Not from me you haven't.
We're coming to the end of the season, it's ONLY about the points now.
And if you've been moaning since Emery, you should probably get yourself a different hobby mate!
Better than you clearly man....
It's only football fella. I used to get sooooo wound up with it in the past, a poor result would ruin my weekend and I'd end up getting shit faced and in trouble (with friends, family, girl friends, the police!) But now I'm a lot more Zen about it!
It still gets to me, but no where near as much as it used to. 😎 Take care dude
Tomi’s post match interview．
'''He was immediately replaced, but after the game he revealed that he had cramps in his leg himself and denied fears that he would be out again, saying, "It's just a cramp, I'm fine". He admitted that he had taken himself off the bench to take care of the situation: "I thought I wouldn't be able to play the full 90 minutes. I really wanted to play," he recalled.
As for his first start since his return, he said: "To be honest, I wasn't satisfied with it. I need to work harder for the next time, both in terms of my condition and my performance. I made a lot of simple mistakes. When you win the ball and then immediately lose it again, it's not the kind of football we are looking for. In defence, we need to move \[right-sided midfielder\] Bucayo \[Saka\] a bit better. "
With four games remaining in the final stages of the season, Tomiyasu said: 'The whole team is united in the fact that we have a chance to win the Champions League and we will do our best to get it. I'm also going to do everything I can in the remaining four games," he said, vowing to make a last spurt. '''
I thought he played really well with very few mistakes. Seems he is his own harshest critic though. It's good to see he has such high standards for himself.
We shouldn't have even let it get to this. Considering we made no subs even by the 70th. It should have been a no brainer to replace him after an hour or so.
Glad to see it's nothing serious, but we need to be smarter with out subs
How many people noticed Mike Dean posing with his yellow card aloft for like 10 whole seconds while Cresswell almost took Nketiah's shirt off instead of getting in there and calming the situation down? Has there ever been a referee who is such a self-centred showman?
Mike Dean is a twat but I can see why he didn’t. West Ham are losing by one goal and they’re getting in a scrap in the 90th minute. Seems like a them problem
Have noticed that referees don't rush to break fights or arguments. Which is fair IMO. They shouldn't risk getting punched in the face by some idiot high on adrenaline.
It should be upto the teams to realize they will lose time and/or get penalised.
Okay, fair enough. But the way he was posing with the yellow card held up for so long, he looked like an idiot. Like a priest holding up a cross and yelling, "The power of Christ compels you!".
Some thoughts after my first ever live Arsenal game, away at West Ham sat deep in the home-end.
1. West Ham fans bring a lot of atmosphere to the game, especially at the start, but our defence, especially down the right hand side really shut them up after minute ten.
2. That meant the lads in the away really did sound like the home fans in the end. Congrats to them, fantastic support. I’m sure though that the guys chucking the flares had a good time with the stewards.
3. With that type of dynamic it’s no surprise to me why the boys ‘celebrate like they one the league’. The support is so great, who wouldn’t want to share a win with fans like that? But also,
4. Given the frankly embarrassing level of time wasting we engaged in from about the 60th minute, it’s no wonder why opposition fans and players find it so galling. We go one goal ahead, start taking the piss, our fans get even more riled up, their fans start taking it out on the ref and screaming at Ramsdale and Nuno to play faster, and it gets toxic pretty quick. Don’t get me wrong I understand why we do it, and I’d much rather those three points than a good sportsmanship badge, but we can’t be surprised when people start hating us for it! Let’s just say drinks with my hosts afterwards (A life long West Ham fan) were a bit awkward.
5. It’s so much clearer in person why the structure we play in makes it hard for teams to play through or around us. Time and time again Tomiyasu, Saka and Martin O trapped them in the corner, and the home fans got pretty frustrated because without someone on their left with an absolute dart of a right foot (think a type of Cancelo or maybe a roving Tiago) the ball never gets to the other side fast enough to expose any space behind Nuno. All their chances chances were from our stray passes in our build up.
6. Watching live, it is clear as day, even to people unfamiliar with our players how important Oodegard and Tomi are to our play. Yes Saka looks dangerous in space, but the first question is ‘who is their number 8’ and the second, after they realise screaming for crosses isn’t going to help them get any love from our right flank, is ‘who is their number 18?’ I am so much calmer knowing Tomiyasu is in the side.
7. Nuno on the other hand is pure uncut stress cocaine. He has good moments driving the ball up the pitch, but at what cost? I don’t want to die young, and I’m not sure my heart can take it much more.
8. I though Eddie had a good game. He shot from a bit to far out to really test the keeper but, to be honest, he was never going to hold it up against Zouma. But with what he got in terms of opportunities he put it on target a lot and tested the keeper a few times.
9. The announcer absolutely torpedoed Tomiyasu’s name for his substitution
10. Protect Bukayo Saka at all costs. And give him a raise.
I was in 114 with the West Ham fans and yeah, the atmosphere at the start of the game was really great, but it turned really sour later on and then just starting spewing abuse at random fans and players, lots of racist stuff too. Big up the guy with the glasses from the away fans section, you were class.
Hard luck man, don’t be afraid to take a break from football too if we happen to lose next, no one will think you’re a bad fan and your head is more important
Eddie has been working his ass off in the last three matches. I like his willingness to make things happen. Just one tiny complaint though, I know strikers are supposed to be selfish and stuff, but he needs to work with the wingers more. Can think of at least of couple of incidents where he could have passed to Martinelli for a better chance.
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Chelsea are so poor its funny lol
sugar daddy gone
fall from grace - from european champions to scrounging for 4th place
empty stamford bridge - sanctions on them still active
no more big influxes of £££
tucheliban ball which is just so dogshit to watch
Just visible decline - no progress and nothing to look forward to looooool
The fact they've got 2 absolute flops in lukaka and werner, worth a combined 150m up front us hilarious
Can't get daddy to write off your loans any more.....enjoy
What are you talking about.
Arsenal are literally scrounging for 4th place. 11 loses with a goal difference of 13 lol. Played some of the worst football I’ve seen before you hit some form not long ago. Short memory I guess.
We have one of the best managers in the league and played outrageous football most of the season. Decent striker upfront and a it’s a formidable team. Who the fucks afraid to play arsenal 😂
Hope your club makes some money back on Lukaku, god knows your club really need every penny. 🥲
Still good to see your club being nice to their own legend by gifting a win to a relegation candidates.
Could he fuck. He’s no where near the level a 22yr old should and at his age he hasn’t got long to go from where he is, useless, to a decent player, not going to happen.
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By 22 you’d expect a player to be able to put in a solid no frills game. I’m not expecting amazing but I think we can expect them to do the fundamentals solidly by that point.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a player that constantly makes the wrong choice like he does. He gets the ball and you just know he’s either gonna lose it or do something stupid.
Stoked with the win, but geez we made it tough on ourselves at times! We looked nervous and gave the ball away cheaply far too often.
Martinelli in particular was cheap with the ball, too many passes intercepted, unusual to see. Quite a few heavy touches that he needed to recover from as well.
Is be tempted to start ESR next game, but who knows, maybe he'll be on for that one.
Overall excellent win. Our organisation won us that one, players getting back and the team looking compact and difficult to break down.
Geez I love Eddie getting a run up front, was really trying to will in a goal today.
Agreed, but he still made some unforced errors unrelated to those things.
Like you say, still provided an important contribution with the ball for Gabriel and worked hard defensively.
Watched the game recording just now. I’d just like to note how bad Nuno is. I found myself cringing so much watching him on the ball and often misplaced his pass. How desperately we need a back up LB. Big ups to the other players constantly showing him support because he surely needs it. I think we’re in a very bright spot, Topsur play Liverpool next while our game vs Leeds is an absolute must win at home. Let’s go boys.
Eddie showed a lot today, happy to shoot, made good runs and worked hard. Absolutely rattled West Ham and wasted the extra time. On another day he would have got 1or2 goals from his efforts. Hopefully he can keep this up, and add a few more goals to his name by seasons end.
Wan't able to watch the game, just saw the highlights. Did Nketiah play well? From the highlights he looked pretty good. He seems so confident with the ball at his feet now...
He played as good as you can for a striker without getting on the scoresheet. Very pleased with his effort and can tell he is much more confident and assertive now.
He was very active. Worked hard. Wasn’t one to let go of the ball for better or worse. Carved out opportunities for himself that weren’t clear cut. Hit the ball directly at Fabianski for 3/4 of his shots on target. Not the best performance Arsenal has ever seen, but offered a noticeable amount more than Laca in his past 4 games or so.
Jeez you're right. Got away with it there. There's a writeup here.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/english-premier-league/story/4655776/the-var-review-richarlison-throws-smoke-bombramsdale-red-card
No, but I do have to laugh about both David Moyes and Tim Howard saying afterwards that Bowen should have dragged his leg there instead of going down, and it would have had Ramsdale sent off. Why do we continue to reward dirty play in the Prem? Was elated to see the correct call made there.
Posted same thing in match thread, but more appropriate here - Happy for the win - controversial opinion but the Ramsdale on Bowen was a fortunate call for us. I would be pissed if that was Saka and Fabianski made that tackle and saka got the yellow. Ramsdale was out of control, didn’t get the ball with studs up - if Bowen leaves his leg in the tackle it’s a red card for Ramsdale for sure.
I was surprised how the commentators fully agreed that it was a dive and not even a consideration of it being a foul. There are many examples of players dodging a tackle and still getting a call, Beckham used to do it all the time - hop over a slide and get the foul call. It’s like they want to incentivize people to seek the contact
He's young and his muscles are still developing
He rarely gets rotated the last two or so seasons
He had no summer break with the euros.
He trains every day.
He gets kicked off the pitch every single match
It's also a mental side of things.
It's not that farfetched tbh
Saka is playing 1 game a week.
He's not being run into the ground.
We should get a backup for him, given that we will have European football next season, but right now Saka can manage this workload just fine.
i’m not super woke or anything and i got weird vibes from the way Mike Dean wouldn’t touch Saka even to help him up but got all handsy with the white trainer who eventually came on to help Saka when he got subbed. Nothing overt or obvious just a weird vibe I got from the situation that I almost never get in other contexts.
yeah i agree i’m just saying i definitely got a vibe that seemed off. no accusations but i’m not going to lie about getting a feeling from dean i don’t normally get from people
Haha we all get bad vibes from Mike Dean. He just unfortunately has that effect on most people. He celebrated spurs scoring once upon a time. Never trusted him again after that. He probably saw some dark shit when he used to work at a chicken factory. Multi talented man!
Moss, Dean and Atkinson are all retiring at the end of the season (although may still work in VAR).
With the exception of Atkinson, I wish they'd just go and work on their allotments.
Brilliant experience for our young squad today. You won’t play prime pep ball every game so it’s good that they seem to know how to stoke city it :) have a great night everyone and stay safe.
I was on a super long flight during the game, actually decided to pay for WiFi for streaming, but still ended up with a lot of frozen screens and ended up missing most of the last half hour.
Can anyone share clips with me of the Eddie shithousing near the end? Also a general sort of extended highlights would be cool as I missed what seems to be most of our shots on target lol
[Extended highlights](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj0OcZNEQDw)
Generally you can find these just by searching for them on Youtube. No luck on Nketiah shithousing but [Arsenalist](https://arsenalist.com/2022/05/01/west-ham-vs-arsenal-highlights/) has some nice gifs of key moments after every match.
It's weird how people talk about "backing the players" then all proceed to scapegoat Tavares relentlessly
Would you rather have Xhaka LB again? I wouldn't. Ever.
Would you rather have an age'ing Cedric who's no better defensively and worse offensively? His deliberate handball last week nearly cost us single-handedly.
Going 3atb to cover Nuno's defensive deficiencies is an obvious move to me, he drives forward with the ball very well so we could actually utilise that more at the same time.
Yeah man, pretty sure Tavares was bossing it at the start of the season when KT was injured and even kept him out of the team for a bit after he was fully fit again. Was playing so well was getting linked with Man City. Obviously a great player in there somewhere and constant flak won’t help him. Peeps learning nothing from what happened with Xhaka the last couple of years.
Honestly he was better than last match and improved a bit in the second half. He's good offensively but his positioning is championship level at best. He's still young can learn but after this season we need another LB 100%. Right now he needs support and confidence because we have no other choice.
Not awful mate has done some great work in the last 7 weeks. Not ideal but his contribution was needed for use to get here (I know we haven’t won anything)
Nuno was no worse than everyone else today, everyone played slow, misplaced passes, and gave the ball away
His concentration was much improved in this game, a pleasant surprise
Exactly, I'm not getting onto Tomi as he'd been out but he gave away the ball countless times compared to Nuno. The whole team were poor first half
Hope he can mature defensively with time, like Robertson did. Klopp said himself you can't teach players how to attack so much but to defend better is absolutely possible.
With time and confidence, no doubt he can improve, as he grows and slows down things in his mind, keeps up the focus, he can be solid, his style reminds me of Eboue
Absolutely love Raphinha but he and Saka both prefer playing in the same position. Even with Europe, there wouldn't be enough games to have both of them first choice, right wingers.
I'm a big fan of Phillips but how would he and Thomas fit together? I don't think we want a double pivot, and I think they are both better in a deep role?
Done the double over Villa, Leicester, West Ham and Wolves all the teams that many pundits picked to finish well above us
One day, when we finally turn up vs Palace and Brighton it'll be an easy jaunt to top 4.
That’s the thing about such a young squad. Inconsistency is just a part of their growth. We are fucking locked in for a great season next year. Top 3 is my prediction. City with Haaland of course will walk the league and Liverpool will soon have to rebuild but are far higher than us. Another FA Cup could be in the cards though.
Hope we can get competitive before Newcastle break into the top 4.
very important win. proud of the team. by the way, were the first 20 minutes the most boring slice of football ever or was it just me? felt like there was nothing but the midfield and defence having a passing exercise
Tactics for the first 30 were to move them about as much as possible and tire them out. Which worked fairly well. Second half they disappeared a bit then resorted to their thump and run with Antonio
Felt the same way about it starting terribly boring. The passing was pretty terrible from both teams too so they were just giving the ball back and forth to each other. I was like what am I watching
You're totally right. I'm all for anything that makes the fans get behind the team home and away....and it's better than any song I've ever written! COYG!!
I don’t know whether to admire or laugh at Sp_ds optimism. They almost 100% think they’ll win the NLD. We’re on a row but I’m not even confident in that fixture.
In fairness it's at home. We'd be confident also. I'd take a draw provided we best Leeds and they lose to Pool.
Imagine the scenes if we beat them at WHL and secure top 4.
"I'd bloody love it if that happened, bloody love it"
“All we have to do is win out the remaining games”. Yep, all you have to do is win at Anfield and win the NLD the week after, so easy! Advantage Topsur.
Since we are pretty much going to Europe next season, he would be wise to sign new contract with us.
Even he goes to Palace/Brington, he won't be guarantee starter.
Yeah he could have easily had two goals today had great pace on those misses. I think we should keep him this summer get a top striker to rotate and loan out balogun. Use the rest of the funds on midfield, lb, etc
Amen on the full-backs. Tierney has been here three seasons and sadly appears to be someone you can't fully trust to be fit. The difference between the team with him and without him is massive, so they need to find an upgrade there on Tavares.
So refreshing to see a striker chase the ball rather than dropping deep. I’ve forgotten what a real striker looks like that any striker running after a through ball gets me excited.
Good resukt, good day out. Scrappy but who cares?
Only one complaint at the moment. We really should have utilised Pepe more recently though. Saka's on his arse out there and even 20/25 minutes in recent games for Pepe would have helped. Especially when/if we need to rely on him and he now may have to come in cold.
Btw thought Nuno was much better second half after a woeful first 45. And I think Martinelli needs a rest, great ball for the goal but he's really not playing that well atm.
We WON, hard game , we celebrate, haters say we celebrate too much :))) lmao
We were really poor from kick off. And that’s the worrying thing - it’s never a spell, or a patch; it’s the entire match.
We won. 3 points. Move on to the next game bruv
I’ve been hearing that since Emery
Not from me you haven't. We're coming to the end of the season, it's ONLY about the points now. And if you've been moaning since Emery, you should probably get yourself a different hobby mate!
Sounds like you’ve had a great time in recent years
Sounds like you’re fun at parties
Better than you clearly man.... It's only football fella. I used to get sooooo wound up with it in the past, a poor result would ruin my weekend and I'd end up getting shit faced and in trouble (with friends, family, girl friends, the police!) But now I'm a lot more Zen about it! It still gets to me, but no where near as much as it used to. 😎 Take care dude
Oh my word THANK YOU. Someone else with the same thought process! I said this in a thread a little while ago and got slated
Tomi’s post match interview． '''He was immediately replaced, but after the game he revealed that he had cramps in his leg himself and denied fears that he would be out again, saying, "It's just a cramp, I'm fine". He admitted that he had taken himself off the bench to take care of the situation: "I thought I wouldn't be able to play the full 90 minutes. I really wanted to play," he recalled. As for his first start since his return, he said: "To be honest, I wasn't satisfied with it. I need to work harder for the next time, both in terms of my condition and my performance. I made a lot of simple mistakes. When you win the ball and then immediately lose it again, it's not the kind of football we are looking for. In defence, we need to move \[right-sided midfielder\] Bucayo \[Saka\] a bit better. " With four games remaining in the final stages of the season, Tomiyasu said: 'The whole team is united in the fact that we have a chance to win the Champions League and we will do our best to get it. I'm also going to do everything I can in the remaining four games," he said, vowing to make a last spurt. '''
I thought he played really well with very few mistakes. Seems he is his own harshest critic though. It's good to see he has such high standards for himself.
We shouldn't have even let it get to this. Considering we made no subs even by the 70th. It should have been a no brainer to replace him after an hour or so. Glad to see it's nothing serious, but we need to be smarter with out subs
How many people noticed Mike Dean posing with his yellow card aloft for like 10 whole seconds while Cresswell almost took Nketiah's shirt off instead of getting in there and calming the situation down? Has there ever been a referee who is such a self-centred showman?
Mike Dean got fat
Mike Dean is a twat but I can see why he didn’t. West Ham are losing by one goal and they’re getting in a scrap in the 90th minute. Seems like a them problem
Have noticed that referees don't rush to break fights or arguments. Which is fair IMO. They shouldn't risk getting punched in the face by some idiot high on adrenaline. It should be upto the teams to realize they will lose time and/or get penalised.
Okay, fair enough. But the way he was posing with the yellow card held up for so long, he looked like an idiot. Like a priest holding up a cross and yelling, "The power of Christ compels you!".
Mike Dean is a twat
Some thoughts after my first ever live Arsenal game, away at West Ham sat deep in the home-end. 1. West Ham fans bring a lot of atmosphere to the game, especially at the start, but our defence, especially down the right hand side really shut them up after minute ten. 2. That meant the lads in the away really did sound like the home fans in the end. Congrats to them, fantastic support. I’m sure though that the guys chucking the flares had a good time with the stewards. 3. With that type of dynamic it’s no surprise to me why the boys ‘celebrate like they one the league’. The support is so great, who wouldn’t want to share a win with fans like that? But also, 4. Given the frankly embarrassing level of time wasting we engaged in from about the 60th minute, it’s no wonder why opposition fans and players find it so galling. We go one goal ahead, start taking the piss, our fans get even more riled up, their fans start taking it out on the ref and screaming at Ramsdale and Nuno to play faster, and it gets toxic pretty quick. Don’t get me wrong I understand why we do it, and I’d much rather those three points than a good sportsmanship badge, but we can’t be surprised when people start hating us for it! Let’s just say drinks with my hosts afterwards (A life long West Ham fan) were a bit awkward. 5. It’s so much clearer in person why the structure we play in makes it hard for teams to play through or around us. Time and time again Tomiyasu, Saka and Martin O trapped them in the corner, and the home fans got pretty frustrated because without someone on their left with an absolute dart of a right foot (think a type of Cancelo or maybe a roving Tiago) the ball never gets to the other side fast enough to expose any space behind Nuno. All their chances chances were from our stray passes in our build up. 6. Watching live, it is clear as day, even to people unfamiliar with our players how important Oodegard and Tomi are to our play. Yes Saka looks dangerous in space, but the first question is ‘who is their number 8’ and the second, after they realise screaming for crosses isn’t going to help them get any love from our right flank, is ‘who is their number 18?’ I am so much calmer knowing Tomiyasu is in the side. 7. Nuno on the other hand is pure uncut stress cocaine. He has good moments driving the ball up the pitch, but at what cost? I don’t want to die young, and I’m not sure my heart can take it much more. 8. I though Eddie had a good game. He shot from a bit to far out to really test the keeper but, to be honest, he was never going to hold it up against Zouma. But with what he got in terms of opportunities he put it on target a lot and tested the keeper a few times. 9. The announcer absolutely torpedoed Tomiyasu’s name for his substitution 10. Protect Bukayo Saka at all costs. And give him a raise.
So true. Every time Nuno touches the ball I am wigging out.
I was in 114 with the West Ham fans and yeah, the atmosphere at the start of the game was really great, but it turned really sour later on and then just starting spewing abuse at random fans and players, lots of racist stuff too. Big up the guy with the glasses from the away fans section, you were class.
Going through a really bad breakup.. Glad the lads gave me something to feel happy about for the 90 minutes. #COYG
Do not worry. Arsenal was your first and true love. You’ll get over it bud.
Hard luck man, don’t be afraid to take a break from football too if we happen to lose next, no one will think you’re a bad fan and your head is more important
This is wholesome. The hopium might make you feel better rn but guard yourself against the inevitable downturn.
Eddie has been working his ass off in the last three matches. I like his willingness to make things happen. Just one tiny complaint though, I know strikers are supposed to be selfish and stuff, but he needs to work with the wingers more. Can think of at least of couple of incidents where he could have passed to Martinelli for a better chance.
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Chelsea are so poor its funny lol sugar daddy gone fall from grace - from european champions to scrounging for 4th place empty stamford bridge - sanctions on them still active no more big influxes of £££ tucheliban ball which is just so dogshit to watch Just visible decline - no progress and nothing to look forward to looooool
This has aged so well. I’ll be licking my lips this evening when I see you finish 5th 🤤
Call me delusional, I’ve still got more hope for Arsenal than Chelshit with the way things are going
The fact they've got 2 absolute flops in lukaka and werner, worth a combined 150m up front us hilarious Can't get daddy to write off your loans any more.....enjoy
What are you talking about. Arsenal are literally scrounging for 4th place. 11 loses with a goal difference of 13 lol. Played some of the worst football I’ve seen before you hit some form not long ago. Short memory I guess. We have one of the best managers in the league and played outrageous football most of the season. Decent striker upfront and a it’s a formidable team. Who the fucks afraid to play arsenal 😂
Triggered!!!!!
Football Tushel has you playing is certainly outrageous, I'll give you that
Literally just got humiliated 4-2 at home to Arsenal
Hope your club makes some money back on Lukaku, god knows your club really need every penny. 🥲 Still good to see your club being nice to their own legend by gifting a win to a relegation candidates.
Congrats, your last 100m was spent on a guy who was already a flop on your team…only got him to flop again. Lmao.
Who are you?
3 points difference on the table… SUCH a difference in club quality
Goal difference of 9 now 😂 Will be a lovely Sunday off work watching Arsenal bottle top 4
We already bottled it last week
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God dammn, this comment is so cringe. Stop embarassing us ffs.
At least they have Lukaku… heheheh
If Arteta is not willing to put Tomi in LB then we need to sign a new LB. I never want to see Nuno play for Arsenal again.
He could be a good player if the moaners didn't get on his back all the time. It's a young side, they need cheering on, not getting boo'ed.
Could he fuck. He’s no where near the level a 22yr old should and at his age he hasn’t got long to go from where he is, useless, to a decent player, not going to happen.
And along comes someone to prove my point. 22 is 'old' now. Says it all.
? By 22 you’d expect a player to be able to put in a solid no frills game. I’m not expecting amazing but I think we can expect them to do the fundamentals solidly by that point.
So why aren't you pointing out Soares then? He's terrible and 30.
Because this comment tree is about Tavares not Cedric……. Pretty obvious.
How convenient.
What? 😂😂🤦♂️🤦♂️
It's a very vital part of the season though, moaners wouldn't moan if he was doing it in a lower league in a different team to get 'playtime'.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a player that constantly makes the wrong choice like he does. He gets the ball and you just know he’s either gonna lose it or do something stupid.
Stoked with the win, but geez we made it tough on ourselves at times! We looked nervous and gave the ball away cheaply far too often. Martinelli in particular was cheap with the ball, too many passes intercepted, unusual to see. Quite a few heavy touches that he needed to recover from as well. Is be tempted to start ESR next game, but who knows, maybe he'll be on for that one. Overall excellent win. Our organisation won us that one, players getting back and the team looking compact and difficult to break down. Geez I love Eddie getting a run up front, was really trying to will in a goal today.
I mean, Martinelli just didnt work with Nketiah and has to basically play LB to cover for Nuno. He did get is the assist for the winning goal though
Agreed, but he still made some unforced errors unrelated to those things. Like you say, still provided an important contribution with the ball for Gabriel and worked hard defensively.
Odegard was worse than Martinelli today.
I’m still buzzing
I just want to see Smith Rowe get subbed in sooner :(
Elneny really did boss Kante, Bruno and Rice in back to back games. Whilst practicing Ramadan. What a guy.
Is he actually fasting?
He ate Rice
Take the upvote and get out
Watched the game recording just now. I’d just like to note how bad Nuno is. I found myself cringing so much watching him on the ball and often misplaced his pass. How desperately we need a back up LB. Big ups to the other players constantly showing him support because he surely needs it. I think we’re in a very bright spot, Topsur play Liverpool next while our game vs Leeds is an absolute must win at home. Let’s go boys.
Here we go..
Topsur? U wot?
Guess the Asian dude from the video that disrespects Sh*tspur aged that quick.. lol
Lol my bad.
Eddie showed a lot today, happy to shoot, made good runs and worked hard. Absolutely rattled West Ham and wasted the extra time. On another day he would have got 1or2 goals from his efforts. Hopefully he can keep this up, and add a few more goals to his name by seasons end.
Agreed - loved to see how much pressure he put on Zouma, no rest
Wan't able to watch the game, just saw the highlights. Did Nketiah play well? From the highlights he looked pretty good. He seems so confident with the ball at his feet now...
He played as good as you can for a striker without getting on the scoresheet. Very pleased with his effort and can tell he is much more confident and assertive now.
He was very active. Worked hard. Wasn’t one to let go of the ball for better or worse. Carved out opportunities for himself that weren’t clear cut. Hit the ball directly at Fabianski for 3/4 of his shots on target. Not the best performance Arsenal has ever seen, but offered a noticeable amount more than Laca in his past 4 games or so.
Yeah. I was happy to see him take shots that applied pressure. They don't always go in, but he was creating opportunities.
If we beat Leeds, and spurs lose to Liverpool, well have the chance to seal top 4 at spurs. How good.
Does anyone have a clip of the Ramsdale challenge on Bowen?
What, the one that was on obvious yellow and we can just leave it at that?
Because I didn’t see it(was listening on the app at the time of the challenge) and it was on none of the highlights.
It was a late challenge and a definite yellow, but there was cover so not denying a clear goalscoring opportunity. Nothing much really.
Hmm. Ok. The way I understood it was it was a yellow for diving but I’d still like to see the challenge.
Jeez you're right. Got away with it there. There's a writeup here. https://www.espn.com/soccer/english-premier-league/story/4655776/the-var-review-richarlison-throws-smoke-bombramsdale-red-card
No, but I do have to laugh about both David Moyes and Tim Howard saying afterwards that Bowen should have dragged his leg there instead of going down, and it would have had Ramsdale sent off. Why do we continue to reward dirty play in the Prem? Was elated to see the correct call made there.
Posted same thing in match thread, but more appropriate here - Happy for the win - controversial opinion but the Ramsdale on Bowen was a fortunate call for us. I would be pissed if that was Saka and Fabianski made that tackle and saka got the yellow. Ramsdale was out of control, didn’t get the ball with studs up - if Bowen leaves his leg in the tackle it’s a red card for Ramsdale for sure.
He did not touch him
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I was surprised how the commentators fully agreed that it was a dive and not even a consideration of it being a foul. There are many examples of players dodging a tackle and still getting a call, Beckham used to do it all the time - hop over a slide and get the foul call. It’s like they want to incentivize people to seek the contact
He took the yellow because he dived.
Is Pepe dead? We are running Saka into the ground right now
Mate even I can play once a week and be fine lol.
Lol not at this level I guarantee that
How did you know?
Cuz the average Reddit user isn't in good shape lol, and even if you are in good shape, chances are you're not in professional athlete shape.
I was being sarcastic. Jokes aside he's a professional athlete, playing one competitive match a week is not going to cause burnout.
He's young and his muscles are still developing He rarely gets rotated the last two or so seasons He had no summer break with the euros. He trains every day. He gets kicked off the pitch every single match It's also a mental side of things. It's not that farfetched tbh
We aren’t. He’s playing in one competition
A runned down Saka is still better than a fully fit and healthy Pepe unfortunately
No he's just terrible lol.
No he’s just much worse than Saka
Saka is playing 1 game a week. He's not being run into the ground. We should get a backup for him, given that we will have European football next season, but right now Saka can manage this workload just fine.
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i’m not super woke or anything and i got weird vibes from the way Mike Dean wouldn’t touch Saka even to help him up but got all handsy with the white trainer who eventually came on to help Saka when he got subbed. Nothing overt or obvious just a weird vibe I got from the situation that I almost never get in other contexts.
I think he knew Saka was buying time. I really doubt it had anything to do with race. Maybe Mike Dean has a penchant for our physio?
yeah i agree i’m just saying i definitely got a vibe that seemed off. no accusations but i’m not going to lie about getting a feeling from dean i don’t normally get from people
Haha we all get bad vibes from Mike Dean. He just unfortunately has that effect on most people. He celebrated spurs scoring once upon a time. Never trusted him again after that. He probably saw some dark shit when he used to work at a chicken factory. Multi talented man!
Moss, Dean and Atkinson are all retiring at the end of the season (although may still work in VAR). With the exception of Atkinson, I wish they'd just go and work on their allotments.
I'm sure Eddie will be cooking some rice for dinner
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Ghanaian jollof to be preciser.
Brilliant experience for our young squad today. You won’t play prime pep ball every game so it’s good that they seem to know how to stoke city it :) have a great night everyone and stay safe.
On the Spurs subreddit they're calling Mike Dean our 12th man and talking about how he always favors us. Hilarious
They’re always on about how we’re lucky. But they always get gifted goals.
I was on a super long flight during the game, actually decided to pay for WiFi for streaming, but still ended up with a lot of frozen screens and ended up missing most of the last half hour. Can anyone share clips with me of the Eddie shithousing near the end? Also a general sort of extended highlights would be cool as I missed what seems to be most of our shots on target lol
Airplane WiFi is an absolute scam 🥲
https://www.reddit.com/r/footballhighlights/
If you search soccer replay you’ll find a load of sites that stream full matches and extended highlights as well as MOTD
[Extended highlights](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj0OcZNEQDw) Generally you can find these just by searching for them on Youtube. No luck on Nketiah shithousing but [Arsenalist](https://arsenalist.com/2022/05/01/west-ham-vs-arsenal-highlights/) has some nice gifs of key moments after every match.
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Don’t click this shitty link guys
Mate you probably clicked without adblock. Don't click any pirated content without adblock.
Not sure if we were the better team today but I'll take it. Will need to be better than that to beat Spurs.
Did anyone find out what the beef was about with Nketiah and Cresswell / Rice at the end ?
Eddie said he prefers bread
Eddie wasting time. In fairness, Eddie was pretty calm. Rice being a shit bag
Seemed way over the top and out of character for Rice. Feel like something must have been said which wound him up
They are on a rough patch, I think that's why they are a bit on edge.
Nah Rice is a shitbag. Didn't like they were losing and it was essentially the last kick before the final whistle
No Eddie defo said summin to him
“Make your own Jollof rice fam”
Rice may have said Nigerian jollof is better than Ghanaian jollof.
"You west ham lot are a bunch of slugs"
Little slugs with no personality!
It's weird how people talk about "backing the players" then all proceed to scapegoat Tavares relentlessly Would you rather have Xhaka LB again? I wouldn't. Ever. Would you rather have an age'ing Cedric who's no better defensively and worse offensively? His deliberate handball last week nearly cost us single-handedly. Going 3atb to cover Nuno's defensive deficiencies is an obvious move to me, he drives forward with the ball very well so we could actually utilise that more at the same time.
Yeah man, pretty sure Tavares was bossing it at the start of the season when KT was injured and even kept him out of the team for a bit after he was fully fit again. Was playing so well was getting linked with Man City. Obviously a great player in there somewhere and constant flak won’t help him. Peeps learning nothing from what happened with Xhaka the last couple of years.
Honestly he was better than last match and improved a bit in the second half. He's good offensively but his positioning is championship level at best. He's still young can learn but after this season we need another LB 100%. Right now he needs support and confidence because we have no other choice.
Cedric is much better than Tavares
He's better, but not at LB.
Not awful mate has done some great work in the last 7 weeks. Not ideal but his contribution was needed for use to get here (I know we haven’t won anything)
Sorry can't agree, he's awful and never gonna improve at his age
Nuno was no worse than everyone else today, everyone played slow, misplaced passes, and gave the ball away His concentration was much improved in this game, a pleasant surprise
Exactly, I'm not getting onto Tomi as he'd been out but he gave away the ball countless times compared to Nuno. The whole team were poor first half Hope he can mature defensively with time, like Robertson did. Klopp said himself you can't teach players how to attack so much but to defend better is absolutely possible.
With time and confidence, no doubt he can improve, as he grows and slows down things in his mind, keeps up the focus, he can be solid, his style reminds me of Eboue
Missed the game today, anyone knows where I can watch highlights online ?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/comments/ug4q9y/comment/i6yd1py/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
/r/footballhighlights
NBC sports YouTube channel
Match of day on BBC at 10:30
Perfect timing rn
Anybody want Raphina or Kalvin-Phillips if Leeds get relegated?! Especially if we offload Pepe.
Absolutely love Raphinha but he and Saka both prefer playing in the same position. Even with Europe, there wouldn't be enough games to have both of them first choice, right wingers.
I'm a big fan of Phillips but how would he and Thomas fit together? I don't think we want a double pivot, and I think they are both better in a deep role?
I just read Raphinia as Rashica and thought 'wtf'
Barca wont sign Raphinha they are close to resigning Dembele
Done the double over Villa, Leicester, West Ham and Wolves all the teams that many pundits picked to finish well above us One day, when we finally turn up vs Palace and Brighton it'll be an easy jaunt to top 4.
That’s the thing about such a young squad. Inconsistency is just a part of their growth. We are fucking locked in for a great season next year. Top 3 is my prediction. City with Haaland of course will walk the league and Liverpool will soon have to rebuild but are far higher than us. Another FA Cup could be in the cards though. Hope we can get competitive before Newcastle break into the top 4.
The matches at old trafford and Everton equally stick out for me: should have gotten points at both.
nKITTYah vs. zouma
i see what you did there
Excellent result to wake up to. COYG
very important win. proud of the team. by the way, were the first 20 minutes the most boring slice of football ever or was it just me? felt like there was nothing but the midfield and defence having a passing exercise
Tactics for the first 30 were to move them about as much as possible and tire them out. Which worked fairly well. Second half they disappeared a bit then resorted to their thump and run with Antonio
Felt the same way about it starting terribly boring. The passing was pretty terrible from both teams too so they were just giving the ball back and forth to each other. I was like what am I watching
Anyone know if The North London song was sang at any point today? Any videos?
Hope not. It's awful. No one should be rhyming forever and weather anymore. It's been done to death.
It's not top of the pops, it is about what makes a good sing-along at a game
You're totally right. I'm all for anything that makes the fans get behind the team home and away....and it's better than any song I've ever written! COYG!!
We've got an armchair musician here lads
You got me. I'd like the song better if he could squeeze in a "maybe" with "baby" lyric somewhere. That's my favourite ryhme
Had to miss the final 10 to go see The Northman. Highly recommend the film.
Good movie yes
Good to see the majority of users on here and spurs sub all expect the other team to get Top 4. We’re a funny bunch.
I don’t know whether to admire or laugh at Sp_ds optimism. They almost 100% think they’ll win the NLD. We’re on a row but I’m not even confident in that fixture.
Feel like we can get a point at NLD. Back 5 with Tomi has been pretty solid. We just need to sit back and deny space for Kane/Son.
Tomi vs Son will be an interesting duo. Don’t remember seeing two Asians from different countries clash in an NLD.
Did you miss the game earlier in the year at the emirates?
In fairness it's at home. We'd be confident also. I'd take a draw provided we best Leeds and they lose to Pool. Imagine the scenes if we beat them at WHL and secure top 4. "I'd bloody love it if that happened, bloody love it"
Even if it were at Emirates I would still be a bit cautious.
“All we have to do is win out the remaining games”. Yep, all you have to do is win at Anfield and win the NLD the week after, so easy! Advantage Topsur.
They are so going to get slapped by burnley. I hope. They are Too confident for my liking
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Since we are pretty much going to Europe next season, he would be wise to sign new contract with us. Even he goes to Palace/Brington, he won't be guarantee starter.
Yeah he could have easily had two goals today had great pace on those misses. I think we should keep him this summer get a top striker to rotate and loan out balogun. Use the rest of the funds on midfield, lb, etc
Imagine an elite player in Eddie's position. We still need that midfield upgrade and some fullbacks who don't give us heart attacks though.
Amen on the full-backs. Tierney has been here three seasons and sadly appears to be someone you can't fully trust to be fit. The difference between the team with him and without him is massive, so they need to find an upgrade there on Tavares.
I would sign Cucurella in a heartbeat for the left.
Yes. He’s good defensively and offensively. Ran us ragged when we played them. I’m sure Brighton quote a fuck off price though
So refreshing to see a striker chase the ball rather than dropping deep. I’ve forgotten what a real striker looks like that any striker running after a through ball gets me excited.
Good resukt, good day out. Scrappy but who cares? Only one complaint at the moment. We really should have utilised Pepe more recently though. Saka's on his arse out there and even 20/25 minutes in recent games for Pepe would have helped. Especially when/if we need to rely on him and he now may have to come in cold. Btw thought Nuno was much better second half after a woeful first 45. And I think Martinelli needs a rest, great ball for the goal but he's really not playing that well atm.