What did Silva do that was so exceptional ? He was lively, busy and helped us keep control as you'd expect with a 15 minute cameo but nothing eye popping about him at all. We'd scored by the time he came on. Walker and Alvarez made a much bigger impact.Damn right. So sick of the bullshit narrative about him being out of form. Total fucking nonsense. I'm playing Silva over DeBruyne or Gundogan every day of the week at this point.
They were City fans then? Yes, I could see quite a few empty seats in the City stands a good 10 minutes before the end. Though given the wait for a tram or a bus afterwards, I can understand that
Indeed. Plus young players (even up to about 23-24 years old) are inconsistent.I said this a few games ago, that Lewis still needs to learn his craft in 'lesser graded' games before pushing for first team proper. At the time, I said I classed Arsenal in the top tier of games he shouldn't play in yet(okay, this was the FA Cup, so almost acceptable).
Whilst he wasn't terrible, I didn't think he was effective and Walker could have easily played there all game. Martinelli would have tore him a new one as he gave Walker issues.
Anyway, I was told the other week "if he's good enough, he's old enough". Yes and no. In a straight game, for a straight team, I'd see that. This team is never a straight one under Guardiola's expansive tactics.
The kid's good, but he needs time.
Agreed, Brightwell & White were like Laurel and Hardy in City shirts fucking about game after game.We've never been any good a throw ins, ever. It's always amazed me that any opposition have been able to find their player, get out of trouble or start an attack whilst we seem to waste loads of time and then throw straight at them.
Because they kept saying "fam, blud, innit bro"In the City end? How do you know they weren’t City fans unimpressed with your somewhat ponderous style of play?
I think a bigger win did come out of it in the end.
Arteta had to bring on all of the big guns and they didn't get a kick in the last 20 minutes.
It must be hard to keep the motivation up after winning 4 in 5 titles but I still back us to catch you. We're in 2nd gear at the moment so we just have to hope we can get into 3rd or 4th. Arsenal having not won the title for 20 years will get jittery come the end of the season so we just have to stay within touching distance I think.Who knows?
Sorry I beg to differ, granted I wasn't at the game but for once that was an advantage. They did a close up on TV of Haaland as they were examining his eyes and you could see that at first he wasn't completely there. Maybe not semi concussed but definitely not feigning anything. Sorry. :-)Semi concussed, my arse. He played the ref, staying down and feigning a head injury when we had a break on. Gamesmanship is what it was.
As an Arsenal backer frankly happy with the loss. People can call it loser or small club mentality but when you haven’t won the league in 19 years and you have a relatively thin squad you prioritize competition our biggest competition.
Pretty happy with how our team fared when Thomas was in there. We don’t play well at City no one really does. Lots of changes, and felt we outplayed City and had better chances what they were for early part of match. If City wanted to dent the team’s belief or put fear in us then on that score they failed
Arsenal pressed us, man for man. There was no way we could play out from the back. They forced us to play long.Yes, I'll give him that, it was clearly a game plan so that was never going to look great for him but he was just floating them up to the half way line in the general direction of Haaland and most of the time were just headed away. Nothing special at all in that, most keepers could have done something similar imo. I'm not trying to knock him but surely people don't think he has anything approaching the passing ability of Ederson.