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Min 4W, D, L
Max 5wins and a Loss(to Liverpool)

Absolute foolishness in display. How is this ebough to conclude? The sky has too many images people see these days. Smh

chrisooblog:
Was watching the post match analysis of the Man U game honestly the comments from scholes really annoyed me. Ole coached a dreadful Manchester side today but Paul somehow made it all Pogba's fault like he was on the pitch when they considered 4 goals. Always questioning his commitment like it's pogba's fault that man u has had poor or shitty coaches since Ferguson retired. Shebi if Pogba is the one holding them back how come other players haven't powered united to glory?

Really disgraceful the free pass these ex-united players give ole but will be all over pogba should he as much as breathe smh.

sorry for the digression guys

No Nigeria player don get 0/10 rating before. Even 1/10. Na 80m man kon Get am. Chai.

How our LB and LCB want take face Salah next year now?

What a day for Manchester Divided.

Salah is World's best!!

Salah is the World's best player right now.


African forwards also on rampage this season.

Tuchel gave 7up
Klopp currently giving 5alive!!

Abi 7up is the target.

Roland17:
Make I no read any Partey slander for here this week oh!

He's just doing what Leon Balogun did vs CAR(2nd leg) weeks back. Commendable sha.

Kog45:
Happy birthday my man Dave.

Gracias boss. I appreciate!

solonnachi:
Happy birthday oga DAVE
May God be by your side to SAVE
May His blessings rest on you like sweet WAVES
I know you are BRAVE
So may all the blessings you CRAVE
Open doors for you that PAVE

Thanks boss! Amen!

I hope this has unlocked Partey scorefest? This formation is making things look easy.

iamoyindamola:
How?
Has he said anything bad?
He refused to be a backup, btw seaman confirmed money was part of the reason he left.
Arsenal needed money, no wonder villa came back requesting for Smith rowe

Arsenal desperation made it look normal too. I doubt This Arteta had plans for him if not that injury made that fA cup chance available. Besides not hearing any positive news regarding games to be played is a big decider. I really don't blame Martinez. I doubt anyone with such treatment will be happy. But he should move on.

Aston Villa looking easier than the last two.

Thanks to common sense and now we're same points with Man Utd and 3points away from the top 4 currently.

Can we bang in more and get rid of this negative GD?

Thanks to everyone for the wishes. Gracias and God bless you all!!

Its my birthday...another year to look forward to.

Spy360:
Oxymoron.

-4 abi -5 after 8 games. Na to tell Arteta weldone then.

Roland17:
How else are you supposed to win football matches?

This guy na real scam!

E dey Taya person to read his quotes daily.

Eizzy003:
Den wetin, abeg no go there ooo, those guys da mad form, do u know those guys have won all their world cup qualifiers and have not conceded any goal, I'll even prefer we play England now than facing Denmark

Na why i add that smiley.


Norway dey too sha, underneath us. Overall, no harm trying.

#AFC | "I spoke with the players after the game on Monday and we all agreed that we need to score more goals than the opposition if we want to win football matches."

- Mikel Arteta

Glad this has come. And i hope the tactics tilt towards that

kingphilip:
I am thinking we should explore the option of playing those beatable European countries above us to go up in subsequently international break where it is possible to include a friendly.

Like Denmark?

Two Nigerians with two Assists each on a Europa night.... Pheww

That's a first!!

Daka get positioning..

Will love to see such at the SE. But we no get Maddison/Tielemanns mould.

cc12:
Chukwueze scores on his Champions league debut.

8
Finally!

12large1:
Victor Moses must return back to super eagles. Every country has its best and most experienced players, playing for their country and ours shouldn’t be any different

I dunno what trophy "the team must be young" is out there that they keep just shutting him out on this thread. He's really performing. Na dem sabi sha. Who young epp?

Seems Sterling is the January window priority for Arteta.


Partey and Pepe, Elneny, will be at Afcon. Who replaces them? Is Alexis still going to be available?

BlueRayDick:
Historical data has shown Auba is a better striker. Any other thing na sentiment and personal bias.

Historical data has shown that Auba is better striker than Osimhen. But osimhen is currently the best african 9 in europe.


Let's not go over this who's better talk. I just, like other fans, want more minutes for Laca. That's all.


And overall, lets agree to disagree.

We look forward to Aston Villa.

BlueRayDick:
What most of y'all looking for is a miracle and it sure isn't going to happen soon. The moment the CEO Venkatesham made that comment that they were not going to sack Arteta but give him a chance to build a youthful team I already zeroed my mind on us getting even with the traditional top 4. The fact that most of u still think we will automatically get to dem Chelsea, city, man utd and Loserpool level is what I really don't get.

Arteta is here for now and I will not wish my team lose because I think he's incompetent. The team that played yesterday despite making costly errors still didn't give up and fight for a fair share of the spoils.

You can blame Arteta for tactical decisions he didn't get right, but u must acknowledge the team not keeping their heads down and taking the defeat like they used to in the past.

It's just like Leicester vs Man utd in which Leicester gave away their lead vs man utd only for vardy to give them the lead less than a minute later. That's similar to what I saw on display yesterday. The guys pushed on and still didn't give up. I've watched several arsenal matches with arsenal giving up against extremely physical sides after conceding erroneously not to appreciate what I saw yesterday.

Anyways everybody is allowed to see things the way they want to sha.

our resignation to fate isn't the palava here as youre trying to make it be. Don't deflect pls.


I myself have faced my front about how long he's going to be here.


Of course everyone here can have diverse views. But I can't agree one bit that this team had improvements as you opined. Never!!


Did you see the crap of a post-match interview he did?


The team got gingered up because the sub caused that aka Lacazette. Else the flow would be the same. The anger in Tierney's powershot is proof that everyone is tired of things not going their way. Arteta got it wrong once again and it translates to the tactics. The fans weren't even cheering again.


If 60,000+ peeps in the stadium were almost silent, then that's definitely not an improvement of Performance. Even the commentator said we switched off at the middle and slow to break their Defence.


Their words vs yours?

I'll take theirs.


That's just my point.

BlueRayDick:
Touch or no touch, Auba will always score more than Lacazette any day any time....all things being equal. Auba has earned that top 9 position over time.

Bottomline: Give Laca more minutes!!!

That's all.


We can't be wasting such inbox resources for uncertainties. The Brighton game remains one of the poorest Auba performance this season.

I hope its the last, for our sakes.

I think its time Auba either starts, then subbed off to give Lacazette at most 25mins to play, or vice versa.


Once again, Auba had ONLY 2 touches in the box all through 95mins. Laca entered late and had 7 touches in box 18 despite playing 1/5 of Auba's time. Nuff said.

Arteta should swallow his pride with better ogbono soup with obstacles and play Lacazette and Martinelli more. I won't mind two rugged acquisition in the mould of Guen or Torriera to make that Midfield a really juicy contest like years back. Its a timid Midfield right now. They'll be marking zonally and one pass will be their undoing. Why zone then?

BlueRayDick:
Even when u do all the bold part of my post right, u could still lose a match.

My point is the team I watched yesterday is an improvement from what I've been seeing in the past. They kept on pushing and pushing and pushing till the last minute. They had intent and they backed it up with purposeful football.

Maybe Arteta is not the best man for the job, but I can't just keep lamenting about him every match day when I know the board is not going to sack him anytime soon. I will enjoy the good games and critique the bad ones......and I will also call out the bad players too, not just the coach alone when things go south. Today it was Partey and Lokonga that nearly thwarted the efforts of the rest of the team, bar their "mustafi-que" showings we should've had a decent outing.

This improvement talk ya saying is mistimed and should never be on the table of positives or excuses right now. Especially as its not even true. Abi na another tv you watch?


How
I bet if that Laca last gap winner didn't happen, you won't be saying this atall.


I don't care if its better than the past. Other teams that are far worse off are stepping up. I keep using the Brentford example cos they're just coming from Championship. If we keep Applauding this crappy thing as improvement while other teams are doing twice as that, then whatever progress made, if it doesn't outdo their own improvement, it is simple FAILURE! Let's not mince words abeg.

What you called pushing was actually a display of indecision.

See the last few mins before injury time. They just packed the bus and we kept spinning round from left to right and right to left, unable to do nothing.


Like i said, if video analysts of other clubs notice an irredeemable pattern, all they need is counter it, especially when they know Arteta has ever used it to get anything tangible except time wasting.


Its only when you're in a comfy lead you can keep passing around. Lets call this broken spade what it is



A BROKEN SPADE!!!

Barryseal:
Unpopular opinion, MO Elneny should be the natural replacement for Xhaka. He never looses the ball at the base of the midfield, though he is criticized for making too many safe passes instead of playing vertically but I will take those safe passes than the Sambi and Partey like turn overs leading to goals.
Recall Elneny vs Man utd at Old Trafford last season? Arteta must find a way to bring him back from cold.

one thing about Elneny is that he knows his attackers movements and releases the ball the way Ndidi does for Iheanacho or vardy at Leicester. Sambi thinks he's still in Holland or where? Poor and slow. You can't be advancing towards an opponents box and be such a slow snail and also fail to release the ball, at Least an overhead pass



Since Ozil left, overhead passes went with him. Our trademark style for beating offside traps of opponents and make them more eager to watch their backs than eager to press. Gone. Just like that.

Spy360:
Which drills? Arteta needs to learn afresh

Mourinho and Wenger are close by. Thomas Frank as well. He studied just 3clips and Brentford crumbled all areas of Arsenal on the pitch. All. Arteta will watch forever and still be unable to crack or exploit loopholes well.

Spy360:
It's on Arteta. Playing Odegaard in CM is a very poor idea. Our midfield should be either Partey alone with Martinelli, Ødegaard, ESR and Saka or Partey with Lokonga. Odegaard in CM was a very poor decision.

Patrick has done more for Palace in 4months that this Mr Builder of Burj Khalifa in 2years. They are even compact on the counter without Zaha. Can same be said for Arsenal without keymen such as Saka, Auba, Tierney?

That Midfield may suffer till season's end. It looks inevitable. They don't know how to interrupt opponents flow. And when in control, they cant break lines.