Arsenal thread | 2025/26

dublinblue12 said:
A draw at Sunderland may turn out to be a good result come the end of the season but good to see them finally drop points, they very nearly won it though
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I agree it's a good point in a tough match. The narrative in the press and by so-called 'influencers' that we are on track for a quadruple, will win the league by a canter etc is all bollocks. It's a tough league to win - there's a reason we haven't done it for 22 years and you get ups and downs.

People forget we got last second goals against Newcastle and City to win points and sometimes that happens against you too.

It also puts massive pressure on City and Liverpool today - this is a big chance to eat into the points deficit and whoever loses today will feel particularly sore. Whoever wins though will go into the international break with a big spring in their step. From a Gooner perspective probably a City win or a draw is better - Liverpool have an easier run of fixtures after today's game whereas Arsenal and City have some tricky away games on the horizon.

I still remain optimistic as a Gooner that we got a point today that we would not have got last season. Hopefully we get our injured players back (first time Saka's been doubled up on for ages - a clear consequence of Gyokeres being out and Merino not being able to occupy the defenders in the same way).
 
Saddleworth2 said:
What a horrible bunch of cheats that Arsenal team is. Every challenge, the simplest of touches and they are down like they have been shot. Clutching heads usually irrespective of wether they have actually had head contact. You will have noticed when Sunderland scored their equaliser there was Gabriel feigning a head injury to try and get the goal chalked off. With their American football tactics and blatant simulation of injury they are horrible to watch. I really hope we beat them to the PL but if we don't someone else does. All this has to come from Arteta, he certainly didn't learn it from Pep.
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I’ve never respected a football team less in this country. At least with Klopp’s Liverpool and even Ferguson’s United (apart from when they couldn’t get out of their own half in 2012), it was about football. I hate those clubs/sets of fans more, but I have more respect for their teams.

I read someone say yesterday (and agreed wholeheartedly), that if every team in this sport played football like Arsenal (time wasting, taking an eternity to take set pieces, constant cheating, constant pretending to be injured, constant moaning, manager constantly running around the touchline never in his technical area, players who are about the be subbed sitting down on the floor first to waste a bit of time, timeouts on the sideline…) then football wouldn’t be our national sport.
 
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malg said:
I'm guessing their set piece coach will be treating it like special teams in American Football. Everything is planned - every block, every run, every move. It's effective. Arsenal are just the first to perfect it.
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Agreed. The problem, though, is it usually contains at least one foul, if not multiple!
 
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