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Arsenal v Crystal Palace Sunday 26th October 2 PM

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

DiabyKungFu good hold-up and link-up play today. He must be running on fumes right now.

DiabyKungFu

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert good hold-up and link-up play today.

I gotta repeat: Huh? I genuinely don't dislike the guy but I thought he was absolutely brutal today. Fotmob agrees with me that he was our standout bad performer today.

Don Pacifico

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert did think he did well in these areas.

Was a non-entity when put through though.

Laca comparison still feels relevant.

GooneriC

I'm worried about Saka Rice Gabriel and Gyokeres. They look way off fitness. Rice especially looks gassed

tazmania

GooneriC there wasn't a single player that wasn't gassed out there. Except for Gabriel maybe but he's a machine

Qwiss

GooneriC we are missing Ode, Kai and Noni so the other attackers are being used more than they should. They all looked tired after a big CL game. Look at the other CL teams dropping points this weekend, it's gonna happen.

tazmania

Gazza M AMAZING weekend. Loving it

RowJimmy

DiabyKungFu
Looked like he was running in cement.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

DiabyKungFu ok, for the "type" of striker he is, I think he did commendably in those areas.

It's annoying we aren't able to get him into his bread and butter situations so he can actually get shots off, but he also needs to take some of that blame. However I'm going easy on him because his workload is absolutely nuts

Gazza M

DiabyKungFu decent first half, bad second half. I don't think there's a big explosion coming though. my expectations have been tempered on that. what we've seen so far is broadly what we'll get.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Don Pacifico it's disappointing that he doesn't seem to be able to outpace (m)any PL defenders so far.

CPM

Yeah I can't really imagine praising Gyökeres today, he doesn't look at the required level. He might run around a lot but he's slow with poor feet. Havertz isn't a perfect player but he's a lot better than this.

Mirth

Arteta needs to properly rotate against Brighton. No one who started today should start

Don Pacifico

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert his dribbling ability is also very ordinary. Not very agile and telegraphs which direction he's going in.

tazmania

It feels like Gyok gets anxiety when he gets near the ball especially in the box. He's not fully clicking yet and must be putting pressure on himself. Reminds me of Kai when he first joined

CPM

tazmania You could see Kai's physical and technical abilities though, it was just a total lack of confidence/application. Vik might get more confident but I'm concerned he doesn't have those tools and has a relatively low ceiling as a consequence. Could still be a useful squad player in time but don't see more than that.

Qwiss

Bit of CL hangover match but grinding out the win is massive for us given the other results.

Mirth

Qwiss yep, psychologically it matters that we got the win today.

Meatwad

if there is space in front of viktor he doesn't have the ability to outrun anyone or even use power to keep them off him. brutal out there.

yuppa

Meatwad first time I’ve seen him live and it’s true, doesn’t have the acceleration to clear defenders when he’s put through. he’s not as good as we hoped, but he might just be good enough.

Segway

Ugly game but fully deserved win. We had them in an iron grip all game.

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