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kokaneprodigy:
it’s not same role check their lineup and compare with ours.
Firminho takes the ball from the DMs and transmits it, Jota/Sala rotate the CF position.

My point is your wingers will still be less effective without a potent AM with vision. Someone needs to track their runs and give incisive passes. Our wingers have to drop deep to get the ball most times.

Cos our DMs and CBs are busy passing sideways.

mostob:
Seriously, I'm sick of all these Ozil shalayes.
Naija sentiment aside, Iwobi will offer more than Ozil can to this current team.
let's look at city, Benardo, silva, KDB,Foden-these players don't just stay in midfield, they simply roam. Can Ozil do that? sometimes, you dont even know if they are playing as wingers.
what of Liverpool? Can Ozil offers what Gini, Henderson, Milner offer. I'm talking about serious work rate here.
The only way Ozil can be added to our Midfield is if there is a natural DM. somebody to babysit him and clear up his mess. And I doubt we have such player right now.
Arsenal fans should forget Ozil. It is not that he was that brilliant gan. His performances were like a flash in the pan sometimes.
Our lack of goals is due to how this team is set up not because of Ozil absence.

kokaneprodigy:
Which role do you think Firminho plays at Liverpool?

Your wingers will be less potent without an AM

kokaneprodigy:
Which role do you think Firminho plays at Liverpool?

kokaneprodigy:
That’s because Wenger prioritized midfield, which was why I was of the opinion we prioritize midfield before splashing on defence.

The code is, if your midfield is very balanced (defencewise and attackwise) you’ll solve two problems to an extent. Wenger never joked with midfield he even had surplus of midfielders. Reason we could still compete despite not having the best defence in league and had someone like Giroud leading our attack. Imagine having Giroud as our CF in this squad na die. Then we had midfielders that were excellent finishers. Now if Auba doesn’t score we are a toast!

Spy360:
Sanchez is not your regular winger o. That guy na all round attacking player. He creates, assists and scores. No just compare him with what we have now. I'd say a younger Willian would come close.

Spy360:
I didn't say average midfield and attack. My point is if you have an option between defense and attack, choose defense. That what Arteta actually did. He chose a DM instead of an AM. Getting both is ideal for success but if you must choose one, choose the defensive.

By the way, never mention Wenger with Emery again, dem nor be mate.

It's now that I believe stronger that Wenger was a good manager. He actually worked with weaker squads than our recent managers yet maintained consistent performances until his last years.

Spy360:
No matter how many wingers we have we need an AM. Even in a drab 4-4-2 formation, one of the front two must be creative. It's that simple unless you just want to defend.

Spy360:
Hmmmmm

Seems you had a secret admiration for Emery...

Spy360:
One good thing Arteta has done is to strengthen our defense. The picture below tells an important story. Like the saying we have been making...

A good attack wins you matches, but a good defense wins you titles.

kokaneprodigy:
You’ll be seeing clear indications that something is failing or about to fail and should be sorted before things get really bad. But most here hardly get convinced until things get terribly bad. There’s a reason good business enterprise always say past performance is not a guarantee of future performance, this is to avoid complacency, to some of us here because it worked at some point it’ll keep working.

If you talk you’ll be tagged an Ozil fan boy.

Arteta has become complacent and if he’s not careful, going into the season without an AM will be his undoing.

afrodoc2:
Arteta is La Masia trained, played under Wenger, coached under Pep but sets up his teams like Diego Simeone.

Phucking disgrace.

iamoyindamola:
Make we return him we no do again

iamoyindamola:
Installment

iamoyindamola:
Pepe is there

Eawwal:
Ceballous played Rubbish today and still played full match when there's no one to replace him. These are the kind of matches that Ozil used to dominate, at a point the ball possession was around 60-40.

iamoyindamola:
Jodera Una they see Leno
Early momo

BlueRayDick:
4-3-3 it is

If we no beat this Leicester weak team, then we are not ready to build on last year's success o

iamoyindamola:
Which Chelsea team exactly, it's not by having best players.
Lampard doesn't know the formation he wants to use or the players for it

mostob:
Agreed. You are spot on

iamoyindamola:
The whole team don't have direction
Gbas gbos football

mostob:
One thing I admire most in Arteta is that he knows the kind of players he want and will go for them. Partey and Gabriel are perfect examples.
Watching Chelsea yesterday, should we call their signings 'money miss road' or their coach is clueless?

iamoyindamola:
This havertz na ozil V2.0

iamoyindamola:

That one is sick in his brain, even when he sees the footage he will still be blind
Forget him jare

iamoyindamola:
No...we will look at individual performance like saves, error leading to goals and clean sheet.
I see nothing wrong bringing Martinez cos some of us miss him and also comfortable with him in goal.
No one said Leno is not good but his mistakes and ariel challenge will cost us

iamoyindamola:
From arsenal with love

iamoyindamola:
I no like hypocrite for what I know Martinez is better than Leno since the beginning of this season

iamoyindamola:
He never commit any error leading to goal moreover shame suppose catch you his club is still ahead of arsenal.
From today we go they do weekly stats then
Deal??

kodded:
so buffon regen chop 3 goals today but none of his fanboys gree post am here