Said it a couple of times before, but our attacking issues in the final third is mostly down to our forwards not our midfield. Our forwards need to be moving and passing quicker and be more efficient at finding spaces.
Have any of you noticed how Arteta always claps with his pinky finger distanced away from the rest of his fingers? It bugs the hell out of me.
Someone needs to teach him proper form. Not good enough for a top club.
Thought I was the only one who always noticed it. It is so weird.
The way we strangled UTD and Leicester(1st half) to death via positioning, tackling on the front foot and press has been insanely impressive.
If the front line was working we would be creating a ****load in those scenarios.
I'm honestly not quite sure what the problem is. Up until the final third we have fantastic triangles all over the pitch. And then it stops and it becomes slow, predictable with zero movement.
No Triangles in attack, it's so obvious and frustrating.
Just checking our first two attacks:
I'm certain some people on here would never have started supporting Arsenal if they were around when George Graham was manager
Of course you'd prefer to win creating loads of chances and playing sexy football, but a 1-0 win gets you as many points as a 5-0 win.
Personally I'm delighted with a result like yesterday. We could have played for another 3 hours and United still wouldn't have scored. There's an art to that.
If were still playing this style of football in 2 years then criticism of Arteta is valid. At the moment I think it's nitpicking.
Exactly. We have a solid base. The qttck just needs fixing. We could do that next summer.We have a solid base to work from now which is elite. Where every other team in the league is conceding 3's and 4's you can't see us doing that at all.
We are starting to see Arteta build his team and build an undroppable 11.
Leno, Bellerin, Gabriel, Tierney, Partey, Saka, Auba and now I'm starting to think Elneny could well be undroppable from our best 11. Partey offers everything Xhaka does and 10x more. Elneny rarely loses the ball, is comfortable taking the ball under extreme pressure and has this engine that you cannot teach and that Xhaka/Ceballos do not have.
So there's 8 players there you can't drop. Then obviously Saliba would be my option as the other CB but Luiz/Holding are it for now. And after that the two attackers with Auba are very important. Two attacking signings would transform this team.
Exactly. We have a solid base. The qttck just needs fixing. We could do that next summer.
We're arguably the most defensively solid team in the league. We have conceded the least amount of goals in the league this season. The Partey and Gabriel signing has totally transformed us.
Xhaka will have to be binned in the summer. There's no way you can argue for Xhaka to be in starting XI currently.
The bleep test stuff is bit of banter. I’ll continue to do that don’t you worry.Not hate, just constant criticism and shade for the last few weeks because we weren't playing like you wanted to see... You're not capable of 'hate'. Hate is what the great unwashed indulge in
Rex Banner when he realizes that he supports Atletico and Atletico lite now:
if u dont take your chances, a mistake or moment of luck/brilliance is all the opposition needs. See Leceister game.
thanks man.. have to spell it out since some of your posts leave the impression that its neededCheers Geoff, really insightful knowledge there. Talk about calling a spade a spade.