Prediction
Arsenal 3-0 Fulham
I am a little worried that poor finishing could become a common theme for the season though.Yup despite all the weird personnel decisions and mistakes at the back, if we just had better finishing we would have won comfortably.
Its good perspective for moving forward but also makes it that much more frustrating right now.
If only every chance fell to a clinical Haaland type goal scorer Mik would look like a genius. Dumbest manager in world football and you guys love him. Partey RWB lol. Lol of Fing laughsYup despite all the weird personnel decisions and mistakes at the back, if we just had better finishing we would have won comfortably.
Its good perspective for moving forward but also makes it that much more frustrating right now.
You may be right, we did go through I think the longest period in the league before giving up our first setpiece goal but then the floodgates opened. I don't understand Areta's reasoning for it. He's doing kind of what I thought he would do but in a way that doesn't make sense to me and I can't see how it works out in the long run. The CB partnership should never change when it works as well as theirs does.
What's odd is that for most of last season we seemed to have shaken off the tendency to stop playing and we were putting teams to the sword. It all went downhill when Saliba got hurt and the mentality seems to have unfortunately carried over. You simply can't win the biggest prizes like that. You've got to be able to end games and use the dying minutes to rotate and keep everyone ready to contribute. We'll never do that if we keep putting the brakes on a goal up.
You saw us lose? What game were you watching?I'm so pleased. Having watched the game and seen us lose I read many of the posters here who seem to think we've done well. Thank goodness for that!
In the argentinean primera league, arsenal sarandi lost 1-0 to instituto ACC on monday.You saw us lose? What game were you watching?
Think you're right. We've been doing it as far back as Arteta's first season. Remember against Olympiakos how much we toiled and finally got the goal. Only to start messing about in our own half, concede a set piece then concede the killer goal from the second phase of that set piece. It's been happening too often throughout his tenure here to just put it down to a psychological barrier.I don’t know if it’s a lack of balls. It seems like a deliberate strategy. We took Ødegaard off, brought Jorginho on and set ourselves in a defensive low block with the aim of keeping the ball and run down the clock.
I ****ing hate it.
Just do the basic right even when leading Zinchenko yesterday wanted to play between the midfield pass and wasn't needed just pass it back and have more control.Seems about right; i thought we played well its just concentration and error related. So many early goals against at home, generally from our own errors. This is concentration related and being so focused on applying pressure to the opposition that we become reckless and forget the opposition can hurt us also.
And as good as Zinchenko is on the ball and how much better we look as a team, individually, he costs us a lot of goals. Contributed to the late equaliser again today; its really difficult to know what to do. I think we have to play him but there is a more than 50% chance he is going to cost you a goal every game.
I was in my usual seat Block 92 but I must admit at times I closed my eyes in despair. What about you? Live stream or big screen tv?I suppose you didn't watch?
Because if you did, you would have seen us wasting countless chances and gifting them the two goals they scored.
Had we been a little bit more clinical and didn't pretty much help them to score it would've been a much different scoreline.
The one where dropping two points at home to a bottom half of the table team like Fulham is effectively a loss.You saw us lose? What game were you watching?
Lost the game in the first half?I was in my usual seat Block 92 but I must admit at times I closed my eyes in despair. What about you? Live stream or big screen tv?
All goals count "gifted" too. If Fulham had been clinical we'd have lost the game in the first half.
Wow. Looks supernatural !!!Cool pic this...
...shame we were idiots yesterday though.
No. A draw is a draw is a draw matey.The one where dropping two points at home to a bottom half of the table team like Fulham is effectively a loss.