Arsenal vs Manchester City (H) | Sunday Oct 8 | 16:30 PM BST: Page 11 - The Arsenal discussion community: One More in the Tolly

Arsenal vs Manchester City (H) | Sunday Oct 8 | 16:30 PM BST

Pepe LeFrits

Jesus has worked his ass off and has been our only outlet offensively. Trossard and Nketiah might as well not even be on the pitch, and Martin hasn't been much better. Rice at 8 has had a good game defensively but offensively he's offered even less than Havertz. White and Zinchenko have been really poor too.

Qwiss

Pepe LeFrits I thought Zinchenko was decent.

RocktheCasbah

goon that is a really good point. Absolutely bent decision.

naz

goon fuck sakes

Doc

Kel Varnsen would mind giving Eddie some time on the wings, he been one of our better players in the first half. But Jesus needs to go up top.

Pepe LeFrits

... and this City, IMO is here for the taking. If they were to go to Anfield with this line-up they'd get battered. They're not the same team without De Bruyne, Rodri and Grealish. We're showing them far, far too much respect.

GooneriC

Oliver was definitely bribed on that refereeing trip to the emirates recently

Qwiss

GooneriC Pep won everything with Barca by bribing refs, why change a winning formula?

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Yes Jesus has done admirably on the right.

banduan

fwiw I thought the ref's calls were spot on. Was VARS job to make him look at the screen for the orange card.

daredevil

goon

The team is contributing to Raya's poor passing by passing backwards and failing to show any impetus to break the lines. By the time it's got to Raya, you have have had 4 odd players all pass the buck.

Tactics

They have more players who can play keep ball than we do, so they were always going to dominate possession. Think we should therefore stay compact and go direct as soon as we have the ball instead of trying to go toe to toe with them.

We are somewhat limited with the personnel on the pitch, but Partey, Martinelli and Havertz coming on after half time could cause them problems with a direct approach.

Don Pacifico

I get Jesus has a lot of similar qualities to Saka but his passing in tight spaces is pretty dross and it's making things hard for us. Think ESR is a decent shout.

Other than that, Jorge and Rice are playing quite deep and I think it's hampering the effectiveness of our press. We are however a little better in possession with Jorge over Havertz. Still need more verticality of movement though.

Oh and Raya is really failing to convince me that his signing was worth the £20m. Send him back and just develop Ramsdale.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

Don Pacifico

Bet you were waiting for this moment since Raya joined. Speaks volumes of his character that he managed to over come a horrid 1st half and keep a clean sheet.

I thought Jorginho was very good at the base today, if Partey is out in the future I hope we play him there and Rice a bit more advanced.

Leo is a weird player, he either scores rockets and great assist or goes completely missing.

Our two centre backs were amazing against two World class strikers.

Great subs by Arteta and you can see how much difference it makes when Partey plays in midfield. As soon as he came on and played in his right position, it lifted the players. Players are not stupid, they know when a good one is on their team.

Overall, massive, massive win, maybe Arteta’s top 3 most important win. We are now in the fucking title race.

Fuck Man City and Pep. That was for ruining our title chances last year.

USArsenal

Kovacic starting the second half? Surprising

banduan

The Angel is on

Qwiss

Martinelli for Trossard. 😲

KingslandBarge

Qwiss right move

Doc

Martinellli on. Fuck yh

KingslandBarge

RocktheCasbah I am heartened by a show of some resilience and a possible attitude change towards the end of the half.
Pep does not hesitate to make changes at the half (tactically or forced hand), true. However Kovacic is back out.

RocktheCasbah

KingslandBarge I noticed that too. 😉Anyway, we don't have to worry about it now.

I think, although it's not a game I'd rush to watch back, we can be really proud of the team tonight. We didn't massively look like we were going to win the game, but we showed we had the maturity not to lose it (especially after Oliver bottled that second yellow) - and then we get that moment at the end.

I might be imagining it, but I feel like Deccers has given us so much assurance in the middle of the pitch and always seems to be in the right place at the right time - there was a tackle in there too which was Adamsesque. Saliba was excellent (City can rarely have looked so toothless) and, as has been noted, all the subs played a role in the winning goal.

It's a great day.

naz

Baby gab coming on, let's go

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