Bournemouth
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December 26, 2019 at 11:47 am #1810692
All change again interesting to see if any significant changes. Chambers is suspended so Sok will play. Interested to see what he does up front Martinez is struggling so Pepe Comes back? Will willock or smith Rowe play? I have Prime so will watch and pray we at least show signs of a plan and maybe knick an away win ?COYG
December 26, 2019 at 4:02 pm #1810748Bloody old school all the ball and no final ball and very poor finishing. We are creating chances and We do look much better as a team but for once the final ball and shooting is shite! Laca has been poor just looks rusty. Nelson has all the attributes but just something missing maybe it’s a confidence thing but he has no end product. He is going to waste that talent. Don’t think we have that many options but we need to get Aube down the middle
December 26, 2019 at 5:01 pm #1810776Well much better team performance and let’s just hope we carry on like this and then it’s just about getting better players. Very poor up front today laca was very poor, Reiss was poor and every body’s final ball was terrible. But I can see signs we out played them and had anyone turned up up front today we would have been well away!
December 26, 2019 at 8:19 pm #1810840Not in a long time have I seen a performance with a proper game plan.It was a very good performance IMO.Very excited about arteta,we could’ve won the game had our players taken their chances.I loved how animated he was as well,I like the direction in which we’re headed.However,I would start pepe ahead of laca from next game onwards.Don’t know nelson, he seems to have gone backwards but I don’t expect anything from the youngsters to be honest.
December 27, 2019 at 12:07 am #1810908We just have bad players. That’s all. None of our full backs are good ‘football players’ what I mean by that our moves break down due to everyone being on completely different wavelengths.
Our team yes needs surgery but it has to be the right personnel. So if we want two new full backs for example, they have to be good ball playing players as well.
You just have to look at Liverpool how are they so good? Their players are intelligent footballers, I see our players making the same mistake on the ball without any finesse. Our youngsters are not ready at all and from next season injuries permitting, I only want them with limited game time and that includes Guendouzi.
December 27, 2019 at 1:32 pm #1811048while i didn’t expect miracles right away but it’s a bit of same old,
same old if truth be told.yes the attitute,desire and commitment was
better but thats the minimum required playing for afc.same old,same
old in terms of us getting caught out for the umpteenpth time trying
to pass our way out.how many goals now have we been caught out 30
yards from goal this season?thought arteta could have changed tactics a lot sooner by taking off
the useless lacazette and put aub up front with pepe on for nelson
who just wasted so many opportunities in crossing the ball.in fact our
final ball and pass,where it matters most,was pathetic.hope it’s true
that xhaka could be leaving.lacazazette could have won the game for
us but thought he had a week to score.why didn’t he shift the ball to
his left foot where the defender couldn’t make a challenge.for me he’s
been a waste of 50m plus being our 3rd highest earner at the club.let’s see how we do against chelski & utd.i’d take 2 draws now.they will
look to counter attack us and let’s see how we deal with that.hope it’s
true that arteta is looking for 2 defenders plus a defensive midfield
player.by god do we need them right now.some positives but still think
we pass back & square too much.not enough forward thinking players but
that’s not arteta’s fault.December 27, 2019 at 4:21 pm #1811114I think a lot of the fans overestimated the squad during the summer and meanwhile underestimated the words Squad overhaul which we still need.Our midfield and defense is so so poor compared to what it was.I would say at least 10 teams are better in that department in the PL.And when I say that, it doesn’t necessarily mean only 10 teams,it’s probably more.
I feel for arteta,There’s definitely a potentially world class manager in there and he has an absolute mess to sort out.Will take at least a couple of years just to gather a squad capable of challenging for a CL spot.
December 27, 2019 at 6:12 pm #1811135The Bournemouth game showed some improvement in attitude and work rate and the players looked more together. Ozil was much improved until he lost interest and Nelson & Saka worked their socks of and played well apart from their final ball, definitely need lessons in crossing the ball. Abameyang didn’t seem that interested and Lacazette was awful but the biggest problem again was the awful defending. We have 2 useless central defenders and 2 youngsters playing full back who aren’t full backs. Bournemouth had and early chance and then scored because Torreira and the sloth Xhaka didn’t track back and Sokratis and Luiz didn’t mark. Ludicrous really when you watch the game and Bournemouth had more efforts on goal than we did. So some improvement but wholesale changes needed, we have far too many rank poor players.
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