I'm just relieved after realizing this is the Carabao Cup semi-final. I really need to shake off this hangover!
Arsenal v Newcastle 7 January 8pm Carabao Cup Semi Final 1st Leg
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Sicario2 - Tier 1 Pochettino went five years without a trophy. Arteta entering his fourth now but was backed to a completely different level
We're not doing anything in the market until we've found some other Cuesta 2.0 teenager to hire for Edus job. If we ask Arteta to sign someone this January it'll just be our 7th LB/CB hybrid ffs.
We had Sterling on the bench for 90 minutes yesterday ffs.
I’m so sick of watching Martinelli faff about on the left.
jones We had Sterling on the bench for 90 minutes yesterday ffs.
That he can't even be considered in these situations just highlights the ridiculousness of the signing in the first place. We paid no fee and only half his wages but somehow still got robbed. Has there been a more pointless signing since Park?
a lot would be spoken about the front line, but actually we lost at both ends of the pitch. Neither goals are forgivable, that our defenders can outnumber their attackers yet still concede.
lorddulaarsenal said it before, Martinelli should be our sub LW. What's even worse is he's our best available player in the front 3 currently. We need so much more in attack to compensate for the way we set up.
why is he talking like he is not the one that built this team lol
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We kicked a lot of balls over the bar, and it's tricky that these balls fly a lot so there's details that we can do better
It's just different
It's very different to a Premier League ball, and you have to adapt to that because it flies different.
When you touch it the grip is very different as well, so you adapt to that.
Some comments on the ball. Ridiculous.
A few other comments about how it's just half time and he has the belief we can do it. I wouldn't expect anything else, but I'm not seeing what he is seeing.
lorddulaarsenal I'm equally sick of Odegaard NOT being the creative player with testicles that this Saka-less team sorely needs.
To be honest at least Martinelli never hides.
Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert thought Martinelli was one of the few bright spots last night. Played well and was really unlucky not to score. I thought Trossard played well too. I think you are right about Odegaard and add the rest of midfield too, especially last night where even Partey shat the bed. There is just no real creativity coming through the middle. No one even really occupies space in that hole behind the striker when we attack and it makes us easier to defend.
I think Odegaards dip in form is really showing us how lacking in imagination and guile the rest of the midfielders are. Jorginho was a breath of fresh air when he came on last night because he's actually unpredictable and inventive with some of his passing.
JazzG I assume HomeSteak's point is that if something happens a lot it makes sense to consider the possibility that we aren't just perpetually unlucky.
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I thought it was a big mistake going full strength. It's the Carabao Cup ffs, we should have continued to play our backup XI like we had done in all the previous rounds. I get that he probably wanted to win the trophy, but it's the Carabao Cup ffs.
Qwiss Didn't think he was good at all but refrained from commenting as it would appear driven by bias against him. Also thought he was poor in the last game, especially in the last few minutes of stoppage time where he played a ridiculously overhit pass to gift it back to their keeper, launched a cross straight out for a thrown in on the opposite side, and played a poor pass into Odegaard which was someone turned into a freekick.
I think the only two games that I've missed out on entirely the past two years were this game and the West Ham home game last season. My bad, guys. I'll try to do better moving forward.
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Who are we to put our noses up at a trophy given we haven’t won anything in 5 years.
The metric for Artera this season is not to ‘challenge’ or to ‘push’ whoever eventually wins it close. It’s to win some silverware.
Yes winning the Carling Cup would hardly be open bus parade stuff but it’s a start and would at least mean this team, that hasn’t won anything, had something against their name on paper.
All good managers (Jose, Pep) have won the league cup before dominating. It’s important for our ‘winning mentality’ and to lose the bottle/hasn’t won a trophy in x amount of years tag.
Getting knocked out of this simply means more pressure and scrutiny in our FA Cup and CL campaigns.
It was a low hanging fruit silverware to win. I hope we prioritise the second leg, most important game of our season.
I don't particularly care about the League Cup or even the FA Cup. If the FA Cup meant something, Wenger wouldn't have had airplane banners demanding his resignation. If the two trophies meant something, Ten Hag would still be in a job.
It's a nice to have, not a must have. Competing for and winning the PL and CL is what I care about and deep down even the domestic trophy hunters care about. If we're competing for the two and we're getting close or winning it, then I'm happy. If we fall off for more than 1 or 2 seasons and end up no longer competing for the two prizes, no amount of FA Cups and League Cups will change that he might not be the right man to get us over the line.