Arteta again mentioning Martinelli missed chance. How many times have this happened? We simply create so few chances that we keep discussing these misses. The solution is to create more.
Have Eze LW and let them combine and enjoy football a bit without worrying about OOP. I'm dying to see *any* attacking combinations/connections.
What Madueke did was brilliant but we looked toothless and just rely on Saka/Madueke to beat his man and create some magic. This is not sustainable if we cannot find any attacking combination we can rely on.
How many times have we seen us waste the first 45 minutes doing nothing? What we see is by design. I can understand doing it against top sides, but this mindset has been ingrained in this team so much so that it is the default setting.
While I agree to all of the above, I believe the most important factor is the manager and his conservatism. We wasted the first half doing nothing when we had space without any pressure. How many times have we seen us waste the first half?
Another one.
From Plan A - Give it to Saka to Plan B - give it to Madueke.
Get White on, please. At least let him die in a proper game of football. He deserves that.
Tbf we've not had much opportunity to unleash our best attacker/difference maker - corners.
We're chasing a goal and we had 3 players coubter attacking with intent. This is pathetic.
This is what happens when you waste the first 45 minutes of every single game.
There's an argument to have Saka centrally and Madueke wide and Eze LW. More combinations.
Saka has been poor but I feel a bit for him as well. He's our star player and he's given zero support, nobody to combine with, and he's the one who everyone looks upto when we need something.
It's pretty clear they've been instructed to play it safe. There's a lot of space with little pressure when we're in possession. We just are not interested.
There's a reason why people hate watching us. It's not always rooted on jealousy. We're a terrible team to watch and we play that way by choice. There will, of course, be fans justifying that. I'm just bored of watching whatever this is.
Saka has been poor. Eze has been invisible. The less said about Martinelli the better. Lads, we've actually had a half where Viktor Gyökeres has been the best attacker.
This is numbingly boring and it is for a lack of trying from Arsenal. This is not a mid/low block terrorismo we're facing. We just are not interested in attacking.
There's a lot of space with not much pressure applied by Leverkusen and we've not managed to have a sustained period of pressure in their third.
Why are we playing like we are a couple of goals ahead?
Watching Osimhen for the first time after his Napoli stint and I'm in awe. There's eons of difference between him and what we have upfront. The movement, pace, instinct.. I wish we had someone like him leading the line.
This has to be a game where Liverpool should exert some control and then have him knit the attack. Instead he's been used as a direct attacker and is getting out muscled with ease.
Be genuine, do people really enjoy this chaos without any quality? I'm unsure.
Felt some of the players didn't take the game 100% seriously and it showed. We were always going to win but it's tough to see another game go to the wire due to our own incompetence.
Sorry but it's really frustrating. I still think he's our best LB when fit but I don't know how we can rely on him.
Did the sensible thing of keeping possession when we were aimlessly launching forward at every opportunity. Then scored a thunder bastard. Just what Arteta would've wanted.
Jesus was the quintessential Brazil player before the injuries.
He's a great talent with an even greater injury history even before joining us.
Only possible candidates are the Italian clubs who would offer 6 pennies spread across a 3 year loan period.
Any money. Nobody with eyes is going to offer anything big for him. Just have to take the loss and move on.
Our inability to keep possession against fucking Mansfield Town is embarrassing. This team has a mentality problem.
*money
