Ive often felt this can go against you, especially this early in the season. Players shouldn't be tired yet, our form has dropped since the FA Cup match vs City and I think it's partly because we haven't played much. The sharpness isn't there right now.
You don't win in an endurance test, which is what the league is, against a team that is immune to injuries and fatigue. Simple as.
Good ebening
I did say I don’t know why Arteta messed around with the team for the cup game. That performance was really poor.
I agree. Felt we rolled over too easily for them wanting to "prioritise" the league and it's backfired (as I thought it would). We had good momentum and we were developing a good winning culture. That little shift in mentality of sacrificing the FA Cup has set us on our poor run and we haven't won't since.
Because we are already looking very tired out there and are very thin in many areas on the pitch.
Looking tired is worrying though given your schedule has been very easy on you
How have you exceeded expectations? You made a post on this forum a couple weeks back stating Arsenal had the best team in the league. Being 1st should be expected, no?
Ooh god I hope it is. Their fans have been unbearable. Least city fans know for a fact their side is class.
Would be fantastic if Emery puts a big nail in their coffin
Not by you it seems
You have been playing one game per week. Confidence matters. You losing to the side who are challenging you defenitely gives other side an edge.
Not sure about that. I mean, can we really be tired barely halfway through the season? We haven't played much the last month or so but are in our poorest run and form now. That rest hasn't seemed to help.
It's just the typical Arsenal fan this season, they all got far too cocky, far too soon. It's coming back to bite them and now they are all back peddling, saying they didn't expect this much from their team, so we are proud of them regardless blah, blah, etc.
I'd say we were kind of the same, tonight we added self-inflicted mistakes and against City you get shot down.
We have played the same starting 11 barring injuries for a while now. Frank might have been right that it has made us also a bit predictable. Partey isn't that durable in the first place either. He has been struggling since that FA cup game. We needed him today.
United are playing 3 games a week to your 1
That's why a pretty low chance well finished won the game instead of multiply being opened up like they were today. But okay.
I think maybe you've misunderstood or taken something out of context. I do remember saying that the table doesn't lie, and yes, we have been the best team in the league for most of the season so far. Things are obviously shifting a bit and right now, we're the 2nd best team in the league after tonight's game. But still a long way to go and I'm enjoying it - the ups and the downs.
Momentum matters and your team was on a roll so losing a game against a tepid City side that day was not a smart move.
What I mean when I saw that is that Arteta made too many changes. From memory, think he made 3-4 changes in starting 11. It was clear he was happy to sacrifice the FA Cup. At least that's how I saw it anyway.
Don't worry, they'll be changing the narrative now that they've been found out. It was always about getting top 4.
I completely agree. You can't pick and choose which games/comps you'll show up for. If you want to create a winning culture, you gotta try to win every game.
We have a game in hand but it doesn't feel like it matters
I’m definitely worried, can’t lie.
Maybe but tonight was all about our defence fecking up. You can't gift opportunities to people, and we did that tonight for 2 of their goals.
It doesn't.
I know, City are just another type of monster. I think they'll win it now unless the FFP stuff gets in the way somehow.
They've already settled for 3rd place at r/gunners
3 if Haaland hadn’t been a few inches offside before winning that penalty.
