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Only Arteta knows why he keeps insisting on Trossard starting even when it clear Ethan deserves that chance. Trossard don don favourite boy now.
Martinelli makes me shake my head and hiss whenever I remember how effective Daiz have been for Liverpool this season, that was the kind of player is he, or rather was. Almost same pattern of play, electrifying, fast and clinical. Be like he was told not to ever do any other thing than trying to cut in with his left foot, crosses and light pass all the time, baba try cut with right, play r2, see better road pass the ball but nooo. To dribble player na war, once he see you coming he turns and seek who to pass to, no outside box shoots. Na only tracking back and defending he sabi now, make dem kuku turn am to defender.
Haverzt mmhmmm...
Saka....
And there have been a lot of defensive misshape lately, these errors been covered up because they try to respond to it fast, but it's there and can be capitalised on by a dangerous team.
Anyways, a midfield of Odegaard and Rice with the absence of Merino and Trossard should get the job done at Stanford Bridge on Sunday, I wanna be optimistic because that's the least I can do as a fan, 6 points gap na just 2 matches, if they team can get their head straight this will be a very good ride, cus after Chelsea na cruise matches full list.

Person wey vote APC for last election dey complain about USA voting Trump. the kind blow wey dem give l am last night, he no fit forget am. Laugh wan kill me.

daveP:
Fact is if na only us dey this league table, we can survive with the players available. But our rivals are uping the ante, doing all it takes to step up.


Lets assume we are on a 11.2 high and spurs be like 5.4 before. Spurs kon upgrade to say 8.3 and are planning by January to be above 12, while we are upgrading by 0.4 instead of 3.0, in no time, no matter how we love the players, all their best efforts will be seen as average if we continue to be bested by others that we continue to think are no better. We need recruitment for the front.


Now our manager dey do like he no sabi use counterattack again despite having just the perfect players for such a setup. He should be flexible. That's all we ask. Flexible and increase front deputies or players that will walk straight in. Im glad you said we need to win no matter what. Others are showing that why can't we?


I am scared though... Cos of these departures

That our women coach don suppose leave since!!!!!, Edu fvcked up during the summer transfer, whether na Arteta influence am or not na him suppose shoulder the blame cus that's his office, and I heard Arteta will be in the forefront decision makers for his replacement.

White and Timber are back and Partey have found his form again so definitely his place in midfield can't be questioned. Seems like we will see Odegaard, Partey and Merino tomorrow cus Rice isn't available.

Winning games no matter which opponent and time in the season is essential but being proactive during the second part matters a lot, that's how City have always been doing it. I just hope we continue winning, move on, win as much as we can(cus surely there are still games we won't win), and put pressure on that title challenge. To be honest I expected a striker and saka deputy during last summer, but since we didn't get any we should focus on our players available and stop this cry for striker each time we drop points. It's not as if the striker will be scoring in every game even if we have one. Odegaard absence limits Kai output and our left attack haven't been prolific as before, plus our defence being touchy these days. Title challenge still dey very open so I'm still optimistic not because of any individual but because I really want that epl more than any other trophy.
Ps: ethan as a 10 made more since than whatever Trossard can offer there.

IZUKWU:
edu wasn't backed in the last window especially over Gyokeres , was one of the major reasons he is going

If we really wanted Gyokeres we would have gotten him bro. When the deal collapsed I read about talks from Edu about buying players that choose the club and stuff like that. So I guess he really didn't want to sign him.

E no get wetin person wan tell me, na sack dem sack Edu. Last Summer business was trash.

daveP:
Every team that can be used to banter us are all within reach of the table. Any funny slip up next game and we are down to 9th. I believe Arteta sees that and does the most needful. Villa, Spurs, Chelsea, Forest...

And our next 2 games are Chelsea and Nottingham, we need to get maximum points from both games. I have a feeling odegaard might be available for that Chelsea match.

Fkforyou:
I really hope we pick up fast, because, each point drop takes us away from the title. Arteta needs to ease up with his obsession with control, he is slowly destroying the team he built.

Our backline isn't cordinated as it used to be, even on days when our attackers head go touch, the defence used to be solid rock, now every aspect of our team isn't as stable as it used to be. I think there's no one who won't admit that the injuries really affected our play, but that isn't an excuse enough to be dropping useless points and that is where I blame Arteta, he should have figured out how to deal with this situation already, know who to use against which opponent, and adjust the formation to the best of the players available. But what do I know.....

Fkforyou:
Then those fan should be embarrassed to even troll Tottenham. We are not Tottenham.

I repeat, e go pain me if Arne slot carry the league before Arteta this season. I don’t give a shiit about excuses.

E go pain me pass

One thing is certain here, everybody agrees we have to win a major trophy(epl precisely for me) this season, any other outcome is a complete failure. Milk wey don spill don spill, I look forward to positive outcomes henceforth beginning from mid-week. We all wants to see this club prosper, even though opinions might contradict.
Ps: I don't see how allowing the players to co-shoulder the burden of each lost point is labelled defending mediocre.

mostob:
Invisible ke? You wan carry us from frying pan to fire?

sorry bro, na the trauma of today's match dey affect me. How can Arteta bottle the league at Newcastle every season, we still have 28 matches to go and our rivals are not dropping points at all but we keep loosing, the players haven't made any mistakes at all, they are always on point and arteta keeps loosing. Just look at the clinicality and decisiveness of Trossard today and tell me it isn't Arteta''s fault, or that of zinny if only isak wasn't tired already and Gab intervened, Arteta is the major problem here, not the players.

If only Arsenal have a striker like Haaland who can convert every chances I'm sure we would have won against Bournemouth and also today. But that Bournemouth loss na today e start to dey pain me, something that having a striker like Haaland can prevent. I'm sure Man city with a a striker as magnificent as Haaland can't loose against Bournemouth and can't drop points against Newcastle.
Oops I just checked even Man City and Haaland dropped points against both teams, but,,,, but,,,, they have Haaland nau. Arteta should just get out, we need a coach who can transform us to something the invisible wenger team would worship

mostob:
Calm down.
Na Chelsea we dey play next week. Remember na them we dey normally use pick form.
We go use the form win the remaining game this year and enter Dubai in December. Then we will go on another unbeaten run and win the league.

I don relax mind. But Arteta out first, we need a coach that can take us to the promise land and not trusting the process.

mostob:


Arteta is a bad coach for not giving him game time.

My point exactly

Liverpool and City loosing inside 18 minutes. Wetin concern me. Arteta out!!!

mostob:
And Southgate as technical director.

With ETH as member of the technical team

And Trossard was the best player on the pitch yeah!!. Just wanted to say that... and yet he played ONLY 70 minutes

mostob:
It is Roberto De Zerbi time....

I will prefer Michel Sanchez the Girona coach

No be today e start, who expect am to end today?

Sometimes Arteta dey too do, I can understand Timber playing for few minutes but Saka and Partey.. knowing how injury prone but can be and the dangers that comes with their absence, hmmm.. this season I won't care about any excuse, if we don't win the epl this season than Arteta failed. Whether he will deserve another chance or not I don't know, but one thing is if we loose out on epl he failed.

Everyday we sit here and argue about striker this striker that and try to bring different agenda into the argument when in reality it can't help nothing, January we will still have this argument. Let the key players still fit first because their subs ain't standard enough regardless of how they try, then we will see what happens. At this point, the only thing that matters to me is for us to win, either "1:0 to the arsenal" way, or with plenty goals. Just get the 3 points at the end of 90minutes. We already qualified for ucl next round, it's only remaining to qualify in the top 8, and even though goal stats is important there, we should try and win enough games regardless of scoreline.

daveP:
Each game, it is getting obvious that the role we want Kai to play, he can't do that this season. It is not his strength. He is actually playing to his strength every game but not in the place we want him tobe. He can't do that.

Great debut goal for Merino anyways. But we should have killed this game because Liverpool were really disjointed and confused until Gabriel went off for Skelly. That last goal though, it is sketchy. I don't support that call.

I also wished we used better shot to kee that Keheller.
How many dropped points vs top 6 so far. 4?

Just like you said, he is playing to his best and that is all that matters, we can't have everything we desire at the same time. A quick reminder that having a haaland doesn't mean he will score in every decisive and important matches, dude went 3 games against arsenal without scoring, and the match he scored, his goal meant little or nothing. And another reminder that he just scored his first goal in 4 matches yesterday. So if a haaland who's the idea striker can have goal drought and also miss sitters, wouldn't it seem too hard to .........