Our second hand performance, after they scored and we were on the ropes for twenty minutes, may have saved our season.Still in it, obviously. But we shot ourselves in the foot with that second half performance yesterday - brilliant opportunity to get our noses in front, but fucked it up.
Liverpool and Arsenal will both drop points somewhere. But given our performances so far, I’m not sure I see us being able to take advantage.
So weak defensively, profligate in front of goal, lacking in fight and with a paper thin squad and yet we’ve won 18 and drawn 3 of the last 21 games.The worrying thing for me is we look weak defensively every game and don’t look clinical going forward. We seem to lack a bit of fight as well. That’s never been true in recent years. Our squad is paper thin, it lacks quality on the bench. Doku and Nunes are awful buys imho. KDB is unreal but he doesn’t look fit to me again and his creativity is essential. Got a horrible feeling we will fall away in coming weeks.
Had another little think about yesterday and it was a point well earned. When you factor in Alvarez, KDB and Haaland had a real poor game against a pumped up adversary, then the rest of the players done pretty well overall to get that point. We are nearly at that stage of the season where every member of the squad needs to do a job when required.People chatting like there’s two or three games left and we’ve fucked the chance to go top and now need a miracle.
Ourselves and Liverpool still have a potential 18 games left to play in all comps. Arsenal, 16.
There’s a long, long way to go. All three teams will have dips in form between now and the end of the season.
We’re not only still in all three big comps. We’re favourites to win them all.
Yesterday wasn’t a disaster. Far from it. The fact we weren’t at our best, isn’t a sign of impending doom. Look at the positives. We didn’t play particularly great but still got a point in traditionally the most difficult game of the season.
This post needs to be bookmarked, one of the best iv seen in recent years for undervaluing our team, tactics and manager.The worrying thing for me is we look weak defensively every game and don’t look clinical going forward. We seem to lack a bit of fight as well. That’s never been true in recent years. Our squad is paper thin, it lacks quality on the bench. Doku and Nunes are awful buys imho. KDB is unreal but he doesn’t look fit to me again and his creativity is essential. Got a horrible feeling we will fall away in coming weeks.
NonsenseIts over
Focus on UCL
Liverpool played it like it was second halfMaybe it was,in some way....
That’s disappointing to hear, I think Liverpool may probably edge it now, was definitely a huge missed opportunity yesterday, do feel deflated but it’s far from overDippers next 4 games inc home games v Brighton, Sheff Utd and Palace. Just up to us to stay in touch with our next 2 at home to Arsenal and Villa.
The games we have left the way we playing at moment can see us dropping maybe another 4/6 points is 88/90 points be enough?
Maybe pal but I can see the difference between this team and last year.This post needs to be bookmarked, one of the best iv seen in recent years for undervaluing our team, tactics and manager.
The transfers were an absolute disgraceI just hope Arse hit top form too soon they have been freescoring form since early January, that surely must end around April. if not, title is theirs.
problem is the Arse-dipper game earlier, Arteta completely shut them off limiting them to one shot on target, while scored their chances.
and they gave us not much chance at the Emirates either. feels like Arteta learned his lessons tactically did a fantastic transfer window with getting in Rice and giving belief to Havertz he was missing at Chelsea and also Raya is a much more decent GK than Ramsdale thats 3 upgrades in one summer into their line up. we had zero transfers like that last summer.
unfortunately thats hell of a lot better recruitment than Nunes, Gvardiol, Doku, Kovacic. I mean Rice and Havertz has more starts than our 4 players together in PL this season. had they went out and downgrade rather than upgrade they would be nowhere near us. and actually doing last season what they did without likes of Raya, Havertz, Rice is more solid looking back now but they folded under pressure as they were not ready yet. this time the way they beat us in the league and dippers too even us in super cup game with lucky deflections and pens and with good recruitment they might be ready this time around.
Arteta also avoided a loss at Anfield, which again was a more controlled match than how much control we had today.
Arteta learned from the best and learned well.
still I would hate it if he could lift the title taking everything he learned here and get the better of us over a season.
Txiki also has something to explain, because from a treble winning position to do that transfer wise we lose hugely experienced class players and replace them with bench players, if that happened to Arteta he loses Xhaka and gets a worse player than Xhaka rather than Rice a much better one, well Arsenal wouldnt be where they are today.
same as us before if we had replaced Jesus with Callum Wilson instead of Haaland we might not win treble last season. recruitment does matter, it matters a lot, and Phillips, Nunes etc direction aint gonna get us anywhere apart from costly errors while allowing rivals to catch us while we are front...
next thing you know is Alvarez playing instead of Rodri if he is injured as pep wont trust Nunes, Kovacic, Phillips etc to do that.
I think our maximum is 88-89 pts. Given that we play CL games, hopefully CL semis too and a FA Cup semi, we'll drop at least 4-5 pts, imo. I think the same applies for Liverpool and Arsenal. Wouldn't be surprised if all 3 teams drop at least 6-7 pts.
Imagine the final 2-3 games if all 3 teams can win it!
Maybe pal but I can see the difference between this team and last year.
The transfers were an absolute disgrace