i thought trossard did very good yesterday at left 8. was very creative and aggressive defensively but he should finish those chances

i’ll personally buy you a nketiah kit

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Look what happens every time Martinelli gets the ball. We have a huge hole at the left 8 position. Nobody makes an in behind run, no overlap. Jesus doesn’t drag defenders with him. Our wingers always are in these dead end positions. No choice but to pass back. It’s like this every game low block or not. Arteta pleaseeee this needs a fix

we will never hear the end of this…

we were still facing deep blocks last season, that is simply not true. and i’m curious, is arsenal the only team you watch? how is playing “high octane football” with ucl only a problem for us? how is freeing up the wingers going to injury anybody? shit and chelsea got no europe and they still got injuries while trying to play high octane football. this sub changes the narrative every week i swear. when our players get breaks and only play 1 game a week it’s “they’re rusty and out of form” but when they play 2 games a week now they might get injured. should we wrap them in bubble wraps as well?

these excuses are for midtable clubs. world class teams have been doing this for decades. you can’t control injuries. tierney literally slipped in the shower and partey gets injured while doing nothing. if you really think that ucl football and being scared of injuries is stopping us from playing fluid you need to watch more football.

This controlling games narrative is not true. At this stage last season we had 24.97 xg (1 pen). 11.23 xg conceded (2 pens against) 6 clean sheets while our new defense was in their first competitive games. This while playing beautiful fluid football.

This season we have 23.1 xg (6 pens) and 10.60 xg (1 pen against) and 6 clean sheets while playing the deadest football ever.

We are worse than last year. Stats prove the eye test. Last season we were winning the ball high in the pitch and moving the ball quick to avoid opponent defenses to get hold their shape. That’s how you beat deep blocks, not spamming crosses against defenses with giants as defenders. The 8s were helping our wingers, Ben White was overlapping, Xhaka was overlapping. We didn’t give defenders the option to 3v1 our wingers. Now we are way too slow. It feels like every player is scared to move the ball forward. It feels like Arteta has ptsd from last season and doesn’t want to take risks.

How many times was Gabriel doing that long ball in behind for Martinelli. Zinchenko making line breaking passes to Xhaka. Odegaard to Saka. We never see those anymore. The only thing that we have better this season is not being scared when playing City.