The Official Arsenal - 14 x Cup Winners Thread (Vol 5)

[leglessAlex]

We sold the wrong fking keeper.

[Cupramax]

Yep, fking useless. Not just him though, the whole team have been useless, as I say that Luiz equalised,

[Cupramax]

FFS Leno again, just pure stupidity.

[Cupramax]

At bloody last, great ball through from Elneny of all people.

[leglessAlex]

Cupramax said:

At bloody last, great ball through from Elneny of all people.

Honestly, El Neny has been one of the best players on the pitch, not that that's been saying much. Saka has been good too, as has Gabriel.

I'm happy we're winning, but we should not have had to bring our main striker on where he risks injury.

I've said it a few times, and I know it's pointless moaning about it, but I'm so annoyed we sold Emi. He was more imposing, more assured, and generally I think far more suited to our play than Leno is.

This doesn't bode well for the Hammers game.

[Cupramax]

Lacazette is so far off it’s painful to watch. Should have scored there.

[Cupramax]

Bellerin’s been good since he came on if nothing else.

[Carl_Manchester]

Never in doubt.

[Radec]

Crap game again, struggling to play any sort of attacking game and hardly any ideas going forward.
Teams like this we should be beating 3/4-0.

Leno was terrible and nearly cost us a couple of times.

Eddie's not a winger so no point playing him there.

Bright spots were Elneny and Gabriel and then Partey who looked like he was playing an exhibition match where he knew he was better than anyone else, looked like he didn't get out of first gear and strolled around doing his job effectively with minimal effort.
He's going to be some player for us.

[scrubchub]

Yes, on that evidence (and plenty more from Atletico Madrid) then Partey looks like a hell of a capture.

[Allyc85]

Another dull performance, but the main thing was getting the 3 points.

leglessAlex said:

We sold the wrong fking keeper.

Definitely sold the wrong keeper, being a great shot stopper isn't enough these days.

[leglessAlex]

Really like the look of the line up, and thankful that Vardy isn't starting. This is going to be a hard game I think.

[Carl_Manchester]

leglessAlex said:

Really like the look of the line up, and thankful that Vardy isn't starting. This is going to be a hard game I think.

Let's find out how good Partey is

[leglessAlex]

So far I've been impressed with Saka, and the driving forward from Bellerin and Tierney. Luiz is pinking balls out left and right really well too.

Partey hasn't had much to do, but they seem to be far less willing to close him down/tackle him when he has the ball, that's good.

[PrinceRupert]

Lacazette goes down in my estimation every time I watch him play. Rash, petulant and simply not good enough I don't think.

Agree that Saka has been bright this season

[leglessAlex]

Getting more frustrated with this. In the first half we were at least getting forward a bit, but now we seem to are doing more and more sideways and backwards passing. With Vardy now on the loose that's a dangerous game to play.

I get very frustrated with this 'keep control and build up' play. I get it, it works if you do it right but for a few years now we haven't had a creator that can make use of that posession and actually DO anything with it.

[PrinceRupert]

leglessAlex said:

Getting more frustrated with this. In the first half we were at least getting forward a bit, but now we seem to are doing more and more sideways and backwards passing. With Vardy now on the loose that's a dangerous game to play.

I get very frustrated with this 'keep control and build up' play. I get it, it works if you do it right but for a few years now we haven't had a creator that can make use of that posession and actually DO anything with it.

If only we had a decent no 10 kicking about...

[PrinceRupert]

Gabriel looks very competent.

[leglessAlex]

fking dogst. Utter fking dogst. No ideas. No creation. No desire.

[PrinceRupert]

Shambles

Wtf were Mustafi and Xhaka doing

Lacazette utterly fking useless

No creativity at all