Craven Cottage once again proved to be a frustrating hunting ground for Arsenal, after a 1-1 draw saw the Gunners drop another 2 points.
Raul Jimenez fired the home side ahead in the first half, before William Saliba equalised early in the second. Mikel Arteta’s men dominated the game, but really didn’t create enough in terms of goal scoring chances. The frustration was heightened by Bukayo Saka’s late goal being chalked off because Gabriel Martinelli couldn’t stay onside in the build-up.
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Just to twist the knife a bit more in an already miserable season.
21 years and counting.
Jeez. Have some faith. Everton next up at home, palace away and then Ipswich at home. Tough place to go Fulham. Dominated them.
I’m sorry but with all due respect this sounds delusional, as written below by someone we’ve become Almost FC over the years.
I refuse to be clinging on to false hope anymore. Until we actually win the title this is nothing more than a mirage.
We have the best manager we have had in a long long time. Since the Wenger years pre Ambamovich. We have a wonderful team with some outstanding players. We have a great atmosphere created. I get the disappointment. I thought we were poor the first half whilst keeping them to next to nothing. Second half we upped and could have won. Liverpool got beat at home by forest. They have have had a few lucky wins. City have gone to pieces. Are you watching Chelsea, currently losing two one and absolutely all over the place defensively. We have played Villa,… Read more »
Your optimism is admirable.
I’d be more than happy to eat my words at the end of the season, let’s see if we can pull off a footballing miracle.
This didn’t age well. We are coming third in a one horse race mate. Face it.
Really annoyed about the result today. Kinda feel like Mikel has to take a lot of the responsibility. Sometimes I do think he unnecessarily complicates things when there’s a far more suitable solution. Partey isn’t a RB, he’s played some of his best football in midfield for us this season, and sure, I get it; he inverts centrally etc.. but it’s still not the same as him being there all the time as an actual midfielder. Felt it was a mistake to not have him in there given Fulham were always going to be compact and sit in their shape.… Read more »
Every single sub made us worse. That’s on Mikel.
Err….might that not be more on the players?
Chelsea are great atm
Chelsea won! I understand your optimism but I can’t take it home with me. It’s been a nearly thing for so long. What evidence does the team gives to warrant the optimism anyway? Our left side is just not functioning, injuries are ravaging the team.
Bleeding Gums Murphy – I hear you but on the other hand, City are only a few points lower than us despite all they’ve gone through. Liverpool beat AC Milan in Italy, Manchester United at Old Trafford (0-3, which is why I even mention it), they beat Chelsea, they beat Leipzig in Germany, they beat Real Madrid (I appreciate this may have an asterisks next to it this year), and I don’t think they lost a single game in the CL. Chelsea have won five on the bounce since they drew to us which includes trolloping Villa 3-0. They’ve lost… Read more »
Efeli – I know how you feel and its totally you’re right to feel it. Personally, I find it is best to detach from time to time. If you pin your hopes on Premier League football in the modern era, then you’re going to feel deflated more often than not. I just struggle to understand how the fixtures were really skewed somehow this season. Away CL games with big games on the weekend, away game after away game. Then there were seriously contentious decisions: Rice sent off before NLD, Trossard sent off at the Emirates, Saliba sent off (harshly but… Read more »
Hard to keep faith when a team buries 1 out of 2 chances in 90 mins, cursed with injuries and if we are honest we have not been fluid in open play for most of the season.
Not going to launch into Kai as one way or another he does have involvement in goals but we need a prominent scorer. It doesn’t help when the reserve striker is as hopeless as what Jesus has been. He offers nothing and I would love to eat them words about him but I doubt it.
Arsenal are just not good enough. Why is it we coped well with defensive injuries last season with two fewer players? This season we have Timber and Calafiori yet we struggle to put a settled defence out. We need a squad of players who can step in and deliver. Not players like Jesus or Zinchenko who just ponce a living or Tomiyasu who is persistently injured. Surely it’s time to cancel his contract – he never plays. Even now this club carries too much deadwood.
Ahh..we dominated them! Did we get extra points? I understand, there is still a lot of season to come but we are already approaching half way stage, and every such result takes us to the inevitable! Heck even Chelsea looking a much better challenger than us
Wow, reading the replies you’d think we were mid table, not second. So many games left, it’s not gone yet.
I admire your optimism.
But when you are 7 points off the pace and have already dropped silly points, away at Fulham has to be three points if you’re serious about winning the league.
You think dropping two at Fulham means we are not serious? Like we went there to futz around? I know you are using a turn of phrase but projecting intent on people who are clearly top of their field and desperate to bring trophies to their fans is weak.
Drawing at Fulham is not silly. Could have been better, sure. We can still improve and others can dip. It’s not “ours to lose”, for sure, but abandoning hope now is absolutely useless.
We’re third.
Oh crap. Thats the last time i hot laid too. Happy times…..
Jeez that seemed harsh all round.
We needed to win granted. But one moment of quality from them, missing Gabriel in that moment, and a completely dominant performance, with small margins, against a really good side away from home where others will also struggle. Don’t think it was as bad as all that.
Our performance doesn’t matter at this point, it’s the result. Champions find results when they need it. That season we had 89 points in a few seasons ago we always found a way to rescue points. Last season and this season we don’t seem to, for whatever reason
Points dropped. You don’t win the league on performances. We can praise the team, rue misfortune and all of that, but two points dropped when you’re chasing Liverpool and Chelsea, against Fulham – it is understandably deflating.
-1,000,000 out of 10 for Gabriel Jesus.
He doesn’t deserve another second this season. So, so pointless.
Really disappointed with that result.
Not sure why the boss took Havertz off when chasing a goal. He’s our best threat up too when chasing.
Up top
Didn’t understand why he took off Trossard. This “he faded in the 2nd half” is nonsense. He had one of our better chances just before he went off. And he was the only player in the first half that looked like he might play a decisive pass.
Yes, but he had been playing 10 matches in the last 5 weeks or so (and still had an assist today).
Maybe it is jut a preconception, but he seems to me a little bit enervated
Wouldn’t we all prefer to have the odd marginal offside decision go against us rather than not being able to celebrate any goal until the opponents have taken the kick off as we have had for the last 5 years?
No, I celebrate goals anyway only 1 in 20 are ruled out. I prefer correct decisions too, fair play to Fulham, their back 4 all stepped up well.
Get a grip, officiating was much worst pre-VAR.
I’m sorry but this was our year to win it. City are in a downfall and getting old. Manchester United are crap, and Chelsea are only starting to resurge. Liverpool just had their longtime manager leave. We aren’t a project anymore, $636 million and 5 years later, it is the time to WIN.
100% the most important and overlooked aspect of our season.
We can talk as much as we want about injuries, ref/VAR injustice, difficult early season fixtures,unplayable Jesus, lack of world class striker…. in the end it’s just the realization that the last 2 year’s performance would have been enough to win it.
We’ve somehow regressed.. definitely unlucky a bit from injuries, but every team faces that. If anything we were lucky to not have injuries in the past. And then a bad summer window meant we didn’t improve in the areas we needed to.
The injuries are tough but the officiating and red cards hurt us more. Sucks to have to repeatedly complain about those horrendous decisions
Oh come on. Yes a few decisions this season have been infuriating, but there have been plenty of games where the officiating has been perfectly fine and we’ve just been shit. And many other teams have reason to be annoyed- perhaps not as egregious as Rice’s red card, but still ludicrous. The officiating is just bad across the board.
For the record I’m not that mad about todays result, and i think the table will look very different by February/ March, but these excuses aren’t helpful.
I think the officiating was fine today. Offside was offside as proven, no arguing with that, otherwise ref performance was OK. Our performance was also ok, but not more than that which was not enough today to win against a not very capable opponent. Fulham scored one, otherwise was pretty bad, we also scored one and were in control, but did not score another. Overall disappointing that we find no means to beat such an opponent.
I think you may be missing JP2 point, or I’d say you’re both correct. We have definitely been poor in games – like today – where the officiating is fine and we drop points, that’s no ones fault but out team. BUT take away the BS red cards and we’re plus 2 from BHA, plus 2 from Citeh, and at least plus 1 from Bournemouth. That allows you to afford the off days, worst case we’d be a single point back having played a game more. So like a few others I’m still super aggrieved at having our early season… Read more »
Yes well said
My point is more that basically every team has had one truly awful decision against them this year. Perhaps not as bad as Rice’s red (Trossard’s was ultimately his fault, even if the rule is stupid we knew what we were dealing with by that point), but it’s not as though the rest of the table stays as-is if refereeing mistakes are magically corrected. I don’t disagree with either of you, and as I say I’m actually relatively optimistic about the rest of the season, but at the end of the day if we’d played as well as we can… Read more »
We know we have to play against 12. We’ve had to many times last season and the year before too. Every season since Wenger called them out, in fact.
If we want to win the league we have to be able to deal with that. No excuses.
We could be completely out of it by then
Five more months to go before you can write off this season, Liverpool were blessed with an easy start to the season and they’ve gained momentum from that, we had a terrible start to the season and were the recipients of two-tier officiating and it’s been stop-start since.
They beat AC Milan in Italy, beat Chelsea, drew to us, drew to Newcastle away, beat Villa, beat Leverkusen, beat Leipzig away, beat Brighton away (Carabao), won every single CL game, beat City (having beaten Real Madrid). I agree that they’ve harder fixtures coming up and things were easier for them but they have had tough games and won. Hopefully you’re right and they starting dropping points like last year but they’ve got results this seasons that I’d be proud of if Arsenal got.
Yeah, I get that Chris but if you look at their opening 7,8,9 fixtures, they were all favourable, they’ve also not suffered the unfair red cards we’ve had or any injuries to key players, all those things contribute. Let’s see where we are at the end of January?
You’re missing the mark here. Our previous season performance would not be enough to win it at this rate. Liverpool are on course for 100 points this season. We didn’t even get 90 last year. We need them to drop more points…
We are where we are in the title race for a reason, have really not played like we know we can for the vast majority of the season. This was another really poor away performance.
Partey at right back and Timber on the left greatly restrict our attacking play, have we won any match with those two at full back?
Surely we could have thrown on Teirney for the last 20 minutes?
I miss those days when football used to be more unpredictable like that. Banging on Tierney and seeing what you could learn. I’d love to see it. Not least because the last time he played we didn’t have physical players. With Havertz up front and Merino/Rice bombing into the box maybe old school would work. And, I’m not sure this is going to go down well but, I would personally love it for the bants if we played even more like Stoke but with good players and its worked.
saliba, raya, timber, a level above everyone. kiwior, abismal downgrade from gabriel, has been with us for so long and still looks clueless to me. partey, jorginho, rice, good workrate in congested areas, but not enough creativity. trossard and martinelli showed one more time our left side needs a revamp. saka tried but if you want to cross the ball with your right foot maybe get a right footed player there? lastly havertz and jesus, also showing once again we don’t have a proper goalscorer. nothing i just said is surprising, new or recent: they’re things that have been showing… Read more »
It seems like it’s just me who thought Jimenez shouldn’t be scoring from there. It wasn’t even in the corner. Raya nowhere near it.
i think raya could’ve done something else in that play, yes. but jimenez had acres of space to decide where he wanted to put the ball, and i think he struck it well. for the rest of the match raya’s passing kept us ticking, i thought it was impressive how much influence a gk had over the tempo of the gameplay
Martinelli and his lack of positional awareness cost us that game. I struggle to see what he offers arsenal anymore
Hard to blame him, it’s impossible to line up your toe across the width of the pitch. He made an excellent run and cross. The bigger issue is it shouldn’t come down to that that one chance
At the highest level, it’s expected the player to keep himself on when he’s looking down the whole line. He’s a winger and this should come instinctively to him.
We desperately need a new LW and ST
He’s quick enough to be a good yard onside, but that aside he did ok.
It is harsh but I can’t help but feel that there comes a point when a players starts doing it or doesn’t and you make a difficult decision. Too many times you see him ineffectively try to float the ball in, or have his shot blocked, and then finally it goes well and he’s offside. I have sympathy but at this level you either start doing it or you don’t. If this is how Arteta insists on playing and you’re not getting the output you need from Martinelli then at some point he has to either change the system or… Read more »
Agree. If we need to raise funds for a big forward signing, I’m selling Martinelli as the meat in a Brazilian forward sandwich with Jesus.
He was inches offside in a match where players are constantly moving at speed. Sometimes, players are offside. It happens. He’s not frequently offside. Players are not perfect. His cross was perfect. Also, he was on for 30 minutes. What cost us the match was a dour first half where we had at most one shot on target.
I feel exausted.
Face it, we’re Almost FC.
FA Cups are sweet but man, come the f*ck on.
Sorry to be so negative but looking forward, I can’t help but see our world class players soon leaving for Madrid and the likes.
No big titles for them in this half-men-energy men’s team.
Feel absolutely the same!! Need our next two transfer windows to be absolutely great to have any chance in this or next season! Otherwise the writing is on the wall!
Emanuel – I get how you feel mate.
My advice – go outside for a bit and relax. No point in pinning all your hopes and expectations on a sporting spectacle. Its a good squad – every Arsenal fan wants them to win something. If we do, we do. If we don’t, we don’t.
Please do not drain yourself over things like this.
Most people do have a life, it’s not like everything we do or think is just about Arsenal and a sporting spectacle. But when you support a team,you do with passion, that what makes sports great. So this take that go out and have a life is so stale.
It’s not stale because Emanuel said ge felt exhausted. To me that’s tying your general mood to the fortunes of a football team. I understand what you mean about passionate support, but mental health should come first.
I think a top striker wouldn’t have done anything against Fulham today but we should have one.
How do you know that?
It’s more frustrating as Jol Fulham games 😭
Makes me remember the Leicester won it.
Sigh 😔
Jesus needs to act like he’s being paid a quarter of a million a week! Unfortunately, looking at his time so far at the Arsenal, he’s arguably been Arteta’s worst buy pound for pound. He only gave us 3 months of great football and it’s been downhill ever since. Attack wise, we are really blunt centrally and on the left and we have to address that in January to stand a chance to win a trophy this season.
Why not even try Martinelli or Saka up top instead of Jesus? I mean he doesn’t give a shit so ti o use him is mental. Arteta are usually pretty ruthless so why not now?
On another note. I feel there’s some tension in this team. There should always be competition but when I look at Martinelli, that I love as a player, I can se frustration. I hope it’s only sour grapes as we drop points but I don’t know. It feels like there’s more than just bad losers.
I agree. I’d give Martinelli a go at striker in these type of situations. He played there under Emery and was decent.
We just don’t have the attacking players to win the league. Over investment in the wrong areas has cost us. Why did we chase merino all summer to then not play him? Leo was a shrewd signing but is he enough to win a league? Martinelli has stagnated for 2/3 years now and if anything is not that dangerous player we thought he’d be or even was. Jesus not good enough and not any threat whatsoever. Havertz for all the off the ball stuff again, not the guy to score the goals. Sterling well… That gamble isn’t paying off and… Read more »
Bang on mate. The summer transfer window was a disaster both incomings/outgoings. Our squad depth is pitiful.
That sterling deal is looking increasingly dodgy as the weeks add up…some back room transfer shenanigans by the looks of it.
Sterling hasn’t had many minutes to prove himself yet, he seems to be a confidence player that needs a solid run of minutes to produce. But he generally looks threatening when he gets the ball even if the end product isn’t there. I’d be putting him on before Jesus in the future.
The future is fast escaping
Declan is nowhere near the standards we need and gets by every week with just being tidy, but we would need more from him if we are to win something this year. Like it or not, Partey is still the best option we have and whenever we play him out of position, we don’t look penetrating at all. We look bereft of ideas against a low block at this moment and Rice is more suited for open or defensive games than low blocks. If we are being honest, we need other teams to bottle this time, as we don’t look… Read more »
There was a moment in dying minutes when Declan had space in front of goal to turn into. He took the other side towards our goal instead. He can’t play as 8. He doesn’t have that forward ball or run in him.
3/10 to Mikel for formation and substitutions
This Fulham team becoming a real thorn in our side. It’s been Stoke, it’s been Brighton… Now it Fulham. But also, it feels like EVERY marginal swing is going against us, to an insane degree. How can a team be this unlucky?? Jimenez’s goal had 3% effective chance of being a goal, and much like all the other miniscule chances teams have had against us this season, it goes in. Meanwhile Liverpool are rolling in good fortune. Every shot Salah hits goes in. Yes they dropped points last week but that was their keeper’s brain fart more than anything else,… Read more »
That offside call seems harsh, I know that’s the rule but there was no advantage to the toe sticking out half a mile from the box. Excellent header by Saka too. We need a striker for sure before we win the league, but we also need healthy fullbacks. Martinelli offers pace but the left side is so disjointed with little support for him, need another Ødegaard for that side. Solid defensively aside from the goal, very frustrating to not get another goal with all our missed chances. I definitely think Liverpool will drop more points but I don’t see us… Read more »
We can’t score from open play. We move the ball too slowly. And we have one sub going forward. Martinelli/trossard.
Ethan is going to be great but he’s still so young.
We need an upgrade on Martinelli and desperate for a backup stroker.
Martinelli is an excellent talent. His struggles right now are more to do with how this team is set up with those around him rather than him outright suddenly becoming shit. That’s on MA.
He’s been struggling for two seasons now.
Everyone, especially Blogs since it’s his blog, is entitled to their opinion. But blaming Martinelli for the offside because he should have seen across the line is not only harsh, it’s a bit silly. Remember, the assistant referee didn’t put his flag up–apparently he couldn’t see it either and seeing across the line is his entire job. And of course, the offside had nothing whatsoever to do with the goal. Martinelli received the pass and then took the ball *back* before making his run and then his cross to Saka. In other words, Fulham were not disadvantaged by the fact… Read more »
it’s offside, because it’s off side
You mean like “the letter of the law?” But there’s no such letter. For example, if Martinelli receives a pass while marginally offside (but only discovered after the goal), and he then passes it back to Rice (who is onside), who then returns it to Martinelli (who is now onside)–then the goal almost certainly stands. Why? The usual answer is “it’s a different phase of play,” but that is just another way of saying that the offside did not have enough effect on the outcome to merit invalidating the goal. Same thing here.
I hear what you’re saying but I have to disagree, offside is offside and that’s all there is to it. Imagine if it was the other way round, and a Fulham player was a toe offside but the decision went against us, I’d be raging. I love Martinelli and don’t want to pile on, but that’s school boy stuff to be caught offside from there and he’ll be the first person to admit that.
Absolute waffle, he is looking across the line, never in a million years should he be offside there, schoolboy stuff.
mmmm waffles.
It is unlucky. And blame is probably too strong a word for how I feel about it. But at some point he goes electric or we need another player or to change the system.
Why the bloody hell is Martinelli standing offside, there. Brainless.
How is Havertz getting a 6
Calafiori is key to Martinelli playing well. When he is fit he offers him so much more than Zinchenko or even Timber. The key to Calafiori is exactly that – when he is fit. Unfortunately he is becoming a left sided Tomiyasu. Legs of straw. I have also never heard of a concussion lasting almost two weeks so what is going on with Gabriel ?
I said that last week about Calafiori and was roundly downvoted! You speak the truth brother!
The issue for me was the total lack of attacking activity from our fullbacks. Both just trying to overload deep midfield, but with Jorginho that’s not really necessary in possession.
In hindsight, HT change to Timber at RB, Rice LCB, Kiwior LB was our only chance to really open them up in open play.
Agreed. We have no width on the left side, at one point there literally was not a single arsenal player on the left side of the pitch because Timber had drifted in midfield and Trossard was cutting inside..I don’t think I’ve ever seen an entire wing exposed by design before!
Or bring on Lewis Skelly at LB. Move Timber to RB and Partey to CDM. We need half space penetration and usually Timber will be there if Saka is doubled up.
This felt like the sort of game where a proper comes on from the bench to win the game
If you need a goal and bring on Jesus …….
This felt like the sort of game where a proper Striker comes on from the bench to win the game
Really need to get our defenders healthy. It’s killing us having to rely on Kiwior as a central defender, just too slow to play the pressing style we want to play. Defenders are usually the least injured players, but we have White, Gabriel, Tomiyasu, Calafiori, Zinchenko, etc. out injured. Would rather have seen Lewis-Skelly at left back and Timber at center defender than Kiwior in there.
Kiwior is an OK player, not good enough for Arsenal.
I’m so glad to see the Jesus rating. I was thinking how truly pathetic that was when he pulled out of a perfectly good opportunity to go for goal. It’s reassuring to know I wasn’t alone in my disdain.
I’m also starting to lose faith in Martinelli. Had a really poor 23/24 season and is not really setting the world alight this one either..
Martinelli is a very good squad player, not a starter
Today is a perfect summary of the issue. We conceded 0.14 XG. 2 shots. 3 touches in our box. They scored on a minimal %outcome. And we couldn’t overcome it. We are bossing teams. They create nothing. Yet the slightest misfortune and we are sunk. In 24 games that we’ve been down at HT we’ve managed to win once. Liverpool and Chelsea are better equipped to weather storms because they have more firepower. We’ve backed lame horses and it’s costing us. Let’s be honest. Nelli is a west hale player, trossard a Fulham player, Sterling and Jesus should be in… Read more »
Some good points. As much as I love Martinelli and Jesus they have admittedly and unfortunately regressed and are inconsistent. Trossard is a good player and we’ve seen that. Not enough to be the out and out starter every single game but he is good and offers us a good amount. Sterling was a stop gap and that was clear from the jump. Chelsea has a soft underbelly. They will drop points. Liverpool was the perfect situation – the team was already set, just needed a touch here or there from a great coach and some luck which they got… Read more »
Yes. But they finished 7 and 26 points behind Us respectively last season and both have brand new managers. If they are making it a fight for us then we need to ask questions of us and not make out that this was inevitable and we shouldn’t jump to criticize.
If I said in June that at Xmas city would be 4th and won one game in 9 then every single last one of Arsenal fans would expect us to be top. If I then “owe. We are third behind Chelsea and Liverpool” then 100% of fans would be angry.
We have just been very average this season, specially against teams out of the traditional big 6. Everything else is an excuse.
People keep saying Liverpool… Chelsea are younger, have a billion players so one getting injured, minus Palmer, means nothing to them. Chelsea need to be our worry and put the target on them to catch them, Liverpool will fall away during the season, they are an injury away from the fall and have played an easy schedule. Arsenal are set up to have an easy schedule in a busy period which will hopefully reduce injuries if Arteta can find it in his heart to rotate. But if we don’t buy a real striker in January we might as well change… Read more »
I agree that Chelsea are (almost) as likely as Liverpool to win the title. They have 20-25 first team players and will get stronger and stronger. They can have 5-10 big injuries and not waver 🙁
Our top scorers are on 5 goals after 15 matches. Its just not enough to rely on goals from set pieces.
Contrary to prevailing narrative from the pundits, there is a long way yet to go in this season with the likelihood of further twists and turns. I firmly believe that we are still very much in a title race. That said, the contemplative, methodical, probing nature of our “attack,” is starting to feel like more of a feature than a bug. Winning xg battle time and again is maddening, rather than lamenting our bad luck perhaps it is time to acknowledge that we lack finishing nous. Kai, Leo, GM, Jesus – all falling off the cliff simultaneously may be coincidental… Read more »
Performances like this will always start a conversation about our title chances, our manager, our players etc. one section of the fanbase will call for faith and the other for rationality and evidence. In the beautiful game of football both perspectives are valid. On the one hand, the manager has been an inspiration to me. a young manager stripping the squad down to bare bones and re-building it. getting arsenal fans to walk with heads held high again. singing in one voice in the stadium. pulling us out of the ashes. It’s clear that this guy is special and will… Read more »
It’s amazing to me how much influence Xhaka had on our attack and we haven’t replaced it. The Martinelli, Jesus and Xhaka left side gave us so much more balance in the past that we can’t seem to replicate anything even close to it now
Gabriel Jesus – Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia – Gabriel Jesus. Perfect fit.
Let’s get in someone who can come into the starting 11 in January.
Too much impulsiveness here. Merino this, Merino that. Jesus this, Jesus that. Partey at RB, this and that. New striker this and that. It’s all hindsight.
If Saka’s goal stood, the narrative will have been entirely different with no ifs and hindsight-arguments.
This team is good enough to win the league. It is far from over. Focus on ourselves, keep learning, beat Monaco, win the next few games and find consistency. We will be fine. Let Martinelli be (he’s good) and stop clutching at straws.
Liverpool and Chelsea are unknowns this season so its not over. I feel Arsenal have been down on their luck. However, there are names in the squad who have shown at this stage that there is substantial need for improvement. Off the top of my head: Jesus Sterling Martinelli I don’t think these guys are good enough. If performances don’t improve then the former two are not even suitable for the bench, and the latter shouldn’t be starting anymore. And a little more controversially Havertz Trossard Havertz is great but we need a finisher. I know he’s not the guy… Read more »
Problem is not that Liverpool and Chelsea can’t go through a bad patch or stumble. Problem is that Arsenal have shown nothing this season that indicates Arsenal can capitalise. They don’t look like putting 5 wins on the go let alone 10-15. There are just no goals in this team against tough to break opposition except set plays.
Partey is a square-peg liability. That is all.
He has been probably our best midfielder this season. Playing him at RB has never worked.
It’s 80% bad luck that White, Tomi, Zinc, Califiori are all injured at the same time and it’s 20% poor transfers that Tomi, Zinc are still in here with there injury record.
I am sorry but you can not expect to win the title with performances like this. To be honest we do not DESERVE to win the title with performance like this. It was a limp performance at best. We did not show the hunger of champions and unless we improve significantly and Liverpool have a horrible meltdown the title is not happening this year (again). What is most frustrating is to see that Chelsea is beating us to it. From a laughing stock they have transformed really well under Maresca and it sucks…
Uggh. I think we are out of it now and very down about it….please forgive me ranting about 3 things, it’s a form of therapy 🙁 The Title We are too far behind Liverpool. And Chelsea are maybe not better than us 11 v 11 but they are very good and have two huge interrelated advantages over us (a) they’ve already won their European competition and can put out their third team in Europe and rest up; and (b) they have the deepest squad in the world and will feel zero fatigue in the run in. Sadly they’ve got a… Read more »
how to score on a regular basis? i‘m a bit clueless 😑
I have said it before as have others and I will say it again we need a real center forward goalscorer and/or a sub that can come on and and snatch a last minute winner. Arteta will hide behind record goalscoring from last year and a few goalscoring results this season but goals by committee won’t be enough. Surely Arsenal can find someone somewhere that meets this criteria in January.
Reading the comments below you could be forgiven for thinking Arsenal had been whipped by Fulham instead of drawing away to them in a game they could have easily won, despite the constant disruptions with injuries to key players at the back, I’m a bit surprised as I thought the supporters (on this site at least), had a bit more backbone, its a long season and there will be plenty of ups and downs so for what its worth I think we should leave it bit longer before throwing in the towel.
I’m done with Martinelli. His football IQ did not improve, his decision-making is not good and he is the one you can sense the pressure on us the most.
Get some money for him and start improve the team. Honeymoon is truly over – for GM and for our lovely project.