In their #UncensoredArsenal review of Arsenal vs Burnley Blackburn George and Shotta express mixed emotions over the manner the Gunners went about securing their victory. It was good to gain the points needed to stay second in the tables but, with the far superior squad, Arsenal resorted to the negative, retrograde tactics reminiscent of Sam Allardyce and Tony Pulis; maintain a strong defense and rely on set plays to win the game. Will this be sufficient to win the title?
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Gee, I do agree goals conceded are a collective responsibility.
Arsene always said most goals contained several mistakes.
As we use a mixture of man to man and zonal at corners there will always be two outfield players plus the keeper bearing some responsibility. If you go further than that and analyse who lost the ball and why we conceded the corner you can add even players into the mix.
However having said all that the keeper is the last line of defense and anything in the six yard area from corners should be the keepers.
The problem is we have brought four keepers and none of them are an upgrade on Martinez.
If you add to this the extra money we would got for Leno had we sold him when Martinez left we club have wasted an absolute fortune.
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spurs lose at home to west ham, and that makes it one point for them from last five games, and in all five games the took the lead, mate
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1-0 behind at villa already
Raya; White, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko; Odegaard, Rice, Havertz; Saka, Jesus, Martinelli.
Subs: Ramsdale, Nketiah, Kiwior, Cedric, Trossard, Jorginho, Nelson, Elneny, Walters.
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Arsenal U18’s also losing 1-0, in the FA youth cup v crewe
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both our first team and our u18’s losing 1-0 at half time, big second half needed from both teams now
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our u18’s have drawn level, ethan nwaneri with a deflected shot, can our first team do the same, clear penalty not given so pgmol being the pgmol
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luis brown puts our u18’s ahead 2-1
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Nwaneri has put the u18’s 3-1 up, need the first team to up their game the same way as the youths have
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Trossard on for Martinelli, who once again has no end product
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Jeorge Bird
@jeorgebird
Goal. Arsenal 4 Crewe 1. Nwaneri completes his hat-trick with a clever flick. Superb goal. Ferdinand and Kamara involved in buildup.
Hopefully he will get minutes against Lens.
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Nwaneri with his 4th and Arsenal u18’s 5th
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the first team are bottling it, 13 minutes to go and we have been the better side but are fluffing the final pass or shot etc, playing like they are afraid of villa
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Nwaneir with his 5th goal of the game, amazing performance from him
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Nketiah on for Jesus who has been ineffectual once more
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not a champions elect performance, so little conviction
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Arsenal have a goal ruled out for handball
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VAR should over rule this and give the goal,
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as we know the pgmol have decided AFC are not to be allowed to win the league, LFC seem the chosen team for them now
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The EPL is as corrupt a league as there is in the world. PGMOL decide who will win most games, its as simple as that
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Completely agree Eduardo. Compare and contrast the officiated Liverpool benefitted from earlier in the day.
Arteta is in trouble for highlighting the officiating in this country , for whatever reason , is a bit shit.
Think the worst was the elbow on Eddies head as he ran forward, the ref and VAR ignored something that could have concussed a player. Unbelievable
Expecting more of this at Anfield coming soon
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also on that incident mandy, the ref wasn’t looking at it so how did he decide it was a yellow.
by the way was it eddie who scored the disallowed goal or was it kai, cos if it was eddie then it should have stood but if it was kai it was rightly ruled out under the rules
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It was Eddie, but I think any handball in the build up is disallowed under the current rules.
However I think the ref thought Kai brought it down with his arm and that’s why he blew, I don’t think he could of seen the slight touch later in the pinball. It looked to me as if the villa defender handled it before Kai did meaning it was a clear error and it should of been a penalty as that was the first offence.
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no ian under the present rules its only ruled a handball if the scorer handles, another player scoring means no hand ball, are you sure Eddie scored, as it looked to me like Kai poked it in, the way the 2 of them celebrated it also suggested to me that Kai scored it.
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Yeah I got that wrong, I was convinced it was Eddie who had poked in home.
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Tactically we seem to have got this game all wrong.
We knew beforehand Villa would have to start fast and would then play high and narrow to flood the midfield.
Jesus was a strange choice in these circumstances and he proved to be awful but wasn’t hooked until the 80th minute.
Jorginio should have played to enable Rice to make the sort of runs he was making late on much earlier in the game. This would of also allowed Martinelli to sit right on the right backs shoulder and receive the ball higher up the pitch.
Saka again kept coming inside and this was totally the wrong game for that again because of the way Villa play.
When a team have an offside trap twice as good as anyone else in the league you have to back your speed and look along the line.
We have speed and players who can make intelligent runs to spare but we decided to go a different way for some reason.
Villa are a good team but not a great team and this was a poor performance.
This game also put to bed those who claim Jesus is world class and that Odegaard is as good as KDB or indeed Mezut or for those on acid Dennis.
He is a good technical player and that’s as far as he goes.
It also rubber stamped that Mikel will tinker with shape but leaves major changes to late or not at all.
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Emile Smith-Rowe back in training and has been included in the traveling squad for our CL game tomorrow
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Ethan Nwaneri, Lino Sousa and Reuell Walters have all traveled with the Arsenal squad for the CL game
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Saka’s playing time is being “managed” but he still is flying out with the rest of the squad, the crazy keeps coming.
Squad players and youngsters would be most managers choice in this situation but hey ho it’s nice to be different.
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Arteta is petrified of being on the end of a big defeat, so doesn’t ever go without the safety net of lots of senior players in the squad
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Dan Critchlow
@afcDW
Arsenal’s travelling squad for PSV:
Raya, Ramsdale, Hein, Cedric, White, Walters, Saliba, Gabriel, Kiwior, Zinchenko, Sousa, Elneny, Jorginho, Rice, Smith Rowe, Odegaard, Nwaneri, Havertz, Trossard, Nelson, Saka, Nketiah, Jesus
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It is amazing how Mikel bemoans five players being out when alot of the squads have been decimated this season. History tells us simply by putting muscles on a plane can have a negative effect.
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Ramsdale,
Cedric, Walters, Kiwior, Sousa,
Elneny, Jorginho,
Smith Rowe, Nwaneri, Havertz, Trossard, Nelson,
Nketiah,
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Ramsdale,
Cedric, Walters, Kiwior, Sousa,
Elneny, Jorginho,
Nwaneri, Smith -Rowe, Nelson,
Havertz Trossard
Nketiah,
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The real team is out Arsenal
A. Ramsdale
Cedric
J. Kiwior
Jorginho (c)
W. Saliba
Gabriel
Elneny
L. Trossard
Nketiah
K. Havertz
Nelson
Substitutes
B. White, B. Saka, M. Ødegaard, Gabriel Jesus, E. Smith Rowe, David Raya, K. Hein, O. Zinchenko
D. Rice, E. Nwaneri, R. Walters
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COYG
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Eddie Eddie Eddie makes it 1-0 to the Arsenal
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1-1 four minutes into second half
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ha ha ha a dead rubber and Arteta still afraid to give any of the youths a few minutes, the arselickers said after the 5-1 game that of course he’d give them game time in the dead game, but our manager has no interest in promoting youth, he is afraid of it costing us even a dead rubber, and still people ask why omari hutchinson left us after being on the bench i think 12 times without getting a minute
Arteta would rather risk injury to a first choice player than to throw on a youth player, its madness
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Well that was a lesson in lunacy!
Three CBs on the field one just taken off and youngsters who can play CB and full back and Mikel risks his best and most influential midfielder.
Added to this we had six number tens on and two strikers but still none of the youngsters.
All this in an exhibition game, a dead rubber and one the opposition even played a weakened side.
Now when Low played Kai at left back he was considered a genius in some quarters, I can’t see anyone describing Mikel in the same words.
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“city unleash academy graduates”
and we play Rice at CB, the difference right there
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Yeah I know Ian, Arteta is a waste of space when it comes to the academy.
On the plus side Riess looked sharp, so did jorginho, Eddie and Haverts but agree wasted opportunity.
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Reiss was excellent and proved he is more than a flat track winger. His work in the middle was brilliant. It will remain to be seen if he can control a match against higher opposition but it does prove technically he is capable.
The opportunity was there to find the same out about others but unfortunately that was missed.
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The lesser spotted Party has now been seen at our training ground.
Players and staff are being asked to tread very quietly and carefully as to not scare it away.
If we are lucky this rare creature may be seen on our tele’s in the near future.
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Brighton score an average of over two goals a game against the top six and have the longest continuous scoring streak in the PL.
We will have to play well today COYG.
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Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko, Rice, Odegaard, Havertz, Saka, Martinelli, Jesus
Subs: Ramsdale, Smith Rowe, Nketiah, Kiwior, Cecric, Trossard, Nelson, Lewis-Skelly, Walters.
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dirty cunt milner takes saka out of it, and ref has forgotten his yellow card, its a disgrace how the pgmol let saka be kicked from pillar to post
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ref is a real dickhead
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We moan about refs not being consistent with other refs but when they’re not consistent with themselves from one minutes to the next then we might as well give up.
This is one of the most incompetent refs I’ve seen and we all know the standard is low anyway.
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On our performance, we are playing very well through the midfield, but decision making has been awful.
It is not good enough just to be very talented you need to have football intelligence and we have some players who struggle to think much during a game.
They have a left back who is 174 and has been passed by snails and Saka still won’t take him on at every opportunity.
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Jesus makes it 1-0 to the Arsenal
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