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airmark:
You don't need to stress yourself on his inconsequential views on Lukaku. Where was he when Lukaku scored against Arsenal and Aston Villa?

Tuchel gave one major reason for Lukaku's drought, which to me was sensible. Any other noise from the 'leprous 5' should be jettisoned.

Lol... Very valid and fair enough

iamoyindamola:
I also blamed Arteta cos they were passing sideways and contented with the only goal which led to palace resurgent.
Look at the villa game at 3-0 the opponent gave up they were playing for pride even the coach removed ings, it was when they scored one they wanted to push but at that arsenal didn't relent they wanted more goals.
So villa had to play with caution, if you watch man u game yesterday
They wanted to fight back which led to more goals but in the second half they played with caution.
That was what I expected against palace we scored very early and should have pushed for more untill the opponent surrender

Abi na.

This our arsenal players shouldn't even be thinking of conserving energy sef. They have one week to rest and give their optimum, so I don't know why Arteta would be telling them to stop playing after that 1 goal up against crystal palace. I swear that match still dey pain me eh

iamoyindamola:
Very simple
It was as if I knew something will happen that was why I made the comment at half time against palace cos we completely shut down

I tell you.
I was even praying for half time to reach quickly cos we no just get ourselves that time.

Spy360:
The fighting spirit against Crystal Palace came after we were already two goals to one down.

The case with Villa was fighting from the onset until we were 3-0 up.

I think iamoyindamola is saying that we didn't push more after scoring the first goal against Palace and that's what led to us almost losing that game.

Gbam!!

Even after scoring three sef, we still pushed for more till most of the players were tired. If we're playing consistently the way we played against Aston Villa, nobody go dey shout Artetaout anyhow na. That crystal palace game was just bad and no stats can tell me otherwise

iamoyindamola:
How can you see fighting spirit when the coach and captain say they stopped playing after the goal.
Was that not the focal point of argument we stopped playing after we scored you claimed they kept fighting
It's your words against theirs

... Then we started playing again after they've scored 2

kokanepyramid:
All these ones are inconsequential, playing away from Arsenal for 3 years doesn't automatically translate to improvement. I didn't start watching football today. Dude is still slow and has tendency to showboat he's just a poor man's Pogba with less skills as well.

I no dey like such players.
My opinion

Lol.. If he still haven't done away with the bolded, then we don't need him then. Like I said, I don't watch Marseille games so I can't even give any informed opinion on him nor his improvement. Just using gut feelings and sports sites

BlueRayDick:
This was what I observed and pointed out in that Crystal palace match , but y’all so emotional busy criticizing Arteta to see and appreciate that spirit. Arsenal of the past would’ve lost that palace match 3-1 having conceded two goals erroneously ....: Yet they stood and fought till the end to get a share of the spoil.

I’m sure it’s cos we won that’s why u are suddenly seeing that spirit now, like most people praising the spurs performance , but can’t see that or stats against palace is even better than the efforts we put in against Spurs. Facts/stats will always trump emotion/personal bias

Below was one of my response to you concerning the players after the crystal palace game( a cut version tho).

Jodera:
No urgency, no drive, no determination.
Nothing!.
Not for lack of player's desire, cos i can see they wanted the win, but lack of coach tactics

You can see the from the bolded I acknowledged the players wanted the win but were undone by Arteta's tactics. If you even noticed that day, I blamed Arteta solely for the loss and didn't put blame on any of the players(except my usual "Pepe can't beat a player" talk) ; even tho Partey and Lokonga were responsible for the goal, I exonerated them cos I know Arteta is fully at fault.

I can't fully praise players when we played that badly against crystal palace (a mid table team) and eke out a draw at the last minute. And yes we played that badly even tho stats might say otherwise. Even Chelsea and Man u fans who watched the match acknowledged we played badly that day(going by the comments during the game). You don't expect me(or any of us) to start talking more and more on any positives that might have occurred that day when the negatives outweighs the positives and the play and result was underwhelming. It doesn't work that way na

kokanepyramid:
Guen's only downside is his attitude? Una Don start

Lol, it will make it 3yrs for Guen to be playing top level football away from arsenal. Do you still think he'll still be the same guen we all know without no improvements?

I don't watch Marseille games tho, but I've a feeling that he have improved from what we know him

mostob:
You're right concerning Guen. His only downside is his attitude.
Well, TBH I don't really see anything special in Balogun .Let's just get another striker and move on from Laca.

Lol... That's because he's unripe yet for the top team. A loan would have been better, but still I share your opinion, we need another striker.

donstan18:
He came to conquer Epl, now he’s been conquered and disgraced.

He’s a disgrace.

I can’t wait to see him play Europa, so that In his next life, he’ll learn how to be reasonable with decision

Choosing ManU over ManCity? Who does that?

Imagine a player choosing Arsenal over Chelsea?

Like, wtf!!

Waka dia

donstan18:
I call him a professional fencist for a reason.

Saw Jodera say User009 doesn’t hate Lukaku and I laughed. He’s actually worse than the rest 3 in their circle. Just that he sprinkles it with a lot of grammar, subtle hates and politeness when slandering players.

airmark:
You must be joking if you based your conclusion on his posts after yesterday's match.

Same person controls the 2 accts so rest.

Lol... The post I referred to didn't even talk about yesterday's game. I'm just talking about his general view of lukaku in chelsea and not just ystdy game.

Well, if you believe same person run the acct, it's all good. Me, I can't stress my head to be thinking who controls one account or multiple accounts, as long as here is just for fun and nothing personal or business

mostob:
As it is the norm on arsenal for every players seeking new contracts to start giving 100% but after the contract, dem go enter ghost mode.

Should we offer Laca a new contract?

Also I feel if we are really building, a new younger striker at this stage won't be bad.

BTW, ESR seems to be serving me an humble pie. I questioned arsenal's ambition by giving the number 10 Jersey to a rookie like him. Make I siddon dey watch.

In other news, Guen for £11m euro? Yay or Nay?

Like I said, we need a Striker that can score goals as well as offering interplay. Laca tho he tried, but we need to move on from him.

Also, arsenal management no too get plans, someone like Balogun should have been loaned last season or 2 seasons ago so that he can be ready for the first team. Now we have a player in balogun who isn't ready for the first team(back up) but over-ripe for the u-23s.

As for guen, we still need him for midfield enforcement/depth but if he a have that negative attitude, we should sell him

iamoyindamola:
Ramsdale,Tomi, laca are the one bringing that never give up mentality
Against villa I can remember the player that lost possession which led to shot at ramsdale.
The way he looked at the player ehn, like God save you they no use am score

iamoyindamola:
He and Gabriel couldn't watch auba PK against villa

Lol... Really?
I didn't noticed that.

Martinez was sad he couldn't prevent the pk goal, I come dey pity am

I like Martinez as a keeper and his personality, but mehn Arsenal first

iamoyindamola:
Ramsdale ball distribution either clearance or passes are always on point.
I never wanted this guy but he's fast becoming a character in arsenal.

Our own ed Sheeran

Lol... I swear. Anytime I look at Ramsdale, I know he has a semblance to someone, but I just couldn't place who.

This guy is just making everyone forget how Leno was for us by bringing in all the complete packages Leno lacked.

One thing I like and noticed about our players is that this new breed of players have this winning mentality and desire(esp the defence and keeper). I just hope we have a coach who won't quench their fire and take us to the very top or hopefully Arteta turns to a kind of klopp and takes us to the very top

Havertz10:
nearly everybody that has spotted the problem has proposed lukaku on the right

I don't share usero9 optimism, tuchel is trying to build the team to play lukaku's game with 352 and it's inhibiting us

Got nothing against the guy but I have always known that it was a bad deal

Lol... I believe the 'Meeds' guy is one of the minority who just share your opinion.
Lukaku on the right? Who does that?

Lukaku is a Cf, in fact one of the reasons he grew unhappy at Man u was because he was deployed to the wings during Ole time. He plays striker for inter, he plays same for Belgium and he is/was banging goals at both sides. In fact, I feel one of the reasons he left inter was because he was assured of the Cf role in the team (aside his love for Chelsea).

I wholly agree with User Opinion, give it time, that's why they have training drills. All these things is just understanding and synergy and it starts from training which needs time to materialise.

Remember, even Lukaku said he hates been called a poacher, meaning he can work on that fluid movement you're talking about

ChristoBam:
Just came back from Liverpool's Reddit thread and I'm fuming. No single respect for this United side. They absolutely believe they'll seriously trash us silly.

Lol... If the table were turned I believe most United fans(probably not you) will act same way.
It's football, thus it's normal



.... Maybe until reality sets in

airmark:
Don't be hoodwinked.

Lol... But he said currently na. And he also said this, esp the bolded which was explicitly what I'm talking about

User09:
At least he provides flexibility for us. He currently has a better chemistry with Timo compared to the others and he has a history of playing 3-5-2 in Inter with Conte

TT certainly has his work cut out for him in terms of synergy upfront. Let's see in December, I expect adjustments to have been made

And this also, which was a response to Lukaku and the attack

User09:
Let's give it time.

Solutions can and will be found

I can't talk about the others, but I know where User.09 stands concerning Lukaku from his posts cos what mostly I understand from his post is improvement from lukaku

Omo... For a moment I thought this was Chelsea's thread o, see hijacking everywhere, Sotey residents of the thread just leave dem .

E no go better for Ole las las

Emaprince:
Omo!!!

E be things.

Five leprous fingers = 5 havertz fans.

We know them. Na the same tide carry them dey flush away.

Once one says one thing, the rest will agree.

Watch how they are all against lukaku.

Since havertz10 slammed him, the rest must follow suit.

Lol,... User.09 no dey among those wey dey against Lukaku. Read his posts mostly and you'll see that believes tuchel will find a way to make Lukaku become effective to Chelsea setup.

iamoyindamola:
We wanted to stroll ball to the net

Lol.. If it's that I would have said such sef. But on the contrary, they make so many wrong decisions, they would shoot wen a teammate is clearly opened, or would pass wen a square ball would be better. Sometimes, they'll give underhit pass or overhit passes.

The attacking move that was 99% right was the big chance Saka missed cos everything was spot on starting from Partey to ESR, to Nuno to Saka. Aside from that and out 3rd goal, most of the others just break down

afrodoc2:
The only argument against Jaap Stam is longevity. Jaap Stam's 3 years in the EPL stands up against any other defender in EPL history.

3 years. 3 EPL titles. 3 PFA Team of the Year. 2 UEFA Champions League Best Defender. 1 UEFA Champions League Title.

He is in United's Top 5 EPL defenders. No question.

Then technically he had no weakness. He could pass the ball and he was as strong as the strongest of those other EPL great defenders and as fast as the fastest of them as well, and was also dominant in the air. Although for some reason Kanu gave him problems.

Vidic and Rio had each other. Terry and Crvalho had each other. Had Stam had played alongside another great defender and had he stayed for longer he probably would be the obvious choice for EPL best defender.

Thanks Doc. Nice insight and explanations.
I appreciate it a lot

I noticed that our final third (attacking department) is lacking. We can be creative in midfield and give nice passes, but when we reach the opposition box or close to it, we'll become confused/clueless. Most of our passes are not just it and we're always taking slow/wrong decisions in the opponent's box. I hope Arteta works on it to be honest

My thoughts on the game

1. Ramsdale is showing day by day why Arteta showed faith in him over Leno. Not just that his shot stopping prowess is impressive but the way he initiates and pushes our attack for a quick counter deserve praise. Aside that, his passes are top notch too. Fully deserving of the no1 spot.

2... Arteta got this one right. We pressed and attacked from the beginning of the match till over 70min wen we needed to conserve our win. This is what most fans are hoping to see and I'm glad we were able to attack and press from the front even after getting the first and second goal. Nice first half, nice 2nd half. Kudos to the coach

3... The back four today was impressive, aside from the lapse in concentration leading to their goal, they were really imperial. Gabriel keeps on giving 8/10 performances week in week out while tomiyasu and White were very impressive. Tavarez was really great and brought something extra to the team. I love his attacking runs( esp with the ball) and his dribbles. Worthy back up for Tierney

4.. The partnership of lokonga and Partey is really gelling and I love it. Even tho Sambi seems raw and sometimes loses concentration in midfield, but this guy is a gem. I love his confidence and how he drives the ball from deep up to opposition box before giving the pass. This is what we miss in midfield for long and with more playing time, I wonder how far Sambi will go. I also love Partey esp his disguise passes which leads to opening of defence. Also glad he got his first goal for us. All his aerial ball on corner kicks looks a threat and I'm glad he finally scored one.

5.. Smith Rowe, What more can I say about this talent? Aside his goal, this lad was everywhere. His movement and intelligence on the ball just reminds me of ozil tonight with the way he glides away from players. His workrate also was very very outstanding. Easily Motm for me

6.. Special mention to lacazette. Seems to have understanding with the wingers and his pressing from the front was superb. Auba tried in his attacking forays but I feel he didn't press enough as ESR was doing most of the pressing from the front alongside Laca.

More so, Saka is very tired and needs a rest badly. I hope Arteta grants him one, esp as Martinelli is available

A very good and needed 3 points and I hope Arteta keeps the momentum rolling.

Coyg!!!!

Really Enjoyed this game.

Special Mention to all the back line (starting from the keeper) to Tavarez who made his debut.

Laca, ESR and the midfield pivot two deserve special mention too.

Will drop my thoughts on the match later

Silentgroper:
Laca is literally d life of arsenal. Him comot nd d team is in disarray. But 4 some reason jodera nd some other assnal fans thinks he's useless to d team

Lol.. Just because I said I prefer Auba to laca in this arsenal team that's lacking goals due to the fact that Auba scores consistently more than Laca, it now means Jodera says Laca is useless.

Like useless??

Make we no dey exaggerate words or person talk just because some situation go your way which was a different opinion to someone else

Shalom bros!!

Spy360:
If Arteta doesn't leave as soon as possible, we'll be kissing relegation by December.

He spent 200m, more than any coach, now has a balanced squad with no European distractions. Yet look at how weak this team looks under him.

He cannot even allow the basic tactics to flow in the team. Always turning things up and down like amala.

Mumu can't allow players in the best positions. From single CM to double pivot to double AM to no rubbish. Always tweaking and confusing the players. I tire for the guy too.

Lol .. I tire for the guy oo.
Na the way him dey use the players dey vex me sef. It's just so bad we stumbled on such a coach and give such a backing

iamoyindamola:
If I am to kill that man or snake
I'm going for him

I don't know what to expect from tonight's match against Aston Villa. This team even looks worse than 2nd half of last season. At least 2nd half of last season we were dominating small teams and there was glimmer of hope, now we can't even dominate small teams, we look very average going forward and we're no were near even the big teams. Mehn, I don tire

iamoyindamola:
Mike Dean has been removed from officiating in this weeks' premier league fixtures as a result of not sending off McArthur for his assault on Saka.

This guy have cost Arsenal so much games… he’s not fit to even be a linesman�



#copied

Good for him. But partly, I feel Var should be blamed also, they should have called him to have a review after looking at it, but they didn't