Seeing all his rat bastard teammates cover up German racism & turn on him & then subsequently go on the worst run in German international history gives me great joy.
this incoming 2nd place with most wins, most goals scored, least goals conceded, most clean sheets, most shirt sales, most corners scored, loudest away fans, golden glove, highest GD
Rodri given his flowers & rightly so but when Arsenal were on pace for the league & lost Saliba, we’d bottled it. Arsenal are viewed through a different lens than every other team, criticism over menial things & praise only when we do the extraordinary.
it’s genuinely funny at this point no matter how obscure the stat is there’s ALWAYS one name. his legacy as the greatest this league has ever seen is undisputed.
Only three players have scored in each of the first five away games of a Premier League season:
◎ Thierry Henry (01/02)
◎ Mohamed Salah (21/22)
◉ Jarrod Bowen (23/24)
ELITE company. ⚒
Reece James doesn’t play enough football to warrant the conversations he finds himself in. Availability is the best ability and a prerequisite for being an elite footballer. Give me White for 40 90’s over RJ’s 16 starts.
2-2 Bayer Leverkusen.
THEY HAVE DONE IT AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY HAVE DONE IT AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY HAVE ACTUALLY DONE IT AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVEN THE GREATEST SCRIPT WRITERS COULDN'T WRITE THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bukayo Saka on his fitness ahead of Brighton:
🗣️ “Yeah, I was struggling but as long as I have two legs I’m going to give everything. I just want to be on the pitch.”
21st Century Arsenal heritage is the club employing a mercurial, truly generational playmaking talent at (almost) all times
Bergkamp 1995 - 2006
Fabregas 2004 - 2011
Özil 2013 - 2021
Øde 2021 - Present
1 -
@Arsenal
's Martin Ødegaard is the first player on record (since 2003-04) to complete 100+ passes (107), create at least five chances (7), and assist multiple goals (2) in the same Premier League match. Maestro.
🎙️ Ange Postecoglou on whether
#thfc
will play differently vs Arsenal:
"In terms of the way we play, we're not changing, mate. We'll go out and scare the life out of them." |
@standardsport
All these years watching football, I’ve still never seen anything like Henry. A CF that roamed to either wing & would come to the half-way line to start attacks. Could switch the ball effortlessly. Dribble past 3-4 effortlessly.
I cannot believe Zinchenko fouled Ødegaard too btw, this story has been written 100x in the past & will be again in the future. He cannot touch the pitch in these Champions League games. Timber/Tomi or bust.
You have to be a sick bastard to be a retired French CB & hate on Saliba, screams insecurity to make a statement like Desailly did about a 22 year old fgs
Neville’s Arsenal takes:
- Won’t finish T4 in 22/23
- Wont finish ahead of United or Spurs
- Arsenal have NO transfer strategy
- United & Pool main challengers to City in 23/24
- Arteta has reached his ceiling w/ Arsenal (at 5th)
- Xhaka uncoachable
- Ben White will flop
Martinelli on his 2nd goal Vs Leeds: "I was supposed to be running back to defend. The next day in the meeting, Albert Stuivenberg said, ‘You scored a great goal but you were supposed to mark the full-back’. I said, ‘No, sorry!'” [
@TheAthleticUK
]
115 charges. Imagine a sprinter was just on heinous amounts of steroids & won the 100m sprint at the Olympics with no one batting an eyelid. Literally what’s happening right now but no one cares.
Manchester United announce Lisandro Martinez will be out for 'an extended' period after aggravating his foot injury from last spring in their match against Arsenal.
They also recently lost Sergio Reguilón to injury 🤕
Can’t believe what I’m seeing from Jesus. Inconceivable this is the player that joined us last season. I prayed daily for three years for Lacazette to leave & he’s just spawned back in without anyone batting an eyelid.
My little brother, Manveer Singh. A 16 year-old, 6ft 3 CB that has played at top academies all over the country. He is open to any opportunity to play football at a higher level or for scholarships to a top university whether that be in the UK or North America.
Neuer gave some of us subject to recency bias a little reminder of the levels between him & Alisson still.
#1
&
#2
all-time but Neuer’s a genius on the ball.
LFC fans hang onto aerial duel % like it prevents 30 goals a season. Where was that aerial duel win when Gabriel crashed it on Konaté's head at Anfield or when VVD let the ball bounce for Martinelli?
Kyle Walker led
#mcfc
players in angrily refusing to shake the hand of Arsenal (and former City coach) Nicolas Jover after the match. City players were shocked to see him waiting for them given he twice refused to shake their hands after losing last year
Bukayo Saka for Arsenal vs. Chelsea:
Most duels won (10)
Most chances created (3)
Most take-ons completed (3)
Joint-most tackles (3)
Joint-most fouls won (3)
Most fouls conceded (3)
Joint-most interceptions (2)
1 assist
[
@Squawka
]
#afc
The team I watched over those two legs was unrecognisable. Wasn’t even tactical, purely mental. Arteta, like the players, is a child in experience terms.
Arsenal youngster Chido Obi-Martin:
"He (Arteta) just praises me all the time and says nice things, so it's very nice. Of course it makes me proud.
I would like to stay at Arsenal for a long time." [bold via football london]
Aké made playing LB as a CB way too easy, most underrated player in that treble winning team. Gvardiol, Colwill, Kiwior etc. tried to replicate his role & have looked out of place/uncomfortable.
Too reliant on the system is a crazy buzzword sesh. He’s literally performed under every manager, in every position & in teams where there is no system (late Emery, Southgate).
See how fickle the ‘done it in Champions League’ arguments were. Dominant performances at the Etihad, OT, Anfield, Spurs but a goal against PSV is what was necessary for Saka to be considered elite.
Martin Odegaard is fit to take part in Arsenal's training session ahead of their Champions League match with Bayern Munich following an injury concern 🔴
Gabriel in the last calendar year really eradicated his hesitance on the ball, cleaned up his driven passes centrally & hasn’t been caught getting silly second yellow’s. Seriously elite calibre now, Saliba the best in the position & Gabriel doesn’t miss a beat next to him.
4 - Eden Hazard is one of only four players in Premier League history to score 15+ goals and provide 15+ assists in a single season:
2018-19 - Eden Hazard (16G 15A)
2002-03 - Thierry Henry (24G 20A)
1994-95 - Matt Le Tissier (19G 15A)
1992-93 - Eric Cantona (15G 16A)
Special.
Gabriel x Saliba x Rice big 3 is a joke. Like having a dyson vacuum in the middle of the pitch for long balls. Any type of duel isn’t even contested it’s just sucked up and recycled.
Saka’s suffering from some sort of ‘voter fatigue’ from his own fans because as much as I love other players (Gabriel esp), Saka has been head & shoulders our best player.
What the hell is this XI. £18m & they’ve slapped the most expensive team in football. Football has definitely become desensitised to what De Zerbi is doing
Jesus is less explosive, seems to have less athleticism in general since his world-cup injury. Was beating 3-4 men on a weekly basis last season. Haven’t seen those mazy runs like he did v. Palace, Bournemouth, Leicester at the start of last season this entire calendar year.
@afceasy
yep yep. there’s absolutely no way spurs players are throwing that game. these guys wanna be playing CL & they’ll have financial incentives too as well as for the club it’s an extra £40m.
Mbappé GOAT discourse is insanely fried. 2000/2010s the level of individuals was much higher & still he can’t differentiate himself as the undisputed best. Forget Messi & CR, he’s nowhere near the level of guys like Suarez, Bale & Ney.
European refs are rarely a talking point, as is reffing at international tournaments & other sports like cricket/rugby. Suggests it’s not a case of incompetence but rather deliberate.
Post-game interrogation into every moment of contact gagging for a refereeing decision to excuse your inability to score more goals than the other team is an annoying new trend on here
Lazy narrative you dirty casual. Arsenal, like United, needed to purge big stars & reset the wage structure + culture. He won a trophy within 6 months, within his first full season he gutted & rebuilt the squad with youth.
Martinelli situation is sad tbh, there’s no need for two defensive minded midfielders in a 433 & then for your LB to be inverting or holding Gabriel’s hand on top of that.
Nuno Mendes, Davies or Theo would be a worthwhile investment in the summer for freshening the dynamic.
Isak can win a ballon d’Or at Arsenal, that’s the ceiling of that deal. He’s a better
#9
than Bruno is a
#8
.
BUT from a squad building perspective, Bruno is a more logical purchase because Havertz is a highly competent
#9
whereas we do not have a left
#8
alternative.
& you know the INSANE thing about Saka. He actually does this. 31 G/A, over 20 points won, 2nd most G/A in the CL while tracking back, progressing in each phase, keeping width, being the team’s creative HUB & getting kicked/double teamed. & then people question his ability!?
Insane. You enter the season without a
#6
, three completely new midfielders, marquee fwd out for two months at AFCON, both FBs with lengthy absences. Klopp is in the conversation for coach of the year for even having Liverpool competing.