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daveP:
If those guys finish above us, by premium standards that's tilting to a bad season for the club.

I hope this January window makes the difference. I really pray it does. Im tired of going back and forth over guys that can't rake in goals or show up when it matters most.

Xhaka is 1/4 player i said Arteta is yet to directly replace. That guy knows the move to make to make a difference even if we seem to be flourishing in possession. Rather a game reader than a zombie.

Fingers crossed 🤞

BlueRayDick:
We’ve seen Trossard, Saka , and others use their individual brilliance get us goals before . It’s not every time things will go ur way .

Some days are bad days in the office like yesterday . Every available stat yesterday shows we were the better side and we wanted it more ; we had more ball possession , more shots on and off target . It just wasn’t our day.

You’re right.

I’m not just happy with the result and felt we could’ve done more that’s all

We should be closing the point between us and looserpool

mostob:
You don't get? Even for shooting, Laca is still not good. According to DaveP, If Laca was in that match, he would have scored like 2 goals by shooting. This is obviously flawed as Laca himself was so poor in front of goal.

And that’s why I objected when he said Lacazette nah, I didn’t agree with him

daveP:
In the last 40pages it doesn't look like every Arsenal fan here knows o.


Twitter is way different. I see many reputable and Gunners analyst of our squad that once defended Kai now doing one funny thing....

Guess? 😹😹😹😹😹

They are referencing his shooting and goal sense

4 of them have been "this you?"d already.

Aside the focus on Kai, shooting in our squad is another hot topic among the UK based fans as well. Some focused on open play goal issues.

One old man from Tony Adams days said we do nothing through the centre so why expect goals to come through there when we can't even shoot through there.


Is it until we return to 4th tinz before many wake up?

Abi we think na only us dey dis League? Even if Liverpool and Chelsea mess up and drop eventually, the fact that they had moment to take advantage of City slip up is a sign of what to expect from them consequently. We can't even take advantage till now. If anything at all, trying to widen the gap with City should have been motivation enough to win that game.


Nawa o.

Exactly
Despite city worst form the point difference between us is not encouraging at all

That yesterday match was what made me miss Xhaka a lil cause man would’ve shot the ball from the middle or any open place around the field

Like blue ray said, Arteta tactics is what is limiting the players ability to shoot but sometimes the players should abandon some things and win anyhow

BlueRayDick:
Obviously Rice can shoot , Odegaard can shoot and Saka can equally shoot.

However, Arteta's game doesn't require players to be shooting too often. Look closely at when there's interplay between Saka, Odegaard, Timber and Partey in the final third. They play to get so close to the opponent's goal before shooting.

If u are looking for our players that will be firing long shots often, u won't find that person in this team.

I forgot to mention Rice can also shoot as well, but I think Arteta's tactics limits the number of times he can shoot like that. If he shoots aimlessly and overturns the ball to the opponent in the process, he will hear an earful from Arteta

You’re right about Arteta tactics limiting the shots of these players, but sometimes we need the players to apply individual brilliance if nothing seems to be working out in outlet Favour as the case was yesterday that Fulham contained us to a large extent

daveP:
Lol. As long as you don't see why i brought up that guy, we will never see things same. You keep making up all these funny conclusions that doesn't even align with what i wrote. If i write A, can you just look at it as A and not Æ plsss.

Where did i now say we should get someone like Lacazette now?
Besides, are you indirectly hinting that the system is anti-9s with the bolded when i can mention almost 6 other teams across this globe that are using the MA system and are flourishing? You want to make that indirect conclusion as a reason to not expect much from Kai, but at the same time, talk down on Laca whose figures none has replicated till now since he left?

Lol. Don't sacrifice the whole system to absolve Kai and Nelli. Yes everyone can score. But who should be scoring more? If a FW can't score with how this system is, they should getat. That's why we all want the carpintaahs out too. That is also why we also didn't want Sterling but our coach got him. I was here when i saw many say they don't want 9s cos of the carpintaahs we had when the system began. When same system dey across Europe with 9s that are banging goals and still spreading goals. That's what we want.


I'll still stand put on my ground that a lethal 9 will flourish in this setup, today tomorrow and more and it won't even stop the goals spreading. It will just increase the goals and options to goalscoring.

Every Arsenal fan knows this here except the coaching crew of Arteta on this board

We were actually discussing shooters needed in the team cause we needed one, and davep mentioned lacasera for the ‘shooting force’ and not the striking position but the ‘shooter’ in that context we were discussing

But even Me no really fancy him shooting that’s why I ask him why Lacazette, I need someone from the midfield position(Xhaka profile) that will shoot and almost blind the keeper or even throw him into the back of the net with the ball.

cc Blueraydick

Capaldi:
How does that change the fact that he had an average game. Anyone with functional eyes that watched that game yesterday knew Palmer was not MOTM. Caicedo, Enzo and Sancho were better.

Sancho was even suppose to win it

daveP:
I want GM to be benched abeg. A better wing will make him either sit up or get out. You can't rely on him for a consistent outcome. It's like he dey play chess with Gunners loyalty. Cos when fans complain and face front, he'll now score/assist. Those ones will now do fast U-turn and fight those tha want him off. They'll keep changing sides on his matter, while no improvement whatsoever.


"He defends well" excuse

Saka defends way better than him and still becomes out best attack threat.

He used to be great at 1v1 but he's had 7 1v1 and lost all in last 20 games he played.

That left wing needs January window solution. It needs to come alive when things on the right wing don't.

You see that Nelli, his case is serious
To a point I was angry at him yesterday with his try your luck shots

Skimpledawg:
Sharap corner fc

Penarity fc

Kimbeast:
He needs to be investigated. Nigga just sold this match

daveP:
laca shoot better than Kai all day.even till now

Laca ke?

Cucumber collect money
Just falling under anointing

Cucumber collect money
Ju falling under anointing

This match was ours to win but We fumbled it

daveP:
big time.

We just Dey pass, pass like we want to pass the ball into the net

We need shooters in the squad

Fkforyou:
Gabriel Jesus was in the game for more than 30 minutes, yet did absolutely nothing. We really need to offload a lot of players I swear.

The match just swallow the dude

Over to the Saudi’s

Wall of Saliba Goal

We can still turn things around
It’s just 1 nill

COYG

Rice
Calm your ball and score

Kiwior looseguard him man

mostob:
Something is wrong with City.. Could this be the end?

As for Arsenal, it is left to us to start taking advantage of little opportunities like this if we want to win something.

Law of Diminishing Returns

You guys will soon flush away every taktiks from this man head😂😂 work never start fully, baba don Dey worn out already😭

Tears in Amoru shakiru eyes

iamoyindamola:
Arsenal exposed sporting and condemned them to back to back losses same as scummies

Their wailing just Dey sweet belle

Scummies for a reason

Roland17:
Take a guess…

All hail the master of set piece dark art
The first of his Name

Nicholas Jover!!!

mostob:
I knew he would be yanked off. He is average, technical-wise (recently at least).

Gabi is trying scoring from corners but I don't think we give enough credit to both Saka and Rice. Their perfect corner executions are always awe-mazing.

💯
Nelli should improve on that and other aspects of his game hopefully cause I too root for the dude

mostob:
Trossard is like the number three when it comes to corner kick duty. I think Nwaneri is 4th. But Martinelli has been yanked off the list

So bro, Trossard will still be taking the kicks

Nelli being yanked of is good cause man plays direct shot

Fkforyou:
I like this corner kick tactics.

Strikers are the decoy while defenders are the main target.

Who else noticed that all the corner kicks by Rice yesterday were very dangerous.

I really want us to go on a winning run from now till end of the season so as to put pressure on Chelsea and Liverpool.

Let’s not forget a wounded City that has De Bruyne back in the first team.

I said this yesterday that his corners are looking like he wants to score a goal from the corner stand

Nelli and Trossard shouldn’t be playing the corners jawee, Odumodu should keep playing the corner from that wing except he isn’t on the pitch

andrewbaba44:
Me self I don’t understand

Corners isn’t even that easy ,you will think corners are now penalties

God bless you for this.

Does corners look that easy cause the way he was talking like it’s something you just pick up the ball and throw into the net

Amigoss:


"Can your team survive barrage of long balls,long throws and satanic corner kicks routine on a wet wednesday night at the Emirates by Artetayahu"

This guy, Wetin be this

BlueRayDick:
Reduced Arsenal to corner kwa? 😂. Even last season when Jesus dragged Dalot’s soul off the pitch , we still scored corner against united .

Yesternight the ball possession was 50/50

Arsenal had more shots on target 6 -2

Arsenal had 5 shots blocked and united had 0 blocked shots .

Arsenal and united had the same number of shots off target 3-3

Arsenal’s keeper was called upon to make just 2 saves while Onana had to bail United out 4 times .

I put it to you that you didn’t reduce Arsenal to anything you are imagining right now ; you only survived conceding just 2 goals with 3 CB’s . It could’ve been worse .

It’s an indictment on ur attackers that they couldn’t force one single corner out of Arsenal’s defense throughout the whole game .

Allow na boss
That’s his coping mechanism