Arsenal (A) - PL Post Match Thread

D'Silva said:
I'm sorry he bought Kovacic and Nunes. It's on him. Two players not at the required level for this team. Then he bought a project player to compete with Grealish on the left and sold our only natural RW Palmer. How would he explain this decisions? He is a great coach obviously but he is not infalible.
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You're right - he's not infallible but are you seriously writing off Kovacic, Nunes, and Doku already?
 
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BolinCell said:
Pep called out Phillips for being overweight yet Kovacic is slow and looks to be carrying some extra pounds. Very strange signing Kovacic considering we let a young a academy player with lots of potential go the other way. Trixi bollocks and co got mugged on the Kovacic deal at 25 mill. I hope Kovacic can prove me wrong but at 29 years of age i doubt much will change, just become another city bench warmer.
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Literally 2 weeks ago he was the bargain of the century.
With Rodri back in the side he will look class again. A midfield is about balance and they compliment each other well.
The lack of creativity is what may harm us overall this season - losing De Bruyne and having no plan B apart from playing a young striker out of position or a hot and cold Foden is the area that might come back to bite us unfortunately.
 
I’m not worried cause we’ve got Pep. Last season was proof we need to relax. However it’s right to point out the issues. Our creativity this season has been poor.
 
Disappointing is an understatement, Pep played for a draw yesterday and he almost achieved that albeit for a lucky deflected goal at the end of the game. The team was insipid and very lacklustre and lacked any real desire to attack with any intent. Rodri was obviously a big miss and without him there was nobody to wrest control in midfield.

Fortunately, this game was fairly early in the season and there is plenty of time left to get our mojo back.
 
M18CTID said:
You're right - he's not infallible but are you seriously writing off Kovacic, Nunes, and Doku already?
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Note to ‘selves: yaya silva Rodri stones Jack were all awful in first season. We are too quick to write people off when it takes time to adjust to how we play. And teams are trying their utmost to beat one of the very best teams ever. That was just 4-5 months ago.
 
willipp said:
Kovacic feels like a player who is great when we are cruising and winning, but put him into a tight tough game and he’s gone missing.

Also felt today we really didn’t have our usual shape. We had no width at all until doku came on and even then we never really got at them.
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I think playing with no width was a tactical choice today
 
M18CTID said:
You're right - he's not infallible but are you seriously writing off Kovacic, Nunes, and Doku already?
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Jesus Christ, Some people need a head wobble

We have just come off the greatest season in the club's history and let's not forget the World Cup in midseason.
Players are human, We did not have a pre-season and went straight into the Asia tour and then the community shield and UEFA Super Cup,

We all need to keep calm and relaxed, Nobody is winning or losing anything after only 8 games, From what we have all watched this season Manchester City is OK and will be fine, One big result will send the rest back under their bricks again.
 
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chris85mcfc said:
Those whopping 8 league goals of which 4 were scored in the two games against Everton and Leeds.
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To be fair Gundo had a pretty poor goal scoring record until the past couple of years, so players can improve on it

Either way, I just don't see a Kovacic getting many goals because he doesn't really seem to get in scoring positions anyway.
 
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