Premier League 2022/23

[bingobob]

Just reading twitter and loads complaining about people complaining. Acknowledging our poor form and results atm isnt taking away from the season we've had to date. Both points are valid and completely accurate. And im sure Arteta and the players are acutely aware that we are not reaching the standards we've set throughout the season. And they'll be aware that reaching that standard is going to become more difficult given we play City next and could be knocked off top spot.

Medals aren't handed out yet. If we want one we need to very quickly begin putting maximum points on the board.

 

[dashsnow17]

Only one man can save us now..

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

Nevermind, you’re right forgot they had a goal disallowed and mixed it up with the 1-1 at Southampton the following week

Ag mudded

 

[Riou]

My guy @A__G saw the pen get given in the last minute v Leeds and just stopped watching in anger without waiting to see the outcome

 

[A_G]

My guy @A__G saw the pen get given in the last minute v Leeds and just stopped watching in anger without waiting to see the outcome

Yeah it was deffo the Southampton game I was thinking of:

 

[Riou]

Yeah it was deffo the Southampton game I was thinking of:

Riou enjoying that **** club Southampton going down to the Championship this year like...

 

[BergMan]

You need to get the points in games when you’re not on top. I don’t accept the “we didn’t deserve to win cause they were better“ narrative. The only game we won this season when we were second best was Leeds. We were on course for doing that against Brentford but VAR robbed us of that. Champions have loads of games they win despite being second best.

 

[boonthegoon]

7 points lost to VAR actually: 3 United A, 2 Leeds A and 2 yesterday.

And some people here still will claim we're lucky this season just to discredit arteta

 

[robbryan]

Don't allow Manchester City to get away with 15 years of cheating. Please sign and share the petition Sign the Petition

 

[yorch44]

City playing without the inverted thing, with 2 pivots in a classic 4231/343 and they look much better. Lol Pep slowly going to classic football. I think they will win against us, much better shape than our bad form without goals.

 

[yorch44]

Don't allow Manchester City to get away with 15 years of cheating. Please sign and share the petition Sign the Petition

I always asked myself if those "signing" things has made a difference at least once. Nobody cares that change.org ... It's the internet's Greta Thumberg.

 

[Sniper Mik]

City playing without the inverted thing, with 2 pivots in a classic 4231/343 and they look much better. Lol Pep slowly going to classic football. I think they will win against us, much better shape than our bad form without goals.

Always going to happen.

 

[A_G]

@Rex Bezos bad weekend for us but we’re still shading it, vital we win on Wednesday

 

[SA Gunner]

Think its a combination of wannabe fortune tellers out here, setting up their "I told you so" in the event things dont work out on Wednesday.

That combined with people who are buying into media nonsense. They are falling for the "Arsenal <insert convenient month> collapse" talk from the media.

The reality is that yes we are struggling at the moment, but it still takes a monumental effort to stop us. Even Brentford, the leagues most form side right now, who cannot be broken down by teams, were opened up by us because they switched off for a second. Everton had to play the best game of probably their last 2 seasons to stop us, and they had to do it via a set piece routine, after failing to take advantage of their limited advantages in open play.

That is what we bring to the table.

Of course the City game will be difficult, and yes we can lose it on Wednesday. But to genuinely believe that we will lose because City are having a superb game against Villa today and we dropped points is silly talk IMO. I wonder what these same fortune tellers would be saying had we delivered the 3 points yesterday.

It will be a massive test, but we will be ready. I actually think we are going to win this game midweek.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

Think its a combination of wannabe fortune tellers out here, setting up their "I told you so" in the event things dont work out on Wednesday.

That combined with people who are buying into media nonsense. They are falling for the "Arsenal <insert convenient month> collapse" talk from the media.

The reality is that yes we are struggling at the moment, but it still takes a monumental effort to stop us. Even Brentford, the leagues most form side right now, who cannot be broken down by teams, were opened up by us because they switched off for a second. Everton had to play the best game of probably their last 2 seasons to stop us, and they had to do it via a set piece routine, after failing to take advantage of their limited advantages in open play.

That is what we bring to the table.

Of course the City game will be difficult, and yes we can lose it on Wednesday. But to genuinely believe that we will lose because City are having a superb game against Villa today and we dropped points is silly talk IMO. I wonder what these same fortune tellers would be saying had we delivered the 3 points yesterday.

It will be a massive test, but we will be ready. I actually think we are going to win this game midweek.

Agree with all of this, and also need to keep reminding myself that we all said coming into the season that the goal was top 4. Looks pretty good to achieve that at this point, so I don't know what the stress is all about. We are just gonna be stronger next year.

 

[Sniper Mik]

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@Rex Bezos bad weekend for us but we’re still shading it, vital we win on Wednesday

How much useful is this table if it gets adjusted after every game?

 

[A_G]

How much useful is this table if it gets adjusted after every game?

It tells you the state of play on each matchday. It wouldn’t be useful it didn’t adjust for each result.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

How much useful is this table if it gets adjusted after every game?

About as useful as anything Nate Silver has done since the 2012 US election.

 

[Sniper Mik]

It tells you the state of play on each matchday. It wouldn’t be useful it didn’t adjust for each result.

Okay so it's not very useful until we've got like 5 or so games left and things are very very close. If only there was a metric that could tell how things stand

 

[Game Over]

Think its a combination of wannabe fortune tellers out here, setting up their "I told you so" in the event things dont work out on Wednesday.

That combined with people who are buying into media nonsense. They are falling for the "Arsenal <insert convenient month> collapse" talk from the media.

The reality is that yes we are struggling at the moment, but it still takes a monumental effort to stop us. Even Brentford, the leagues most form side right now, who cannot be broken down by teams, were opened up by us because they switched off for a second. Everton had to play the best game of probably their last 2 seasons to stop us, and they had to do it via a set piece routine, after failing to take advantage of their limited advantages in open play.

That is what we bring to the table.

Of course the City game will be difficult, and yes we can lose it on Wednesday. But to genuinely believe that we will lose because City are having a superb game against Villa today and we dropped points is silly talk IMO. I wonder what these same fortune tellers would be saying had we delivered the 3 points yesterday.

It will be a massive test, but we will be ready. I actually think we are going to win this game midweek.

Don’t think it’s fair to categorise those feeling doubts following this weekend as either wannabe ‘Told you so’s’ or being manipulated by a negative media.

I want Arsenal to win this league more than anything. They really made a believer out of me these past few months.

But, the past two performances have allowed some doubts to creep in. We’ve looked short on ideas and sloppy the past 180 mins of football. Miles away from the team that got us to the top of the table.

A short amount of time compared with our months of good work? Yes, but that’s how form often ebbs and flows, up and down. The bad signs are there that we’re heading for a downturn. We’ve a slender lead now after all.

The end of last season plays a big part in these doubts too. Our bad run last season saw us drop silly points to teams we’d have comfortably beat only weeks earlier. These last few performances feel too familiar.

Also, although not directly at yourself, but can we stop with the ‘our target was top 4’ crap? We’ve been top of the league much of the season and would have had a very healthy lead if these results had gone our way. If we crumble and finish 4th, I’ll be far from ****ing happy.

Finish 2nd and I’ll feel we’ve thrown away the opportunity of a lifetime. We might not get this close again for another 5-10 years for all we know.