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Arsenal v PSG | UCL SF 1st Leg | Tuesday 29 April 8pm UK time | Prime

daredevil

That was the chance.

Doc

Arteta needs to do fucking so something about the midfield, it's non existent...

We can still turn this around, but he needs to take action

HomeSteak

Need to take Timber off as well, the ref is dumb as fuck, he has a tricky opponent...he will get sent off

Mirth

HomeSteak timber isn’t on a yellow

Big Willie

HomeSteak Need to take Timber off as well, the ref is dumb as fuck, he has a tricky opponent...he will get sent off

Did I miss a yellow for Timber. Don't remember him getting carded.

Big Willie

lorddulaarsenal timber didn't get a yellow. Tross and Saka did.

awooga83

This was the scenario I most feared because the season and more generally under Arteta we struggle to respond to these kinds of setbacks. The team need to show they can break out of that because we look so poor right now just going to fade out at the moment.

HomeSteak

Big Willie hmm you are right, never mind. I was sure he got it

daredevil

Kel Varnsen

He's exceptional as a relief LB. We're desperately missing Partey.

Dom

Few things going on in that half. PSG playing like they know they've got a favourable ref. Then there's a big gulf in class between the two midfields.

They'll keep pressing high and suffocating us until we can carve out chances or make them sweat on the break. At the moment they're playing like we don't have the quality to hurt them through the middle and they're right so far.

Sadly they look more likely to score again.

Claudius

Gazza M this. This isn’t the first time this season we’ve taken a while to organise after a reshuffle.

Don Pacifico

Going out on a limb but individually, I don't think our midfielders have been that bad. Just don't think they're functioning as a unit, no sense of where each other are etc.

Panda

Don Pacifico How often have Rice and Merino played together as the 2 CMs this season? Probably less than 5 so its not surprising they haven't got a partnership going like RicexPartey.

Odegaard well I just don't know anymore what has happened to my captain.

MistaT

Fucking Partey ruining this.

I was dreaming of Rice rampaging through their midget midfield, and instead he's deep inviting pressure as our inverted fullbacks only further invite pressure.

The game was to be won by playing through the middle with incisive passing (which Rice doesn't have) and atheltic mids (which Merino/Odegaard aren't).

Don Pacifico

Sturrridge is wearing a horrific suit.

banduan

Rice is definitely not a 6. We need to find a way to let him roam.

Don Pacifico

banduan I see no reason why he can't do that if Merino and him have an understanding. But they don't. The rare moments Rice has got forward, Merino has taken a step back but need to see that more often.

To that end, need to see our wingers switching flanks more often.

Dom

banduan

Merino is even less of a 6.

Odegaard needs to step up and provide some of what Rice did against Real. He's busy without the ball, but timid and hesitant with it.

USArsenal

Merino needs to be more mobile, Rice needs to get more control in the middle, and Ode needs to control the tempo more. Somehow we are not out of this game. We looked absolutely dire in the first 20-25 minutes until we figured out hw to get at them a little more. The trick is the balance. All out attack and we will get done in on the counter. Too little attack and we won't get back into it. It took us a while to get the balance right v. Real also, but the difference was that Real didn't score first.

Qwiss

Arteta needs to man up and play Nwaneri.

MistaT

Qwiss -- I was wondering about Saka into Odegaards position and Nwaneri to left wing.

Not sure Areteta has the balls to pull that move on Odegaard though.

Gurgen

Outclassed in every department. This reminds of playing Barca and being schooled during the Wenger years. And these guys are nowhere near Barca.

Mirth

Gurgen I wouldn’t go that far, we created the same amount of chances and better quality ones at that

USArsenal

Gurgen

We were outclassed in the first 20 minutes or so, but we've come back into the game, and we've created some chances. We just need to take one of them. Villa showed they could be got at. And we're starting to get at them.

Mirth

Merino always looks so static as a midfielder. Weirdly much more mobile upfront when he just needs to make short, sharp movements

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