An insipid, cowardly preformance by players and coach. Cut and paste my comments after the Fulham game. We are not winning the league.
An insipid, cowardly preformance by players and coach. Cut and paste my comments after the Fulham game. We are not winning the league.
Putting the laughter back into manslaughter
There’s nothing wrong with the control aspect per se, it is the prime reason we do so much better against the top sides. But we don’t appear to be able (willing) to relinquish some of that control in order to stretch the game and exploit space. I don’t think our attacking options are good enough, but our build up is so slow…Henry would have struggled for space
Like I said earlier, I missed most of the 2nd half and the first 15 minutes of the 1st half.....but what I saw was nothing special, I am talking about what Everton did.
IMO all we needed to do to break that team was to have players who are confident in their ability to carry the ball on the ground and make the best of the mainly shooting chances they would get.
Its not rocket science beating Everton, most clubs with lesser players have already done so. Odegaard needed to believe in himself today, he didn't. I only saw one good chance Saka had ( IIRC a through ball from Havertz shockingly) and it was definitely going in till a block. Trossard could play the ball on the ground before, but has dramatically changed his game now to fit Arteta's style. Nwaneri.....well lets see how long it'll take Arteta to coach him into the robot he wants.
Arteta's system's magic is that it requires the other team to make a mistake....how the hell do want to win a league or any competition if you are just relying on mistakes 99% of the time?!!
Lets not forget you'll also make your mistakes at the back too, but oh well.....still no need for plan B.
I feel like our plan B has actually become plan A now.
Arteta is in full robot mode on post-match interviews.
Dominated the game, deserve to win. We're great until the final 20m.
Kinda critical those though.
Call shit out when it is shit on a stick.
I think the success of our corner kicks is also connected to teams panicking and losing concentration. Besides Gabriel, there isn't anyone else that's great in the air (and that includes all of our forwards).Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
We had 13 against Inter but they just kept there shape and shut us out. Now I know that's probably the best defensive team in Europe but even they conceded twice to a 10 man Torino!
Arteta ball is all too practised and robotic.....what happened to flair and basics like taking a good old shot when its on??
We are the only side to push City for the last 2 seasons.
They’ve finally dropped a level and it will be Liverpool or Chelseawho capitalise.
He’s taken us a fair way and deserves credit for that but he clearly won’t get us over the line
We just need to pray that some how, some way...we still have a shot in January.....if he buys no one then, I'll know he's a true loon, and so is anyone else that defends him blindly.
Like have said the problem is further down the pitch. We knew how Everton were going to set up, they were coming for a point….so why do we need to start with two holding midfielders let alone finish with two holding midfielders. The insistence on playing all our attacks down the right hand side. You only need one defensive midfielder to play one ball out and then you have five players coming forward, seperate their centre backs….stretch the play….more players for them to stay tight to
I wish we did have more clinical finishers for sure, but we had the players today to win handsomely and Arteta fucked it
Miserable result
The only good thing is that I sold my ticket as I was out of town this weekend
The guy who bought it
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