Shite, pointless football we play under Arteta. Look at him fumbling around with players' positioning shifting Pepe to the left and Saka to the right and his substitutions scream ineptitude to the heavens.

The fucking mancs celebrating right now like they've already won the cup is just too much for me.

mags wrote:

Claudius wrote:

I’m done I think. Until Kroenke fucks off. We’ve been on a 12 year slide. I can’t see a way up.

My feelings exactly.
That is for at least 5-6 seasons.

same here, done with football for the foreseeable future, not good for my mental well-being 

goon wrote:

Apparently Josh made his mind out about Emery in Baku, wonder what he’s thinking about Arteta watching tonight?

And then took half a season to sack him?

Klaus wrote:

The fucking mancs celebrating right now like they've already won the cup is just too much for me.

Villarreal was so confident of going through they brought the celebratory banner to Emirates ffs.

I think they wouldn't have imagined that we would be the easiest team they would face in this entire Europa run. We literally gave their goalie 2 holidays over 180 minutes.

Qwiss! wrote:

goon wrote:

Apparently Josh made his mind out about Emery in Baku, wonder what he’s thinking about Arteta watching tonight?

And then took half a season to sack him?

Doesn’t really fall under his remit I guess, like Klaus said the main decision maker at the time wanted to give him a new deal.

Our conservative approach to the first half at home chasing a goal is the worst, most shocking in terms of mentality I have seen. Arteta is an absolute coward.

Hahaha Arteta says Xhaka being injured was one of the main reason we lost this tie. Everything was prepared for him to play LB and it disrupted us very badly.

Then says we had too many injuries, dominated both the legs and created a lot of chances

The worse thing about this result is this is exactly how you expected it to go. This performance is Arteta’s Arsenal in a nutshell

Time and time again this season we have been gifted with chances to make it worthwhile and again and again we have blown our chances. This has been many years in the making, this isn’t only on Arteta but he certainly doesn’t look like the one who will guide us out either

Clrnc wrote:

Hahaha Arteta says Xhaka being injured was one of the main reason we lost this tie. Everything was prepared for him to play LB and it disrupted us very badly.

Then says we had too many injuries, dominated both the legs and created a lot of chances

He won't admit we were overrun in midfield

Auba for Nketiah to get a goal was taking the absolute piss

whats the deal with bringing Wiliian on in games? He must be tearing it up in training cause we've seen very little to suggest he's gonna turn a game around.

JazzG wrote:

The worse thing about this result is this is exactly how you expected it to go. This performance is Arteta’s Arsenal in a nutshell

Time and time again this season we have been gifted with chances to make it worthwhile and again and again we have blown our chances. This has been many years in the making, this isn’t only on Arteta but he certainly doesn’t look like the one who will guide us out either

180 minutes, 1 goal, a red card, all very Arteta-y.

1 shot on target whole game.

Sumes Arteta up.

Always wants to play with the handbrake on.

Gunner89 wrote:

Auba for Nketiah to get a goal was taking the absolute piss

It was Bellerin for Nketiah.

Gunner89 wrote:

1 shot on target whole game.

Sumes Arteta up.

Always wants to play with the handbrake on.

Simple basics of football is to get the ball into the box as much as possible to have a chance to score.

Under Arteta for some reason we never ever tries to keep the attacking pressure on or test the keeper. We focuses more on passing the ball back try not to lose it and some positioning defensive crap.

IBL wrote:

whats the deal with bringing Wiliian on in games?  He must be tearing it up in training cause we've seen very little to suggest he's gonna turn a game around.

Arseblog has indicated it's some kind of shady Joorabchian obligation. 

Any time we’ve played well under Arteta we have pressed high and aggressively up the pitch. I do not understand why we didn’t do that here or in the first leg or in any game in Europe. The approach was too passive.

goon wrote:

Any time we’ve played well under Arteta we have pressed high and aggressively up the pitch. I do not understand why we didn’t do that here or in the first leg or in any game in Europe. The approach was too passive.

Agree. I'd posit that he wanted to ensure we didn't concede a goal in order to encourage them to sit back in the 2nd half so we could attack them. It kinda worked but it was demonstrably the wrong decision. We knew we had to score today and we should have taken more risks in the 1st half.