A first half penalty, harshly awarded against Mikel Merino for handball, was enough for Inter Milan to beat Arsenal 1-0 at the San Siro this evening.
It came at the end of a fairly even first 45, in which thee Gunners could have had a penalty themselves when Merino was caught in the face by Yann Sommer. In the second Arsenal had their moments. Kai Havertz forced Sommer into an excellent save, and had a close range effort brilliantly blocked, while Gabriel’s header from a Bukayo Saka corner was headed off the line.
Arteta’s men couldn’t find the breakthrough though, and now look to Sunday’s clash with Chelsea as a way to respond.
Here’s how the players rated this evening.
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Inter are a typical Italian team, defensively minded and know all the tricks in rhe book, but that is now 3 away games in a row where we have barely looked like scoring. Sad to say we are turning into a team whose best chance or scoring is at set pieces.
Amen!
And this too shall pass
True. Sadly, our opponents – domestic and European – have figured out how to stymie us. At the moment we simply don’t have enough attacking potential to counter this (certainly not from open play) and our set piece threat is gradually being nulllified. Perhaps a “hail-mary” January hire may enable us to rescue this season. But, as things stand we are lar increasingly toothless, and vulnerable.
Trossard should be lower. He does nothing when he starts and gets grumpy when only coming on as a sub.
I would give Havertz an extra 0.5 for putting his body on the line. Looked like a nasty cut.
He’s been a disaster for the last 4/5 games. I find it baffling he’s rewarded with a start in a CL game.
Thought Partey grew into the game. Timber was our best performer thought it was baffling replacing him with Zinky. Our performance overall was better than of late but continually crossing was like hitting our heads against a wall.
We’re getting used to be beaten.
We’re basically a better looking, possession based Stoke.
What happened to the vibes of 22/23? Why can’t we play through teams anymore?
Sigh.
Arteta needs to develop, game management is very poor and there is so much potential in this team that I think needs to be let loose. However, it doesn’t fit into his risk-minimised approach and we are paying a very high price for it.
Bonus rating bang on, they are utterly awful to listen to especially when the game is pretty frustrating too. Not a fan of the behemoth that is Amazon, but the stadium noise only feature on prime is great. Fletch is such an annoying cunt, McCoist, nice chap that he probably is, is also irritating as fuck and the less said about Ferdinand the better.
Ratings bang on. Mostly average to good this evening.
Let’s fucking beat those Chelsea cunts on Sunday to get back on track!
Apologies to any non sweary people x
I think you gave the commentary too high a rating. It was terrible, anti Arsenal.
Had to mute the TNT commentary tonight, was unbearable!
Much better and more assured effort that deserved no worse than shared points. In addition to harsh hand ball, it was never a foul in the first place, Martinez is an extremely frustrating player to watch. Mid-field just not clicking and we are way too reliant on chance creation by B and Gab, and the opposition is well aware. Is an enormous boost to have our captain back; really can’t afford to have another important game with Leo starting in his place (much rather see Ethan). So much still to play for, desperately need a bit of good fortune and/or… Read more »
We can’t score goals and are really lacking in attack. Everything what we do in final third currently is too predictable.
With a more direct and clinical striker would we have nicked a goal?
Unlike some of the other teams, we’ve had a very tough start to the season fixture wise, I’m hoping this balances out as the season goes and we get our rhythm going again.
If only our attackers were as good going forward as they are at defending…
Another poor performance imo. Second half especially.
Although there were some signs of life.
The slow pendulum of our form needs to start swinging the other way because we just can’t continue like this.
Not usually one to be up in arms about these ratings, but 5.5 for Trossard is 4 top high. Comfortably our worst player for about 5 games now.
I hope Havertz is not concussed.
Trossard is so much more effective coming off the bench than when starting. He should be used as an impact sub.
We are incapable of scoring from open play and the “Jover is a genius” moment is over, Teams have figured out our set piece strategies – and in some cases have used them against us – it’s time for a serious strategic rethink – not to mention a real striker.
Oh, and Rio “Peanuts” Ferdinand is a complete idiot. How does he have a punditry career?! Makes Neville (& even Carragher) look clever.
I can’t see the ratings, so I’m commenting without knowing the review. Seems like Arteta and many on this forum have a blind spot when it comes to Havertz. He isn’t good enough, he becomes anonymous and toothless for weeks on end. “Works hard” isn’t valuable enough for a team that considers itself a Champion’s League and EPL title contender. One-trick pony that sometimes heads in goals when supply is there. Huge amount of playing time with so little return.
Saka is our best player and could be on his way to being a legend but I felt his decision making was very poor.