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Jodera:
lol... The Saliba situation was to go out on loan.
Since he didn't get it, I'm not sure there's anybody he would have substituted in that our squad

Jodera:
well, we're unfortunate with the defenders been injured, but I don't know how the defenders been on loan or not registered is arsenal's fault.

If they weren't on loan, they wouldn't still have been registered cos they're not homegrown

Jodera:
Lol... Thank God you used deceptively strong.. At least, him dey deceive us say he's strong, but he's not . Jokes aside tho, that guy na isn't strong 1bit at all.

So aside Nelson, no other person is making waves ni?

Roland17:
Is this a joke or what? Pesin wen dey play ball like say him dey wear baggy jeans Na to dey bounce around field him sabi

Jodera:
willock that's not even strong, that is not a good passer of the ball also, is who you want to play 9(false 9). Lol.
And how has he shown he's a good goal scorer? Abi is it the screamer he scored last season against Liverpool. Abeg oo. Let Arteta better use me for 9 than willock


As for playing more youths, is there no budding talent in the youth setup like saka of last year ni?

Jodera:
It's good you admit ozil is an Am, and we need Am badly, and that ozil is also good too. So at least you get my point.

My issue why I'm ranting is because ozil is still an arsenal player and fit to play and the team needed him. You rarely see me make case Martinez or iwobi or Sanchez.. Why because they're no longer our player. But it's painful having a player and you can't use him cos of ego. Na my anger be that.

Anyways, like you said, let's move on...

Fkhalifa:
When a team sits deep it’s still very difficult to break them down with a good creative player on to be fair. What you need to do is run at defenders and make them have to make challenges, no defender in the world wants players running at them( Now who does this at Arsenal? Everyone on the attacking front bar Saka is bereft of idea or talented to use the ball well, their first instinct is to pass it to the left or back, hence the drab football) Add some give and go’s while running and you can create space and chances.

What we do is let a team sit deep and then we just move the ball side to side and put in the odd cross. Unless Fabregas is playing you aren’t going to find space for a through ball with 10 men behind the ball. Hence why we get the ball wide(slowly) and then just pass back and repeat...

BTW, Ozil's vision and pass will only work against teams leaving much space at the back.

kokaneprodigy:
That Ozil’s work rate under Arteta is low, he played almost if not all the games under Arteta prior to the COVID and a lot here attested to his improved work rate, using stats of 1 assist doesn’t tell the full story unless you just started watching football.

I still remember how guys were mad at Arteta for pulling out Ozil in the match against Chelsea, claiming pulling him out brought Chelsea back into the game. We eventually lost the match from a winning position.

Then COVID happened all of a sudden he doesn’t have work rate under Arteta. It’s a lie.

kokaneprodigy:
I’m not the type to criticize only when we lose I’m not L-Khalifa.

I mentioned it even when we were winning that we need an AM and DM going into the TW. I also mentioned we hardly dominate big teams even when we won and we’ll soon be found out.

I did same during Emery and I was asked to shut up that after all we are “grinding out result” we all saw how it ended.

I work with indices even in my personal life. I don’t wait for evil to befall before acting.

Jodera:
And you think the reason why arteta didn't include him is footballing reason? Don't make me laugh abeg!


And for now, ozil is the answer. Yes. Not the absolute answer but the answer for at least small small and decent teams.
Aside work rate, he's the only one that has vision, can create chances and all.
And he also improved his work rate under Arteta.

I won't lie, we need an Am and a playmaker and ozil is one. Perhaps if we had another, I wouldn't have clamoured for ozil the way I'm doing now

Jodera:
The thing is, I don't trust Nelson or pepe anymore. Especially the latter.

But your opinion of bringing youths is really commendable, at least, that's how we got to know saka and martinelli.
I don't know why arteta doesn't trust his youths tho.

Why do you want willlock??

Jodera:
If only iwobi was in arsenal, maybe I'll consider iwobi. But iwobi is gone, that's why I will not drag iwobi inside my talks. Ozil is an arsenal player, and he's not injured, and not that he's sold. So it's not out of place to talk about him.

For the others points you raised, I just want to believe you didn't watch ozil under Arteta. So no qualms!

kokaneprodigy:
In your effort to make this about Ozil again you had to lie and compare Ozil with DMs and CMs.

You’ve mentioned Ozil in your single post more than any other moniker’s posts combined this morning. We are talking about AM no one is dwelling on Ozil.
Take your advice and Come off this Ozil obsession

BascoVanVeli:
Arteta is just another Pep "smile in your face, stab your back" Guardiola.

iamoyindamola:
You sabi

BlueRayDick:
They need a natural striker to be amongst the subs and Nketiah is the one filling that space. Nelson's place has been occupied by Pepe already.

BlueRayDick:
We shouldn't just score alone sef, we should score at least 2 before they introduce him and he starts worrying our defence

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

andrewbaba44:
I watched the first half that game and iwobi was not bad as you said ,he was effective towards the Southampton box 18 and even had a deflected shot and some good passes over there

You just checked livescores or somewhere else and you see that iwobi was subbed out at half time and that means he had a bad game

Iwobi had a better game than Calvert lewin and some few others despite only playing 45 minutes

The way you go against some players you ain’t a fan of is beginning to expose your stupidity

Subzero047:
He was removed at half time, do you need anymore proof?

mkrest:
to those who watched everton match,abeg how awful was iwobi?

BlueRayDick:
Guess who's back on his feet

Jodera:
I won't say money miss road.
How I view lampard is

1.. So far, he doesn't know how to improve players at his disposal.

2.. He has a plan, but how to effectively balance the defence and attack is what is missing.
To be sincere, he's gotten the defence aspects now(Silva zouma combo and Mendy at goal). If he eventually fix the attack like last season, then I guess the rest of the teams should be afraid.

Mind you, most of the players are new to the league, so they need blending in. The goals they conceded this season are mostly individual error. And once that is cut out, then Chelsea will be formidable.

I'm not ruling lampard or that team out yet

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

andrewbaba44:
My people is onyekuru injured ?

Arabiandude:
Ndidi plays or not, Arsenal will beat leceister.
When was the last time Leicester won away to any big PL team?
It doesn't mean Partey would have outshined Ndidi though

iamoyindamola:
Confirm clueless coach Those guys are good the coach can't utilize them well