gunner4lyfe
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And it has happened with other players sinceThis was like 12 years ago bro.
And it has happened with other players sinceThis was like 12 years ago bro.
This game was literally a dead rubber. No meaning at all.
Why couldn't Balogun have started? What did we learn about Nketiah that we didn't already know.
Why take Saka?
Why not start Cotterel?
Why play Elneny or Ceballos?
Why couldn't Azeez start?
It's just stupid management.
The guy wants to keep his job, getting thumped in the EL playing the kids wouldn’t help that.
And it has happened with other players since
Nobody would care if he started 11 kids and we lost. It was a nothing game.
Esr--Balogun-Pepe
-AMN--Azeez--Willock
Cotterel----------Cedric
---Mustafi---Chambers
--------Runnarson
That team would have won the game.
Probably, but increased chance of a loss, and then more ammo for “crisis at Arsenal”. I’m not surprised he’s playing it a little safe.
How's life in black and white?This game was literally a dead rubber. No meaning at all.
Why couldn't Balogun have started? What did we learn about Nketiah that we didn't already know.
Why take Saka?
Why not start Cotterel?
Why play Elneny or Ceballos?
Why couldn't Azeez start?
It's just stupid management.
How's life in black and white?
Glad to hear it.It is black and white. Even if we lost we win the group. Nobody cares about the result. Literally. The football world would not call it a crisis if we lost the game with kids.
I know it's is an unpopular view here, but in my view he does better coming in from the left.
I'd be curious to see how he would work with Balogun, who seems adept at holding up the ball.
The reason Arteta is taking every game so seriously is because he is trying to build up credit, and drive home a positive impression again.
We will continue to see this nonsense football, until he feels he has license to experiment and have it all go wrong.
It will either work for him or he will lose his job trying.
I was one of those always shouting for him to play CF but it hasnt worked. As I said, Auba on the wing at least gives us a creator of chances in the middle. From the wing he scores and assists. I dont mind if its Balogun or Nketiah at CF. The latter hasnt really been given a PL chance but the former certainly looks the part and has the physical advantage that can help a CF in the PL.
He did nothing on the wing and he's doing nothing up front.
Our front 3 are redundant in this system and that includes Saka. There's a fundamental disconnect between midfield and attack. Xhaka made 18 passes to Gabriel against Sp**s. 18. The highest combination on the pitch.
Address that, and we'd score goals with Franny Jeffers at CF.
22 goals from the wing last season, its hardly nothing! I do agree that Xhaka shouldn't be on the pitch.