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GavAFC
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🏴 Arsenal ❤️ All views are my own 💯 Nothing I hate more than racism
UK Katılım Mayıs 2011
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Two hard-fought games 🤝
Well played, @Arsenal, and best of luck for the rest of your season.

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@GrahamRon54160 @leafricangooner You pull a muscle making a coffee in the morning, behave Ron
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@leafricangooner Missing out again? At this rate, he might as well set up a couch in the stands. Arsenal's injury list is starting to look like an exclusive club.
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Rio Ferdinand has just said something that will make a lot of rival fans uncomfortable.
According to Rio Ferdinand, Arsenal F.C. are not just winning games… they are building something much more dangerous.
And he didn’t hide it.
Ferdinand believes Arsenal are going to win the Premier League title “by hook or by crook… by any means necessary.”
For some people, that sentence will sound like criticism.
But if you actually understand football… it’s the ultimate compliment.
Because title winners are not remembered for playing pretty.
They’re remembered for winning.
Look at the way Arsenal are playing right now under Mikel Arteta.
They defend like warriors.
They fight for every second ball.
They dominate territory.
And when the game gets tight?
They go to their most terrifying weapon.
Set pieces.
Ferdinand admitted it himself — when Arsenal get a set piece, opponents are scared.
Not nervous.
Scared.
The deliveries are so dangerous that teams already feel the goal coming before the ball is even kicked.
That is not luck.
That is not “dark arts.”
That is elite preparation.
That is a team that has been carefully built… piece by piece… season by season.
And Ferdinand believes something even scarier is coming.
If Arsenal lift the Premier League trophy this season…
Next year they return with belief, confidence, and the experience of champions.
And that version of Arsenal?
He says they will be an even harder team to play against.
A different beast.
Stronger mentally.
More ruthless.
More dominant.
Which explains something interesting happening right now.
The louder Arsenal get…
The angrier rival fans become.
Suddenly the same people who laughed at Arsenal two years ago are now calling them “lucky”… “boring”… “set-piece merchants”.
But that reaction says more about them than it does about Arsenal.
Because when a team you mocked starts lifting trophies…
You only have two choices.
Respect them.
Or hate them.
And if Arsenal winning the league by any means necessary makes you angry…
Then maybe the problem isn’t Arsenal.
Maybe the problem is that deep down…
you know your club isn’t built like this.

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Now that Arsenal fans are booing their own team and former players are lining up to criticise, let me offer the bigger picture, the one you hear across Europe.
Arsenal are not seen here as a team that has stalled. They are seen as a reference point. As the team many look at when trying to understand where elite football is heading.
The game has shifted, it is no longer enough to dominate the ball or to attack well. The top sides now compete in, and often decide matches through, the four phases that make teams excellent: organised attack, attacking transition, defensive transition and structured defence. At the highest level, those phases matter more than possession percentages or aesthetic debates.
This is where Arsenal stand out.
Under Mikel Arteta, Arsenal control space, time and another very important element, rhythm. They are aggressive without being chaotic, but can create chaos to find gaps, they are compact without being passive. Their pressing is prepared in detail, lose the ball and the reaction is immediate. The opponent is denied oxygen.
Across Europe, this is understood as modern dominance.
The key battleground today is transition. Not what you do with the ball, but what happens the instant you lose it. Defensive rhythm has overtaken offensive rhythm. Space is smaller and time is shorter. The teams that survive are the ones that arrive first, win duels, plus reset order before danger appears.
Arsenal do this as well as anyone.
In Europe, Arsenal are seen as a team that has absorbed Guardiola’s ideas and pushed them forward, they have strengthened them for a football world that now plays faster, presses harder, and it totally punishes hesitation.
At the very moment Arsenal are being questioned at home, they are being analysed as a model.
Progress is often uncomfortable and it rarely moves in straight lines. Arsenal don’t look lost. In my eyes they look early!

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From 1,085 ball control attempts this season, William Saliba has made just 1 miscontrol under pressure and 2 miscontrols leading to a ball loss.
His 0.6% total miscontrol percentage ranks 1st among all outfield players in the Premier League. 👏
#AFC

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@AFC_Fazeel There's a very obvious reason as to why Roy Keane couldn't cut it as a manager.
Good managers remain students of the game, always open to learning & to improving. It's very hard to learn anything new when you've already decided that you know everything.
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@Origboge @karthikadhaigal @David_Ornstein You definitely said the same when we sent Saliba out on loan at the same age….
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@karthikadhaigal @David_Ornstein As good as this boy is, Arteta just wasted his career. He was destined for greatness but Arteta doesn’t believe in academy players.
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🚨Marseille head coach Roberto De Zerbi has held positive talks with Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta and Nwaneri, with the Italian and his style of play a prominent factor in the Ligue 1 side being favoured by their Premier League counterparts
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@denchhhhh @Vfynn_ Brother brother no cb occupies Saka ever. 😭😭😭😭 2 CBs mark a striker woopty doo. It’s a LB and a midfielder that double up on Saka ffs. Also that doesn’t change anything because Saka output with Gyokeres isn’t remarkable now is it 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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