LOSS Premier League: Arsenal 1 - 2 Bournemouth | Saturday 11th April | KO: 12:30 BST | TNT Sports

First Premier League game in almost a month…

Would play Dowman and Mosquera just because of the lack of injury cover ahead the defining week of our season.

A result here ratchets up the pressure on City for Sunday.

Leaving here with something @A_G

 

[Big Poppa]

Yeah this fantasy people have about us being the only team that has ever faced low blocks somehow doesn't factor in how often we let teams get set because we refuse to play forward. Yesterday Dixon was aghast at how long we took to take a throw in when we had a numerical advantage and we just let them recover while White took an age to make a decision.

We used up a total of 7 minutes taking throw-ins and 6 minutes taking corners. Only 5 minutes were added on at the end of the game. Our fear of an open end to end game is hurting us more than our opponents.

 

[Rasmi]

We used up a total of 7 minutes taking throw-ins and 6 minutes taking corners. Only 5 minutes were added on at the end of the game. Our fear of an open end to end game is hurting us more than our opponents.

Bad habits catching up. All season we have done everything to slow games down by taking as much time as possible on throw ins, corners and goal kicks. Suddenly he expects the team to find pace in their play.

So when you have built all these cautions risk averse tactics built in the team for so long. You can’t expect then to just flip a switch and take it to teams.

This is why I would say if we don’t win the league we haven’t bottled it. We have won as many close games as you can when the margins are tight. The approach has taken us as far as it could. We also fighting for league title while non of our attacking players is having a strong season which again points to we done as well as we could with an approach like this

 

[El Realista]

Lol

Ødegaard is not replacing Eze, it's Zubimendi who's in shocking form right now that will be replaced by Ødegaard. We don't concede the opening goal vs Bournemouth with Timber/Saka on the RHS. As for your comment about Dowman being better than Saka, lol okay buddy

As usual you just post waffle.

Like you didn’t know that Arteta plays Eze or Ødegaard but not together. Zubimendi will play unless he gets injured

 

[El Realista]

Nah Timber is much more important for us, even offensively. He’s vital for dragging us up the pitch when we’re under pressure

Maybe he is vital, but it does not mean he is not part of our problem in attacking. He is very poor offensively and Arteta making a player so limited one of our more important attacking players is stupid.

 

[SomGooner]

You posts are usually good, so I like when you show up... but also I dislike when you show up too, as your avi of 90s Vieira makes me remember that all our current midfielders are morons.

Paddy is my all-time favourite player, and he never disappointed me the couple of times that I was lucky enough to meet him while with his family.

We were spoiled back then with all the great players we've had at our club. I wonder how much prime Vieira, DB10, Pires, Gilberto, Sol or TH14 would cost in this era?