Manchester City vs Arsenal| Saturday 17th October 17:30| Sky Sports

[GUNNERS4L1FE]

Willian was awful,

then Laca came on and was just as ****.

Should of cashed in on either Laca or Nketiah in the summer cos the forward line is dire

 

[SingmeasongSong]

Don't think it was a bad game at all. We aren't just quite there yet, but comparing this game with all other games against Liverpool and City, it's been a big big jump improvement wise.

We do all the defensive things and build-up play under pressure to a level that's pretty close to the one of any other elite club now, just need to build up from there and finally close the gap to attack now. It'll come, you see it to bits already.

 

[Kav]

Its like watching Emery's team except that its a bit better defensively. Still no substance or structure to our play going forward. Just seems disjointed. Defensively we are ok, but we create so little going forward and our players seem afraid to take shots outside the box. Which is stupid in my opinion.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Auba has to play CF he not going to have same pace he getting older and we just wasting him as LW he done what he could in this position but time to play him as CF.

 

[#254]

Imagine a parallel universe where we have one but decide to park him on the wing and play Willian up front instead

You could understand Arteta wanted pace on the outsides. Still, Auba has been quite poor in recent times. Martinelli needs to heal up ASAP and push him.

 

[Sniper Mik]

That wasn't very good. Arteta overthinking his tactics once again.

 

[GDeep™]

Having Auba, Lacazette, and Nketiah as our front three to end the game was absolutely boneheaded. There was no ability to create for either themselves or each other between them.

There’s nothing else though? Willian only creates 5 goals a year.

 

[freeglennhelder2]

Some good patches. Poor in attack. Could have got a draw out of that one. City shaded it I guess.

Am I misreading the sentiment of some of these posts? Seems like some here are leaning towards a change of manager again?

 

[Sanis]

Zero creativity.

 

[El Granit-Coq]

The defensive merits of the 343 are good but we just suffer as a creative force when we play like this.

Not sure what more we can expect as we play the same against big or small teams. Maybe Arteta wants the club to embrace this structure before he unleashes Wengerball 2.0.

Miss the intricate passing of OG Wengerball, defence out the window and put on a show.

 

[Riou]

Great Martin Tyler quote... "Arsenal haven't had anywhere near enough of the ball in this second half."

A stat pops up 1 second later, second half possession is 50/50

 

[Papa Wonga]

It's like he's told the players..

"yeh we never get a result up here, enjoy the day out, catch a few cards, try and score but if not, hey it's only 1-0"

Best chance in ages we've had to beat these cvunts at the etihad.

 

[roz]

They’ve been leaking goals for fun and are riddled with injuries. It had more to do with them than us.

Lol. Imagine spending a billion on a squad and moaning about injuries. They’re on the back of a shocking defeat to Leicester, they were very conservative, very unusual to see City play like that.

 

[2Smokeyy]

Willian turns up 1 game per season, sadly ours was fulham away. He's been gash man.

Chelsea fans did warn us that he plays 1 good game every 5 games but we ended up handing him a 3 year deal with 220k a week.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

We signed Willian for this?

A bunch of us called it that he was a poor signing, not really surprised tbh.

Think the entire trusted 2020 intake was high on Willian. You cant make this **** up haha!

 

[Tosker]

based on last season we have now played our two most difficult fixtures so I see no reason to be pessimistic yet

 

[Tir Na Nog]

The game went pretty much as expected, the cup game would've went the same way if City scored the first goal, but we did in that game, soaked up pressure and hit them on the break. We weren't really setup to take the game to City and chase it.

 

[GDeep™]

Great Martin Tyler quote... "Arsenal haven't had anywhere near enough of the ball in this second half."

A stat pops up 1 second later, second half possession is 50/50

Guy is pushing 80. Don’t want to be harsh, it’s hard listening to him now.

 

[Sniper Mik]

I think we can see that we still need an Aouar like creator. Arteta might be able to conjure up some good attacking play further down the line but right now he needs to rely on individual quality for goals. There's no doubt he is really fixing the defence

 

[RandomHero84]

Some good patches. Poor in attack. Could have got a draw out of that one. City shaded it I guess.

Am I misreading the sentiment of some of these posts? Seems like some here are leaning towards a change of manager again?

Think you're misreading.