Gazza M it's quite pep-ish tbf. For all his success his football is boring

Havertz makes us better, despite his personal issues. Trossard is good, but he doesn't have that vertical running power, and he's a bit more dribbly and slows things down. Kai is an accelerator.

Coombs he also combines well with others. Doesn’t get the credit for that though as he makes it look simple

lorddulaarsenal yep, he immediately made us better in the middle third, and while he is still too conservative, a lot of his simple passing is only possible because he's there to do it in the first place.

Coombs nice header, good day for him but an "accelerator", he's never been that in midfield. What he did today is what we need from him, impact.

lorddulaarsenal Amen.

Talk less of one who is fresh and fit and sharp.

Just a mediocre player for me. Hope we dump him soon - if we are going to be elite then Arsenal deserves better. He'll definitely have suitors we can recoup a major portion of the Kai Havertz transfer fee from.

Also was thinking. With the way we play what would an Ivan Toney offer us?

Toney? Well he is physical so can occupy defences, he is good in the air and can link well with others so he’d be a good target man. Also carries a legit goal threat and gives us a different option up top.

Probs not my first choice but he’d certainly improve us.

Has a spikey determined attitude too.

lorddulaarsenal so common for him. One of the most Tunnel vision player ever. The anti Joel Campbell

Kel Varnsen I hate this positional play style. There is no improvisation, flexibility or individual originality up front. Players just run to their designated spot and wait. We have to keep a certain amount of players in each channel and each zone and blablabla.. arteta is a fraud.

Hate the way we play. Ugly and rigid football. An example. When Martinelli gets the ball out wide, and unless he has an outstanding match, he'll nearly always pass the ball to Zinchenko. Positioned 10 metres further in and 5 metres further back. Zinchenko will then pass the ball back to Martinelli, 10 metres further in and 5 metres further back to Rice, or 15 metres further back to Gabriel. I get the idea. Wide angle triangular intersections. Connecting vertices (or effective tesselation) and cover most space most efficiently (shortest passes). But it is predictable and easy to defend. Why don't Zinchenko just sometimes leave his position and try to improvise something with Martinelli? Be more flexible and let players express themselves. Arteta has taken a good principle and absolutely destroyed it.

Don't think I have seen an opposition manager praise us so much before. Almost every match we play against Brentford Thomas Frank is in awe.

Clrnc he wants to stay in Josh's good books, just in case.

Arteta's 22/23 and 23/24 teams are amongst the best 20 xGa since this stat came in 2017

Kel Varnsen

I don’t think they are told to be that rigid in the final third. Saka and Martinelli just have immature movement and positional sense. There were several occasions where Saka was doing exactly as you suggest, he came inside to escape being doubled up on, but picked up some really poor positions and half the time just stood on Odegaards toes.

I guarantee you there’s nothing stopping Martinelli from trying a give and go with Zinchenko, but the instinct to make a run is much harder to come by against a deep block.

The opposition has basically figured out 90% of our threat comes from the wide boys so a deep block that doubles up on them is what they’re going for.

We just need to get better at exploiting the space it leaves in other areas and swing in crosses relentlessly, so they realise it’s a bad idea.

Kel Varnsen We are extremely well trained, or in fact too well trained and too prepared. Everything is structured to a tee. Very little freedom encouraged.

That's a result of the constant micro management from the touchline. I mean if we are already doing this in matches, imagine all the instructions in training.