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Having listened to AFTV, Lee Gooner etc - they're all basically saying what we're saying too as opposition fans ... the manager came to win 1-0 off some dodgy corner, like the Manure result, or get a 0-0 draw. The frustration with his tactics if he stumbles more will be exactly what that fan base deserves after the phenomenal last 3 year run of 3 2nd place trophies.
It's a proper down the line split with all their fan channels. Its great
Any decent fanbase surely wouldn't have put up with 5 years of no trophies? It's wild
They're slowly realising what a number of us have been observing for 2+ years. Arteta started really ramping up his 'dark arts' to win what look like innocuous FKs wide & far from the box. He would then be fully focused on making chances happen from these - either directly or in any melee.
He takes flair players and is reducing them to winning set pieces whilst Gabriel goes up to try and score a header. He then moved into corners and long throws - then added in more bullshit routines and dark arts with GKs.
This is somewhat effective - but its literally the blueprint for anti football, and his team has lost its instinct for free flowing football.
I have nothing against scoring from set pieces - we did brilliantly at one point scoring tons from corners. But it has to be one tool in the kitbag.
Yesterday the only reason Merino was selected is that he is a set piece threat, and scored against us last season. What Arsenal would have benefitted from in the first half would have been an Eze or a Nwaneri in the middle running at us when we were at times lost at sea.
He takes flair players and is reducing them to winning set pieces whilst Gabriel goes up to try and score a header. He then moved into corners and long throws - then added in more bullshit routines and dark arts with GKs.
This is somewhat effective - but its literally the blueprint for anti football, and his team has lost its instinct for free flowing football.
I have nothing against scoring from set pieces - we did brilliantly at one point scoring tons from corners. But it has to be one tool in the kitbag.
Yesterday the only reason Merino was selected is that he is a set piece threat, and scored against us last season. What Arsenal would have benefitted from in the first half would have been an Eze or a Nwaneri in the middle running at us when we were at times lost at sea.
I've been on an Arsenal YouTuber content binge since yesterday. It's funny how confident they were, not only did they think they'd get something at Anfield, they genuinely believed they'd win. They were almost certain of it.
In my 35 years of following the English league, I've never seen them play this kind of football. We ditched Hodgson for trying something similar with us, and I'm honestly surprised that more of their fans aren't irate about it.
Even during the days of Dixon, Winterburn, Adams, and co., they always tried to play free-flowing football.
If Wenger was dead, he'd be turning in his grave.
This cracked me up ... Ok, VAR is an issue but what decisions were that controversial? All their penalty shouts etc were at best borderline, at worst worthy of yellows for their teams for acting.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1KRQLvo0sc
Refs! injuries! Pitch! Balls!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1KRQLvo0sc
Refs! injuries! Pitch! Balls!
Mourinho was very successful playing turgid anti-football for a period but his best teams had elite attackers.
Arsenal under Arteta are over-reliant on Saka because whilst they have some good posshibilities, they need another one or two top class attackers to pick up the slack, particularly given that Saka seems to get injured once a season.
They'll beat all the lower teams and Madueke and Eze will help this season so it all depends on whether we can stay super consistent and / or City get their shit together.
Despite the loss yesterday, they're still in with a great shout simply because they'll be consistent.
Arsenal under Arteta are over-reliant on Saka because whilst they have some good posshibilities, they need another one or two top class attackers to pick up the slack, particularly given that Saka seems to get injured once a season.
They'll beat all the lower teams and Madueke and Eze will help this season so it all depends on whether we can stay super consistent and / or City get their shit together.
Despite the loss yesterday, they're still in with a great shout simply because they'll be consistent.
I predict that Gyökeres will be benched when either G Jesus or Havertz is back.
Consider yourself lucky you’re to young to remember the George Graham years and the “one-nil to the Arse-sen-illl” period.
Oh they do indeed have form for this sort of style - as much as Wenger performed a footballing exorcism on them - it’s still there.
But it can't have been as bad as this? They're packing the box on set pieces from their own half.
It occurred to me last night that Arteta's extreme risk aversion even seems to have affected their recruitment now.
Their squad options are absolutely fantastic but they've barely improved the first team. They've spent about £300m basically just covering for a catastrophic set of injuries.
Their squad options are absolutely fantastic but they've barely improved the first team. They've spent about £300m basically just covering for a catastrophic set of injuries.
I waited till after our game, but I’ve been having a friendly crack at my City mate.
Despite this being their worst start in 21 years and the fact that no team in England has gone on to with a 38 game league after losing 2 of the first 3 games… he seems to be clinging to the belief that they’ll be fine, that it’s just some injuries to new players, who are better than everyone else in the league anyway and that their new keeper fixes everything.
I’m glad…. They got Utd at home and Arsenal away next - so they’re either going to be well fucked or they’ll fuck up Utd and/or Arsenal.
Arsenal have Forest up next - if Nuno is still
In charge, let’s see how they cope with Forest doing to them what they seem to want to do to any other decent team.
Despite this being their worst start in 21 years and the fact that no team in England has gone on to with a 38 game league after losing 2 of the first 3 games… he seems to be clinging to the belief that they’ll be fine, that it’s just some injuries to new players, who are better than everyone else in the league anyway and that their new keeper fixes everything.
I’m glad…. They got Utd at home and Arsenal away next - so they’re either going to be well fucked or they’ll fuck up Utd and/or Arsenal.
Arsenal have Forest up next - if Nuno is still
In charge, let’s see how they cope with Forest doing to them what they seem to want to do to any other decent team.
Exactly.
They realistically needed 2 strikers (like us) this summer, as havertz is shite and jesus is made of twiglets. They needed 3 wingers, as trossard and martinelli are shite, saka is coming back from a bad injury.
They got 1 striker, a winger and a 10 who can do a job on the wing. They also gave trossard a pay rise but no extension? What?
2 centre backs bought, a keeper, and 2 DMs. I get partey and jorginho left, so fairs. But it's all bench players. You buy to replace starters, not just depth.
They seem to think there's some kind of formula for guaranteeing titles by eliminating every risk. There isn't. With us in our pomp and Utd in theirs we both lost almost as many as we won. You just have to put together the best team you can and go for it. That doesn't mean attacking football necessarily, but just accepting that you can't control everything that might go wrong.
Sorry but a team with that much talent that actively plays for set pieces can get fucked as far as I'm concerned. It'd be a travesty if they win a title.
Sorry but a team with that much talent that actively plays for set pieces can get fucked as far as I'm concerned. It'd be a travesty if they win a title.
Delusional prick!!!
That's the key part. There needs to be risk, as that's what gets results. Every single attacking player under arteta has either regressed or been converted to a jack of all trades workhorse. Even saka, an excellent footballer, is tasked with so much defensive work whole playing every available minute, is it any wonder his hamstrings keep going ping?
In fact, Arteta isn't managing risk, he manages the wrong type of risk. Players getting near the red zone? 90 minutes for you today. Injured on warm up? Try and run it off. There's an interview from the summer where timber told arteta mid game he'd fucked his knee and Arteta told him he needed to play on.
Hra a fucking idiot
How about they start by not buying Chelsea rejects?
I remember a teacher in school in the mid 90's cracking a joke about the teams in the premier league that have three word names, like West Ham United, Queen's Park Rangers and Boring Boring Arsenal.
It was a simpler time.
According to Billy Connolly there's at least one in the Scottish League, namely Partick Thistle Nil.
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