Ugh. Frustrating stuff. Can't believe we somehow conceded.

Depressing match so far. If control ball and set pieces don't work, Arteta and his players look lost. No counter-attacking threat and zero pace from left the flank.

Time for Arteta to earn his bread. We don’t win this and any title ambitions we have is over.

Partey, Jorginho and Timber are all playing poorly. Surely it'd be worth switching Partey and Timber to their main positions and bringing on Lewis-Skelly at LB here.

    We have zero threat on the left , they're overloading our right side to nullify Saka and Odegaard . Trossard doesn't have the pace or physicality and Timbers left peg is useless. We need to threaten from the space they give on that side while trying to mark Saka. A left footed LB helps. Take Partey off , push Timber to RB and Tierney or MLS to LB and we will give them problems.

    Burnwinter I agree he's accomplished for what he can do and it's a great player in the squad but he has severe limitations. So often if we transition the ball gets up to him but he has no pace or technical quality to push the attack forwards so always has to turn back and wait for the rest of the team to catch up which kills the threat on this moments so often.

      We just don't have any quality in attack. Saka aside, our ST and LW options are top 6 quality at best and not good enough for a title charge. We desperately need more quality at either LW or ST if we want to do anything next season.

        These next 45 minutes are basically our last day of the season, and we have to win to win the league. That’s the team talk, that’s the approach we have to see.

          Few errors on the goal - didn't notice that Timber actually gets sucked into midfield by Iwobi which gives the assister loads of time to pick his pass.

            flobaba if we drop points here, I can see a real malaise settling in. a team that gears up for a title challenge and is out of it by December will subconsiously struggle to find that extra bit of energy and motivation for the rest of the season. we'll flounder around between 2nd-4th in an existential daze

              Qwiss all our LBs do, because they have to cover more area than folks out right.

                  Really depressing half. Havertz definitely needs a rest agreed that he's physically dropped off. Trossard been hopeless too. Attack seems to be cross and hope or give to Saka and hope.

                  Could be another Bournemouth and Newcastle away performance this 1. We go 1 goal down and can't get back into it.

                  Nowhere near good enough. Man C drop off and we can't take advantage after the last 2 seasons is just sad.

                  TambourineMan the assumption that havertz could be relied as a 9 again always felt like a faulty one. a reversion was always on the cards. the implosion of jesus hasn't helped the situation, but these are all known knowns at the club. this summer was pound for pound as damaging as the 'cech only' summer

                    Why does scoring feel like such a chore with this team. I celebrate corners because it gives us hope. It's depressing

                    Bin this bloody shirt if we lose again today

                    Don't understand why we don't use the " corner threat " to our advantage in the middle area of the pitch. If they are focused on preventing corners that opens up other avenues to attack centrally. We are not exploiting this at all

                    Qwiss Tierney or Skelly from the start could've been good. Unfortunately Arteta would often rather "repurpose" players than allow second stringers to take part.