He joined Arsenal in December 2019. Yeah thats 6 years. Also talking about number 9s, you lot say the same about Nunez that we used to say about Sanogo. ‘He causes chaos’.

seethe, cry, continue being miserable as liverpool will go another 50 years before winning the league again

This comment is an absolute joke of somebody who clearly knows absolutely nothing about football.

It is clear his decision making his average at best when it comes to coaching.

We have the most set piece goals this season, and last season as well as having the best defensive record under Arteta multiple seasons in a row at set pieces.

We have routinely been scoring large amounts of goals, particularly game changing goals in the final minutes of matches, these are very, very often from substitutions.

Our style of play is incredibly intricate and highly systematic. This only comes from coaching. Things like Zinchenko’s inverted midfield role is a clear coaching decision.

Almost every goal conceded has come from refereeing mistakes or individual errors. Not coaching issues at all.

Any average football fan or coach could tell they had to change how they played due to having more games in more competitions.

We’re not playing any more games this season than last season.

Having said that, despite their league position, they have not impressed at all…

We have the lowest xg against us by a country mile. We have been missing key players all season, and have had huge injury issues with Jesus, Partey, Martinelli, Saka, Nketiah and Odegaard all having injury issues by missing multiple games, and Timber missing the entire season. Not to mention non-key players like ESR having injury issues.

Maritinelli has fallen off a cliff this season. Despite injuries, his output is far too low

Utterly ridiculous. He’s having a great season. You clearly look only at an excel sheet to make your opinions.

Saka has played average but still puts up numbers

So has Salah then.

The No.9?? I dont even know what to say about the striker situatio

You mean having major injury issues all season?

Saliba is fine, but I still have doubts about his ceiling and leadership.

Hahahaha.

Saliba is arguably the best defender in the entire fucking league. He is 22.

Havertz? I really rated Havertz at Leverkusen and thought he would be great for Chelsea but having seen how he adapted to the game in England, why the fuck would anyone, let alone, “a world class manager” spend 70m on him and then have no idea where to play him? Shambles so far.

This is a massive diatribe to say you don’t like Havertz.

Lots of players take a while to settle in to major systematic changes. He’s not been anywhere near as bad as Nunes was for you last season.

And Partey rapes women. So fuck him and anyone who supports him.

Partey has rape allegations yes. He is a cunt. We have not commented on them.

You support Liverpool, your team and fans came out in widespread support of Suarez after he racially abused a player, after he bit a player, and also had Naby Keita on your team who had the same allegations that Partey is facing.

Exactly. Long way to go.

tbf = to be foolish

Fingers crossed

Don’t think they are walking this year with +10 points. They finished the league last with what 5 points between us and them.

All the teams are stronger now so games will be harder + they’ve already lost twice this season reckon as long as us and Liverpool put pressure it would be a exciting finish

A big part of the beauty of football is the simplicity, you make the rules messy and convoluted and people will hate it.

Also I don’t think it’s fair to punish teams because of how their opponents set up against them. Last season everyone realised you can’t give us space centrally, and you have to double team our wingers. Now we have to play the lowest block in the world on average, and 90% of teams don’t even press us, they just lock down the middle and hope they can deal with the crosses.

In these games it can be impossible to score four (especially since teams like Everton, Burnley and Sheffield don’t even change their tactics after going down a goal). And I also don’t feel like they should be punished for playing to their strengths, if that’s the best chance they have to get something from the game then let them play like that.

Instead what we should focus on removing is the unsportsmanlike behaviour which often (but not always) comes with these types of performances. I’m talking about rotational fouling certain players the moment they get in a position to hurt them. Incessant time wasting, often even while a goal down because they want to keep it 1-0 until the 85th and then score a corner/free kick so you don’t have time regain the lead. The diving as soon as they get into the opposition half, big strikers throwing themselves to the ground in every aerial duel because a free kick they can put into the box is the best chance they’ll get at a goal.

These are the unsportsmanlike parts of traditional “parking the bus”, and that’s the part we should focus on getting rid of imo. Not sitting deep and defending well, that’s a skill too

I always feel like people who suggest shit like this just don’t enjoy football. The point of the game is not constant action and drama, if you want that then watch basketball or whatever.

The bonus point rule has worked fine in Rugby, but I wouldn’t necessarily say it leads to teams going all out to get the extra point - its exactly what it says; a nice bonus. Plus with the amount of matches these days I would be worried about pushing players even harder.

or maybe the rules themselves should change, to encourage attacking. Right now football is the only sport in the world that I can think of where players actually get REWARDED for committing fouls. Maybe focus on that complete joke of a situation first

It is a form of entertainment after all.

It is first and foremost, a form of competition. As soon as entertainment takes the stage over competition, it is a completely different thing entirely.

The reason sports exist is competition first. The reason we find sports entertaining is because of the competition.

Liverpool would be worse

Amazing coming from a United fan who won it almost every year under Fergie lmao

While true it has to be said that Arsenal conceded most of their goals last season after Saliba got injured, along with other injuries affecting their ability to rotate and cover like Tomiyasu, and key ingredients to their transition from defence to midfield like Zinchenko (also Saliba). They started conceding lots of goals even against weaker opposition. This also affected their ability to impact the game further up the pitch.

I personally think that if they had continued the same form as the first half of the season, they would have won the league. They had already shown resilience in scraping wins in ugly games, showing patience and strong mentality to win.

But Spurs were playing that boring football in previous seasons before Ange?

Up until the Chelsea game our defensive record was really good. We weren’t conceding much and a lot of games we had narrowly won 2-1 1-0 2-0 sometimes scoring late other times by just keeping composure the full 90. It’s only now that we have an injury crisis at the back plus Romeros red card that we are conceding chances like crazy (look at the wolves game)

I see a lot of really bad comments, this being Reddit and all, but wow.

Like, literally everything you said is wrong and that’s no easy feat especially seeing how long your post was. I’m almost impressed.

i stopped at arteta being favoured by the media point, because it is quite the opposite. you see articles like this one more rarely than the rain in london, but you chose to picture it as an argument to your non sense.

Pass me what your smokin!

Agreed