The 20/21 Season

afc: Leno, Holding, Gabriel, Tierney; Bellerin, Partey, Xhaka, Saka; Willian, Lacazette, Aubameyang.

Team news is in

Leno
Bellerin Holding Gabriel Tierney
.........Xhaka.....Partey...........
..............Lacazette...............
Willian Aubameyan Saka

Arteta better have learned his lesson from prevoius NLD
Lets go
COYG

Nope. Slightly different formation with the same tactics.

Arteta vs Mou with these set of players is probably going to be repeat of the same everytime
What else was i expecting sigh

Repeat?

I thought they actually looked worse. Xhaka, Saka and Holding are useless. Tactically when pushing the ball up the left wing and trying to cross to nobody in the first half and it not coming close. You would think that you would maybe try something different. Not really sure how it is that Artetta can actually make largely the same players look worse than Unai.

I meant pattern of play
Arsenal having more of the ball actually being detrimental to our own team
This team is going nowhere even if we fluked couple of results
Major changes needed

The root cause of our condition was there to be seen about 6 or 7 seconds before the 2nd goal. We were on the attack, Partey being a seasoned international player started to walk off the pitch (concentration span of absolute zero) and reaches the touchline, suddenly there is a transition, he looks towards the ball and does nothing, arteta urges him to go and run but he doesnt, Arteta literally pushes him and asks him to run, he starts to run and after a mere 100m decides to stop (the ball is still in play) because he cant do shit now. Before the ball is in the net he has turned back to walk towards the bench again.

This is the mentality of arsenal players for the last 7 or 8 years now. We buy amazing players and turn them into horse shit kind of players. They have no sense of responsibility towards the team because they really dont want to win.

I still remember the day when Cesc was limping but still running after the ball as we had no subs left to make. After the game it was revealed the he had a fractured bone and I thought that kid was running with a fractured bone just to make sure we atleast tried to win.

If only holding can show the same determination with which he high fives gabriel after every clearance while defending one on ones he would be a world class player. If only Bellerin learns that both feet should be touching the ground for a throw in he would become a better player. Willian is now on a three year contract amd he will be doing next to nothing for those 3 years, same with Aubameyang.

Arteta should really man up and show those mental midgets the same arse that he had shown Ozil. Atleast do something in a match to justify your position in the next match. Lacazette was our best player today. Created opportunities, got shot on target (something new for the team).

Our creative portal for the last 20 mins were Xhaka and Willian hence we created nothing. Give the ball to Xhaka who will pass to Willian who will give it back to Xhaka who will give ot to gabriel who will give it back to Xhaka to repeat. I really want to kill someone now.

Might as well take Auba, Willian and Laca off the pitch entirely. If tactically we have no one to get the ball through the pitch in front of goal it is worthless to have anyone close to a striker on the pitch. Take them off and put on 3 more defenders. Wouldn't look any worse.

Partey being on the pitch probably doesn't change anything, but what was he doing? If you're injured, sit down.

Spurs aren't likely to kill their counterattack because an Arsenal player is injured, but who knows? Maybe the ref blows the whistle. If you're injured, just sit down.

Based on what I read, Partey had been injured prior to the match even starting, and would ideally have been rested. Of course, in a match like this, you don't want to rest any of your best players - and from what I can tell, he is one of Arsenal's best players. Then again, I rarely watch Arsenal's matches these days, so I'm definitely not the best judge of who their most important players are.

Arteta deserves criticism for rushing him back - especially when the result of that decision was worsening the initial injury - but I've never seen that before.

Why not go to ground? Stand still? Just have your body present on the pitch until the play is over?

Really, really strange and amateurish of Partey and something concerning about the state of the players' attitudes at the moment.

So we finish our EL group stages with 6 our of 6 wins.

Dead rubber game with possibly the worst team in the competition and yet we conceded 2...

Positive is how good ESR looked and Balogun really needs to sign a contract. Very promising forward. Good to see Azeez n Cottrell get their debuts.

Pretty straightforward situation tonight

Win or get sacked

Need to see a positive response from the team and the manager

well so far not from the manager, unless Willian starts AM/10

Two of the most boring sides in the league facing each other
We used to be neutrals favourite team to watch!

Willian might be one of our worst signings

No Artetta is the worst signing. Willian is just doing his bidding and this team has the largest lack of creativity I have ever seen.

The only positive from today is Xhaka's red card. We will win the next three matches for sure now, no matter who the manager is

Arteta to take Bellerin and Ceballos with him to his next team like Moyes with Fellaini,hopefully

Sack the club

Sina wrote:Arteta to take Bellerin and Ceballos with him to his next team like Moyes with Fellaini,hopefully

I actually hope he leaves them and takes Saka, Nketiah and AMN with him. Ceballos actually brings a little to the center of the pitch.

^lol

No idea where you start to solve this. We actually looked like winning that one. Persisting with Xhaka and Willian was always going to bite Arteta in the ass.

As sackable as this start is, the investment in Arteta and the squad we have in place make me think that doing so right now would achieve nothing but making us more unstable and serious relegation candidates.

I think it starts with playing some of the younger EL performers who have shown they deserve a run.

At this point, I don't really give a shit what happens though.

5 points out of the relegation zone. With the way we are going now the end of he year could be bad. With all the possession we had, we never really threatened.