Match Thread | Arsenal vs Man City (08/10/23)

[Paul1970]

Kova needs to go off as the ref Will be looking for an excuse to get him off

 

[come-on-barney]

Miss the false 9 :)

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Poor half from both teams.

Arsenal looked scared to death to start the game but we just played a safe game, didn’t expose Zincehnko at all, didn’t look threatening at all, started giving stupid balls away which perked Arsenal up (Dias numerous times), then Kovačić took over.

Arsenal were there for the taking from the off and now they’ve grown into the game, but have still been poor themselves.

Neither team have created owt.

Can’t believe Kovačić actually went in for that second challenge. Even the first, we never do stuff like that, and he should have been sent off for that alone, but the second…

 

[super_city_si]

Arsenal are shit scared of us, and that's the only reason they're not winning. We have been shocking and a large reason is Kovacic. Needs dragging off. Get Grealish on for him and tuck Foden in the middle. Or even get Nunes on and tell him to play a more holding role, but Kovacic has to come off - he probably should be already!

They were for the first 25 then realized we have nothing

 

[SiMCFC]

Awful, panicked football from us today. Haaland not doing enough again, midfield woeful. Kovacic very very lucky, I'd be fuming if I was an Arse fan right now tbh. Honestly not sure how we approach the second half, don't think we can win it, so just get out of there without any sending offs and a draw.

 

[youngbob]

Thought we started well, but failed to build on it. Looking comfortable enough in possession, but no real cutting edge. Kovacic obviously very lucky to still be on the pitch, needs to be subbed at half-time.

There was a passage after about 10 mins where Ederson had the ball and instead of looking to get a move going quickly he delayed it and gave Walker and Dias a shitshow to deal with. Not been right since that moment.

 

[mcfcpride]

Bring on Doku. Bring on Nunes. Get Kova off.

 

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

Started off well, controlling the ball but the last 15 minutes....not as good. Pep needed to sub off Kova pronto, been poor as well as extremely foolish with his tackling.
No control in midfield at all latter part of the 1st half. We have let them get right back into this match, the crowd is getting up and we need to be careful.
Formation not really working too well so far.

 

[Keeper!]

Foden totally exposed without a conventional hold

We are fully exposed with Kovacic in this form

 

[borassic]

Controlling it but no way near incisive enough