Arsenal 3-1 Burnley Player ratings and Match reaction.

Raya 7 - A few Hollywood saves and Brownhill’s goal was a deflection so he wasn’t responsible for that


Tomiyasu 7 - Good first half, but got skinned too easily in the build up to their equaliser for my liking


Saliba 8 - Lovely header and imperious as usual


Gabriel 7 - Unfortunate deflection off him for their equaliser


Zinchenko 7 - Have to admit he wasn’t terrible defensively and his goal was quality


Jorginho 6 - Not enough forward passing for my liking


Rice 7.5 - Good tackling and drives forward


Havertz 5.5 - Looked confused when he had the ball in the box, fitting


Saka 7 - Very tidy and persistent, good linkup with Tomi


Martinelli 7 - Cut inside too much for my liking, but pivotal to our attacking movements


Trossard 8.5 - Man of the match for my money, got the goal he deserved and he just orchestrated our attacking play



Subs


Vieira 4 - Wenger style “I did not see it” but there was no complaints from the home crowd, silly boy


Nelson 6 - Didn’t get a chance to do much


Nketiah 6 - Also didn’t get a chance to do much


Kiwior 6.5 - Helped us sure things up at the back


I think 3-1 was a fair reflection of the game, we started a bit hesitantly but as the first half went on we became dominant and we were turning the screw and the goal on half time was the breakthrough our play merited. Started the second half a bit how we started the first, bit indifferently and that contributed to their equaliser. But we quickly retook the lead and managed to get the cushion which in other games might have eluded us.
I think the only way this can be summed up is a perfectly fine day at the office. We got the win we needed to and I think with injuries and niggles, the international break comes at a good time for us.

Havertz deserves no more than a 2.5 rating.

With the amount of money we spent on him, he is easily the worst signing we have had at this club for at least 30 years.

People deserved to be sacked for this IMO.

Raya prob our best player. Couple of great saves and nice distribution.

Havertz and Sakashite utterly pathetic, again. Dire. Havertz missing sitters and Sakashite,after costing us the game last week by refusing to shoot, refuses to shoot again and let's a defender run from 15 yards behind him to disposes him.

Other than that, everyone average.

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Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE

Havertz deserves no more than a 2.5 rating.

With the amount of money we spent on him, he is easily the worst signing we have had at this club for at least 30 years.

People deserved to be sacked for this IMO.

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I think we’re all really trying to get behind him and give him a chance but yeah, massive failure and completely baffling signing.

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222 mins per goal is worse than I thought. Very poor return.

Thanks for posting. Will add to my arsenal.

Lol'd at assists :haha:

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Thanks for posting. Will add to my trolling

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ignored the bit which showed me to be wrong :haha:

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Fair enough :good:

"ignored the bit which showed me to be wrong" :lol:

The fact is Saka is as always being overplayed by Arteta, after taking a bad knock in the last game he should have been on the bench today, we would have won the game in any case and he's clearly feeling the effects of being overplayed, going missing for portions of the game and I noticed particularly in the last 20 mins or so our players were avoiding passing out to him as i think they knew he was running on empty

Your stats (including the assists - for some reason Mandel athinks no goals are ever intentionally created by a player putting in a great ball to be scored from) do indeed show Saka is important and that's exactly why you don't start him in a home game against a bottom-of-the-leageue side, even when he is fully fit

It's also completely asinine as he'll now have to go away with Southgate's lot, whereas leaving him out of the squad altogether might have got him off England duty

@HCZ your rating for Jorg is far too low he had a very good game and I don't agree thet he didn't try to create attacking moves when he had teh opportunity, which was less I think in this game than the Sevilla game

oh and don't think you've got away with quietly distancing yourself from your previously emphatic declaration that "Rice can't get the ball forward / can't pass the ball" etc etc :haha:

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@HCZ your rating for Jorg is far too low he had a very good game and I don't agree thet he didn't try to create attacking moves when he had teh opportunity, which was less I think in this game than the Sevilla game

oh and don't think you've got away with quietly distancing yourself from your previously emphatic declaration that "Rice can't get the ball forward / can't pass the ball" etc etc :haha:

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In respect of Rice He can’t (not consistently anyway). That’s why we struggle to create clear cut opportunities the way we did last season. I commend his industry for sure but he simply doesn’t have the technical ability or pace to do it in a way that particularly benefits us. On Saturday we couldn’t ever get the ball into their third quickly enough to play through their deep block, and that’s why all our goals came either from corners or for the first goal crossing the ball in.
And no from what I saw every time Jorginho got the ball it ended up being passed back to the defensive four…Gabriel, Saliba and Tomi actually provided more attacking impetus than he did

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Originally Posted by Mac76

"ignored the bit which showed me to be wrong" :lol:

The fact is Saka is as always being overplayed by Arteta, after taking a bad knock in the last game he should have been on the bench today, we would have won the game in any case and he's clearly feeling the effects of being overplayed, going missing for portions of the game and I noticed particularly in the last 20 mins or so our players were avoiding passing out to him as i think they knew he was running on empty

Your stats (including the assists - for some reason Mandel athinks no goals are ever intentionally created by a player putting in a great ball to be scored from) do indeed show Saka is important and that's exactly why you don't start him in a home game against a bottom-of-the-leageue side, even when he is fully fit

It's also completely asinine as he'll now have to go away with Southgate's lot, whereas leaving him out of the squad altogether might have got him off England duty

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Agreed on all points.
He's a hugely important player for us - I read a stat recently where it was said he'd been involved in half our goals this season, that was a few weeks ago so may no longer be the case. So mandela's trolling about him is tiresome. I get why he's one of the first names on the team sheet but agree Arteta is overplaying him, even when he's got a knock. Hopefully the international break will give him a rest.

He’s got me on ignore so I have no significant communication with him, but he’s a fundamentally unserious individual. Saka played well on Saturday, the link up with him and Tomiyasu was good and it was his headed flick on that got the goal for Trossard. The only reason I can think of for his dislike of him is that he’s English.
The thing is I think we are on the whole pretty reasonable in our appraisal of Saka, we criticise him when he has a bad game and we’ve called for him to be dropped when he either needs a rest or his form has merited it.

We do need cover for that right attacking position for sure