Match Thread | Arsenal vs. Man City (02/02/25)

Status
Not open for further replies.
skillman said:
This is cowardly, consolidation football so far. No real urgency to attack or use our focal point.

Happy to keep the ball at 1-0 down.

With Foden, Marmoush, Savinho and Haaland out there. Christ. Come on blues, have a bit of pride about you!
Click to expand...
I just think many of these players are no longer good enough and to be fair, they’ve won the lot. We should have been more aggressive and cold in moving some on earlier…I’m sure there are reasons we didn’t though.
 
Blu1 said:
Frustrating thing is even though we look poor so do arsenal. We are just beating ourselves
Click to expand...
Arsenal are terrible. They have everyone back in their box. 5 man defense.. if they wanted to be a top team they would come out and attack us. Heck everyone knows we suffer with teams running at us and yet they are scared and pack the defense lol.. not a champion team at all. Mentality all wrong
 
We've seldom looked threatening today. Arsenal haven't been great, either. Unfortunately, they haven't had to. Pep will need to bang some heads together at HT. We can still salvage something from the game. But we can't let them get two up.
 
I honestly don’t think we have played that poorly, especially given we are away, with the crowd practically reffing the game.

Three individual errors lead to nearly every Arsenal chance (two of them for their early goal), otherwise they created very little of note. We had a header saved with an admittedly brilliant strong hand (and some assistance from the crossbar), and a few other openings we should have done better with. We could have genuinely scored one or two with better finishing and/or more luck.

My only real criticism—apart from the defence needing to be less careless in possession—is that we seem to be reluctant to find Marmoush with slide rule pass or over the top lobs, even when he has made a clever run in to acres of space. He appears to be the difference maker tonight, with several instances of world class actions.

I understand we don’t want to unnecessarily expose ourselves to the counter, but why have him make the runs at all if we are neither going to try to find him or pass it to a player in the space he created with the run. To me that indicates it is not a instruction not to pass, but rather a lack of confidence in the players who are weighing up the pass. And that is something Pep can remedy in the dressing room.

All things considered, that half wasn’t actually bad. Nothing can be done about the early error now. But we can go on to dominate and turn it around in the second half.

And I reckon we will.
 
Some of these decisions are so stupid. Why are we giving so much of the ball to Nunes? We could be level if we let our attackers have more of the ball
 
100% Haaland is better off staying central in line with the last defender. Him not being anywhere near the perfect cross from Gvardiol is criminal. Also it pushes them back but him being 5 yards deep to run in behind when there is 0 space makes no sense.
 
both teams thinking

the-best-things-in-life-go-sideways-gary-williams.gif
 
The BBC match thread is basically full of Arsenal fans.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top