Prediction
Porto 0-2 Arsenal
We are not highest in chance creation from open play we are 4th or 5th and you know that so i won’t belabor the point. We are flattered by a ton of set piece goals.
How is Havertz destroying the build up? Ok. Ode has two dozen through balls in the same position on the same team. Havertz has zero. Ode averages about 40 to 50 percent more touches as well.
Here is the funny thing. The outfield position that Havertz is least suited to is attacking midfield. As woeful as he is at finishing he is even worse at passing. And Mik played that position.
Yeah great we score 6 and 5 against luton or Burnley. A decent side on their day, executes a very simple gameplan of doubling Saka and playing a low block; and Mik has no answers. His answer is the worst one possible. Hoof crosses and try to get it to Saka earlier. That isn’t a plan but a hope
He is a vey limited manager who is screaming i am out of my depth. The reason we do poorly in head to head ties is elite managers get a chance to gameplan us and time. Meanwhile Mik is telling the players to have more moments with their families to improve finishing. Wtf do the two have to do with each other?
I love Saka but he was garbage today. Couldn’t trap a bag of cement. Martinelli received a misplaced pass from their CB and had he played it first time Havertz would’ve been through but he took like 8 touches. Havertz too, but he played it too close to their defender when it was 3 on 3. Having zero shots on target doesn’t tell the story.
Ødegaard and Rice were the only players who turned up. Havertz was ok, but the rest were miles off it.
Trossard volleyed over the bar when he was unmarked from 8 yards out and I lost count of how many long diagonals we put straight into touch.
If you check my history I’ve called Arteta out on many occasions for his decisions but this wasn’t on him.
He actually did great with his bang average team.
No one told me they had a Mourinho regen..... Man it could be long at the Emirates.
I think we put like 4-5 men forward the problem was there absolutely zero movement. Porto done absolutely nothing to win the game they were playing for draw too but we should give credit to them they manage to stop our attackNa we didn’t. We slowed down our attacks and didn’t commit bodies to potential situations similar to what we were doing towards the start of the season. It was the suffocate and smother tactics, not the hell for leather tactics we’ve seen more recently.
I don’t mind that we have these different strings to our bow and it’s credit to Arteta that he’s worked on instilling these different styles into the team. But the application is wrong. I just feel like we should switch them up in game. Hell for leather to start, get a goal then control and suffocate.
I think we put like 4-5 men forward the problem was there absolutely zero movement. Porto done absolutely nothing to win the game they were playing for draw too but we should give credit to them they manage to stop our attack
There was 4 mins of added time
If their attitude was issue in thier first ever knockout CL game then we have big problem. I don't think that the reason we just played badly and most of our players had off day and you can't have off day in CLI still think our attitude was not good enough to win the game to.
Porto had the only chances of the game. We did **** all ourselves some flaccid possession and zero shots on target.I think we put like 4-5 men forward the problem was there absolutely zero movement. Porto done absolutely nothing to win the game they were playing for draw too but we should give credit to them they manage to stop our attack
That true most of our players looked not themselves there can't even control the ball. Our fans were confident before the game I was afraid that inexperience will cost us and that what happenedPorto had the only chances of the game. We did **** all ourselves some flaccid possession and zero shots on target.
Our squad cost like 10x as much as theirs, of course they're not going to try go toe to toe with us. We deserved **** all from this
In the heat of so many posts, this one didn't get the required attention.First time in ages that I was properly excited for a CL knockout match. Ignored my wife the entire evening, she went to bed early.
Now I have to make it up to her and Arsenal lost to a crap team. Thanks a lot ****s.
If you can't win, then don't lose. True of all matches tbh.You go for the win in the PL. In a first leg away game in the champions league you accept the 0-0.
So much Raya criticism when it was only last season that Ramsdale got caught off his line beat by a ball from the halfway line against Sporting.
I honestly thought we were the 3rd best team in the CL this season until yesterdayReally hard to see how we go deep in this competition even if we win the return leg.
Think we need some next level jam with the draws.