Four league wins in a row.
It's galling seeing us play like a pub side most of the time but we have goalscorers that often will make the difference.
Neverton are always so serviceable to us.
Four league wins in a row.
It's galling seeing us play like a pub side most of the time but we have goalscorers that often will make the difference.
Neverton are always so serviceable to us.
Pure class from Emery. Another 3 points in the bag and we go from strength to strength.
Shreeves thought Lacazette was swearing there.
Lacazette has to get Aubameyang to translate Shreeves' bollocks.
Lacazette won it for us, what a player he is, just goes to show what happens when you finally get proper forwards, you actually win games you'd usually draw/lose.
Indifferent performance again, but that seems to be the norm which suggests the players we currently have aren't really suited (or good enough) to the way Emery wants to play.
In short think this team needs a fair amount of surgery and I hope Emery recognises that, forward line is decent but most of the rest probably aren't good enough.
It was a good result after a terrible first half.
Arsenal need a right winger because that is not Ozils or Ramseys position.
I hope that Sokratis is ok because he has looked quite good so far this season.
There are a few players that need to be replaced like Xhaka, Mustafi and maybe others.
Great goal from Lacazette, Auba was offside but that will be evened out in future games.
Four premier league wins in a row, hope that continues.
Not great but we win again. Shows the importance of having world class finishers who can score from limited service.
Ramsey, Ozil and Xhaka mostly horseshit as usual. Nice to see Torreira get 90 minutes, that South American energy and class and is very welcome in our joke of a midfield.
There are ways to put your stamp on a team without having to resort to replacing every player. Unai is falling into the same trap as Wenger by playing square pegs in round holes and sticking to a rigid format. Why not play two strikers up front? Why not have the balls to drop Xhaka, Ozil and Ramsey? He doesn't have to play the exact same team as Wenger did with the same formation. We approach every game the same and I haven't seen much evidence of him being meticulous and doing his homework on the opposition. Maybe the focus is on getting us to play a certain way but we'll continue to see this slow progress if he's unwilling to shake up the foundations.Originally Posted by selassie
The bolded is one of the reasons I supported him over Arteta from the onset.
Everyone who claimed to have worked with him swore to high heavens that he was meticulous in studying his opponents and actually adapted his game plan according to who he faced- something I think is a plus and makes a huge difference when your opponents have better players than you do.
But like you said, we have approached all games the same way and I can see no evidence of adapting styles either.
Me too. In fact, I was all for Arteta I heard about his analysis and how he helps Pep on tactics. The downside was his lack of experience and having no idea how he'd cope with his own team. A lot of people were unconvinced about his ability to be tough, pull players up and drop players.
When I heard about Emery instead of Arteta, I wasn't thrilled. He had a piss poor away record for his last season with Sevilla and couldn't handle the star power at PSG. But I wrote off the PSG situation because of the circumstances and was really impressed with what I heard about his attention to detail and tactics.
Now that he's hear, I haven't seen much in terms of tactics and out smarting the opposition. Still early days though. But the fact tGf he won't drop certain players and we're already playing key players out of position as a compromise has me worried. Ozil should be dropped and so should Xhaka just off the back of what Emery said about players working hard off the ball. If you look at the intensity of Ozil's runs to get forward when he sees space compared to when he needs to close down space...it shouldn't be accepted. Why is it? Same goes for Xhaka.
But as I was just saying to Blink, I think our degending has improved. Slightly. I see less individual mistakes and that's probably because they're covering each other a lot better. That's a slight improvement I can't deny.
Emery definitely needs more time but he can't be a push over with certain players. We're high on confidence and positivity right now but I'm waiting to see how we react when gut punched and the confidence goes. So far, I think we're winning off individual brilliance. But this all could be just step one. Getting the teams confidence back.
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