Premier League 2024/25: Our Title Charge

[freeglennhelder2]

Good News: Man City are not playing Chelsea, West Ham, Sp*rs anywhere near the end of the season (rearranged fixtures permitting) so there is no chance of their players "doing a Son" in the title run in

Bad News: City has the easiest run in imaginable, Arsenal need to be six points clear in Feb

 

[sdotzdot]

Getting a point away to your title rivals is always a good result, all the comments last season from the media and a few on here about how we missed an opportunity for not trying to win the game at the Etihad was just silly.

4 points this early on in the season from NLD away and City away is brilliant.

 

[Dennis_Bergkamp_10]

Title winning teams win almost all of their home games. City will look to do the same. A draw would feel like a loss for them. As an away team at the Etihad, a draw is a good result. But only if we beat them at home later on.

A loss wouldn't be the end of the world, but we would need to bounce back immediately and win 'difficult games' elsewhere in the season, like Liverpool away. Otherwise, you're not getting near the 90 points.

A win would put us in the driving seat already.

 

[avenellroad]

I’m fairly sure our attack will catch fire at some stage. Until then we have to remain on the coat tails of City.

Can’t afford a gap of more than 3 points at most until then.

 

[Gooner Zig]

We have to remember that City got to 91 points last season by basically beating up on all the mid-lower PL teams. Their record vs the top 6 was actually quite poor. We lost the title because we ****ed up vs Fulham both H&A which was unforgiveable really.

 

[Tomb Bombadil]

The media narrative will be about us needing to win at City when the reality is that a draw would be a fantastic result. Obviously a win would be incredible.

We have already won, because we go into the City game not knowing in advance that we will definitely lose like the last 10 years

But yes I would take a draw at Etihad.

 

[PrinzPoldi]

Any sensible Arsenal fan knows, a tie is a good result.
yes, we should aim for the win but never underestimate City and overestimate ourselves.
City is still City.
We play our tactics and if we get a win that is great. If not, a tie is still good.

don't fall into Media's trap and think we "must" win this game.

 

[Gooner Zig]

Michael Oliver will be refereeing this one - I wonder how many times Rodri and Kovacic will be able to get away with yellow card fouls

 

[PrinzPoldi]

Michael Oliver will be refereeing this one - I wonder how many times Rodri and Kovacic will be able to get away with yellow card fouls

can we just forfeit the game if we concede early and no card for City on this **** fouls?
make it a big deal, put this on the internet and expose the PGMOL more.

 

[Aevi]

The Arsenal wall. Ballers.

 

[SA Gunner]

The latest talk of us being Pulis FC incarcerated is just the latest stick they want to beat us with. I saw a tweet speaking about how Brentford created more XG against City than we did at Sp**s.

InvertTheWing saying we are regressing and now are a high priced Big Sam team.

It goes on and on, and let it go.

Football fans are really blinkered and short sighted in their analysis, and it’s deliberate to discredit us.
The reality is always what the eyes see now and nothing else, when there is evidence that Arsenal are so multifaceted in their game.

What our spirited rivals can’t, or don’t want to see, is that we’ve probably had one of the hardest runs to start the season with, if you include the Champjons League. This all with injuries to important players in our system.

Can you imagine what will happen once we get to November, still close to the top with us being in good shape and starting to implement our playing and tactical changes for this season?

 

[Dennis_Bergkamp_10]

The latest talk of us being Pulis FC incarcerated is just the latest stick they want to beat us with. I saw a tweet speaking about how Brentford created more XG against City than we did at Sp**s.

InvertTheWing saying we are regressing and now are a high priced Big Sam team.

It goes on and on, and let it go.

Football fans are really blinkered and short sighted in their analysis, and it’s deliberate to discredit us.
The reality is always what the eyes see now and nothing else, when there is evidence that Arsenal are so multifaceted in their game.

What our spirited rivals can’t, or don’t want to see, is that we’ve probably had one of the hardest runs to start the season with, if you include the Champjons League. This all with injuries to important players in our system.

Can you imagine what will happen once we get to November, still close to the top with us being in good shape and starting to implement our playing and tactical changes for this season?

They can't handle the fact that we used to get bullied, especially at away grounds, and that has stopped now. That Sp**s twitter idiot is quite rich saying we are regressing, meanwhile they have picked up two more points than Everton the last 32 games or so.

 

[blrgooner]

The latest talk of us being Pulis FC incarcerated is just the latest stick they want to beat us with. I saw a tweet speaking about how Brentford created more XG against City than we did at Sp**s.

InvertTheWing saying we are regressing and now are a high priced Big Sam team.

It goes on and on, and let it go.

Football fans are really blinkered and short sighted in their analysis, and it’s deliberate to discredit us.
The reality is always what the eyes see now and nothing else, when there is evidence that Arsenal are so multifaceted in their game.

What our spirited rivals can’t, or don’t want to see, is that we’ve probably had one of the hardest runs to start the season with, if you include the Champjons League. This all with injuries to important players in our system.

Can you imagine what will happen once we get to November, still close to the top with us being in good shape and starting to implement our playing and tactical changes for this season?

Hahaha the xG argument is funny. Sp**s had a lower xG than us in our game and had a marginally better xG (1.1) against Leicester City at home when compared to Brentford against City (0.97).

 

[avenellroad]

The latest talk of us being Pulis FC incarcerated is just the latest stick they want to beat us with. I saw a tweet speaking about how Brentford created more XG against City than we did at Sp**s.

InvertTheWing saying we are regressing and now are a high priced Big Sam team.

It goes on and on, and let it go.

Football fans are really blinkered and short sighted in their analysis, and it’s deliberate to discredit us.
The reality is always what the eyes see now and nothing else, when there is evidence that Arsenal are so multifaceted in their game.

What our spirited rivals can’t, or don’t want to see, is that we’ve probably had one of the hardest runs to start the season with, if you include the Champjons League. This all with injuries to important players in our system.

Can you imagine what will happen once we get to November, still close to the top with us being in good shape and starting to implement our playing and tactical changes for this season?

What used to piss me off about the late Wenger teams was when we used to dominate possession and then routinely get spanked when playing against the top teams.

People just don’t want to admit we are defensively the best team in the world at this moment. We can play in multiple different ways depending on the opposition. We can control the game off the ball or on the ball.

Sp**s created **** all on Sunday so didn’t deserve anything from the game. We knew what we had to do and executed it perfectly

 

[freeglennhelder2]

The Premier League is an asset worth billions, thousands of jobs and businesses rely on it. Its USP is that its a competitive, thrilling competition.

Man City winning 5 titles in a row devalues the product and in the long term, impacts the pocket of everyone involved, including City themselves.

Looking at the big picture, City should throw their games against Arsenal

 

[PrinzPoldi]

If Pulis FC could win 30 games a season by one goal and win the league title, it is not bad to be a Pulis FC at all. The fact is, Pulis FC could not win **** by parking the bus.
On top of that, we did not park the bus.

 

[Red London]

I’m being a party pooper here but City are clear favourites following our injuries, and their experience.

It’s now backs up against the wall for us a few games into the season.

 

[Aevi]

Graph showing points per game of the PL champions over the years. Standards have been rising.

 

[SA Gunner]

Ødegaard out is a blow, but its not necessarily the end of the world. We can still compete, but it would depend on how we adapt our team to keep its strengths intact.

With Ødegaard out, we'd probably need to trade our tempo setting patient play for a bit more directness and efficiency. A move back to our 22/23 directness and incisiveness, hopefully on top of our defensive organisation.

Easier said than done of course, because our defensive organisation comes from our more patient, structured, "boring", attacking play.

Who replaces Ødegaard's impact in the team? Well until we've seen more of Merino, I think that player is Jorginho for me. Fabio Vieira could play that role sure, but he is also more of a direct passer into space, rather than the metronome Ødegaard is.

I do agree that Vieira gone is a loss to the squad.

I do think that instead of trying to replicate what Ødegaard brings, we try and use our squad to bring back and add to our strengths in other ways. We have a left side that needs activation again, and this injury probably expedites that need now. We have players who can operate as a 10, like Nwaneri. Its up to Arteta to create a stable platform for Nwaneri to come in and perform. Like we've seen him do with Jorginho.

Its tougher now to stay up there with City, but Arteta has to earn his keep. I do think he will though, and we wont feel this loss as much. BUT we still need Martin back soon, to stand a real chance.

 

[boonthegoon]

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