Declan Rice and Gabriel Jesus returned to the Arsenal lineup for their game against Atalanta, but the Gunners struggled in their goalless draw against the Europa League holders. Here are our player ratings:
David Raya – 9.0
Arsenal’s saviour on the night. His penalty save made him the standout performer for the Gunners in Bergamo.
Ben White – 7.0
He didn’t allow Ademola Lookman much space to create damage, but like most of Arsenal’s players, he didn’t do enough to influence the result.
William Saliba – 8.0
With defences dominating the game, he was heavily involved. His superb late tackle on Lookman prevented Arsenal from a late loss.
Gabriel Magalhães – 7.5
He carried on his solid form from the weekend and was reliable against Mateo Retegui and other Atalanta attackers who threatened centrally.
Jurrien Timber – 7.0
Another decent outing for him, though he could have contributed more offensively.
Thomas Partey – 5.0
Subbed off after struggling to help Arsenal build attacks, though he did his job protecting the backline, sort of.
Kai Havertz – 6.0
Played in midfield but couldn’t provide the creativity Arsenal missed in the absence of Martin Odegaard.
Declan Rice – 6.0
Returning to the starting lineup, he worked hard to get Arsenal going, but it wasn’t a good day for the team overall.
Bukayo Saka – 6.0
Unlucky not to score from his fine free-kick, which was saved, but overall, it was a below-par night for the usually reliable attacker.
Gabriel Jesus – 5.0
Failed to give Arteta a compelling reason to start him in the upcoming match against Manchester City.
Gabriel Martinelli – 5.0
Another disappointing performance from the Brazilian. He could use a goal to regain his confidence, as things aren’t going his way right now.
Substitutes
Raheem Sterling – 5.0
A busy cameo, but didn’t have enough time to make a significant impact.
Riccardo Calafiori – 5.0
Got some minutes under his belt and will hope for more action against Manchester City.
Jorginho – N/A
Leandro Trossard – N/A
fair ratings though Partey should have gotten a 3 for giving away a very unnecessary penalty. I feel Calafiori offers more going foward than Timber, maybe he should start vs City.
agree on both of your points.
Trossard should get at least a 5 for his efforts in the game. He tried to force things when he came on but the Bergamo side was all over him
A flat performance going forward but the defense was solid.
Yes, it stood its own ground. Raya kept the clean sheet.
Arsenals defence shows up again with raya the icing on the cake, but it has to be said that this draw felt like a loss. Our only shot on target was that sakas free kick that the atalanta GK saved brilliantly and once saka was substituted we became toothless up front. It’s just sad That once Odegaard isn’t playing the entire front line just appears to be disjointed. Yesterday’s game I could not tell who was playing what up front, was GJ the Cf or was it KH? who was playing the no. 10 role? Martinelli contributed nothing up front but was allowed 90min why? Trossard came in and played what position exactly? Jesus was everywhere except inside the 18yrd box of the opponent where he should have been why?
Sterling was a pedestrian and appears to not have match fitness so why was he brought in?
The whole attack was a disjointed mess with no cohesion.
This is what happens when you sell and loan out yoir creative subs and your main 10 is injured.
The sale of ESR will come back to bite us.
We sold EN and Esr but kept almost 8 defenders who all play the left wing back. Tierney is still in our books but we bought calafiori.
Our attack is looking light weight when the regulars are not available. Does arteta want to defend all season?
I love mikel but he got it wrong in our recruitment this season, I sincerely hope Odegaard and saka and haverts all stay fit for the entirety of the season.
Just as I expected, the knives are out. Few days ago Arterta is getting our recruitment right & now he isn’t. Believe it or not the team will not win every game dis season so brace up.
Kudos to Raya btw. 👍
@EA: We could do with some signings in January, one striker and one creative midfielder.
Na wa o Emperor, if you are a business owner like the Kroenke how long can you keep an injury prone player like ESR even if skillful. And now Arteta didn’t do well in transfer market after buying us a good midfielder and defender, do we fans expect Arsenal to buy all players we needed at once in a market?.
The Boys didn’t lose to a very good Atlanta side that ended Leverkusen unbeaten run with 3:0 win and beat Liverpool 3:1 in same competition.
This is not time to cast blames. Let’s move on from this game our Boys did their best. We have MCity coming on Sunday.
With all the talks about Arsenal defense making Raya look good last season, and Ramsdale being better than him, I think Raya has shown that it wasn’t just our CB pairing that him look good. I was always saying quite the opposite always, Raya saves our CBs from the high-risk scenarios such as high crosses so well, it makes our defense look even more better than it already is. Saliba and Gabriel are top but Raya prevents scenarios that might make our CBs panic and make silly mistakes more often than not.
Surprise, surprise. There was really only going to be one player at the top of the ratings in an otherwise uninspiring Arsenal performance, wasn’t there?
I do wonder how long Arteta is going to persevere with Jesus though. I had almost forgotten that he was actually playing until he was substituted. On the few occasions he had the ball in an anything remotely like an attacking position he seemed to lose it.
Apparently, he’s Arsenal’s second highest paid player – but paid for what, I wonder? It’s not really scoring goals or even threatening to score, it seems. If anything should happen to Havertz, Arsenal could be in trouble.
Beyond me how anyone can give Trossard N/A when Calafiori (deservedly) gets a 5 as should Trossard as both gave some spark to the attack and looked like they could at least go forward decisively.
Raya was ridiculously great. His double save for the penalty ultimately saved Arsenal. Jesus was not so good upfront and I think Havertz suits the no.9 position as Havertz himself did not have a great game in midfield. Martinelli also had a bad game and I think Arteta will prefer Trossard on Sunday. That said, I think Arteta shouldnt have been so stubborn and we should have signed a striker in the summer and hopefully we sign one in January. Also, given the dependence on Odegaard, letting go of ESR and Vieira in the same window without proper replacement was a mistake and hopefully we sign a creative player in January.
Our attack is really light . May be 4th Best in the league
If we are to sell Jesus . How much you guys think we can get ?
His form is so poor that any top team will not come for him
May be from Saudi
It’s certainly no secret that the attack is light which is why the recent ten-week transfer window could go down as a missed opportunity in that respect.
I guess we have to ask what potential buyers would get from Jesus. It is goals. Hardly. His tally in the EPL last season (4) was an embarrassment for a No 9. He’s only got into double figures in the EPL three times since his arrival in 2016. Also, are they buying a “fit” player? Well, not as fit as he could be I think it’s fair to say with his injury record.
Difficult to speculate about a fee, although I doubt Arsenal would make a profit on him if sold next summer. There are surely lots of better options, aren’t there?
I’m not convinced he’d be interested in taking Saudi “gold” at his age if there’s a chance of playing in Europe (although that didn’t stop Toney). We’ll have to wait and see.
So many people who never give credit to the opposition. Sometimes they play well, live with it.
Atalanta won the Europa League last season, give them some credit, they’re not mugs.
Well said Neutral. I did say to SueP the other day on another thread that it would be a hard game, with probably only one goal deciding the result.
@Neutral
Real Talk. Arteta should have done his homework on Atalanta, considering their recent wining form. They’re pressing and man marking was exceptional. But one thing that got me, was how they didn’t try to battle for midfield dominance. They bypassed the midfield altogether with, using the press to disrupt our attack as well as flooding our box with players in attack. Brilliant. Arteta had no answer for it. And our midfielders didn’t take advantage of their absence in midfield. Just saying…
It’s amazing how Raya quietly silenced the critics, turn Ramsdale into history rewriting the Narrative.
The Spaniard have firmly established himself , make the position effectively his own, no more does the gaffer have to answer questions about his shot stopper.
They all did well
I don’t think these games are the right time to suggest that Arsenal’s attack is severely weak without Odegaard and even Saka suffers I believe we would have played very similarly with Odegaard here I still think we’d set up defensively because we are away to Spurs away to Atalanta away to Manc all in one week I think it is the next few games after the City game is when we need to gauge how our attack looks
Raya deserve to be 10 or 9.5 deu to his ferformaoce and double save.