Ten games into the season and we should now accept the fact that Tottenham is doing exceptionally well and might just provide the third axis to the title challenge. I almost puked saying that. I’m sorry. At the very least, they are going to disrupt things. Ange is doing well with that shite and a bit of luck is favouring them too. They won 2-1 against Crystal Palace with ‘only one shot on target’.
Anyway, to hell with them. We are playing Sheff United in a 3 PM kick-off at home. A crucial game to get all three points and also to improve our home performance.
In team news, Thomas Partey is unavailable due to injury. Gabriel Jesus is out too (again) for few weeks due to muscle injury he picked up during Sevilla game. Timber is out for long anyway, rest all are fit. Jesus injury makes thing difficult for us because we are playing 2 games a week and Eddie Nketiah has failed to convert the chances he has got till now. I have been asking to put Trossard at CF because Havertz was not clinical in front of the goal while playing at Chelsea and he is not going to be clinical at Arsenal.
Will we start with a midfield of Odegaard, Jorginho and Declan Rice again? There’s a lot wrong with this. First, Rice should be the DM. Second, Havertz / Vieira provides a better attacking play at LCM. Third, Odegaard needs some rest and ESR should be given some games as he is fit now and is a direct threat. Playing ESR provides something different to our play from the wings strategy. It will happen eventually because Mikel has noticed Ode form but again, why wait till something goes wrong!
Our defence is stable. Tomi again at LB is we all want to see, and he should start ‘if’ performance is the parameter. He was superb against Chelsea in that LB role and it won’t be long before he develops a brilliant chemistry with Martinelli.
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Right, a short one today. I would love a 4-0 score line, with couple of goals from Martinelli and Saka each. See you during the game.
I’d quite forgotten how much Geordies fucking whinge. Moaning bastards.
Here we go Havertz with a nasty studs up but lucky the studs don’t catch the Newcastle player.
I sense the ref could be in a sexual relationship with their LB. Two bookable challenges – no cards.
That Havertz challenge gets my full approval!
Bruno G should have gone off for that Jorginho elbow to the side of his head.
Barcode Bruno is an even bigger cunt than his manure based namesake.
Havertz’s best half in an Arsenal jersey?
He’s been getting stuck in and been more robust in the challenge. Doesn’t help Havertz having chopstick legs.
As Havertz is playing the CAM his display isn’t good enough whereas Rice is creating more with his verticality of his runs with the ball.
Arsenal’s off the ball game has been very good let’s hope we don’t run out of energy. Rice MOTM for me so far.
Time to sort these Geordie cnuts out.
Speechless 😶
Ball had moved outside
A disallowed goal to the power of three. Fucking mad. And they still give it.
Looks like ref balanced his fuckup regarding Havertz who should have got a red for a nasty challenge
WtF substitutions of light weights in a physical battle.
Arteta is pushing his luck
Can’t fault the effort but we need more than effort and our squad isn’t good enough. We were bench-lite today.
The ghost of Hector Bellerin…. Is inhabiting Fabio Vieira
The throw was definitely foul throw. Does Mikel know how it cannot be done like ?
Doesn’t look like Arteta is going to be invincible this year then.
KP, keep the Haverfordwest result to the forefront of your mind and we’ll hang on vicariously through you.
good night one and all
And that’s the reward for throwing the game against WH… Newcastle have got some seriously cunty lads in their team. And the ref was shite.
Newcastle the new Stoke only play better football I guess the Newcastle players are rather fond of their heads.
That was Jorginho’s best game to date and we still lost. Havertz timing looked a bit better today but he’s not an 8. False 9 maybe.
You can’t expect to win with one shot on target in over 100 minutes. Havertz played as our 10 and main creator.
Vieira is of a similar level.
We have the biggest cunt in the game as our manager.
Fucking embarrassing, again
Fuck off and take your Chelsea slags with you
Cunt.
Back from my 5 Star escapades across America just in time to witness another blunt instrument performance…no more anomalous outings, like the father/son-like silver platter match which saw Eddie somehow pot 3…this is what we are, a plodding, sideways-dependent, boring outfit, with exceedingly little creativity on offer in the final third and even less clinical finishing…fuck me, two games running with negligible shots on target and only one last second meaningless goal to show for it…I swear to fucking god the Havertz deal will be MA’s and our undoing…instead of redressing our most pressing needs up top, we spent a fortune on a reclamation project, who thus far looks like a headless chicken wearing steel-toed boots more often than not…don’t get me wrong, I like Rice, but since his arrival we look more like his Hanner’s from last year than a team who kind of challenged for a title…what a waste of resources…just can’t help but imagine what a real manager might have done with that level of backing considering the blue chippers MA inherited
Hammer’s
MA will rant and rave about the “official” missteps, but nothing they did or didn’t do will ever expalin away the fact that we managed but one shot on target, especially after that mid-week stinker…we all know that Bruno should have been shown a red, but the very fact that he didn’t get tossed is likely the only reason why Havertz didn’t see his second yellow for another long distance reckless slide tackle in the second half….as for the kerfuffle surrounding the winning goal, there were certainly several issues worthy of debate, but like I said above it’s difficult to complain when you’re so ineffective in the business end of the pitch…so much so that in the waning minutes of the game we had another illegal throw-in and 3 corner kicks in which Tross couldn’t find a way to get even one over the first line of defenders…that’s some amateur hour shite
Just a very brief observation, Raya is a royal fuck up in goal and contributed to the VAR controversy since he didn’t do the job he was hired to do.
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On the positive side the Premiership Rugby and the United Rugby Championship is exiting and without the fucking PGMOL disasters.
Good to have you back with us TRVL. I hope the mandatory rehab wasn’t too painful. I’m sending Mts T here when we’re almost done with our company on the company dime.
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Totally agree with your findings about the game with Kai and Bruno G both lucky to be on the pitch at the end of the game.
It was obvious that after we got out muscled by the Hammers midweek, the Bar Codes would follow suite. All we had to do was keep our heads and let the captain deal with the ref. For this reason with all players repeatedly surrounding the ref the game’s tension was tighter than Sid’s condoms after a couple of Cialis.
Sorry, what a terrible thought to be drinking your coffee with this morning unless you’re Sid of course.
Only, Eddie has Newcastle playing well with gladiatorial energy particularly in midfield, which became the game’s trenches with dark-arts warfare to boot. It reminded me of the old blood & guts Manure games back in the Invincible days.
Problem is, Havertz with all the grace and legs of a ballerina on ice or Bambi – take your pick, does look very out of place doing a 10-yard sliding tackle that could shame Nureyev in his pomp.
The reality of last night’s game was we quickly lost sight of our football and focussed on their rough-house tactics, and reacted badly instead of being the professionals they’re paid to be as players.
Eddie Howe resulted to Pulis’s Stoke with strong physicality tactics knowing our Arteta pampered babies have soft bellies, and then Newcastle started to put their football together after disrupting ours.
Luckily, our lads hung in where the midfield became our Somme lines because of our serious lack of creativity eg from our £65m misfit. Vieira isn’t really anything to get excited about either, and ………………. then……….. Willock came on and changed the game for Newcastle immediately, why don’t we have players like that? Oh wait………. One of Arteta’s negative player statistics; I mean we remember all the negative records Arteta broke, and thus setting new levels of crap, don’t we?
Arteta apparently went on an incredulous rant to the press which manuscript you can read in full here:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/mikel-arteta-rant-transcript-arsenal-31363325
Another thought here is that, injuries or not, our £b+ squad should have been enough to bring 3 points back to N5, shouldn’t it?
I’d send the squad on a SAS boot camp for the next International break releasing no-one to their NTs. That I would pay to see if Arteta and Edu led by example.
For now, though, we have the CL and entertain Sevilla Wednesday with Burnley at home next Saturday, and then Brentford away on the 26th, which could be a big banana skin, as they turned over West Ham on their patch yesterday who we lost to midweek.
I thought our energy levels were good throughout the game, which makes the loss all the more hard to take.
So, what was my take on last night’s game? It should have been a draw: they had 2 shots to our one and the rest was in a midfield carnage that Jesus would have loved to rev up more chaos to add to the mix.
We lost a game we should have drawn, but hove won games this season we should have lost.
That’s the reality for probably most teams bar Sheffield where their best export was The Full Monty. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119164/ One of the best British comedy movies ever.
With such a physical game, we’ll have to assess our walking wounded for Sevilla, but with it only being really November, the Jan TW seems a long way and several new injuries off. Arteta looked the most stressed I’ve seen him; almost Emery like after losing the EL final.
Is this post game rant how The Arsenal’s manager should be seen as a sore loser blaming everything, but himself and his selection, subs and tactics. Here’s a question for you, why can’t White play 90 minutes at full tempo when needed?
Jorghino looked over fired up for the game where like a boxer who over extends his punch reach, Jorghino was stretching his natural abilities to be forced with his lunges for a 50% tackle rate of 3 tackles for a DM.
He managed to block one shot, won 2 ground duals, zero aerial duals, but what for me is the weirdest stat is that Jorghino didn’t concede or make any fouls, so what was the Bruno G dust up all about?
Look even our nicest footballer ever: Smithy, gave fouls away as our angelic assassin in front of goal, but our DM with zero fouls is just bizarre.
Have a good lazy Sunday LIR
didn’t concede or have fouls against*