Arsenal 5-1 Man City, Player rating and Match Reaction

[HCZ_Reborn]

Raya 8 - Exceptional save from Gvardiol, could do nothing about the Haaland header


Timber 7 - Bit early to be picking up a yellow card but other than that did well both defensively and getting forwards


Saliba 8 - Haaland got the better of him once, but other than that Saliba had him on the leash


Gabriel 8 - It’s almost like he took Haaland throwing a football at his head personally. Followed him around like an intense stalker


Lewis-Skelly 9 - Who the fuck are you? That goal celebration top trolling


Partey 8 - One of his best games in an Arsenal jersey


Rice 7.5 - Was the engine in the team today kept everything ticking over


Martinelli 8 - This is a player to unleash on the counter attack


Odegaard 7.5 - Did not dictate the play as he usually does, but actually I think that worked better as he complimented others rather than trying to be the conductor


Havertz 7.5 - Would have marked him higher but for the horrendous miss, still low on confidence but he makes himself available. Someone else on here claims he ducks responsibility, he does no such thing


Trossard 7 - Mature performance, protected Lewis-Skelly behind him



Subs -

Sterling, Calafiori, Merino - N/A, They were there to add fresh legs to a game that was already won

Nwaneri 8 - Struck with nonchalant disdain for his opponents


This was a good old fashioned battering. Until Haaland got the equaliser we were too cautious by far, this is a side that absolutely gave its back four zero protection and so we decided (and rightly) fuck it lets tear them up.

There really isn’t much analysis to give, so I think will just end it with….Stay Humble

[Niall_Quinn]

We need a striker.

[Marc Overmars]

Might be too late for this season but if this team had an effective striker I would put money on us to win the league.

But we don’t have one and because of that we’re playing catch up and likely to be rueing another missed chance come May.

Monstrous performance today that should send confidence flying. Would be superb to cap it off by turning around the Newcastle semi final as well.

[Niall_Quinn]

Excellent point made elsewhere - MLS would have been banned today if Oliver and England and Webb got away with their bullshit.

[HCZ_Reborn]

One thing that stands out to me, only Liverpool have scored more goals than us in the premier league yet 24 games in we don’t have a single player who has reached double figures in goals

We also have had 15 different goal scorers

For context
Forest and Chelsea have 13
Liverpool and City have 11
Newcastle have 8


I like that goals are spread around the whole team, but with us because we don’t have an attacking focal point it means our goal scoring is inconsistent. Before today we had managed 7 goals in our last 5 home league games

[Mac76]

Would be superb to cap it off by turning around the Newcastle semi final as well.

Yeah I thought that was dead and buried but it has to be a real possibiliry now

[HCZ_Reborn]

I think it’s too late now. We have to win every game from now until the end of the season and hope that at bare minimum Liverpool lose two and draw two.

I think they’ve been lucky this season at times with decisions that have gone for them. But I don’t see them dropping ten points from the next 45 up for grabs. I think we could beat them at Anfield but I suspect the title will have been wrapped up by then. Even when they’ve been poor, they’ve found a way of getting a goal to get their way out of trouble.

Nothing short of an injury to Salah would derail them.


Us? I don’t see us winning every game. We scored five yesterday against a team with zero protection for its defence yet continually tried to play out from the back. Our XG was something like 1.4. We will revert to huff and puff when Newcastle gives us nothing on Wednesday. Though if we manage to score early and draw them out, could be different story

[Mac76]

I think it’s too late now.

blimey the turnaround really is on

[HCZ_Reborn]

blimey the turnaround really is on

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Ahhhhh, I've been trying to find this picture for months (I work with someone from Stoke) and that post has made me find it



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