Mikel Arteta: Aston La Vista To The Title?

[Sapient Hawk]

At least Hairspray has a mate now.

Possibly the second person I want to banish from all things Arsenal related right after Arteta

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Winning games, scoring goals.

But let's hate him because he did not bend over for GirlyDouzi.

 

[El Duderino]

Good game today, I’ll trade a bit of defensive stability for 3 goals. Binned Willian, needs to bin Luiz next if possible.

 

[GoonerJeeves]

Got it right tonight. I think we could have done better in the FA Cup, but the decision to put the league first was the right one.

 

[bingobob]

Sorted the defence and is now sorting the attack. 5 points off 4th place 11 points from the top. Just under half a season left to play.

Hopefully Arteta can start getting a bit of respect that he has worked hard to earn.

 

[Jack_the_boy]

Saka: “the boss gives me freedom to do what I want to do”,

Another player putting AM’s “Arteta micromanages everything” theory to bed.

 

[MikelHadADream]

Funny what having your best central midfield player back and someone that can play between the lines does for a side eh?

 

[REWB]

He's simply the perfect manager for the current balance of this squad, plays to the teams strength. You can tell he wants to play even better more expansive football, but he needs the players first. We just dont have enough pace in midfield or defense. Once he gets that he'll evolve the team.

 

[field442]

Sorted the defence and is now sorting the attack. 5 points off 4th place 11 points from the top. Just under half a season left to play.

Hopefully Arteta can start getting a bit of respect that he has worked hard to earn.

We’ve played at least one more game than the teams around us though. Still going to be tough to get European football.

 

[krengon]

Very impressive turnaround, not an easy thing to do at all in the position we were in. Keep this up and top 4 might be back on..

 

[Trilly]

I don’t like you but you’re playing Pepe and we’re winning games so maybe I do like you.

Beat Southampton at their own game and that’s impressive.

 

[Makingtrax]

I don’t like you but you’re playing Pepe and we’re winning games so maybe I do like you.

Beat Southampton at their own game and that’s impressive.

Great to have some positive vibes at last. Some tough games coming up but lets hope we're onwards and upwards.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

People hoping for top4 now is just setting themselves up to start to hate him again.

 

[bingobob]

We’ve played at least one more game than the teams around us though. Still going to be tough to get European football.

Certainly a lot left to play. That's why I'm encouraged. We spent the first half of the season getting defensively stronger and now it looks like the attack is being fine tuned.

Things are clearly improving. We have scored 14 in our last 6 league games. That's over half our total for the season. ing. Further sign of tangible progress

 

[novar]

Liked that we were more direct despite exposing our defense, that's more like Arsenal, that's what a top team does to assert dominance.

Hopefully he keeps doing it, even if today was more about exploiting a makeshift defense it means we can finally start playing like the 6th-8th best team in the league, which we are

 

[APierre]

Impressive stuff.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

No chance we're finishing top 4, our run also gets really tough in the coming weeks. We've left ourselves too much to do. Also Tuchel might get Chelsea going. I think 6th-8th is realistic for us. 6th would be a pretty good season all things considered.

 

[Sanchez11]

We’ve played at least one more game than the teams around us though. Still going to be tough to get European football.

Yeah Everton and Villa have 3 games in hand

 

[Blood on the Tracks]

I don't even think we should be thinking of Top 4 at this stage. It'll be miles off when the teams around and above us play their games in hand.

Top 6 is about where I expect to see us if we carry on playing fairly well. I'd take that this year.

 

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

Just keep Nketiah and Willian away from the starting XI and we'll be alright.