My work emails have genuinely been more exciting somehow.
HomeSteak
I hope you’re well.
Our pass completion numbers will make for interesting reading. Cos wow
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 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.
Big Willie as the game went on it was clear he wouldn't be used. Arteta came for the draw and got it.
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.
Well, that was a pretty pathetic start. We should have stomped all over them. We played very timid.
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.
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.
So bad. Is it the away European blues or is Odegaards injury going to fuck our season that badly?
naz we are done bro.
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.
I think Martinelli is done here. By next season Arteta will be eyeing an upgrade. We get nothing from him.
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.
flobaba
Yep. Don’t underestimate how cut throat Arteta is. Martinelli is finished here.
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.
MistaT Thanks mate only just seen this. I managed to find one via google which worked up until the penalty was awarded then died during the VAR check. Quickly got another one to work for the penalty then that also died and found another the worked for the remainder of the game with the sound dropping in and out.
invisibleman18 --- keep JokerStreams in your reserves. It's often not HD, but the streams seem to survive.
Attack needs to step up but midfield not helping them at all.
Most interesting thing about that match was our free role LB. We had a LB on the loose once Calafiori came on 😆
Claudius he'll play more than 100 minutes. Better start vs Bolton next week and I want to see him get significant minutes from there.
Claudius 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.
In the League/CL? Doubt it. You never know but it won't be anything significant. Certainly less than 500mins in all comps and that includes the League Cup which you'd hope/expect him to start.
Disappointing result but Raya's extraordinary work kept it to a draw, so not too demoralising.
I'm pretty low on Martinelli. We need him to start producing very soon.
We look pretty shit going forward without Ødegaard that is for sure.
We will need to get creative about midfield. I liked some Of Trossard’s work. He might be an answer at left 8. But so many pieces look disconnected without Odegaard. We basically need to rebuild. But I have faith
Claudius We will need to get creative about midfield. I liked some Of Trossard’s work. He might be an answer at left 8. But so many pieces look disconnected without Odegaard. We basically need to rebuild.
Said it before but if we are planning on playing Havertz in midfield I'd rthater it be paired with Trossard than Jesus as they interchange up top and at least have someone focussed on end product which Jesus doesn't look like doing. He didn't have a single shot tonight did he?
