Arsenal thread | 2025/26

bridgeno1 said:
Depends what we are up against. Current Dippers side is nowhere near the level that City side was. Still trying to work out what level this current City side is as well as those 3 will be the contenders.
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It'll probably take more than 6 games to work that one out

Were literally 3 points behind you, and we've only started playing in the last 2 weeks
 
Arsenal look a very good team. Might not agree with how they play but it’s effective. Might not win the league again but coming back to win at Newcastle is championship mentality.

Squad is in top shape.

Still letter writing, moaning wankers -:)
 
bridgeno1 said:
Depends what we are up against. Current Dippers side is nowhere near the level that City side was. Still trying to work out what level this current City side is as well as those 3 will be the contenders.
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I personally think you’ve regressed since 22/23 and 23/24, though, in the same way us and the dippers have.

Maybe just aesthetically, though, because you’re getting points on the board still. But not as ‘good’ as you once were. In those seasons you were battering teams from all angles with but now you’re reliant on set pieces.

And it’s working. For now. But not sure it’s enough to win a league.
 
skillman said:
I personally think you’ve regressed since 22/23 and 23/24, though, in the same way us and the dippers have.

Maybe just aesthetically, though, because you’re getting points on the board still. But not as ‘good’ as you once were. In those seasons you were battering teams from all angles with but now you’re reliant on set pieces.

And it’s working. For now. But not sure it’s enough to win a league.
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You might be right mate. But what I'll say is we've played Dippers and Barcodes away and City at home (plus Rags away which can be hard for us). So we probably have easier games in which to be more free flowing.
 
Lucky IMO. Newcastle should of had a penalty and that nob ed who scored the winner could of easily seen red had that forward made more of him slapping him
 
bridgeno1 said:
You might be right mate. But what I'll say is we've played Dippers and Barcodes away and City at home (plus Rags away which can be hard for us). So we probably have easier games in which to be more free flowing.
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Yeah. Good point.

But in the game against us last week and today, both teams purposely sat back and allowed you onto them because that’s the easiest way to play against you.

We’ve had it for years but Pep’s teams attack from all angles to break teams down. That’s on Arteta to sort now because you’re too solid defensively for games to be wide open as between 22-24.
 
Newcastle stoped playing. Hard working team Arsenal but also very lucky. Var also loves them.
 
That was a nasty and bad challenge on Livramento by Saliba, nowhere near the ball. He looked in quite discomfort and was streched off. Hope he hasn't done his ACL.
 
Jezza11 said:
that nob ed who scored the winner could of easily seen red had that forward made more of him slapping him
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Gabriel: "Shake my hand, shake my hand, why you no shake hand."

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malg said:
I genuinely don't get all the hate for the set piece goals. Looks to me like a very good percentage shot and one they're getting right. The thing that baffles me is why no one else has replicated it
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I suppose one of the reasons they get slatted for their over reliance on set pieces, is because they profess to be an elite club.

You can understand a club like Stoke using these kinds of tactics, but when you've got Arteta claiming Arsenal are the real deal, then act like it.........something just doesn't sit right with that club.
 
Merlin's Magic said:
That was a nasty and bad challenge on Livramento by Saliba, nowhere near the ball. He looked in quite discomfort and was streched off. Hope he hasn't done his ACL.
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Yeah that was nasty. That could easily be a very serious injury, but equally it could be nothing but a jarring/buckling, both are going to hurt about the same in yhe immediate aftermath, let's hope for him that its nothing but the latter. If it were to be a serious injury, I'd go for it more likely being a meniscus injury over an ACL.
 
malg said:
I genuinely don't get all the hate for the set piece goals. Looks to me like a very good percentage shot and one they're getting right. The thing that baffles me is why no one else has replicated it
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City try that and it's a mysterious "foul on the keeper" decision every single time.
 
malg said:
I genuinely don't get all the hate for the set piece goals. Looks to me like a very good percentage shot and one they're getting right. The thing that baffles me is why no one else has replicated it
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The biggest issue people seem to have is that they score them by breaking the rules, pretty much the entire team are fouling anybody around them up to and including the defending keeper.
It's the Donald Trump tactic of flooding the field of play with so much unsporting behaviour at once that nobody knows where to look so they get away with it.
Anybody else blocking off, shoving or jumping into the keeper without attempting to play the ball and it gets spotted and a foul given. When Arsenal do it, there's another guy grappling a defender, another one dropping to the floor holding their face and somebody else running across the box straight into a defender then throwing themselves over and myriad other instances of shithousery going on so they get away with it time and time again.
 
Merlin's Magic said:
That was a nasty and bad challenge on Livramento by Saliba, nowhere near the ball. He looked in quite discomfort and was streched off. Hope he hasn't done his ACL.
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An Arsenal player taking out the opposition star man for a season.

Like they'd ever do that...?
 
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