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Arsenal v Newcastle 7 January 8pm Carabao Cup Semi Final 1st Leg

Sicario2 - Tier 1

Not good. I did warn you guys football is not linear and that we wouldn’t get 20 shots at a winning the title.

We had our chance last two years. When it’s on the plate you take it. There’s no guarantees in football.

I’m afraid Arteta will end up being a Poch 2.0 aka nearly man.

jones

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.

Burnwinter

You're not gonna get many clearer proofs we need to sign forwards. Feels a bit despondent at present in general.

Coombs

Knew we'd lose. Just off the plane and I immediately came here to write another I-told-you-so into the void:

Our summer was a failure.

Gazza M

finding new levels of inefficiency

invisibleman18

Gazza M if only the impact of having no centre forward in the squad could have been foreseen somehow.

Dom

The difference between a Havertz and Isak couldn't be any clearer. Isak could receive the ball and do something with it, in space or while being pressed by Gabriel and Saliba. Havertz usually bodged his first, second or third touch or dribbled into dead ends.

mohan

I'm just relieved after realizing this is the Carabao Cup semi-final. I really need to shake off this hangover!

Gunner89

Pay gyokeres release clause

jones

We had Sterling on the bench for 90 minutes yesterday ffs.

invisibleman18

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?

lorddulaarsenal

I’m so sick of watching Martinelli faff about on the left.

Qwiss

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.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

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.

banduan

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.

HomeSteak

why is he talking like he is not the one that built this team lol

JazzG

HomeSteak He's not wrong though is he? Another day we'd have scored 4 or 5 goals, we just seem to have a lot of these games where we create enough to win the game twice over and not score!

Tam

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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cdek10j3rjeo

Qwiss

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.

Tam

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.

QuincyAbeyie

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.

MistaT

JazzG -- I'm struggling to see how anyone thinks this team could score 4-5, yet alone, 2+ based on our current form and players. I don't care what our xGF is game to game, nor do I care it thinks we could have scored 4 goals when those chances were Martinelli breakaway, Timber's header, and Havertz's header....none of those players are regular/confident goal scorers and they're snatching at chances.

Claudius

QuincyAbeyie this is only the second game where we have hit 3.5xG and failed to score. It was an outlier event.
Just look at our results last few weeks. We scored 5 off about 2 xG. Didn’t score off similar. Sometimes it be like that.

What is true is what we all know. That we need to get our mean xG up and volatility down.

JazzG

QuincyAbeyie I'm not sure I agree, I firmly believe that the main factor is the performance and the wins and goals will follow from that. Against Brighton second half we hardly created anything but we had more than enough good chances to win this game. We need to be more clinical and need to sign an attacking player but this game is an anomaly, if we had stats and chances like this game we'd win 99 times out of a 100.

Look at our last 13 games in all competitions, we've won 9, drawn 3 and lost 1. Is that now classed as bad form or our team is suddenly not very good?

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