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!

    One more thing that's quite funny is that we know we score a huge part of our goals from set pieces and penalties these days, yet we didn't force any corner after 55th min or something. Stupid as hell.

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      Clrnc

      Not enough kitchen sink, players bombing the box, getting the ball to Saka early.

          We also need to bin this shitty blue third kit. Lost points at Bournemouth with it and today.

          Even if we had won, we are nowhere near dominant for that match. It was all sterile possession

          And so annoying because of us they now keep having xGs without set pieces. I guess it shows how toothless we are though in open play

          goon

          Our goal scored from corner ratio is superb. Just need to force more corners per game to win more matches

            naz exactly. Havertz and Martinelli are good but we need a level above to be the main guys with them rotating in and coming off the bench. Trossards been good but he's not a guy you keep into his 30s. Jesus is just a disaster.

              Frustrating match but it’s hard to go there and win especially in today’s conditions.

              On to the next. Worrying that Liverpool can go 9 clear again

                Seriously pissed off about this match. We did enough to win barring the fact that Jesus, Trossard, Martinelli and Havertz all aren't good enough. And even despite that Saka so nearly won it for us.

                It also feels like every match I watch we're getting f**ked over on delays to the restart, niggles and professional fouls, throw-ins and minor decisions throughout.

                Burnwinter stop crying and using ref’s as a fucking excuse for us not being up for it this season. Time to wake up and smell the coffee. This is football these things happen. Get over it. Winners or championship teams don’t go on and on about things that went against them. Man up.

                    I don't think we did enough to win. We can complain about the marginal offside, but we were even lucky for our equaliser. Could have easily lost.

                    Leno was very comfortable.

                    Control ball really stifle our attack. Just compare that to Liverpool who pepper opponents week in week out. We need to release some control

                      Sicario2 - Tier 1 Winners or championship teams don’t go on and on about things that went against them.

                      The most winning team in history of football refused to attend the Ballon d'Or because their player didn't win it and complained in the media about how disrespected they felt.

                        Sicario2 - Tier 1 stop crying and using ref’s as a fucking excuse for us not being up for it this season. Time to wake up and smell the coffee. This is football these things happen. Get over it. Winners or championship teams don’t go on and on about things that went against them. Man up.

                        "Don't express discontent about events that empirically happened and contributed to Arsenal being 6 points behind league leaders Liverpool having played a game more … instead engage in relentless, histrionic gnashing and wailing and harp on my preferred fixations about how terrible you, me, Arsenal and everyone currently connected to Arsenal are, because that is the only path to victory. Man up."

                        Fucking pipe down eh?

                            Unlike some I haven't been bottling, flouncing and rage-quitting the whole season for a couple of months, but hey, "man up" … 🙄

                            Burnwinter yeah, things can be bad. They can even feel like confirmation of previously unspoken fears. But seeing the team, the manager et al being completely written off like the last two seasons didn't happen is disappointing.

                            And that doesn't mean there aren't problems. Clearly there are. But everything and everyone aren't suddenly shit.

                                Don Pacifico I think part of that comes from where we are with this side, 5 years in it's supposed to be the business part of the plan delivering the big outcomes. To be having a season where we are looking quite far away from that and potentially being out of the race in December is quite a big regression and inevitably you question where things are.

                                Then to see City stumble and we aren't the team in position to take advantage and In fact there are another 2 ahead of you is a blow to the confidence in the side. For as much as we have had luck this season, and we have, the opposite is probably true for the last couple keeping are most influential players fit having most performing to near their peak but we couldn't deliver the title when they luck was with us.

                                So if we can't do it in those circumstances I can't help feel are we ever going to be able to with things as they are and if not what do we need to do to change that.

                                    Clrnc reading this morning Saliba interviewed and he said "we need to be much better in defence". I hope thats not Artetas message because what we need is to be better in attack from open play. We created so little yesterday.

                                    It drives me mad that Odegaard came back and for 2 games we played incredible football against Forrest and West Ham with loads of slick passing and intricate play around the opposition third but then dropped that to start lumping crosses in at a virtually empty box again.