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edi287:
Yep. Pepe on the left might even score a bit more.

Yeah, most times Pepe plays on the left, he gives improved performances unlike the right. He did so most times last season and the wolves game stands out

Auba was immense today. Loved the build up between him and smith Rowe for the 2nd goal. Credit also to xhaka for covering the blush of ramsdale before the goal.

Odegaard, what an attacking midfielder. See linking from midfield to attack abeg! You too good! Your defensive and pressing from the front didn't go unnoticed at all.

Partey, what more can I say?. Your presence in that midfield is a blessing to all our midfielders, especially the confidence you bring.

Shout out to saka and smith Rowe. Both mehn are excellent.

The defence was a masterclass. Tomi, Gab, Ramsdale all deserve special praise


Hope this win and scoreline gives us renewed confidence going into next matches.

Coyg!!

edi287:
I hope some of y'all are seeing why we signed Odegaard. He faded off a bit in the second half but that dude is a baller!! Nice football brain he has.
Partey and Xhaka were immense! Let's hope Partey gives us 30 games this season.
Saka's should be played on the right ALWAYS.

I've always advocated this.
Pepe on the left, Saka on the right Always!!!

Who dey breet!!!!!!??

Roland17:
Are we playing a 4-1-4-1 or 4-2-3-1 formation? It is looking like the latter (a double pivot base).

Sofascore have finally updated it to 4231. The 4141 was initially what they pasted. So you're right

BlueRayDick:
Hey God!

Xhaka Don come again! I guess Xhaka will be drifting to LB anytime Tierney overlaps to do his normal spamming crosses and insha Allah.

Hopefully we get good result sha at the end of the day.

it's just to get good result oo. Hopefully, we'll have less reason to talk about Arteta and xhaka after the game

johnjunior39:
Calm down,maybe Xhaka caught Arteta cheating hahahaha.

Not surprised jare

I tell you, I'm not surprised. I just needed Arteta to surprise me by benching xhaka but mehn, him no dey disappoint

Lol... Who knows, maybe xhaka caught Arteta cheating sha

kodded:
xhaka

it's fingers crossed, but I no too gbadu xhaka for this first eleven at all

Hmmm...

Is xhaka mobile in this formation?

Greatest blasphemy on Sunday

"city fans celebrated when they saw havertz on the bench"

Who the hell is havertz in this Chelsea team presently for any opposition fan to celebrate his absence?

Keep deluding yourself havertz's agent

You suppose do footballer agent work cos you go better pass both Raiola and Mendez I swear

I just noticed nairaland font and interface have changed again.
When diz one start?

This one even worst pass all the others sef
Chai!!

BlueRayDick:
I've had a wonderful weekend partying here and there....couldn't even get to see man utd and Chelsea lose yesterday and loserpool draw....

Hoping Arteta will not drop the bar and mess this North London derby up for us....

Na the hope be this.
I'm just indifferent about this match. Arsenal matches these past two match weeks haven't been impressive except the defence.

Havertz10:
reactionary people will rest at least

When people talk, they are the first to be confrontational insisting that others should shut up

Lukaku is refined but he has never been an elite level footballer, he complains that nobody rates him but it's because on the big stage, he never rises to the occasion, we can't structure the team to suit him, he should stay up top and leave the right channels for havertz, this experiment of playing havertz on the left has to end, if he had started that game yesterday in 343 the outcome would have been different, city fans celebrated when they saw him on the bench

Tuchel should either revamp his tactics now and play attacking football or he maintains his pragmatic approach, if the latter is his choice, his days as Chelsea coach are numbered

Everything is about Havertz, Havertz, Havertz!!!.
Kilode!!

Even Barca fans wey been get prime messi no bring up agenda upon agenda to structure barca around messi the way you're doing with Havertz.
Let Havertz prove his worth both with goals and assist and influence and Chelsea team will be structured around him automatically. It's a normal thing all clubs do right from ikorodu fc to Real Madrid.
No dey force this thing down anyone throat cos nobody go swallow am!

TLona1:
Abeg abeg.

Who ever thought Bruno was going to miss that penalty? Before Penaldo joined was Bruno not the penalty taker?

Sentimental fans full here.
If Ronaldo had taken and missed it, same fans will still say why Bruno didn't take it when he's the designated pk taker. All of a sudden, it's no longer Bruno

FreeStuffsNG:
Expressing the denominator as10(10-10) and numerator as (10+10)(10-10) to simplify

Na only you don get the Op question so far

BlueMann:
Comrade

I dey suspect say him sleep come wake up for 2021

Don't be surprised wen he starts calling Henry, Adebayor and Fabergas

Carot:
Arsenal play free flowing tikitaka football unlike chelsea that play gra gra jam body football no pattern. Messi would fare better in arsenal

We're in 2021 bro not 2004

Carot:
The way Chelsea plays doesn't suit messi's style. mancity, arsenal these are teams that suits him. PSG is okay

you still dey use 2004 eyes dey view arsenal abi??

Carot:
A spectacle to watch. Havertz is in the league of fernando torres, Mbappe and Vinicius.

Fernando Torres and Mbappe don't divide fans weekly and on a regular. Only Vinicius does.

Havertz for now is in the league of Vinicius

Akinbahm:
9ja no dey smile at all but we thank God my brother...

What I meant there’s no matter the load of evidences you want to bring on the table for Spy he will never admit Xhaka is not good enough for Arsenal and no point engaging him on Xhaka (specific) saga and not engaging him on other matters (generally).

If you notice self I always quote him especially during the “Defence wins you league last season so I do engage him but not on Xhaka case anymore.

Lol... Okayy. I get where you're coming from now.

As for naija, it's well o. We'll surely Scale through by God's grace. God wey see say we dey grind go surely butter our bread

daveP:


Trust the Process

Na to dey sing "the storm is over" by R Kelly.

This wan wey him don dey see bright lights

Spy360:
The fact is that if you have to bet on who will score between Auba and Laca, Auba will win all day. So that settles it. Any argument for Laca will be that he holds the ball up better. Who then, who that one help?

Simple and short. Even the hold up sef good defenders dey bully am join.

Silentgroper just personally like Lacazette and that's that.

Spy360:
If Xhaka plays well for his country, it cancels out all the deficiencies you listed. If you attribute it to patriotism, it is unacceptable.

I do accept though that he isn't that classic midfielder, but we should look at other skills he possesses like good passing range, positional awareness, tactical flexibility etc.

it doesn't cancel it out. Like I said, his skillset doesn't gel with what arsenal needs. He can go to another club and shine and I won't bat an eyelid, same way I didn't do for giroud.
So we should make xhaka shine like the way he plays for Switzerland? As if Switzerland is one trophy winning nation. Lol.

He should go to Italy or Germany or any other club cos he's just at the wrong club thus both arsenal and himself are suffering because of it. And the worst part is that arsenal is the major casualty here.

1... His good passing range is just diagonal. From center to left or from center to right.
How many times have he picked a defence splitting pass from deep?? Most of the times I see Pepe runs being wasted.

2... Positional awareness is average.

3... Tactical flexibility. Why I won't doubt this, but we it's not as if he's a beast doing the tactical flexibility ish.

All his positive attributes are average coupled with his limitations being very very big. How can we build midfield around such a guy just because he plays well in national team? National team wey no dey reach semifinals for Euros or WC.

Nothing wey you wan bring Stan xhaka go dey acknowledged for here. The guy is "just there" and we need more than that.

daveP:
Yeah, Twitter. There's a Matthew guy that give pinpoint details of what Arteta's tryna do over 90mins.

He also derives what opponents play and how Arteta reacts to them.


One thing is sure from his analysis:- Arteta doesn't adjust his tactics when the opponents are at advantage tactically And goalwise until last 5mins. Very stale and annoying.

He sticks to his plan when its not working and comes to give talk at postmatch press. Smh.

This means one thing


Even if we buy haaland, if that's how its always going to be, COyg go visit Championship.

Chai... I wish I was on Twitter but I'm not, I for follow the guy.

Arteta doesn't adjust his tactics while opponents are leading, this is one of the main reasons we've never won a game wen losing at half time under Arteta. It's painful and thank goodness someone have pointed to that


This your bolded funny sha
I burst out laff reading that. Which one be COYG go visit championship ??

Una no go kee person for here with jabs

Silentgroper:
hat trick?? .. I see u have a lot of hope 4 him bt coming to term with reality it is high time arsenal move on without auba. Jodera was talking about laca nt contributing to hold up plays nd doesnt position well. Auba is even worst. He always looks lost during matches . The only time he becomes active is wen he sees a me nd u with an empty post.

the earlier u guys swap d deadwood with coutinho, d better.

The thing is Auba guarantees goals, Laca doesn't. Laca na outside the box him dey effective, inside the box, it's as if he's hiding. Oya chances to bury nko, him go miss am.

Abeg, no arsenal fan would take laca over Auba for now abeg. At least we know once ball dey inside box, Auba fit shake net

iamoyindamola:
Baba is confused looking for who to drag

Lol... Even when he signed for arsenal sef, nobody been too make mouth for him side aside Swishh
That's to tell you nobody really knew him much nor recommended him even with his Stellar performances in Lille.

It's just like saying Someone Stan Gabriel here before he was bought? How many people bin no am

Akinbahm:
Baba, I really envy your prowess of engaging but you spoilt the show by wasting your precious time to engage on Apo (sack) Xhaka Dangote cement issue and increased the wastage of your time velocity with SPY a whole Spy360

For an unknown Guendozi to come from French league and being hyped over Xhaka by rival Fans speaks a lot about how useless Xhaka playing pattern is a plague to Arsenal playing styles...

When Arteta came in afresh and some fans start to Stan him he has improved bla bla, I decided to watch an improved Xhaka only to see version 1.5 of him no any difference except the hunger of playing for new coach to get playing time. Fast forward to last season these fans still didn’t allow us to rest he has improved get him a better player and see the Xhaka of Switzerland omo there’s still nothing to write home about his playing pattern...

At least we over hyped Auba being Henry successor, I have never come across any article where they hype him as new Coquelin not to talk of The bosses of Arsenal midfielders is enough evidence to proof Xhaka is a GOOD PLAYER very slow, slow thinker, static, can’t dribble, easily bypassed, always afraid to drop beautiful splitting forward pass, but good at long range shot/pass good at delegating his work to his partners by stretching stupid hand around like that of Sanwolu...

Arsenal fans wey dey Stan him with Big coaches are vying for him, last window Mourinho Stan him bla bla Roma go carry am, with ordinary €20 dey no fit secure his signing but secured Abraham with €34 who are we deceiving... Biko don’t tell me the position is different and remember Pep wey need Striker carry €100 go use am sign midfielder.

My verdict: Xhaka is a good player for Switzerland but not good enough for team like ARSENAL.

While you made good points, but I think everyone and anyone have the right to engage whom deh want to engage with or not. Saying that bolded isn't right in my opinion. You can choose not to engage with spy due to your both footballing differences in understanding but that doesn't mean you should tell others not to do so too(directly or indirectly). We're all here to interact and share opinions on our beloved clubs no matter our differences (which makes us humans).

Hope you're doing good boss??
Longest time

Silentgroper:
If una sign am nw nd he does a torreira on u guys. Una nd barca dey d same whatsapp group ontop him matter nd barca has prepared a 65m - 70m bid for him or so.

If barca have prepared 65-70m then good for him to go there. One thing is that, it's not everybody that'll be a sissy like torreira. Monreal and cazorla both played here and even though they loved Spain, they acted maturely throughout their stay here. So I'm banking on Olmo that he won't act like a sissy. And his precedents proves he won't. He played in Croatia and he's presently playing in Germany without any qualms of wanting to go home

Silentgroper:
Olmo's prefrence is spain. So u guys should 4get him.

You'll never know till you bid. Him no see other Spanish clubs before choosing Leipzig (all the way from Croatia oo)

Silentgroper:
Aktually, u should allow auba take lacazette spot. Auba has declined really bad nd has gotten lazy. Same cant be said for laca. Laca still seem sharp nd able to deliver. He just needs creative mfs nd wingers to feed him. To me, u guys still a gem in laca bt auba is gone.

The way yiu make this lacazette looks like, someone will think he's prime firmino

Laca doesn't guarantee you goals if you minus Pk, he's not that expert at hold up plays, he is not good at positioning in 18yard box, and he's not good aerially. Add to the fact that he's inconsistent.
Another thing is that we don't have goalscoring wingers to feed off his interplay so we need better than him
Auba have declined, but at least with auba you'll expect goals one way or the other.

The only reason I would want laca to stay over Auba is if we have a potent striker, if not, Auba over Laca day in day out.

ObaIgwe1:
lol.

But I still prefer we give Pepe more time and opportunity than Xhaka o

he dey fall my hand many times, but I still like the guy sha....

I don't know why I think he will become an Okocha someday

Lol... I don't mind giving Pepe more time to be honest, but then even arsenal no get time again, not to talk of giving out. The way most of us dey look this Pepe, person go think say na last season we buy am. Boss this is 3rd season oo, and he's still inconsistent.

Like I said, my prayer is that he should improve in his decision making, and be fast about his decision making too. Also he should add goals to his games too(that's what I believe arsenal bought him for, to chip in goals). If he doesn't do such, we'll keep on finding ourselves lower and lower in the table

macjireh:
everybody go find how to console himself... manyoo go beat everyone and not lift trophy,, dem go get small joy,,arsenal own go lost all games but win manyoo and Chelsea,, them go get their joy....mediocrity na bad tin sha

Lol.. Facts don turn mediocrity. And who told you we derive joy just beating Chelsea and man u and losing against all teams.

Well, I like the confidence tuchel don give una. So I no blame you at all. Na your time, so just use am and flex am well