Arsenal 1-0 Ipswich Town - Player Rating and Match Reaction

[Mac76]

As has been observed many times, whoever is on the left needs to get more service

I think Martinelli needs to go back on to the left, and Jesus needs to move right as he tends to shift that way and especially against a team that is defending deep he isn’t good enough at holding up the ball to play in the centre. We played a lot better when we took Havertz out of midfield and put him up front….although Merino is not good enough on the ball for me to play at 8. Which means for me we either need to abandon the no 8 position (something Arteta presumably would sooner die than do) or we play Partey there with Rice behind him

my point is it doesn't matter who's where if they don't get the ball from the left-sided CB

[HCZ_Reborn]

my point is it doesn't matter who's where if they don't get the ball from the left-sided CB

I wasn’t disagreeing with you, I was emphasising the point many of us (including yourself) have made about how the left is denied service. Gabriel for me is actually better with the ball at his feet than Saliba so why he is not passing out either directly forward to Rice or to his left I don’t know.


But either way what I said was more of a preamble to my issues in general with how we set up

[Niall_Quinn]

Seems like this was a decent enough win given Ipswich took the break seriously and went on to secure 3 more points.