United scoring three goals away at a tough ground. But if you watched the game, you would see just how terribly they play and benefit from Everton’s poor finishing.
That is an example of something unsustainable, something that will be punished by better teams.
Arsenal creating 1 xG and some change against a Brentford team that didn’t really want to go forward is far more impressive than 2 at goodison but shipping chance after chance to DCL Doucoure and dwight fucking McNeil
We loved that era but what exactly did they win? Sensing some heavy nostalgia in this take.
But the way you are talking about our game is like when Spurs fans signed their lives away under Mou/Conte to play absolutely dire shit on the slim chance that they could win them something.
We are still enjoyable to watch and we will end up being way more effective when this season gets long and arduous
Vieira has shown he can be a late game G/A statpadder when games are stretched. But he’s currently going to serve the next two PL games out because of his red card. We will see him Wednesday no doubt.
I don’t think we’ve been good enough with the crossing we already do. But imo there’s always time for crosses here and there to open up some space and cause chaos we can capitalize off of
City can do it because of decades of cheating and fraudulence. Money solves everything for them
Sarabia goal was nice but an overhead kick like that takes it any day
Garnacho just scored a worldie
I do see this a lot. seems just like england bias/pashun merchantry helps him out a bit. Raya doesn’t have the same PR. He just does what Arteta wants and gets on with it
Maybe then it’s time for Ramsdale to put in 110% now that he’s on the back foot. He is still young enough and his ceiling is very high imo.
But you cannot say he hasn’t regressed, and to be honest all of this podcast talk isn’t doing him any favors, even if that’s unfair to hold over him. This team isn’t missing huge pieces anymore. We are searching for that extra percentage here and there to take us over the edge. Raya over Ramsdale represents that. Mikel wanted him first
Ramsdale was literally the best keeper in the league last season
wrong, and that award doesn’t actually make it right.
Arsenal don’t look as good so far this season
attack, maybe not. defense is literally better due in part to Raya’s ability on the ball. Our fast counter attacks are better with Raya since he catches the ball further up and has better long distribution. Raya backspinning punt to Martinelli is on, all day.
if Raya has a dodgy period (as is normal), the pressure on him from the media will become insane
because of fans like you constantly banging on about Ramsdale probably, media knows they can farm clicks off you guys specifically
Similarly, if Ramsdale is thrown back in for some reason, he’ll feel totally different out there, and way more likely to make an error or two
So now you are preemptively making excuses for Ramsdale? Meanwhile Raya is getting raked over the coals for not having won every single fan immediately and putting up 9/10 performances.
How softly are we supposed to handle Ramsdale, who is hopping on podcasts talking about how easy he thought the league was gonna be, how distracted he gets during matches, how he asked Arteta to compromise on how high up he plays, and whose dad is banging on about how sad Aaron is?
Rayas positioning on crosses has cost us goals already.
This is just cherrypicking unless you consider all the times his aggressive positioning had worked to our benefit either in a caught cross or a quick counter attack.
And you’d have to do positive/negative for Ramsdale as well.
Let me tell you, the Ramsdale list is a lot worse. His distribution is not as good as Raya. Raya didn’t come in and convince 100% of fans but it’s ironically the “Ramsdale propaganda” in the media that’s dragged this out longer
Ramsdale passed directly to a southampton player and we conceded. Raya almost got stuffed by Alvarez.
Now fast forward to the 2nd half of that City game. There is no way in hell Ramsdale could distribute that calmly when holding a lead against City. That is the difference but people just drawn to individual moments completely miss that
Considering what we paid for Aaron I’d hope we’d try to protect his value at least a little
His passing over the top to RVP was always dangerous
I’m gonna ask something edgy bc why not
would you let spuds win the league if it means we walk away with the champions league trophy, beating Barca Bayern United and Real on the way to it?
Eye test alone it looked like Trossard played more like how we want Jesus to play and bring in the wingers. This season it hasn’t worked and I would want Eddie up top over him.
At least Eddie and Jesus try to challenge center backs. Trossard shies away from that
hilarious waiting all year to post something like this but silence when he was thriving every week thus far. Have some shame man
I don’t give a fuck about Zinchenko’s injury I hated putting Partey at RB and leaving Gabriel out of the side. Just madness tbh
They know it full well too - “If Cuti were on Cash would he leaving the pitch without his legs” 🤣ok guys way to defy the accusations