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Sarri doesn't have a plan B. He will keep getting fuckkkkked by the elite coaches that are capable of tweaking their tactics and would most likely never win anything with Chelsea.

Good news is his plan A, Sarriball, is capable of beating 80% of the teams in the league so Chelsea should always finish in the top 4.

He's basically Wenger without the trophies.

Sarri, he never has a plan B. If plan A (Sarriball, which is basically pass, pass, pass and pass some more) doesn't work, his team is basically bleeped. That's why he's never won anything and he's almost 60. Say what you want about Mourinho but dude is a born winner. Can't say the same thing about Sarri.

Spy360:
Team Selection Challenge
Predict our possible line up vs Leicester.


You might become our next manager if you are spot on.

This is not necessarily a prediction but 4-4-2 seems to be the formation that maximizes our best attacking talents.
I mean Auba and Lacazette on the pitch at the same time pretty much guarantees 2 goals most of the time. A midfield of Xhaka, Torreira, flanked by mhiki and Iwobi looks good.

Ozil and Ramsey will find it difficult to fit in a 4-4-2

The most overhyped and overrated city (slum actually but I'm trying to be nice)

The most overhyped and overrated city (it's slump actually, but I'm just being nice)

Mickael2:
Give Libya Aubemeyang or Adebayor and they would be 4-2 up, better team BY FAR

Dumb comment.

This is like me saying give Nigeria Xavi and they'd have better control of the midfield and would have easily seen the game out at 2 nil.

elyte89:
Ighalo.just saved d mumu ass

Rohr has by far the better set of players than most African countries. He'll always have his asssss saved by someone....the lucky bastard

Unlimited22:
See Alex Iwobi.
I'd like to see him against a big team tho.
Also, we need to find a partner for Ndidi.

Except you don't count Chelsea as a big team, he played very well and did score against Chelsea when Arsenal played them.

He's being in beast mode so far this season regardless of the opponent.

Spy360:
L Jardim for me is on par with the likes of Pochentino and a little below the likes of Emery and Klopp. This is despite their poor performance this season. I feel Monaco must have been carried away by the cuteness of having a T Henry as manager, because I see no reason to let Jardim go.

Leonardo Jardim would be a good choice for Man Utd. It would be a sensible decision to get him, which means it's not gonna happen as Woodward doesn't do sensible.

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EVILFOREST:
Hmmmm
Argue with facts.
Is it the LAB. SCIENTIST that does not prescribe now...
The greatest JOY of a medical Doctor remains that, when parents of these envious people fall sick, medical doctors are still consulted for treatment.
As a Lab. Scientist, please manage and treat yourself and your entire family when you encounter any clinical malady.
STOP DISTURBING MEDICAL DOCTORS

You mean the medical doctors encroaching into other people's professional turf are the ones being disturbed here
Excellent logic

Danielnino00:
Considering their financial prowess on the continent, they should be better than this...

But then hard work without talent sometimes can amount to nothing....

Yep, see China.

Danielnino00:
Believe me,the kind of insults Nigerians rain on the super eagles is nothing compared to what south Africans do for their national team

Well, it seems they have unrealistic expectations of their team then. It's not like the team is underachieving. Considering the poverty of football talents in that country, they are just about where they should be.

Do South Africans hate their national team or something? Small African Nations like Seychelles, Cape Verde, Niger, Togo etc consistently fill at least 60% of their stadiums, while a big nation like South Africa can't even fill up to 10% of theirs.

Embarrassing TBH.

I agree with the females on this thread. They (whoever is in charge of this sad, evil world) should just scrap that thing called marriage. I actually don't know who it benefits.

2018, marriage is obsolete. Let's all move on.

sod09:
apart from koulibaly which one is playing for Africa country..what Roland mean is the black mentality that follows which make them think it's about physicality and not technique or intelligence.
Even the koulibaly is terrible

Koulibaly is terrible at what exactly

Just love the structure that's associated with this Arsenal team, especially when attacking. The players seem to be acting under instruction, a total contrast to Wengers method where the players just go out there and freely express themselves.

Things will only get better as the players have a better grasp of the new system

Roland17:
In my initial post regarding this issue, I was careful to use the adverb "Mostly". That being said, Koulibaly is a very good defender, however, no one has watched Koulibaly outside of the Serie A/ Senegal and we are not sure if he would transition well. Boateng bawo? which one? The current Boateng or Boateng of 4 years ago? Varane may be the one I am open to but again, he is not exactly black.

Maybe I should rephrase and say I prioritize intelligence, particularly positional intelligence/ awareness and technique over brute strength/ power for that position.

I'm finding it hard to believe those black players I listed would be key members of those top clubs without intelligence and technique. Admittedly black players are known to be physical and much stronger than players of other races but that's not all there is to their game.

Bailey himself was once a fine defender in Spain until he got ruined by Jose. Watch him regain his form under another manager.

Roland17:
Abeg, I don't want any black defender(s) on our team. No offense but our brothers are mostly brute without game intelligence and technique.

Khalidou Koulibaly, Umtiti, Varane, Boateng all say hi.

Another point; it's amazing how much better Arsenal play in second halves (scored the most second half goals in the league so far). This is testament to Emery's in-match reading skills and the fact that he isn't afraid to tweak his system or sub off under performing players no matter who they are.

This team is just built to score goals. Amazing the amount of clear cut chances they produce almost every game (albeit they so give up chances themselves). The pattern of attack is very unpredictable, multidimensional and that makes it difficult for opponents to live with them. I'll stress it again, we'll outscore many teams in this league (we could have outscored Chelsea if Auba and Mhiki didn't have an off day).

We are heading in the right direction and we'll be so much better if Emery eventually gets his own players.

COYG

sprints2:
arsenal fans let us hear word abegi... how many big teams una don beat zero...though emery is doing a great job oo... if Sanchez and lukaku meet arsenal una go hear am...because una beat useless teams like Cardiff Newcastle Everton wet no good away Fulham westham dey dey struggle...don't worry teams like Liverpool man utd spurs wolves are still waiting for u...

LMAO I feel your pain man. Most of you didn't expect Arsenal to be this good by this time.

We'll just keep winning against the small teams. There are 15 of them in the league, home and away makes it 30 wins. That's 90 points, thank you very much.

Who needs defense when we have Aubameyang and Lacazette

And Emery unleashes Auba

Lacazette; cheaper than Morrata and Lukaku and everyone was adamant he wasn't as good as them when they were bought.

Today is the day of the underdogs.
Borussia monchengladbach, Alaves and now Man Utd.

Chelsea so dependent on Hazard. Without him, well, they would struggle against European minnows like video and Mid table EPL teams.

Basically, it is not Sarri-ball, it's Hazard-ball at the bridge these days

I think the thinking is since our defense isn't great at the moment we might as well play an open game and concede goal scoring chances to our opponents while we produce our own chances. We have superior attackers than most teams so more often than not we will outscore our opponents. I won't be surprised if I see a lot of games with scorelines likes 3-2, 4-3, 3-1, 7-6

O ye fellow gooners, it's gonna be a nervy but fun and exciting ride this season. Enjoy it.

Iwobi is in beast mode. He should start on Sunday.

Jacobx007:
2 attempts on target for Chelsea, incredible

Sarri's Chelsea is a total contrast to Emery's Arsenal. Chelsea these days basically just keep the ball, pass it around but don't produce so many chances. Of course the opponent too doesn't produce much chances because they don't have the ball.
Arsenal these days produce truck loads of chances and are not bothered if the opponents have theirs. They are confident they'll outscore the opponent.

For all the talk about how Chelsea look good I think they're a team that is hugely dependent on Hazard.

I've forgotten what it feels like to lose a game of football. Arsenal form so far;

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