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Fkhalifa:
Liverpool that year had the worst defence of ageing skirtil and toure, moreno and Johnson, they are worse than our first back4, Rodgers played to the strength of SARs and outscored any team, the attack was good and was stopped by mouriho's packed bus at Anfield, they bottled it at crystal palace.

That Liverpool had wingers and was close to winning the league, if we have wingers maybe we will be up there and close to winning the league and then sort our defense later on.

We've drawn/lost 90% of our first half, we struggle to break teams down, we aren't like the Liverpool's SAS that outscores every team.

Our 1st choice back4 may not be world class,but aren't as bad as being portrayed.

I really do not understand you here. You stated Liverpool defence back then was shitty and their attack was on fire and they ended up losing the league. Now they added quality to their defence and they are looking like Epl champions already in January, yet you want to make it seem like defence was not their problem then.

Klopp observed he had ageing defenders and replaced them with young blood doing quite well and a club record signing goal keeper. We saw how Judas Karius made sold out in the UCL final and conceded goals he shouldn't have, and Klopp replaced him with a record signing that has saved them points.

I agree with you on not having wingers that can put the ball in front of our strikers, but the major problem Arsenal has is defence followed by wingers which will be the case if we want to play tru the wings. If we don't want to do wing play, then central midfield should be our concern after defence.

So are you saying if you are appointed arsenal manager today, you will play mustafi, Bellerin, sokratis and Kolasinaic at the back 4 and then focus on getting Carrasco and maybe perisic and you will win the league in the next two years without injury?

Fkhalifa:
Someone said our attack is like the Liverpool front3 SAS
NO! We aren't.
Suarez,sterling and sturidge all pace, dribbling skills,mobile and deadly on the counter, ours isn't.

I insist our defense is okay, injury disrupted our season, The back4 of Monreal, Holding, Sokratis,mustafi and bellerin is good enough.

The main problem is we rely on bellerin and kola to attack from the flanks,
Our rivals have wingers doing that and that allows their full backs and defence take shape and organized

Go see the goals we concede, often times our defenders are far up the pitch. While our attackers are busy side passing and flicking the ball.

Bros, when we had our back 4 stable early in the season we were conceding goals. We had a full back 4 against fulham in the first leg yet we conceded, the same thing happened in the second leg. In the two matches our attack was sharp while our defence was poor. We couldn't keep clean sheet when we still had our defenders intact, neither did we keep clean sheet when they were injured. So you see that point about injured defenders won't stand.

We played two legs against cardiff the second least scoring side in the league as of today, our fully fit back 4 of Bellerin, mustafi, Sokratis and monreal conceded 2 goals. Can you imagine? On second leg we still concede 1 in the die minutes. Yet we should believe a Frontline that has scored the same number of goals with Tottenham and 5 goals lesser than the league leaders are not doing enough?

Kai! I no gree

sod09:
i was chatting with a colleague at the office, he is an arsenal fan too.
he asked how sunday go be, he started with how many we go chop i say 5 atleast. then we try to think of a narrow way out if we have a way of managing city. but we both concluded that the defense will fvck us up.
we can slightly manage city if we choke the midfield by using midfielders that will mark and can hold ball
suarez should start, we can use guen to our advantage with his unnecessary falling especially if city are in the mood .




but in the end i dont see us having any hope against angry city

The fact is this: if you get midfielders to choke the game up for few minutes and hold play lets say for first half, what happens when they eventually get tired and the opposing team face a weak defence? They will definitely score double the goals you attackers might have racked up.

Arsenal's attack is decent judging by the number of goals they've racked up. Just look at Chelsea their attack is not as good as ours considering they've managed to score 40 goals while we've scored 50. Their defence is what places them on the same point with us.

Pep knew what he was doing packing defenders.

patrickmuf:
A weak defense can be shielded by a world class attack and a hard working midfield, that's what Liverpool have.
Argentina on the other hand have a world class attack, an average midfield and a poor defense so they don't offer their defense enough protection.

Wait a minute! so u mean an Argentina team that has Ever Banega, Di maria is average...but a liverpool team with Henderson, Wijnaldum is more compact right?

patrickmuf:
You don't see teams attacking Liverpool as much as they'd attack Arsenal not when there know how much the pace of Salah, Mane and Firmino can hurt them.
That's the point the dude is trying to make. And if you look at that Liverpool team, they put you under pressure from the front and their midfield is compact, same can't be said of Arsenal, no?

Bros, you are right they have pacy and skillful players upfront, but we all know the difference between the Liverpool of last year and this year is the strengthening of their back-line including the goalkeeping position.

Arsenal's defence is wack and this is why teams attack us, not because they they are not wary of our attackers. No sensible coach will see an old and slow Lichsteiner playing at right back and a defensively weak Xhaka playing at left back and tell his team to focus on our attack. Hell no! They will definitely work on the weak defence and get the juice out of them.

Fkhalifa:
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People just keep emphasizing on defense being the main problem.
Good Modern Football analyst will tell you
If the attacking unit is not good enough, the defense suffers…

Even if we sign four Van Dirk today, and we don’t have enough ball dribblers both on the wings and in central midfield, (most of our attackers ability is to pass and walk the ball in,filck it on and no innovation.)

The defense will still continue to suffer…
Go see top teams around, they have attackers doing their duty,while the full backs and defence concentrate mainly on defending.



Man city and Liverpool defence unit are good not because their Defenders are better than ours but because they have an efficient Attacking system that absorbs pressures from getting to their defense unit….
Same with Barcelona….

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This is so so untrue. Arsenal have decent attackers. Aubameyang, Lacazette, Ozil, will make the first team of some top teams(Maybe not all, but at least some ).They are delivering if you ask me.

Defence has proven to be Arsenal's problem. Just take a look at Liverpool sitting No.1 on the log with 61 points compared to Arsenal's 47 points. That's a whole 14 points gap. Would you believe Liverpool have only scored just 5 goals more than Arsenal?

We've scored 50 goals and conceded 33, while Liverpool has scored 55 and conceded mere 14 goals. And you say defense is not our problem.

As for the wish for more wingers, well that boarders on the style of play we choose to play. Arsenal in the recent past has been playing tru the middle which may have been the reason you don't see us buying wingers compared to teams like Liverpool and Man Utd. If Emery wants to play tru the wings he may invest more in that department , but if not he should concentrate on strengthening the defense and getting a replacement for Ramsey.

Naija politicians...smh. You drive a Rolls Royce to sweet talk the people of the community into voting your child and after election they dont see you for the next 4years

Just start your next call with ''Mayday ! Mayday!''

sethtsadopp:
Hmmm, but this plan has been ended since last week na Oga! I do it too and the plan ended since last week.

Mr Dayspringer address this issue. Am looking at patronizing you for the 2 months plan.

QuotaSystem:
A video has been making the rounds of a disgruntled 'lawyer" protesting outside the Federal High Court in Abuja, in which he claims the new CJN is unqualified for the position because "he was never called to bar and is a Sharia court Judge". Upon research from information freely available on the public domain, these claims we're however found to be patently false.

FACTS

1. The new CJN was called to bar in 1981 after graduating from the Nigerian Law School.

2. He was appointed Chief Magistrate in the FCT High Court in 1989 where he served for 2 years (not Sharia court, but they won't mention this).

3. He was sent to the Sharia Court of Appeal (Bauchi) in 1991 where he served for ONLY TWO (2) YEARS before he was appointed as a Justice of the Court of Appeal (again, not Sharia court) where he served for THIRTEEN (13) YEARS on the bench...before being sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court in 2007(again, not Sharia Court) where he has served the country for the last TWELVE (12) YEARS.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Tanko_Muhammad

VERDICT: The new CJN is more than qualified to hold that office regardless of whatever some disgruntled semi-literate ignorant folks say...and he will remain in that office until Onnoghen is able to clear his soiled name if he ever does.

It is also important to note that Justice Tanko Mohammed is the natural successor to Onnoghen as he is the 2nd most senior Justice of the Supreme Court & Vice Chairman of the National Judicial Council (NJC).

P.S The way the "lawyer" in the video was wailing and screaming like a suffering piglet was enough indication that his rants would end up being as irrational & nonsensical as they did.

Abeg no mind those mumu. Someone who is even more educated than the most educated person in some people's local government yet they say he's a mere sharia judge.

He has a first degree in law, masters and even PhD in law yet they he's a mere sharia court judge. Maybe because they don't hear him being called His Lordship, Dr., -Alhaji, Chief Imam etc in one sentence before His name.

Guendouzi was good tonight but still made some school boy errors and some awkward runs here and there. He made some nice passes into the box too that could've resulted in goals if we had a vibrant number 2. I guess he can't out play his age.

He will get there sha. Abeg please Emery should play jekinson more on the right flank in place of the old man. At least he can make decent runs unlike the old man that has seen better days.

Elneny should be sold. He has refused to improve. Watching him play dey make eyes pepper me. Ẹ dey be like say I put Chinese balm for eyes.

Ibime:
And they were busy shouting OGS, OGS like some alumni of Offa Grammar School

This one enter

Fkhalifa:
Didn't see the first half, how come ozil behind Auba and laca hasn't mesmerise us with assist, goals and cool football?
Even against a Cardiff at the Emirates?

Till the day we get quality wingers and good ball carrier in midfield, we won't scare any team.

Simply play either laca or Auba up top and surround them the CF with a perisic and carrasco.

Till then enjoy the frustrating,boring pass me I pass you ,walk the ball in the net football.

The Litschteiner factor has affected the team. He's not beenaking runs on the right wing like Bellerin would do. He makes ozil job quite difficult especially when they need to exchange 1-2 pass

With this 5 man midfield Cardiff is posting so, make dem no make my sleep wey I sacrifice waste ó. After battling with Lagos traffic and hard day work, make litchsteiner no dey chop gol/dribble anyhow o

jumzzy448:
Yam n egg with cold milo

This is just the way I like my yam and egg

kodded:
same story with Denis Suarez, and did we finally get him ? NO !

ok

kodded:
my brother no one is coming

Well let's see how it goes. I understand he wants to leave and has handed in transfer request, Emery wants to get him on loan but inter may not be willing to do a loan deal rather a complete sale.

Let's see how it goes

Perisic coming won't be bad afterall. At least he's faster than miki

Shebi na una no get sense dey do stupid giveaway just to have people hail for show offs.

If una head correct una go know say person wey get at least an android phone which consumes nothing less than 100mb daily to access Instagram should not be the one you are giving money to, rather the less privileged in orphanages, orphans, abandoned children and indigent brilliant students in a secondary near you.

Even if pdp had 2/3 majority sef, impeachmeng of the president in this current dispensation will be almost impossible.Impeachment doesn't work the way most people see it.

Step 5 of the in the 12 steps involved in impeachment requires the CJN to set up a panel to investigate the allegations against the president.

Oya which CJN will do that? Is it the newly appointed acting CJN or the suspended CJN?

bionixs:
oga,I am sorry that you are riding on the back of a tiger and until now you are yet to understand. it has now gone beyond politics and tribalism. the implication is ending as food for the tiger soonest

K

Husband material 100yards.
Lunch: Noodles with crayfish and diced hot dog and of course enough pepper and alubosa (ọmọ Oduwa tokan tokan.

Pix 2: while on fire
Pix 1: lunch is served

bionixs:
so what is your point?

My point is Fayose’s moral compass is broken and there’s no super glue that can put it together . In saner climes where there’s no corrupt CJN Fayose should be in a maximum prison now

fikiman7000:
I hope you remember that osinbajo was still a pastor when this Fayose man was ruling a state,politically osinbajo can't stand with Fayose so shut your mouth mister

Politically kor spiritually ni. Do I look like I want to engage you any fruitless argument?

Go and strip it na

Ode ni fayose yi mehn. You think SAN and ur HND na the same thing

When u were busy cutting ponmo,eating ewa agonyin and collecting Dasuki money you no know say you dey embarrass HND holders ba?

One thing that is very sure in all of this is the 3 lawyers (SAN) who are standing for APC, Fayemi and Olusola respectively are definitely richer than they were this time last year

Aswear na lawyers enjoy pass during democracy . Even Femi Falana now has bastard money unlike during military era