Yeah this was the passage of play before we gifted them a goal. It was like this for a while in the second half. It felt to me that Arsenal had given up, their players looked beaten and the result felt pretty secure for us. And then disaster struck.
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That's the one, the interchange at around 1min 20 to escape the press I really liked.
Yeah I agree with all that but we still have played a lot better in other matches so far, notably Liverpool and Villa even though we lost. But the praise from Arsenal, their players and especially the fans isn't genuine and is more an attempt to prop themselves up than actually giving us credit. They have a history of doing it and its just annoying.
I mean, both can be true. You played much better than us for most of the game, you were tactically very good and you deserved to win the game.
Historic (losing) run has commenced today. Good chance they lose their next five fixtures.
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Chelsea probably would too
Agree with that, cant believe how poor Caicedo looks, Sterling too, looks well off it.
No way, they're just being let down by poor finishing + a lack of confidence, they're not a bad team at all. I'm sure they'll beat us then go on a run or something.
He wasn’t bad today at all. Don’t know what people were watching. He had a good game. He could have had a red card though with a late tackle, but he was pretty good otherwise. This a great smash and grab by Brentford.
We struggled mightily with teams who park the bus. None of the next 5 opponents will be doing that.
They'll adapt. Newcastle will be more conservative when they play you especially with their injuries and probably Man. United aswell.
If we take their last 38 league games and pretend it was one continuous season, they would be relegation candidates for real. It's absolutely within the realm of possibility.
If you roll a six sided dice 10 times in a row and get ten 1's, it doesn't make it more or less likely that you'll get another ten 1's when you roll the dice again. There are a lot more than 3 worse teams in the league than them. And my feeling is that eventually those shots will turn into goals and they will creep up the league. Too late to do anything this season but all the same, they won't go down.
If they do that we will struggle against them too. But to be fair. It’s not like we aren’t creating chances. We created like 3 sitters today. Brentford scored with the first real chance of the game and at that point, we were fecked as they’re brilliant on the counter if you give them space.
It will be interesting to watch no doubt.
I’m looking forward to them. It’s the bus parking teams I’m dreading.
Well with Newcastle they could just low block you and then ping it up to Gordon and Almiron once James and LB are caught upfield. Or play their usual game and wait for Wilson to make runs off the shoulder of your CBs.
Brentford had an xG of 2.46 today, to Chelsea's 1.65. Smash and grab?
Well they scored 2 goals but they created nothing of note before the first goal, and then had a couple of easy chances in the last few mins as Chelsea tried to go gung-ho. Second goal was an open net after our keeper went up for a corner.
I know the threats both teams pose. If they choose to sit back deep and counter us then it’s an easy way to stifle us and frustrate us. It doesn’t mean we don’t create anything, so it’s still a risk to play that way against us because our chance creation is excellent. It’s whether we take those chances. I’d say it’s probably a calculated risk worth taking when teams play us that way, to bank on us missing the chances we inevitably create and then sucker punch us in the second half.
There is nothing wrong with going away from home and barely giving anything away for first hour and then looking to see what happens then with more space when home side start to gamble.
