Arsenal (A) - PL Post Match Thread

[The perfect fumble]

The foody blue....

 

[brazilians hurt]

Rice was also voted POTM by the Gooners fans, I suppose it shows what they know......

I thought Saliba was their standout player. Him & Gabriel look like a good defensive combination.
Not sure Zinchenko gets in their best starting 11 if Timber was fit & it sounds like Jesus might be used in any future deal for Osinhem so clearly they recognise they need to upgrade.
They are & will continue to get stronger but their lack of a world class striker will hopefully cost them this season
One last thing Nketiah likes to leave a bit in doesn’t he, proper snidey prick hopefully someone will give him a bit back soon

 

[Otamendi's Beard]

Rice made one good recovery tackle on Nunes which means he's the best player in the world.

As usual, other teams get giddy about one thing that we would deem business as usual.

Rodri and KDB would've enjoyed playing against that Arsenal side.

 

[kaz7]

Its all good.
Like me City prefer coming from behind

I much prefer the chase rather than being top

 

[normskih]

Strangely enough while I was watching us yesterday I kept thinking back to the games we had against them with likes of Merlin,Yaya,Fern, Aguero and Sane. We were so exciting to watch back then.

I was thinking about the match we played Arsenal after we beat them in the League Cup final. We absolutely hammered them at theirs. David Silva was unplayable in those few months, incredible, he really was.

 

[youngbob]

I’m just sick of the way we play away games ever since 3-3 vs Newcastle, he can try and justify it, but the simple fact is not only it being abysmal to watch, it’s not even effective is it? We won two games away from home against the top 10 in the league last season and one was just a pure arsenal bottle and one win in the cl away from home all last season. We just look an absolute shadow of the team we are when we go away from home and it makes even more irrational now we’ve got Haaland.

It will be the exact same performance against United in a few weeks and probably the exact same result there will be nothing in the game but united will win either by a ref decision like last season or a deflection like today.

if he doesn’t change this profoundly negative style away from home we will be lucky to get 2 wins again against this season’s eventual top 10.

It's probably worth mentioning, though, that the Brighton and Brentford games literally didn't matter because we'd already won the league, and that we were screwed by one of the worst non-offside calls in the history of the Premier League at United. If we'd needed to win those Brighton and Brentford games we would have done.

Also, it's funny that you blame our 3-1 win away at Arsenal on Arsenal, and say it was all their fault for "bottling" it, but say that Brentford beating us on the last day of the season (when we had nothing to play for and started Gomez, Phillips, and Palmer in midfield) is entirely City's fault. You can't just pick and choose.

And it's also worth mentioning that playing away in Europe is a different task to playing away in the Premier League. They're games to be navigated rather than won. We didn't need to win in Leipzig, we didn't need to win in Munich, we didn't need to win in Madrid. We did need to win in Istanbul, though, and we got the job done.

 

[KingGeorge]

You got to love this comment from Danny Murphy. This club puts so much fear into the hearts of red tops everywhere

 

[HarrytheBlue]

Start without him or sub him when it is obvious it doesn't work. He was subbing him last season almost every single game. AN it is obvious his performances are way down since Kev has been out. Even the end of the last season.

But with goalscorers, they can be isolated for eighty-nine minutes, than bang!! they score. Same with the genius that his Kev - he can be having a rare game where team mates don't read his passes and it looks a poor game by him, then he finds someone with an incredible pass. Haaland is virtually a goal a game for us, so why drop him on the basis of a few games where he's either missed a couple or isn't getting a look-in at all? Mbappe's not at his best this season, but would you drop him if you coached PSG? Form comes back.

 

[TINY]

Start haaland next game…?

 

[HarrytheBlue]

I thought Saliba was their standout player. Him & Gabriel look like a good defensive combination.
Not sure Zinchenko gets in their best starting 11 if Timber was fit & it sounds like Jesus might be used in any future deal for Osinhem so clearly they recognise they need to upgrade.
They are & will continue to get stronger but their lack of a world class striker will hopefully cost them this season
One last thing Nketiah likes to leave a bit in doesn’t he, proper snidey prick hopefully some will give him a bit back soon

Nketiah is twenty-four years old and seven years a pro - a striker. After seven years, his total Prem goals tally is the majestic sixteen plus three on loan at Leeds in the EFL (pretty sure they were in the EFL then). There are defenders who score more regularly than Nketiah.