FFS Foden

Brighton lmfao

What a draw lol

Repost.

‘Hot Paymaster’, ‘Dance Relic’, and ‘Grass Jubilee’ are outstanding.

I hope Tomi can stay heathy and get his new deal worked out: he’s such a good piece in the squad for us.

Being able to choose a fullback set between any two of Zina, White, and Tomi at any given moment is a luxury I would love to see Arteta enjoy for a good long while.

Here’s the Sun’s typically journalistic take.

So it could be United or Chelsea.

The days of Arteta are very fine.

Arteta: ‘Maybe I like the misery…’

I’d be very sad to see Eddie go, and I would question the price we’d have to pay for Douglas Luiz – even though I’d always said he’d have a good signing, and a tidy player for us – but I’d have a hard time being unhappy about that.

A better comparison might be Kai’s first X games to Xhaka’s first X games as an advanced 8 in 433, dating from his return at Goodison in December 2021.

In his first 15 matches in the role (PL only), Xhaka had one assist. (And had enjoyed two whole years of working with Arteta prior, though in a worse Arsenal side.)

In his first 15 (PL+CL) Kai has 3G+1A. (With no prior Arteta experience, if in a much better side.)

What he hasn’t done is started this season with a purple patch like the one Xhaka had last season, where he had 3G+3A in his first 15 (PL+EL).

But then he only had 2 assists in a run of 14; Kai will have plenty of opportunity to catch up.

lmao

Offside or not, United are terrible.

Come on Wilf

This is like watching the SPL lmao

Get in lmao

lol

LMAO

Antony is a living joke.

Lucas Torreira, you littler dancer.

Arteta was quite revealing in that traffic metaphor when he said, as clearly as possible, ‘I want to go 100 miles an hour,’ and then described us as currently unable to get past the roadblocks of opposing sides/

He doesn’t to play slow and endlessly recycle the ball with sterile, peripheral possession; he wants to rip straight through opponents.

The questions, as you say, are how to do that, and why we’re not doing that.

Some of it certainly has to do with facing constant low blocks (the lowest average opposing defensive line in the PL). But that’s not, as you say, simply a matter of opponent strategy.

When we’re moving the ball slowly, and mostly on the outside, not creating central threat, and just nibbling around the edge of the box, that allows opposing teams to organise a low block as conveniently and effectively as possible. They are happy to let us get all the final third and edge box entries we can rack up, as long as we’re doing it slowly and confined to those low-percentage areas.