Does look like Xhaka asks for the ball though.Leno is at fault too though. Got immediately closed down, had to do something and couldn't turn.
Prime example of when passing out the back doesn't work. Horrible mistake in either case.
Does look like Xhaka asks for the ball though.Leno is at fault too though. Got immediately closed down, had to do something and couldn't turn.
Prime example of when passing out the back doesn't work. Horrible mistake in either case.
Yeah we throw a party when the club we love is in shambles while the Xhaka fans cry as their hero keeps ruining the club we loveso happy it must have made the vulture squad. throw a party
nah .. agenda merchant .. you are best ignored. you are no fan.Yeah we throw a party when the club we love is in shambles while the Xhaka fans cry as their hero keeps ruining the club we love
There's not much to defend for today's match. In the end the mistake cost us two points.Xhaka defence force where you at?
This was before today's match. It should be 9 now.
Yeah I'm no fan of Xhaka just like I don't believe anyone who defends this bum is an Arsenal fannah .. agenda merchant .. you are best ignored. you are no fan.
You're an agenda merchant for bringing this up & not the cherry picked stats that make him look decentThis was before today's match. It should be 9 now.
ok jury lite.. carry on with your agendaYeah I'm no fan of Xhaka just like I don't believe anyone who defends this bum is an Arsenal fan
Does look like Xhaka asks for the ball though.
It makes me so ****ing angry. Season in and season out he keeps on doing this ****I want to give Arteta the benefit of the doubt, but if he ties himself to the mast with Xhaka he will be sacked sooner or later. Xhaka is absolute poison.This was before today's match. It should be 9 now.
& when you of all people started defending him
So Leno, Tierney and Luiz are to blame for Xhaka's mistake? Okay, fine. With that logic Xhaka should have scored those chances we created at the end.All our players should be asking for the ball and making themselves available for the ball, its up to the person with the ball to decide whether the pass is on.
Xhaka 'mistake' was coming all first half with the way we were moving the ball around in our half in the first half, Xhaka gets all the blame but Burnley were hardly pressing with any intensity yet Leno was featuring heavily in our build up because the likes of Luiz and Tierney weren't making themselves available and when in possession were slow as all hell to pass the ball. Even if you look at the goal we conceded the back pass from Tierney to Mari took an internity to get to him, then when Leno receives the ball he takes a couple of touches gives Burnley more chance to push higher up the pitch.
Yes Xhaka should have done better once he received the ball but the big picture isn't this goal is Xhaka doing, its as a team we need to be much faster on the ball and get the ball into our attacking third and control the game from there. Not be pushed back into our own penalty box.
He has been great in the league recently, our second best player after Saka easily. If Lacazette gets phased out he's our second best player this season.
The problem with that is quite simply that we have gone through this already. It feels like the worse we look on the pitch the more important Xhaka looks in this team, so it's not surprising that at our lowest point in a very long time, he looks like one of the best players in the club.
Xhaka defence force where you at?