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Silentgroper:
Looks like he deactivated ..

Una no get him contact maybe like FB or Instagram or something..

The last time I read his comment here, it was about him recovering from some illness..

i sent him an email but it is yet to be replied. I just hope he's OK.

ObaIgwe1:
Who else agree with this?

it's only the blind that can't see it. He just needs to start converting his own chances and not waste them.

Shegzdave:
Martinelli has really stepped up this season and I'm happy for him

Martinelli na my guy, he plays with more freedom in ucl games BTW.

When i saw them I knew they were familiar but couldn't place where. Ted Lasso and coach beard. Very soon Arteta go follow up.

The left wing was 🔥
Gyokeres blood go calm down now, I believe he would start thinking right and not over think simple things.
Martinelli is my motm. Who got the official man of the match sef?.
Has anyone seen Athletico conceive these amount of goals in less than 15 minutes?, cus since I started following football I haven't.
Game 3 without any shot on target conceived. Nice one.

Spy360:
He doesn't really need to touch the ball. His off the ball movements are excellent

Fkforyou:
The referee just gave a booking to Amad for a tackle against Gakpo.

He cleared the ball quite alright but was still booked.

Now the commentator was asking where was Amad supposed to go after clearing the ball and why was he booked. It was a clearance.

My question is, if the argument is that, if you touch the ball before contact, it’s not a foul, why did the ref deem Amads challenge to be foul?

It’s this inconsistency that annoys people.

e shock you!!!, relax na against Arsenal every rule is being applied.

Spy360:
A time on the bench can help him psychologically. He can come up as a sub once or twice. It will afford him some time to assess his opponent before hitting them. It will also allow the pressure ease off.

Getting to start every game all season can be overwhelming

your thought is actually realistic. Maybe Merino starts up front and then he comes in as a sub with tiring defenders to bully and drag. It will open up more chances for him and lift his moral. The pressure of not scoring is getting to him, the team and coach needs to handle it the best way. Can we get up to 30 wins in epl dis season?, it'd be our highest win rate if we can do it. With less than 5 draws and less than 5 losses. It's funny that everyone that said our major attacking liability for two previous seasons was the cf position suddenly isn't saying anything now that we have a natural striker and he isn't even the one winning us games. After match day 8 we have scored more goals than we did last season, and we have more than abi exactly 10 different scorers this season already. The same system that they argued would generate us more goals if we had a natural striker, now the narrative have changed that we need to adapt to Gyokeres system of play. Make we dey watch shaa.

iamoyindamola:
Martinelli woild have stretch their fullback
Anyways we got the job done
On to atletico

onto Athletico Madrid next. The good thing about today is that 3 out of the 4 games we lost last season, we have already won this season. Make we just dey win dey go, e no go bad if my January we are points ahead and have the league in our hands like 2023 season.

iamoyindamola:
I expect some changes for ucl
Saka shouldn't have finished this game IMO

Saka should have left when the tackles on him became too much, but we know our coach. Martinelli should have come in sooner for trossard. Regardless, happy for the win. Na this consistency of seeing games off even in our bad days that we have always lacked when it mattered the previous seasons.

iamoyindamola:
See gyokeres
Omo

personally I think Gyokeres is being rushed because of Kai unavailability. But that isn't an excuse for his constant misses. He hustle for the balls but ends up missing most times. His time will come shaa.

iamoyindamola:
It's becoming daily routine for our defence line, I was never scared we will see the game through or not unlike wengay days our comic defense will commit

aje.. no much panicking. Our players really needs rest but then we have ucl mid week hope they recover quickly cus today showed every single one of them needs to rest. Calafiori keeps showing he's elite. Aside the goal trossard scored, he wasn't in shape at all.

26 minutes played and we have been nothing but second best abi shit sef.

daveP:
he doesn't act conscious of the presence of the 9 when he's attacking. Zubi is more conscious of that imo. Ao the two starting just hampers the team overall. It's that spain set up that gives him that responsibility to score. But at arsenal, responsibility is no longer his cos the system is different. It's not working at Arsenal and he's not flourishing in midfield beside his fellow midfielders. He will flourish if the setup is the Spanish setup and that's even for more tactical games.

you're right, it's the system. If he play in the midfield with Kai as cf you will see him scoring or being a major goal threat because unlike Gyokeres who drags defenders back to their box, kai drags them out of the box which will open up for him to run in and attack. The Liverpool game this season for example, he would have been more effective.

iamoyindamola:
He's playing SS role

he attacks spaces created by the forwards when they drop, but i don'tthink he plays the SS role for them( i might have to some of spain games later to have more insight shaa).. He does that too in Arsenal sometimes, that bilbao ucl is an example.

daveP:
I don't get you. What i wrote is clear now. Based on instincts towards goal.

i know he have this mentality of going forward and scoring, it is evident in his pressing and passing. He's a Sergio Busquets kind of player(personal opinion), but whenever he starts in midfield in Arsenal games, we cry about how Arteta is going defensive. He's job is not primarily to create loads of chances from the middle, but to block spaces, intercept balls, tackle and progress play. If he finds himself in the box he knows how to shoot but that can't limit Gyokeres output. He scores more for Spain because their forwards drop and create chances for him to attack empty spaces.

iamoyindamola:
This Merino is what arteta is looking for at Arsenal
Play him as cf then

Does he play CF for Spain?

daveP:
I have a thought

Mikel Merino and Gyokores can't be on the pitch at the same time

Both are on default finishing mindsets. They repel. Mikel will not drop his own instincts to make Gyokeres flourish. Gyokores can't act like Merino is the main man

Merino no go focus or flourish in midfield duties without that false 9 mode popping up. Not necessary for attack, but a minus for midfield.

I don't understand this analysis bro, I thought he is a defensive?. If we complain about playing defensive game whenever he starts, how then does this analysis align?.

So Liverpool lost a five point lead in 2 matches.




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Are there people still questioning the signing of Calafiori??..
Do you still think Zubimendi is a downgrade to Partey?, u dey miss partey?....
Gyokeres time go come, his energy is super just d goals remain.
BTW I think that all out odegaard and Eze attack no work for the time they will together.

iamoyindamola:
You no know before

since Martinelli started drifting inwards, his game have changed and trossrd too. Even Saka don dey switch from right to left. Can't wait to see Saka on the left Madueke on the right, odegaard behind Gyokeres.