Jesus on for Merino.. interesting sub

Jesus for Merino, at least it's an attacking change

Clrnc totally, if you’re going to play a grindball midfield, you’ve got to let loose elsewhere. Mikel ought to start dressing like an old Victorian-era woman to match how bloody conservative his approach is.

    Playing attacking football away to one of the best teams in Europe isn't a smart idea.

    ohhhhh Saliba.. that was a great wide open chance for a header, and he makes almost no contact.

    Timber almost gets caught out, but recovers to nick the ball away

    Is it just me or did we used to pass the ball with real zip before?
    Now there is a lot of slow passing and isolation ball. It’s a defender’s dream right now

      Claudius slow passing until we go backwards and launch it. Or slow pass then put in an aimless cross. That's it.

          Seeing Trossard in midfield is worse than Trump

          Qwiss throughout Arteta reign we always have long periods of such dull football.

          Even when we score alot of goals mostly it's more functional than beautiful

            Crossing at no one. We need a striker, a real one.

            Dumfries having a blinder

            It's hard for me to do, but if we're playing this way all in turn of results/acheivements, then it makes me only want to turn up and watch the matches that matter.

            Doubt I'll check in on many more CL matches until knockout stages and the league may not draw a ton for me either. FA Cup and Carbao may have to suffice until Odegaard and the team is back functioning.

              Nice effort Havert

              The amount of lazy leg fouls we've given away... where's all the dark art smarts gone?

              Lol Arteta yellow for touching the ball

              MistaT the biggest compliment i can give arteta is that his brand of football is very similar to 2005 Mourinho Chelsea. Defensively very solid. Defence first mentality.

              But yet could also score goals through setpieces and individual brilliance from Robben (Saka), a target man in drogba (Kai) and Duff(Martinelli) running down the flank constantly working hard

                  We’ve been better without being great