Loss Premier League: Arsenal 0 - 2 West Ham | Thursday 28th December| KO: 20:15 GMT | Prime Video

Prediction

Arsenal 3-0 West Ham

 

[Legend14]

Lose to Liverpool and Win this match = 3 points.
Draw Pool and lose this = 1 point.

Wasted opportunity.

 

[Tom Mix]

Nice to see that Dino still has some affection for the club.

Good for him that his career has taken off after moving to Germany to get playing time.

He should have been given more chances. I didn't want him sold but it was inevitable. He could easily have been part of a 4 centre-back set-up.

He didn't celebrate, bless him. that's class. I wish him all good things.

 

[Beany]

Back from the game.

Hugely frustrating evening - slightly odd atmosphere as a good number of regular fans around me were away no doubt for the holidays.

Played directly in West Hams hands with two poor and pretty basic defensive errors leading to both goals. VAR screwed us (again) but that’s not why we lost.

We were wasteful with the chances we created and created a lot of poor quality/effort chances which padded the stats but they dealt with comfortably. Jesus should have scored one, maybe two chances, Saka should have got at least one.

Jesus, Trossard in particular (what the **** was he doing from dead balls tonight?) and Martinelli all poor.

To top it all there was a Yank fresh in from Cali sat next to me, about to embark on some kind of tour of Ireland - nice fella but was taking in random Arsenal, Millwall and Forest games and basically communicated in Ted Lasso speak…

 

[MartiSaka]

This was frustrating. Our main problem was slowing the game down and also lack of sharpness in almost every action we took, decision making and passing.

slowing the game down is our new strategy. Reduces the errors and xGA but at the expense of our attack.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

A clear problem this season. Our forward just either had fluky finishing last season or they just damn unlucky and I don't think it's fluke because they quality players

 

[Synical]

Im positive because without a striker we scored 88 goals last season.

And its not about being positive, its about seeing what we are doing, and even seeing how we can fix it.

Not everything is a crisis bro. We are frustrated but the sun will rise again tomorrow.

This is exactly the halfway point of the season. If we score the same amount of goals in the next half we will have 72 goals at the end of the season. Not bad for a team that 'doesn't know how to score'

 

[MartiSaka]

To top it all there was a Yank fresh in from Cali sat next to me, about to embark on some kind of tour of Ireland - nice fella but was taking in random Arsenal, Millwall and Forest games and basically communicated in Ted Lasso speak…

Good to see Elliott from Arsenal vision taking in some more games.

 

[2Smokeyy]

They're 8th for squad spending and currently 6th in the league. So he's batting above his average.

I think it’ll probably even itself out come the end of the season and that’s what their owners are probably keen to see whether there has been any significant change before offering him a new deal.

Had they been keen on him to stay surely they would have offered him a deal by now rather than let it run down with 6 months remaining.

 

[Mohamed7]

2points behind liverpool who are losing their best player for a month at the halfway stage of the season and people are saying our title challenge is done.

Perspective needed.

First game this season other than Lens away i feel we've deservedly lost, I’ll take that all day long.

Liverpool and us can challenge each other as both teams have tendencies to drop silly points.

But we are up against City who will go up levels at some point. Expect their usual 15 matches winning streak soon. Neither of us can match that.

Our run-in from end March is also very tough. We have away matches with City, Sp**s, United and some top 7 teams. We needed to build up a good lead now. Instead we are fighting to just stay in the race.

 

[Jae]

Front 3 have been abysmal this season along with both of our fullbacks. Stick a fork in us.

 

[albakos]

To top it all there was a Yank fresh in from Cali sat next to me, about to embark on some kind of tour of Ireland - nice fella but was taking in random Arsenal, Millwall and Forest games and basically communicated in Ted Lasso speak…

@Farzad didn't announce being at the Emirates tonight, it could have been @Red London though

 

[Mohamed7]

9 goals in 18 games is quite a lot…

Not when you take into account our attack was ridiculous last season but we’re struggling now.

Villa away and WHU today swung the balance. Two matches we were significantly superior but failed to take our gazolian chances.

 

[Farzad Stoned]

@Farzad didn't announce being at the Emirates tonight, it could have been @Red London though

I am the least Ted Lasso like guy i know

 

[Synical]

It's really weird man. Everyone's lost their shooting boots at the same time. Which is actually the opposite of what you'd expect when you are set up to spread the goals around.

While last season was unlikely in that everyone was on scoring form, it's equally unlikely that this season everyone is out of scoring form. You'd expect that when a couple are in form, a couple are out, and vice versa.

Good news is that systematically, we are quite good. Dominant and create chances and generally defend quite well. But learning how to put the ball in the ****ing net seems a tall task at this point in time for us.

We need Partey back. Remember when he came on against City and we immediately scored

 

[MartiSaka]

I am the least Ted Lasso like guy i know

Yep your the most anti data fan I know and like to look at the glass half empty.

 

[Synical]

With this finishing we ain't beating anyone the good thing Fulham game comes quick hope these bastard remember how to score

Good thing is they will remember they drew to them earlier this season, so not to underestimate them

 

[Synical]

Osimhen or Toney. I am on my knees.

Giroud would be our leading scorer right now. With our domination, 5 goals is embarrasment.

Is that Toney?!

 

[db10_therza]

Not when you take into account our attack was ridiculous last season but we’re struggling now.

Villa away and WHU today swung the balance. Two matches we were significantly superior but failed to take our gazolian chances.

Huh? You’re agreeing with @Rasmi more than you think bro…

Our attack was ridiculous last season and we’re struggling now == our attack was unsustainable last season.

Also to my point anyways 2 games in 18 is significant… and it’s not just 2 games anyway, we’ve been fluffing our lines almost every game this season. Those 2 games are just examples of when our profligacy was punished.

We still have a “good” attack overall but it’s clear that our strengths lie elsewhere

 

[MartiSaka]

Finishing isn’t great, especially in this game where our xG was somehow good, but we are still 7th for xG behind the likes of Brentford and Chelsea. This is a problem, even with a new striker. We need to be creating more against these mid table sides.

 

[Gooner Zig]

No, the Saka shot right at the keeper in the first half and the Jesus sitter that he somehow put over the bar have got to be near 1 xG each.

Nah 1 xG is basically a tap in at the goal line with no one around.