Yeah, you’re right. Ceballos plays in CM where they are stacked.

Sidebar: if it had been one of our players who dropped with an injury like that in preseason we’d have folks blaming Emery’s training methods. 😆

Ceballos already completed medicals and photoshoot today. No worries.

flobaba wrote:

Yeah, you’re right. Ceballos plays in CM where they are stacked.

Sidebar: if it had been one of our players who dropped with an injury like that in preseason we’d have folks blaming Emery’s training methods. 😆

Coaches sometimes have favourites and players they dislike for personal or at least opaque reasons, Zidane is an egregious case of that. His impact on James was almost as bad as Mourinhos on Mata, while Vazquez was a fixture regardless how poor he was as long as he kept running and crossing 50x per match. Ceballos is a similar case, if he was given an opportunity he could have replaced Modric or at least Kroos during one of his poorer spells.

So even if Ceballos and Asensio played in the same position, Zidane not changing his mind doesn't really prove anything.

flobaba wrote:

...

Sidebar: if it had been one of our players who dropped with an injury like that in preseason we’d have folks blaming Emery’s training methods. 😆

Asensio landed awkwardly and twisted the joint.
You will not find many fans blaming a coach for that.
We are not that stupid.

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

With Dan The Man coming in we can field Wenger’s wet dream 4-1-4-1

————Leno
Bellerin—Musti—Kos—Nacho
—————Xhaka
Mkhi—Ozil——Cabellos-Iwobi
————Lacazette

😆

I don't think Wenger loved anything more than a circle jerk in the middle of the pitch. If only he had more Spaniards at his disposal.

Muswell Hill Gooner wrote:
flobaba wrote:

...

Sidebar: if it had been one of our players who dropped with an injury like that in preseason we’d have folks blaming Emery’s training methods. 😆

Asensio landed awkwardly and twisted the joint.
You will not find many fans blaming a coach for that.
We are not that stupid.

Speak for yourself good sir.

Also, negative bias isn’t the same as being stupid, and I was referring to the former, not the latter

deardevil wrote:
@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

With Dan The Man coming in we can field Wenger’s wet dream 4-1-4-1

————Leno
Bellerin—Musti—Kos—Nacho
—————Xhaka
Mkhi—Ozil——Cabellos-Iwobi
————Lacazette

😆

I don't think Wenger loved anything more than a circle jerk in the middle of the pitch. If only he had more Spaniards at his disposal.

😆

Can only imagine that line up. All of Mkhi—Ozil——Cabellos----Iwobi playing no wider than the 18 yard box.

MistaT wrote:
deardevil wrote:

😆

I don't think Wenger loved anything more than a circle jerk in the middle of the pitch. If only he had more Spaniards at his disposal.

😆

Can only imagine that line up. All of Mkhi—Ozil——Cabellos----Iwobi playing no wider than the 18 yard box.

with our LB and RB down near the touchline. the other team gets possession, and in 2 passes, they have 2 attackers running right at mustafi and sokratis and me changing the channel

mdgoonah41 wrote:
MistaT wrote:

😆

Can only imagine that line up. All of Mkhi—Ozil——Cabellos----Iwobi playing no wider than the 18 yard box.

with our LB and RB down near the touchline. the other team gets possession, and in 2 passes, they have 2 attackers running right at mustafi and sokratis and me changing the channel

An extremely accurate image. Thank you for that.

mdgoonah41 wrote:
MistaT wrote:

😆

Can only imagine that line up. All of Mkhi—Ozil——Cabellos----Iwobi playing no wider than the 18 yard box.

with our LB and RB down near the touchline. the other team gets possession, and in 2 passes, they have 2 attackers running right at mustafi and sokratis and me changing the channel

😆

Stunningly accurate

I still can’t get over the Liverpool 3 - 3 draw at Anfield years ago, when Arshavin scored a hat-trick.

One of the best individual performances in this league was utterly wasted by your exact analysis. I remember getting an instant headache, and feeling my heart thumping😆

I literally could have ripped up the whole house.

I decided to change channel whenever they wound me up from then on. Been doing it for a decade since 😆


You're doing the little man an injustice.

I, too, wanted to smash the place I was watching the game at to pieces that night. Absolutely disgusted when we conceded the equaliser and even though we scored so late you still knew full well it was coming.

Ricky1985 wrote:


You're doing the little man an injustice.

I, too, wanted to smash the place I was watching the game at to pieces that night. Absolutely disgusted when we conceded the equaliser and even though we scored so late you still knew full well it was coming.

Absolutely.

4-3 up, and I remember thinking “injury time you bastards, just defend for a couple of minutes.............................“. then sheer anger and despair.

I really can’t remember being that angry for many things in my life 😆

Sicario wrote:

*4-4

Correct it was 4-4

FOUR goal performance, one of the greatest in this league thrown away

I need to step away, just thinking about that match is making me tense 😆

Gentleman please, that 4-4 has nothing, absolutely nothing on the 4-4 vs Newcastle.

MistaT wrote:

Gentleman please, that 4-4 has nothing, absolutely nothing on the 4-4 vs Newcastle.

Are you not entertained?

MistaT wrote:

Gentleman please, that 4-4 has nothing, absolutely nothing on the 4-4 vs Newcastle.

i'll see that tiote goal in my nightmares from now till the day i die. i still cant fucking believe it went in

I've never rewatched that game and, apart from Arshavin's goal, successfully erased all the memories.

MistaT wrote:

Gentleman please, that 4-4 has nothing, absolutely nothing on the 4-4 vs Newcastle.

that newcastle one was the worse. it was so bad that some nonsensical conspiracy about rosicky and bookies even began to sound credible. it's like he was trying to give them the game.