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The big what “if” thread (Arsenal Edition)
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boonthegoon
Arteta In by November
Country: USA
Player:Ødegaard
Was Jesus onside?
I believe so
Riou
In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
Player:Gabriel
Score in that first half, we beat them... everyone lost their composure today to be fair, but Leo's miss was insane though.
That miss is kinda like the reverse Overmars v United moment in 1998, think that was the game/title.
That miss is kinda like the reverse Overmars v United moment in 1998, think that was the game/title.
If Smith Rowe was healthy and Saka injury prone would their Arsenal careers have taken the same trajectories?
Country: England
Player:Saka
I don't think we bottled Villa. It was the most physically exhausted I've seen us look. I think it was a result of tired legs, tired minds.
Every time I go to the gym, I give myself every possible edge. After 2hrs lifting, I periodically can't even find my locker. Now and then trip over the barbell, I'm ****ed, and it goes to my mind. I think we don't have enough trustworthy players in our second string to weather the fixture congestion the way City have, and it's that simple.
Tired, clumsy bodies and minds do stupid things that without context, look bumblesome and inefficient. I am genuinely surprised it only happened in one game. Villa at the time were a really good team, and it cost us.
Every time I go to the gym, I give myself every possible edge. After 2hrs lifting, I periodically can't even find my locker. Now and then trip over the barbell, I'm ****ed, and it goes to my mind. I think we don't have enough trustworthy players in our second string to weather the fixture congestion the way City have, and it's that simple.
Tired, clumsy bodies and minds do stupid things that without context, look bumblesome and inefficient. I am genuinely surprised it only happened in one game. Villa at the time were a really good team, and it cost us.
Country: Norway
I'd be more critical of the Fulham game. Comfortably our worst game of the season. Deserved nothing.
Country: Wales
Newcastle VAR is the big one imo.
sdotzdot
Established Member
James Bond
Moderation Consultant
Country: Nigeria
Player:Saliba
Yeah var ****ed up here.
Riou
In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
Player:Gabriel
We should be better than having to rely on a loser like Son, tbh.
Will look more at the manager's selection v Villa at home and the player's second half performance in that game, missing a ridiculous amount of chances v Liverpool in the cup and Saka looking more for a pen that to score v Bayern in Europe...as the reason we haven't won something this season.
The players should feel a little down right now, they are people and to put a lot of effort into a season with no trophies is disappointing...but most of that emotion will hopefully be channelled into feeling more pissed than sad, so we come back even stronger next year!
Will look more at the manager's selection v Villa at home and the player's second half performance in that game, missing a ridiculous amount of chances v Liverpool in the cup and Saka looking more for a pen that to score v Bayern in Europe...as the reason we haven't won something this season.
The players should feel a little down right now, they are people and to put a lot of effort into a season with no trophies is disappointing...but most of that emotion will hopefully be channelled into feeling more pissed than sad, so we come back even stronger next year!
SomGooner
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The Sp*ds (H), Fulham (H & A), West Ham (H) and Villa (H & A) is where we lost the title.
Dennis_Bergkamp_10
Established Member
You're forgetting Chelsea (a), Newcastle (a), Liverpool (a) and City (a).
You can't win every game man.. Even City dropped points in 10 (!) games.
Country: Norway
Those are probably the games that stand out. The draws away to traditional top six teams are not where we went wrong this year.
It is what it is, we've done well, but ultimately come up short.
Arsel
Member
Country: Switzerland
Fulham ( H & A ) is where we made the Title go down to the last game of the Season.
They are ****e, and we should have beaten them.
SomGooner
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I mentioned these specific games because we underperformed in all of those matches. Yes, losses are part of the game however, its absolutely criminal for a title chasing team to underperform against teams that they should beat.
Dennis_Bergkamp_10
Established Member
Did Liverpool fail when they finished second in 2021/22 with 92 points? They drew Brentford away (3-3), Brighton at home (2-2), drew Sp**s home and away. Also lost to Leicester away and West Ham away. Is it criminal for a title chasing team to underperform vs. those teams or should we applaud their 92 point season where they were beat by a cheating juggernaut from Dubai? Or when they finished on 97 points but still didn't win the league. They drew 7 games in total.
You can always point to games where we should've done better, but when you get to these amount of points there's no real argument. We've had an amazing season, there's just some who cheated their way to the top. Can't call it underperforming, the margins are small. If Arsenal play West Ham we win 9/10, this year we had that 1/10 time where we lost. Same goes for Fulham. It's not underperforming.
Riou
In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
Player:Gabriel
Liverpool won 5 trophies in that 4 year spell 2019-2022 though, we have won 0 these past 4 years...we need at least something and very, VERY soon.
