent and battled well with Antonio, who I thought was their best player. Time to move Martinelli into the middle?
Odegaard has improved but we look so much better with Smith Rowe in the no.10 role.
Our defence at home is getting stronger by the game, and much better with Tierney starting. It is still a worry that our midfield three each made an error that put our defence in jeopardy. When Odegaard made a blind pass across the area that gave them an opportunity, Xhaka looked at him as if to say, "hey, that's what I do".
Thought it wasn't a pen watching live, but Lacazette shouldn't have taken. I remember TH14 say that in France he learnt that the player that is fouled to win the win, doesn't take the penalty and I think we should get back into that mindset. Also, can we stop selling GK's to clubs in the Premier League. Up to 4th, nice, hopefully we can still be in that position on 1st January 2022.
We are starting to build some home form this season, barring the defeat to Chelsea and the draw with CP i think we have won all of them and you can tell because there is more of an atmosphere building in the ground which is nice to hear. We really need to start getting some away results now though.
Good result tonight even if there were a few dodgy moments, the pen was a pen, anywhere else on the pitch a free kick is given for that challenge so fuck spammers the whinging cnuts. Both were good goals tonight, Laca worked his bollocks off and the youngsters around him really benefitted from it, we really need to work on being more clinical with our finishing though i feel we still linger too long getting the shots away giving time for defenders to get back and block the shots.
Pretty much everyone did exactly what they had to tonight and truth be told Ramsdale was barely tested even though he did make one good save. Reluctantly i have to admit that even Xhaka wasn't completely awful tonight although that was more by luck than design.
Immaterial of who is in charge the club needs to concentrate of keeping these youngsters together and then bring in some better central midfielders and we might actually have the makings of a decent team, consistency needs to be bedded in and not being ragdolled by the Victims, Shitty and Chavs needs to be the next target.
A good win against a decent side And a couple of cracking goals 4th but we won't be anywhere near this if we don't start picking up some points away from home.