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BlueCo FC v The Arsenal - 5:30 PM 21 October

DiabyKungFu

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert where's the sarcastic, jokey DKF from years back?

I no longer need to watch Aubamafraud and Lacashit playing for my club. It's easier to amuse myself with the football and not have to rely on the shitposts. I'd take this a million times over finishing 8th and having to see posts claiming Aubameyang to be one of the world's great strikers. It was an extraordinarily dark time.

Qwiss

DiabyKungFu funnily enough if you replaced Jesus with the Auba of his first 3 seasons here we'd walk the league. He's exactly the sort of make something from nothing player we need with our lack of creativity.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

lorddulaarsenal Arteta is completely averse to that type of football (that I yearn to see).

I guess the Anfield 5-1 and Stamford Bridge 6-0 batterings with him in our midfield turned him off riskball for life.

DiabyKungFu

lorddulaarsenal I like the football we play, but I miss those intricate combinations we’d get around the box with Ozil, Santi and the likes.

Just wait until we unshackle King Kai.

DiabyKungFu

Qwiss funnily enough if you replaced Jesus with the Auba of his first 3 seasons here we'd walk the league.

daredevil

Qwiss

Auba was tragic as a central striker. So poor in fact that fat Lacazette was better than him. Now Auba in place of Martinelli, maybe you have a point.

Gazza M

DiabyKungFu this what I mean by unsustainable. limiting the chances of the other team, but creating fuckall. this will see get you shafted over the course and distance of a full premier league season. its a long-term losing recipe

JazzG

Missed the game, good to see us come back and get the draw.

Were we really bad or Chelsea good? Heard they crammed midfield and that penalty is soft as hell and a jammy goal for them.

Gazza M

JazzG Chelsea weren't great at all, but they definitely had way more appetite than us, and they built on that to control 70 minutes of the game. they didn't create much outside 2 relatively fortunate goals. at the same we were execrable in terms of effort and execution. 0 shots on target until rice scored

DiabyKungFu

daredevil Now Auba in place of Martinelli, maybe you have a point.

daredevil

DiabyKungFu

I'm not advocating it by the way, as Martinelli was arguably our best attacker today. But if you're going to laud Auba, at least get the position right.

JazzG

Gazza M Thanks, glad to take the point and move on.

daredevil

Gazza M

Without Partey, we are half a team. Zinchenko is the only man remaining who can pass through the lines. Building up with Rice and Tomiyasu is going to end us. And I rate both of them.

Gazza M

daredevil zinchenko has been off it for most of 2023 tbh. he's only in the team for his passing, and we're getting diminishing returns from him on that front at the moment

lorddulaarsenal

Can’t read much in to it. The waterlogged pitch stifled our passing game. They were fouling and being cloggers. Had a pen that shouldn’t have been given, and a fluke second.

Just a bad day at the office for us. It’ll happen.

We’d improve massively with Partey in the line up

Sicario2 - Tier 1

lorddulaarsenal

Why wasn’t Partey playing? Because he played for Ghana twice and would be too many games for him ?

lorddulaarsenal

Not sure. I think it’s Arteta being careful with him.

We really miss Timber too

daredevil

Gazza M

It was his through pass to Rice that created the only chance we had in the first half. He's created similar openings in most games this season without Partey to back him up. Our pipeline is fucked but he's the only one who is still passing through the lines.

awooga83

Zinchenko was always about him contributing offensively as he's a pretty big liability defensively.

We are just struggling so much offensively. I get about the general position unbeaten etc but I want us to win the league and I think the problems with our attack if they continue will probably prevent that.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

Don’t think Zinny been that bad, just glad he’s managed to stay injury free (touch wood). Until today we hadn’t conceded any away goals.

He was pretty damn good against City which was only 2 weeks ago.

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