A first half goal from Alexander Isak was enough to condemn Arsenal to a 1-0 defeat away at Newcastle this afternoon.
The Gunners never really got going, barely threatening the home side’s goal and this was, by some distance, the worst performance of the season so far.
Here’s how the players rated this evening.
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Now that the pressure of winning the league is off, we will see some great performances from this team.
Man city lost though thank fuck for that!!!
1st November everybody
2nd. Dammit. Still no time to be giving up.
I give everyone a 1 for wasting my fucking day!
Right? Their play does not match their paycheck! Id fine all of them 1 weeks worth of wages
No kidding, this should be done.
I advise you to change the way you experience your Arsenal fandom. It takes time as a process but I urge you to find a way to not have your mood determined by football. Arsenal losing or winning, your life is the same. Enjoy the good things. The good passes and chances and seeing Nwaneri on and Ben White back. Peace
and consider that i had to be on the phone with Virgin to activate TNT this morning; what a waste of time and money
Cool story
It blew up in your face?
got a broken foot and can’t go out to watch matches, so I added TNT yesterday, but said that it would take 10 day to show up, so i had to call them to get it activated in time for the match ;
1 shot on target should tell u the story. No one to blame. Tactically beaten by Newcastle who were up for it.
Good point.
To me this doesn’t feel just tactical. So many players are way under performing as compared to last season, and sure some of that has to do with our injuries and resulting makeshift lineups, but for me this also has fatigue written all over it. You won’t catch me criticising Arteta too much but the one pet peeve I have with him is that he, along with international football, runs these players into the ground. They kept finding little fuel reserves the last two seasons I think mainly because of the high of being so near a title, but that… Read more »
I don’t necessarily disagree, but it’s hard to tell about the individual performances when the on-field combos and partnerships have changed so much. You can see people making passes anticipating movement from a teammate that doesn’t happen. I wish we’d have been using Nwerari as a direct MO replacement more to help develop some of those instincts, because he was on a different page from White and Saka (but the potential is clearly there).
The potential is there sure but he’s definitely not Martin Odegaard, especially at this point of his career, so I think we’d lose something either way. It’s easy to fantasise about how well he could’ve played instead of whatever other combos we’ve had in midfield given some of his performances, but Newcastle away isn’t Preston North End and I don’t think it’s reasonable to assume he’d play as well as he has in limited time so far if you started and played him 90 minutes vs Liverpool and at Newcastle. And if he doesn’t he’s suddenly no longer the golden… Read more »
10/10 for Arteta for sending Jorginho in for payback.
worst game I have watched from the lads in a long time. offered nothing.
Our attack is just pathetic this season. And it’s not a one off game. We have really struggled with creativity. I wonder if perhaps Arteta needs to look for an attacking coach to add to our staff.
How about arteta is the coach and we get a manager for games?
We used to get bonus goals when we had Henry. Defenders just give up when they see him in some game phases. That fear, that fear, donde esta?
It’s not coaching it’s personnel. We are missing our most creative player and don’t have sufficient trusted cover in that position so we are playing in a less creative way. Arteta & staff know how to do it, he just chooses not to at this moment.
Where is Arteta’s rating?
Did Arteta play?
If he swapped woth Merino, would anyone have noticed?
Does he play when we trash another team and he gets 10/10?
He never gets a rating because these are PLAYER ratings.
i appreaciate it could be controversial to have a rating for MA,
it’s not like a vote of confidence in him as a manager, (whether he should stay or go) but he puts in the team, prepares the plan makes the subs,
Use the pain for the next two away games before the interlull. Let’s win both !
While I appreciate this positive approach I need to stew in some negative juices for a day or two. Things will look brighter next week, just don’t look at any other results or watch pundits.
I understand and also feel robbed by the lads as I spent 2 hours of my weekend watching this shit and now my mood is done until Wednesday.
But, if we win all remaining games we will end up with 102 points so I am a bit upset with these « title’s gone ». If Mikel, his staff and/or the players had this mentality we’d be Everton so I think we need to imitate their mindset when it comes to do our job as supporters.
we are certainly going the wrong way about it.
How do you think I feel. I wanted a little bit of hope today because Tuesday will probably see the fall of democracy where I live. We could not even take a throw in without slowing down the game to a crawl.
I’m with you Edzo. Expat living in Virginia. I early voted yesterday and was hoping for a pick-me-up today from the lads in advance of Tuesday.
Arsenal was shit today, so so dreadful.
Disagree that this was the worst performance by far this season, we have also been awful against Bournemouth, but everyone hid by a ref decision that we would have wanted in our favour had it been a Bournemouth defender committing the foul. We were also awful against Shaktar Donetsk, so this was top 3 of worst performances but by no means a one off.
Spot on. In general we have been poor all season bar Villa and city.
Our slow unimaginative style is a hard watch. I hate it. That is down to coaching.
We were down to ten men for over an hour against Bournemouth, so what do you want the team to do there? The red was also borderline. The referee’s initial decision to award a yellow was not a clear and obvious error as the foul was on the halfway line with potential cover arriving and as such VAR had no cause intervening. I would put that down as another game where we were happily screwed by the officials.
i’d say worst of the top 3 you mentioned.
Gave them all a 1 star.. with a few 0.5’s for ruining my Saturday night. I would be surprised if we finish top 6 with the way Villa and Chelsea are playing. I am predicting a 6th place finish. All on Arteta.
Some on Arteta, a lot on injuries, and a fair bit on the club/Edu for over investing in the back six positions and none in attack. (That’s not to say I lament the loss of anyone who we let leave.)
Empty performance, lacking any attacking cohesion. Newcastle absolutely coasted through without ever feeling threatened. Back to the drawing board because this team isn’t achieving anything with or without Odegaard.
Trying not to be reactionary these days, but it feels like we’ve gone backwards this season. I know the referees, injuries and fixture gods haven’t shined on us, but struggling to see how this team is going to string enough results together to improve on the past two seasons. We’ve got more depth at the back, but apart from that: Martinelli has peaked and isn’t going to magically discover an end product Jesus is a shadow of the player we saw when he first signed Arteta clearly doesn’t think Sterling is good enough, and he’s probably right Trossard is struggling… Read more »
I love the bullet points. An ordered set of statements/facts is refreshing to see.😂
Yes one of the cups this year league has gone. Champions league is do-able once Ø back. Amazingly we are third favourites with the bookies for it, they clearly haven’t see us play recently.
Good points. Of the recent acquisitions Calafiori is the only one who looks like a game changer. Merino and Timber look like nice pieces that raise the depth floor but we are dropping points in the same ways we did without them. Like you say it’s a long season and it could all come together, but right now it’s hard to think we shouldn’t have been investing in competition for Martinelli.
Last 2 weeks gave an indication we are not title material. This week confirmed it.
Sad to say I live in Northumberland & the black & white knobheads will be all over this ! Partey was best player on the pitch by a country mile but in the WRONG position !! Insipid performance lacking heart & will to win. Said it before & here it is again ! We play to the diagrams shown to them by Arteta For all the good he’s done he has no capacity to change tactics or formations & we need to win something this season with that squad or he has to seriously have a look at himself! Nobody… Read more »
I thought Partey played well too but hes one of those that tends to get criticism quicker than others. We needed more attackers on. Trossard and Martinelli were both poor and Saka was double marked throughout the game. Hard to be a playmaker playing out of position in a situation like that.
I agree – Party did okay but what waste at right back and doesn’t offer Saka the attacking support he needs, the overlapping runs, movement etc so the right side is flat and for a couple of years it’s where the goals come from !
martinelli was poor but double or triple marked at times, he’s not tactically astutute (or not instructed) to switch play soon enough for us to gain an advantage
Partey deserves a higher rating. I think he was one of the better players and considering we’re asking him to play RB I don’t think you can ask much more. Also the fact the movement in front of him was constantly poor where is he meant to pass to?
First that’s our challenge for the title well and truly gone.
Very ponderous in possession and the obsession to have control is infuriating. The goal we conceded today came from the opponent switching play quickly and not dallying on the ball like we did all day. As s for ratings nobody really worth rating at all today.
I hate these early starts! Perhaps the team does too as the entire squad looked completely off their game today. Particularly Rice. This caps a series of lack-lustre performances and probably puts paid to any PL title aspirations – and we’ve only just entered November!
Has the fight for the top 4 officially started today? 🤔
There are still 84 points to take.
The value of mo has become increasingly apparent. I do not want to tun this into a ref bash, yet I remain very puzzled. In 1st merino and one of the Brazilian divers had some sort of foot to foot contact. HDTV showed nothing. Yet a foul on merino after the diver rolled around. in the second someone goes up and comes down on Saka’s Achilles. my commentator says it was an accident. So what? No foul given for the opponent injuring the best player and rendering him mostly useless for five minutes or so. then this is the one… Read more »
Hyperbolic perhaps, but unless City shit the bed, I think thats it now.
Well what do you know!
Harsh Blogger.
True, we’re off it ATM but when we have a stable back 4, things will change for the better.
( and don’t forget Martin)
Cheer up people……
Maybe we need Amoron to change our fortunes😂😂😂😂
So we have 1 world class forward in saka. It’s disappointing to try and win the league with just that. If our defence was working, it could be possible but that doesn’t even seem to be working at the moment.
Should have strengthened up top. No tactics can make up for individual quality and we just don’t have it going forward.
Dubai anyone?
the Tomas partey experiment, what a joke. Too lose one premiership title with it is laughable but lose two is beyond belief, when we had the player sent off vs Bournemouth their was 6 lads in shot around Arteta, i presume they were their today and ill guarantee you Stevie Wonder blindfolded would of made changes to our system after 15 minutes today
This league is wide open, there are many very good teams, not really any great teams.
The low quality of our attacking bench is our undoing. Not one person on that bench is a game changer
Could it be Mikel is suffering from coming so near twice and not winning, realising Pep is going to stay ? A new contract syndrome… 🤔 Also, five years is a long time in today’s world and it must’ve taken lots of energy off him to manage the team. It’s all connected and might’ve rubbed off to the players . Finally I do feel for the away Arsenal supporters.
Serious questions need to be asked about a couple of players. Trossard, for one, has been absolutely dire starting. He gives it the big no celebration indicating he should start and then has been awful in the last 4 games.
Then Martinelli on the left, yikes. The last season and a bit, he has dropped off a cliff. Why not try Sterling from the left? Would Nwaneri be any worse than Trossard? At least we would have an excuse that he’s 17.
Are the problems that we’re overcoached? I dunno, but some players need dropped and fast.
Ponderous buildup looks like security and control — if the cork pops out several times a game and Saka or Odegaard initiate disruptions. If they’re out, or knocked, or if chance distributes their contributions unevenly, we don’t seem to have a team system that can create those imbalances and opportunities. Maybe we just haven’t faced enough game minutes for that approach to be natural, so our guys revert to the habits that generally work when there are two geniuses up front.
I got butchered last week (and many other poor games this season) when I said Arteta will not win the title nor the CL. Downvotes came pouring in, as I’m sure they will again. Soft team, deluded fanbase (not all, but many).
Well, you’re not going to win hearts and minds when you label fellow fans ‘deluded’
Dysfunctional midfield again. Forwards need vertical passes. Awful all round performance. Not over yet though. Martin back soon.
Slow. Backwards. No urgency. No plan B. No plan A other than passing the ball around slowly. Everyone was below par. Some downright awful. Low on confidence. Nothing wrong losing away at Newcastle except for the fact we already dropped points at bourmouth, against Brighton. Unless something major happens to Man City the title push is over. Hopefully this display will lead to the purchase of a quality backup for odegaard, a backup for Saka. Jesus and Sterling are wasted space on the team. I’d say the same about Zinchenko but he did just come back from injury. He will… Read more »
Not sure about some of the ratings. Partey was out best player and White kept gaving the ball away carelessly when he came on…
We were absolutely rubbish
Created zero
Need Martin back
Pointless doing ratings if you’re just gonna take the piss and dish out 4’s for our players. The movment was poor at times, we badly miss odegaard, but show a bit of support ffs. They huffed and puffed but we’re lacking momentum at the moment. Bit unsure about the impact merino is having. He’s playing ok but I think he disrupts the shape and flow of the midfield. I’d stick zinchenko in at left back, timber at right back and put party in the middle where he’s badly needed right now.
Bad day at the office….only watched the second half, Newcastle looked well organised and we were below par.