Arsenal Thread - 2022/23

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More worried about us keeping the pressure than them

They will bottle it, they almost did yesterday and pulled it out their arse

But there is still 15 games left to go, this wasn't the last 3 or 4 games

They are already feeling it and they have to play us at the etihad and have away games against Liverpool (may ned the season strong), Fulham (high flying) , West ham (Derby) and Newcastle (who may still be in the top 4 race)
 
An awful lot of wishful thinking here. Arsenal are not the team of old with a soft centre. If City Buck up there will be a race, but, if we don’t, Arsenal will be champions.
If there is a race, the pressure might tell on them a little, but they will be favourites and they will not implode.
 
GunnerGer said:
I was sure Arteta said that there was an agreement now that Champions League teams don't have to play the early kick off on a Saturday, so someone else must have moaned about it, it certainly wasn't us since we've not been in the Champions League for years.

Was Pep not just moaning last week about having to play in London often with the travel time that involves and the amount of London teams there is?
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Earlier this season we played Wolves away 12.30 Saturday after playing Dortmund the previous Wednesday night so I don't know where you've heard that?

I don't recall Pep moaning but when he does make his views known regarding fixture scheduling he's not as whiny as Arteta.

A consequence of being successful is fixture congestion and if Arteta does make a success of it I'm sure it won't be the last time we hear him whinging as as we've realised he likes a good moan.
 
Blueboy73 said:
Earlier this season we played Wolves away 12.30 Saturday after playing Dortmund the previous Wednesday night so I don't know where you've heard that?

I don't recall Pep moaning but when he does make his views known regarding fixture scheduling he's not as whiny as Arteta.

A consequence of being successful is fixture congestion and if Arteta does make a success of it I'm sure it won't be the last time we hear him whinging as as we've realised he likes a good moan.
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If you want European football, you have to build up a squad full of resilience, strength, and stamina.
 
arsenal as a whole from staff, manager, players and fans all seem very on edge, very nervous, highly strung. These emotions can be very draining both mentality and physically. They struggle got contain these on the pitch and get lucky not to pick up more bookings. Take Zinny for example he looks like a loose canon he was never like that at City, he was passionate yes but under control looks far from that at the gooners.

Should the gooners pull of the league i can see them doing a Leicester being awful the next season due to being mentality and physically knackered
 
KS55 said:
If you want European football, you have to build up a squad full of resilience, strength, and stamina.
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Correct.
Arteta is whinging now, if they do continue to develop he'll probably have a meltdown when he realises he's got to play a full strength team midweek against one of Europes leading lights between League fixtures and can't play his reserves against FC Taxi Drivers of Kazakhstan.
 
KS55 said:
An awful lot of wishful thinking here. Arsenal are not the team of old with a soft centre. If City Buck up there will be a race, but, if we don’t, Arsenal will be champions.
If there is a race, the pressure might tell on them a little, but they will be favourites and they will not implode.
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How do you know they won’t implode, rags imploded in 2012 with all there experience, anything can happen with 14 games to go, we will see what happens when we return to 2 games p/w, they got lucky yesterday.
 
Blueboy73 said:
Earlier this season we played Wolves away 12.30 Saturday after playing Dortmund the previous Wednesday night so I don't know where you've heard that?

I don't recall Pep moaning but when he does make his views known regarding fixture scheduling he's not as whiny as Arteta.

A consequence of being successful is fixture congestion and if Arteta does make a success of it I'm sure it won't be the last time we hear him whinging as as we've realised he likes a good moan.
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Just re read what Arteta said, think the rule is if you are away from home in a Champions League game you won't be picked for the early kick off Saturday, and he wants that modified to include if you are playing any game Wednesday you won't be picked for the early kick off Saturday.

As an aside from that, I totally agree with you. You need to suck that up, and build your squad to deal with that. I speak as a Rangers fan who's team was forced to play 5 games in 10 days at the end of the 2008 season, 1 a European final and 1 a domestic cup final in around the end of season league run in. Now that's fixture congestion.
 
give it to gordon said:
arsenal as a whole from staff, manager, players and fans all seem very on edge, very nervous, highly strung. These emotions can be very draining both mentality and physically. They struggle got contain these on the pitch and get lucky not to pick up more bookings. Take Zinny for example he looks like a loose canon he was never like that at City, he was passionate yes but under control looks far from that at the gooners.

Should the gooners pull of the league i can see them doing a Leicester being awful the next season due to being mentality and physically knackered
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For what it's worth I agree with this too. In a way, getting the fan base and players so invested has got them to where they are now. But as you guys know the business end of the season requires mental toughness and composure in certain situations and it's only February but already it's looking like we lack that part. For me, that's definitely a worry over the next couple of months.
 
GunnerGer said:
Just re read what Arteta said, think the rule is if you are playing any game Wednesday you won't be picked for the early kick off Saturday. away from home in a Champions League game you won't be picked for the early kick off Saturday, and he wants that modified to include if you are

As an aside from that, I totally agree with you. You need to suck that up, and build your squad to deal with that. I speak as a Rangers fan who's team was forced to play 5 games in 10 days at the end of the 2008 season, 1 a European final and 1 a domestic cup final in around the end of season league run in. Now that's fixture congestion.
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Arteta does realise that playing at say Newcastle midweek and flying back that evening is alot easier than playing in Russia !. Wednesday and Saturday is normal. does a few hours make that much difference on a saturday.
 
GunnerGer said:
For what it's worth I agree with this too. In a way, getting the fan base and players so invested has got them to where they are now. But as you guys know the business end of the season requires mental toughness and composure in certain situations and it's only February but already it's looking like we lack that part. For me, that's definitely a worry over the next couple of months.
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agree if arsenal are in the position that City were v Villa last season, i think your heads would go !
 
GunnerGer said:
Just re read what Arteta said, think the rule is if you are away from home in a Champions League game you won't be picked for the early kick off Saturday, and he wants that modified to include if you are playing any game Wednesday you won't be picked for the early kick off Saturday.

As an aside from that, I totally agree with you. You need to suck that up, and build your squad to deal with that. I speak as a Rangers fan who's team was forced to play 5 games in 10 days at the end of the 2008 season, 1 a European final and 1 a domestic cup final in around the end of season league run in. Now that's fixture congestion.
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I agree with Arteta but it's been going on for years
Associations support their clubs in Europe.
The problem over here is TV companies calling the shots but money talks at the end of the day.
 
give it to gordon said:
agree if arsenal are in the position that City were v Villa last season, i think your heads would go !
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I think in 1 off games like that you can ride the emotions, especially at home. Like in the game we played vs Utd, if you drag them into that type of game too.

However, vs you guys 2nd half, you almost calmed your game down, took the emotion out it and started playing with composure and we just didn't respond really, and started making mistakes.

That was a proper lesson for us in my opinion that night, not in terms of real quality, but in terms of know how.
 
Fair play to them yesterday, showed a lot of fight to come back twice and then press for the winner.

But the games against Everton, Brentford and us give me hope that they’re a bit too soft and emotional to see it out. We’re not near the business end yet and they looked lost against us and look lost against teams with good defences (Villa’s is woefully open).
 
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