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germaphobe:
You're being too pessimistic. There's still man UTD and Everton(derby) for them, anything can still happen. Arsenal just need to be ruthless on our own lane and watch others from a distance to see if they will fumble.

We are playing Man U and Spurs too sha...

Jodera:
Lol...
You wey dey normally dey optimistic dey talk this Kain thing?

This is looking very tight bro...

Mtchew.... We go again next season.

Spy360:
Every team has to defend at some point. But any team that focuses a major part of their plan on defending is not planning to win. Even if they eventually win, it was not their plan.

West Ham defended for 90mins against Arsenal and won. Will you tell me they entered that pitch believing they could beat Arsenal? Let's use logic well abeg

Teams defend for a lot of reasons and I'm sure you're not aware.
1. If you meat a superior team with a superior tactic, you can defend.
2. If your opponent surprises you with a tactic you're not aware of, you might have to defend.
3. When your opponent is piling pressure on you and you're leading with a lone goal with about 10 minutes to go, you defend.

Now tell me which is applicable to that City vs Arsenal game.

Spy360:
Read my post again

You have no point bro. You can't justify missing easy chance because of positional play or tactic. Even if a defender finds himself in the box and there's chance, he must score.

Spy360:
His plan from the onset was to defend. It is clear. Defending means he would be satisfied with a draw. A barren draw is possible and he got it.

Usually Arteta presses high using Odegaard and Kai against the opponents CBs. Against Man City their CBs were on holiday and we only pressed their midfielders ie Rodri and Kovacic. That was why their fullbacks Akanji and Gvardiol pushed higher to take up winger positions and their wingers Foden and Silva moved into midfield to overload the centre. When Ake got injured, he replaced him with a midfielder and not a defender. That's because he saw no need. No one was pressing the defenders.

In the second half he changed to wider faster wingers to penetrate and what did Arteta do? Changed Kiwior to Tomiyasu. I was actually expecting him to bring in Zinchenko. Arteta was just nullifying Pep's attack without initiating any for himself.

Now please note, I appreciate what he did as a point at the Etihad is not bad at all. But I also feel a bit disappointed knowing that we could have possibly won if we played our usual game like we did against Liverpool.

You said he planned to defend from the onset yet the same you said he changed tactic in the first half. Person wey plan to defend dey change tactic? make it make sense.

Lewis is a fullback not a midfielder.

Your argument is leaky bro especially that last paragraph. Are Liverpool and City the same team? Do they play the same way? Have you forgot how we sometimes labour hard to defend against an inferior team?

Fact is you overrated Arsenal's chance against City, you got disappointed and came here to start the 'We planned to defend' argument.

Spy360:
Exactly.

Let Blueraydick and Jodera come and tell us that that defensive shape is our usual pattern.

If it is then I accept that Arteta planned to win. If not then he planned to draw.

There is no usual pattern. You adjust depending on what you have in front of you.

Spy360:
When a team defends it means they are playing for a draw. You don't defend and say you plan to win. Simple logic.

However as Roland17 said, a coach can employ a less expansive tactics that allows him to stay compact while looking out for an opportunity to go all out. Arteta didn't do that, instead he when he saw that City had ran out of ideas he began to press higher towards the last 20/25mins.

My point is (mind you I am thinking in retrospect) if he had done that from the onset we would have beaten City because they weren't that good as I thought.

You can still defend and play for a win.
As for the last paragraph, you want him to just press higher without knowing what city's tactic was all about? why are you talking like this na. Na City we dey talk here o not even Chelsea or United.

Spy360:
No one is expecting to miss a chance even if he is a goalkeeper. But the fact is that less is expected if the player is not a striker. Haaland missed an open net but it is Kai Havertz that is your problem.

You may twist it from now till tomorrow. The fact is there is no justification for missing a sitter whether you're a Striker or not.

Jodera:
Exactly what I read few hours ago.

What the guy said here was exactly what I've been saying in bits

To me, it was a tactical masterclass. Pep really mean am...kudos to Arteta for keeping up. Imagine restricting City to just one shot at their home ground. Na the possession dey deceive many fans jare. If only we took.our chances.

iamoyindamola:
The guy said we were pegged back which mean arteta switched tactics in the first 10 minutes
In all honesty I appreciate him and his efforts I don't believe we park bus but we didn't play to win at all
See below na massive drilling and discipline to achieve this kind low blocks apari even wan kill arteta

Spot saka and jesus
Arteta na hire killer aje
E remind me of ten hag way confused klopp by pushing Anthony and Bruno to the back for the defenders to go attack

The bolded already buttress my point. The plan was not to defend. We needed that 3 points as much as City wanted it too.
We went to Etihad with a game plan, Pep changed his normal tactic which means we had to adapt. So I don't know where the 'we planned to defend' narrative is coming from.

If truly we planned to defend, why changing tactic then?

https://twitter.com/EBL2017/status/1775104662733041918?t=Yb9DlTGg5NR8zT2W6gePdA&s=19

Another link on why we wanted Mudryk

https://twitter.com/EBL2017/status/1774555647524114834?t=y5qDMHARUh2Dr_tI-k0Rwg&s=19


Here is the thread on whether we played for a draw or not

iamoyindamola:
So let's call a spade a spade we played to draw simple

Well..it is your opinion.

Zellas:
Nigeria will qualify for a major tournament in a tension soaked Match against south Africa.
I don't know if it's world cup qualification against Bafana bafana or Olympics against Bayana bayana.
This match produced so many goals up to 6 or more, Nigeria won it at last and there was so much jubilation in the country.
God bless Nigeria

Are you a prophet? I've an assignment for you.

So far so good, na only on this thread i don hear say Arteta planned to defend at Etihad.
I think I will drop the link to EBL2016 twitter thread here.
You don't plan to go toe-to-toe with Pep. You can not even prepare a specific tactic against him because man is unpredictable. If Arsenal had gone full attacking mode and we conceded heavily, we the fans would still be the one to criticize him for not defending.

lovewins:
Not competitively. But I think she was in one of their summer camps with Randy as coach. So wouldn't be their first interaction.

Ok

Deltamani:
Are you sounding as if she hasn’t played under Randy before?? With Plumptre out there’s every possibility that she can come in except Ucheibe is been moved there.!

I don't think she has played under Randy before. Ucheibe will probably move to CB

lovewins:
Leicester city worked hard all season to build a 10 point gap in their bid to rerun to the EPL only for them to bottle it a few games to the end of the season.

They will be back on top when they renew their tikitaka subscription

Deltamani:
So right now we have

1. Osinachi Ohale
2. Chidinma Okeke
3. Shukurat Oladipo
4. Michelle Alozie
5. Nicole Payne
6. Jumoke Alani…

This defense line won’t be Bad though.
Alozie — Ohale — Okeke — N. Payne

Or we no longer trust Okeke anymore to play at this Level??

I don't think Okeke will just come in to the team straight. That will.be risky.

Deltamani:
Update | Paris Olympics Games

Banyana Banyana of South Africa arrived in Abuja, Nigeria ahead of their Olympics' qualifier match (1st leg) against the Super Falcons of Nigeria

Photo Credit: Banyana_Banyana/X

No be who first call police dey win case. Inasmuch as na Kaylin Swart go keep for them, no wahala.

I will take that draw sha... It is kinda painful when one considers all those chances missed.

On a positive side, the draw should prepare us for what is coming in UCL especially those away matches. Win at home and play Haram football away.

iamoyindamola:
Arteta played for a draw
Simple
Even though both teams were cautious

He didn't. If he came for draw, we would have lost that match.

AkinDS:
Nicole Payne with cameo in 77th min along with Sinclair.
Contributed to the equalizer.

BTW: why was Kanu doing a celebratory dance with Linda Mothalo of South Africa? Linda is in the enemy camp o!

If you want to catch a monkey, you will do like a monkey.


Remember the proverbial elephant story too.

Imagine Jesus scoring the winner today.
Peter Drury: Once again, Jesus has risen on Easter day to give the three points to Arsenal.

It is still unclear whether Saka, Martinelli or Gabriel will start today. All training pictures that have been paraded are those of Thursday. Nothing from Friday and Saturday. Shey Arteta dey play chess with his former boss ni?

Arsenal U18 5 vs Fulham U18 2
Hattrick for Chido Obi-Martins

naptu2:
Attracting fans to the stadium.

The person in charge of marketing this stuff is really good. Using Alozie as the poster girl was a smart move.

iamoyindamola:
Na money oo Compare it with championship salaries He will be in top 10

Yes o.. na cool money for a 16-year old.

Spy360:
Would you fly if you were told that the pilot is on his first attempt?

First attempt? Arteta is clearly not in his first 'attempt'

iamoyindamola:
Ethan Nwaneri have signed professional contract

10k per week. sinzu money

Spy360:
Na maka those people that said they don't hate him.

Neither do I

Why coach go dey need courage to play a young player.