Good Evening Positive AFC fans,
The first game of the 2018/2019 season under the belt, so to speak, and I feel a lot better with that opening obstacle concluded. A real thumping would have cast a pall over my week and I could not have that. Not the result we hoped for but a team performance that I thought was good overall.
Of the parts that impressed me most our teenage debutante Guendouzi stood out, and he earns his first MoTM award. Matteo was able to cope with the physical demands of the game, tackle cleanly, and showed himself able to control the ball with no time or space. There was some pre-match discussion on SKY about the speed/pace of the English PL game troubling foreign players. He had no obvious problem I saw. For the young Frenchman to put in the full 94 minutes with no obvious slacking toward the end also suggests good stamina. Lichtsteiner’s introduction at left back, although the circumstances of it were unfortunate, showed us what the highly experienced Swiss can do. He reads the game well and has that edge of cunning that we need in a cruel, cruel football world. In Michel Oliver’s face, pointing, shouting, even tearing a strip off Mesut at one point. On another day his goading of Aymeric would have seen the opponent on his way back to the dressing room with a red card for his cranial lunge. I like him.
I thought Petr pulled off a string of good saves today, and for a period in the First Half kept us in the game.. The notion that he should have done better on the Sterling goal is bollocks. The kicking out or passing out from the back though between Cech/Matteo/Sokratis/Skhodran ? THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES!! Sort it out Mr Emery.
Of things we could have done better ? We created a number of half chances and potentially useful positions on the Citeh final third that we did not exploit. We looked rusty. At the key moment the pass to an Arsenal attacker went astray, too long, too short, Auba went left as the ball went right et cetera.At 0-1 we all know a goal for us would have left Pep’s boys reeling. Against good teams like Citeh we can expect only limited possessions around the opposition box and I felt today it was not used as it could/should have been. Scoring goals eh ? That is a thing.
I would also like to see more of Mkhi on the ball and challenging in midfield and that it was Aaron who got the hook first and the Armenian playing the full match was a surprise. He did OK but in the first 35 minutes he did not provide AMN with enough support. He worked better with Hector after the changeover but even then he had a air of Theo at times, always available but never involved.
Onwards to the Bridge next week to meet the currently table-topping Chelsea. Probably a busy week at Colney, identifying the parts of the machine that need to be sharpened, tightened and oiled.
Enjoy your week.
Positively Arsenal 
Good review of the match.
Your point about Mkhi not giving Ainsley enough support might (only might) result in Iwobi replacing him (if AMN is fit enough to play) as they work together exceptionally well & Alex’ work rate in attack is phenomenal.
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I wonder whether we might not play a tighter midfield with just two up front next week SR – maybe Mkhi to step down to allow LT in ?
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Hey pal nice analysis of the game putting into a midly positive light after a relatively negative performance where (and this is just my opinion) the players let Emery down today. Guendouzi has a keen eye for the game, but cannot carry the load of this team while the ones that should i.e. Ozil, Ramsey, Mkhi are failing to say the least. I also agree the influence of Lichtsteiner is one we will desperately need this season and hope that Torreira finds his place quickly. It was unfortunate that we played a City side as the first match, as they were just like last season dominant and a class too big for us. Emery needs time and I support that, but some players need a serious wake up call. 🙂
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Not the result we had hoped for, but no lack of effort, some encouraging signs, misfiring a little times but to be expected with so much change.
It will be the games against teams not financed by states that will define our season, the team will move forward but patience needed
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guendouzi might be the best £7m player of all time. men! he was too for his age. i like to see a midfielder who can at least lost a player when in posession sometimes so as to confuse you opponent. him and torreira when he came on prove capable in such a huge game. torreira is exactly what we were told about him. quick, relentless and good eye for some great passes. we were a lot secured at the back and began to get chances which we were unlucky not to score.
as for their first goal? i’m one of those who felt cech could do better. but he also save a goal from aguero that i do feel he had no chance to save.
one thing i notice today is bellerin heading every ball in the air like no man business. i have said it here before that if he could only begin to use his head more, he would have certainly improved him game in no small measure.
hope ramsey is ok though. he was subbed immediately he began to limp. whether it was planned of force i wouldnt know
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I agree that the playing out from the back, especially from goal kicks needs a lot of work, and I thought that a lot of our moves broke down at the feet of Mkhitaryan today. overall our forward and even midfield play was not sharp, the passing was off, and just as it was under Wenger, when our passing is off we struggle to create and to finish off half chances.
Thought we should have had a penalty today, and we did not cover ourselves in glory with our defending on both their goals, the first one was the only real blemish on Guendouzi’s day, and on the second we had three defenders marking space and leaving the goal scorer ample time to pick his spot, which he done with aplomb
Torreira had a nice little cameo, Ramsey was not match sharp, and although Lichtsteiner made us more solid at the back, he left us with less options in attack.
It will be very important not to lose next week v CFC, as a second defeat could leave the players doubting the new way, the new system, and doubting themselves, and of course it will give the whingers a voice that we can do without.
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Emery’s after game comments, from football.london
On his feelings after the defeat
It was a good atmosphere with our supporters,
It was a big motivation to start watching the squad. We want to start today here, with our supporters.
But Manchester City’s performance showed us we have to continue our process of improving. They deserved the result.
We were improving during the 90 minutes. The second half we had chances to get a better result.
On whether he was encouraged by the performances of his players
Today, Manchester City is demanding our best performance. We need to continue working.
I am happy with the players because they run, they fight. We need to continue to work to shorten the difference today between Manchester City and us.
Unai Emery watches on.
On whether the game showed him how big the gap is between Arsenal and the best in Europe
We know this. This is the start, we need to do one process, one way.
Today is the first step on that. City are working for years with Guardiola, also they are building one team with security, with great players who are playing the style they want.
We are starting.
On why he started Cech over Leno
We want the competition with the goalkeeper and also every player in the squad.
The position is the same. The same chances for all the goalkeepers.
Petr Cech had a very good pre-season. Today he played good also. He has exeprience of continuing to defend our goal.
Leno is starting with us, he is working very well and also played very good in pre-season. He can wait his moment.
On the poor defending for the first goal
The first half and second half was different. In the first half maybe we conceded more space on the pitch.
Manchester City are very good in this situation and also they have confidence in their performance.
In the second half we did this.
Arsenal players look dejected after City’s opener.
This 90 minutes, we finish it with the spirit I want. The team for 90 minutes they ran, they tried, they pushed.
But I think we need to improve collectively and individually. This process today is normal.
On risking getting picked apart at Chelsea with the high press
Each match is different. We want to prepare for each match differently.
The more we play with this personality, we need to improve on the pitch. But this next week we will continue with this work.
For the Chelsea game, we will do analysis on the opposition. We go to win this match.
On Maitland-Niles’ injury
I don’t know now on the injury. We will do the medical analysis with the doctor.
On Nacho Monreal being available for the Chelsea game
Nacho started yesterday [Saturday] with the group, maybe he can arrive for the next match.
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Our heading at the back was good today Layla – MC had 9 corners (I think) and never put a header or shot on target from one of them.
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On the subject of passing out from the back Ederson had three daft errors too today – sadly we could not capitalise – even the best keepers have to know when to kick the ball anywhere
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I have a confession, I’m disappointed, but not distraught like I have been in the past. Perhaps knowing I don’t have to fight for the next week trying to convince people it wasn’t Arsene’s fault ?
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I expect it feels like the end of an era George ?
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not sure anicol I’d agree about our heading today, I thought that although we won lots of headers, the actual quality of our headed clearances was very poor, lacked power and direction, Bellerin in open play three or four times put in weakish headers that did not go nearly far enough and ended up with city possession near our area.
on the playing out from the back, there is no doubt that it will lead to mistakes, and certainly to goals going in against us, but its clear that this is how we are going to do it, play out regardless of pressure or opponent, we can but hope we get better and sharper at it, but it really is nerve racking to watch, and I must say its not an aspect that Cech is great at.
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Compared to PL games we have been embarrassed in by corners and dead ball crossing today was a step forward eddy imo – not particularly elegant but Stones must have fancied his chances after World Cup on the corners.
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VAR just gave sevilla the lead aginst barca. something that england have shamelessly refuse to use.
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Thanks for that Layks – I am always interested in knowing what England is shamelessly up to.
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Or not up to ?
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I think we missed Giroud or a player of his type as there was no one who could win the ball upfront from a goal kick and hold onto it long enough for support to come from midfield. Using Ramsay in that role was s complete waste of his talents.
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I’m not sure where Ramsey was playing today Pass – he was busy in the final third when the ball came through but not so much in his more usual midfield/box to box role. When we were getting overrun in the opening 20 minutes it was a strange set up.
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Think idea with Ramsey was to utilise him more as Wales do.
Two midfielders behind who have primary defensive responsibilities; him with a lot of licence to join attacks but also dropping back plenty to help out further back.
Main Idea, I’d guess, is to utilise his attacking qualities while having adequate cover if he is upfield and they break, but also to often get benefits of his all-round game around centre of pitch.
I think ,anyway; didn’t particularly play out like that.
City aren’t ordinary opponents tho- Wales would almost never play someone close to them- and Welsh team is typically workers + Bale and Ramsey.
Very early days for it all.
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it is true edu that bellerin put in some weak headers, but compared to previously when doesnt even try to use his head at all, i’ll take the weak one for now. he will get better at it.
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i watched leno a lot during the pre season, he was really good on the ball. something that cech doesnt like. if and when he get to play, we’ll be better at starting from the back. the truth is if we want to have more of the ball, we need to biuld from the back
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sorry A5, i expect england to take the lead when it come to innovations like VAR but becuse it is people like wenger who wanted it the most, it will certainly not be at the front burner in england.
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I thought Mustafi and Bellerin had reasonably solid performances today. Guendozi didn’t particularly stand out for me and Torreira was not on the pitch long enough to make an impact. I think it’s more wishful thinking than reality to suggest either player made a big impact.
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What’s up family!
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Good analysis. A lot of positives to take from the match, but I feel disappointed as the two goals looked like they could have been avoided easily. Ozil was not at his best, at all. I think we could have done major damage if he played well, as he found himself in dangerous areas often.
Anyways, I am expecting them to get in sync sooner than later and get back to winning.
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I enjoyed tv people being less hysterical than they would previously have been over a similar result/performance, and felt much less pained than normal knowing the usual arseholes wouldn’t be feverishly slagging off Wenger afterwards.
On the other side, the fan exodus late on was disappointing and, if correct, jeering of Cech abysmal. Also read a few accounts of stadium sages slagging off players continuously, including Ainsley- ‘fraud’- as he was going off injured. People, eh. Fucksake.
What’s more, a look at twitter easily reveals that the people who were jerks before are still jerks now. That was always going to be the case but seeing it is a different matter.
Hate to say it, and an imperfect comparison, but contrast with Liverpool at moment is stark. Don’t know how long it’s been case but today followed what I’ve seen for a while, with their fans offering huge support to team, including putting enormous pressure on ref at all times. Oh, they’ll be housing their own fools within the crowd, and it’s easier to appear united and positive when things are going well, but still.
As for football, I’m looking to just approach games with optimism and resist too many strong judgements for a while.
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A5: I am not sure about anybody else but I am concerned about your repeated attempts to squelch any criticism of the PGMOL, often representing such criticisms as an attack on England and English people. The fact is the PGMOL does not represent England, it does not even report to the FA. To the contrary, it is owned lock, stock and barrel by the Premier League, formally known as the Football Association Premier League Ltd (FAPL). Consequently it acts in the interest of its paymasters not the English people. Is it any wonder its affairs are shrouded in secrecy. Clearly they feel under no obligation to be accountable to the public for their conduct.
As the body responsible for officiating premier league games, I, and all the contributors on this blog, whether English or foreigners are perfectly in our rights to criticize the PGMO for its bias and incompetence when it comes to Arsenal and all other clubs who suffer similarly. If you want to defend them that’s your right but to repeatedly assert that it is an attack on the English is bang out of order. Why the hell would most of us go to such great lengths to support an English football club from another country which is sometimes thousands of miles away.
I have had great respect for you A5 but this recent series of comments, repeated today in the comments section, is out of line with the Positive Arsenal I have been a part of since its launch many years ago. I cannot in good conscience let this go on without stating my objection. Now let the chips fall where they may.
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Good Andrew
I’m not sure whether Unai underestimated the speed of the PL, Mancity or overestimated the readiness of the Arsenal team. Mancity controlled the game for a large part and we got overrun quite a bit. That’s not to say we were short of chances of our own, we certainly had and poor finishing, final ball let us down.
There was a period either side of HT we took control and when Lacazette was introduced the at that time calm and composed Citizens looked a bit rattled. Sure Unai noticed that.
When Unai looked at the first two fixtures I’m sure he thought while 2 wins would be okay that 1 wouldn’t be so bad either. So to echo your words: “Probably a busy week at Colney, identifying the parts of the machine that need to be sharpened, tightened and oiled.”
There’s much to be encouraged about and young Guendouzi looked the part. Think Monreal would be back and Torreira may get his chance too. This is the PL and you need a pitbull in the midst of it all.
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Well that’s the thing Shotta – the referees do not represent England or the English, nor do the PL. Being told what England “shamelessly” refuse to use in respect of VAR, or don’t do, seems to me an attack on a nationality and as it happens to be my nationality I perceive it as such. Substitute PL, particularly the the owners who take decisions, or have a good rant at the PGMO as is often the case, then there is no problem in my mind.
Or should I just let it go ?
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Arsenal
Played against the Premier League Champions
The team which in the previous campaign gained a record 100 points
A team with four £50 million pound + full-backs
More than FOUR £50 million pound center backs
(Arsenal center forward record is £59 million)
Man City have the man recognised by most of the football world the best Football Manager in the world, in his third year in the League .
When it comes to Arsenal , it will always be fair game to tear into the club by many in the media.
I think most people on this site could smell Arsenal being set-up when the fixture computer ‘Randomly’ chose this fixture(Yeah right!)
The next few weeks the team will improve , even with most of the parts not functioning properly the team still created problems for the best team in the league.
There is plenty of room for optimisim , it is not going to be easy (Guardiola did not win a thing in his first season even with a record spending budget) in the first season. But there are plenty of good signs.
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One considerable advantage of the transfer window closing at the start of the season is that we can avoid a fortnight of further hysteria after an opening day defeat. Despite our five new signings the mob would have been out in force today, Stan’s Wallet in their crosshairs.
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They are already out Andy, with retrospective moaning about lack of spending. It’s predictably predictable in it’s predictability.
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Pep is much further down the road in his project than Emery, as are other rival managers.
The bottling of FFP makes it very hard for a self sustaining team to compete with the likes of City. Despite the stadium upgrade, Liverpool are giving it a go with a huge net spend this summer, but again, how do we compete with that, Stan will not sanction that level of spend, and why would he, that’s not what he signed up to. But, before they hang Stan,the club are clearly spending what they are able, two expensive forwards in the last two windows, signings this summer.
Nor can we match the wealth of Utd, Chelsea, and quite possible in the very near future, Everton.
Unless we change our owner and model, Emery is going to have to be very smart, as Wenger has been. He will have to be more Seville than PSG.
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I was very disappointed with our passing in attack. The hope is that Emery can retain the best aspects of Wengerball, while bringing the structure that he favours in defense, and with pressing.
I’d also like to add that it’s not that we didn’t press under Wenger. We just did it far less often, but whenever we did, it worked a treat. Against ManU, or Napoli for instance.
Yesterday left me feeling very dissatisfied with the game of football. We didn’t play with any of the flair that we know we can. It’s probably just that it’s too early in the season, and what bad luck to have ManCity first up. Hopefully, we’ll be better in that regard.
Also, the formation was… weird. Ramsey was essentially the CF. Probably to use his energy to press high up the pitch. And we were also quite narrow, with no width to speak of. Again, the idea was, it seems to me, to press ManCity high and funnel their play toward the flanks. Their crossing was causing us problems though, even before Sterling came inside and scored.
Xhaka had a poor game. He gave away the ball needlessly for the Sokratis yellow (good experience to take him down then) He consistently passed up chances to move the ball ahead, taking the safer option of passing back to Cech, and created nothing (maybe stats don’t bear this out) I also think he should have moved to close down Sterling. Cech himself is a dilemma. Makes some very good saves, including saves he has no business making, like the Aguero chance, but is a liability with the ball at his feet. He did ok for the most part, but no way is that his game (and could have led to an embarrassing own goal). If we’re going to build from the back like this, I expect Leno to come in sooner rather than later.
The big negative of course is AMN’s injury. Hope he’s back soon. How very Arsenal-like to be down to a 4th choice LB in our first game.
Licht did well though. I watch Serie A quite a bit so I wasn’t surprised by him. He’s quicker than his age would suggest (though playing in the PL with regularity is a higher intensity than Italy) and I absolutely love his shithousery. I feel we need that sometimes without going overboard. Did well on the left, even creating a good chance for Ozil, who, like the rest of the attack, had an off day, but had no lack of effort.
On the plus side, the defense looked more solid. Bellerin and Mustafi both looked more comfortable. Sokratis was good. Guendouzi was the bright spot. His big error notwithstanding. Torreira in his little cameo showed that he is comfortable receiving the ball in tight spots, is mobile and reads danger well, and can find a good pass (even though Auba was offside)
I’m still looking forward to seeing us grow and improve as a team. We are better than we showed, even against an opponent like City. I think we’ll give Chelsea a good game, and I look forward to a win against them. Their midfield is very good, and that will be a great battle.
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I think we are far better than yesterdays performance suggested, it will take a few games before things even start to bed in, but the fixture computer has not been kind, although our end of season, squeaky bum time generally looks more favourable.
remember it taking the much lauded Klopp, the man who , ahem, doesnt need to spend money, quite a while to sort things, there were calls for his head in his first few months, these things take time.
Emery is trying to maintain, yet put his own stamp on an elite brand of football, and make the defence more solid without compromising attack, he is not a Big Sam or Pulis quick fixer.
Xhaka was not great, but he will have spent even less time under Emery than most of our players
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On another day we might easily have lost that game 6-0 without any of the goals being the keepers fault so for that reason alone I can understand why Leno didn’t play. I can imagine him making his debut against West Ham. After the first 20 minutes Guendozi settled and played well enough to think he might be around for a while which was encouraging. The big problem yesterday was thinking which of our 11 would start for them and I’m not sure any of them would, if only because they would have already bought them if they were that good. So in the circs I felt we gave it a pretty good go and there was plenty to suggest that as the season progresses we will win a few games.
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morning all good first review of the season Andy after sulking a while I can now commit my thoughts to the blog. After all the new era business, new tactics, new trainning, new recruitment process and all that there was more the same that had differred. At the back we made individual mistakes (the two goals caused primary by new players), going forward we were slow to break and wasteful in front of goal obviously the thing that was most stable was the ref and to add insult to injury we couldn’t even correct his mistakes with VAR, after just one weekend this decision by the PL seems an act of pure lunancy.
Lets start with the ref, after a violent tackle by la porte went unpunished early on I knew we would come of worst with oliver again. stirlings deliberate fowl early in the second half would in any other moment received a booking until oliver realised he had already been booked and so ignored it. Mustafi pulled down in the area by his neck was a nailed on pen (VAR would have sorted that one out) and a Mezut barged off the ball might have seemed a little harsh as a pen until two minutes later in the centre of the pitch a similar challenge by us was pulled up. After that two good tackles by Laca were deemed free kicks and 50/50s were never going to go our way.
Again both goals were conceeded with more defenders than attackers in the area and in both situations little danger seemed apparent until defensive mistakes by Matteo and Stephan respectively punished us massively, even pep acknowledged the second goal was against the run of play.
Going forward you could see we were rusty and the usual telepathy with the front player just wasn’t there and city were able to defend just by putting numbers there without actually making and tackles. Shooting practice didnt look like it had worked at all and after all the amazing training we had been training our forward four was less effective than in other season starts especially when you consider the forward press created most of our chances turning the ball over higher up the pitch.
I was not concerned with losing the ball while playing it out from the back as this was expected and city did the same when they started using the system and still were guilty of it today it is something we will have to come to terms with.
While I do understand this is a new season, with new players and a new system I do think city were poor, rusty and missing players. It was a big chance missed and thats why I am disapointed however I do realise we will get better in all areas and this does still feel like an exciting season ahead.
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I thought our two centre backs did very well btw.
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I did strike me yesterday that Sterling’s goal was a half chance, the ball at his feet on the edge of the box, he made yard of space and that he put on target and away it went. We just did not have that efficiency of creating a real scoring chance out of possession, or even forcing Ederson to fling himself about, in front of the Citeh goal.
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Sokratis did not, as far as I could see , make any errors Tim so he had a decent start. A commendably shrewd foul on Aguero just outside the box brought him a card and I saw a smile. He knows his onions.
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Just remembered I was 14 last time there was a process of new manager in charge, so in a way, given my memory and whatnot, it’s a bit like watching it for the first time.
Think in these early days ,as well as trying to win games, there’ll be an emphasis on trying to make things work with the new ideas with as many of the biggest players as possible.
Makes sense to me as any big players, especially in terms of wages, who aren’t playing a lot represent more of an issue to us than richer rivals.
Live testing basically. Even if Emery already has an inkling about what might work for him,etc, including any doubts about bigger players, he’ll first try it with the big guns.
The loaning of Chambers, going with Sokartis Mustafi; Cech getting the nod; Ozil, Mkhi, Ramsey together; one of them, presumably Mkhi, dropping out for Laca , all fit into that.
A complication is that the top six games are very near separate from the other games, so it’s like two separate tests, with one taking a lot longer than the other to produce meaningful (statistically significant?) results.
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Actually quite interested to see Ramsey as far forward as possible, within reason. His qualities lie in his his movement and knack for the unexpected. He’s always been hard-working which will obvs be good for a high press, but, to be a bit harsh on him, he’s never had the patience for measured build-up play and dropping into defensive positions.
He is one of the best around at what he can do, So yeah, stick two midfielders behind and see how things come together after these first horrible fixtures.
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I am agnostic on where Ramsey plays but we do need to get back our goal scoring mojo from somewhere. We have as talented finishers in Laca and PEA as we have had in 10+ years but the conversion rate is not good enough.
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i dont understand the issue about arsenal playing from the back. isnt it what we have always done? the fact tjhat we have not been efficient at it against a team a stromng as city isnt new. we played them last season and i dont remember we were better than this year. that is after losing a great manager as arsene. in any case, is anyone suggesting we could have won or done better if we had been hoofing the ball away anytime we have it? i dont remember anyone beating city playing route one football.
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we will beat chelsea on saturday and we will all be fine.
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If we are playing the ball out constructively from the back then that is fine, too often yesterday a ball was played to a team mate from a goal kick or interchange between Mustafi, Sokratis and the full backs who had no time or space to do anything useful with it. When the pass was also inaccurate it gave the visitors a needless advantage in front of our goal. Citeh did the same at times.
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A5: I find your response ingenious. You agree that “the referees do not represent England or the English,” but you attack the critics of the PGMO as being anti-English. I am offended to think because I am a foreigner I cannot criticize the PGMO and compare their sorry-ass performance with referees from other top-footballing nations. When did this blog become Positively England and not Positively Arsenal?
Obviously those from Ireland and Kenya on this blog whom you have directed this response do not feel as strongly as I do. But in my opinion this is a slippery slope PA is going down which I cannot support. View my relative silence going forward as my conscientious objection.
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Layksite, when I suggested we were missing a Giroud type yesterday, I was just thinking about the options to vary the attack. We were forced to play out from the back all the time because we had no one up front who could win a ball in the air from a goal kick. The few times it was tried it seemed to be Aaron Ramsay who was going up for the ball and that is not his strength. No doubt we’ll get better at passing out from the back, but yesterday our passing was not up to scratch but there was no plan ‘B’ to get out of the pressure.
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