Raya starts which is obvious. Ben White starts as RB, Mosquera and Gabriel as the CBs, and Calafiori on the left. MLS gets another start in the midfield, alongside Declan Rice and Odegaard. Havertz led the line with Saka and Tzolis on either side of the pitch to assist him.
It was expected that Konsa would start against his former side, but it looks like Mikel wants to stick to what worked earlier. Havertz over Gyokeres – we can’t even call it a mystery because we all know why it is so.
I am turning 35 in a few minutes, India time so I don’t have much to say, except that not seeing Martinelli is a heart break for me while not seeing Jesus gives a relief. Only a day and some hours left before the transfer window shuts, and we have only Tzolis left as the left winger.
That’s another day’s discussion though, the game starts in an hour and I will watch some of it.
Hope you are having a good day, and hopefully the Monday ends with a win. #COYG
Not inspiring…the opposite in fact, but pleasing in isolation to shit on the Villa. A club of wankers if ever there was one.
we just barely beat a side who didn’t get a shot on target, and not because we locked them down, and who played their C-side for the better part of 70+ minutes…if this painting drying exercise is what we’re in store for this season, it’s going to be a long one…if other sides had half a brain they would simply emulate Unai’s backline rotational system and force us to make cross field passes, which we can’t seem to do without putting way too much air under them…the clock is ticking on this window so we had better wake the fuck up!!
Tough game , titles are typically won by keeping clean sheets and 1-0 wins.
Havertz was mr floppy tonight , Tzolis struggled , a good decision to bring Eze on for Tzolis especially as he was on a yellow card.
Villa’s home form against the big clubs is 2nd to none, Emery is a top manager who set the team up to play on the transition but Arsenal coped with that well with Villa having zero shots on target.
As I have said previously, having our attacking full backs fit will give the opposition problems and ultimately that was the case tonight with another excellent assist from calafiori.
Only 36 games to go.
And after tonight, I wont be watching too many of them, if any.
We are fucking drab and dull.
To spend over a billion and have that long streak of useless Chelsea piss up front and no pace in the team.
Be a fuckin long season.
Maybe the longest ever.
Hopefully Chelsea can keep up their style of play as they are decent to watch.
Rogers , who i thought was cack, actually not bad.
And before anyone slags me, for supporting Chelsea, only one cunt to blame for that.
This cunt of a manager
Cunt.
“I’ve been disconnected from the world for 24 hours because I think my energy and focus has to be on the match”.
fuck me, that’s what we get when he’s putting all his energy/focus on the Villa match
btw right now we’re battling with fucking Sunderland for a last minute shot in the dark
believe it or not, we’re in an very unenviable position right now, due primarily to the actions of our manager, and unless we have a total rethink regarding roster construction (i.e. revamping the manner in which we utilize our academy and by not always choosing quantity over quality), there will be no dynasties in North London so long as MA’s in charge
the explanation is really quite simple, if this fucktard can’t lure the best and brightest to London with gobs of money and the title monkey off his back, when the fuck will it happen…until this narrative does a complete fucking 180 it will require the continued incompetence of our closest competitors, both here and abroad, for this ceilinged project to succeed, which seems unlikely now that several once-prominent sides are emerging from their extended.slumbers/stupors…now this might take a year or so before they’re back to their former selves, but when they do our unnecessarily capped “no plan” plan will find itself back in the days of yore when the Wenger Cup was all the rage
it’s a crying shame that we didn’t have someone else in charge when our window was wide fucking open, but instead our little cock-up King went scorched earth, from a tactical standpoint, and our transfer prospects have suffered ever since…now this isn’t meant to sewer everyone who’s come in, as most are players of considerable quality, just not the kind of quality who typically take you from being part of the conversation to sitting at the head of the table…the worst part is they know it too or why else would they be chasing after players who neither fit the current script or appear to have little to no interest
As I have said previously, I always like to fit ‘as I have said previously’ into anything I post because people will be deeply impressed by my abilities to lie about coming out with the myth ‘as I have said previously’.
Fuck’s sake.
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In other news…
Art…to save others…mate, if you don’t like the turgid one-dimensional uninspiring shit that Arteta is serving up season after season, they why don’t you fack orf to WHL, Stamford Bridge etc. etc. I think I might join you!😁😁😁 Remember people would always come out with that sort of bollockry in Wenger’s time along with the immortal, ‘be careful what you wish for’.
in other words, keep on, keeping on Art. I think this site is going to rely on your pithy analysis this season, especially if last night’s game is a yardstick of what’s to come.
so here we are with the hours rapidly dwindling and so far up top we’ve got someone from a 3rd rate division, who btw just got run off the pitch by Matty Fucking Cash…god only knows what desperate measures MA will take if he can ever navigate his way through all those rejection letters that are piling up in his office…the options include the usual suspect, Nico Williams, and a few unproven coin tossers, such as Antonio Nusa and Igor Paixao
personally I just don’t see Alvarez coming, as it would be incredibly difficult to convince anyone here that he passed MA’s supposed commitment to his cause test…then again our MIT is a lying sack of shit, so I guess anything is possible…not to mention, I’m not even sure that JA is really that much of an upgrade, unless he’s coming to replace Havertz…last season he had a 4 month spell when he didn’t score a single fucking goal…beyond that, we know that if he did come it would only be as a result of him being booed off the pitch by his own fans and the fact that we were willing to give him that despicable Barca clause (btw Jesus took a paycut to go to Barca becuase that’s a desired destination)
get used to hearing the name Kroupi as the wag the dog crew will be in full force should MA cock-up another window…the fake news story of how his injury derailed our supposed plans will be splashed all over the fucking internet…already I have seen a handful of the usual paid hacks spreading the word of our forked tongue fuck of a manager…here’s hoping that they simply jumped the gun and that someone of real consequence will be coming in
Unfortunately we will see a lot of teams set up similar to Villa last night, 10 players behind the ball waiting for Arsenal to give the ball away so they can hit us on the break.
So what we will have , similar to last night , is Arsenal playing low risk football with lots of control but refusing to over commit.
Of course Arsenal will be criticised for not playing into the hands of their opponents because many who watch and analyse the game haven’t a clue.
Will Chelsea play any different to Villa at the weekend probably not , will Arsenal play any different probably not, Chelsea had 25% possession at home to Brighton in the week who played into their hands by continually being loose in possession which the excellent Chelsea front 3 took advantage of.
I can guarantee you that Arsenal will not be so accommodating for the Chelsea front 3 the way Brighton were in the week..
It may prove to be a cagey game unless there is an early goal to open the game up , Chelsea haven’t beaten us for about 6 years and I’m not sure they are solid enough in midfield and defence to beat us this time.
We are currently on a run of one goal conceded in 7 league games, the Chelsea front 3 do look good but to look good you need the ball so we will see how they get on if they are starved of the ball..
Yes I would have liked an elite signing but by not signing another player then surely it will give Dowman and /or Eze more game time.
Odegaard rightly received a lot of praise for his performances in the 3-0 wins v city and Coventry but last night he was average which as I have said previously is par for the course as he is a player who excels when the game opens up but struggles in tight games.
Wicksy
But weren’t you telling us last week about what a good time it was to play Villa etc?
“Yes I would have liked an elite signing but by not signing another player then surely it will give Dowman and /or Eze more game time.”
Neither of whom are left wingers / left sided forwards.
tick fucking tock
Kroenkephobe
I now get far more satisfaction, when these cunts under this absolute cunt of a manager, lose and I hear the cunting fanbase whine on about PGMOL conspiracies, than I ever did, when I actually liked the cunts win.
Highly recommend it.
When we start playing proper fuckin attacking football, get these carpet baggers out and not have a fuckin cunt in charge, I will revert back.
Pricksy—no wonder you think your an expert prognosticator you flip-flopping cover all your bases fucktard…it’s likely why you’re such an admirer of our manager who seems to relish any opportunity to talk out of both sides of his mouth…in the same minute he’s praising his current options, he’s on the phone trying to convince anyone and everyone to join his boring as fuck project…it’s clear that both Chelsea and City are fucking embarassed that they’ve allowed a settling side like Arsenal to win the title, which is why they’re both on a spending spree targeting the kinds of profiles that MA could only hope to sign…throughout history the top-top sides never stand pat, as that’s what organizations with dynastic goals in mind do…besides Saka, not a single one of our forward options would even be an obvious second option on either of those sides…fuck me, if Viktor isn’t good enough to supplant a fucking no footed hump like Havertz, whomever was behind this signing should be sacked immediately
Nwaneri out on loan to Dortmund.
Incoming – Tumbleweed but I’m not sure they can play on the wing.
Well its looking like Captain Dickless is taking us into the season with a weaker attacking squad than last season.
Why the fuck has he spent so much money on defensive signings and so much time chasing attacking players who weren’t interested and refused to even engage with us?
What a cunt.
there will be those who will try to spin the fuck out of this window with talk of financial sustainability, the “wrong fit” argument and squad harmony, but that would be total bullshit because MA tried desperately to sign several marquee signings and failed miserably…so any attempt to rationalize/justify this window would be some cake and eat it too nonsense…I wouldn’tbe surprised if MA offered up his first born son to JA to act as his indentured servant just to get it over the line
btw Pricksy everyone knows that this is the best time to face Chelsea, especially if Caicedo is out and Enzo’s out of the picture…we’ll just bore them into functional oblivion
only our trolling fuck of a manager would tease deadline deals then the only one to get done saw Ethan going to Dortmund…what a prick…I hope Ethan can find his way into a serious role with a team that’s infinitely better at coaching up younger prospects…if that were to happen he just might say fuck you to MA in the same manner as everyone else