Mikel Starteta Wars: Phase IV - A New Cope

[Red London]

I’m not taking anything from this game. Almost double their xG and inter were not in control in that second half, there were multiple frantic moments in their penalty area.

Our next 3-4 PL games will shape our season, need to get back to winning games with our squad getting back to full strength + easier fixtures. I’m judging us in December.

 

[fute]

The persistance with Trossard and Martinelli is just indefensible to some extent. WTF was the point of Sterling? Nelson could have taken those minutes and probably done more with them.

Nelson wouldn't have done anything. Sterling looked better at Chelsea last year.

Everyone looks like crap or mid. Even Kai has taken a step back. Trossard is invisible. Jesus is more of the same.

Saka is struggling to shake 2-3 defenders.

We are better at defending ourselves than our opponents. We help them out with Arteta's approach.

 

[Red London]

He’s certainly got a job to do. The referees ****ed us points wise but he has reacted to our injuries in a poor way, opting for a very defensive style and departing from the way we played last season, where we were camped out in the opposition third pressing them to ****, squeezing them out the game. Whereas this year it’s been very drab, with us playing more deep.

So we now need to get results while on the back foot in terms of our confidence but also our playstyle and approach having been damaged and altered.

Best you can hope for is keeping our key players fit for the next couple months and going on a monstrous run. That’s the only way we return back to the race. Need to win like 8-9 out of our next 10 minimum.

 

[Rasmi]

He’s post match press conference shows he has not grown one bit in the last two years. He’s back to being defensive, passive aggressive and painting a match picture that wasn’t there. I remember clearly last time we were struggling his emotional outburst didn’t help the team at all. He’s the same way now after the match. He defiantly said we play like tonight we have great chance beating Chelsea

 

[Batman]

He’s post match press conference shows he has not grown one bit in the last two years. He’s back to being defensive, passive aggressive and painting a match picture that wasn’t there. I remember clearly last time we were struggling his emotional outburst didn’t help the team at all. He’s the same way now after the match. He defiantly said we play like tonight we have great chance beating Chelsea

In the sense that Chelsea don't defend corners very well and struggle without the ball then yes he's technically correct that if we replicated the statistics from this game, we would have a good chance to win but the reality is that we need to be looking to take a different game to Chelsea. We should be looking to hammer them and make a statement like you know City will do following this bad run they've been on. I hope we don't cross and pray and just play for corners there.

 

[shoot for the top]

No worries, Ødegaard is back to save Mikel's job.

 

[El Realista]

Ban Mikel name from Arsenal history!

(I didn't find a Merino gif )

 

[grange]

No worries, Ødegaard is back to save Mikel's job.
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[Sammy1887]

Spanish Kamala Harris

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

He’s post match press conference shows he has not grown one bit in the last two years. He’s back to being defensive, passive aggressive and painting a match picture that wasn’t there. I remember clearly last time we were struggling his emotional outburst didn’t help the team at all. He’s the same way now after the match. He defiantly said we play like tonight we have great chance beating Chelsea

Agree with this. I said a while back that the team might outgrow him if he didn't adapt. I feel like he's holding us back atm and all his talk of energy sounds old already. Too many managers have performed better with what they have. What's his excuse? City are struggling and we have a real chance to push forward but we've already blown 6 points in the PL. This feels like an early bottle job.

 

[TheDrunkenMaster]

Top 4 is the Maximum we can hope for, this guy hasn’t learnt anything in the last few seasons. It wouldn’t surprise me if Chelsea finish above us

 

[Macho]

He’s actually spent a lot to play like this lol

 

[HattoriHanzo]

These last 2 matches (Newcastle, Inter) were basically the same.
Inzaghi saw match against Newcastle and applied same approach.
Two (or three) players on Saka/ Martinelli and play low block.
Before the match they were happy with a draw, they scored from lucky penalty, even better for them.
They parked cruiser in their box knowing that we are toothless in attack without Ødegaard.
Arteta couldn't have any excuse for these last 2 matches, no injuries, no red cards.

What was the point of so many crosses yesterday (46 in the whole match)?
Why did Arteta replace Merino in the second half, to continue with even more crosses?
Merino is one of the best players in aerial duels, so why substitute him if your only tactics in second half were crosses?
Why didn't Arteta introduce Nwaneri earlier yesterday (and on Saturday)?
Kid has created our best chance yesterday for himself, unfortunately he didn't hit the target.
Without Ødegaard, he is our only central attacking threat.
Based on last 2-3 matches, Nwaneri should start before Trossard.
And what about Jorginho, he is perfectly capable to make good progressive pass to attackers
(which he actually did for White against Newcastle)?

2 months without Ødegaard has shown that Arteta is still second rate manager.
During that period he relied only on set pieces and Saka's magic.
It worked first month (September), didn't work second month (October).
He couldn't find the solution how to break low block of 2 very good, very well coached teams (Newcastle,
Inter) without Ødegaard.
He has sold ESR, loaned Vieira, he didn't buy new creative player.
Not to mention the new striker.
And he didn't give more minutes to Nwaneri because he is coward.

Now the best we can hope is top 4.
Arteta doesn't learn from his mistakes and seems to me that he has lost the plot completely last few weeks.
We will not win big trophy with second rate manager.
I think that I have lost my patience with him.

 

[Dennis_Bergkamp_10]

Now the best we can hope is top 4.

Same things were said last year. Relax.

 

[HattoriHanzo]

Same things were said last year. Relax.

Sunday is very close.
Hole can become deeper.

 

[Penn_]

Every forward thread getting bumped is quite telling. Our system has evolved for the worse, and Ødegaard now has a huge amount of pressure to resolve that.


Was looking at this game and the speed of our transition is light years compared to our crawl now.

It’s really no surprise someone like Martinelli looks a fraction of the player.

 

[The Ducking Duck]

He’s post match press conference shows he has not grown one bit in the last two years. He’s back to being defensive, passive aggressive and painting a match picture that wasn’t there. I remember clearly last time we were struggling his emotional outburst didn’t help the team at all. He’s the same way now after the match. He defiantly said we play like tonight we have great chance beating Chelsea

We tested Sommer once. The guy is delusional.

 

[HattoriHanzo]

Every forward thread getting bumped is quite telling. Our system has evolved for the worse, and Ødegaard now has a huge amount of pressure to resolve that.


Was looking at this game and the speed of our transition is light years compared to our crawl now.

It’s really no surprise someone like Martinelli looks a fraction of the player.

Not only transition, our buildup is painfully slow and predictable.
Nwaneri was the only player yesterday who made our buildup faster.
Unfortunately, he played only last 15 minutes.

 

[Sapient Hawk]

 

[Sanchez11]

5 years and still Naive and stubborn. The football is trash tbh. Needs to get his head out of his arse!