TopGunner81
Active Member
Remember when we used to play with 3 number 10’s? Now we don’t even get 1......
In possession, Xhaka dropped in at lcb and Ceballos dropped into some sort of weird rb position. Partey all alone in the centre of the pitch, both full backs high. I don't see the point of it.
Bellerin and Tierney cannot beat a man 1v1. The wingers need to receive the ball and play it to them on an overlap. Our pace of pass was ridiculously slow. Zero urgency.
It's personnel. Arteta needs to change it up a bit. You know which forward we have who actually is good at 1-2s in attacking situations? Reiss Nelson. Where was he? Not in the squad. ESR - not in the squad. They're young, and untested (in Nelson's case, he's lacking in momentum currently) so I get the apprehension but what he has used isn't working quite so well either. It's not fitting together.I dunno about that. Sure the first half we looked good going forward but that second half was absolute dogsh!t.
It's like we don't want to attack, don't want to make runs in the final third or create triangles at the edge of the box.
We hardly play one-twos, we hardly do anything that indicates we want to be a serious threat to the opposition, it's just drip pass slowly, slowly, backwards then slowly forwards again.
I don't get it.
Yh we’re trying to do a Liverpool with attacking fullbacks but our front three except for Saka can barely control the ball.The front 3 are the the problem nobody else. Aubameyang has been poor for weeks now you could put it down to burn out no rest over the summers short break and Lacazette is just bang average. No creativity in the finale 3rd
We were better than this before the FA cup final. We've gone backwards. Inexplicable and unacceptable tbh. As soon as your hopes are raised, in true Arsenal style, you get shat on and you have no ****ing idea how it came to this bullshit.
dude...i posted clearly that brendan is rope-a-doping us ...and you went all political about negativity and how I am a bad poster ...The trolls will own the forum for the next few days then.
In regards to the midfield trio, I actually think it's time to give Willock or AMN a run there. A second player who can actually progress the ball alongside Partey and we'd have won comfortably. Even a headless chicken like Willock would have been better than what we saw out there from Ceballos and Xhaka today.This was an avoidable loss IMO. The set-up was less of an issue, but we have too many parts that don't fit together. Lacazette has been awful the last couple of games and I expected him to be bad today (spoiler, he was).
Lineup wasn't bad overall but I think Arteta could have been a bit braver in some respects. I don't think he needed to shoehorn Xhaka-Partey-Ceballos altogether at the same time. It really led to us being a bit flat in that area collectively. That said, I think the 1st half saw some of our better structured attacks this season - the big issue is that instead of Auba at the head of the spear, we had Lacazette. Saka wasn't fantastic but he was still miles ahead of the other attackers, including Auba who struggled on the right.
I'm not too fussed with Arteta's tactics in terms of how he's setting us up to play, but he's not doing himself any favors with his lineups. Trying to be a bit too clever instead of putting together a lineup that makes sense from both an attacking and defensive perspective. I'm certainly not Arteta out either, that's pure unadulterated bollock juice. But some brave decisions have to be made IMO,
I'll actually look forward to the Dundalk game as I'll actually get to see some attackers I want to see but United will be very interesting.
Worried about the way this match is going with that chav Vardy waiting to be introduced.
Another first half where we’ve played like we’re waiting for something to happen as opposed to trying to make it happen.
Also that lino who disallowed the goal can suck his mother.
That was terrible. We’ve been poor all season, lost all the big games with no quality shown.
Players looked tired, I asked on Thursday why are main players playing against Viena?
Massive questions for Arteta, he’s under pressure now, and I know we’re not beating Utd.