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mostob:
If there's any player currently that can play that Xhaka role , it is either Patino or Miguel..

ESR is too attacking minded to play the role.
Playing ESR and Ode at the same time will overwork Partey

Jodera:
Why??
That bolded is very wrong for you to say. No be for middle of season when things don hot we go dey try things and not when we're even getting maximum points (bar Liverpool game).

You mean we should leave the personnels/tactics that's getting us 3 points to try wetin no sure just because you don't like those two?
You mean we should gamble our top 4 ambition on the altar of starting nketiah(cos I don't see any tangible reason why he should start)

Wetin nketiah don do sef for him to deserve such?? Please I need your honest answer cos me I don't understand this your benching laca for nketiah

Jodera:
Lol.. For your info we weren't playing 442 hybrid in December. We only 442 the period where Laca was partnering Auba

While I get your point, but it'll no be with nketiah abeg. You mean we should test nketiah as a 9 when we're really seriously looking for top 4?

The time for nketiah to stake his claim was beginning of season when we were in turmoil(just as how ESR grabbed his last season). If he didn't get it then ., he should forget it till next season (or if Laca gets injured). No be now we go use our top 4 ambition dey test run Nketiah.

Ò diro wise at all..

Jodera:
You said defence have been helping us. When last have we kept a clean sheet before Leicester game?
What you fail to understand is that the team have improved and laca is part of it.

You guys are just tensed up because of a loss against Liverpool and what is even surprising is that no be say Liverpool dey our level sef. Me I'm not worried about us scoring because I know goals can come from anywhere as we're creating chances and we're dominating. The day I'll become worried is when we're not playing together as a team again and we're getting outplayed. Losing only against Liverpool and Man city (home and away) won't stop us from getting top 4, na the Aston Villas and Brighton's of this world that we need to beat. So make una just chill

Laca for now won't take us to the next level(I admit) but for now he's important in us getting top4.

Lastly, shey na out of form Auba bin dey beginning of this season? Na us dey shout how we were always outplayed by the Brighton, Crystal Palace, Norwich but needed scrappy goals to get points from there.

No matter how you wanna twist it but laca was important to us this season and our dominance in game started from when laca was introduced in the Crystal Palace game. You can deny it if you like but that is the truth

Jodera:
Aside Martinelli for ESR(who was even in better form than Martinelli sef), who was the people auba was playing with? Aren't these the same people. In fact, it got so bad that odegaard was seeing the bench In place of Laca.

Those guys started seeing their current form when Laca was slotted into the 9 role and even you admitted it both in the italicized form and the bolded

Roland17:
While we are at it...

WHAT IS GOING ON WITH RAMSDALE?

The Ramsdale I know would have covered that 1st goal.

Roland17:
Taaaaaaahhhh! Don't even go there. I will not allow you trivialize the effort of the guys in the 1st half. They matched their starters and easily could have been a goal or two up at the end of the 1st.

The substitutions did not win them the game, the change in tactics at the start of the 2nd assured them all 3 points. They scored their 1st goal in the 55th minute, 10 minutes after the start of the 2nd half and without Salah/ Firmino. Salah and Firmino were introduced to capitalize on the tactic that we struggled to adapt to at the start of the 2nd half.

Don't get me wrong, they have superior players but that was not the primary reason why they beat us 2-0.

BlueRayDick:
I wish we were still in one of the cup competitions to first give Nketiah a shot at it like u suggested , since that is gone now.... let’s see if Arteta will give him a chance anytime soon and let’s hope Nketiah impresses when that opportunity shows

BlueRayDick:
The problem u have is u think Lacazette doesn't score load of goals because he's all about the welfare of the team, wants to help others better at their indivual roles all to the betterment of the team but I must tell u that's a false narrative.

Lacazette doesn't score because he doesn't make those dangerous runs, doesn't position himself well enough to get into spaces where he can easily slot tge ball into the net and that's the fact.

We've watched Auba over time rack in goals beacuse he knows how to time his runs, knows when to be a fox in the box and knows when to take an accurate shot. I delibrately didn't drag Ur second to the last post when u talked about arsenal not challenging for top 4 despite Auba's goals. I bet u didn't see Auba win us FA cup against Chelsea when he did what was expected of a striker ; work Ur way around Ur marker and put the Ball at the back of the net. There's even no way u can try to make an argument for Lacazette when juxtaposed with Auba's time at arsenal. Auba comes out heads and heels above him all day all year round.

Na here we dey, when arsenal buys a scoring striker I will watch how u will try and explain Lacazette was a number 10 wearing a number 9 jersey with minus 1 hidden somewhere we can't see

BlueRayDick:
The problem is Nketiah has not shown himself to be that lone point man we can rely on upfront over time. I personally would not recommend that gamble at this stage of the league when we are taking every game like a final. If the club management had been successful in bringing in a striker in january we wouldn't be in this dilemma.

I would've preferred Gabriel moved upfront while Pepe replaces Gabriel on the left flank, but we have seen how inconsistent and unreliable Pepe can particularly on that side of the pitch. I guess we just have to trust the gaffer to do whatever needs to be done to finish the season strong as it stands sha.

Jodera:
Like I said last week, you're obsessed with a striker scoring while me I'm obsessed with my team winning. The chance of odegaard scoring that goal is 98% but he messed up. Moreover, lacazette wanted to dribble Allison but Allison didn't go down, the worst part is that he even narrowed the angle making the chance difficult for lacazette to score. I don't know why any striker who's thinking about the team success over his personal ego would be thinking of scoring from that tight angle instead of passing to person that's free that has a higher and bigger chance of scoring.
One thing I will blame lacazette for is lack of movement upfront but I'll never ever ever blame him for passing that ball to odegaard. NEVER!!

And as for the bolded, thank God you're not Arteta. When martinelli was struggling to break into arsenal premier league squad, he was giving in impressive performances in Europa scoring back to back to back. Aside his goals, his other play was great. Most people(fans) was itching to see martinelli play in the premier league cos we know he's talent. But na nketiah you want make we dash first team shirt because he hit bar against Watford while missing for the remaining duration. Person wey we no dey ever see him impact for pitch anytime he's introduced as a sub naim you want make Arteta put him top 4 hope on??
Kole werk!!

BlueRayDick:
The problem is Nketiah has not shown himself to be that lone point man we can rely on upfront over time. I personally would not recommend that gamble at this stage of the league when we are taking every game like a final. If the club management had been successful in bringing in a striker in january we wouldn't be in this dilemma.

I would've preferred Gabriel moved upfront while Pepe replaces Gabriel on the left flank, but we have seen how inconsistent and unreliable Pepe can particularly on that side of the pitch. I guess we just have to trust the gaffer to do whatever needs to be done to finish the season strong as it stands sha.

BlueRayDick:
It took Loserpool to make everybody see Lacazette is shiiit when he’s not passing to everybody .

As regards Saka’s below par performance , he was marked out by Robertson and Van Djik . I think it’s a tactical play from Klopp which enabled Martinelli to operate freely on the other flank . Xhaka didn’t make any visible error yesterday ,but his constant refusal to take initiative and open up some spaces limited our attacking play on Martinelli’s side of the pitch.

All in all Loserpool was a superior opponent and they took their chances when we didn’t do justice to ours. I hope we will bounce back against Villa tho

Jodera:
I was impressed with the lads ystdy night. The showing was more different and exciting than the previous encounters we had with Liverpool. While I was expecting to lose(sadly), I was just waiting to see our performance ystdy knowing how we always badly played against Liverpool before now.

The greatest thing I know that made us lose this game was lacazette lack of movement upfront. Aside the chance which he passed up to odegaard — not that it was wrong tho because we for no dey talk about the chance if odegaard scored. But aside that, it is crazy for a striker not to capitalize on any of those martinelli chances he created when he was tormenting Arnold. The big difference between Laca and firmino ystdy was that while firmino made a move to ensure he scored that goal, laca was waiting at a unfavorable spot expecting the ball to meet him(esp that chance that martinelli nutmegged Henderson). Laca tried especially in his physical duels to ensure we maintained possession but games like these needs that little extra and that's where he's failing — and it's also one of the big reasons we'll rarely beat the top 2. But then it's a good thing we're closing the gap.

Ystdy I keenly wanted to watch partey to know if he'll turn up against a big team with the way his performances have been this year and I'm glad he did. I was excited to see how he beat Liverpool's press with many one touch pass and made so many good decisions. Odegaard tried ystdy(tho not to his standard) but he really should have scored that goal. When a team Misses such goals against a big team, they're duly punished and it's no surprising we conceded few minutes after missing that goal. With the way the midfield is setup, we just need an excellent midfielder to take over Xhaka spot and we'll compete even more favorably with the big guns

Saka(to me) had a below par game by his standard surprisingly. Not too bad but not too good the way I expected from him. I know it might be a bit difficult for him seeing his two markers where mostly Robertson and Vvd but maybe I expected more in terms of drive.

I'm not to fussed about this game, after all I expected to lose , but I just hope we'll be able to get something out from our remaining two outstandings(even tho they're away games). The boys shouldn't allow this to weigh them down and they should be proud of their performance ystdy.

Lastly the future of this club depends on the success of the forthcoming summer transfer window. We need a taller clinical striker that can work effectively with the wingers and midfielders(someone like a van Persie) and a very good midfielder to replace Xhaka.

We hope to win against Aston Villa and get the three points!!

Coyg!!

Fkhalifa:
The Arsenal I saw has improved greatly I must say, but that bad/hard luck thing is still with the club and thats why i can't invest my emotions at least for now in this club.

For me, Arsenal are two very good players away from being a regular top4 team.
Xhaka has to go, maybe a Nabil Fekir or Douglas Costa can Come in and a striker who is deadly on goal as Laca's style can't bail you out a whole season. Reason you see Klopp shuffle Firminho and Jota.

Lastly, I won't be surprised to see Arsenal bottle the 4th position. Apart from it being typical of the club, I reiterate the club goofed by not bringing in at least 2 bodies in January, You'll notice Saka,Laca and some players looked fatigued, you can not be relying and playing same first 11 consecutively.

Fielding this tired 11 against Villa on Sunday too makes the game 50/50. Well, good luck to the gunners.

Roland17:
Naaaa. I don’t think it’s a case of manpower and here is why. We totally stayed with and matched them and could easily have taken the lead in the first. Klopp being experienced went into his locker room and tweaked a ton of his possession tactics. Moved some of his players around and made some intelligent sub. Because we lacked the ability to counter the tweaks or adjust to the tweaks we looked like a totally different team in the 2nd.

A proof of the tactical dominance in the 2nd is buttressed by the fact that both goals were 8 minutes apart from each other with the first goal coming 9 minutes into the 2nd half. That tells you everything you need to know about our inability to adapt. We needed to hold ace at the start of the 2nd but we went into the 2nd playing like nothing changed for Liverpool.

Remember during the week I expressed concern about City winning and how much pressure that out on Kloop to win? Well.. I guess we now see. I would tell you though, I was proud of the first half performance. I just wish we were more proactive in anticipating tactical changes in the 2nd.

To come add salt to wound… Spuds come win! I mean, there goes 1 of the games in hand.

We move! The boys need to keep their spirits up!

#COYG

Roland17:
It’s not even about the bench for me, it’s his reaction to tactical changes immediately they occur. You can see from the start of the 2nd that Liverpool we’re playing a totally different tactic. If you take a look from an above the head camera, you could see their lines had changed and the triangle they were playing was different when they had the ball.

They scored 9 minutes after the 2nd half scored and scored 8 minutes afterwards, what does that tell you? In the 1st half we were using long balls to by pass the midfield which caught their defense, especially their full backs unaware because they were pressing high. What does Klopp do? He drops the line while pushing his midfielders deeper into our half and you can them ripping us apart with those passes when they had the ball. I can go on and on!

I love the spirit of this team though and that is a big credit to Arteta but these games in hand need to count for something, else we will be out of that race.

50d33q:
We can't score with lacazette in this game

50d33q:
Good game from the lads
This is one of arteta vices he can't read game and he won't improve if he doesn't change.
This shouldn't derail our focus though

BlueRayDick:
Why? That ball supposed enter Odegaard Na

50d33q:
Unless xhaka will go off
That won't happen, I want arteta to sub off laca and put Smith for martinelli to lead attack

daveP:
It's like Nelli read comments from here. The left wing is alive tonight and he's giving TAA problems. Let all these work give better results abeg

Jodera:
Haba na!!

Why now of all days??

50d33q:
Rumor has it Gabriel might not feature today as they are expecting baby

Roland17:
Isn't this Ciro Immobile?

I mean, his number have been historically great, albeit, in the Serie A as struggles outside of Italy. He turns 33 next year, considering his history with injuries and struggles to adapt outside Italy, I'd say a big NO.

Preshieben:
Omoh...
I know I'm not supposed to be worried but I have to

Whenever a guy approaches me,no matter how nice and lovely he looks,
All I think is,he just wants to explore my pussie and move on..and gbamm I'll just ghost him and this goes on with every guy I meet.

I've had failed relationships, infact the last one ended when I discovered my ex bf was cheating on me with my cousin that I'm four years older than and I'm sure that I've moved on completely but I don't seem to trust any guy any longer

The way I reject men who approach me cos all I think is "he only wants to fvck you, nothing else" is sooo alarming, and I fear if I continue like this,I may not marry

How do I change this mentality?
How do I change my mindset about men abeg?

Roland17:
Seeing City about to drop points mean say J. Klopp no go use our match play oh.. We need to show up and stay on it to avoid a disaster.

EmmanuelScott1:
donjazet, I have a question for you.

why did U.K government sanction Abrahimovich?