Yep very annoying but can’t complain too much, the award of the goal was not a clear and obvious error…seen fouls given, seen them not. Offside? Ball out of play?. I’d be fuming if that goal was scrubbed off for us.
Created fuck all which is the most concerning thing. Their defence is well organised but it lacks for pace and we simply didn’t do enough to stretch it.
Not going to fault the effort. It was a scrappy and physical match that we held our own in but the stodgy and disjointed performance from the forwards was never going to win us the game.
Oh well. At least it’s Burnley next weekend.
This was the only real chance we had and Sakashit actually turned back towards his own goal here and lost the ball. Genuinely no idea what the boy is doing in the team. A complete and utter liability. Where chances go to die.
Getting a bit of tired of online people aping Arteta and crying about how the PGMOL fucked us over. You can argue we didn’t deserve to lose that game, but we sure as fuck didn’t deserve to win it. Arteta bleating on about how only one team was trying to win it, well maybe then that reflects poorly on you for spending 65million on Kai Fucking Havertz.
Maybe examine why you keep persisting with a terrible goalkeeper like Raya, who once again misjudged a cross which led to the goal in the first place.
Micro analysing the game won’t do us any good, the referee was arguably too lenient with both sets of players.
Arteta’s rant was Mourinho esque and embarrassing frankly
Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
Couldn't agree more with this.
Am I correct to say all the games we've dropped points in this season we won last year?
Mikel Arteta, a manager who seems to get a sick twisted rush from actively weakening his side....Havertz, Balogun, Tierney and now Raya.....well done maestro!!!
Havertz was appalling again and I have no idea why he lasted the 90. I’ve tried to get on board with him but he’s so bloody slow and ineffective. I’d much rather see Vieira starting and I’m not even a fan of his either but Havertz feels like we’re flogging a dead horse.
What a monumental waste of money.
I haven't seen the interview but I've no doubt you're right
and you, MO and everyone else are right about Havertz - while you could at least see he was on the pitch yesterday, which is more than could be said for most of his other 'appearances' he's mid-table Championship standard at best - a Xhaka-type liability - Arteta seems obsessed with players who actually make us worse - Zin, Raya, Havertz, plus persisting with someone like Eddie who's not good enough - he is being paid millions every year to make terrible mistakes like this
It's so glaring that we need a striker that even Gary Neville noticed it in between all his anti-Arsenal bleating
Swings and Roundabouts as we also beat Everton and City when we didn’t last year
Am I correct to say all the games we've dropped points in this season we won last year?
Mikel Arteta, a manager who seems to get a sick twisted rush from actively weakening his side....Havertz, Balogun, Tierney and now Raya.....well done maestro!!!
To be honest in terms of overall results, I’m not that bothered by 24 points from 11 games. Yeah I’m disappointed with Fulham and Spurs as at home we should be winning those games. But Newcastle is a tough fixture, and I think the problem was being unable to break down the Newcastle defence which I always attribute to deficiencies further down the field, you can have the best striker in the world and if you’re up against a team that defends so deep every cross, every through ball is cut out you then rely on individual brilliance. We had the chance to counter attack but not the set up that would allow for it, and ultimately we slowed down to a snail’s pace when we got into their final third. That and a completely ineffective corner routine.
Don’t get me wrong we absolutely need a striker….but we also need a midfielder that important box to box midfielder
It must be bad when even the BBC is echoing what we are saying.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67324261.amp
Yeah I don’t think we’re getting much sympathy here and his rant and the clubs statement of support has been laughed out of town. The VAR calls were very marginal, it wasn’t the same as Spuds/Liverpool mess.
I’m more inclined to look at how utterly ineffective we were up front. At no point did we look likely to win the game.
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