West Ham v Arsenal. 1st May. 16:30

Real shame we didn't win the "easy" ones

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Originally Posted by GP

Real shame we didn't win the "easy" ones

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We did beat Man United, tbf.

Holding and Gabriel were really good today and you need to be against serial crossers/set-piece specialists like them.

Elneny and Xhaka, like most of the team, were lacking little bit sharpness and sloppy in the first half, but really stepped up and shut them down for most of the second.

Tomayisu was obviously not fully match fit, but he's so good defensively. I think I've seen one player go past him this season. Hope he's not a new Wolfcheer/Rosicky/Diaby.

Eddie probably isn’t the answer long term but can’t tell you how refreshing it is to actually have a striker running the channels and being a proper outlet for us. Makes a complete mockery of that statue Lacazette. Please let’s never be blinded by “hold up play” again.

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Originally Posted by LDG

We are a work in progress. What we needed after wenger was some stability, a direction and an identity. Half of that cocktail
Requires fan buy in. So you need to grow the club within and get the backing of your fans, because we all want The Arsenal way.

Funny how solidarity breeds success. Arteta is a catalyst of that. Seems capble
of directing younger players. His problem is older established stars…which is why he shipped them all out.

If we want to push on, it’s about Arteta’s ability to get buy in from bigger more temperamental stars, who may not share that idealist vision.

This is better than I’ve seen for 20 years tbf

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Very :gp:

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

Eddie probably isn’t the answer long term but can’t tell you how refreshing it is to actually have a striker running the channels and being a proper outlet for us. Makes a complete mockery of that statue Lacazette. Please let’s never be blinded by “hold up play” again.

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only saw the highlights on MOTD but loved the way he ran at defenders and created chances. This is a guy who's decided to take things into his own hands and get noticed, good for him