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Sell Ødegaard 🤣😂 also before gyokeres & Madueke

The difference between Pep & Arteta is that Pep would've already dropped Odegaard deeper to play like Silva with Eze 10 rather than persist with Zubimendi because he recognises the importance of technicality Same with him playing NOR while MLS rots on the bench

All this talk about City having the know how and experience but it’s how Pep platforms his players and values technicians. It’s why they peak later on every year, because he uses the season to experiment and find his best team.

The team/manager as a collective don’t deserve stick today. I’m proud of the display, even if I didn’t like big parts of it. However, the fact we’ve put ourselves in this situation given position we previously held is where they deserve stick.

Seen quite a few Arsenal fans celebrate how marginal that game was and that they edged XG… you’re in a title race and you needed a draw and you’ve walked out with a loss. That is nothing to be positive about and I think this ‘softness’ in mentality is holding the club back from making that final jump. The fact the game was so close is a clear indication of how ‘winnable’ that game was. I’ve had msgs saying Arteta did what you asked for … no… there’s a difference between asking for Madueke AND Martinelli on at the same time to catch City on the counter vs having just one flank with genuine wide player. Difference between Rice RCM vs LCM (double up on Doku). Moving Eze into central areas where he can impact game more often than fleeting moments when he has vacated his position. These seem like nit picking but the elite nit pick in games of this magnitude and find the right solutions under pressure. You could see there was an issue with Mosquera and lack of support vs Doku early into the game and this area of the pitch eventually led to their winning goal. If your gameplan relies on Kai Havertz being your main source of goals then that’s not the correct gameplan but if your solution is for him to be a focal point to generate goals for others whilst also offering a goal threat especially in the air than that’s makes more sense. Arteta has shown repeatedly that he’s still not mastered the art of seizing the moment tactically - smelling danger or blood and reacting to it decisively. Times running out and he’s already cocked this up majorly but needs to pray City get too high on confidence and get found out these next few games to let Arsenal get some breathing space again.

If you're playing gyokeres surround him with technical players & one runner If you're going runners on the flanks play technicians centrally ffs

Don't get how you choose to play on such tight margins then go for substandard attackers & midfielders bar Eze every recruitment since Rice in those areas haven't been of the level still doesn't excuse Arteta from failure in coaching he doesn't platform his players appropriately

Pep enabled Cherki to paint a canvas in that first half whereas I felt Eze was having to conjure up magic in a sub optimal set up relative to his profile. Those saying he was playing his role to perfection by coming off the left… he had his best moment when he shot from zone 14, very rarely did he impact the game via driving runs down the left. Eze isn’t a full time left winger but his big match mentality didn’t let his role hold him back and he still tried to find a way to impact the game. Shame he was taken off.

There are retarded people in the comments blaming Ødegaard here. Actual living, supposedly-sentient beings watched this clip and the person they wish to blame is Ødegaard. God is good.

It’s so poetic that all roads lead back to that signing

Killed his own project with vanity signings

Have you met Arsenal & Mikel Arteta you see those Fulham west ham & Burnley games only God can safe us🤞

A coach who has been given 7 years to build a team in his image just to win zero major trophies is not getting a big job again. Xavi won a title with Barcelona & is still unemployed

Playing fine margin football without any superstar forwards who can take their chances and create something out of nothing is absolutely mind boggling

At the end of it all, Arsenal will look back at Arteta signing Havertz as the moment the entire project collapsed. A signing that tanked the entire project and good works of 22/23 season, a signing that cost Arsenal multiple cups and league titles. Arteta has to pay for this signing with his job.

Ffs you'd the right side to aim for Fuck!

It was way before that. Signs have been since December, January the latest. Points we dropped to Sunderland, Forest and United were unforgivable.

Shouldn’t even be in this position. Should have had it wrapped up weeks ago. In isolation I thought we played well, but we needed to get something here today. It’s all to play for still. Got to take hand brake off and put some goals in the back of the net as could go down to GD. Let’s go again. Up the gun.

Certain sect of these fanbase lie to themselves too much till everything comes crashing down legit concerns from the get go

Zubimendi completed a total of 18 passes against City, 18 passes!!! A supposed controller and metronomic DM, absolutely ridiculous! For context, Rodri completed 61 passes!!