Arsenal (A) - Sun 21st Sept, 16:30 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[roy.or.r]

Can’t believe the rags are above us right now. The Brighton and Spurs results are really annoying.

 

[Blue Hefner]

Arsenal are big boys, solid. Not many teams will beat them this season. Maybe we will, maybe we won’t but we need to keep them honest

Which means, no cock ups. No Reijners getting caught on the ball and easy turnovers. No Donnarumma getting busy with strikers from corners

Be solid. Let’s show the league that whilst we might get beat, we ain’t easy anymore.

 

[citytill1die84]

But why not. Why the defeatist attitude. We have the greatest manager of all time. Arguably the best keeper in the world. The best forward in the world. Rodri and foden hopefully back in the groove. Gvaridol, kushanov and marmoush are excellent players. I also think reijndeers and Gonzalez are excellent midfielders and will do well for us.
We are better than a lot of our fanbase seem to think we are and with the squad we have should 100% competing for the league.

It's not the defeatist attitude it's a realistic one. Too many players in such a short space of time takes a while to click. It's only 2 weeks ago we lost to Brighton, 3 weeks ago lost to Spurs at home, we've beaten a shit rag side and a 10 man Napoli and all of a sudden we should be contenders again lol. We do have good players, very good ones some with huge potential but we've also got many new ones who are still finding their feet.

Arsenal are a very good team and are very well drilled and been together for 4/5 years now half our squad have been together 6 months.

Don't do it to yourself pal. City won't finish with 10pts of the title winners.

 

[Doc_Testosterone]

Likely similar to last season’s result. They can defend and we clearly struggle. Perfect game for Pep to experiment.

 

[Bobby the blue]

It's not the defeatist attitude it's a realistic one. Too many players in such a short space of time takes a while to click. It's only 2 weeks ago we lost to Brighton, 3 weeks ago lost to Spurs at home, we've beaten a shit rag side and a 10 man Napoli and all of a sudden we should be contenders again lol. We do have good players, very good ones some with huge potential but we've also got many new ones who are still finding their feet.

Arsenal are a very good team and are very well drilled and been together for 4/5 years now half our squad have been together 6 months.

Don't do it to yourself pal. City won't finish with 10pts of the title winners.

It’s the hope that kills.

 

[murcian blue]

They won't need to - there's a strong team around them. Oh, and there's this, of course...


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[pbueno16]

It's not the defeatist attitude it's a realistic one. Too many players in such a short space of time takes a while to click. It's only 2 weeks ago we lost to Brighton, 3 weeks ago lost to Spurs at home, we've beaten a shit rag side and a 10 man Napoli and all of a sudden we should be contenders again lol. We do have good players, very good ones some with huge potential but we've also got many new ones who are still finding their feet.

Arsenal are a very good team and are very well drilled and been together for 4/5 years now half our squad have been together 6 months.

Don't do it to yourself pal. City won't finish with 10pts of the title winners.

People have a right to be optimistic but it’s bordering on blindness. We’ve had a couple good performances, but I’ll wait until we can do it consistently before my prediction for the season differs from yours.

 

[BlueMonkey79]

But why not. Why the defeatist attitude. We have the greatest manager of all time. Arguably the best keeper in the world. The best forward in the world. Rodri and foden hopefully back in the groove. Gvaridol, kushanov and marmoush are excellent players. I also think reijndeers and Gonzalez are excellent midfielders and will do well for us.
We are better than a lot of our fanbase seem to think we are and with the squad we have should 100% competing for the league.

I think someone on here said "No team has ever won the league losing 5 games"...

We've already lost 2, plus our usual annual turn over at Anfield.

Lose tomorrow and we have ONE more game to lose - if the statement is correct.

Scousers are getting over the line every game. And that's all that matters. Wether it's last minute penalties or dickheads getting sent off or players giving stupid free kicks away in dangerous positions late in games.

Exactly why I won't even bother watching them. Call it defeatist or whatever you want. But it's the harsh reality. IMO.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Despite Twatwell we will beat them and we'll laugh at them losing their shit over it at full time.

 

[citytill1die84]

It’s the hope that kills.

Sure is mate.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Why so much talk about point differences in September? Just play the games as they come to get a better level of performance and see where we fall in the mix come February. It’s a period of transition still ffs.

A win tomorrow will leave us level on points with arsenal , 6 behind Liverpool and give us a confidence booster
Losing leaves us 6 points behind arsenal and 9 points behind Liverpool.
While agreeing with you on taking it match by match and it being a period of transition, we still need to keep as little distance between ourselves and the top teams to a reasonable level.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

Pep has got us cl football every season, won 6 league titles and every won we could have won we have done. The cl final he played Gundogan instead of 36 yr old Fernandinho or 22 yr old Rodri I don’t think it’s the worst mistake in the world. Apart from that game I cant think of many more, and anyway even if he make a few why dwindle on them when there’s so many good moments he’s provided us with

As opposed to 'dwindling' on them myself & others are politely referencing them to highlight that Pep's,despite his success, is not faultless,but fallible.

Imo, we've lost too many winnable CL games along with cup semis and finals against inferior, beatable clubs.

I'm sure most of the players, past & present, feel similarly.

Just a pov.

 

[Harrycity21]

As opposed to 'dwindling' on them myself & others are politely referencing them to highlight that Pep's,despite his success, is not faultless,but fallible.

Imo, we've lost too many winnable CL games along with cup semis and finals against inferior, beatable clubs.

I'm sure most of the players, past & present, feel similarly.

Just a pov.

Just my opinion but I feel like the players fully back pep and if they didn’t either they would leave or pep would call it a day. Even if u feel like pep made a mistake or two or his 9 year tenure, why bring up games from 4/5 years ago and when there’s so much success to think about. Unless u feel like pep should go why talk about his shortcomings?

 

[Chak19]

I think someone on here said "No team has ever won the league losing 5 games"...

We've already lost 2, plus our usual annual turn over at Anfield.

Lose tomorrow and we have ONE more game to lose - if the statement is correct.

Scousers are getting over the line every game. And that's all that matters. Wether it's last minute penalties or dickheads getting sent off or players giving stupid free kicks away in dangerous positions late in games.

Exactly why I won't even bother watching them. Call it defeatist or whatever you want. But it's the harsh reality. IMO.

We won the league in 2014 losing 6 games.

 

[Lost in space]

I really hope Rodders is rested as those mockney cnuts will be hatcheting him again. 57 minutes play time and 33 minutes madridesque shithousery

 

[SCEtoAUX]

If we lose tomorrow then I don’t care what anyone else says the leagues done. Can’t be losing three games in the first five and expect to put pressure on Liverpool.

Couldn't agree more. I would say this is a must-win for us to have any chance of the title. I know this will only be five games in but (according to Grok) no team has ever won the Prem having dropped seven points from the from their first five games, let alone nine.

 

[BlueMonkey79]

We won the league in 2014 losing 6 games.

Yes you are correct.
I merely commented on what someone said in a post on here and didn't have the time to root through the history books.

There have been a few PL titles won by teams losing 6 even 7 games.

But generally it's 5 or less after looking at the history of the PL.

5 or 6 losses - doesn't matter.

I still think we are already fighting an uphill battle with this Liverpool side.

We have put ourselves under huge pressure tomorrow with the shit results against Brighton and Spurs.

 

[Niall666]

I fancy us tomorrow

When I really think about it, I acknowledge we've only beaten two dog muck teams in the league and there's a chance Arsenal might take us apart .

But I've got a feeling we will do them

Donnarumma got me feeling confident

 

[argyle]

Shit comment.

You've got no idea whether Pep will change the line up.

If he does it will be because we played a game 3 days ago.

We've just played the same 11 twice so your timing is just weird.

We've won loads of trophies since 2021.

Yeah but we finished third last season so the toys are being thrown out of the pram by many...

 

[SamTheGuru]

We need to win tomorrow if we have any chance of rediscovering our siege mentality for the future. It may sound cliché but winning the top 4/top 6 mini leagues (whoever classifies under that in recent seasons) is so important. Our biggest problem over old seasons was losing games against the bottom of the league and wiping the floor with everybody else! Over the last couple of years it has been the complete opposite and we can hardly muster a few points together against the top sides!