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Ode confirmed

daredevil

You can't place significance on our struggles and not consider that our rivals are struggling even more against the same teams.

awooga83

daredevil yeah that's fine but we are then at the mercy of our rivals staying terrible. They may do but they could also get their act together and that isn't great in my view.

Gunner89

JazzG

Gunner89 This is one of the main problems with him, a quick strong player takes that on the half turn and is driving towards their midfield.

Odegaard clearly can't make that run but he can make the pass, think it is Jesus should be showing for it and Jesus then has Saka or I think it is Zubimendi. This is simple stuff man.

Meatwad

martin denilson

Dom

Him and Rice have been doing that constantly. Disgusting!

We'll see Eze get another run of games. Just hope he's up to it.

Gunner89

JazzG

My issue with him is that this wasn't the case 2 years ago

He used to move forward and progress the ball and shoot

Now he's afraid to lose the ball by doing either

His numbers are just very poor at the moment and he also fails the eye test

JazzG

I wonder if the injuries have fucked him, he got that really bad ankle injury and hasn't looked the same since. You can see from that clip he doesn't have the confidence to take it forward, which is why he does his turn and drops back. That is also why he comes deep for the ball rather than staying up high.

Also I think the team has progressed on and his shortcomings are showing more now. He has a great engine but he just isn't quick or strong enough. He won't have much space so you need someone with a supreme first touch and can turn and get away quick to create a bit of space.

Don Pacifico

JazzG I wonder if the injuries have fucked him, he got that really bad ankle injury and hasn't looked the same since. You can see from that clip he doesn't have the confidence to take it forward, which is why he does his turn and drops back. That is also why he comes deep for the ball rather than staying up high.

I dunno. I don't see why an injury would make him more risk averse in his passing. I buy into the notion that he's doing what Arteta wants and that's potentially a bigger concern because it would validate that we are trying to be more conservative in possession more often than not.

JazzG

I think it was his ankle that got injured and if that ankle doesn't twist and bend like how it did before than can cause a change in someone's game. I do agree we are playing a lot more conservative now which doesn't help.

banduan

JazzG I think it was his ankle that got injured and if that ankle doesn't twist and bend like how it did before than can cause a change in someone's game. I do agree we are playing a lot more conservative now which doesn't help.

nah, we saw his old game v villa. Something worse is happening to Ode, the same thing that's happening to Haaland.

lorddulaarsenal

Should maybe try him as a Zubimendi alternative with Rice and Merino infront of him.

He seems to like collecting the ball from the centrebacks and finding wingers.

Coombs

banduan do you think they're being slowly poisoned or something? Thallium makes as much sense as anything, I guess.

Meatwad

Coombs
like all the nordic players, they're stressed about greenland.

banduan

Coombs do you think they're being slowly poisoned or something?

rare world cup year-itis.

lorddulaarsenal

The goings on in Minnesota surely isn’t helping Martin

Meatwad

lorddulaarsenal
it is the most nordic part of america, probably has relatives there.

Gunner89

Bang average today, partly why we got worse in the 2nd half

None of his forward passes reached our players

DiabyKungFu

We do not have a "low touch but high impact #10" on the team.

Gunner89

DiabyKungFu

I think the thought is not to be wedded to one idea and consider a bruno-like player

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