Daniel Zeqiri
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Why can’t England progress the ball forward/play out from the back properly? A look at the problems and a few potential fixes
#EURo2024
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Seven years since Harry Kane scored a non-penalty goal at the Emirates.
This is no slight on him at all, he’s one of the best 9s around, but ask any Arsenal fan and he has never approached Rooney or Drogba levels of nemesis. It’s massively overplayed.
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Advice in measured responses from the man who threatened to resign because he lost at Burnley.
🎙️ "He has just started this work and he needs to be calm."
Antonio Conte says Mikel Arteta should focus more on his team and not complain as much after the Arsenal manager expressed his discontent with the red card decision in the
#NLD
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Arsenal were five points clear of City with the same games played on Xmas Day. They’ve reached the home game against them three points clear with a game in hand. I think you’d have signed for that before the restart.
The chronology of results makes things feel different.
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I’m not sure the fixture list has flattered Arsenal. The scorelines have flattered the opposition. These have been proper doings.
That first half was electric. Up there with anything for 10 years+. This might be another 07/08.
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Neville’s prediction doesn’t upset Arsenal fans. Loads of Arsenal fans still think City win it.
It’s that he can’t grasp the depth, substance and repeatability of what’s been built. He missed the story, dating back to summer 2021. He can’t compute it, he thinks it’s Leicester.
Neville:
"And they could do it, but I still think Man City got massive experience and if they hunt them down in last few weeks it's tough.
It (prediction) upsets Arsenal fans, but we need Arsenal to win the PL, can't have City winning it every year."
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This ceaseless, weepy-eyed nostalgia for a recent past that wasn't even that good is one aspect of Football Twitter I just cannot get my head around. It's like a comfort blanket or something. Who wakes up in the morning thinking "I wish we still had Bernd Leno"?
Unpopular opinion: Bernd Leno is better than all the Goalkeepers we have rn in our first team
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People don’t like hearing it, but he has a strong argument (depends how you define competitiveness though).
Bournemouth can outspend Sevilla. A team with Tielemans, Maddison and Barnes might go down. Four-time Europa League winner manages Aston Villa.
🗣️ "This is the most competitive league I've seen in 22 years."
Mikel Arteta says Arsenal can't accept where they are right now
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Different styles - and can’t be expected to have the same impact! - but Jesus, Zinchenko and Tielemans (?) would remind me a bit of those Wijnaldum, Mane etc singings Liverpool made. Good PL performers who haven’t fully ‘broken out’ coming into prime years. Moderate price bracket
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Good job McTominay didn’t commit those fouls in the space of eight seconds or else he would have gone.
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The notion that the youngest team in the league, with no contribution from centre-forward, had no room for improvement was always nonsense.
Arsenal move back to the 🔝 of the table! What a game 😤
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Arsenal’s No 6 in this system will have White/Tomiyasu and Zinchenko/KT in close attendance, fast centre-backs who squeeze the line up and active forwards who press from the front. The distances should be small, I really don’t think it needs to be a defensive Superman.
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Peter Crouch says “last season Arteta was getting a lot of stick off his own supporters.”
Have heard a few versions of this repeated - that last season was some kind of nightmare - and it’s just not true. The atmosphere was incredibly positive, even vs Everton on the final day.
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I think Arsenal and Spurs win on the final day. Strongly suspect Spurs beat Burnley, although not a gimme with the short turnaround. So it really does all come down to Arsenal at Newcastle. That's the cup final.
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I’ll say this now and leave this here: Sky lost their big game in January and consequently I’ve never heard a commentary performance like it. Neville might as well be standing on the Shelf.
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@samuelluckhurst
Absolute dreck based on sour grapes. Arsenal have won seven of their last nine league games and have been chugging along at close to two points per game since Boxing Day 2020. Are teams not as good as the best three in Europe considered shit now?
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That Arteta/Anfield thing is a bit of a gimmick, but it’s obvious to anyone with two brain cells that it’s not *the extent* of Arsenal’s preparation for that game. Howe had players sheep-herding, Fergie had the geese - imagine all kinds of off-beat, wacky stuff goes on.
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Arsenal's best football and performances this season, domestically at least, have come from December 1st onwards. But it's been the worst run of results. That is what will fry brains/cause debate.
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On Smith Rowe and Saka - they are not just two youngsters adding some energy by running around like puppys. They are two of the most the technically accomplished players at Arsenal.
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If I felt sure of any football opinion, it was that Granit Xhaka needed to be deep with the game in front of him, and was more vulnerable the higher up he was.
Completely and utterly wrong. How Arteta saw this in him, I do not know.
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Arsenal have lost as many away league games this season as they did between August 2001 and January 2005.
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Opinion might be divided on Kai Havertz, but what a signing Penalties has been.
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Final Arsenal paradox of the season: with some notable duff performances, the football is now far more 'big club' like and closer Arteta's ideal than it was when the FA Cup was won. Yet fan opinion of him, entirely understandably, is much lower. It's an interesting dynamic.
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Mesut Ozil is entitled to stay at Arsenal and earn the money the club decided to give him. The contract was the club’s mistake, not his.
But deciding to do that rather than seeking to play and compete elsewhere will always refelect badly on a player and rightly so.
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Isn’t it completely obvious what the strategy is? Short of publishing a 10,000 word dissertation on the window this morning, I’m not sure how much clearer Arsenal could make it. Or have I lost my mind?
Funny how people start ‘seeing’ strategies after three wins.
🗣 "They're spending a load of money - I'm not sure what the strategy is. It seems a little all over the place"
Gary Neville questions what Arsenal's transfer strategy is and says the club are still suffering from a hangover from their era under Arsene Wenger...
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@JacobsBen
There is no 'winning' a transfer window. Winning happens on grass and Chelsea have not been doing much of it.
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Arsenal a win at Norwich, or whatever their next fixture is, away from reaching the halfway mark at 70-point pace. Football has been patchy and the attack sporadic, but that would be a solid return. Especially after three defeats to start.
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The man who said he’d punch a goalkeeper for letting a goal in is not fussed about a player refusing to play.
The ex-United player pundits are embarrassing themselves on Ronaldo.
🗣 "He's a human being, he's got flaws. Players have done a lot worse things at Man United."
Roy Keane has his say on Cristiano Ronaldo walking off and refusing to come onto the pitch against Tottenham
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Suspect there will be a bit of an Arsenal post-mortem but perhaps it will ignore the obvious: City are the best team in the country and Arsenal are the second-best.
Nobody has to walk around with a hessian sack all summer, it’s not an insult.
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Last three managers Arsenal have faced - Frank, O’Neil and Edwards - all just seem eminently reasonable, decent blokes. They’re the ones directly up against Arteta and cut through so much of the nonsense around him atm.
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We know how it works - if you lose the pressure is getting to you, if you win it isn’t - but I don’t think a team that’s choking produces passages of play like this against City (and there were several, that opened them up).
Those two Xhaka fluff-ups were very frustrating.
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One of these days he’s going to run through a team like that Yaya Toure goal vs Villa and the roof will come off.
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It’s really poor from Turner, and it has been coming, but Neville’s tone of voice around goalkeepers is disgraceful. ‘Useless’…’scandal’.
It’s a mistake. You’ve never played the position and know Jack all about it. It’s completely out of order.
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Arsenal scored 88 league goals last season with these same attacking options. Losing Xhaka for a more offensive 8 *should* mean more goals. Not everyone can have a Haaland. Issue atm is chance creation not conversion.
🗣️ "It became obvious in this game, that was missing at Arsenal." ❌
@Gnev2
is not convinced about Gabriel Jesus and Eddie Nketiah's natural goalscoring abilities 💭
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There is a price at which selling Iwobi becomes a no-brainer, but I don't think there's a player at Arsenal more misunderstood or whose attributes are more undervalued.
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Spurs fans entitled to find joy in City winning the title, but also think Arsenal fans should find joy in Spurs' predicament. Two years ago they were crowing about having a Proven Winner in charge while Arsenal had a novice who put Pep's cones out. Now praying to lose at home.
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He has a point but confuses the symptom - celebrations - with the disease. Arsenal expended energy because of going 2-0 down to Bournemouth, 3-1 down vs Southampton, losing 2-0 leads vs Liverpool and WH. The emotion reflected the football, rather than the other way around.
Arsenal didn’t win the league last season because Zinchenko was ‘tooting his horn at people’. Brilliant
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No way that Emery-Martinez thing is just about going up for a corner. Suspect his head struggled to fit through the door post-World Cup and probably has his eye on a big move.
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If Zinchenko is fit, would like to see Lokonga get the start in the central cog role.
Last time against Brighton: he had Cedric RB, Smith Rowe CM and Xhaka left-back.
Tonight he could have: White RB, Xhaka CM and Zinchenko LB.
Much more security and sturdiness.
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Arteta hasn’t ‘turned things around’. He has built on what was a season of progress, one in which only City and Liverpool won more games. Arsenal were good for big chunks of last season, they’ve not come from 15th.
He signed a contract in April.
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Arsenal’s Premier League ranking for completed dribbles:
2020-21: 17th
2021-22: 14th
2022-23: 1st
A look at one specific improvement that has transformed Arsenal’s attacking prospects and brought positional play to life
#AFC
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We’ve seen Tomiyasu and Jota sent off for two yellows one of which is brushing someone on the back. Kovacic nails an ankle and nothing. That’s inexplicable.
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Arsenal fans putting Liam Neeson out of work.
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Still think there will be a season when Martinelli absolutely explodes as a goalscorer and he ascends to superstar level, but he’s not far off already.
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When was this mythical season when six teams got 90 points and were delighted with how things had gone? It's a competition - when a couple of teams do really well, it comes at the expense of others.
Not to mention we now have a league where Bournemouth can outspend Sevilla.
Roy Keane:
"I think the standard has been really poor this year in terms of Premier League.
Obviously, Arsenal has been excellent, and we know how good City are, but I think rest have been really, really average." [Overlap live]
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Think Arsenal’s recovery after 55 minutes was really impressive there, and they did it by playing like a big team and not just kicking long and bunkering.
Could have been there to win had Saka and Martinelli been sharper, but Liverpool will say the same about Diaz and Szobo.
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Sterling punished for staying on his feet, Mane rewarded for throwing himself to the floor. That’s why players go down.
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For City to drop points in the run-in, especially with their fixtures, I thought they needed to get 'varianced'. As it happens, they conceded roughly three expected goals at Spurs and Forest but went unpunished. They got the run of the ball when it needed to go against them.
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Fucking hell, anyone else in the crosshairs? Arteta, Jesus, Ramsdale, Odegaard, Vic Akers, Gunnersaurus, the guy on the sweet stall?
Tuesday night can’t come soon enough. It’s been the best season in 15 years and you’d think people had been put through some kind of ordeal.
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Honestly, the replies to this going on about Arsenal last season…Arsenal were good last season! The football, data, performances vs City and Liverpool. With the youngest team and no convincing centre-forward option.
They still don’t get it.
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Let’s have a moan: it’s astonishing that people are lecturing Arsenal on their recruitment given their trajectory over last few years.
The current front three contains two academy players and a player signed from the Brazilian 4th division. There are smart people at the club.
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To find Martinelli, Saka, Smith Rowe, Nketiah (and Balogun?) for next to nothing, and have them playing in the most expensive positions on the pitch, has got Arsenal out of a huge mess.
Not write Arteta out of it, but it’s once every 25 or 30 years stuff. Maybe never. Enjoy it.
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Every year we hear the same old shite.
“The strength of the top six is the worst it’s been.”
“Nobody wants to finish fourth.”
“The battle for CL football is a pillow fight.”
Nobody joining the dots and realising there might be a reason.
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Arsenal did less wrong tonight than in the first leg. But there’s a level of speed and potency that needs adding to the forward line - and it’s not all about striker - to crack the absolute top level.
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Stop judging names and start watching the games. This has been on the cards for more than a year, if you know what you’re looking at.
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Siri: give me an example of Stockholm Syndrome.
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Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve never known a period when opinion has swung so wildly on players, the team and even Arteta (within a small minority). Like every game is a referendum. I’m sure it used to take a month or two for this to happen.
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Mesut Ozil received seven passes from Torreira and Guendouzi yesterday (4+3), compared to 24 from Xhaka and Torreira against Leicester (15+9). But obviously the problem was pashun.
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I remember those deals and thinking: really? They’re good but are they really that good? But then you see the tactical fit.
For those who struggle with comprehension: I’m not saying Arsenal’s recruitment is equivalent to Liverpool’s, just a comment on the price and profile.
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Would be very surprised if Arsenal bought a second attacking player in Jan, in addition to the one they wanted already pre-Jesus injury. You don’t invest to cover a two-month absence. Although Arsenal came close to doing this with Luiz in August.
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In my time, and beyond I think, Arsenal have never been in the market for premium price, big ticket England players (for better or worse). They go to Chelsea or Man Utd. The Rice deal would feel like such an un-Arsenal transfer. Can sense people struggling to parse it.
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Really thought the penny had dropped with Arteta when it came to balancing the attack. Three technical players behind Aubameyang looked good, occasionally (perhpas too occasionally) introducing a second scorer from the flank in Pepe or Martinelli. You could see where it was going
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There was a decade-long yearning at Arsenal for that mythical DM who could cover a couple of tennis court’s worth of space on his own while seven players were ahead of the ball/defenders sagged back. This is a different situation entirely.
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Not a single take-on attempted by Kieran Tierney last night, and lots of passes like this. Looks in need of a breather and maybe lacking a bit of confidence, but I wonder if he is too high, too early? Not benefitting from the full-back's advantage of arriving at pace.
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@GNev2
But their performances and football have been more akin to a team in 8th or 9th. Just like Arsenal's were when Emery had them 5th and in a EL final.
Fans notice this stuff, they're not conned. They know when something is 'for real' or not. The league table can lie.
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I’m very close to going full Keysey - ‘if you disagree, you’re wrong’ - over Ben White.
I find the number of people who don’t really ‘get’ him quite amazing. But oh well, their loss is Arsenal’s gain because he’s an absolute dream of a player physically and technically.
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Without question the stand-out line from this Emery interview: "In the Premier League, technical quality without physicality is not enough. City, Liverpool, Tottenham, Chelsea… All the top teams here are physical and technical. Arsenal need to be the same."
How to solve a problem like Arsenal's defence?
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Sky Sports frantically going through boxes of vinyl to find out what Arsenal fans sing when they’re winning away from home.
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The technical aspects - receiving under pressure, playing on half-turn, one and two-touch - are probably more important. Thought
@YankeeGunner
’s idea that Tielemans could even be repurposed for it was an interesting left-field shout. Certainly in certain fixtures.
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Wonderful finish, but that’s another goal that started with Arsenal playing out from the back in a tight spot. That’s where the space was created.
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Yes, that is what you expect from a 32-year-old who has been in the league since 2012.
What do you expect? Do you expect it straight away? Boom! Willian can be the best one? But he needs a little bit of time, it’s strange as well to say that but you need time to know the players who you are going to play with.'' [
@MirrorFootball
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Auoar, Auoar...
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Souness, Keane and Mourinho seems like overkill from Sky. Exclude Mourinho from this, who brings tactical insight that cannot be dismissed, but why broadcast football in 2019 using people who hate almost everything about football in 2019?
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Re-watched the first 20 minutes of Arsenal vs Chelsea and Arsenal were playing with a back five at times with Xhaka dropping in. It emptied midfield and made it too easy to feed the ball into Lukaku's feet, though - was a strange defensive set up by Arteta.
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Interesting that football was played in 1952. A more solemn and deferential age, but perhaps one less concerned with shallow, sanctimonious public displays and the cheap appropriation of emotion.
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In fact, given two of those players are coming from City, it’s probably slightly more luxe than what they did.
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Danny Higginbotham is tip-top as a co-commentator and pundit. Deserves Sky’s biggest gigs.
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@rdobbs10
One big win, and things swing again. So much commentary is driven by the previous game.
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Up to and including a 1-0 win at Brentford in late November, Arsenal ranked 12th for open-play expected goals, behind teams such as Wolves and Everton. This was, unquestionably, a problem. In the 10 Premier League matches since, Arsenal rank first for open-play xG generated.
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Quite something to manage Birmingham and Villa, Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United and Newcastle and Sunderland in one career. Even in Italy it would be considered a bit much.
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The main bit of football interest in that clip is when he goes over to Tavares to talk about TAA, and they mute him. Which can be limitation of these series. Imagine the tactical stuff - especially talking about other teams - is very guarded.
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I’m not naturally inclined to sympathise with Spurs but if Conte did walk, or even threatened to, it would reflect terribly on him. Forget all that ‘elite mentality’ nonsense.
What job did he think he was taking? What club did he think he was going to?
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Ramsdale has had a decent night after being left in it a couple of times early. That line-breaking pass into midfield in the first half possibly the takeaway moment of the game.
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@gunnerblog
In a non-football context, I saw someone point out that we forget how many users populating the replies are quite literally children.
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On Partey: can live with a few stray passes, he wants to attract opponents and take risks.
But the way opponents are dribbling past him like he's a mannequin is a real problem. Wondering why Arsenal sink deep? Not the only reason, but there's not much CM engagement.
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Here it is then: a look at Kieran Tierney and why left-back is such an important position for Arsenal and Unai Emery.
#AFC
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All of the criticisms of Rob Holding and how he affects Arsenal’s line and build-up are absolutely spot on.
But there’s a level of outrage about the fact he’s even playing which I find a bit silly. He didn’t start a league game until March 19. That tells you Arteta’s opinion.
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Apart from when the opposition were called Burnley, Xhaka's just had his best season for Arsenal and was really consistent. He's carried that form on here.
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The tracking of Gabriel Magalhaes by Arsenal fans has reached the JFK assassination stage I see.
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@ronnochamilton
@samuelluckhurst
Well said, I’m glad someone has skewered this shite once and for all.
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Apart from the red against Burnley last season, Xhaka has been consistently good under Arteta and very reliable. He’s no Vieira, Fabregas or even Partey on talent, but that’s no reason to call him a ‘disgrace’.
Petulant from Neville, who has had a stinker of a season.
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That game was a decent encapsulation of Arteta’s Arsenal: good organisation, smooth build-up play but too many moves breaking down before they result in a shot and and some chances conceded from set-pieces.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Arteta and his staff were more satisfied with the team now than they were in August. Yet everyone on the outside feels worse.
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Chelsea are assembling a collection of young talent the likes of which the Europa Conference League has never seen.
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It’s funny because Arsenal *feel* a lot more dangerous than their shots and negligible xG suggest. Three or four better decisions/passes per game and those numbers could improve. Midfield quality needed, but it feels doable.
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Arsenal can generate more money from sales by buying better (this has happened) and reaching faster decisions on fringe/young players, which I think is where there’s room for improvement. Although not an easy skill to get right.
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No manager has indefinite immunity but I think Arteta is now out of the territory where one bad result or performance prompts the big, soul-searching questions.
Which is good for everyone because that's exhausting and boring. He can end up back there, of course.
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