Arsenal (A) | Community Shield | Post-match Thread

City should have had a penalty.
Ball came across from a corner Haaland couldn't jump as he was being held, as was another of our players.
Atwell wasn't very good today!
The "Smalling interpretation". Penalising grappling at corners lasted a few games before being ditched. Sterling for us was the first to suffer from the ruling. United realised they would concede many penalties so they sold Smalling.

Big mistake in my view. The only way to stop what we saw today is to award penalties. Then defenders will have to rely on skill to prevent opposition headers, not wrestling moves. Result is, we see more goals, which is what football is all about, and what the lawmakers claim is at the heart of their changes.
 
Scousers (red) spent 100 million euros on Nunez and after one charity game turned out crap, Arsenal spent even more an English equivalent of a holding player who if he was from
South America only Brighton would bid for and pay no more than 15 to 20 million. Here is Rice to last season’s Nunez. Hope Arsenal get their fill of lifting the Community Shield and get close to nothing else. Hope they have refilled their stationary cupboard the South London champions of August.
 
Loads of positives from today

- players will have come back down to reality after feeling a loss
- pep looks hungry and you can tell he’s fired up ready for the season
- our defence looks solid, it took a freak deflection for them to get back into it.
- KDB is back on the pitch and getting some minutes in his legs
- we played better than them despite being 2 weeks behind them on pre-season
- Kova has slotted into the team perfectly
- no injuries from today
- Jack grealish won’t be pissed tonight celebrating a cup win!
- it’s just a friendly
- cole palmer looked class when he came on
- rodri is the best defensive midfielder in the world right now.
- pep / board might identify some weak points and make a signature before the window closes if he feels the team need too.
- the football is back on!!! :)
 
The pressure Arsenal applied at the end started from Odegard playing a ball inside down the right. We don’t have that anymore. It took Akanji to play that pass in the champions league final. Dropped a bollock by not finding a new playmaker.
 

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