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Champions League: Atalanta - Arsenal @20:00 UK Time

Claudius

Playing like strangers.

Qwiss

The midfield has been attrocious

HomeSteak

Feels like Atalanta made about 10 subs.
Jorginho and Trossard must have fucked about 20 passes already

naz

Zero creativity. We're creating nothing. Midfield is awful.

naz

FEBravo where is zinny? Put him in midfield for now

Claudius

naz Zinny in midfield is not happening

HomeSteak

naz He is with the rest of the rehab gang, where they always are

goon

Do the Atalanta fans have just one chant? Change the tune lads, 87 mins of this droning is enough.

Qwiss

If we aren't going to use Nwaneri we should have kept Emile.

MistaT

Qwiss — this second half is screaming for a player like ESR

Big Willie

Qwiss If we aren't going to use Nwaneri we should have kept Emile

Aside from Claude, did anyone really think he'd play any significant number of minutes even from the bench? Still reckon he'll play less than 100mins in the PL/CL this season.

Edit: Then again ESR probably would have been used just as sparingly. It is what it is.

HomeSteak

My work emails have genuinely been more exciting somehow.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

HomeSteak

I hope you’re well.

Claudius

Our pass completion numbers will make for interesting reading. Cos wow

HomeSteak

What a shit show, feel for the fans that had to sit there and watch that shit. Other then the Saka shot in the first half we did nothing. No point in following us in europe away from home, we always play like this.

Qwiss

Big Willie as the game went on it was clear he wouldn't be used. Arteta came for the draw and got it.

Claudius

Big Willie I’m willing to bet you he plays more than 100 minutes. We are basically 5 rounds into the season and the main players are being ramped up.
The biggest thing for a player that age is literally being on the bench often. Go back to the back end of last season and see how many times players like Nelson and Kiwior weren’t even on the bench. Be on the bench, and then take it from there.

USArsenal

Well, that was a pretty pathetic start. We should have stomped all over them. We played very timid.

goon

Great defensive performance, terrible going forward.

Feels like we're trying to beat the mid block with balls over the top... except our long passing is absolutely atrocious.

invisibleman18

Nothing wrong with a 0-0 away in Europe as long as you win the home games. It's concerning how devoid of any creativity we are without Odegaard though. It looks like set pieces are going to be extremely important as goals in open play are going to be hard to come by.
Astonishing double save from Raya from the penalty. You see videos of the drills they do in training all the time where they dive to one side and have to get up quickly to save to the other side and this has already paid off twice this season.

naz

So bad. Is it the away European blues or is Odegaards injury going to fuck our season that badly?

flobaba

naz we are done bro.

daredevil

Calafiori really does look a step above the rest.

His situation with Timber is starting to feel like the false Diarra/Flamini conundrum we had.

flobaba

I think Martinelli is done here. By next season Arteta will be eyeing an upgrade. We get nothing from him.

invisibleman18

flobaba A difficult decision was made to replace a popular and previously well performing player in goal and there's one or two other positions where a similar decision needs to happen. Martinelli's spot looking the most urgent at the moment.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

flobaba

Yep. Don’t underestimate how cut throat Arteta is. Martinelli is finished here.

est

flobaba At the moment it doesn't look at all like he's starting to work his way out of the slump. Nothing works for him. Such a shame.

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