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BlueRayDick:
Dey play my prince

It’s the other way round. We will kill the confidence u gathered against burley

Ask him when last they beat Arsenal at their home. Let's not even talk about our scary away form.

daveP:
Kai off the ball is the only thing he can offer this team of we want to be sincere. Just that Teta risking that to make teamplay minus one is the crux of most of us. Guy is a better player as a sub. He proved that tonight. He almost wasted that assist anyway. Na draw game for end. Yasu header needed just one reaction-shot.

The fact that teta started him from bench shows that this man realizes he can't do that rubbish against pep. As for me, let him be coming off the bench. He's not big enough and influential enough to be given a starting shirt consistently. Till then sha.

We all know some fans have refused to see past the media slandering of Kai. However, I disagree with the bolded. He received the ball with his back to goal and with several city defenders waiting behind him. How exactly do you want him to take that 'one reaction-shot'?



If he had shoot and messed up, you would still have blamed him for not passing to Martinelli instead.

iamoyindamola:
Apari with 5 man defence

4...

Lewis dey play Midfield

Saka not in matchday squad. Martinelli on the bench

Arsenal XI

David Raya William Saliba, Ben White, Gabriel Magalhães, Oleksandr Zinchenko
Martin Odegaard (C), Jorginho, Declan Rice
Gabriel Jesus, Eddie Nketiah, Leandro Trossard


#afc #AFC #arsenalfanaticsnews

Anything short of 3 points today, Arteta should pack his bag and go...

TheGoodJoe:
On the contrary, I think Kompany is doing fine tactically. He is just let himself down by underestimating the strength of the EPL and didn't really build a strong squad.

They are set up well, defending in a nice tactical pattern. However, player quality to execute is poor.

He needs to refresh the team with some high quality experience players in some critical positions and he can pull off an escape from relegation.

Why not play the tactic that suits his current players? This is just an excuse.

Be like Kompany no learn work finish. He needs to go back and do another 6 months internship with Pep. Na Katikati football em dey play no be tikitaka.

Meliforme:
If you have taken the time to read how Royal Antwerp play, you will conclude that we don't have wingers with skill sets that can do what Balikwisha does for Antwerp.

As far as Balikwisha is fit, he will always start games.
Except our wingers improve in those skill sets.

This Balikis talk again? The more you try to push this faulty argument, the more ridiculous you sound bro. Just stop it abeg...Such words shouldn't be coming from you na...haba

PDPGuy:
I don’t know yet
But here are the slot allocations for the 2025 Women’s Futsal World Cup:
AFC: 3 slots
CAF: 2 slots,
Concacaf: 2 slots
CONMEBOL: 3 slots
OFC: 1 slot
UEFA: 4 slots, and the host country will receive 1 slot.

Ok. We should be able to get a slot.

oliverano:
Rodri is currently the best midfielder in the world, the gulf in class is not too close. He bosses every game and comes up clutch in the goalscoring department as well.

Rice for me is not even the best DM in his own team. A fit Partey is better than Rice. Being fit is part of the game though.

I'm not being bias at all, I'll 100 percent take Partey ahead of Rice. But Rice is also good but not better or equal to Rodri and even Partey in my opinion.

I think you should refer to his previous post to understand my point.


He was referring to their playing style not who is better. IMO, there is really no difference between Rodri and Rice in term of playing style which is why his choices was surprising.

andrewbaba44:
There is difference

Ok

andrewbaba44:
Rodri type of dm ? Yes

Rice type of DM ? I no want

Moscardo ? Yes

Zubimendi ? Yes

You want Rodri but you don't want Rice... what's the difference between the two?

Nomyth:
Could the dearth of quality AMs in the National team be a direct consequence of our poor performance in youth football in recent years?

Our various youth teams have been the production line thru which we get quality Midfielders in the past.

Etim Esin, Mutiu Adepoju, Jay Jay okocha, Thompson Oliha,Wilson Oruma,pius Ikedia,Mikel obi, Haruna lookman all came thru the youth ranks.

Our local league hasn't really come thru for us in this regard with only Friday Ekpo the only quality Midfielder I can identify that the league has given us and it is not every time quality Midfielders pop up randomly in Europe. Only Sunday Oliseh, Joel obi and Obodo have popped up for some time.

We might need to pay more attention to the youth teams u17 to u23 if we need to discover more AMs for the NT.

You raised a nice point. That's why missing the next U17 WC is bad for our football. Imagine the talents in that team...Mbata, Light Eke and co.... chai

PDPGuy:
FIFA will introduce a new women’s futsal World Cup tournament in 2025.. I wonder if any of our SF players would be eligible

What are the criteria please?

Saka called up for England. White on sabbatical

elunico:
Kvara is left footed.

We're talking about Kvara here not kwara. The Kvara I know is right footed.

toluxe0075:
In fact, I expect Nelson and Smith Rowe to push for transfer this coming season if they are really serious about playing football because I don’t know what else they have to do to convince Arteta.

It is certain that Arteta will spend another money to get backup players for the same positions these guys were meant to be backup players. The problem is he might end up going the Havertz route if does.

They can go for all I care. Infact, they should table the transfer request in January.

I am actually not worried about this loss. Arteta was so foolish to start Saka. very very very foolish. Man limped off against Spurs, he started him against Bournemouth. We're 3 goals up but he didn't sub him out until the kid finally broke down. You still get the mind to play him 4 days later.




However, that still won't take away the fact that all of the players were shit yesterday.



And Raya? we dey look

BlueRayDick:


Saka is Arsenal's Messi; once he's fit he will always start . Know this and know peace!

I'm just concerned for the guy.

Kieran Tierney faces up to three months on the sidelines after picking up a hamstring injury during Real Sociedad’s 3-0 win against Athletic Bilbao.

Saka again? Ah God abeg o

This Saka is not human. I'm here worrying about how much we are going to miss him against City only to see him in the training pictures. Man was even backing ESR.



Who is this Bukayo Saka?




BTW, only Timber is sidelined as Partey resumes full training.

Roland17:
That their last gasp winner really annoy me

I was wishing for a draw cos na him for favor us.

Same here... Matip na otondo.... he should have done better.


Anyway, they will soon run out of gas. Their team depth ain't that great.

Who cut soap for Tottenham? They were not this good before o.

TheSuperNerd:
Pep and Man City get their first league loss of the 23/24 season at the hands of Wolves.

Omo, to do Invincibles again go hard oooo.

Long may it continue

Odunayaw:
One side of the mouth: "I don't care. I'm just here to have fun"

Other side: "Do you know who I am?"

Mankind

You sef notice am?

BlueRayDick:
Man city Goal difference is 12 , while Arsenal’s is 9. We should pay attention to closing down on the goal difference as we dey win too .

1-0 or 2-1 win over any mid table team should not be acceptable going forward

Chief, those mid table teams sef no come sell Okpa for field na




On serious note, I said something similar few weeks ago on this thread. Small Newcastle sef dey wire teams 8-0. We need to be more ruthless. Na the 2-1s and 1-0s no dey make the small teams fear us. Wire one of them 7-0 and the other go dey shit for pant.

This Odegaard na something else. Man plays football just for fun.


But he need to apply sense when pressing. I no like as defenders dey use our captain to mop floor. O wrong na.

iamoyindamola:
Our away games do far
Played 3
Win 3
GC 0

Home games scare me more than away games and it shouldn't be so. Out there, we are lion but we go dey play like giant mouse.

Janine Mackson, Thomas Partey's partner, announced her pregnancy on Instagram.

Congratulations to Janine and Thomas.






How Partey no go get GROIN injury... congratulations to them sha. Hope this one no go carry am go court o.

Brighton dey chop am.... 3-0 now. #Emeryball



Watkins with a brace.




Serves them right...