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Arsenal are turning @poetscorneruk crazy yana 🤣🤣🤣

@Lawyeredup1 @ArsenalN7 He’s running the literal left hand side of the attack by himself he has no overlapping fullback and no midfield to link with

@ArsenalN7 He was put on the left side, but he didn't actually play the LW. How many times did he get past the fullback? or help Hincapie defensively? He had some good moments, but he didn't have the intensity or involvement needed for this big match.

Thoughts on Ebere Eze at LW today? ⚡️

@StanCollymore I wouldn’t call it playing really

Arteta "We are playing so many games, we're the only team playing and playing and playing "

@Mo_Arsenal9 @navas_tolulope Risks win you games not sideways and backwards passes

@navas_tolulope Eze gave the ball away too many times

Arteta benched his highest goalscorer and only genuine striker in the bench for 80 minutes. Unbelievable. Gyökeres would never miss that chance that Havertz did.

@ArsenalN10 4 CB’s and 4 midfielders. Only good attacker was Eze and he got taken off for no reason. They camped on their half way line and we bought on our striker who thrives with that space with 5 minutes to go

What went Wrong today?

@AFC_Monty_ Mate shut the fuck up we got battered by a better team

Match fixing buys you points. It’s that simple. We are competing against the most corrupt team and organisation to ever grace sports.

@SirLeoBDasilva He’s shackled to the back 4 when his job is to drive forward because a certain Spanish midget has a panic attack when a player comes towards him

Poorest game I have seen Rice play for Arsenal. He looks shattered.

@DD_Jeet @AFC_Rexzzy A strikers job isn’t to create it’s to score. If a midfield can’t win a second ball it’s not the strikers fault.

@AFC_Rexzzy Gyokeres would have gotten zero chances today. Literally loses the ball 40% of the time. Can't hold it

Gyökeres has never missed three big chances in a single match since joining us btw.

@jimmy_mutyabule @AFC_Rexzzy Learn about football mate. A striker moving beyond a defensive line pushes the opposition back and opens space for midfielders. Playing a false 9 against a high pressing possession based side is football suicide which is why we struggle against city psg etc

@AFC_Rexzzy Correction: Gyökeres has never put himself in a position of getting those chances. His timing of runs, spacing and awareness are awful. His build up play is shit and his touch is heavier than Artemis II

@LeGrove You’re honestly not seeing the bigger picture. Knock the ball up to Kai he wins the header then what? Every other player plays it sideways or loses the ball. Having to put a midfielder upfront for ball retention says more about the midfield than #14 just a dumb take mate

Number 14 registered 0 attempts, 0 shots on target, 40 touches in 207 minutes against City this season. He's had 0 npg shots on target against top 8 in EPL this season. Kai had 30 touches, 5 shots, 2 on target, and a goal against City away. He totally transformed how we play. He occupied defenders, held the ball up, brought others into play, was dangerous in the air... everyone clearly trusts him. Give him Saka next week and we are going to be very good. Big chances need to go in. They didn't. I can forgive a volume striker missing chances (Haaland also missed chances today), I can't forgive 0 attempts, 0 on target game after game against semi-decent opposition. There's a new vision, and it's better.

@ArsenalN10 This team celebrates more blocks than goals

What a player broo

@OsmanZtheGooner No no no see Havertz starts fair we play our game but when they’re dominating possession at the start of the second half and they’re camped on their half way line that’s when you’ve gotta throw Gyokeres on. The space is there and even if he doesn’t score he pushes the team back

Gyokeres starts we wish Havertz starts and vice versor Trossard starts we wish Martinelli starts vice versor KSI starts we wish a ghost started and vice versor.

@EduardoHagn Simply wrong. Let’s start with no having 4 CB’s playing at the same time

The focus this summer, with Arteta at the helm or not, has to be getting a GOALSCORING winger. Havertz is the perfect CF for that. Barcola would score so many for us. The quality of our attack is not even top 4 in the league.

@afcpadraig If only we had a player who thrives in transition ugh 😩

We’re probably the worst team in transition in Europe.

@mister_keli @gunnerpunner That’s because city rely on their MIDFIELD to do that job🤣 it’s not a strikers job, especially in a system like the one we play

@gunnerpunner Did you watch Haaland this game? He was basically Gyokeres until the chance came. Do you see City dissing and coming at him for hold up play? Havertz is far better on the ball than Gyokeres but he's not Gyokeres in front of goal and that's what we needed. Like Haaland for City.

Gyokeres is just useless against any remotely good team. A half fit Kai Havertz has shown us once again what you need. Sure, Kai misses but he’s got two chances there that Gyokeres doesn’t even get.

@AFTVMedia If you’re relying on your striker to hold on to the ball and create chances it says more about your midfield than the striker hope this helps 👍🏾

Did Arsenal do enough in the forward department? 👀

@R24AFC The lack of space is because we play a midfielder upfront who wants to drop deep

I don’t want to see Ødegaard next year. Trossard has mentally clocked out. Martinelli can’t hack the lack of space. I don’t think the league is done, I will back this club till the end - but many of these faces shouldn’t be there next season - not based on ability, but mentality.

Mentally some of these players just aren’t there. Cowering, hiding behind their teammates, no initiative, no balls. On another day, our chances go in and the result is different, but it doesn’t change the reality of some of these guys’ mentality. We really needed a fit Saka.

@elspanishgooner Worst take I’ve ever heard I’m afraid

A half fit Saka and Ødegaard and a fit Havertz all season wins us the league by +10 points. It really sucks how unlucky this club is.

@NepentheZ We played against a heavily possession based side with 4 CB’s and 4 center midfielders Nep this is awful from Arteta. Havertz playing and dropping deep allowed Man City to set up on their own half way line because they knew no threat was the other way. Same old same old

I just don't agree. The players are making the runs, the opportunities to make the passes are there constantly. That's from Arteta. The ball not being played forwards but instead sideways or backwards in the name of safety.... For what reason would he enable players to make line breaking runs if they will never recieve the ball? The truth is, we just don't have players willing or able to make the pass, and that HAS to change.

@Arsenal_212 He should go regardless beta manager

@SemperFiArsenal @PopcornVendor12 Is this a troll? They were camped on their own half way line all game because they knew our center forward would drop for the ball? You know zero about football I’m afraid

@PopcornVendor12 Gyokeres wouldn’t have made an impact today

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