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Declan "Deccers" Rice

Sicario2

In the CL he’s different gravy. I think he’s trying to go for Ballon D’ Or

Burnwinter

Rice's "Always the fucking same" outburst gave us the stakes for this season. He knows where we are but can he actually lead us out of it?

Qwiss

He was extremely disappointing today

est

Has been for a while. As has Zubimendi.

A mix of our team set-up and overuse.

Qwiss

est I thought Zubi was quite good today.

Burnwinter

He's burnt out physically but he looks mentally fried to me as well

tazmania

Rice moving to right back when we're chasing a game should tell you how bad he was today

est

Nah, that tells you about Arteta. He tried moving Partey there when he was the best 6 in the League as well.

Tbh to Arteta, this time he gets a pass, as White probably wasn't ready for the 90(and was on a yellow) and Timber was injured.

Sicario2

My fucking captain

Panda

Sicario2 Interesting on the players choosing Rice as captain. That answers my q about him jumping ahead of Gabriel in the pecking order.

But playing him through injury is unacceptable. I'm really worried he is going to go the way of the rest of our players whose fitness was taken for granted.

Tam

Yesterday he had no chance to play. Today he plays 94 minutes.

Let’s see how sustainable that is for the remainder of the season. We cannot afford to not play him for any reason.

Gunner89

Tam

This approach has worked so well with Saka and Timber amongst other also with Zubi's form

tazmania

Exactly. Arteta might be thinking that's amazing but that sounds so dumb

Sicario2

Gunner89 you would have played Nogaard instead of Rice tonight?

Gunner89

Sicario2

Did I once say that? Please learn to read.

Gurgen

I know people will kill me for this but Rice, despite all his qualities, is a problem in our system. For this tactical setup we could have spent that 100m better.

Gazza M

Gurgen I get what youre insinuating regarding his limitations, but considering the league we play in, i still think he's perfect when deployed next to a confident zubimendi and non-busted odegaard/eze. let's not forget he was part of a midfield that bullied bayern and atleti this season. bayern even tried their damndest to buy him whoch also tells you that his skillset is coveted by big clubs. the problem is he's looked exhausted lately, and his midfield partners are various shades of injured/out of form

TambourineMan

You're just saying the quiet part out loud. He's a great player and an incredible athlete but he is so stiff and makes us very predictable going forward.

Burnwinter

Rice is a huge asset in our system, we need to sign him backup and sign (or just use) elite creative and attacking talents in my opinion. At this point rebuilding the attack around Dowman and Nwaneri as well as Eze plus a galactico looks plausible, especially if Ødegaard is really going to be playing half the summer.

Whatever happens this season, we'd be mad if we didn't run the numbers on the options we have with our other options in summer. The "Berta spree" has us top of the league but it's also looking like it's overall inefficient. If we do win and Arteta is staying on (and he will anyway) he needs to be shunted out of the transfer conversation to some extent.

lorddulaarsenal

Even Sir Decs corners have gone shoddy

Raya gifting opps the ball, Zubi doing Denilson impressions, Gabriel no do headers no more, Trossard treating the box as lava, Gyokeres Per Mertesackering it up top, Odegaard Houdini act

What gives?

Kel Varnsen

His passing game is really poor. He lingers on the ball too long, takes too many touches and lacks awareness of where the other players are and their movement.

Kel Varnsen

Gazza M

I would agree with this. No single player is the problem with the team or squad, but it is the composition of the squad. We have too many athletes who don't really play proper football and lack technical ability. We can't play with two offensively inept full backs (Timber, Mosquera, Hincapie) and 4-5 attacking players who can barely pass the ball properly (Madueke, Gyokeres, Martinelli, Rice, Zubimendi, Havertz etc).

Saying that, we are missing some hugely important players who are technically very good (Ødegaard, Merino, Calafiori, and Saka).

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