Quote Originally Posted by mandela8 View Post
Very surprised to see people say Arsenal were below par today. They were brilliant from start to finish.

Their pressing was intense and there was real intent to their play. Most of those 'sloppy' passes were actually attempts to do summin meaningful. That's the price you pay when you're ambitious...I'm sure no one would prefer to go back to the safety first/sideways/backwards approach of previous seasons.

Zinchenko, Partey and Odegaard were imperious. Just on a different level to everyone else. Beautiful footballers. Odegaard in the first half in particular was a real statement performance. Saka had his best ever performance to boot.

Delighted for Nketiah. Thought that sitter was going to cost them but kept going and it was a hugely deserved win. 3-2 really flattered Man Utd. Arsenal were levels above them.
That's exactly it. When you are playing sideways the whole time of course you have a 99% pass completion. But start playing actual football and the numbers change fast.

Don't get the bit about Partey though? Typo?