Ninth draw of the season in the league.
Ninth draw of the season in the league.
A good performance today. The finishing just wasn’t there.
Pepe should have been brought on earlier but with the way things were going for us, it would probably only have resulted in more missed chances.
Leno was good when we needed him.
Ozil had a good game, especially in the first half.
Hopefully we can build on this and are ready to climb out of rock bottom.
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I thought the build up play was much better but as soon as we got into the final third everyone lost all their brain cells. We got into decent situations, 4v2, 3v3 and Laca 1 on 1 with the keeper and wasted all of them. If it was City or Liverpool they would have made those chances count and walked away with an easy vicory.
Ozil was good, Pepe was lively when he came on. Laca had a bit of a mare and probably should have been subbed off too if we had a decent option on the bench. Is Martinelli injured?
I don't really like Auba on the left, he offers nothing in the build up and is probably best getting on the end of chances than getting involved in the moves building up to them.
Arteta OUT!
The team worked hard today, probably harder than they've worked all season.
Arteta's starting lineup was worse than anything Freddie put out but because they worked hard, it ended up being a good performance.
Ozil had his best game all season and it showed with Auba and Laca wasting chance after chance.
Xhaka was unrecognisable, a really good game.
All in all, the new coach didn't allow them to drop the pace... I just wonder how long they can keep it up (they did the same under Emery in the beginning).
Arteta seems to be an improvement on Freddie but thats not saying much.
Arteta has only coached them 2-3 times but there is definitely something there and a good basis to work with. If you compare this game to our other away games where we were absolutely battered (even against rock bottom Watford) then there is improvement for sure. We kept the ball and didn’t concede too many shots as usual. AMN has a mare, most of their play came down his side. Xhaka has a really solid game and sprayed the ball about really well.
Ozil found acres of space and should have had a couple of assists had it not been for Laca and Nelson stinking the place up.
All in all, a decent point and one of our better performances this season.
Chelsea at home will be tough, they seem to play a lot better away from home.
Hopefully Arteta will put the rigid insistance on playing from the back to bed, a real shame to give that goal away.
Ozil was very good, but laca has lost it at the moment.
A real mistake not to start with Pepe IMO, may well have made the difference if he'd started
Xhaka played the odd good pass but also showed his usual self a few times with petulant outbursts and wayward passing, so no way i'm going to go overboard on him
As for the defence, we absolutely have to buy at least one CB in January....
Seems all Xhaka has to do is not be entirely shit for 90 mins to earn some praise. Calamity of a player in this league
Make 2mrw better than 2day
He had an alright game to be fair. Passing out and forward was a lot better.
Nearly had the inevitable cock up late on of course.
But saying it's a 'lot better' is exactly globalgunner's point - xhaka's set such a low bar he gets credit for stuff any PL player should doOriginally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
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