Pathetic.
Title race was nice while it lasted.
Arteta out.
I'm giving up with football again.
Pathetic.
Title race was nice while it lasted.
Arteta out.
I'm giving up with football again.
Ramsdale 7 - But for him the embarrassment would have been even worse
White 5 - Once again like against United proved to be inadequate
Saliba 6 - Generally solid
Gabriel 6 - Few errors in possession, looked a bit nervous but on the whole ok
Zinchenko 2 - A left back who doesn’t understand what a left back does
Partey 5 - As poor as he was against United, people keep saying his thing is playing through the press but so often the press leads him to shitting the bed.
Xhaka 2 - Waste of good oxygen
Odegaard 2 - Limp wristed pansy
Martinelli 4 - Totally isolated so little point even giving him a grade
Saka 6 - Lacked composure at times but our only decent attacking outlet for two thirds of the game
Nketiah 3 - Did nothing apart from fluff a good chance
Trossard 6 - Came on too late to really make the difference
Jorginho 4 - Another fairy
Vieira 2 - What’s the point of him?
Tomoyasu - can’t be bothered to give him a score
Aye, now we are 5 points clear with no game in hand. No chance.
Awful result and performance but you’re going to get days like this.
Need to get going again next game.
Always said it. We are in a race for fourth place. Nothing else.Originally Posted by Letters
Aye, now we are 5 points clear with no game in hand. No chance.
Awful result and performance but you’re going to get days like this.
Need to get going again next game.
16 out of 19 wins before this.
A shit result and performance was overdue.
We’ll see how we react.
It shouldn’t be overdue that’s the problem, forever waiting for the other shoe to drop is half the problem I have with Arteta as a coach.
We didn’t for me play that well against United….they won too many battles in midfield. But we showed guts and determination to power through.
Accepting defeat is something we’ve become too accustomed to, it should make us feel sick to our stomachs and fucked off for weeks afterwards.
A truly humbling day..... but always best to get these days come early so we learn from them.
Its now 180 mins in 2 games where we have not scored.
In both games our wide men were marked out of the game and we seemed to have no plan B.
The sad thing is that before these two games happened, Newcastle had showed the blueprint on how to play us so we should have been forewarned.
We need to make our possession in the middle count and be able to pose goal threats from playing straight through the middle
So many times in this game you could see Xhaka, Zinchenko and Odegaard be in loads of space in the middle and still pass the ball out wide to heavily marked men. It makes no f**king sense if they expect Saka, Martinelli and Eddie to bail us out with goals every single time....you win games by scoring goals and not the amount of passes you make.
One more important thing: Arteta seems to be the only "top" manager I know who consistently makes the game worse with his subs i.e. his substitutions come to late or never improve the game.
He needs to work on his shit, because you can't always pick the right team on the get go and your team must be able to adapt when it clear the opposition has figured you out.
We met a team today that wanted it more than us and deserved to win....a top manager would have been adequately prepared for the "new coach bounce".
A sad day but we have to get over it fast!!!
Lastly, Eddie needs to learn how to get more involved in games. People criticised Jesus for not always being in the box but the last 2 games should show that coming out and forcing defenders out of position has it's upsides.
Oh and why don't our wingers exchange positions temporarily during the game like we use to do under AW and Emery...it can be effective in confusing defenders in games like this. I think Martinelli tried to force it but Saka was having none of it. Arteta should really consider it as I am sure he is the cause of this not happening.
Last edited by 21_GOONER_SALUTE; 04-02-2023 at 04:24 PM.
It’s not about being accepting of the defeat, no defeat is “acceptable” but it’s about understanding, that quite simply, shit happens. Freak results like this happen in the PL all the time, unfortunately we’re on the wrong end of one today.
Now of course if this mutates into an unforgivable collapse then yeah there’s no defending that, but for now I prefer to look at what we’ve done so far and I’m confident in bouncing back.
It’s a sickening defeat because we’re challenging for the title. In previous years this would have been a typical day at the office that no one would have raised an eyebrow at.
Losing to a team that has been flirting with relegation, three times in a row and four times out of five…or six times out of the last ten. Is more than shit happens, it’s purely and simply not on. I don’t give a fuck if Sean Dyche was in charge or The Ghost of Bill Shankly crossed the Merseyside divide. It’s not on, we can win every game from now until the end of the season…it’s not on.
I don’t do oh it was just an off day. I do “you’re a bunch of mincing fairies and you’ve allowed yourselves to be bullied again”
I’ll give you that it was very reminiscent of worst of Arteta’s team as seen in previous seasons.
Believe me I’m just as angry as you but I prefer to be objective until I see us fall off a cliff. I’m still very much finding to hard to believe we’re even challenging for the league because I wasn’t even sure we’d finish 4th 6 months ago.
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