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Emery sacked while 8th... joint points as 6th.
Thats mad I remember us as being 16th or something by how bad it felt.
I remember being 13th at one point. Must have been with Freddie.
Emery sacked while 8th... joint points as 6th.
Thats mad I remember us as being 16th or something by how bad it felt.
Yeah we bounced round the table over Christmas (matchday 17/18/19). The PL site lets you change the league by matchday. Arteta joined 18 or 19 I think.I remember being 13th at one point. Must have been with Freddie.
Emery/Freddie: 23 points from 18 games
Arteta; 33 points from 20 games
Maybe you ought to open your mind a little and come to the realisation that Xhaka's not and has never been as bad as you might think. In fact he's pretty good.
So Freddie got 5 points from 5 games? I forgot how terrible a job he did lol .
Kinda hard to do so considering I watch the matches and he'sa massive liability and one of the main reasons we consistently give up tons of possession and shots/shots on goal. Watford is a relegation side yet they had free runs on our goal all match. The same happened with Villa/Wolves/Leicester. Massive space in midfield because weve got Dani Ceballos paired with a traffic cone lololol
When I figure out how to post a photo I'll show u a visual aid as to how little Xhaka provides this team in terms of his midfield production. He doesn’t tackle, he doesn't intercept, he doesn't even pressure opposing players, he's piss poor my dood lmaoNone of that is Xhaka's fault.
When I figure out how to post a photo I'll show u a visual aid as to hoq little Xhaka provides this team in terms of his midfield production. He doesn’t tackle, he doesn't intercept, he doesn't even pressure opposing players, he's piss poor my dood lmao
I'm not sure positions tells everything. I never have seen Arsenal squad so unbalanced and down on confidence like when Emery was sacked.
I think Arteta has made a lot of correct moves and done well if we keep that in mind. The transfers he has been given were Mari and Soares, so two players we signed regressed the squad even further quality-wise. Then there was covid and wage-cut thing that was hard to see how players would react too.
1 game left. What happens after that? Will players get a break? Or do we move right into next season pre-season?
We need to be spot on with our signings this window.
Xhaka is s a great player and the first name on the team sheet. You're blinded by an agenda so you see things that aren't accurate.
Lelelelel Yeh I'm blinded by my agenda that I'd like Arsenal to be a CL team again and control matches easily dispatching relegation fodder like we did once upon time. Watfords xG today was 4.17 lmao they were strolling through our midfield like it wasn't there. Xhaka was nowhere to be found many a time they just went right past him, as most teams usually do. And that's with 5 defenders on the pitch to try and shore up Xhaka's deficiencies. Imagine us ever going to a back 4 again we'd really be exposed with that plodder in midfield.
Defending is the responsibility of the whole team. Xhaka's not more responsible for any of that as any other player is.
5 defenders on the pitch is not "to shore up Xhaka's deficiencies" it's to shore up the deficiencies of our back line. It has the opposite effect on Xhaka because a midfield 2 cannot control a game like a midfield 3 can. With less numbers in midfield you cede possession of the ball. It's a needed tactic because of how bad our centre backs are. But Xhaka has nevertheless done a great job.
Its a domino effect. Our back 4 is getting g exposed so often because teams have a free run at them. How do you prevent opposition from getting so many chances? Controlling the game possession wise and limiting the oppositions opportunities. We can't do that because our midfield is anchored by a useless sack of ****. So we have to throw extra defenders on, or use a guy like Willock who can run and make up for Xhaka's lack of defensive ability, but then u give up a ton of creativity going forward.
So that's why we see our team struggling to keep possession and constantly losing the midfield battle...allowing far more shots to our opposition. Go look back at our xG since the restart. We are hovering at around 0.7 - 0.9 and our opposition is usually around 2+. This is a midfield issue lololol
That he's got all he can out of this lot is obvious. They are only good for 8th or worse. The board need to start again. We haven't finished this low since the 70's. They need to spend.He's done a lot more than steady the ship. He's pretty much squeezed every ounce of quality and effort from this squad. But with no investment there's absolutely nothing he can do next season and I fear it could get really ugly.