₦airaland Forum

Lana1:
U don dey here since that time?
No dey disguise tell us ur old moniker.

edoyad?

Lol... I don tey for here since 2012/2013 or thereabout. Right from the days of your "Adelana" days .

Anyways, I'm not edoyad, but I don forget the name of my old moniker sef

Spy360:
Bros our defense was poor, this includes both the individuals and the tactics itself.

What Arteta has done was to change their mentality and gave them more responsibility and purpose. First he made them pass from the back to keep possession, then he made the front guys to start the pressing unlike before when they will be strolling. Arteta has made the entire team defensive minded and made them work very hard at it.

The likes of Socrates and Mustafi couldn't keep with the development and had to find their way out. Earlier on Holding was to be sent away but for a timely intervention by Arteta. Now he is reaping the benefits.

So in summary, forget all we had said before the situation on ground now is that the defense has improved and Arteta and the entire team not any one deserves the praise.

What

Alright boss.
We move

BlueRayDick:

schurley:
I'm loving it bro

Nothing beats the enemy at each others throat,while i sip my cold kunu grinning to their mischief on the fence watching the chaos erupt.... Me on the fence watching the fayolence continue unabated

Omo...
Seems we'll see the remake of elampiro vs coogar duel.

This might be a long week as no one ready sheath sword.

KingAlabi... You're doing well and repping olein well

Anyways I'm enjoying it with my kunu aya and buns

KingTom:
Paaaadiii mi!!!! Omo send me your account details let me bless you with beer money you're spitting facts!! Facts I tell you I no too gbadun Mou ways but mehn you have made a tremendous point it is a travesty!!

omo... The guy dey give points hot hot sha.

I no too agree with am, but I deh feel am jor

schurley:
With his recent aggressive jabs and punches at Ole, I'm beginning to feel Nani role as the leader of the Oleout crooner is being threaten.... Enjoying the lamentations of the 2 week title contenders tho

As in eh...
The guy deh attack oleiners hot hot

Who is this illimitable guy?
Omo, the guy is the next rated nani in town o.

Only be say, him sabi talk unlike nani

Spy360:
Pepe's selfishness comes from the pressure of having to meet his goals target, something that may have been included in his contract. Many top clubs do so for expensive signings. It's the job of the manager to ease him from that pressure.

As for his right leg, I think it's too late. Nature has given more strength to his left leg. Many good players are one legged they have only need to use it to their advantage and not see it qs a disadvantage. One legged players are usually faster when they move with the ball and are more accurate when they shoot. This is because their mental strength is highly concentrated on that part of their body. Pepe can use it to his advantage. He must learn to play in close spaces as a club like Arsenal will most often face opposition who sit deeper. He should also improve in his off the ball movement, just as Martinelli and ESR.

He has the talent and should come good for us with time. That said I think we wasted money on him.

I hardly see an attacker that's fully one-legged except Pepe. Granted he should use more of his left cos he's left-footed, but sometimes in terms of passing, crossing (or square play) or even shooting, he should be using right once in a while.

Sometimes, the better option of passing will present itself, and we'll miss that because Pepe "can't pass with his right". If he even uses his outer foot to pass sef, it would have been better but he rarely does such too


Anyways, make "ojukokoro" no kill me. Make pepe first improve considerably the way he's doing now before me thinking of him improving his right foot.

War don start be that?

sod09:
That's actually what they need organisation and better midfielders

Exactly!!

sod09:
I wasn't even dragging anyone but that statement that our defenders last season was useless beyond redemption irks me when I remember it, funny how same set of players are the one keeping CS with ease.
They wan drag mustafi that hardly play ball
Baba no play but his memory lives on

Lol....

I just know it's a matter of time before it settles, and we can see they're not bad the way they are painted.

Also kudos to Arteta for improving them and also for the team organization

sod09:
We have always maintain the fact midfield was the reason our defence was trashy using xhaka as example
You condemned the whole defence and still want more defenders even when he explained VVD and koulibally will become clueless till our midfield get sorted out, now we have partey and ESR helping out xhaka you wan turn amala
It's all good

Quick question
Do you still want more defenders?
Well I still want us to sell xhaka and get bisouma

Lol... Where you wan drag blueray go??

BlueRayDick:
Well, we condemned mustafi for being trashy, we complained about holding for not stepping up his game and Luiz for being too error prone. If that is interpreted as condemning the entire defence, then that's fine; you did exactly the same by condemning Xhaka and entire midfield by saying we can't win with a Xhaka midfield ( the contrary has happened this year)

I think like a true fan we should be focusing on the team playing fairly well now instead of trying to drag dead issues out of the grave.

Be rest assured that if we all want to drag each other for statements we made at the time the team was down, there's enough of it to go round . Everybody record dey this thread, it oy takes little effort to pull it out

true talk!!...

Spy360:
One fact that cannot be disputed is that Xhaka has been a mainstay with all the managers we have had since Wenger. There must be something they see in him despite his shortcomings. When Partey was joining many feltvthatvwoukd be the end of Xhaka, but lo and behold. More so it's like Xhaka's form is an indicator of the form of the entire team. Xhaka should be captain, he is the real leader in that team.

As for our defense, it's not the individuals that's changed but the pattern. I have hammered this overtime. It does not matter the combination, Holding - Luiz, Holding - Mari, Luiz - Gabriel, Holding - Gabriel etc., the pattern is the same and it's working. At a time we thought it was Gabriel, then no it was Mari, now it's Holding or Luiz who have improved, but it's none of these. It's the Arteta defensive approach. Unless you see it this way, you won't stop deceiving yourself.

Hmmm... I'm surprised this is coming from you sha. Cos I know at first you were one of those against the "individuals".

This was my response months ago to blueray concerning my thoughts on our defence

Jodera:
no they won't. Tierney will replace kola and sokratis is never a 1st team player under Arteta.

Emery made them clowns. From next season, the only person I might be afraid of been a clown in starting 11 is luiz, but then it comes occasionally.
Luiz, Mari, Saliba, holding, chambers.
I believe they'll all do a decent work.

But you see that midfield and attack, I'm afraid esp if auba isn't spectacular as this season

Why did I bring this up? Cos I know most of you against the defence was due to personnel problems. In fact I listed that our defence can be resolved and improved on, carefully omitting mustafi and sokratis(like I said, Gabriel haven't been bought yet) and I said those CBs for now can hold us if improved upon technically. Most of you disagreed, even afrodoc says he won't see himself picking any of those clowns if given for free(he's still entitled to that sha, cos I believe everyone have their preference). The organization you're talking of is what I've been preaching since. Maybe, just maybe I wasn't able to pass the message across effectively.

Nb: I'm not against signing of Gabriel. Maybe I sounded like I was before, but I retract that presently if it seems I was against signing of Gabriel in this squad.

But the point I just want to pass is that our defence is not that bad the way it was painted before, it was Emery that just made it look very very very worse than usual.

sod09:
He's still useless with others, only Gabriel is better
When are we getting more defenders to partner gabu

Lol... Let's just forget that ish.

It's like someone will start rubbing it on our face about Pepe's improvement against man u and Southampton. Let's just be happy that holding have improved and Arteta has worked on him very well.

Spy360:
Our solidity in defense reminds me of the Campbell/Toure days. It's so difficult to score against us. This solidity has been the bedrock of our climb back to the top of the league. I feel so confident that with the attack finding a way to score we will come out with three points in most of our forthcoming matches.

I hope Pepe improves more.
In as much he tried against man u, but I feel he was a bit individualistic to a fault. Most times he would have squared the ball for an empty tap in, but he'll choose to go for a shot himself.

Another thing is that relies most on his left leg too much. He should try and be using his right once in a while, that will make him unpredictable and not a "one way" guy.


Once that happens, our attack will really complement our defence

sod09:
We should not forget this guy with other of our defenders were tagged useless beyond redemption

He really tried against man u. Reason why I commended him the most amongst our defence.

Lastmankc:
U and the guy,no get sense at all

I swear. Both him and the guy no get sense.

The guy for feeling uncomfortable about the status and him for bringing it to nairaland

mostob:
I don't know why this draw is painful to me. Imagine Xhaka had taken that FK or Pepe had cut the ball back for Laca .
Anyway, we move.

the draw is painful sha, but some many unfortunate things that happened that I just have to accept the draw

No saka, partey had a bad game and Willian entered, martinelli not completing the match.

I'll just manage the draw like that

Anyways, it was an interesting game for viewers

An unfortunate result but not a bad result overall.

We really needed saka.... Mehn, he's so tremendous to our team and has good understanding with ESR. Most of the times esp in 2nd half, ESR will make a run on the left flank but Willian will choose to pass back or slow attack.

ESR and lacazzete... Good bless them. Good game, good link up.

Partey, average game by his standard. Slows down attack, tends to over hold the ball unnecessarily. Xhaka has a very very good game. Improving game by game

Martinelli was very very good. Good workrate, good play, esp helping the defence. I dunno if he was injured but his sub just finally killed our game with Willian introduction. Willian himself can kill attack sha.

Shootout to Pepe. Nice game by his arsenal standard.

The defence did well, but a big shootout to holding. He marshalled the defence well, stifling out cavani threat

Leno too good.

Not a good result, but not too bad either. We move

COYG

Unlimited22:
Abeg make Una manage play barren draw or win abeg. Abeg.

Tor... Your wish is granted

Las las we don lose this match

Willian in

Mehn, they are balling us sha.
Hopefully, 2nd half will be better for us.

Not a bad first half btw.

Chatbot1234:
im scared of this line up oh.

Well, this is the best lineup we can put out considering our injuries.

So I'm just hopeful

sod09:
This mofo of a coach is a fool forever
He just ruined my fpl
Captain saka ffs

oh... You think Arteta would just rest saka in such a high profile match or what?

Come on!

Man might be injured

kokanepyramid:
Saka don carry injury be that

E fit be oo.

Cos him no even dey sub

Spy360:
This is the line up Arteta must use to beat Man Utd.

Martinelli.......... Lacazette............. Saka
......................... Smith-Rowe......................
............ Xhaka........................ Partey..........
Tierney.... Gabriel............... Luiz..... Bellerin
............................... Leno ............................

Or.
Soares for Bellerin
Holding for Luiz

Brother, lineup is already out

No saka

Chai!!!!

What happened to saka??

Goodnews is that we're expecting to see ESR and partey to start since they're available for selection.

That's refreshing to hear

Ibunkun1:
, epele

Amoto94:
"We try to depict differential learning with playing forms. [...]The main goal is to get as many variations as possible and to come to an improved technique through the diversity of movement (2011)."BrainSoccer ball

Speaking head in silhouette Arno Michels (Tuchel’s assistant coach

Even Chelsea coach dey do silhouette challenge?
Wonderment!!!