@Liam_Hundley@AFCborn_@Oluwatomiwa_Abe@Heywhy4l@AFC_Monty_ OK, so Brentford to the top of the list, right? And Newcastle that you praised just a few minutes ago?
There's been a transition, yes, to deal with these low-block ultra-defensive teams that don't want to play football. We were struggling against the bottom 10 and now we are not
@solmyrish@AFCborn_@Oluwatomiwa_Abe@Heywhy4l@AFC_Monty_ I definitely hate teams because of their playstyle that don't win. I hated them last year when they didn't win. You're lying if you don't think there's been a massive transition in their playstyle over the past 3 years that has proven to be effective, but is just shit to watch
WAIT.
Arsenal are 26-5 in the champs league.
We have singlehandedly outperformed every single English team combined so far in the knockouts 😭.
How fucking DARE you lot say we’re ruining football.
@Liam_Hundley@AFCborn_@Oluwatomiwa_Abe@Heywhy4l@AFC_Monty_ And you didn't have that hatred because we were not winning. Nobody hates on Brentford and the likes. Hatred comes from winning and that same hatred clouds your judgement so hard that even the stats you post yourself show you should be hating others more, by your own logic
@solmyrish@AFCborn_@Oluwatomiwa_Abe@Heywhy4l@AFC_Monty_ Where we differ unfortunately is that I think you guys are often the ones that don't come to play real football. Brighton manager said it best. I didn't have this hatred for arsenal 3 or 4 years ago when they were a free flowing team
@Liam_Hundley@AFCborn_@Oluwatomiwa_Abe@Heywhy4l@AFC_Monty_ You can think what you like, but that is not reality. Brighton that you mention have the same ratio of open play xG you posted. Why are you not complaining about them? Arsenal is the team that is highest up the pitch that's playing, and facing the lowest blocks that's "dark arts"
@Liam_Hundley@solmyrish@Oluwatomiwa_Abe@Heywhy4l@AFC_Monty_ Agreed it was a fun watch, the first half was so good.
They are not accustomed to it and have never played a high line ever this season and yet they decide to rock up to Camp Nou going band for band vs a team that lives and dies by the high line.
Insane tactics
@Liam_Hundley@AFCborn_@Oluwatomiwa_Abe@Heywhy4l@AFC_Monty_ Did you not enjoy our win vs Bayer yesterday? Two amazing goals, real football game, it is fun when both teams come to play.
In the league, most teams just sit back and kick the ball away giving away set pieces and nothing else, just hoping for a draw.
@Liam_Hundley@ianleo66@AFC_Monty_ If that's the case why 4 of the PL teams got absolutely dismantled in the last week or so? Why don't they just drag the game into the mud and win vs Barca, PSG, Atleti, Real? It's easy, right? Or if it doesn't work vs them why don't they just play like Barca and win the league?
@solmyrish@ianleo66@AFC_Monty_ The league at large has definitely copied, whether they want to or not. It's way easier to drag a game into the mud than it is to force teams to open it up. The percentage of goals scored from set pieces is at a nearly 30 year high. It's not hard to see the league trend this year
@Liam_Hundley@Oluwatomiwa_Abe@Heywhy4l@AFC_Monty_ Dark arts of scoring goals. What a made up stat "% of set piece xG", and I'm pretty sure it's wrong. Just look at goals, 1st in goals, 2nd in open play goals, not even top for % of set piece goals.
@solmyrish@Oluwatomiwa_Abe@Heywhy4l@AFC_Monty_ Yeah you're extremely risk averse and lean into all of the "dark arts." 5th in open play xG with 56%(!!!!) of your total xG coming from set pieces
@Liam_Hundley@ianleo66@AFC_Monty_ It doesn't matter where you are, I didn't even know who you support. But you can't say Arsenal is ruining the league because everybody has to copy and they say nobody copied :)
@Liam_Hundley@ianleo66@AFC_Monty_ So you are not forced to copy the top teams? And if English clubs have not copied Arsenal, then something else must have ruined the league
@ianleo66@AFC_Monty_ If teams don't copy it they get brutalized by the overwhelming size and physicality of the teams that do. Can't build small tekky teams bc teams just park the bus and take advantage of set pieces. The only way to counter it is to match size for size.
@d3cod3r550@25_LM_25@SkySportsPL Sorry if it sounded that way, I meant that "I" don't want want to live with "someone else's" parents. I live in London, mate. In a matchbox pretty much. I know how difficult it is. Whoever you support, the cost of living is killing us all and I'm with you here 🤜🤛
"It's a HORRENDOUS decision... they've taken three seconds, it's an absolute DISGRACE!" 🤬
Jamie Redknapp couldn't BELIEVE this wasn't a penalty for Arsenal!
@d3cod3r550@25_LM_25@SkySportsPL Move the goalposts as much as you like, this is natural position + deflection, the City vs Leeds was not a deflection so just a pen, and the one today is a clear foul and a pen but not given