Nicolas Pepe: The Nutmeg Express!

[EmeryCouldnt]

Why is Willian starting over him??????

Experience, recent performances, consistency, defensive work rate

(neither ultimately looked good today, but Willian key in our first game this season)

 

[krackpot]

Experience, recent performances, consistency, defensive work rate

(neither ultimately looked good today, but Willian key in our first game this season)

Willian should have the sub role, not Pepe. He's not fit to start three games in a row.

And I fcuking stopped caring about defensive workrate after Emery left.

 

[EmeryCouldnt]

Willian should have the sub role, not Pepe. He's not fit to start three games in a row.

I think I agree with this. I’d like to see Pepe start a game, for sure.

I still care about defensive work rate!

 

[<<reed>>]

Raul has done it again hasn't he?

 

[scytheavatar]

Willian should have the sub role, not Pepe. He's not fit to start three games in a row.

And I fcuking stopped caring about defensive workrate after Emery left.

Newflash, no one gives a **** about what you care. Arteta clearly cares more about defensive work rate in our players than Emery. And even if we fire Arteta tomorrow we'll still need to find a manager who cares about defensive work rate if we don't want to lose games.

 

[BigPoppaPump]

Watching this guy made me feel like I've been too harsh on Lacazette over the years.

You could see from last season he just doesn't have it in him, he plays with no intelligence and just looks to dribble with no idea what to do after. Terrible signing, even his biggest fans have to admit he wasn't worth what we paid. No wonder Raul got sacked.

 

[<<reed>>]

Watching this guy made me feel like I've been too harsh on Lacazette over the years.

You could see from last season he just doesn't have it in him, he plays with no intelligence and just looks to dribble with no idea what to do after. Terrible signing, even his biggest fans have to admit he wasn't worth what we paid. No wonder Raul got sacked.

What's the point of all that "sauce" if it leads to nothing most of the times?
Just look at Son, the guy just runs, shoots and wins football.

 

[BigPoppaPump]

What's the point of all that "sauce" if it leads to nothing most of the times?
Just look at Son, the guy just runs, shoots and wins football.

"sauce" is some teenage bullsh*t grown men on this forum shouldn't be talking about.

What I don't get is the people who thought he'd kick off this season, what has he actually shown to suggest that? He's never really shown anything impressive other than a nice shot and good dribbling even though he doesn't know what to do after beating a man.

 

[<<reed>>]

Is Pepe better than Iwobi?
1 good performance after 10 mediocre ones and the same non-stop talk about "confidence".

I am tired, Robbie.

 

[BigPoppaPump]

Is Pepe better than Iwobi?
1 good performance after 10 mediocre ones and the same non-stop talk about "confidence".

I am tired, Robbie.

'Confidence' has to be the worst thing Arsenal fans pull out, anytime a player is performing badly it's cos of confidence. Man I wish we'd stop buying fragile players if this is the case.

 

[Fewtch]

Is Pepe better than Iwobi?
1 good performance after 10 mediocre ones and the same non-stop talk about "confidence".

I am tired, Robbie.

like I said at the end of last season, he’s been a marginal upgrade on Iwobi. Worse general play than Iwobi but he actually knows how to strike a ball so he edges it.

 

[albakos]

His only contribution from last night was to piss away those two corner kicks. Nothing else from him.

 

[krackpot]

Newflash, no one gives a **** about what you care. Arteta clearly cares more about defensive work rate in our players than Emery. And even if we fire Arteta tomorrow we'll still need to find a manager who cares about defensive work rate if we don't want to lose games.

meh.

Drop a creative offensive player just to play a clogger who runs back into our own half to make a few defensive actions? MEH!

Play dull boring football just because you are afraid of losing? MEH!

are you confusing pressing with defensive workrate, though?

 

[scytheavatar]

meh.

Drop a creative offensive player just to play a clogger who runs back into our own half to make a few defensive actions? MEH!

Play dull boring football just because you are afraid of losing? MEH!

are you confusing pressing with defensive workrate, though?

Is that creative offensive player so amazing that he can't be dropped? What has Pepe been so far other than a marginally better version of Gervinho? Cause if Pepe is a Sanchez tier player you can make a case that we don't need to care about defense if we score enough goals. But he is not that good. Our attack is not as good as what fans seem to think.

 

[EmeryCouldnt]

"sauce" is some teenage bullsh*t grown men on this forum shouldn't be talking about.

Cut the Malarkey!

 

[MD3 Gunner]

It’s not his fault he’s not starting but if he shows little to no improvements this season then it’s just better to cut our losses and hopefully recoup half of the money we paid for him next summer

 

[krackpot]

Is that creative offensive player so amazing that he can't be dropped? What has Pepe been so far other than a marginally better version of Gervinho? Cause if Pepe is a Sanchez tier player you can make a case that we don't need to care about defense if we score enough goals. But he is not that good. Our attack is not as good as what fans seem to think.

Might not be that good, but he is still way better than what I saw anyone else do.

Auba cannot create for ****, Laca is too wayward, and Özil is out of favor. In the end, we are making ourselves so dull that the only we we can score is by some defensive error.

 

[BigPoppaPump]

It’s not his fault he’s not starting but if he shows little to no improvements this season then it’s just better to cut our losses and hopefully recoup half of the money we paid for him next summer

It is his fault he's not starting, if he played better he wouldn't be dropped.

 

[Maybe]

Is that creative offensive player so amazing that he can't be dropped? What has Pepe been so far other than a marginally better version of Gervinho? Cause if Pepe is a Sanchez tier player you can make a case that we don't need to care about defense if we score enough goals. But he is not that good. Our attack is not as good as what fans seem to think.

Pepe is not Sanchez tier, but definitely good enough to start for this team, it's even laughable now to see him on the bench with Willian starting.

 

[MD3 Gunner]

It is his fault he's not starting, if he played better he wouldn't be dropped.

He got dropped in the first game after putting up a 9/10 in the cup final. As good as Willian was on his debut, dropping Pepe wasn’t justified. My main preference for the front 3 is Willian- Auba- Pepe