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Surprise Isaach de Bankole appearance!

@MrJacobBarnes Ok Mr Jacob Barnes. I guess Arteta should call you too

@PatrickBVS You misunderstand football.

Arsenal are risk-averse. Arteta always chooses stability. It's who he is. But it's annoying for people who spent last year wondering why Liverpool could create transitions and attack into space to gripe about Arsenal doing slow deep build-up. Where do you think space comes from?

@ForderOnFooty This is the set I end up with too

@PatrickBVS Rice, Saliba, Gabriel, Bruno all have the strongest cases for me

Who are the serious candidates for POTY? With Haaland going missing and no lights-out attacker for Arsenal? Bruno Fernandes? One of the Arsenal CBs?

THAT SEALS IT!!!!!! 🙌 MAX DOWMAN SCORES HIS FIRST PREMIER LEAGUE GOAL!!! 🔴 2-0 🔵 (90+6)

FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE

@fdiogocamelo I wasn't really talking about the pen, that one isn't debatable. More than there have been a bunch of should-to-shoulders in this match, and some (Keane to Madueke) are fine, and some (Rice-McNeil) are not

@PatrickBVS And that’s one of the problems on the set piece discourse. If you want to give fouls like the one on DBH, you need to award a lot more pens in games, which makes the Kai decision remarkably worse within the same game!!!

It is demoralising that the difference between a foul and a non-foul is so often “how game-changing would this be if given”

How is Saliba not concussed? Looked like he didn’t know his own name

New Podcast! @PatrickBVS and @HaydenVanBrewer break down the Champions League Round of 16, including: • How Real Madrid punished Pep • Chelsea were the better team vs PSG • Why Newcastle can still upset Barcelona • Liverpool's midfield problem is getting worse youtube.com/watch?v=PqoT2y…

You know PSG have actually created very little, it’s funny

@craptor I may be too optimistic but I truly do believe that if Arsenal win the league, Arteta will relax and do more fun shit

@PatrickBVS The best case scenario is arsenal get over the hump and then arteta has a spoelstra revelation where he realizes after getting his ring he starts doing more innovative fun stuff.

All the stuff about Arsenal winning the league and competing on all fronts is predicated on them not playing like absolute shit in every game for the rest of the season

@Raumwriter Thank you, I think I agree with all that. If the gap in the league was 5 points then maybe I’d think different

@PatrickBVS Considering the next two games after the second leg are EFL cup and FA cup, and that we need Arsenal to drop points regardless I think you play as usual If, and it's a big if, this game ends 3-1 for instance, you have to go all out at home It's it's 5-0 you maybe start to rest

City fans: can you just throw the second leg at the Etihad now? Is it worth it to go for the league? Or do the 7 point gap there and UCL pride make it impossible?

One of the problems is that when the chips are down, European refs make it so tough to build pressure because they buy every single fall and complaint

@Raumwriter Yeah but you might just want to rest Rodri, Haaland, NOR, Doku

@PatrickBVS You don't throw it. I'm not sure it would even matter though, judging by this performance we wouldn't need to, we've just been thouroughly beaten.

Donnarumma...it's time

@A58211NI Ok you are not a rational person

@PatrickBVS Thats absolute nonsense. Salah was rapid in his peak and got nowhere near as many calls as an English international would. Classic case of foreigner so must be one of the biggest divers.

Madueke has really taken responsibility in the last couple of games. Has the stones to go up a level

@A58211NI The best RW in PL history, Salah, is also one of the biggest and best divers in PL history, creating those borderline cases is a skill

@PatrickBVS great diving skills