Kieran Tierney: Tesco’s Finest

[Barry]

Yeah, I might have been a bit strong in my last post as well. All opinions are valid and we don't have the strikers to really capitalise on crosses. I've got a blind spot when it comes to Tierney anyway because I love the way he plays the game - gutsy, direct football. To me he's a game-changer.

 

[mpower2540]

He’s gonna have a big job on with Lukaku, he always seemed to love bullying Monreal whenever he played us pulling out to our left hand side. Interested to see how he copes

 

[Tom349]

Ignore the space he has allowed down the left as that can be contributed to Saka and tactics to a certain degree but Tierneys defending off the ball is horrible. Constantly playing off his opponent, allowing the easy pass that relieves pressure. He ranks in the bottom 5% for tackles and interceptions for left backs.

All he contributes in attack is a good cross, misses so many chances to actually link up and in doing so pin the opposition back, cannot for the life on him pass inside.

He is very good at certain things but he has many flaws.

 

[Moah]

Robinhood wasn't any good today, was he?

 

[Maybe]

I would trade him for a LB who can do the basics like passing from the back. It's cool to have an attacking FB, but boy if you can't pass the ball at all Arsenal is definitely no the club for him

 

[Ash10]

Probably his worst performance I've seen

 

[AberGooner]

When we first signed him I worried how he would do defensively as I thought that was a huge weakness of his in Scotland. Obviously it doesn't help that he's so far forward a lot of the time but his positioning has been horrendous lately. Genuinely think LCB in a 3 suits him more.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

It's worst performance since last week tbf.

Seriously his crossing is absolutely ****. People keep saying if only we had a proper 9 but how often does his crosses hit the first man or go nowhere near the intended target?

Don't even get me started on his defending, tho I always think it's tricky for a FB in a 4 dealing with wingbacks because they essentially become the spare man when the switch is on so not necessarily all Tierney's fault but at the same time he was very poor.

 

[mirrorstare]

Tuchel did great exposing him, James had so much fun today.

As expected Tavares was inferior in every aspect, so if his injury is serious we're in huge trouble.

 

[IstraBalagina]

@Halcyon Daze no word on your boy ?
I thought he was impeccable.
Told you he has a long way to go

 

[krengon]

Hopefully his performances starts matching his hype soon.

 

[freeglennhelder2]

Not a great performance today.But there was a bit in early 2nd half where he chased the ball down in the Chelsea end and his enthusiasm hyped all the Arsenal players for about 10 mins. It was possibly our best spell.

So basically I’m saying he is the Scottish Flavor Flav.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

2 goals was simply his mistake positioning was poor he dropped too narrow and James exposed that.

 

[BigPoppaPump]

Needs to bring the Tesco bag back out before people start turning on him.

 

[Artisan]

Fire up the compilations of him crossing to empty spaces, might take our minds off his defending.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Quad problem according to Arteta.

It's not major injury if it not severe may only need 1 week.

 

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

I know AM ain’t about to turn on Tierney . Jesus Christ.

 

[Macho]

Saka barely tracked back in fairness to Tierney.

Not surprised he blew his squads he booted the ball forward and tried to blow past 3 Chelsea players. Almost did it too

Pumped the crowd up a bit and we had a half decent spell, but yeah not a good game and our reliance on our left side to progress the ball backfired today - so it’s a tactics issue too.

 

[Maybe]

Fire up the compilations of him crossing to empty spaces, might take our minds off his defending.

Wasn't even bothered with defending this time, the guy literally can't pass from the back. It's either to Leno or he kicks a long ball forward that we lose 99% of the time. After that, it's 5 minutes of deep defending because we can't win the ball either

 

[BigPoppaPump]

I know AM ain’t about to turn on Tierney . Jesus Christ.

Nobodies safe, you think a Tesco bag is gonna stop us?