I don't know, right now, last season looks more of an anomaly than anything. I feel he's a very erratic player who blows hot and cold. Garnacho is definitely a talent, but Martinelli really should be well ahead of him, but he isn't.
We need to learn to dispatch teams at home with more ease. We’ve dropped points at home against Fulham, Spurs, West Ham, and Villa now and needed late winners vs Utd and Brentford. That’s 1/3 of our home games where we could easily have dropped points. That’s where my issue lies.
Yeah that was so weird. Having 2 best seasons after being mostly average for 20 years and leave the stadium like that.
Even their atmosphere against Bayern in CL was pretty ordinary. For a club with so much tradition and 2 very good seasons , their fans have been such a disappointment
I don’t know how people can really comment on atmospheres without being there. Match going fans seemed to think the Bayern atmosphere was very good. I get the comments on the crowd leaving early as that’s really visual, but atmosphere is surely best judged by being there.
The Emirates has historically been a very very quiet stadium. They have been markedly better this season and last season though. There has been a pretty noticeable improvement in noise levels at their home games.
I think this was the season for them, as City and Liverpool were quite injury hit, while Arsenal had 95% of their best players available. I think Saliba hasn't missed a game, Gabriel maybe 1 or 2 at the beginning of the season, White has been available for all the games. Same with Rice, Odegaard, Saka. Not sure how Arsenal would fare with injuries, as having two seasons without major injuries is very rare.
Liverpool definitely, City less so, but agreed.
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I don't see either of us winning all of our games. We have our next three away from home all within the space of 7 days I think. Fulham, Everton and West Ham. I don't see us picking up 9 points there.
Liverpool or Arsenal win them all and they might have a chance, but very unlikely.
Yep, our PL game against Spurs is after they have a 12 days rest while we have to go to Bayern, Wolves and play future Ballon d'Or Cole Palmer's Chelsea. No news yet about Odegaard but even with him this is probably not happening.
I’ve seen that image numerous times before to refer to numerous different games, any idea what match it’s originally from?
- Is Timber a LB? I always thought he was a CB / RB. I remember someone here said that Zinchenko was basically Scholes at Lb which still amuses me.
He’s a centre back by trade but started the Community Shield and the first game of the season at left back. Think under Pep and Arteta teams, we need to forget about the role of conventional full backs with their liking for playing centre backs across the back 4 and inverting them. He targeted Lisandro Martinez for that role initially because of his ball progression before signing Zinchenko, but he’s really struggled defensively at times.
Liverpool have been in that mode for weeks now. The number of times we behaved like that (over confident) against Utd alone this season deserves another ICJ investigation.
Falling short in a title race is not imploding.
You could have put Ronaldo in an Arsenal shirt and he'd have found a way to be a bottler in the CL.
Aye, which is why I never understood why we were supposedly favourites over Bayern. Yes they've had a poor season by their standards but they have an excellent team. When they went 1-0 up I knew that was it for us and they weren't going to give us a sniff. Elite game management which IMO comes with experience in these situations.
Think CM is just as important as a CF. With Partey done I think, our CM options have really just been Rice and Jorginho this season and we have faded in the second half of our last 2 games. Albeit they've been tough games vs Villa and Bayern, but we are looking very leggy. I think we played fairly well esp in the first half, but I expected at least a goal tonight.
