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Arsenal - Newcastle, today at 20:00 UK Time, for some reason.

Gurgen

Quite happy with how this went. Shame about the goal conceded but overall a good slap to their ugly faces. Rarely seen a team more embarrassed than Newcastle in that first half.

Qwiss

Claudius

Clrnc stupidest goal we’ve conceded all season was against Porto.

Gazza M

Porto and their slick talking manager have another thing coming

Lukazan

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert Not worried about this game at all. I think we will completely overwhelm them and the match will be virtually over by half time.

GooneriC

Trying to remember when we last started a game like this, maybe vs United when Sanchez and Ozil scored

Claudius

Our results over Pool and Newcastle this month show how formidable we are. We are controlling games and intimidating teams. It took a while to mature, but the foundation was being built very nicely in the first half of the season. Time to reap.

daredevil

Claudius

Don't forget we did City too earlier in the season, where they didn't register a shot on target or something until after the midway point.

daredevil

I was dreading the game pre-match, but I felt overwhelming reassured when I saw Rice, Saliba and Gabriel in the tunnel. Felt like the defensive version of Henry, Bergkamp and Pires.

I thought we lost the title last season because of a porous defence, and I didn't think we would win it any time soon up until some point this season when I saw how miserly our defence has become.

I would be surprised if this trio doesn't deliver a title within the next few years.

Claudius

daredevil
Yeah. What we had in the first half of the season was a strong defensive foundation. Easily the best team defensively in the league before Christmas. And now we’ve taken that platform and started adding flair to the attack. But we needed the structure in place first.

Panda

Another great win! I was at the theatre for this but delighted with the result! We are on a roll. 12 games to go. Let's see if we can keep it going then we will have a chance 😃

Shout-out to the set piece coaches and Saka as well he is in superb form.

Don Pacifico

Panda Another great win! I was at the theatre for this

Initially when I read this, thought you were using 'the theatre' as your nickname for the Emirates. 😂

Qwiss

Panda Shout-out to the set piece coaches

Was just thinking during the game, how long until some other club comes in and throws huge money at Jover?

Sicario2 - Tier 1

Qwiss

It’s not Jover until it’s Jover

Big Willie

Qwiss Was just thinking during the game, how long until some other club comes in and throws huge money at Jover?

Could happen but like others have said, we've already been coached on these aspects well enough to not forget if th coaches leave, similar to how the back 5 AW inherited served him so well despite not being drilled to an inch like they used to under GG.

Plus, it's great having +6 foot beasts in the air like Saliba, White, and Gabriel. Especially Gabriel who is absolutely on another level when it comes to attacking the ball on set plays, it's like he has a sixth sense where it'll end up. Who knows, maybe he's orchestrating the whole thing during his chats with the set piece takers just prior to racing off back into position.

flobaba

Eh probably another season or two, but it wouldn't matter. We already have the basics of his ideas incorporated in our delivery/executions, and if we don't have a succession plan we aren't a very smart club.

Claudius

I just love how serious we are as a club now. I used to hate how laissez-faire everything was. Our players who moved to City mentioned the same. Now we think deeply about how our goalie and forwards work together, every throw in, every set piece. Our pressing tactics are novel, I’ve never seen another team press with so much risk - and it pays off. Arteta is extracting advantage in everything he can. I’m sure even Doris the tea lady’s been whipped into shape

Claudius

It really stood out for me towards the end of the cup final yesterday. The ball went towards the Liverpool keeper, and two Chelsea players ran at full speed towards the keeper to press him. They left two defenders wide, and it was easy for the keeper to move the ball out, taking two Chelsea players out of the game immediately. You’d never see such wanton idiocy from Arsenal players pressing today.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

Big Willie

This is not popular opinion but Gabriel has lowkey been better than Saliba this season imo.

Big Willie

Sicario2 - Tier 1 This is not popular opinion but Gabriel has lowkey been better than Saliba this season imo.

Not sure if it's all that unpopular anymore. Hes finally won over most of the fanbase. Couldn't understand the people who'd doubted him last season and were wanting him replaced by Kiwior or sold because he wasn't technical enough or was liability. I'd even argue he was our best defender last season considering the amount of ground he had to cover with Zinchenko ahead of him whereas Saliba always had White nearby to support.

I myself was at first sceptical of the signing at first because he seemed to go to ground too easily and seemed like a red card waiting to happen going by his time in the French league but he won me over pretty quickly by how good a defender he was and how he'd bully attackers without recklessly lunging in because he didn't anticipate the movement.

We're blessed to have him, Saliba and White back there. Can't remember a better set of defenders since that Nesta, Staam, Maldini, and Cafu backline Milan had.

Don Pacifico

Big Willie Couldn't understand the people who'd doubted him last season and were wanting him replaced by Kiwior or sold because he wasn't technical enough or was liability.

You mean Dules... 😉

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