Arsenal (H) | PL | Post-match Thread

[Coljj]

Note the lack of news on Rodri, I am concerned. Didn't look good at all on replays after the game.

 

[Moss Side's Finest]

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[mac]

What happened to the rule that injured players had to step off the field of play for 30 seconds? Was that scrapped this season?

Rodders went off for the first injury

 

[Coljj]

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The replays were inconclusive. I don't know why they didn't show the goal line angle unless he wasn't running towards the side of the pitch it was on.

 

[Platt Lane 59]

Ah, but listening to the idiot Savage on R5 he suggested in the smuggest way he could muster that it was 'game management'! I bet a turnip to a Welsh leek that it would be anti-football if Pep or any City manager ever produced a half that managed 12.5% possession. Add that to the level of refereeing ineptitude on display we did superbly well to scab a draw!!!

Pep is one of the few managers whose interpretation of "game management" is trying to continue to attack when 3 or 4 up.
Poor Savage never had the ability or brains to be anything other than an athletic, aggressive yard-dog.
He wouldn't last 5 minutes in the modern, sanitised game.
Would be interesting to hear his views if/when his Macc team are up against " shithousery" away to Matlock etc...

 

[yerwot?]

Expect to see more teams copying the "play for a corner, gang up on the keeper tactics". There is no rule that prohibits standing anywhere; don't touch the keeper and the ref does not deem it "obstruction". It's already chaotic at corners, wrestling, shirt-pulling etc. and has been for years, defenders and attackers at it. "Tactical injuries" lol, Arse were the instigators and have become even more blatant, same with the signature time-wasting shithousery. A game-clock that stops when the ball is dead would end the farce of subs coming on in the dieing seconds and the need for extra time. The red cartel will do anything to stop that as it diminishes their allies in PGMOL to influence results. Arse as the new Leeds, without the trophy....

 

[HelloCity]

 

[Scaley]

Amongst the many reasons for intensely disliking Arteta, his clear decision to tell his players to go down with ‘cramp’, or some other feigned injury, is truly reprehensible.

The intent is to disrupt play, to create a version of the NFL ‘timeout’, where his players can have a drink and then get new instructions while the feigned injury is ‘treated’.

Well guess what you gooners, karma came back to maul you in the 98th minute.

I’m not sure whether anything can be done about his players dropping like flies, but it is definitely not good for the game.

The simple thing is if it’s not a head injury then play on. I would like to see a few teams employ the same tactic against Arsenal and see the reaction, their fragile heads would explode. If Arsenal are having a good period of play then players just sit down and disrupt their rhythm, the only problem with this is most teams have too much integrity to employ these shithouse tactics. The last team I saw employ these tactics to this extent at the Etihad was Everton but somehow Arsenal managed to out-shithouse them, Everton had the excuse of avoiding relegation. Arsenal playing like this five games in proves Rodri’s mentality comments for me. And finally what a contrast in play between Brentford and Arsenal, out of those two teams only one played like title challengers.

 

[Dodge]

Small point but surely Lewis starts over Walker going forward?

Not a small point at all mate.

There's no way on Gods earth that he should've been dropped yesterday. Since the start of the season, he's developed a nice partnership with Savio...quick, slick passing in tight area's. Breaking the lines, overlaps, underlaps, you name it, this kid does it. EXACTLY what was needed yesterday.

For me, a Pep brain fart, of (almost) Porto proportions to not play him....and then to leave him on the bench was criminal.

One thing noticeable was Savio playing very differently yesterday, he was not taking his first man on, which was Martinelli doubling up mostly, who he would have had on toast, to then attack their left back one-on-one. Can't remember him getting to the bye-line once. Pep instructions, to recycle, rather than play as he did against Fulham & Brentford? Is Pep going to do with Savio what he has done with Jack?

Come on Pep, let him play.

It was a kid that got us that almighty result at the Barcodes last season, another kid could've done the same yesterday. Instead, we got Dias taking potshots like a crackhead at a coconut shy.

Go figure.

 

[skillman]

Haaland telling Arteta to stay humble. Ah, I love the bloke.

Yesterday he: scored, nailed Saliba, nailed Partey, threw the ball at Gabriel’s head, told a young kid to stay in his lane, told Arteta to stay humble and also looks to have told Jesus to do one too.