Chelsea v Arsenal Sunday 10th Nov 1630 KO: Page 21 - The Arsenal discussion community: One More in the Tolly

Chelsea v Arsenal Sunday 10th Nov 1630 KO

Xcdude24

Clrnc I feel like this is missing the forest for the trees a bit? Given our progression the last few seasons, we should be on a strength-to-strength trajectory. Understand we’ve had bad luck in some regards this season, but there’s also a lot of fundamental issues that could have been avoided (recruitment strategy, over-reliance on certain players, tactical setup in certain circumstances).

SimplyThePest

awooga83 also think a consistently and overly conservative approach can create doubt in the minds of the players. Why aren't we going after these guys? Aren't we good enough? Maybe the other mob really are that good...etc.

Our attack may fire if and when Arteta's 'system' finds its groove. No sooner.

SimplyThePest

Claudius fair enough!

Xcdude24

Wasn’t really impressed with Chelsea today. Feel like pool, city and (hypothetically) us are 2-3 notches better. Really feels like a game that a title challenger should win, even by multiple goals

RocktheCasbah

Oh well. Cheering myself up by having a rave in the kitchen to Underworld whilst cooking a chicken balti. Life goes on.

Claudius

Interesting listening to Arteta. He said the following

Worried about Saka and Rice.
It’s been hard dealing with a major disruption every single game…
…but he’s encouraged by the spirit and resilience of the team
His biggest focus now is fitness. He says most of this team can’t do 60 minutes and that’s what he has to work on.

Dom

Trossard is a City agent, right? I can't stand the sight of him any longer. He's a saboteur.

Jesus at least has the excuse that a knee injury has ended his career.

lorddulaarsenal

Cole Palmer was turd

Gazza M

only watched highlights. what did tross do to annoy people this much?

daredevil

Gazza M

He looked better than recent matches and done well to link play and keep the ball. Most of the anger seems to be at him poking the ball at the death which prevented a tap in for Havertz. (Although, it's likely the goal would have been ruled out.) Jesus on the other hand must have lost the ball every single time he had it.

MistaT

Gazza M -- wasted two good chances. Was actually quite productive otherwise coming in off the wing and creating some attacking threat.

lorddulaarsenal

Jesus was dire.

Let’s go out and get a top drawer winger in.

Have a feeling it may be Sane which I’d be happy with

Claudius

lorddulaarsenal Sané gave us palpitations last season. Would’ve been a better bet than Sterling. But not sure I would prefer another mercenary. If we can solve the forward situation with a permanent transfer, would be ideal.

awooga83

lorddulaarsenal I think the problem I have is that we are led to believe Arteta is all about the detail and studying what's happening to make us better. This summer we knew Jesus was having massive injury issues and his level had significantly dropped. He'd also not been that prolific even at his best. So if you don't look at that which anyone can see and seek to mitigate the fact he may continue on that trajectory that's not really good enough for me. Add to that we know martinelli and havertz have their own limitations so how that's not the area you are focusing on to push for a title. That's just not good enough at the top and it remains a serious marker against Arteta.

For all he's done so far he isn't in the top tier of managers he's in that level below of managers like Poch not the elite until you can show you can win trophies. These types of decisions over transfers maybe show his limits he has one game type not quite tactically flexible enough in his approach outside his preferred structure.

lorddulaarsenal

Sane has that mix of running power and dribbling ability I crave

Coombs

lorddulaarsenal doesn't play most days.

Clrnc

USArsenal

Panda I think Saliba was offside from the pass to put him in behind. Would have been a tight call.

This was what i meant. It would have been called back for offside if we had scored.

MistaT

A cagey game that definitely highlighted how disjointed we currently are. It doesn't matter that we played essentially our starting XI when half are injured or coming back into fitness. So I have some sympathy for Arteta, but I lose that when I don't see us playing Nwaneri or signing anyone worth a damn.

Califiori was such a selfish/luxury signing when it was clear we needed a LWF and a CF to push our starters. I'm also appalled that we've let Jesus stick around, he should be in Saudi Arabia or back in Brazil.

JazzG

Trossard is usually our clutch player, this basically sums up our last 8 weeks.

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