You couldn’t be any happier as an Arsenal fan. Well, there are some caveats but if you look at the overall picture, we are having a heck of a time. We are sitting at the top in Premier League with a 4 point lead to 2nd place Bournemouth and 6 points over Man City whom we can consider the competition. We have 3 wins in 3 games in Champions League, one of them was 4-0 against the Simeone’s side. We qualified for the Quarter Finals in Carabao Cup with a team that started a 15 year old and will face Crystal Palace and not one of the City, Chelsea or Newcastle. Our FA cup run is yet to start, but everything else looks fine so far. In fact, much better than just fine.
However, the road to success will get much tougher as we move forward, other teams will figure out their mess and every game will get decisive. All we need to do, is keep our head cool, perform the best we can, challenge each other for the starting place and prove why you deserved it and we can win something of value finally. We have got some of the best players in Premier League on bench. We have the best defence in the league and the opposition is struggling to put a shot on target. We have 15-year olds challenging Brightonions and we have players that are making history with the 15 minutes they are getting. The hunger is there, the team has fallen 3 years in a row after getting so close to the title and they surely would have that pain in their heart. I am pretty sure they don’t want to feel it again.
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Right, lets get back to the game. We are visiting Burnely today, and they aren’t in a very good condition. With only 3 wins in 9 games, they are fighting a relegation battle and the three wins they have were against Wolves, Sunderland and Leeds. We are surely the favorites and a win today will either keep the lead to 6 points against City or Bournemouth can do us a favor by beating them tomorrow. But, in any case, we can’t afford to lose our focus today.
Gabriel Martinelli picked up an injury against Brighton mid week and will not available for today’s game. Mikel is starting Trossard mostly in Premier League anyway so it should be fine. William Saliba remains a doubt after coming off at half time against Palace last weekend but we have Mosquera who can fill in his place. He had one bad game but you can expect that from a 21-year old CB trying to fit in the shoes of the best CB partnership in the world.
I am hoping a back 4 of Timber, Mosquera, Gabriel and Calafiori starting today with Raya back in the goal. Both Rice and Zubimendi are expected to start with Eze playing the no. 10 role. Saka, Gyokeres and Trossard will keep their places.
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I am bit sorry for Gyokeres. That lad thought he is coming to Arsenal to bang in couple of goals every game but is being surrounded by 3 defenders every game and is not getting the freedom he was otherwise getting with Sporting. The league’s tougher than anything else and with Arteta’s style of play, where your CF needs to go back in his own penalty box to defend, he will have to work harder to get his name on the scoresheet. However, it’s allowing Saka, Martinelli, Trossard more space on the wings and is ultimately improving our game in the final third so it’s not a bad thing as long as we keep winning.
Also, I hate to be overly dependent on set pieces and winning games 1-0, but 3 points are 3 points. Would I love some David Beckham free kick goals from Eze? Yes. Would I love Gyokeres scoring a hattrick with bicycle kicks? Fucking Yes. Martinelli picking the ball in his own half courtesy to a Raya’s pass and then beating 3 defenders to score a solo goal is a mesmerizing thing, but if you come at me calling the club a set piece club, I would show you the 3 points and the league table. If you happen to be a Liverpool fan, I would also ask you fuck off.
Right, that’s me done. See you during the game.
“As I said prior to the season starting, this season will not be like previous seasons due to the strength in depth of the league.”
You mean like your predictions for an easy win against Sunderland?
As for your obsession with Liverpool’s disallowed goal how the fuck can a player be in an offside position, have to duck to avoid the ball hitting them preventing it from going into the goal and the goal not be disallowed?
Oh yes in fan boy lala land basic facts don’t matter.
Marc,
As I said , whether it should be given as a goal or not is irrelevant , consistency and honesty of decisions is the key and that hasn’t happened in this case due to different outcomes for very similar incidents….surely even you would agree with that.
As for your suggestion that I thought the Sunderland game would be “an easy win ” , I’m not sure where you got that from as I said it would be a tough game and that’s how it turned out.
Wicksy
So what you’re telling me is that LiR’s self appointed Arteta fluffer has just discovered that ref’s are fucking useless because there’s no consistency?
Most of us who know anything about football have been fucked off with the standard of ref’s for decades and a lack of consistency in the same match let alone different games.
I look forward to your discovery that Fergie used to exist.
Matchday 10 – Time to extend the lead
You couldn’t be any happier as an Arsenal fan. Well, there are some caveats but if you look at the overall picture, we are having a heck of a time.…
Posted byAmbarish KNovember 1, 2025
Marc
You contradict yourself as much as Howard Webb does at the pgmol.
First you defend Howard Webb’s decision to disallow the Liverpool goal by saying ” how the fuck can a player be in an offside position, have to duck to avoid the ball hitting them preventing it from going into the goal and the goal not be disallowed?”……and then you agree with me by saying “that ref’s are fucking useless because there’s no consistency”.
Wicksy
I didn’t contradict myself its quite simple. Ref’s are fucking useless but that doesn’t mean they get every decision wrong. Liverpool’s goal was correctly disallowed I can’t and haven’t commented on the other goal because I don’t remember seeing it.
You’re digging yourself a hole because you wanted City to drop points because you know Pep will bum fuck Arteta again and you’ll have to come up with all new excuses as to why its not Arteta’s fault he blew winning the PL again.
Marc
“I can’t and haven’t commented on the other goal because I don’t remember seeing it.”
Now you’re doing a good impression of Starmer who deliberately acts thick.
Wicksy
Put up a link and I’ll take a look at the goal and give an opinion.
That’s the difference between us – if I don’t know I don’t claim to.
https://youtube.com/shorts/LoXSHo4W-Og?si=nOmqI7wnmwVadnAC
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Neither goal was disallowed.
As I said, it is irrelevant whether you or I believe they ( including liverpool’s) are goals or not , but Howard Webb cannot defend the officials allowing these 2 city goals and also defend the officials not allowing the Liverpool goal.
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Van djke with var audio
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Now you’re doing a good impression of Starmer who deliberately acts thick
Wicksy
Starmer isn’t thick. At least not in the way Bojo, Truss and your hero Sturmbahnfuhrer Farage could be described as thick. Long hours spent working successfully on complex legal cases and as DPP suggests a good mind for detail, judgment and winning strategy. His problem is more that he’s a massive turncoat who’s betrayed working people to pursue a right wing agenda.
Kroenke
Just a small point – Hedge Fund Managers earning millions a year work for a living.
Just because you are a high earner doesn’t mean you don’t work for a living – in fact many of these people work longer hours than the average worker.
Marc
Fair enough. My main point was questioning the Wicksyism that Starmer is thick. I genuinely don’t think that’s the case. He has plenty of other problems however.
Kroenke
Starmer isn’t thick so to speak – he does however have serious issues with common sense, judgement, basic competence and a fairly loose relationship with the truth.
Now being liberal with the truth is something that can be levelled at a lot (not all) of politicians but when you made such a big deal of being whiter than whiter you set the bar.
Billy big balls Trump may have met his match with Marjorie. She is like a terrier and has her teeth into his ankles. A jump and her gnashers could rip his balls off. The affair with the BBC could seem to be trivial.
Marc
Completely agree about those other flaws. A competent legal bureaucrat but a terrible political leader. Hopeless…but not the worst in recent memory.
NORG
Marjorie’s main drawback apart from being a fascist is that she’s thick as mince. In some speech or other, she used the word ‘gazpacho’ instead of ‘gestapo’. Souper!
https://youtu.be/Dd9RifhL-cA?si=kZhkIae6BpfCGjxH
Here it is. Ugly and stupid is no way to go through life.
Imagine Starmer calling the equally idiotic David Lammy the Minestrone for Foreign Affairs.
“Marjorie’s main drawback apart from being a fascist is that she’s thick as mince.”
Not sure she’s that bright and she’s stark raving mad with it.