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Arsenal 3-0 Lens

 

[steppenwolf]

...?

It's just always gotta be him

 

[Sniper Mik]

Swear someone named Tom Cruise started a game for us in the CL once.

FIFA 10 legend with Craig Eastmond, Carlos Vela and Fran Merida

 

[DJ_Markstar]

It's just always gotta be him

Can't even get rested for Brazil, poor lad.

 

[A_G]

And just look what it did for his career!

The point is that Wenger gave debuts to anyone he felt deserved it, Arteta won’t even play two of the highest rated England U17 players in preseason games.

 

[Sebastes]

Arteta has a duty to give squad players who will be called on to contribute at times this season game time.

MLS and Nwaneri are babies. Just being on the bench at their ages is pretty crazy. Their time will come.

It's really quite odd that anyone would think 5-10 minutes tonight, at their ages would alter their career prospects or value here.

I agree on the squad players argument and if he'd done the last sub earlier it'd make a whole lot of sense. But with 10 mins left I'm not so sure it gives Nketiah anything at all, whereas it'd mean everything to MLS and Nwaneri.

Surely they'll look at the likes of Warren Zaire-Emery, Lamine Yamal and even Lewis Miley who are all 16-17 years and not only getting chances to play but getting to play 90 mins and really taking those chances and establishing themselves?

Or are we saying that Nwaneri and MLS aren't all that after all the hype?

 

[Tom Mix]

Swear someone named Tom Cruise started a game for us in the CL once.

I remember. He took my breath away.

 

[steppenwolf]

A-M: bickering who should get the nod
Teta: drags mostly near-starters to Holland

 

[freeglennhelder2]

Does anyone know where I can watch full match replay, assume it won't get uploaded to .com for a few days, I'll have lost interetst by then

Proper CL tie last night with the Lens fans trying to throw flares into the Arsenal crowd. One hit (hope the person is ok) but the other throw didn't have enough power and dropped back onto someone's head in the away section.

 

[HollandGooner]

Napoli, PSG, Milan, Inter some of our possible opponents in R16. Not gonna be easy but exciting ties

I am very confident in facing anyone tbf CL really different from EPL.

 

[outlawz]

You can be delighted with the performance and win and also be annoyed with Arteta being so tight with youth minutes as usual . He's got a responsibility to develop them, too.

Sounds like a you problem.

 

[Jasard]

Sounds like a you problem.

*Youth

 

[A_G]

All smiles moments before he told them “you’re the worst Arsenal team I’ve EVER seen” @Riou

 

[HattoriHanzo]

Alternative view on our match yesterday.
I took it from one commentator on Guardian article about our match yesterday.

Arsenal only won because the opposition was poor.
They should have rested players in the second half.
They didn't play well in the second half, only winning it due to a penalty.
Arsenal need to sign a striker. Needing 6 different players to score their goals shows that they have no focal point in attack.
Havertz is a waste of money. Playing as a midfielder with only 3 goals at the end of November is clearly useless.
Playing Raya has weakened Arsenal's defence.
Defenders celebrating a piece of defensive work is objectionable.
Liverpool, City, Newcastle or Sp**s would have scored more goals, contained the opposition better and rested all their first team players.
Lens are clearly not PL standard.
No Arsenal player would get into a Liverpool or City team.

These comments, intended as a joke, remind me on many posts here in Arsenal Mania.

 

[steppenwolf]

These comments, intended as a joke, remind me on many posts

by football superfans on teh Internets

 

[berric]

Alternative view on our match yesterday.
I took it from one commentator on Guardian article about our match yesterday.

Arsenal only won because the opposition was poor.
They should have rested players in the second half.
They didn't play well in the second half, only winning it due to a penalty.
Arsenal need to sign a striker. Needing 6 different players to score their goals shows that they have no focal point in attack.
Havertz is a waste of money. Playing as a midfielder with only 3 goals at the end of November is clearly useless.
Playing Raya has weakened Arsenal's defence.
Defenders celebrating a piece of defensive work is objectionable.
Liverpool, City, Newcastle or Sp**s would have scored more goals, contained the opposition better and rested all their first team players.
Lens are clearly not PL standard.
No Arsenal player would get into a Liverpool or City team.

These comments, intended as a joke, remind me on many posts here in Arsenal Mania.

Which posts/posters?

I haven't read any posts like that. Only maybe resting players you have no alterantive for like Saka, but that is a valid point.

As I see everyone is happy with the win with the only criticism being Arteta's reluctance to play youth.

 

[HattoriHanzo]

Which posts/posters?

I haven't read any posts like that. Only maybe resting players you have no alterantive for like Saka, but that is a valid point.

As I see everyone is happy with the win with the only criticism being Arteta's reluctance to play youth.

Don't take it so literally.
As I said, these comments are intended as a joke.
The commentator on Guardian article who wrote them is Arsenal fan.
They don't relate only to game yesterday, they are more general.
And yes, they remind me of some comments I used to read here.
Not only on game yesterday.

 

[berric]

Don't take it so literally.
As I said, these comments are intended as a joke.
The commentator on Guardian article who wrote them is Arsenal fan.
They don't relate only to game yesterday, they are more general.
And yes, they remind me of some comments I used to read here.
Not only on game yesterday.

Just say Arteta can't do no wrong and let's be done with it. The toxic positivity is off the charts.

Btw this response.

Don't take it so literally.

Coming shortly after this response:

How do you know that it is half?
You know all Arsenal fans in the world?

Is kinda funny ngl.

 

[HattoriHanzo]

Is kinda funny ngl.

I agree.

Of course, Arteta made mistakes and will make them.
For instance, Havertz is still on trial.
He might become his biggest mistake so far, we shall see.

 

[freeglennhelder2]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1730165002886058087

 

[Farzad Stoned]

Alternative view on our match yesterday.
I took it from one commentator on Guardian article about our match yesterday.

Arsenal only won because the opposition was poor.
They should have rested players in the second half.
They didn't play well in the second half, only winning it due to a penalty.
Arsenal need to sign a striker. Needing 6 different players to score their goals shows that they have no focal point in attack.
Havertz is a waste of money. Playing as a midfielder with only 3 goals at the end of November is clearly useless.
Playing Raya has weakened Arsenal's defence.
Defenders celebrating a piece of defensive work is objectionable.
Liverpool, City, Newcastle or Sp**s would have scored more goals, contained the opposition better and rested all their first team players.
Lens are clearly not PL standard.
No Arsenal player would get into a Liverpool or City team.

These comments, intended as a joke, remind me on many posts here in Arsenal Mania.

Except no one on here has made any of those arguments except the one argument that no one contests as being valid that Kai was a total waste of money. If you are happy with his production for 65 million and a million a month, good for you no one else is.