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Arsenal v Crystal Palace Sunday 26th October 2 PM

Gurgen

No argument there. I think we’re allowed to point out that we watched utter shit football though.

JazzG

Gurgen That’s fair and I think that will come later in the season. We’ve got a lot of new players in and injuries, the players will need to time to fully get up to speed with each other.

JazzG

Gurgen

Sicario2 these guys played on Thursday and lost to a team from Cyprus

Sicario2

Gurgen prob had one eye on our game and prioritised it mentally imo.

Mirth

Apparently Saka was slightly ill and it was a planned sub.

lorddulaarsenal

Just got home from the Villa City match. City were well meh.

Mirth

Sicario2 unlikely that they'll prioritise an away league game against a top 4 side over their first home fixture in a European competition since forever.

Sicario2

Mirth they already played a qualifier at home. Anyway, they know they will get out of the group stages and they are probably favourites to win it. How they played today showed me this was their game of the week.

lorddulaarsenal

Our football will be a lot more expansive when Madueke returns.

It’s so hard to beat players one on one in this league

Asterix

I didn't watch this so can't comment on whether we played beautiful flowing football or not. But I'll take the 3 points gladly and won't care one jot about style if we keep winning.

QuincyAbeyie

Asterix But I'll take the 3 points gladly and won't care one jot about style if we keep winning.

I mean, those worried about our inability to score from open play do so exactly because they're afraid it will prevent us from keep winning.

Asterix

QuincyAbeyie yeah I know, that's fair. It really helps not having to suffer through games - easy for me to say.

RocktheCasbah

QuincyAbeyie I get the worry, but it isn't like we're not creating chances in open play - I know there weren't a lot yesterday, but we could really have had 3 or 4 goals at Fulham and Newcastle. These are not easy places to go, especially when teams are setting up to be so hard to break down.

flobaba

Sicario2 1-nil to the Arsenal

Meatwad

“I think the mindset has been exceptional. The level of aggression that we're playing with, how we insist and how we keep going and going and going, we are ruthless at that. In the end, we're going to get rewarded; we have so much quality. We rely on our habits and when those are really, really high, it makes things very difficult for the opponent.”
[...]
“When you look at the results, the type of games, the way goals have been scored, how difficult it is to break opponents down and to kill every source that they have to generate chances against you, it makes me really proud,” he smiled.

https://www.arsenal.com/news/arteta-biggest-victory-weve-had-season

QuincyAbeyie

RocktheCasbah you're correct that we're creating chances from open play as well, just fewer than many other teams in the league. I don't see why that should be the case.

JazzG

Our open play needs to improve but we also need to acknowledge our status is the league. PL teams are firstly more tactically astute compared to teams of the past and we are the team that gets the ultimate respect in that the vast majority of teams simply set up to stop us playing. Palace showed yesterday even when they were 1-0 down they were still quite happy to play with a low block and try to find a chance on the counter.

Qwiss

JazzG Palace are one of the best attacking teams in the league. Understat has them with the highest xG of the whole league. That they gave up on that and tried to play for a draw against us shows just how much fear we strike into teams these days. I've no problem with a one nil against them. When they played Liverpool they both had high xG and Liverpool lost 2-1. That's exciting to watch but its not how I want us to play. We've just come off a 4-0 against Atleti, Liverpool and City both lost this week against similar opposition, I don't really find much to be upset about here.

Rohit

I don't think we are the only team that gets this respect. Teams aren't any more open against City or Liverpool. City play a lot like us and take a few more risks. Liverpool try and get the ball faster forward before teams organize. We look in great shape at the moment, can hurt teams in many ways but we don't face low blocks because teams hurry men back faster against us or throw less bodies forward than they would against other top teams. We face low blocks because we are very patient in how we build up. We would rather retain possession than play a low percentage pass early.

awooga83

Rohit agree and teams probably feel a bit more comfortable in that organised structure because of how methodical and similar our build up is it tends to be possible to play that way against us and remain in the game because we aren't want a teams away with our attacking open play approach. I think the lack of open play threat will effect us if we don't get it better but it'll be a question does it cost us enough games to detrimentally effect the title race or in a champions League when it gets serious does it mean we don't have enough to progress ala PSG.

Gurgen

The first half was particularly bad, just 40 minutes of passing in our own half. I don't get why we need to play like cowards against Palace at home. People may good money to watch this crap.

Bernard Woolley

Gurgen This is what I thought as well. I also think Eze in MF is a misfit - he feels more a forward than a midfielder so makes us worse in some ways.

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