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Jodera:
Like I said last week, you're obsessed with a striker scoring while me I'm obsessed with my team winning. [/b]The chance of odegaard scoring that goal is 98% but he messed up. Moreover, lacazette wanted to dribble Allison but Allison didn't go down, the worst part is that he even narrowed the angle making the chance difficult for lacazette to score. I don't know why any striker who's thinking about the team success over his personal ego would be thinking of scoring from that tight angle instead of passing to person that's free that has a higher and bigger chance of scoring.
One thing I will blame lacazette for is lack of movement upfront but I'll never ever ever blame him for passing that ball to odegaard. NEVER!![b]

And as for the bolded, thank God you're not Arteta. When martinelli was struggling to break into arsenal premier league squad, he was giving in impressive performances in Europa scoring back to back to back. Aside his goals, his other play was great. Most people(fans) was itching to see martinelli play in the premier league cos we know he's talent. But na nketiah you want make we dash first team shirt because he hit bar against Watford while missing for the remaining duration. Person wey we no dey ever see him impact for pitch anytime he's introduced as a sub naim you want make Arteta put him top 4 hope on??
Kole werk!!

I thought I was the only one who saw that, Allison made that angle very tight and it's difficult to score from there, the best he could have done is lay it back to Odegard.
I could remember Emery,'s first season when Iwobi laid a through ball to Laca and he (Laca) successfully rounded
Allison on the floor and scored in the 1-1 draw.
For me, one of the things I'll attribute this teams improvement is the ability of the attacking players all moving, workng, creating chances and spaces to score as against the former style of relying on the assist lord and that goal machine nigga.
Arsenal were just unlucky, if the Odegard and Martinelli's had gone in, it would have been a deserved draw game.

50d33q:
Not bringing in a CF in January might work against us, I would have removed saka and odegaard immediately at the start of the second half.

Btw why will you allow your sister put on a spud jersey

Now that the players and coach don dey reason well, its the ogas at the top who will draw things back again.

Fashion sake maybe... BTW, lower your gaze

The Arsenal I saw has improved greatly I must say, but that bad/hard luck thing is still with the club and thats why i can't invest my emotions at least for now in this club.

For me, Arsenal are two very good players away from being a regular top4 team.
Xhaka has to go, maybe a Nabil Fekir or Douglas Costa can Come in and a striker who is deadly on goal as Laca's style can't bail you out a whole season. Reason you see Klopp shuffle Firminho and Jota.

Lastly, I won't be surprised to see Arsenal bottle the 4th position. Apart from it being typical of the club, I reiterate the club goofed by not bringing in at least 2 bodies in January, You'll notice Saka,Laca and some players looked fatigued, you can not be relying and playing same first 11 consecutively.

Fielding this tired 11 against Villa on Sunday too makes the game 50/50. Well, good luck to the gunners.

mostob:
It's really difficult to pick one but that Odegaard goal is just wow....the way he was able to sneak the ball back to Saka and his run up to receive the ball again is just heavenly

One person we need to really commend is Laca, baba just dey lay the ball for Dem kids to score. I will opine we give him like a year contract again at least till the new striker gel with the team.

Laca is that type of forward who makes your attack tick, hr may not necessarily hit 20 goals, but he'll orchestrate up to that or more .
For me, I prefer when the whole attack is a threat and goals come from every angle than relying on a no9 to do all.

daveP:


I’m surprised the fans that visited vicarage are satisfied with Laca. E be like na us dey complain here o. Sarcasm!!

Goal Contribution tinz for Laca is high. Nawa o.

Our IQ is highr obviously!!

With the highlight I watched, I am also satisfied with Laca.

Liverpool

Make I cause small wahala here

Jencejyde:
Sadly this is where we have been for years now. Back then the only debate we considered was against Manu Liverpool or Chelsea . Every other team, we were expected to win. But now we have debates on our wins against the likes of Norwich , Newcastle, Watford and Co. Light must Sha dey at the end of this tunnel oh

The saddest of all is Fans still seeing many positives and highly hopeful despite the glaring situations.

Spy360:
But commenting here about it isn't boring right?

You 'feel' stinks bro. Take it to Barcelona thread.

Everything is boring and stinking to me at Arsenal.
The January window is a huge testament Arsenal are the same yesterday today and tomorrow. I salute your courage with this FC.
Even Jodera has admitted

by Jodera: 8:25pm On Feb 02
Arsenal is a very very Foolish Club!!!

Jencejyde:
Arsenals disciplinary record is alarming. Bar any talk of officiating, the performance was simply not up to the standards we expect. If we only have the league to play and this is what we deliver week in week out then it's a shame on the team

Blame the Ref all you like but a team like arsenal wasting time against wolves is disgusting to be honest.

Sadly the most we can do is just support them but not getting any hopes high at all.

Here is my feel, the performance is so below the standard level, watching Real betis and Villareal was a far more joy to watch.
No hope!

fredoooooo:
Make I look for trouble small, we have it all on club level o .. Next is to buy Assnal fc as our youth team

chelsea wey start football yesterday are winning big things day and night, Arsenal, we are here dragging MArtinelli, vs Referee...What a pity!

Depressing!

Jodera:
Lol... Mehn, this thing is vexing me.
Can't believe we didn't get even a player on loan

We got a defender, The Arsenal family are reading comments here. Expect more defenders next summer.

Arsenal doing things Arsenally

iamoyindamola:
Someone need to check the mental health of these assholes at the Emirates
This is not normal, we had a match postponed cos we don't have enough players but we are still loaning players out.
Everyone knows in our own transfer we like to put all our eggs in a basket we prefer running after same set of players with no plan B
The chances of finishing in top 4 just reduce miraculously
I'm not even sure how we will line up on Thursday

This is one the major problem I have with this football club, it is really difficult to attach my heart here back fully. Quite alright, the performance over the past 2 months have been outstanding, There's a massive improvement all round.
But like in the past Arsenal will be making the same mistake by bottling the Top4 chances this year by not strengthening this January...This team need like 3 quality players who don't have to be super expensive stars. This is how Arsenal lost winning the league in 2008, top4 in Emery's first season and many sliding down the table after Jan transfer window.
Expect a Kim Karlstomdashian, injured Denis Suarez and Mari or another gallery player.
This is a movie we have seen over and over.

Moses Simon was like a Raheem Sterling and Sadio Mane, he was a menace to the Egyptian defence.

We miss xhaka

Patiently waiting for Kokane to come analyse how defenders should come asap this January window

daveP:
Are they really sitting deep or our AM position is so drab and non existent that its only the wing we now attack from this season?

I think they have the more energetic players. See the way Richalison and Townsend dey give our back play start like say na 4players dem be? That's what Laca and Odegaard should be doing but no energy.


I didn't even see the goal. Cos i was already resigned to another goalless First Half.

I think what Tierney has from Xhaka, Tomiyasu needs that kind of Cover too. His side doesn't have that and so it hampers his movement forward which i think is a plus if he can get that.


Just seeing the Barnes goal,that guy is Rodger's reliable steward.

Why does Arsenal's attack lack that energy and pressure?

iamoyindamola:
Not that
I am treating malaria so the pills are doing me anyhow

Sorry bro....
You no try o, why complicate your health with Arsenal game? Better go rest jeje.

iamoyindamola:
I doubt saka will continue this game
Mehn sleep is catching me I'm struggling to keep up with the match

Na so Arsenal don boring reach?

Oh my Arsenal of blessed memory

This is Arsenal's best line up

Damian10:
I'd rather we adopt the Guadiola style by playing without a point man. All we need do is hasten up Lookmans allegiance to play for Nigeria, then use him, chukwueze and iheanacho to roam freely in attack, the young trio would be a nightmare for every defence at the AFCON.

I like this.

BlueRayDick:
This is not true. Saint-Maxim is similar to Mane when he was at Southampton, take him out of Newcastle to a bigger team with more quality and see him be a bigger player than can ever dream of.

I think he is also like Adama...

Strength, power,pace and never give up attitude.

Silentgroper:
I observed he was attempting to do d same against arsenal bt tavarez nd gabriel wouldnt him d space esp. Tava. I just dey laugh when i read some comment wishing tierney had played dat match instead of tava.. Mehn wetin salah 4 use tierney eyes see ehn...

Not all times though, but most times if you pack the bus and close him down all day, he will struggle and hardly have his usual field days.

Tierney likes to go forward a lot, Sallah would just have much space and that's free lunch for him.

Silentgroper:
He's there 4 just 18months though.

oh o, Then he knows what he is into.

Spy360:
You can't handle Salah by marking him. He's good enough to beat anyone and even if he doesn't he will pull you out of position for the likes of Mane and Jota to wreck havoc. Salah is dealt with through tactics and team play.

Salah's strength is mainly in the movement of TAA. So the way to beat Salah is to restrict TAA. To do so, someone who has pace, stamina or dribbling should position himself at the LW whenever TAA overlaps. Then the entire team should try to find that guy once they win the ball. Lacazette could have been excellent doing that job because of his stamina, another person is Pepe, Martinelli etc. This will restrict TAA's movement and also isolate Salah upfront.

Sallah can be best stopped when you pack the bus. i've seen this much.

daveP:
Lol.



Teams don't even fear Auba. See how fear of Salah made Lokonga and Tavares turn partners.

A forward should be feared... I like me a striker in the mould of Suarez, Torres and Lukaku.

Almost all ARSENAL'S forward are soft and meek

iamoyindamola:
Do you he left inter after winning the league cos there won't be money and they will likely sell

if so, I fear for him at tottengham's job.

iamoyindamola:
Yes sir

I think he's a bit like Simeone. I feel he blends resources with some money.

Well, can't say much about him.

iamoyindamola:
Which replacement again Kwa
Until we field 10 defenders and a goalkeeper

Cedric, kola and Mari are deemed not good enough na

iamoyindamola:
No he's a cheque book coach he can't manage resources

You mean conte?

iamoyindamola:
Kokaneprodigy
Pires said we need more defenders that our midfield and attack is okay

You know Gabriel, White and Tomimson would need good replacement

Silentgroper:
For some reason conte has been working wonders with d same set of players..

Wonders in how many games?
Struggling to beat Vietnam 3-2 and Leeds? Its too early to judge.

BTW, Either Spurs does well or not with Conte wouldn't change the fact that he is a good and top coach.