Kel Varnsen I don't know why Arteta doesn't play them together, I imagine they'd link up well and create better openings than that idiot Jesus would.

Saka wasn't good today either. He was off as everyone else was

    Qwiss arteta has no nose for attacking synergy. it's abundantly clear we create fuck all if the right side isn't functioning. and yet he still fucked with timber and parteys positioning without giving a thought to how it would hurt the fluidity of the right hand side. that constipated first 60 minutes is on him

      Qwiss this is really a problem he hasn't be trying to develop this aspect for most of his tenure probably because lots of the elements don't fit his preferred style but he needs to change. At the moment his approach does not look like it's going to win the titles.

      Can you be pragmatic and change it does he become stubborn. I think they're are big questions against him and the club if this season fades away. If city falter and we don't take advantage that's really disastrous and as I said reminiscent if the Leicester season.

        " Arsenal have only come back to win just one of the last 24 away games when trailing at half time. "

        It's annoying as fuck. Concede a goal and making a comeback seems like a Herculean effort

          Martinelli, Havertz and Trossard are fight for top 4 standard at best. Martinelli might not even be top half standard.

          Odegaard can't do all the technical, inventive shit by himself. We played him and Ethan together in pre season - why have we not seen that yet at least when we need to up our threat in games?

          Fucking sort out our attack. It's been years and years.

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          Gazza M he was being a lazy careless shit from the moment he came on

          Yeah, that was a very strange performance by him, if you can call it that. First time I've criticised his mentality. Not going after balls that were maybe slightly overhit, dissent after conceding a throw in and even ignoring the offside there was a moment he was just chilling offside for a good 40 seconds in the CF position effectively taking himself out the game.

          I can't understand the performance. Looked like he came on with an attitude after being dropped to the bench and his frustration was on display it the completely wrong way, rather than using it to fire himself up to show his manager wrong.

              We had 40+ minutes to find a winner and I can't remember us ever troubling Leno.

              We struggle massively when we concede the first goal and go behind.

              Too inconsistent for the title unfortunately. 5 draws and 2 losses and we not even halfway through the season is top 4 form.

              Gazza M just last week people were praising Arteta for buying defenders and should still be buying more defenders and build from the back and our attack is fine. And they said he's right and he's a genius like this.

              After we scored from 2 corners.

                Big Willie i don't even think he was dropped. He got the start against United after all. It's clear him and Trossard are managing minutes on LW

                  naz Part of that is down to our attacking play but partly down to teams sitting deep making it difficult for us.

                  We simply don’t have enough attacking options. We desperately need to bring another wide player in at minimum.

                    We need a striker and LW. Our current options are good bench players.

                      naz last season our defensive structure and pressing was way above expectation. now that's reverted to the mean, these othet nasty flaws that were always lurking in our game have become much more damaging

                        So our issues from last season are still there, and we added some defensive issues. Not good enough to win the title. Maybe we can get a cup

                        Big Willie

                        Merino did pretty well when he came on but I never really believed it would change the game. Ode wasn’t having a great game, but we should have put Ethan down the left or even and maybe switch Ode sides to give him a new perspective.

                        We definitely don’t mix things up enough or early enough.

                          Another thing is we had a lot of injuries going into this game. White, Tomi, Gabriel, Calafiori & Zinchenko all missed the game, it’s hard to compensate for that.

                          Once we get them back we’ll do a lot better but we need to fucking get out act together.

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                            JazzG won't matter if we keep dropping points. Gotta wish for a Liverpool injury crisis

                                We gave Liverpool an advantage next game. Bassey is suspended

                                naz They are one Salah injury away from collapse but we need to focus on ourselves first. If we finish the season like we did last year I think we’ll catch them.

                                Titles not decided in December, unless it was Man City we had given a 9 point lead to!