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Roland17:
No it is isn’t. My reason isn’t necessarily based on Liverpool/ City (our biggest competitions for the title) dropping points but our inability to raise our game to get the needed results when it happens. We are approaching December and already 9 behind Liverpool and 6 behind City who look poor. The only positive for me is that Odegaard’s injury happened early in the season. I just pray Partey doesn’t take his sabbatical this season because he has been unbelievable for us.

But no one wins the title in November. We all want this title chase to be an easy one. Besides in these 11 few games we have already played the top teams on the log all away. Tells a story.

I understand your point though.

Roland17:
I keep asking, at our worst (injuries, competition, form, officiating, etc), can anyone confidently argue Scamteta can be the difference for us? My answer has always been no and remains no!

There are teams who suffer similar injuries and issues but the fanbase is not as rattled because they trust their coach will make up the difference! That is how I rate my coaches. This scam needs all of his first 11 before we can even dream of watching good football, make we no even talk 3 points.

I will be honest and tell you, even if we sign Gyokeres, Sesko, Isak, J. David and every available striker you can think of, Scamteta will still ruin and misuse them.

Essentially, we have become top 4 contenders again. Chelsea is now above Arsenal on the log! This is so annoying and shameful.

Isn't this conclusion too hasty?

Roland17:
I’d be the first to say Merino had a good performance when he came in. He is still miles away physically but he was impactful in moving the ball forward. Rice is injured, he looks like everything hurts. With Odegaard back, we need to rest Rice, he hasn’t been as impactful. As for Trossard, it’s a shame he is missing these opportunities. I used to trust him with his finishing but he is off and his confidence is down.

I said it 2 weeks ago that the morale of this team is down. Their form and performance has been poor and it is now affecting their psyche. They need someone, preferably a team mate that can rally them mentally because it’s doesn’t seem like Arteta is.

I think that the boys were happy Odegaard is back. His assist to Martinelli would encourage any player. He is also a motivator. I look forward to our next match.

daveP:
Your still talking of pattern. Lol. It is not our pattern yet when our backs were against the wall, our manager decided to break the UCL record for crosses in a UCL game?? He resulted to crosses because a much more experienced team outsmarted him. He can as well just get Osimhen that will punish defenders with his aerial threats. Afterall, Saka is a good crosser, same for Odegaard and Rice. They'll rake up Assists easily. Goan watch Osimhen at Gala currently. Defenders can barely attempt to stand him. MA has show over and over again that he has nothing up his sleeves when pattern doesn't work. Not to talk of personnel quality. Don't worry, you'll come around. Let's face Palmer and Lavia for now

If you're going to base your pattern on crosses because you want to buy Osimhen then you will need to get wingers who are good crossers. If you will limit Saka and Martinelli to crosses then you won't get the best from them. They are goal scorers not crossers. With them, you don't need a striker.

In our pattern, we create the chance from one wing and finish at the other. The goal against Chelsea is the latest example.

daveP:
Osimhen>>>>>>>

All those 400 crosses we wasted vs Inter Milan is one game that will make me prefer him. Isak can't bully those CBs in the air and still power down a threatening header in dying minutes. Osimhen can. We don't need false 9 again. That setup na wetin dey cause part of the rigidity of MA cos he'll be thinking how the same false go dey play double or triple roles instead of just their role.

As for Lookman, i can't wait to see we pulled through tomorrow. That's a player we need on that discouraging LW.

Crosses is not our pattern. So our team isn't designed for it. If we sign a striker now because we did crosses against Inter it would be an error.

daveP:
Osimhen Goal vs Spurs....

Odegaard to Osimhen without the need for all these passes. Muah.


Let's get a Victor. I prefer either to Isak.

Based on how we play, Isak fits better than Osimhen. But then we lacking more in goal scoring wingers than false 9s. Lookman should be your dream guy

germaphobe:
Only Arteta knows why he keeps insisting on Trossard starting even when it clear Ethan deserves that chance. Trossard don don favourite boy now.
Martinelli makes me shake my head and hiss whenever I remember how effective Daiz have been for Liverpool this season, that was the kind of player is he, or rather was. Almost same pattern of play, electrifying, fast and clinical. Be like he was told not to ever do any other thing than trying to cut in with his left foot, crosses and light pass all the time, baba try cut with right, play r2, see better road pass the ball but nooo. To dribble player na war, once he see you coming he turns and seek who to pass to, no outside box shoots. Na only tracking back and defending he sabi now, make dem kuku turn am to defender.
Haverzt mmhmmm...
Saka....
And there have been a lot of defensive misshape lately, these errors been covered up because they try to respond to it fast, but it's there and can be capitalised on by a dangerous team.
Anyways, a midfield of Odegaard and Rice with the absence of Merino and Trossard should get the job done at Stanford Bridge on Sunday, I wanna be optimistic because that's the least I can do as a fan, 6 points gap na just 2 matches, if they team can get their head straight this will be a very good ride, cus after Chelsea na cruise matches full list.

I love the way you balance criticism with objectivity.

Arteta relied too much on Trossard especially against Inter, I never expected him not to play Ethan in that game seeing how we needed that central creativity as teams managed to double up on our wingers to kill our game.

You're spot on Martinelli.

Hopefully as Odegaard returns the creativity burden will shift from sides to central so that the wingers can have the space to get into scoring positions.

daveP:
If better snatch this Gyokeres right now. I don't want to be counting his goals with a rival while we berate the club for connecting but not getting. I dunno what else he needs to prove again with his display tonight.

Because of two penalty kicks?

BlueRayDick:
Exactly.

My own is not even about opposition defeating incumbent or anything like that. Let's just have an electoral process that allows people come out to vote for their candidate without fear of being harmed in any way and let INEC declare the winner (be it incumbent ruling party or opposition)

How can u have political thugs making threats, traditional rulers making threats and INEC changing rules in the middle of the match; yet u expect people to trust the system?

I'm sure even some people who wanted to vote APC in the east didn't come out because they fear their own neighbors and political thugs will harm them if they do say. It's similar to what happened in other parts of the country.

People can always change their minds about a political party and its candidates; let's have a system that allows them express their choice without fear and without possibility of the electoral umpire messing up. Things will definitely change for good.

IREV was supposed to be the game changer before the judiciary messed it up. IREV means nothing. No value at all.

As it stands now we have no electoral system. It's just a thugs battle. That's why you see the party of the ruling class claiming all seats in the LGA elections.

Yakubu have destroyed our electoral system and he's being aided by the judiciary. As it stands now even him cannot control it. The law protects political thugs.

Nigeria is gone like subsidy.

Whatever changes Arteta is going to do, he must not leave Partey at RB. We need him in the middle dictating play from deep.

BlueRayDick:
That’s why I believe both the executive and judiciary are complicit in this show of shame.

In what world will the police authority park malnourished kids who participated in a protest to an adult courtroom and claim they are prosecuting them for treason . It’s a shame that Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) the AGF allowed this to happen under his watch . I don’t think these people have good advisers at all.

The judge only showed she’s in cahoot with the executive with unreasonable bail condition set for the kids .

She needed to show gratitude for her new Abuja house.

raumdeuter:
This is the main thing. How does the judge want them to come up with 10m. Let the judge eat those children

So you want to put the blame solely on the useless judge and exonerate the AGF who is prosecuting them?

The 10m bail is in relation to the charges brought against those kids which is treason- an attempt to overthrow the government.

If not that the judge has received his own Abuja house from Tinubu, he should have withdrawn himself from the case

raumdeuter:
The prosecutors are part of the judiciary abi. The public prosecutor, public defendant and the Judge are all part of the Judiciary

Oga sir, you aren't this naive. Stop acting ignorant. You sabi book pass most of us here.

Unlimited22:
Shey you did social studies in school sir

What are the three arms of government in Nigeria?

That aside, who are the prosecutors working for?

CM Cipolla

BlueRayDick:
I don’t even understand why he feels the need to always play the devils advocate on anything that involves government’s mess .

Watching the whole court video is embarrassing as a Nigerian honestly . Whether you are pro or anti government , It’s embarrassing and repulsive . 🤮

CM Cipolla

TrebleChamp:
I said it before the election that Tinubu is a tyrant and a dictator who doesn't give room for opposite view or opposition....

He will still win the next election

Roland17:
While I would happy if we win the Carabao, I will be clear and reiterate like I did at the season, this squad was put together to win the EPL and go farther than the QF in the UCL. Anything short is another failure.

I totally agree. In fact QF in UCL is too low for this team to target. We should be winning the league and getting to the CL finals.

I understand that we are being held back by some poor/inconsistent officiating however we get get over it and do the do.

mostob:
Ethan's skills and quick thinking are top notch. He is good. Also, he has a little edge ahead of Odegaard when it comes to shooting. He has this special ability to evade his marker, and let off a well placed shot.

However, he still a lot to add to his game. He has shown he is capable of so much more.

At this point I think he is good enough to have a go at any PL team. Arteta has done his job, it's time for him to allow him to unravel.

germaphobe:
Sometimes Arteta dey too do, I can understand Timber playing for few minutes but Saka and Partey.. knowing how injury prone but can be and the dangers that comes with their absence, hmmm.. this season I won't care about any excuse, if we don't win the epl this season than Arteta failed. Whether he will deserve another chance or not I don't know, but one thing is if we loose out on epl he failed.

It's because of fitness. You need them to be fit plus that game served another purpose- TRAINING.

That's why Havertz, Partey and Saka were brought in. For fitness and tactical conditioning.

OasisX:


......which Jet?! Make dem show evidence nah. LOL!

It's funny to you now. Don't come later and say pray for Iran or justice for Arabs o . Make sure it remains funny

A001:
Otem is the spirit behind the field/discipline of history humans are learning in institutions worldwide. Every field and human sphere has its own spirit (its energy), and occasionally such a spirit manifests in human form often at the beginning or end of an era.

Praying to such spirits, who are gods (orisha), is a waste of time.

Go and read "The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility" by Waqas Ahmed and learn how to manifest greatness and become an orisha (a polymath) too yourself.

Everyone is an orisha naturally, but evil systems such as religion, racism, poverty, tribalism, and the likes often prevent most humans from realizing their core nature as an orisha.

Even the education system on planet Earth is poorly structured as exemplified in the picture below. If humans are lucky, nature will allow the good-natured polymaths to restructure it in a way that allows harnessing the full potential of the human brain to help any average person become a polymath (orisha).

At some point in the future, toxic things like AGI, ASI will threaten the existence of humans on planet Earth and drive the Homo sapiens species to extinction.

To prevent such, that's one key reason why the human species always need the good polymaths in their midst.

The polymaths (orishas) are special humans that can exhibit genius level mastery at every field and discipline at the same time. Yes, there are humans like that, and it's even a small feat compared to the what the human mind is capable of.

As per the bolded, are you a polymath now and what are you capable of?

Ballzproblem2:
BREAKING —⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇱 The Iranian President is calling for an emergency meeting with the military leaders of the Revolutionary Guards and the army in Tehran following the Israeli attacks.- MohamadAhwaze

Israel should not strike them please 😆

daveP:
Spy, lol. Apple seeds cant yield grapes. Apples will be apples and so will grapes.

In the ucl so far, we have one of the worst conversion rates for the ratio of chances created. Kai will flourish on that chances created tab, but that's as far he can do. Glad you agree.


Seeing how injuries is impacting our team, we would have needed a striker not because we don't need due to how we play but because you can't use a pattern of play and expect it to yield a sustained tempo of results and goals. Injuries to two key players and our coach is playing 3 flat DMs shows how he is limited upstairs when playing the usual pattern is.

Solution: Get deputies and a striker so we can approach games differently from our usual style. No!!

You're still on this it is working stuff. We are just flourishing in chances created and are wack at finishing. So how is it working this season in ucl with 3 goals from 12/25 big chances, huh?

I've moved past this pattern of play that you keep harping about. Im onto the doing what it takes to never be predictable or caught in a tight space like we were vs Bournemouth. Despite how the chances were created in ucl na 3 goals kpere. We all know that goalscoring is the theme of this year's ucl.

As for the boldened, how is that helping the team so far as regards both goalscoring and finishing. We need a finisher for all the big chances we keep wasting. Besides, respect teams in this ucl. They sabi study everyone and know how to exploit. This is a 2nd year innit, we better use all 5 cylinders instead of making just 2 to work and think that because two are working then the other 3 is no needed.


That Dortmund game many would have given up if it were us not cos we not get firepower or whatever but cos we lack finishing power.

Dave, I am not disputing your points as they are valid, however you're getting some things wrong.

1. When I say the plan is working so far, it's because generally we aren't doing badly both at home and in Europe. This is not sentiments it's facts. This is despite not having a full squad and our best players are out. We don't even know our best team yet and this is Oct ending.
2. It doesn't matter whether we are creating 100 chances and converting just 1. At the end did we win? If we won, Arteta goes home happy. Bayern that have the best striker how's is it going for them?
3. Demanding for a striker to be incorporated into the line up because of 'finishing' sounds more like demanding extra salt in your soup. To add a striker, another player will have to make way which will alter the entire dynamics and playing patterns and systems. If you replace Havertz with a striker, will the striker be creating the chances and scoring them too? Funnily enough, when we had a striker in the tactical plan, we never finished above 5th position.
4. Why compare us with Madrid against Dortmund? Apples and grapes? This team is never going to concede twice in 35mins in the first place. Plus they don't play like us. Plus they aren't having the same injury crisis as us. Apples and grapes.
5. Having a striker is a good plan and may probably work as well. But this is the way Arteta wants to play (here's the emphasis) and criticism is allowed but it has to be constructive because he is not failing for crying out loud.

🗣️Arsene Wenger when asked if he would rather have Harry Kane or Kai Havertz in his team: ‘That depends on the way you want to defend or the way you want to play.

‘Havertz is more of a contributor to the all around game, defensively he works very hard, offensively he scores less goals than Kane and will never score the number of goals Kane scores. He’s more of a 10-and-a-half or a nine-and-a-half.

‘Kane is the centre forward. Harry Kane played for a long time in a team that didn’t win but they have not won since he has left.’

Davep you can see what we have been saying that Arteta did not have a striker not because he didn't see one to buy but because of the way he wants to play. Which so far is working.

BlueRayDick:
Gbam!

They will just count their losses under this current government and fight for it much later. Let's just hope it will not be another case where they will seize government assets 10 years after this government leaves

It happened with Rochas in Imo State. Most of the land properties he seized from people have been returned by the courts under Uzodimma. Some of those lands he took for himself.

BlueRayDick:
I don't even know whether what Wike did is legal or not, I just find it funny that government can just grab an individual or corporate entity's land, reallocate it to itself and still boast about it.

It just sounds weird to me Sha.

Normally the individual is supposed to sue. But we all know it would be fruitless until this government passes. A court will reverse it in the next government. This is the kind of rascality we face in this country.

ObiORBiafra:
Search oyigboupdate on nairaland. That's him. He exposes IPOb atrocities and they hate him for that.

So it was IPOB or their supporters that arrested him and forgot him in cell?

Try get sense even if na small one

johnjunior39:
That principalities and powers are the major issue lol. So suppose to know how to come clean.

Yesterday , Bournemouth play was kicking the ball and even stopped Trossard from resuming play immediately guess what, referee was no where around.

Same Saliba incident happened today Liverpool vs Chelsea but what happened no red card.

Nothing irk me than those useless apologies.

But we have our own fault too, like I said from the beginning it was all shade of wrong. Raya need to wake up, he is becoming too confident Infact he was a major culprit yesterday will slowing the game everytime

Howard Webb made a phone call asking for the on field decision to be changed. This should not be so given that he was not listed as an official. I have no doubt that there is a conspiracy against Arsenal

mostob:
finally got my wish but against Bournemouth. Let's play some mechanic football.

A starting lineup with 8 players who are 6ft and above. Two goals from corners shouldn't be difficult.

Havertz will provide the creativity from the middle

LordAdam16:
No one is fanatical about Iran and Hezbollah on the thread.

Okpa is Kim Jong Un relative.
Any friend of North Korea is a friend of Okpa.
That means Russia, Iran, and the Axis are friends.
Nothing fanatical about it.

I'm for anything that will lead to a State of Palestine.
146 countries already recognize the State. I cheer for whomever is throwing their support, however minute.
Ireland. Spain. Norway. Hezbollah. Iran.
We sell form give Macron and Meloni recently.

The US delivers 63% of foreign-sourced arms to Israel.
30% from Germany. A whooping 93% of arms to Israel are provided by just two countries--US and Germany.
Cut those off and the killings will stop.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/16/middleeast/where-israel-get-its-weapons/index.html

Na una know wetin mk una dey brownnose Satanyahu.
90% of countries on the planet are not in favor of his ethnic cleansing.
Decrying mass murder of children does not equate fanatical support of Iran and Hezbollah.

-Lord

Make Hamas appoint another leader first. I want to check something.

raumdeuter:
That is the legacy of Peter Obi
If he is not putting ethnic groups against each other
He will be calling for Moslem vs Christian religious war

Even within Christianity, he found a way to still bring bigotry of Catholics vs Anglicans

Obi is such a disgusting politician. He will never get any elected position at Federal jlevel

It is interesting that you have mentioned ethnic and religious bigotry.

Funnily enough, that wasn't PO in the video and neither did the person in the video mention PO or even LP.

If at all you want to talk about ethnic and religious bigotry why don't you start with Bayo Onanuga, or MC Oluomo who are Tinubu's men.