Pre-Season 23/24: Page 5 - The Arsenal discussion community: One More in the Tolly

Pre-Season 23/24

Qwiss

Ricky1985 2nd one too.

lorddulaarsenal

Ricky1985 think he may not be overly flashy but just a brilliant decision maker with some power in his play

Ricky1985

Maybe not flashy in the stepover sense, but his first touch, close control and balance is absolutely exceptional.

He looked completely gassed 5 minutes after coming on. Probably the hard pre-season training killing him - it's easy to forget just how young he is. That said, he was still probably the standout of that half for us.

Ricky1985

Big Willie

Was it definitely Nwaneri and not Lewis-Skelly?

Big Willie

Ricky1985 Was it definitely Nwaneri and not Lewis-Skelly?

Could have been either one, replay didn't show who that bit again. Then again I rate Skelly quite highly so I wouldn't be surprised if it were him.

Asterix

Big Willie It was Skelly. Great ball, shame Flo couldn't wrap his foot around it enough.

Nwanieri looks class - great control and body shape / movement. Very glad he signed on.

Here's the touches from the youngsters.

Panda

No Xhaka...no W 🤯

goon

Glad we kept Nwaneri I have to say. It’s funny, good young players look better with quality around them, bad ones look exposed.

invisibleman18

Just seen the brief highlights on Arsenal.com. That own goal feels like the kind of thing we'd do to get knocked out of the CL. Where did Havertz play?

Gazza M

invisibleman18 havertz floated everywhere, but mainly in and around the left channel

Clrnc

Gazza M I can't believe he's still here and actually playing for us. Means he's not close to leaving, unlike Pepe and Patino

Don Pacifico

Clrnc I guess the flip-side is, as things now stand he'll be behind Timber, White and Tomi so realistically shouldn't be getting minutes.

lorddulaarsenal

Really like a backline of Kiwior, Gabriel, Saliba and White. All four can handle themselves physically and work the ball to a good level. It’s such a base for our midfield and attack to work from.

Mirth

lorddulaarsenal although if we do go for that type of back line Tierney makes sense since he can also carry the ball out and play as a traditional full back

lorddulaarsenal

This game highlighted to me just how much we’d benefit from another good striking option who brings something different. Jesus, Nketiah and Balogun are all too similar in style. It’s ok for continuity. But when the time comes to thrust it in rather than delicately kiss around it we really could do with something different

Burnwinter

lorddulaarsenal Yeah it's a big problem that when we sub on Nketiah for Jesus, we just get a burst of energy, but not enough variation to require anything too fresh from the opposition.

Pepe LeFrits

After the game, Arteta said: "A few of the boys have only had three training sessions so just to give them minutes and exposure to understand and start connecting with each other again [was positive].

"I’ve seen some really good things, despite the amount of changes we made. That is why the game declined, especially in quality and in control, but we knew that was going to happen.

"The way we played in the first half was really good and I think we could have scored more goals. Even in the second half we had two big, big chances to score and we didn’t. It’s part of football, and mistakes are part of the sport."

Fair assessment

Clrnc

I love Balogun run. So much intent

Mirth

It's one of those where the run makes the chance just as much as the pass does.

Clrnc

No Pepe, Lokonga, Tavares, Patino and Cedric who have no futures here. Nelson injured, Turner already in USA.

ESR given more off time due to u21 tournament. Partey in negotiations to leave.

Cozier-Duberry the only youth player included as now our huge squad has no space for any young players. Lewis-Skelly, Nwaneri and Walters dropped back to U21.

Panda

Clrnc Nelson injured 🤦🏻‍♀️ suspect that's the only reason Cozier-Duberry in the squad.

Shame for the other 3 youngsters not to get to go.

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