Oh-Zeal
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I'm happy with Sokratis at the moment. Mustafi looks solid when he wants to as well. The key thing is to not expose them. Torreira should be the main shield.
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Sokratis Papastathopoulos: Mentor to Plato and Holding
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KrissKringle
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Once he gets used to the PL and Unai's system, he'll be pretty good. Possibly even starting some attacks from deep with long balls or carrying it through midfield.
He look okay you can't judge him because hr playing with such error prone players like Mustafi and bellerin
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Think he looks really good. Made some important blocks.
Jae
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Good performance today, as I said in the match day thread: No nonsense defending, intelligent and reads the game well, made some good plays out from the back and picks his tackles sensibly, he also knows when to slow the game down. Unfortunately just lacks a yard of pace, needs a quicker defender next to him.
Not the best defender in the world but for the amount we paid for him he is comfortably better than Mustafi.
Not the best defender in the world but for the amount we paid for him he is comfortably better than Mustafi.
TheArsenalis
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I thought defense today was comical. And we looked even shakier today than previous two games.
Slartibartfast
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Arsenal's fullbacks need to do better. Bellerin was horrible defensively today, but Nacho was getting burned a lot as well. Sokratis kept having to come out and cover for him, leaving Mustafi as the lone fullback (the same thing that happens on the other side a lot when Bellerin wanders out of position).
Apart from 1 bad mistake at 1st half he did OK for remaining of the game
Slartibartfast
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The center backs were fine today. Not perfect, but decent enough. It was the fullbacks who were turning it into a sideshow.
TheArsenalis
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Yes, but i was praying for a solid game for once so i could give them praise.
There won't be solid game neither Sokratis and Mustafi are top quality. We'll just pray that they improve during the season
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Meh, I'm with Yousif on this one, I don't think Sokratis looked great to me, he had good moments; too shaky overall though.
Look, I don't expect Mislintat to get them all right, but we should've kept our powder dry and maybe developed Callum and Mavrapanos more cos I'm not impressed with either of our starters.
The other issue is the backwards passing, Sokratis and Mustafi both constantly putting us under pressure cos they take about 10 years to make a pass and then it's backwards? C'mon son.
Look, I don't expect Mislintat to get them all right, but we should've kept our powder dry and maybe developed Callum and Mavrapanos more cos I'm not impressed with either of our starters.
The other issue is the backwards passing, Sokratis and Mustafi both constantly putting us under pressure cos they take about 10 years to make a pass and then it's backwards? C'mon son.
Sniper Mik
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Fredericks was roasting Monreal time and time again in the 1st half.
Slartibartfast
CIES Loyalist
Yep. Everybody moaning about the center backs, but what they're not seeing is that they keep having to go out to cover for the fullbacks, each time leaving the other to cover the middle. Torreira will help a lot once he's fully up and running, but the fullbacks simply need to do better.
Mark Tobias
Mr. Agreeable
CBs actually saved as in occasions
Slartibartfast
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It's not just bombing forward. It's being out of position in Arsenal's own half. Bellerin played West Ham onside numerous times and let guys get around him.
True, noticed that as well, must be hard to keep a solid line of four at the back when 2 of them are always going forward though, not like the old days where the back 4 moved up and down as a unit, no we are very much two CB's with two wing backs
Mark Tobias
Mr. Agreeable
At one point he was caught out of position in the most bizarre way and we got lucky... in fact I think Sokratis snuffed it out..
Bit only was he caught miles up the pitch but his tracking back followed a strangely centrally magnetized movement.. like when a five year old is trying to figure out the game for the first time. I literally laughed
The problem is that the full backs bomb forward at the same time. 2-1 up and the game won and both are in the box! Yes we scored but a strong CB orders one of them to sit. Miki covered for Bellerin quite well in th he first half but I thought Emery would have ironed this flaw out much quicker.
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