That’s the flaw with Artetas thinking and his fan base. They look at each game individually and think as long as you create more chances you win every game. They don’t seem to get the more margin you give yourself the more likely you are to win more games. Last season was in many ways freak season in terms of how lucky we were with injuries and how many tight games tilted our ways. But when you write down what we trying to do, it becomes clear it’s next to impossible win a league with thisWe did create enough to deserve a win but didn't create enough to guarantee a win. Pool and chelsea miss more opportunities than us on a weekly basis but their chance generation pipeline is so much greater. The fact we can generally list the number of big misses in games we drop points to 1-2, says its all.
Can we move on from these constantly injured players on defense. Calafiori, Zinchenco and Tomiyasu are always out. Kiwior is huge liability as well when on the field.
Sure, fulham only had one chance. But it was a great chance which their striker woud've been dissapointed to miss.
You make a fair point but let's be honest MLS is still very young & we have seen him get caught out at LB.Why can't Arteta tend to put faith into these young players, he's/we've got MLS who he's trained to be a LB, if he doesn't want to give 1 chance to Tierney whats the point of keeping him, these young kids will have to make debuts eventually. Why not try MLS at LB then keep Timber on the right & we would have been able to keep Partey in his preferred position centrally. It just doesn't work out with Partey out of position at RB.
It was actually I think classed as a 0.04 chance according to XG so that means 96 times out of 100 it's not expected to be a goal.
It was placed perfectly at pace just out of rayas reach so credit to the striker but more often than not it doesn't hit the net.
To me ngl it looked higher than a 0.04 chance but I certainly wasn't expecting him to score.
TPs missed header for us was a way bigger chance.
We would definitely go with same utd line up if Zinchenko was available.
No can’t bring myself to do itDid you guys rewatch Partey free header?Nah man this one even worse than Martinelli guy just put so far wide from 2 yards.
I understand I was rewatching highlight at my bed and just got angry again.No can’t bring myself to do it
Did you guys rewatch Partey free header?Nah man this one even worse than Martinelli guy just put so far wide from 2 yards.
Sure, fulham only had one chance. But it was a great chance which their striker woud've been dissapointed to miss. I dont think our striker would've scored it to be honest and thats part of our problem. I dont think we had as good a chance as that all game from open play anyway. Fulham wouldn't have felt too hard done by if we had managed to get all 3 points as they offered nothing else in an attacking sense. However, i think it's fair to say they deserved a point for opening us up the way they did, being clinical and defending well.
I had no issues with the initial line up. But with the way the game transpired, one of the changes arteta should've made was to bring on myles for partey and move timber to right back to give us more natural width on both sides. Sometimes he has to be braver.
It's interesting that pep has pretty much given up on the title but we still see ourselves as being on the hunt...
If we only have player who can finish chance like this.Great chance? The xG on that chance was 0.04
We could have run that back another 10 times and Jiminez likely would have missed every time. It was an incredible finish.
Yeah headers under pressure is not easy but Partey one was completely free he just miscalculated his jumpI am super lenient on headers because they are much more random than people make out, but that one was particularly bad
Even a Saliba type bum nudge would have done the trick. Saka showed how it was done but unfortunately, ruled out.
Arteta is such a coward. 1-1 is no good to us, why did Ødegaard have to come off for Nwaneri to come on? Why couldn't we have both in centre mid?
Why diid Kai have to come off for Jesus to come on? Why didn't we sacrifice on the the back four?
Did you guys rewatch Partey free header?Nah man this one even worse than Martinelli guy just put so far wide from 2 yards.
I understand I was rewatching highlight at my bed and just got angry again.
I bet Gabriel was watching this and raging as well