PL: Sheffield United v Arsenal | Sunday, April 11 | KO: 19:02 BST | BT Sport

[Yousif Arsenal]

Good game, but that may have been the worst side we faced this year.

Yes up there with Westbrom or Fulham just you feel they don't belong to this league at least we took advantage

 

[Sniper Mik]

Dundalk put up a bigger fight than that

 

[Blood on the Tracks]

It's been a very poor season overall but Laca deserves a lot of credit, he's really stepped up for us. A lot of us were questioning him and his motivation / physical performances and he's proved us doubters wrong. It's not just the goals, but his all round game.

I still would be against giving him a new contract given his wage demands / age, but if he leaves in the summer he'll be going out on a nice high personally, even if the teams performances this year haven't matched him.

Congrats to him on 50 PL goals for Arsenal.

PS - Love seeing Martinelli back on the scoresheet.

 

[freeglennhelder2]

what's that 3-0 Arsenal win followed by Line of Duty? Don't mind if i do!

This seasons been a bit meh so far tbh.

Same could be said for line of duty too.

 

[DanDare]

Laca with more goals than Vardy in the league while he has played more than 300 minutes less..

Laca in his peak, Vardy near retirement, I would hope he's doing better tbh

 

[mirrorstare]

FT

Good result, not so good performance. Fortunately for us Sheffield had nothing. We subbed Saka for Willian who can harass them to force an error and solve the game, they sub McGoldrick for.. Brewster.

Tactics wise game should have ended 0-0, very unimpressive stuff against a Sheffield United that was giving up a lot more freedoms than usual. But our squad made the difference, Pepe sparked again and that was enough to kill the game, Laca kept making things happen and got rewarded with his 50th goal for the team, even Partey and Martinelli did something despite not really performing well most of the time.

But we got Saka injured, and we now got a tired Laca for the Slavia Prague game so we'll need Pepe to save us on thursday most likely.

 

[gunner4lyfe]

Its only Sheffield but Mari was quite calm and assured.

 

[Jury]

Agreed, can't really take anything out of that performance

If we’d have been unable to string 3 passes together though, and drew 0-0... I’m sure more than something would have been taken out of that

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Arteta played 316

 

[kofigunner]

My only disappointment was not seeing Azeez make a debut.I thought this was the moment, especially when we were up 2.

 

[HairSprayGooners]

I like Xhaka at LB tbh

Against this sort of opposition he's the go to. Any team with a good winger and right back rips him to shreds tho.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

lets wind it in a tad though. It still Sheffield United ffs. Get it straight, this is no Arteta redemption song.

EMANCIAPTE YOURSELVES FROM MENTAL SLAVERY,
NONE BUT OURSELVES CAN FREE OUR MINDS.
HAVE NO FEAR FOR ATOMIC ENERGY,
CAUSE NONE OF THEM CAN STOP THE TIME.

 

[AberGooner]

Its only Sheffield but Mari was quite calm and assured.

Still looks dodgy to me. Left McGoldrick wide open for that chance in the first half.

 

[bergholt]

Laca with more goals than Vardy in the league while he has played more than 300 minutes less..

Minutes per goal

100 Lingard (8 + 3 assists)
103 Jota (8)
133 Salah (19 + 3 assists)
134 Kane (19 + 13 assists)
148 Gundogan (12 + 1 assist)
156 Lacazette (11 + 2 assists)
160 Calvert-Lewin (14)
165 Fernandes (16 + 11 assists)
178 Heung-Min (14 + 9 assists)
182 Bamford (14 + 7 assists)
186 Vardy (12 + 7 assists)

 

[HairSprayGooners]

It's been a very poor season overall but Laca deserves a lot of credit, he's really stepped up for us. A lot of us were questioning him and his motivation / physical performances and he's proved us doubters wrong. It's not just the goals, but his all round game.

I still would be against giving him a new contract given his wage demands / age, but if he leaves in the summer he'll be going out on a nice high personally, even if the teams performances this year haven't matched him.

Congrats to him on 50 PL goals for Arsenal.

PS - Love seeing Martinelli back on the scoresheet.

This is usually where Arsenal will mess up and give the player a new contract. We need to be ruthless.

 

[Riou]

Dani, after his Burnley game last season, was poor for us...then after Sheffield United in the cup, he was one of our best players until the end of last season...hopefully the same happens this season for him and us!

 

[El Duderino]

Maybe Auba, which is a concern now because we still need to sell one of Auba and Laca this summer, and it is unlikely to be Auba.

Nah, Auba is still in it. Him and Laca are chums and I feel he wouldn't be alone in this.

He doesn't have the flu, but as Tim Stilmann pointed out, this could be just so we don't give the impression we've completely given up on the league.

He could even be protecting the player as far as we know.

If a player with that much influence wants you gone it spreads like a wildfire.

We'll see how things pan out and I still think Mikel should go, but today was good. Games should give him a chance to finally get a winning spree in the league going.

The major negative has been Saka injured.

 

[Taneruit]

Arteta played 316

Strong indication as well that nearly nothing went from the left. Which is obvious of course since Xhaka was basically told just to defend and spray passes.

 

[Arsenal1508]

Nah

It's been a very poor season overall but Laca deserves a lot of credit, he's really stepped up for us. A lot of us were questioning him and his motivation / physical performances and he's proved us doubters wrong. It's not just the goals, but his all round game.

I still would be against giving him a new contract given his wage demands / age, but if he leaves in the summer he'll be going out on a nice high personally, even if the teams performances this year haven't matched him.

Congrats to him on 50 PL goals for Arsenal.

PS - Love seeing Martinelli back on the scoresheet.

...fvcjck Laca. Do us a favor and please leave this offseason. He will price himself out of a move though.

 

[bergholt]

If we’d have been unable to string 3 passes together though, and drew 0-0... I’m sure more than something would have been taken out of that

Well yeah, that's how it works when you play a side way worse than you