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@LuluDcheff Injuries have killed us again. No manager or club will survive our level of injuries. There no magic there. What did Pep do when is team was suffering from injury?

What has really happened to Martín Zubimendi? This clearly isn’t an ability issue , it’s something deeper. Right now, it looks mental as much as physical. First, he has lost composure under pressure. The calmness and control we saw earlier in the season just aren’t there anymore. Secondly, his mobility has dropped. He’s no longer covering spaces the way he used to, and that points to fatigue. Everything about his game now feels safe ,sideways passes, back passes no intent, no authority. The physicality is gone. The game-reading, the timely interceptions that stood out at the start of the season have all vanished. That doesn’t just happen randomly. Earlier in the season, Declan Rice still had the energy to compensate, covering a lot of ground and masking some of these issues. But now, even Rice looks drained, there’s no extra fuel left to cover for anyone. And it becomes even more obvious when David Raya plays a progressive, line-breaking pass… only for Zubimendi to recycle it straight back or go sideways again. It kills momentum completely. This is not the same player we saw at the start of the season. An unbiased analysis makes that very clear. At this point, Mikel Arteta has to look at himself in the mirror.

@beingSARANGI Why is every blame on the manager? The truth is, without first team players available, do not expect any magic. Infact no manager will survive with how level of injuries.

To Wenger, Pat Rice, Ljungberg, Wright, Bergkamp, other ex Arsenal players and managers who know what's its like to win a title - can you please reach out to Mikel and give him a shake-up. Just normal football. Less control - just basic routine high school football from here on, will do the trick.

@Mighty_Gunners_ You are right. Twitter is now very toxic, no reasonable comment just insults to the team and manager. May be it is better we just stick to fighting for top 4 and winning FA cup

We truly have the most pathetic fan base. A bunch of pussies who don’t have the balls for a title race, but expect the players to. Give me strength.

@LuluDcheff This is rubbish. How many players have been overplayed? I will name Rice and Zubimendi only. The rest have had sufficient rest and injuries.

You can’t ignore it anymore, this isn’t just a bad patch, it’s the consequence of how Mikel Arteta has managed this squad all season. He’s run his core players into the ground. From the start of the campaign, it’s been the same group playing every high-intensity minute, with very little trust shown in the wider squad. When the team was flying, that approach looked like control. Now? It looks like burnout. The sharpness is gone, the aggression is gone, and mentally they look exhausted. Midfield is the clearest example. Martín Zubimendi didn’t suddenly become a bad player all of a sudden. he looks like someone who’s played too much football without rest. The intensity, the duels, the anticipation… all faded. That’s not just form, that’s fatigue catching up. And without Martin Ødegaard, there’s zero control. No composure, no direction. Teams have figured it out, press Arsenal, disrupt the rhythm, and they collapse into panic. Bournemouth just followed the same blueprint Manchester City exposed. What’s more worrying is the in-game management. That triple substitution? It screamed desperation, not strategy. When your team already looks mentally fragile, chaotic changes only make it worse. Arteta has to take responsibility here. Squad management isn’t just about picking your best XI , it’s about keeping them physically and mentally alive across the season. Rotation isn’t weakness, it’s survival. Now you’re relying on players like Bukayo Saka, Jurrien Timber, Riccardo Calafiori and Ødegaard to come back and instantly fix everything… with no rhythm, no match fitness, and massive pressure. That’s a dangerous gamble. Right now, this isn’t just about tactics ,it’s a team that looks physically drained, mentally checked out, and poorly managed over the long run. And unless something changes quickly, the season could slip away not because of ability… but because the squad has simply been run into the ground. The Kroenke’s need to come out with full pressure, Either He(Arteta) wins pl and or the champions league, he needs to go. He has taken us as far as he can.

@McFlybowy Nice analysis. Do you think injury has a role?

Every single person that has been skeptical about Arsenal winning the league despite being 9 point ahead is because of one thing, they Lack Mentality, and it was obvious today again. It’s an home game, against a lower ranked side and the best Tactics is to come and be pragmatic, they did it in the first half, went one behind and was still pragmatic they got a lucky penalty and the game was level, yet they entered for the second half and was still pragmatic like they were defending a point. The defence kept on panicking, Raya making series of mistake, could barely play out of pressing. Bournemouth grew in the game and got the deserved win. One would have thought they would have played to go 12 points ahead before Man City kick a game, knowing fully well the next EPL game is against City and they could have wrapped up the league. Now they have put themself in a more dangerous position, they’re one Man City loss from bottling this league. Continue from here

@PeakSxnti Media is a very powerful tool. See how Arsenal fans have turned against their manager. Most of these fans think they have a logical reason to hate Artete, for me I think this Artera hatred is engineered.

We have two options at the end of the season if Arteta fails to win. - Beg him to resign and leave because the owners won't sack him. - Protest the owners get out of the club for persisting with him. If we went to be shit let's be super shit, if we want to be good let's be super good. I'm tired of being in between.

@FootballEra_ So who signed Partey and jorginho? Who transformed xhaka career at Arsenal? Its like nobody thinks again, just pure anger against the manager

It’s genuinely crazy that despite Arteta being an ex Spanish midfielder and la masia graduate, he has one of the worst talent IDs ever for midfielders. — Signed Havertz and Merino to replace Xhaka, they both failed at it, and ended up having decent spells as strikers. — Signed Zubimendi to replace Partey and Jorginho, turns out to be the worst DM Arsenal has ever employed.

@MooreRMFC You have made the most obvious remark

Arteta’s biggest problem is not his coaching ability, it’s his recruitment. Signing Madueke and Havertz is self sabotage, even unlicensed street coaches wouldn’t sign them.

@utdmorgan_ @ConvertOdds You get it. Pep does not waste time on average players. We know the limit of Martinelli and Trossard

@ConvertOdds He thinks he has learned everything from Pep, one thing he fails to accept is he can't win without class players. The moment the players ain't performing, Pep spends heavily same with Enrique. You want to win the league with Martinelli and Trossard as LW? Zubimendi as DM? lol

If replaced with a Top manager, Arsenal won't return to just Top 4 clubs.. Manager who are more experienced that Arteta and would even handle the team well... He has and is doing a good job, but if he can't scale through in winning an EPL title. Then he should leave and also find success somewhere else

@Alarsenalnews_ I dont understand the comments here. Are we no longer in 1st position? Why the castigation

In Eze and Gyökores, Andrea Berta scores 4 out 10. He failed the Gunners big time, and largely the reason the Arsenal are struggling is because these two players have failed to fit or will never fit the Arsenal system. Eberechi Eze is a senior player, aged 27 years and can no longer be waited for to adapt of gel at the Arsenal. He is an experienced premier league player and definitely not unfamiliar with the game and culture around. He is a London boy, born and bred there where everyone breathes and oozes Arsenal. He is red in and out. He cannot be waited for anymore to arrive. Either he arrives or was never here in the first place. Gyökores is equally a senior player who has played top flight football in Europe's top leagues and competition. I'd excuse him because I was very sure he is not the Arsenal prototype, that is why I'll go slow on him. Unfortunately for Eze, I have to be scathing and demanding. Football is not a fashion show or runway. You cannot play with the flair and mood of a model in Paris on the pitch. You've got to be serious! I'd even suggest he cut off those neat and polished trendy and fashionable dreadlocks and go clean for a start. There are many things standing in front of Eze and the game. And fashion and looks is one of them. It is also evident in his swagger and the way he walks or give passes, his lazy attitude et al. Can the real Eze stand up! Or Berta needs serious explanation how he made two wrong calls in one window!

@whiteumbro99 Non will do anything with the level of injury

🚨 I guarantee if #Arsenal had one of these top elite managers we would of not drawn to these teams.👇 Chelsea ten-men.A Forest.A Liverpool.H Brentford.A They would of done the SIMPLE thing and gave the opposition manager a big PROBLEM changing formation and WON the game.

@HopeUmoh4 @Philopearl_Afc Only you here have said the truth. No team will survive the amount of injuries we have had to deal with

@Philopearl_Afc Give it a break Ife, no other manager will be too of the league with the injuries we have had all season. Compare us to a city team who already had squad debt but easily signed guehi and semenyo in January. Where else do you see such?

Bro, we’ve been playing some depres sing football under this man. These players can’t just turn bad all of a sudden. Eze for Instance wasn’t like this at Palace, Gyokeres used to score goals for fun, Zubimendi was almost unplayable in Laliga, Saka is a different player in the national team, Odegaard creates well for Haaland in Norway

@KelsTheAnalyst I would say Arteta is just unlucky. He has been the best manager for three seasons now in a row. If you look at the amount of injuries this season, you would realize that he has done well to still keep Arsenal at 1st

I told ya'll about Mikel Arteta's shortcoming as a coach but Arsenal fans talk about him like he's some messiah whereas he's still a flawed manager Let's not even get started on the lack of genuine superstar quality at the top end of the pitch to win games, or at least profile the decent ones you've got correctly, but he's still failing at the basics. While also profiling Timber as an all phase FB is detrimental to Arsenal's attack when he should strictly be used as a lockdown RB/RCB to maximize his strengths and cover his attacking weakness, but no, Arteta keeps insisting he takes up attacking positions that natural attackers should occupy and then wonder why they struggle creatively from open play. If Arteta fails to win one of the Premier League or Champions League this season after that level of investment, then serious questions need to be asked and tough decisions need to be made. Well, that would ultimately come down to their hierarchy's level of ambition though.

@Omojuwa Injury is Arsenals biggest problem.

Liverpool, despite their procession, drew 9 and lost 4. Winning the Premier League has never been easy for anyone. Arsenal have drawn 6 and lost 3. On cause for the title.

@tobyasky Arsenal has to do something about injuries. To win the league, you need luck against injuries. No magic can be done when key players keep going in and out of the team

You guys always look for who to scapegoat, Eze is usually the target. Can we talk about each and every Arsenal player today? Apart from Rice & Madueke, who else really played well? Is it Timber that Lewis Potter turned into dinner tonight? Where was Trossard all through the game? Trying to hit the ball on Kayode consecutively, so as to spam corners. If Igor Thiago wasn’t so foolish, do you know how many times he got the better of Gabriel and Mosquera, not to talk of how Gabriel was lucky to escape a second yellow card. Did Zubimendi even play today? Saka came in for 20 minutes, tell me what he did? Odegaard came in at half time for Eze, what was his impact in the game? You guys just love to single out the easiest target, like we didn’t watch the game or other games. Arsenal are a boring team to watch, take it or leave it. They might end up winning the league, but it was far from an entertaining display, who cares anyways. Don’t single out Eze for whatever happened in this game. The whole team was poor, bar Dec & Madueke.

@Emzyl_ Just keep quiet abeg

They'll drop points tomorrow on the back of this City result and performance. This Arsenal team don't have the courage, capacity and mental strength to consistently perform and win under pressure. We better take the cup competitions seriously

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