Arsenal thread | 2025/26

Early doors yet but it will be one of the great travesties if we are part of a "chasing" pack that allows the biggest bottle jobs in the land to have a clean shot at the title under minimal to no pressure.
 
Raya asking Arteta if he can work from home for the rest of the season.
 
Newman123 said:
Although Im an Arsenal fan, I really did want City to win 4 in a row. Thats something that would easily go down as the best achievement and I dont think anyone would ever be able to replicate that. Also I like Pep and it would cement him as the best manager of all time. Plus it would piss of a lot of Utd fans and if you remember the early 00's the Utd fans were on a different level of intolerable.
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Your fans are on the way to that.
 
Seen Arsenal fans on twitter responding to criticism of their style of play by saying teams darent play against them so they've had to resort to set peices. Such is the domination of this team over the years, winning, erm... fuck all.

1. Welcome to our world.
2. At least it was only the lower side teams that put 11 men behind the ball. Then Arsenal did it, low block, didn't even try. All teams started to do that to us. This made us vulnerable as we over focused on breaking down attacks leaving us weak at the back.
3. It was Arsenal who started to make this into a higher level team tactic.


This started with them. They aren't responding to it they created it. Difference is they actually worked out how to combat this without sacrificing the defence. Instead they've sacrificed football - not that it matters if it wins you the league.

Now all teams play this way and all teams are using this tactic to combat it. The ones still trying to play football, unfortunately, risk dropping point to counters, sucker punches, 1 0 leads. Fluke goals, free kicks, corners.

Arsenal won't mind but they can't pretend they didn't start or at least massively contribute to it.
 
Newman123 said:
If Arsenal do end up winning the league and conceding less than 15 goals, would you see that as a massive achievement on the likes of City's treble season ?
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There is no way you think it's the same as a treble.
 
Jesus2020 said:
Seen Arsenal fans on twitter responding to criticism of their style of play by saying teams darent play against them so they've had to resort to set peices. Such is the domination of this team over the years, winning, erm... fuck all.

1. Welcome to our world.
2. At least it was only the lower side teams that put 11 men behind the ball. Then Arsenal did it, low block, didn't even try. All teams started to do that to us. This made us vulnerable as we over focused on breaking down attacks leaving us weak at the back.
3. It was Arsenal who started to make this into a higher level team tactic.


This started with them. They aren't responding to it they created it. Difference is they actually worked out how to combat this without sacrificing the defence. Instead they've sacrificed football - not that it matters if it wins you the league.

Now all teams play this way and all teams are using this tactic to combat it. The ones still trying to play football, unfortunately, risk dropping point to counters, sucker punches, 1 0 leads. Fluke goals, free kicks, corners.

Arsenal won't mind but they can't pretend they didn't start or at least massively contribute to it.
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There’s nothing wrong with the way they’re so dangerous from set pieces. But something needs to be done about this incredibly boring trend of taking forever to take the set pieces.

It’s not the set pieces that are boring, it’s that they take a minute to be taken.

Something needs to be done about it. Football looked at the only part of the game that wasn’t really a problem when it came to timewasting (the keeper with the ball in his hands). It’s not that part of the game that needs a countdown, it’s the dead balls.

Spurs yesterday took over 50 seconds to take one throw-in at one point. We don’t pay £50 a game to watch a load of blokes stood still on some grass. If I wanted that I’d change to be an NFL fan.

Arsenal’s free kicks and corners take a mind numbing amount of time to be taken. There was a corner in their game at Spurs last season that took 1min 10secs to be taken. Fucking wake me up when they score from it…
 
skillman said:
I don’t remember us being as good at corners as these twats are now?!

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It’s all about the delivery. We didn’t have anyone who could take a corner like Saka or Rice. Both of their corner taking is elite. So is Porro at Spurs.

De Bruyne is the best high-level-of-difficulty passer of the ball I’ve ever seen in football, but his corners were often quite average.
 
.db. said:
It’s all about the delivery. We didn’t have anyone who could take a corner like Saka or Rice. Both of their corner taking is elite. So is Porro at Spurs.

De Bruyne is the best high-level-of-difficulty passer of the ball I’ve ever seen in football, but his corners were often quite average.
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Hinchcliffe for White was a great combo
 
.db. said:
It’s all about the delivery. We didn’t have anyone who could take a corner like Saka or Rice. Both of their corner taking is elite. So is Porro at Spurs.

De Bruyne is the best high-level-of-difficulty passer of the ball I’ve ever seen in football, but his corners were often quite average.
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Don't think Pep puts any effort into them in training, can only be the only answer given how awful ours are. That set piece coach probably spent most of his time putting bollards out. It cannot be hard via practice for a highly paid PL player to learn how to take a corner, Dippers with Konate and VVD seem to win every header, Arsenal score nearly every game, Brentford are great with them and since Frank went to Spurs, in just a short time they have become very good at them
 
.db. said:
It’s all about the delivery. We didn’t have anyone who could take a corner like Saka or Rice. Both of their corner taking is elite. So is Porro at Spurs.

De Bruyne is the best high-level-of-difficulty passer of the ball I’ve ever seen in football, but his corners were often quite average.
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Also if you look at Arsenal set pieces it is Gabriel who is typically the focal point. The defenders know this yet still he seems to manage to muscle his way onto the end of the ball so combining that with the quality of delivery Rice puts in makes them very hard to defend against. If he got injured our set piece goals would decline massively.
 
Set piece attacks/ goals has always been a metric which has not been exploited at all over the years. I just look at American sports, how intriciate routines are in American football, that has only just started coming into football. Look at Basketball now, unrecogniseable sport from 15 years ago, everyone shooting 3 point shots now.

Set pieces is going to be the new norm, this is just the start. Arsenal literally have to go even/ not be losing and then win via a nice corner routine. PSG will fear them the most of anyone.
 
SambaStyle said:
Set piece attacks/ goals has always been a metric which has not been exploited at all over the years. I just look at American sports, how intriciate routines are in American football, that has only just started coming into football. Look at Basketball now, unrecogniseable sport from 15 years ago, everyone shooting 3 point shots now.

Set pieces is going to be the new norm, this is just the start. Arsenal literally have to go even/ not be losing and then win via a nice corner routine. PSG will fear them the most of anyone.
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Arteta had the LA Rams Coach Sean McVay share his ideas around the psychology around set plays with the coaching staff at Arsenal btw. Apparently things like delaying an extra few seconds, creating chaos in the minds of the opponent by making lots of seemingly erratic movement just before the set piece is started and so on is a big part of it. Arteta refers to it as 'chaos' - in those few seconds you can break a team's structure and discipline and that's all it takes to score a goal.

But yes, fuck me is it boring lol!
 
.db. said:
It’s all about the delivery. We didn’t have anyone who could take a corner like Saka or Rice. Both of their corner taking is elite. So is Porro at Spurs.

De Bruyne is the best high-level-of-difficulty passer of the ball I’ve ever seen in football, but his corners were often quite average.
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Agree, our corners are so bad i dont know why we even take them lol.
 
bridgeno1 said:
Arteta had the LA Rams Coach Sean McVay share his ideas around the psychology around set plays with the coaching staff at Arsenal btw. Apparently things like delaying an extra few seconds, creating chaos in the minds of the opponent by making lots of seemingly erratic movement just before the set piece is started and so on is a big part of it. Arteta refers to it as 'chaos' - in those few seconds you can break a team's structure and discipline and that's all it takes to score a goal.

But yes, fuck me is it boring lol!
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Tbh I think Arteta is responsible for making your football ugly and boring to watch.

Tbh City are always easy on the eye with Pep's insistence on control , but I find your football is pretty dire as a spectator sport.
 
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