Draw Premier League: Arsenal 2 - 2 Fulham | Saturday 26th August | KO: 15:00 BST

Prediction

Arsenal 3-0 Fulham

 

[Riou]

I said at the end of last season that throwing the league away would have a mental impact this new season. Seems I'm right. We've carried on where we left off last season. Feeble, nervous, non dynamic, and can't stop conceding goals. Gonna be a long season imo.
Think top 4 is all we aim for as it's looking like last year was a one off, we've spent £200m and gone backwards.

Disagree, think we really could have built on it if we got the signings right.

Don't think we have done that though.

 

[Melquiades]

Just do not understand how we only do this at home. What is so different about the way we set up home and away?

I think it’s just chance.

Sometimes you flip a coin and 15/20 flips will come up heads. Right now it’s just a bunch of weird random dumb **** that seems to happen to us at home.

 

[steppenwolf]

F this
What happened?

 

[Sniper Mik]

I think it’s just chance.

Sometimes you flip a coin and 15/20 flips will come up heads. Right now it’s just a bunch of weird random dumb **** that seems to happen to us at home.

Could not believe Ramsdale's pass against Southampton last season. And that was under zero pressure. Surely a manager can train his players to not lose the ball in central areas for the first 10 minutes?

 

[Gooner Zig]

Always happen in first 5 minutes too not sure what the reason but they seriously need to cut this out its affect the outcome of games

3 goals conceded in first minute of the game in last 9 home games. That's an insane statistic and an inquest needs to happen by the coaching staff on this.

 

[Gooner Zig]

I think it’s just chance.

Sometimes you flip a coin and 15/20 flips will come up heads. Right now it’s just a bunch of weird random dumb **** that seems to happen to us at home.

It's happened too many times for it to be chance imo

 

[BigPoppaPump]

Arteta reaction honestly where saka passing into. Did he see Saliba ghost? The problem his head was up that make it worse. Also Andreas shot was so bad not sure why Ramsdale panicked

I never seen team concede these kind of goals maybe in Bundesliga

You can really see why he kept getting relegated.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

3 goals conceded in first minute of the game in last 9 home games. That's an insane statistic and an inquest needs to happen by the coaching staff on this.

That true also not only that but i seriously can't remember goal we conceded from opponents team work always error or from thier corner. The only game i felt we totally deserved to drop points its Brighton at home

 

[Melquiades]

Could not believe Ramsdale's pass against Southampton last season. And that was under zero pressure. Surely a manager can train his players to not lose the ball in central areas for the first 10 minutes?

Individual mistakes are usually the one thing that a manager can’t control.

However, like I said earlier in this thread it feels like some of the mistakes we’re seeing this year are the result of so many players playing out of position.

 

[MikeVinna]

But he benches our best defender of the box and doesnt bring him on either.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

Arteta reaction honestly where saka passing into. Did he see Saliba ghost? The problem his head was up that make it worse. Also Andreas shot was so bad not sure why Ramsdale panicked

I never seen team concede these kind of goals maybe in Bundesliga

Also think White should probably be sitting deeper there. There's so much space in behind him. Maybe because he's used to playing RB and now has to remember where to be as CB? T

Partey has moved central as well, maybe too quickly. Inverting costs us there tbh

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Also think White should probably be sitting deeper there. There's so much space in behind him. Maybe because he's used to playing RB and now has to remember where to be as CB?

I think saka just over hit it or something i always don't like us passing from back when we under pressure or there zero cover.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

He's speaking about the game from a level of control.

It was far more controlled, despite being less incisive and attacking. We are missing that cutting edge in the final third, or at least the levels shown last season.

This season


Last season

 

[Melquiades]

It's happened too many times for it to be chance imo

No, I mean that a majority of errors happening at home is chance. I don’t think anything fundamentally different is being done based on where we’re playing.

 

[Sniper Mik]

This season


Last season

We had a penalty today which bumped up the xG in our favor quite a bit.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

I think saka just over hit it or something i always don't like us passing from back when we under pressure or there zero cover.

Yeah just edited to say Partey has abandoned that space by inverting. Overcomplicated stuff like that can cause disaster quickly

 

[MikeVinna]

And ffs Legohair, play a RB who's actually a f*cking RB and a LB who's actually a f*cking LB!

We don’t have a LB who’s actually a LB anymore..

Also I thought Partey was really good in midfield and pretty solid defensively. You can’t really blame him for being out of position in transition because that’s Mikel’s fault.

I’d really love to see this against Manure:

Ramsdale

White Saliba Gabriel Zinchenko

Partey

Saka Ødegaard Rice Martinelli

Nketiah​

 

[Gooner Zig]

We had a penalty today which bumped up the xG in our favor quite a bit.

PK I think is .77 xG so we'd be on about 2.2xG which is there abouts what we created last season.

 

[Nunowoolmez]

F this
What happened?

We hit the self destruct button again

 

[Sniper Mik]

PK I think is .77 xG so we'd be on about 2.2xG which is there abouts what we created last season.

Right. Plus we virtually scored our second against 10 men as well.