Michael
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@TikiTakaConnor I am so tired of hearing this same excuse. Madueke, Trossard, Martinelli, Gyokeres, Havertz and Jesus are all not good enough. Madueke especially is horrendous.
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Arteta has been talking about games being decided in the boxes for years now. Arsenal spent a lot of money in the summer. The issues haven’t exactly been resolved.
His negligence in running players into the ground and not giving them adequate rest when the opportunity comes is comfortably his biggest flaw in my opinion.
Timber and Zubimendi touching the field against Portsmouth. Saka against Mansfield. Why?
Sign adequate players to come in for your stars and you won’t arrive in April without your best players who are injured because they’ve been flogged. It has happened every single season since he got here.
Man City were struggling then went and took two of the best players in the league and now look at them.
He has to learn for next year regardless of what happens this campaign.
Connor Humm@TikiTakaConnor
Arteta: “We came here to win the game. I think the message was clear from three days before. We prepared to do that, to take the game to the areas that we believed we could win it. We certainly did that, even though we started the game with a goal down and psychologically we had to play with that. We've done it. “So we proved that we are there, but the reality is in the two boxes today was a difference and that's what decided the game. The styles have been different for the profile of players that we have available as well in certain areas, but the difference was 100 per cent, yes.”
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What did you make of that first 45, Gooners?
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Hegseth: You see, shot down on a Friday. Good Friday. Hidden in a cave, all of Saturday. And rescued on Sunday, Easter Sunday. A pilot reborn
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@StanCollymore Can't even read this essay as I know its nonsense however we have spent so many years playing the most attractive football in the league and got nowhere. Now we just need to win a big trophy playing however is needed to get there. All that matters is we get over the line.
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I think it's great that Arteta recognised that basic British staples ( corners, free kicks, physicality, defending properly, shape etc etc) were needed ( alongside technique) to feel he had a chance of winning a 38 game marathon.
Graham's Arsenal, Wilkinson's Leeds spring to mind with title winning teams. In short, win however you can.
But....
Arteta and Arsenal ( documentary) has been shoved down people's throats as a purists "trust the process" narrative which is disingenuous. He basically shed every ounce of his Man City "this is how we play" under Pep to become a pragmatist. Again, nothing wrong with that but it will be criticised legitimately as an "easier" way of winning rather than sticking to a purist's principles.
Also there's the entertainment angle. Not of Arsenal season ticket holders who I'm sure couldn't give a fig about style, just "feel the heft" of that trophy. And that's fine, but ALL Premier League clubs rake in huge amounts because it delivers entertainment, that's literally what the League and broadcasters now sell as their main tagline , so rugby at corners again will come under the microscope.
Arsenal fans won't think I'm a natural ally, quite the opposite, I think on social media a lot of their discourse (for a club who've never made a dent in the European Cup, a club from the home of football, and its capital) is bizarre and has genuine delusions of grandeur that to me is funny, but I'd back them up 100% to support a team that wins however they can within the rules. Because we all want the same.
But here context and nuance isn't present, it's either shit or great so your point has a lot of merit.
But there's one final argument I'd propose for everyone who likes Premier League football, to answer. If you spend £1BN on a team and rake in money from a global audience wanting entertainment, is there a responsibility on that team to entertain or not? Me of 30 years ago would have said a firm no, Wimbledon or Liverpool of 1988 had polar opposite styles and that fit hand in glove and I loved it( "The crazy gang has beaten the culture club ")
Now? A billion on players and hugging at set pieces and over reliance on corners is a MAJOR part of the game plan ? I'm still 60% "play the fucking way that wins " but there's zero doubt that a paying audience globally ( who allow Arsenal or Liverpool or United to spend a billion) are entitled to say...
Entertain us.
Terry Flewers@terryflewers
Arsenal must be the only club in football that’s been criticised for 15 years for not being able to win ugly or deliver when it matters, and then when they actually do grind out results in a title race, they get attacked for that too. It’s a no-win narrative, and that kind of inconsistency is what’s killing the game.
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@mattkandela No chance. We need one of the big ones. Arteta needs to deliver a big trophy or he has to go.
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Would you take Carabao and FA Cup if I offered them to you now?
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Madueke goes down after a push in the box, nothing given. The ref booked Gyokeres for less a few minutes earlier.
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@brightonargus Ive been refreshing the website constantly since Sunday waiting to hear about this. Bless him and his family.
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Does anybody know anything about the poor person who was seemingly washed on to the beach in #Goring-by-Sea this morning? Awful thing to see first thing. @brightonargus
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@talkSPORT Are these divs ok? We have had many years being the most attractive playing team and won nothing. Who cares how you win it as long as you do it? The Premier league trophy counts the same no matter what football is played. Sorry for being better at set peices than everyone else!
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Gyokeres goes clear from Trossard's pass but takes too long to get his shot away and the Leeds defender gets back to block his effort.
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