Do you think there is any chance you reconsider and praise Arsenal and Arteta during the season though ? They could really use it in these tough times.
Kane being a better player than Auba would prove you right, not my green smiley.
So this Arsenal team is even worse than the Wenger teams that lost 6-0 to Chelsea and 8-2 to United among several other humiliations and went for almost a decade without a trophy? And which 6 teams do you reckon will finish above Arsenal this season?
Their problem wasn't just players and budgets...it was attitude, culture and lack of proper team leadership. Giving Wenger $500 million would not have fixed that issue as they would have just assembled an expensive squad of players who still lost games against the top sides.
Trying times indeed. There was some sort of malaise happening within the club during that time.
Some reports saying Arsenal rejected the deal. Don't think its a done deal.
I see where you're coming from. We haven't had that fear factor since pre 2006. However transitioning from the bruise free footy our club has been playing for the last 14 years is a welcome change. It just doesn't work anymore and we have to adapt to the current state of the game.
Sure they are.
If Arsenal get Partey they will have a much more solid spine. I could see them being one of the favourites for at least top four.
I guess it would look like this :
Think he making the best of what he has at his disposal. The way he has us playing out the back is definitely more Pep but the way he has defending is more Mou. Maybe he's one of those managers who can actually play multiple brands of football effectively.
I doubt we get both but I don't see the problem fitting them into the team. If its a 3-4-3 then they could play CM together (Aouar played much of 18-19 in a double pivot and did really well in that role) or if its 4-3-3 then I would expect our best starting CM trio to be Partey-Ceballos-Aouar, with Xhaka also rotating into that group quite a lot.
Their performance for the whole match was pathetic.
They were better when they decided to actually push up the pitch and actually get on the ball and try get passes in behind Liverpool in second half but they were lacking quite a bit tonight
Cebalos single handedly made them look like an actual football side.
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Is that really 91 more shots against than for under Arteta?I don't really see what has improved under Arteta. Arsenal's metrics are genuinely mid-table.
They have gone from a +5 net shots per game side under Wenger to now -4 under Arteta. They were 14th in shots taken last season and now down to 18th this season. I suspect Aubameyang being a good finisher is papering over the cracks somewhat but this is really worrying for them.
Is shots taken alone a good metric to judge a team on? When it comes to shots on target we're 10th in the table this season. No doubt we aren't creating as much as we were during the Wenger days but that's more down to the squad we have and with the ins and outs over the last 2 years since Wenger left. Before Arteta our average goals scored was 1.33 and its gone up to 1.71 since he arrived whilst goals conceded dropped from 1.5 to 1. Our ppg over the last 19 games is 1.9 which is top 4 form.
Yes, -75 for the remainder of 2019/20 after he took over and -16 so far this season.
It's not the be-all and end-all but there is very strong correlation (obviously!) between shots and goals. Shots on target is better and expected goals even more so. But it's still astonishing for a team such as Arsenal to have a negative shot differential. The other two are negative as well.
That's pretty shit. It's a part time job, how much does it actually cost them compared to the millions they spend elsewhere? After 27 years at the club....
