• The Arsenal

  • Arsenal - Ipswich, Friday 27 December at 20:15 UK time.

Why isn't Partey or Merino starting instead of dropping Havertz back into the midfield?

    Trossard–Jesus–Martinelli up top is it, with Havertz officially at left 8, but who knows what actually happening?

    Especially against the likes of Ipswich, time to take the handbrake (a little bit) off

    USArsenal I think arteta will only play this setup at home or against weaker teams away

    we need to move the ball much quicker up the pitch when we set up like this though. against palace we tried our BAU ball circulation from deep and ended up getting outnumbered a few times. don't try to outnumber them in our own half. move it forward quickly and outnumber them in their half

      If we can't comfortably beat Ipswich at home, even with Saka missing, then we have no business getting anywhere near the title this year

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      Odegaard not as sharp there

      Ugh, what the hell was that by Ode.. Stupid decision on the FK

      Odegaard still has his Christmas hangover clearly

      I can already tell its going to be a long couple of weeks.

        MLS is built like a tank. He's our partey replacement next year

        We're taking our sweeeeeeet ass time moving the ball around. We'll score a few but it'll be a composed match

        Everyone afraid to take shots

        They are playing so many at the back, Martinelli on the right wing is not gonna work well.

        Nice run and hit Timber, straight at keeper

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        Finally some drive forward. Great run by Timber, and he tries a shot. Decent shot, but right at the keeper. More of that please.

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        Our attacking play is just so poor.

        Players just standing, holding their positions.

        Always just one player at the time coming to meet the ball. Mostly resulting in said player picking the ball up near the halfway line and then playing it straight back to the CBs.

        In the first 15 minutes, there were two times when a player cut in with the ball only to have our own player either just stand in their way or even worse run straight into them.

        Only time we're moving decisively as a unit is when we've just lost the ball and need to fall back into our low block.

        Kaiiiii finally