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Reinventing VAR 😡
How can it be, though? Simeone changed his back line numerous times throughout the years and it's still rock solid. Think about it.More personnel than coach for me.
How can it be, though? Simeone changed his back line numerous times throughout the years and it's still rock solid. Think about it.More personnel than coach for me.
If we had players worth a damn, they would look out for the kid and make sure he doesn't get overwhelmed. The only player who I think would have tried to do that was Mertesacker, but he's gone now.
Any team worth its salt could slide in a Henri Lansbury any where in the XI and have him not look totally out of his depth with the right tactics and players taking an extra bit of responsibility. It would also require a lot of extra coaching on the pitch to make up for the kids lack of experience.
If you ask me, we're throwing games right now with those two in defence, as it is. I just want Arteta to be ruthless and show them that the kind of **** they have been serving up isn't good enough.
This....even so the scouting could have been better. When other teams can get gems for free but we are paying for david luiz says alot.A big part of the issue is that Mustafi is the only defender we've spent big club money on in a generation or more.
This is such an Emery comment. Bad MikelDoes not mean Kolasinac has been good. Holding is better defensively than Kola, which isn't saying much, but still. Kola is only decent as a LWB.
Xhaka for one more year is understandable but the great problem here is that we will have to continue to readjust with the other players for one single player who is extremely limited. But I agree that we definitely need a senior midfield player who's been here long enough orchestrating the game and as a leader.Agree the team set-up & style doesn't help Pepe. Xhaka? I think Arteta needs him for one more year given the absence of any other senior midfielders and at least Xhaka knows his game, limited as it is, where most of our other midfielders are still defining theirs.
Mustafi is a tricky one because we all know he's not good enough, but equally we all know that Kola isn't even that good, Holding looks too slow since his injury, Chambers is broken at the mo, and we have no idea how quickly Saliba or Mari will adjust. And Sokratis is gone. Lots of quantity, shortage of certain quality.
It all depends on what bids we can get.
when we don't concede in 3 or 4 games in a row everything is really positiveThis is such an Emery comment. Bad Mikel
Think because he meant we had almost 85% of ball for most of the 2nd half he also did said we should have created much more with this possession Sp**s were doing nothing there most chance came after thier 2nd goal and when we crumpledI understand that Arteta tries to emphasize the positives but it’s super annoying when mangers defend the team performance by ball possession. When did that stat become the holy one? So what if we did have more possession when the xG is 1.82 to Sp**s against our bysmal 0.69. Sp**s also win shots on goal by 9 to 4. I guess I better prepare myself to enjoy ball posession more than winning...
This is what he’s working with in midfield. Awful.
With Man city ban now off, that means now that we are 5 points of europa league spot, with 3 matches to go, with one of them being liverpool... so we can assume a loss there...
that means that wolves must win only one of their remaining games to even give us a chance at 6th.
Ill sum up the chances here...
the race for 6th (ho dear me...) is now between us, Wolves, Sheffield United, and these lot.
Remaining fixtures:
The Arsenal: at 50 points atm
Liverpool (H)
Aston Villa (A)
Watford (H)
We must win all 3, but lets be realistic and take a loss against liverpool, so im going to assume we get 6 points
Wolves: at 55 points atm
Burnley (A)
Crystal Palace (H)
Chelsea (A)
They gotta lose all the games... or draw 1 game, and we need to win with good GD ( +4 from us atm) highly unlikely...
Sheffield United: at 54 points atm
Leicester (A)
Everton (H)
Southampton (A)
They can only get a draw and must lose the other 2, not good chances but plausible
These lot: at 52 points atm
Newcastle (A)
Leicester (H)
Crystal Palace (A)
With 2 points above us and +2 GD(relative to us), they are allowed to win one and draw 1 if we win our 2 matches with fine margins..
So... to sum it up, if we lose or draw to liVARpool, its pretty much over, since the event of wolves losing all their remaining games is close to impossible.
bahhh.... while writing this i finally succumbed to the fact our only chance to get into europe is in fact the FA... where we need to win 2 games against 2 of the top teams in the country...
This season could be proven as the catalyst of the downfall of our great club... i truly think that if we failed to get to the europa, it'll take us at least 4-5 years to get back into it... as its an avalanche of consequences
I really do hope Arteta is showing the players how important those 3 remaining games are.... when we had 5 more... i was fantasizing like a regular Arsenal fan we might get fifth... and have CL
But now the situation is dire... maybe now the players will realize how bad things are? maybe they were like "ahhh damn we missed CL but europa can stretch to 7th, and we'll have 7th easily"
Well everything changed now...