Recent content by Xyx

We've significantly increased our points total every season under Arteta and there has been a clear progression to the style of play and performances, what is this average you keep referring to? You somehow managed to mention the money we've spent over the years without acknowledging that it...

I much prefer the early Emirates period where we were playing great football and in a few title races over the period where we won a bunch of FA cups. Not just from an entertainment perspective but also because how you perform in the league is ultimately most indicative of your capacity to...

Both teams had basically the same number of shots and our xG was higher, although definitely much closer than the 2-0 scoreline suggests. Palace away is a fairly difficult fixture if you look at their record against top teams under Vieira and we dominated them for most of the first half. We...

I like to engage them regardless. I don't worry about their predictions, I just don't get the logic behind them. The whole thing is so disingenuous. At the start of the season, people confidently predicted we'd finish below teams like Villa and Leicester let alone Spurs and United. Now that we...

I was referring to achievements in general, not 4th place specifically. Could be anything from a relegation survival to a title win, any instance of a team finishing higher than another. You vaguely talk about the context of the season overinflating our position but what do you see changing in...

Mainly seen this from United supporting journalists and fans. Also, one could use the "it doesn't count when your rivals are shit" argument to belittle a lot of historical achievements. We could have a whole discussion going through every league season and concluding how one or more teams...

We'll likely finish 5-6 points behind Chelsea at most, a team expected to challenge Liverpool and City this season, and actually favoured to have a better season than the former by many pundits, fans, and even analysts. I'm not having this "top 4 will be decided by the least shit team"...

People who don't follow Arsenal closely wonder why we give Emery such a hard time when on the surface it looks like he did a fairly decent job of finishing 5th and only a point below CL qualification. The big issue was that he made us worse in basically every relevant metric and we relied on...

I disagree. Their only impressive signing in my opinion is Reguilon. Bale's injury record is a real concern and he has been playing roughly the equivalent of half a season since 2015.

I was actually getting worried that Aulas been quiet about our pursuit of Aouar. A positive development.

I think injuries played a major role. There's the infamous Eduardo which led to us forfeiting our lead at the top. Rosicky missed an entire season. Van Persie would consistently get injured from 2008 to 2010. In the 2009/10 season, we had lost more than half of our best eleven to injuries after...

"Pashun, fite, desiyah" Anytime a commentator implies that a team is losing because they don't have the right mentality, not because they might simply be shite.

Maybe I'm biased but I've always seen it as really a freak result in a fairly open match. Both United and Arsenal had about the same number of chances, United were simply very clinical with theirs on that day. If I remember correctly, most of the goals were screamers.

Can't wait for Bellerin and Tierney to come back, not only as a fan but also because I can see them being great FPL-wise. Emery's attacking system is heavily oriented around wingbacks and cutbacks. Bellerin was one of the leading assisters in defence before getting injured and Kolasinac would...

He's actually a fairly good player if you don't judge him mainly on the rash tackles and the few misplaced passes he makes that get exaggerated. His major weakness is that he's not good under pressure. However, in nearly every match where he doesn't start we end up playing noticeably worse than...