It would entirely depend on how well coached he was and in what areas.

Bellerin had a couple of big problems, he wasn’t great at either end of the pitch. Transitionally, best in the world potential, but he had poor end product and defensively he wasn’t great. His speed was obviously his greatest facet which papered over a lot of cracks, especially defensively; his recovery speed was otherworldly, like Walker really.

It’s contributory but there’s almost zero chance Arteta hinges a significant portion of our creativity on someone so unreliable because if he does, that’s a colossal lack of foresight.

People for some reason are trying to be humble instead of calling a spade a spade.

They have been extremely fortunate, like one of the luckiest starts to a season I have ever seen kind of luck.

Only City get that penalty. That ‘foul’ happens five times every game.

And what I just said.

Poor start is relative to the ambition and ability of the club in the present.

We should always strive for improvement.

Saying we have had a poor start isn’t self-deprecating, it’s the opposite. Our standard is that much higher now because of the bar we have already set for oursevles, we shouldn’t be regressing in performance and it’s okay to be critical of that. All three of our non-win results this season had commonly recurring self-sabotage bozo moments, that specifically needs fixing. No team is perfect but when you’re competing with City you need to be as close to it as possible.

This Spurs team remind me of Leicester’s. Everyone didn’t take them seriously enough until it was too late.

They aren’t great but everything is falling for them perfectly, people said it wouldn’t last and it did.

Why? We have three better CB’s

And this is why I wanted to sell Partey in the summer, apart from the more obvious reasons.

Don’t even want to think about the possibility of another month of Nketiah

Seems like Arteta has finally figured Havertz out. Every time he’s stepped into that right side or CF he looks markedly more involved and comfortable.

Maybe it’s time to try Odegaard on the left.

Reminder that in every draw this season we self-sabotaged.

‘Finding out’ is separate from actually stopping it. Poch nailed the set up but they still needed an awful lot of things to go their way to get the result that they wanted.

Chelsea also didn’t play a 442, they played a 433. Their front three were compact creating a 6-man box with their midfield which was the goal to mitigate our central progression. It worked for sure but we allowed it to work by being abject in possession. If we were anywhere close to our usual level it would have been much more difficult. Also doesn’t help that both Martinelli and Saka weren’t their usual level which is what Poch probably banked on by leaving their fullbacks isolated all game.

Yeah cause when has stats ever meant anything! The club laughs in the face of data analysis and interpretation!

How has Antonio survived this long being a professional footballer…

Only 4 90 minutes worth of games though. He’s been ass, make no mistake, but not like he’s had a consistent run of a lot of games.

And it achieved absolutely nothing. He was a passenger, a liability and a spaghetti.

Physicality doesn’t mean strength. It’s the pressure, it’s the speed, it’s the intensity of the press, it’s urgency in duels.

City are the exception because of the physicality of their midfield.

Jorginho at the 6 is what Xhaka was at his worst for us. He’s an easy target.