Mikel Arteta: Aston La Vista To The Title?

[Godwin1]

I think some people just need to take their medicine, there was huge support on here for hiring Arteta, both before and after Emery, and most of them accepted it would be a longer process.. Well here it is, part of that longer process.

 

[Maybe]

Not sure why I expected some different things from him, and why I was expecting that he will play a fluent attacking football (probably because of the lies they all give us when they star).
At first, I was willing to wait for him to get a couple of players in, but now when that's done, I'm hugely disappointed with his style and approach it feels like Emery 2.0.
One of those managers who like to overthink things for no reason, but he did learn from Pep so I can imagine he will take the same approach here, but with a far more limited team.

 

[TakeChillPill]

Chill people.

 

[Maybe]

I think some people just need to take their medicine, there was huge support on here for hiring Arteta, both before and after Emery, and most of them accepted it would be a longer process.. Well here it is, part of that longer process.

Let's not forget that there was a support for Emery here and he needed time. They don't need time, they always show how they wanna play from day 1, and they improve that over time. Arteta, like Emery, took an approach far different to what we were seeing for the last 20 years

 

[ThisFather]

How does Leeds look so good coming from the championship yet we look like the promoted side?

 

[Monstar-Gunn4r]

Think we looked better with a 4-3-3 but our midfield was so so flat we couldn't really take advantage of it. Xhaka dropping back in to left back and Ceballos and Partey sitting deep in midfield at the same time is a bit of a waste. Need Ceballos and Partey to be trying to get through the midfield centrally.

 

[MikelHadADream]

Partey-Xhaka
Pepe- Willian- Saka
Auba

Keep it simple Arteta.

 

[Pop Tart]

Chill people.

The team we were playing are crap, could of had 4 points last two games. Utd are beatable as well, dont see us getting anything from that though.

 

[Godwin1]

Let's not forget that there was a support for Emery here and he needed time. They don't need time, they always show how they wanna play from day 1, and they improve that over time. Arteta, like Emery, took an approach far different to what we were seeing for the last 20 years

I don't think anyone wanted Emery here when Wenger left from what I remember, didn't he get no votes on the poll for managers we were linked to?

 

[chessygoal]

Don't know what more he could have done tonight.

Picked the best 11 everyone was saying.

Goal should have stood and luiz off for Mustafi.

I disagree, Arteta tried to outsmart Brendan by playing Auba on the right, having Xhaka as a third CB and Ceballos as an invisible player. It backfired badly, we never found a rythm, this loss is on Arteta.

 

[field442]

Partey-Xhaka
Pepe- Willian- Saka
Auba

Keep it simple Arteta.

It's not that hard is it? Get as many of your creative players on the pitch as possible, but instead the only truly creative player we started the game with was Saka.

 

[Manberg]

He picked our best 11, our forwards are not good enough. Laca is sh*t. Pepe is not a £72m player. Auba was playing for his contract last season.

Arteta needs to be given time and backing to get his own strikers in before being judged.

 

[Ripe Banana]

How does Leeds look so good coming from the championship yet we look like the promoted side?

Manager. It's that simple.
One of the excuses here is that we do not have the squad to play adventurous football, but i do not for one second believe Leeds have a better squad than we do

 

[RacingPhoton]

I would still give him time. But today was a tactical miss. It was 100% clear that Rodgers was going to park the bus for 70 minutes and then challenge our tired legs with Vardy. But we had no plan for it.

 

[Rasmi]

I think some people just need to take their medicine, there was huge support on here for hiring Arteta, both before and after Emery, and most of them accepted it would be a longer process.. Well here it is, part of that longer process.

We accept the process. We don’t accept this type of football m. This is Burnley on a bad day level. 10 months and you can’t have your team play any attacking football or any attacking patterns. Why will next 10 months change

 

[TakeChillPill]

We have to accept we're stuck with arteta for the next 3 seasons. I know he's going to turn it around. No doubt about it. But this team finished 8th and has s long way to go.

Xhaka, Pepe, Laca, bellerin he has a lot of dross to work with.

 

[kraphtous]

I‘m getting tired of these negative managers that we hire. We played basically 3 defensive midfielders today and 2 left backs but expect to win games? This is some Emery crap.

 

[Manberg]

I would still give him time. But today was a tactical miss. It was 100% clear that Rodgers was going to park the bus for 70 minutes and then challenge our tired legs with Vardy. But we had no plan for it.

How would you plan for it? There’s no internal solution. Ceballos as a 10?

 

[Godwin1]

We accept the process. We don’t accept this type of football m. This is Burnley on a bad day level. 10 months and you can’t have your team play any attacking football or any attacking patterns. Why will next 10 months change

I think we all have to accept it, I didn't fancy him before he joined but he's got to be backed. He's got until the end of the season grace period for me then I'll see.

 

[Penn_]

Was hoping he’d be more Wenger than Pep. Not a huge fan of the over-engineered approaches coaches take now.