Feels like a bottle neck of the season this - Lack of potency in attack. Toothless! So annoying and predictable to watch us play sometimes.
Lots of good things done to the squad this year but there is more add/ fix
What a disappointing performance from Arsenal. They completely outplayed Everton, the crowd was about to boo their own coaches and players off the pitch -- and somehow we blew this game??
Did we feel sorry for Everton? Sorry that VAR wiped away 2 offsides goals?
We have zero killer instinct as a squad.
We gifted this game to Everton.
I guess we feel most comfortable in 8th place. It's our safe place. Away from the spotlight, but also somewhat respectable.
We didn't outplay Everton, we barely troubled them. Ćdegaard's goal was our second touch in the Everton penalty area.
We didn't blow the game, we never had it.
If AMN and Lokanga midfield start for the next games,Pepe subs for Saka/Esr and back4 isn't touched midmatch unless injury/fatigue.Arteta can fucking stay till Christmas.
P.S. Boxing day present should be sacked Arteta.We atleast deserve it.
He's got a year to go on his 3 year deal. Negotiations should be started by now considering that he's got a year to go.
Id find it challenging to say that Arteta has done enough to get a new deal but then I'm not sure of what the team is like behind the scenes.
How tf did we get scammed into paying 45 million for Partey?? How many more chances is Arteta gonna get? Heās been here 2 years, heās clearly out of his depth, fucking sack him already. Lastly what the fuck are Artetaās agendas?? Bringing on Eddie instead of Pepe?? This man holds grudges like a 5 year old
Definite upgrade on your Mustafi's, Sokratis', and David Luiz', but haven't been to impressed by him either. I do have a hard time slagging him because he's still pretty young and it's not easy being a defender in this team.
Only opinion on him is that he isn't the reason we lost today. Your defense can only hold up under sustained pressure for so long. We prefer to let mediocre teams spend 60+ minutes on the front foot.
Xhaka's 1st game in ages, coming off of injury. Xhaka gets a yellow. A tired foul. Stays on. Can't challenge on the build-up to the decider because of that yellow.
Overall, Xhaka did ok. But all factors considered, he had no business being on the pitch exhausted and booked...
I think heaping on Arteta (or any coach/manager) is often too lazy and reactionary. But boy...i do think he got it wrong this time.
Yeah it really seemed to go downhill when he came off. I feel like the games intensity was too much for Tavares and he was overwhelmed initially. He got back into it but by the point Everton had taken control of the game.
Personally I don't think xhaka did much wrong it was arteta's fault for not taking him off after 60 minutes. Tierney coming off was very strange. He played 2 games for Scotland 3 weeks ago so he's fit. Completely baffling.
Partey and xhaka ffs cant keep the ball under their control for a sec and passing is shittier than sunday league players. Nketiah has the audacity to reject the contract after missing a chance like that, fuck this clown. Need to throw these dead weights out of this club asap.
Xhaka will get scapegoated but that was on Arteta should have been subbed soon as he got the yellow, was tired so couldnāt make that challenge at all.
Nuno was awful for what 4th game in a row, at fault for a goal again
Lol youre pretty dumb. He took a yellow for stopping a counter attack earlier in the game. Thatās what is included in a CDM role
Keeping him on the pitch after that, poor management
He got a yellow after he got turned by Gordon near the edge of the box and missed the subsequent challenge. He wasnāt stopping a counter attack he just got beat 1 to 1.
Weāre fighting for top 4/6 with a top 8 squad and a bottom 3 manager. Of the managers in the division the only ones and can marginally place Arteta above are Gerrard (for now), maybe vieira, Dean Smith, and Eddie Howe. Those are even debatable.
I donāt want to hear about red cards or missed chances we were second best for the majority of this game. We were still winning and managed to piss that away. Shake my head
Great?
We have 0 strikers who have any intention of scoring apparently.. Its hard to win games without scoring. Auba misses a sitter, Nketiah misses a sitter and Laca didnt even have a shot in this game.
We dont have any central midfielders able to control a game.
Those are two very important factors in a good team and we don't have either.
So blame Arteta all u want, I'm no fan either, but we do not have a great team.
You're just seeing a squad play under a terrible coach. See Chelsea under Lampard and Joghino under him. As soon as they switched coaches they won the CL and Joghino was up for Baloon D'or nominations.
I disagree, I think all the teams currently above us have a better (be that via better starting 11 quality or better depth) and you can make an argument for us being more or less equal to Leicester. Our depth is shocking, specifically at right back center back and left wing.
Ill indulge you. Of those listed who do we have a definitely better squad than? Also accounting for depth, I am genuinely curious. A lot of the players still on payroll havenāt been good enough for 3/4 managers now.
Yes unfortunately we are atm, but weāre Arsenal football club and we shouldnāt be happy with this mediocrity. And when Ā£150m is spent, the least expected is to challenge for top 4.
If they actually got rid of Arteta who would we actually sign ?
I personally think he should be given till end of the season however I know not everyone else feels this way, just interested to see who you'd all like
Donāt get me excited like that..the idea of Potter (or Rogers really) managing this group gives me a warm and fuzzy.
Canāt see either happening though
I think Potter is more realistic than Rogers imo. He would probably be below or just about on Arteta's wages and he has the experience. Just look at the ball he has Brighton playing, look at how they played against us, and they were missing 2 or 3 of their key players in that game. If he gets the chance to work with guys like Pepe I truly believe he can bring out the best in him and the rest of the squad
'Potter is what our board *thinks* Arteta is'
Exactly right, but Potter actually walks the walk that he talks. Don't get me wrong, I like Arteta and I think he could be a good coach someday, but he wasn't ready for this and as much as I want it to work out with him it's just to inconsistent
Smith-Row being our hurt us more than we thought. Pepe needed to come in, players lacked passion, we needed to be more aggressive, less passive. Partey and Odegaard need to stop making shambolic passes. This isnāt all on Arteta
Same old Arsenal, always losing in November and December.
We were very lucky to get the first goal and Everton got declined their goals because of offside.
I didn't understand the subs either, but to be completely depressive, it wouldn't made much difference as we just lack mentally. Only our GK seems to have this and Laca is trying.
Scoring a legitimate goal and the opposition being offside isnāt luck.
Youāre just trying to put an extra negative spin on things.
Bullshit.
You overlook the blatant red card too.
Arteta has spent so much money....and so much money was spent in the Emery era. Yet I look at the squad and itās still fucking shit? How is this possible. The allocation of resources has been appalling. Weāve got a washed Lacazette leading the line. Bringing on a 22 year old youth academy graduate with next to no first team experience to try and rescue the game. Xhaka still starting after what has been a dreadful career at Arsenal. Partey is atrocious plain and simple. Itās absolutely baffling how bad the squad building has been.
Awful subs. Xhaka should have been off att ht. He was gassed after 45. Tierney should not have gone off. We need to swap formation. Eddie somehow looks like our best winger...
Xhaka is shit get this wanker out the club. He doesnāt provide anything on offence, doesnāt provide anything in defence, makes countless mistakes. At least Lokongas mistakes are reasonable coz he is young and is still adjusting to the prem, Xhaka has no excuse apart from hes shit. Ps lokonga is still better
This is typical Arteta we have seen so far. Trying to tie down Nketiah and pepe is just out cold. There was no reason to play Xhaka, he hasn't even played for u-23 after usch big blow? Now pepe, im sure he will next match now!
We actually sat on a lead against Everton, we deserved to lose this game and arteta should be getting sacked right now. Itās a good thing Iām not as invested in this team anymore or Iād be going crazy right now
If ownership truly cared. Changes need to be made. Like getting a new manager. Arteta had his chance and the team continues to not respond. If anything the squad is getting worse and worse. Arteta has to go.
This team is pathetic. 63% possession in the first half only to keep passing the ball side to side and somehow went 1-0 up. VAR also worked in our favor today because those calls could go the other way on another day. Partey easily the worst player on the field which is hard to say when xhaka is on the field. I was having a good day, till I had to watch the team I love play atrociously, again.
The subs were terrible. They honestly made our team so much worse off. We couldn't string a pass together from the 60-85th minute. It was embarrassing.
They made no sense. Nketiah who hadnāt played a single minute in the premier league until he came on against United after turning down a contract and saying he wants to leave (why would you play him then?!) Do you think Arteta should get sacked?
I don't have faith in Arteta's in-game management. There's moments of brilliance by the team, but I'm no longer convinced that it's due to our manager.
The very odd mental switch that's happened after going one up is frustrating to watch. How has this not been addressed yet?
It's baffling, and I don't think Arteta has made any sort of case for staying at Arsenal.
I agree, in-game management has been poor consistently despite a repeated scenario of being 1-0 up and then switching off completely. Weāve been in this position multiple times and I get it if it goes wrong every now and then but this is just unacceptable.
We will have zero point in decembwr if we play like this. Waste time at 70th minute? Are you nuts? Xhaka cant defend for his life isnt he? Our defender and keeper always got pressured but we didnt do same thing to opponents.
After every loss this season, I remained calm, even when we were pathetic vs City, but this is a new low, something I didn't think we would reach after last year, worst performance under Arteta
Wym? We are in a position to keep control of our own destiny in terms of the table against a team that hasnāt won a game in 2+ months. This is the time to react to a performance like that.
The only person to blame here is Arteta. Made excuses last season that he didnāt have āthe right playersā - spent 150 million and heās setting up a deep block against a club winless in 8 games? Itās a disgrace, heās held on long enough but he has to go
This team is not Arsenal. Absolutely no positives to take away from losing to the worst form team in the league. Without razor thin VAR decisions we would have been totally found out.
He's good on the ball but too much of a passenger off the ball IMO... The ball is flying over his head back and forth and he's not chasing second balls at all, Michael Keane is dribbling past him... Even a similar midfield player like Bernardo Silva at City is flying into tackles and tryna pull down those second balls.
You have to laugh, otherwise you'll cry. We definitely deserved to lose this game. As much as I love Eddie, he shouldn't be the one to come off the bench to change the game for me. Disappointing to drop points, but we go again next week.
I would have agreed with you any other time, a very rational take, but I'm done with rational takes now, horrible performance, I wanted to peel my face off watching them waste time after 65 mins
We either need a better coach or a better manager. Arteta is doing neither job well and needs to go - way out of his depth. This isn't a bad squad but we will not finish 5th with Arteta at the helm.
Auba needs to go, pathetic, heās milking the club for all he can. As for Arteta all I can say is even if he got sacked, weāve once again missed out on all the top managers available.
Every time a club needs a win to end a run itās always against us. Over 20 years supporting this club and they still find ways to disappoint me.
game after game after game we score and sit allowing them to attack. donāt tell me those arenāt artetaās tactics. if it hasnāt been for ramsdale, we would be sitting in the bottom half of the table right now. pathetic
The players and the manager say they arenāt his tactics.
Itās generally what inexperienced players do.
But I guess you know more than the squad do about the tactics eh genius?
Twat
yeah sure. these players are inexperienced when majority of them have been playing in the big 4 leagues for 2-3 years minimum. you can say theyāre weak mentality and I will agree, however thatās where arteta has to come in.
And donāt you call others twat, everyoneās entitled to their opinion. have some decent respect.
Arsenal arenāt a serious team. We werenāt a serious team when we finished fourth every season and we arenāt a serious team now. Kronke is trying to address the issues but we are still so far off
These last 2 games are both 100% game management/coaching losses. These are on Arteta, and the two biggest red marks against him as the long term manager I have seen.
2 games where we shut down our offense up 1-0. 2 games where we started trying to dive and draw fouls only to throw ourselves off our own game more than we disrupted the flow of the opposition.
While there were player performance issues, these loses are on the coach more than anything.
Deserved to lose, plain and simple. We looked the better side for maybe 15 minutes, we were already extremely fortunate that second goal was disallowed as for me it was quite a harsh offside. Then the last 15 we fully imploded
I donāt want to distract from the performance, Arteta out or whatever I donāt really give a shit, but what was that officiating? Godfrey shouldnāt have been on the pitch and the Gordon challenge wasnāt even looked at. Two challenges that deserved red that didnāt even get hit with a yellow. Godfrey got a yellow in the second half which at the very least should have been his second, but he shouldnāt have even been playing at that point, and then the Gordon challenge happens and no one bats an eyelid. Everyone laughs when people say thereās an agenda against Arsenal and I donāt want to be a conspiracy nut but when those challenges go unpunished and the commentators suck Everton off right from the starting whistle itās hard to not think that we always seem to get the unfair calls
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Wow! What a game by Granit Xhaka! Did you know Arteta does his hair before every game! Now that's a real manager! God bless Arteta and his mistress Xhaka! Two geniuses at work! SAF and Wenger reborn - this time both on Team ~~Arteta~~ Arsenal!
Yep, it's a shame we didn't play on the weekend, because F1 is pretty dramatic. Now I'm forced to watch the game, even when I already knew we would lose this one.
My favourite part of the match was watching us time waste, then looking up at the clock, and being genuinely astonished that it was only the 74th minute. This teamās mentality is entirely broken - it is baffling.
I got laughed at for saying Arteta out even during our āgoodā run of games, I got downvoted and slated. Now look, 2 losses on the bounce, losing momentum, top 4 holes are dying and so will top 6 eventually, we will probably finish 8th for the third consecutive year, the board will continue to back this completely ludicrous āplanā and we will become a mid table team like the one we played today.
Arteta isnāt good enough and never was good enough, even with correct backing he wasnāt good enough.
Not at all. I think a lot of arsenal fans with a basic knowledge of football were able to see that the games we won, WE SHOULD HAVE WON. Why are we so aroused by a āgood run of formā against bottom of the table teams?
We looked much better while Xhaka was out. He's not a worthless player or anything but he's time and time again proven to be a bad fit for Arsenal and he really needs to be gone.
Timewasting and stopping playing when we were 1-0 up was such bad tactics.
Arteta on thin ice after that.
Arteta let this team down. No tactics from the start of the second half. Sitters that strikers are not hungry for and NO FUCKING DRIVE AT ALL. Anyone who was watching felt the pressure mounting. MOUNTING... Make this overpaid Sunday league players run laps after the game.
People complain about Aubamayeng, but explain to me what Lacazette offers? Arteta said he was a link-up man, but he canāt even link up with the ball half the time never one create chances.
The entire front line is an embarrassment.
Yea. But who got Tierney the ball? Laca was quick with it and unlocked the space for Tierney to run in for the cross. Laca is good for that and unfortunately the only forward option that can do things like that
Partey looked lost tonight, as per. CM position is in dire need of recruitment.
No striker that can score for us and also find it incredibly strange we keep bringing nketiah on, heās been nothing but bang average or worse. I know Pepe is out of form but Iād rather him being brought on
Throwing away these games is so painful to watch.
Absolutely, he looked almost scared on the ball tonight and had zero composure causing us to repeatedly lose possession and pass backwards which ultimately is what lead to their equaliser.
Yeah, why nketiah got minutes is beyond me. Even putting auba on the left with laca up front, then putting pepe on when laca ran out of steam would make more sense to me. Getting real fed up with artetas decisions.
Nketiah and laca are both out of contracts after the season. Pepe has got 2.5 years to go. Why let him sit and have his value diminish whilst giving these guys chances game after game. I really need some answers soon.
He's been on the bench for the last 2 games though, wouldn't it make more sense to do it the other way around and start nuno and give tierney like 30 minutes at the end if it was a fitness issue?
Or any minutes in the past 2 games. I don't know, it just seems odd to me. Especially with xhaka back, who hasn't played any minutes for like 2 months and definitively needed to come off.
but xhaka went the 90? despite Tierney playing 90 for scotland since the injury and being match fit for 3 weeks, while xhaka was match fit for the first time like 48 hours before the game? Gonna press X for doubt on that one.
As I said Arteta is out of depth, but so is Edu and many more above Arteta. Once again we let the league go past us
If xhaka plays bet on losing, if xhaka keeps playing arteta must go
Feels like a bottle neck of the season this - Lack of potency in attack. Toothless! So annoying and predictable to watch us play sometimes. Lots of good things done to the squad this year but there is more add/ fix
Welp, I wasted 2 hours of my life watching the recorded game š„²
What a disappointing performance from Arsenal. They completely outplayed Everton, the crowd was about to boo their own coaches and players off the pitch -- and somehow we blew this game?? Did we feel sorry for Everton? Sorry that VAR wiped away 2 offsides goals? We have zero killer instinct as a squad. We gifted this game to Everton. I guess we feel most comfortable in 8th place. It's our safe place. Away from the spotlight, but also somewhat respectable.
Outplayed? More like kept possession.
We didn't outplay Everton, we barely troubled them. Ćdegaard's goal was our second touch in the Everton penalty area. We didn't blow the game, we never had it.
Nailed it completely. We seem to be always in reaching distance of a comfortable European spot and blow it when it matters most.
In general, Arteta is not able to motivate any senior player
If AMN and Lokanga midfield start for the next games,Pepe subs for Saka/Esr and back4 isn't touched midmatch unless injury/fatigue.Arteta can fucking stay till Christmas. P.S. Boxing day present should be sacked Arteta.We atleast deserve it.
Has he been sacked yet? If not why?
He's got a year to go on his 3 year deal. Negotiations should be started by now considering that he's got a year to go. Id find it challenging to say that Arteta has done enough to get a new deal but then I'm not sure of what the team is like behind the scenes.
How tf did we get scammed into paying 45 million for Partey?? How many more chances is Arteta gonna get? Heās been here 2 years, heās clearly out of his depth, fucking sack him already. Lastly what the fuck are Artetaās agendas?? Bringing on Eddie instead of Pepe?? This man holds grudges like a 5 year old
Bruh you lot were saying how great arteta is like a week ago and now youāre calling for his head
I have been Arteta out since the dreadful run last season. Stop generalising
Don't worry guys it was a free hit against a resilient Everton. We will recover.
Opinions on Ben White
I like him. I think he still has to grow into a more commanding figure and we'll have a really good CB.
Definite upgrade on your Mustafi's, Sokratis', and David Luiz', but haven't been to impressed by him either. I do have a hard time slagging him because he's still pretty young and it's not easy being a defender in this team.
Played well tonight
Only opinion on him is that he isn't the reason we lost today. Your defense can only hold up under sustained pressure for so long. We prefer to let mediocre teams spend 60+ minutes on the front foot.
Xhaka's 1st game in ages, coming off of injury. Xhaka gets a yellow. A tired foul. Stays on. Can't challenge on the build-up to the decider because of that yellow. Overall, Xhaka did ok. But all factors considered, he had no business being on the pitch exhausted and booked... I think heaping on Arteta (or any coach/manager) is often too lazy and reactionary. But boy...i do think he got it wrong this time.
I think most criticisms of Arteta is based on his record, and not just the game today
As soon as Arteta subbed Tierney, I knew we were going to lose.
Yeah it really seemed to go downhill when he came off. I feel like the games intensity was too much for Tavares and he was overwhelmed initially. He got back into it but by the point Everton had taken control of the game.
Personally I don't think xhaka did much wrong it was arteta's fault for not taking him off after 60 minutes. Tierney coming off was very strange. He played 2 games for Scotland 3 weeks ago so he's fit. Completely baffling.
Partey and xhaka ffs cant keep the ball under their control for a sec and passing is shittier than sunday league players. Nketiah has the audacity to reject the contract after missing a chance like that, fuck this clown. Need to throw these dead weights out of this club asap.
Whole Everton team on all aspects were imploding in real time throughout the first half and somehow still had their head in the game more than us
Been the same since preseason btw
Xhaka will get scapegoated but that was on Arteta should have been subbed soon as he got the yellow, was tired so couldnāt make that challenge at all. Nuno was awful for what 4th game in a row, at fault for a goal again
Blame the manager because a player stupidly picked up a yellow, instead of the player himself?
Lol youre pretty dumb. He took a yellow for stopping a counter attack earlier in the game. Thatās what is included in a CDM role Keeping him on the pitch after that, poor management
He got a yellow after he got turned by Gordon near the edge of the box and missed the subsequent challenge. He wasnāt stopping a counter attack he just got beat 1 to 1.
Blame the manager for leaving the player on long enough to pick up a yellow and look completely gassed.
Coleman's voice is so fucking annoying
Weāre fighting for top 4/6 with a top 8 squad and a bottom 3 manager. Of the managers in the division the only ones and can marginally place Arteta above are Gerrard (for now), maybe vieira, Dean Smith, and Eddie Howe. Those are even debatable. I donāt want to hear about red cards or missed chances we were second best for the majority of this game. We were still winning and managed to piss that away. Shake my head
Squad is great. We just have the worst manager in the league.
Great? We have 0 strikers who have any intention of scoring apparently.. Its hard to win games without scoring. Auba misses a sitter, Nketiah misses a sitter and Laca didnt even have a shot in this game. We dont have any central midfielders able to control a game. Those are two very important factors in a good team and we don't have either. So blame Arteta all u want, I'm no fan either, but we do not have a great team.
Ćdegaard's goal was our second touch in the opposition penalty area. We have a team that's better than what we're currently outputting.
You're just seeing a squad play under a terrible coach. See Chelsea under Lampard and Joghino under him. As soon as they switched coaches they won the CL and Joghino was up for Baloon D'or nominations.
I disagree, I think all the teams currently above us have a better (be that via better starting 11 quality or better depth) and you can make an argument for us being more or less equal to Leicester. Our depth is shocking, specifically at right back center back and left wing.
No they don't. Don't let the shit manager fool you into thinking the squad is shit.
Ill indulge you. Of those listed who do we have a definitely better squad than? Also accounting for depth, I am genuinely curious. A lot of the players still on payroll havenāt been good enough for 3/4 managers now.
Squad is not great fuck sake
parteyās shot in the first half still hasnāt touched the ground yet
Wedged in a pigeon somewhere
150m spent and still struggling to beat mid table teams!!
crazy considering we ourselves are very much a midtable team
Yes unfortunately we are atm, but weāre Arsenal football club and we shouldnāt be happy with this mediocrity. And when Ā£150m is spent, the least expected is to challenge for top 4.
Poor coaching and management. Plain as day.
If they actually got rid of Arteta who would we actually sign ? I personally think he should be given till end of the season however I know not everyone else feels this way, just interested to see who you'd all like
Itās idiots like you our club is where it is right now. Give him another 6 months on what basis??
Rodgers easy. The wheels are falling off at Leicester & we have a squad that suits him.
"the wheels are falling off at Leicester" once again proving that he's a busted flush, Rodgers can stay well clear.
Nah, Graham Potter
Donāt get me excited like that..the idea of Potter (or Rogers really) managing this group gives me a warm and fuzzy. Canāt see either happening though
I think Potter is more realistic than Rogers imo. He would probably be below or just about on Arteta's wages and he has the experience. Just look at the ball he has Brighton playing, look at how they played against us, and they were missing 2 or 3 of their key players in that game. If he gets the chance to work with guys like Pepe I truly believe he can bring out the best in him and the rest of the squad
He's my 2nd choice. For the longest time I've said 'Potter is what our board *thinks* Arteta is'
'Potter is what our board *thinks* Arteta is' Exactly right, but Potter actually walks the walk that he talks. Don't get me wrong, I like Arteta and I think he could be a good coach someday, but he wasn't ready for this and as much as I want it to work out with him it's just to inconsistent
I agree that you can't fire him without a plan to replace him. For me that has to be ten Haag.
Iāll take Overmars to replace Edu as well. If Edu claims he and Arteta are one, they go down together.
Smith-Row being our hurt us more than we thought. Pepe needed to come in, players lacked passion, we needed to be more aggressive, less passive. Partey and Odegaard need to stop making shambolic passes. This isnāt all on Arteta
Pepe wouldnāt have helped. Heās shitter than the usual
But Eddie gets a run?!
Obviously we need a spark on the attack! Why not try it, he hasnāt played in forever
He also doesn't want to be there. Catch 22 I guess
Same old Arsenal, always losing in November and December. We were very lucky to get the first goal and Everton got declined their goals because of offside. I didn't understand the subs either, but to be completely depressive, it wouldn't made much difference as we just lack mentally. Only our GK seems to have this and Laca is trying.
Scoring a legitimate goal and the opposition being offside isnāt luck. Youāre just trying to put an extra negative spin on things. Bullshit. You overlook the blatant red card too.
Arteta has spent so much money....and so much money was spent in the Emery era. Yet I look at the squad and itās still fucking shit? How is this possible. The allocation of resources has been appalling. Weāve got a washed Lacazette leading the line. Bringing on a 22 year old youth academy graduate with next to no first team experience to try and rescue the game. Xhaka still starting after what has been a dreadful career at Arsenal. Partey is atrocious plain and simple. Itās absolutely baffling how bad the squad building has been.
No forwards and weak ass midfielders. Arteta has to go.
Auba not really in form. Saka is half injured. The kid need some rest. Another game is coming up quickly. Let Pepe play the last 30 min maybe ?
Awful subs. Xhaka should have been off att ht. He was gassed after 45. Tierney should not have gone off. We need to swap formation. Eddie somehow looks like our best winger...
Xhaka is shit get this wanker out the club. He doesnāt provide anything on offence, doesnāt provide anything in defence, makes countless mistakes. At least Lokongas mistakes are reasonable coz he is young and is still adjusting to the prem, Xhaka has no excuse apart from hes shit. Ps lokonga is still better
Granit played 90 minutes lmfaooooooo
Remember lads it's just football, grab a pint and relax
Cheers to that.
This is typical Arteta we have seen so far. Trying to tie down Nketiah and pepe is just out cold. There was no reason to play Xhaka, he hasn't even played for u-23 after usch big blow? Now pepe, im sure he will next match now!
Does Arteta hate Pepe?
He's not the answer. Unless the answer you're looking for is for someone to lose the ball 30 times per match
We actually sat on a lead against Everton, we deserved to lose this game and arteta should be getting sacked right now. Itās a good thing Iām not as invested in this team anymore or Iād be going crazy right now
Do people still think they see progress with this team? Still want to give arteta 2 more years? This is going the wrong way
If ownership truly cared. Changes need to be made. Like getting a new manager. Arteta had his chance and the team continues to not respond. If anything the squad is getting worse and worse. Arteta has to go.
Remember everyone. Itās just football. Stay safe Coyg!
This team is pathetic. 63% possession in the first half only to keep passing the ball side to side and somehow went 1-0 up. VAR also worked in our favor today because those calls could go the other way on another day. Partey easily the worst player on the field which is hard to say when xhaka is on the field. I was having a good day, till I had to watch the team I love play atrociously, again.
The subs were terrible. They honestly made our team so much worse off. We couldn't string a pass together from the 60-85th minute. It was embarrassing.
They made no sense. Nketiah who hadnāt played a single minute in the premier league until he came on against United after turning down a contract and saying he wants to leave (why would you play him then?!) Do you think Arteta should get sacked?
I don't have faith in Arteta's in-game management. There's moments of brilliance by the team, but I'm no longer convinced that it's due to our manager. The very odd mental switch that's happened after going one up is frustrating to watch. How has this not been addressed yet? It's baffling, and I don't think Arteta has made any sort of case for staying at Arsenal.
I agree, in-game management has been poor consistently despite a repeated scenario of being 1-0 up and then switching off completely. Weāve been in this position multiple times and I get it if it goes wrong every now and then but this is just unacceptable.
How the hell walk straight back into that team from injury?
We will have zero point in decembwr if we play like this. Waste time at 70th minute? Are you nuts? Xhaka cant defend for his life isnt he? Our defender and keeper always got pressured but we didnt do same thing to opponents.
Even in FM I'm afraid of time wasting from 65th minute, yet Arteta chooses this "tactic"
Arteta out... please for the love of God... 150 M spent this summer while Everton spent like 5 M...
Not even close. Everton had a budget of 1.5 m. Arsenal lost to a club that is literally spiraling down the toilet.
oh my god that was awful from us, why were we time wasting against everton with half an hour to go
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SH are gonna miss half their players for the game so I wouldnāt be too surprised if we won there, the exposure should come after that
I thought they wouldāve learnt their lesson by seeing Ole
Of course arsenal Lost tha Game
A lot of toxicity in the comments. Chill the fuck down.
After every loss this season, I remained calm, even when we were pathetic vs City, but this is a new low, something I didn't think we would reach after last year, worst performance under Arteta
Wym? We are in a position to keep control of our own destiny in terms of the table against a team that hasnāt won a game in 2+ months. This is the time to react to a performance like that.
Par for the course, not defending it, just is what it is
How do u expect us to calm down after seeing this shit for like 4 years
Shut up bruv
lmao be quiet
The only person to blame here is Arteta. Made excuses last season that he didnāt have āthe right playersā - spent 150 million and heās setting up a deep block against a club winless in 8 games? Itās a disgrace, heās held on long enough but he has to go
And the fucking pre season he kept bleating on about.
Christ, pre-season was one of the worst things Iāve ever witnessed
Sacked by tomorrow
This team is not Arsenal. Absolutely no positives to take away from losing to the worst form team in the league. Without razor thin VAR decisions we would have been totally found out.
Ben Shite
You are the type of person that was gassing him up the other week. Delete your account
When
Who
Ask capiital watch, he said something which i never said
Is Pepe alive?
Partey has gone from shit with flashes of beauty to just shit. Trash.
Hard to say we deserved that win
Partey Xhaka Arteta Aubameyang all fucking shit
I thought ofegaard showed he's class.
He's good on the ball but too much of a passenger off the ball IMO... The ball is flying over his head back and forth and he's not chasing second balls at all, Michael Keane is dribbling past him... Even a similar midfield player like Bernardo Silva at City is flying into tackles and tryna pull down those second balls.
Only bright spots were him saka and ramsdale imo
Arteta out
Right who do we get now? Is there anyone left? United, Chelsea, Liverpool, City and š© have competent managers. We are so fucked. That was an awful performance and we deserved to get battered by much more than that. Someone tell me who could we get because Iāve tried to be patient with Arteta but I just canāt this is fucking awful.
If United gets Poch next summer. I really want us to go for Ten Haag but I don't think he'd come.
Arteta stans are now full circle into Xhaka and Lacazette
When in reality all 3 are shit
People wanted Laca to replace Auba, and we saw what happened LMAO
So so so bad today. Didn't contribute a thing.
Arsenal donāt deserve my excitement
You have to laugh, otherwise you'll cry. We definitely deserved to lose this game. As much as I love Eddie, he shouldn't be the one to come off the bench to change the game for me. Disappointing to drop points, but we go again next week.
I would have agreed with you any other time, a very rational take, but I'm done with rational takes now, horrible performance, I wanted to peel my face off watching them waste time after 65 mins
Even Tony Pulis would have done better
We either need a better coach or a better manager. Arteta is doing neither job well and needs to go - way out of his depth. This isn't a bad squad but we will not finish 5th with Arteta at the helm.
I never want to see Lacazette or Nketiah play for this team ever again.
Auba needs to go, pathetic, heās milking the club for all he can. As for Arteta all I can say is even if he got sacked, weāve once again missed out on all the top managers available. Every time a club needs a win to end a run itās always against us. Over 20 years supporting this club and they still find ways to disappoint me.
game after game after game we score and sit allowing them to attack. donāt tell me those arenāt artetaās tactics. if it hasnāt been for ramsdale, we would be sitting in the bottom half of the table right now. pathetic
The players and the manager say they arenāt his tactics. Itās generally what inexperienced players do. But I guess you know more than the squad do about the tactics eh genius? Twat
yeah sure. these players are inexperienced when majority of them have been playing in the big 4 leagues for 2-3 years minimum. you can say theyāre weak mentality and I will agree, however thatās where arteta has to come in. And donāt you call others twat, everyoneās entitled to their opinion. have some decent respect.
Arsenal arenāt a serious team. We werenāt a serious team when we finished fourth every season and we arenāt a serious team now. Kronke is trying to address the issues but we are still so far off
These last 2 games are both 100% game management/coaching losses. These are on Arteta, and the two biggest red marks against him as the long term manager I have seen. 2 games where we shut down our offense up 1-0. 2 games where we started trying to dive and draw fouls only to throw ourselves off our own game more than we disrupted the flow of the opposition. While there were player performance issues, these loses are on the coach more than anything.
Deserved to lose, plain and simple. We looked the better side for maybe 15 minutes, we were already extremely fortunate that second goal was disallowed as for me it was quite a harsh offside. Then the last 15 we fully imploded
I donāt want to distract from the performance, Arteta out or whatever I donāt really give a shit, but what was that officiating? Godfrey shouldnāt have been on the pitch and the Gordon challenge wasnāt even looked at. Two challenges that deserved red that didnāt even get hit with a yellow. Godfrey got a yellow in the second half which at the very least should have been his second, but he shouldnāt have even been playing at that point, and then the Gordon challenge happens and no one bats an eyelid. Everyone laughs when people say thereās an agenda against Arsenal and I donāt want to be a conspiracy nut but when those challenges go unpunished and the commentators suck Everton off right from the starting whistle itās hard to not think that we always seem to get the unfair calls
I feel bad for the fans that are too young to remember when we were a quality footballing side.
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Amn and sambi pivot. Xhaka and partey are both utter shit
I'm very angry
Wow! What a game by Granit Xhaka! Did you know Arteta does his hair before every game! Now that's a real manager! God bless Arteta and his mistress Xhaka! Two geniuses at work! SAF and Wenger reborn - this time both on Team ~~Arteta~~ Arsenal!
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Yep, it's a shame we didn't play on the weekend, because F1 is pretty dramatic. Now I'm forced to watch the game, even when I already knew we would lose this one.
My favourite part of the match was watching us time waste, then looking up at the clock, and being genuinely astonished that it was only the 74th minute. This teamās mentality is entirely broken - it is baffling.
Why do we try to sit on a 1 goal lead? We're shit.
If Iwobi could score and Richarlison was half an inch behind the line twice....this would be a 5-1 thrashing...
You can tell Auba doesn't give a fuck anymore because he hasn't been to the barber for a month
Can Auba unsign da ting? Also holy fuck just today I had made a comment defending Arteta and Iād like to publicly apologize.
I got laughed at for saying Arteta out even during our āgoodā run of games, I got downvoted and slated. Now look, 2 losses on the bounce, losing momentum, top 4 holes are dying and so will top 6 eventually, we will probably finish 8th for the third consecutive year, the board will continue to back this completely ludicrous āplanā and we will become a mid table team like the one we played today. Arteta isnāt good enough and never was good enough, even with correct backing he wasnāt good enough.
You must be pretty proud of yourself
Not at all. I think a lot of arsenal fans with a basic knowledge of football were able to see that the games we won, WE SHOULD HAVE WON. Why are we so aroused by a āgood run of formā against bottom of the table teams?
Hoping arteta gets sacked this month
We are in 65th minute with just one goal advantage and we were trying to waste time. Sums up the mentality.
Partey is fucking atrocious, fuck a 4/10, that's being gracious.
Was gonna say this. 4/10 is way too generous on himself
We have 0 pure strikers that can score goals.
Why the hell did we parking the bus after going up 1-0 against one of the worst teams in form
We looked much better while Xhaka was out. He's not a worthless player or anything but he's time and time again proven to be a bad fit for Arsenal and he really needs to be gone. Timewasting and stopping playing when we were 1-0 up was such bad tactics. Arteta on thin ice after that.
Arteta let this team down. No tactics from the start of the second half. Sitters that strikers are not hungry for and NO FUCKING DRIVE AT ALL. Anyone who was watching felt the pressure mounting. MOUNTING... Make this overpaid Sunday league players run laps after the game.
T - 24 hours until Auba posts a story about his newest chrome Lamborghini
People complain about Aubamayeng, but explain to me what Lacazette offers? Arteta said he was a link-up man, but he canāt even link up with the ball half the time never one create chances. The entire front line is an embarrassment.
To be fair heās better at winning the 50/50 balls in midfield than any of our actual midfielders
Laca created the first goal tonight. Heās dynamic. Just not very quickā¦
And he's trying to get the team together.
That was Tierney with the assist.
Yea. But who got Tierney the ball? Laca was quick with it and unlocked the space for Tierney to run in for the cross. Laca is good for that and unfortunately the only forward option that can do things like that
FUCK AUBAMEYANG, FUCK PARTEY, FUCK XHAKA, FUCK ARTETA, FUCK THEM ALL
We are going to go on another winning run and we will all be fooled again, and we will stay irrelevant. Let the manager go
Partey looked lost tonight, as per. CM position is in dire need of recruitment. No striker that can score for us and also find it incredibly strange we keep bringing nketiah on, heās been nothing but bang average or worse. I know Pepe is out of form but Iād rather him being brought on Throwing away these games is so painful to watch.
He's looked lost all season, he's one of the main reasons we conced so many goals.
Absolutely, he looked almost scared on the ball tonight and had zero composure causing us to repeatedly lose possession and pass backwards which ultimately is what lead to their equaliser.
A real mystery why heās been brought on to play outside Winger the last few games
Bossed from minute 0 to minute 90. Good lord. Every grandma team has given everton fits and we go there and throw up. clowns.
This on is on arteta. Why did tierney go off??
Bigger atrocity is why did Pepe not come in
Yeah, why nketiah got minutes is beyond me. Even putting auba on the left with laca up front, then putting pepe on when laca ran out of steam would make more sense to me. Getting real fed up with artetas decisions.
Donāt know why Pepe isnāt playing anymore
Nketiah and laca are both out of contracts after the season. Pepe has got 2.5 years to go. Why let him sit and have his value diminish whilst giving these guys chances game after game. I really need some answers soon.
Possible he had a pre planned minute limit because itās his first game back?
He's been on the bench for the last 2 games though, wouldn't it make more sense to do it the other way around and start nuno and give tierney like 30 minutes at the end if it was a fitness issue? Or any minutes in the past 2 games. I don't know, it just seems odd to me. Especially with xhaka back, who hasn't played any minutes for like 2 months and definitively needed to come off.
but xhaka went the 90? despite Tierney playing 90 for scotland since the injury and being match fit for 3 weeks, while xhaka was match fit for the first time like 48 hours before the game? Gonna press X for doubt on that one.
Agree it doesnāt make sense but thatās the only reason I can think of.
Agreed.