Arsenal Thread | 2025/26

bridgeno1 said:
I don't get the maths here. Arsenal aren't great at attacking, City haven't been as solid at the back, we've played 17 games and Arsenal are 2 points ahead despite the aforementioned. So how exactly does this make City more likely to win the league? Assuming the status quo remains Arsenal would win the title by 5 points. For that to change one of the 2 sides has to either get better from here on in or get worse. Knowing what's more likely is guesswork, albeit City do have form for going on epic runs.
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You said (in not so many words) earlier that our defence is improving.

Admittedly, there is still plenty of room for improvement, but I think we’re getting there.
 
bridgeno1 said:
I don't get the maths here. Arsenal aren't great at attacking, City haven't been as solid at the back, we've played 17 games and Arsenal are 2 points ahead despite the aforementioned. So how exactly does this make City more likely to win the league? Assuming the status quo remains Arsenal would win the title by 5 points. For that to change one of the 2 sides has to either get better from here on in or get worse. Knowing what's more likely is guesswork, albeit City do have form for going on epic runs
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City have dropped 3 points in the last eight PL games
Arsenal have dropped seven, therefore, City have closed the gap to two points

If that trend continues over the next eight matches.........
Well I'm pretty sure you can work that one out
 
bridgeno1 said:
We were literally 1 point off you in one season and 4 in your treble season. If this had been given as a penalty we'd have won the league (just in case the usual diatribe that refs are against City comes out which it frequently seems to from the short of memory on here).
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Since then our squad has improved drastically. So in theory we would have been better equipped in those 2 seasons and therefore if Arteta can't win it vs a City side that's not at the level of the one that just pipped us to the title, despite us spending a fortune on the squad since then, then he has to go.
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It wasn’t a penalty though, the still looks bad which is why it’s used but at no point did he have the ball & lunged at Doku with the aim of being awarded a penalty.

Have you checked the 37 other games to see if we were on the end of poor decisions? I’d start with the corresponding fixture at the Etihad where we had 2 goals disallowed v the Dippers.
 
bridgeno1 said:
OK so Arsenal's options are Saka, Madueke, Nwaneri on the right. Are you saying he gets in ahead of both Saka and Madueke?

I'm not WUMming as I've been clear City have some world class players but even your own fans have berated Silva at times.
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Yes because his game intelligence is above all those. He knows what to do at the right time every time. Every time I watched England & saw Saka ignore Foden in the perfect position I realised he doesn’t have game intelligence. Why do you think Pep says Doku, Cherki & Savio still have so much to learn.
 
cheekybids said:
It wasn’t a penalty though, the still looks bad which is why it’s used but at no point did he have the ball & lunged at Doku with the aim of being awarded a penalty.

Have you checked the 37 other games to see if we were on the end of poor decisions? I’d start with the corresponding fixture at the Etihad where we had 2 goals disallowed v the Dippers.
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One would have been the phantom foul on Allison by Akanji where the former went over like a 10 year old in an adult's game
 
AFCAndy said:
The other question is if City are back to the level they were 2-3 years ago when I believe you had better players that have now left.
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This current City team is nowhere near the level of that team. Not in the same ball park. The team that won the European treble, and then somehow dragged themselves across the line the following season (although they were clearly mentally exhausted) to win a fourth title in a row, does not bear comparison with many — if any — teams in PL history.
You wouldn't, I think, compare the current Arsenal team with the team of Vieira, Henry and Bergkamp? Sometimes a team just come along — usually not ever — and you just have to celebrate the fact that you saw it, and it played in your colours, and that you're highly unlikely to see its like again.
 
bridgeno1 said:
He literally does every game. Just faster and more effectively. Come on man, you seriously can't be comparing Bernardo Silva with Saka! Today's Silva wouldn't get into our Carabao cup side!
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Chief bottler Saka would limp for months on end when he saw Bernies trophy cabinet!
 
bridgeno1 said:
OK so Arsenal's options are Saka, Madueke, Nwaneri on the right. Are you saying he gets in ahead of both Saka and Madueke?

I'm not WUMming as I've been clear City have some world class players but even your own fans have berated Silva at times.
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Too obvious.

Nobody has ever "berated" Bernardo Silva, and mentioning him in the same breath as Madueke is clearly WUMming.

Mods sack this guy off.
 
bridgeno1 said:
OK so Arsenal's options are Saka, Madueke, Nwaneri on the right. Are you saying he gets in ahead of both Saka and Madueke?

I'm not WUMming as I've been clear City have some world class players but even your own fans have berated Silva at times.
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Bernardo Silva has been one of the best midfield players in the world during his career and was better than all the players listed at his best - quite comfortably.

He's lost a yard or so now and will likely move on at the end of the season.
 
Reckon Saka will want out if they don’t win the league or champs league this season! A world class player should be winnings leagues champions leagues!
 
waspish said:
Reckon Saka will want out if they don’t win the league or champs league this season! A world class player should be winnings leagues champions leagues!
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Then Saka shouldn't be worried.
If this kid is deemed WC then the definition is not quite what it once was.

Great player in fairness and I do like him but I'd hold off a tad on the WC front just now.
 
bridgeno1 said:
We were literally 1 point off you in one season and 4 in your treble season. If this had been given as a penalty we'd have won the league (just in case the usual diatribe that refs are against City comes out which it frequently seems to from the short of memory on here).
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Since then our squad has improved drastically. So in theory we would have been better equipped in those 2 seasons and therefore if Arteta can't win it vs a City side that's not at the level of the one that just pipped us to the title, despite us spending a fortune on the squad since then, then he has to go.
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You sound like a Liverpool fan with that Rodri handball. Give it a rest. You lost over a season that has twists and turns, deal with it.
 
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bridgeno1 said:
We were literally 1 point off you in one season and 4 in your treble season. If this had been given as a penalty we'd have won the league (just in case the usual diatribe that refs are against City comes out which it frequently seems to from the short of memory on here).
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Since then our squad has improved drastically. So in theory we would have been better equipped in those 2 seasons and therefore if Arteta can't win it vs a City side that's not at the level of the one that just pipped us to the title, despite us spending a fortune on the squad since then, then he has to go.
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you are equating a full season to 1 singular incident, you are actually stupider than i thought and i thought you were a moron to start with.
 
mancboy said:
you are equating a full season to 1 singular incident, you are actually stupider than i thought and i thought you were a moron to start with.
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He's had a terrible few weeks hasn't he. Wasn't the brightest to begin with but he's jumped the shark recently.
 
bridgeno1 said:
I don't get the maths here. Arsenal aren't great at attacking, City haven't been as solid at the back, we've played 17 games and Arsenal are 2 points ahead despite the aforementioned. So how exactly does this make City more likely to win the league? Assuming the status quo remains Arsenal would win the title by 5 points. For that to change one of the 2 sides has to either get better from here on in or get worse. Knowing what's more likely is guesswork, albeit City do have form for going on epic runs.
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Someone's arse is twitching.

Told you, we've been here before, we've danced this dance. We know what we need to do. Even if it means the last kick on the last game of the season, this league is never a foregone conclusion.

You guys still seem to think football is a formality based off stats, xG and other shit. You calculate what is needed, where points will be dropped and convince yourselves the title is already won by December. And then City lift the trophy in May.

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The title race is nowhere near concluded nor obvious.
 
Gorbachev said:
16 goals from open play and 15 from set pieces and penalties.

It's all part of the game, but if that ratio continues and they win the league doing it that way then fair play, but I will be astonished if it that is sustainable.

Arsenal won't lose many games, in fact I don't think they will will lose again in the league for the rest of the season because their toughest away game is City and they will park a German WW2 Panza tank in that game. What will cost them though in my opinion, is i can't help but feel draws will kill them in the end if they carry on as they are.

It was draws that killed it for Liverpool whenever they came up against us.
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It could well be the spawny equaliser they scored against us wins the title.
 
bridgeno1 said:
We were literally 1 point off you in one season and 4 in your treble season. If this had been given as a penalty we'd have won the league (just in case the usual diatribe that refs are against City comes out which it frequently seems to from the short of memory on here).
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Since then our squad has improved drastically. So in theory we would have been better equipped in those 2 seasons and therefore if Arteta can't win it vs a City side that's not at the level of the one that just pipped us to the title, despite us spending a fortune on the squad since then, then he has to go.
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You've "improved drastically" yet you flubbed a title challenge against LiVARpool last season finishing ten points off the pace and 15 points less than the previous season to that.
 
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