Hopefully that knock keeps Saka out of the England games
Hopefully that knock keeps Saka out of the England games
Jesus is hopeless
Great defending from Trossard there.
1-1 FT.
how did we not score at the end?
A better performance than what we've become use to seeing, but honestly, at the moment, we're nothing special and pretty average.
In fact, if things stay the same, we'd be lucky to make a CL spot. We are that average now.
It’s all relative isn’t it, compared to who?.Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE
Villa, Chelsea, Newcastle, Spurs even City and Liverpool (who play almost all their toughest fixtures at the second half of the season)
It’s all context as well, had we not lost the last two games this would have been a decent result
It’s a case of regrouping after the break.
I don’t think we are any worse than any other team in fact in most areas we are better, but because of the fact that we’ve spent so much money in defensive areas, we don’t have a goalscorer to bail us out.
I’m disappointed to have lost to Bournemouth, drawn with Liverpool and lost to Newcastle
But I also think by far we’ve had the hardest six away fixtures of any team in the league. And the likelihood is if we can build up some form, by Xmas we will be in touch with the leaders (I don’t think there’s anyway this Liverpool team is going to be nine points ahead of us by then)
I think this is a decent side, held back by an inferior coach…but as before we can get results despite him
A point at Chelsea is usually not bad but we really needed to win today to get our season going. I liked some of what I saw today, but only in short spells. I don't like how we are defending this season, we have looked really shakey defensively all season, stretching far back to the Villa away game where we basically got out of jail with Watkins missing sitters.
I have personally conceeded the title this season, I think we are going to be in the chasing pack for a while if we don't improve our performances, i think 3rd is the best we can hope for this season in PL.
I think it will be Xmas time/new year where we can properly assesses where we are
I don’t think City are going just through a bad patch, they are heamoraging. Take away losing Rodri for the season which is a far bigger loss than Odegaard for them. Bernardo Silva, De Bruyne, Stones, Ederson and Walker are not the players they were…Grealish and Foden are off the boil and they can’t just buy their way out of their problem
Liverpool? I’m sorry they just don’t impress me. I think they won against a wasteful Villa team last night…with the exception of us they haven’t really been tested. They were lucky to beat Chelsea and get a point from us, and aside from that they’ve had by far the easiest fixtures.
We’ve been in shocking form since the last international break. And we definitely, definitely need a striker. There’s no way we can win the league without signing one in January. We’ve ridden our luck at times but so have a lot of teams. That’s my takeaway that no side has looked good, and because of an obdurate manager we could be in danger of missing the open opportunity to get to the top of the pack
The problem we are going to have is to break teams down that will play a deep block
The solution will be to keep players like Merino as far away from the first team as possible, if we need to bring him or Timber on for fresh legs that’s one thing. But hopefully Calafiori is back after the break and we will have more width and a quicker attack.
The other thing is Arteta has to stop being awkward and admit that this Rice at number 8 is an utter failure that has to end
Not worth thinking about the title at this stage, we’ve lost too much ground but granted we’ve had a lot of difficult games.
It is absolutely essential now that we put together a run of wins from now into the new year.
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