Legend14
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Yep. He’ll play 50% of matches in my opinion. Not his fault. Arteta needs to sign an equal level striker to help shoulder the load.Yeah Jesus is f*cked. That knee will keep on troubling him.
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Yep. He’ll play 50% of matches in my opinion. Not his fault. Arteta needs to sign an equal level striker to help shoulder the load.Yeah Jesus is f*cked. That knee will keep on troubling him.
We've had a bag of man play that left midfield position now as well lol. Those who don't listen must feel I suppose.
When it comes down to the first game of the season there will be more continuity than people think. Arteta will still try things in the community shield.Ngl I’m actually very concerned about the whole balance of our midfield. I know it’s very early to jump to any concrete conclusions but the way our team was setup very early in preseason last season by suffocating the opposition in their half and our shape being compact when we didn’t have the ball was why we won 5 games on the bounce in the PL straight away last season.
The only hope is that the other teams around us have similar issue as they’ve changed a few things too.
When it comes down to the first game of the season there will be more continuity than people think. Arteta will still try things in the community shield.
Martinelli-----Trossard------Saka
------------Havertz--------Ødegaard
-----------------------Partey
--Timber----Gabriel-Saliba---White
--------------------Ramsdale
Two changes. Everyone else knows the game model back to front.
Havertz is looking as bad as expected
He was alright, some neat passing, good work rate and also won few headers. Vieira,ESR,Saliba,Tomiyasu were very poor.
He's going to make a lot of people swallow a large chunk of humble pie. He's such a lovely player. Just hope he settles quickly
Do you support Arsenal because of Kai Havertz? Just asking because you joined around the same time we were linked to him , and most your posts seems to be about him.
Not having a dig or anything, just curious.
Made sense IMO. I thought we were fine in the attack except that players were often not in sync in the final moments. Rice got into good situations and should have looked for cut backs rather than crosses considering our team. Trossard should have made a simple pass to Nkethiah when he was through on goal etc.Missed the game entirely as I was out for the evening.
Seen some initial analysis on our struggles against Monaco, and it’s worrying to see, I can’t lie. But it also gives us clear, common areas where we will see the opposition target.
FMS makes a clear video on the game here…
The massive gap left between our midfield and defence when Partey isn’t playing is worrying.
Our CB’s get easily put into a 1 vs 1 situation similar to last season.
Was @BigPoppaPump right to be worried about Arsenal's midfield? Like everyone was so happy to get rid of Partey and Xhaka not that long ago.We've had a bag of man play that left midfield position now as well lol. Those who don't listen must feel I suppose.
Was @BigPoppaPump right to be worried about Arsenal's midfield? Like everyone was so happy to get rid of Partey and Xhaka not that long ago.
I agree pre season doesn't mean much but it's just funny to me how people were so certain about how amazing Rice was a few weeks ago to having more realistic expectations now. You were reading all the same bullsh*t I was lol.It’s preseason and Mikel has mixed up the teams quite a bit so I’m not drawing serious conclusions yet.
I was extremely pro Xhaka though, Partey I only want to leave for non footballing reasons. Football wise he’s comfortably our best centre mid as it stands.
I thought the issue defensively had nothing to do with Partey or Rice. In fact with both of them, we were still easily bypassed in the midfield. FMS made some good points reg why that happened in the video @SA Gunner shared.I agree pre season doesn't mean much but it's just funny to me how people were so certain about how amazing Rice was a few weeks ago to having more realistic expectations now. You were reading all the same bullsh*t I was lol.
I agree pre season doesn't mean much but it's just funny to me how people were so certain about how amazing Rice was a few weeks ago to having more realistic expectations now. You were reading all the same bullsh*t I was lol.