There has been enough said about Arsenal terrible defeat to Brighton yesterday, so it just remains for me to give you my ratings…
Aaron Ramsdale: 5
To be fair, Aaron didn’t really have much to do, but the fact that Brighton only has 3 shots on target and 2 of them went into the net is not good. On his best form I think he would have saved at least one…
Gabriel: 5
He nearly scored but was nowhere near his best defensively.
Ben White: 5
Ben is yet to win against his former side but not through lack of trying, this must change next season
Granit Xhaka: 5
Position change simply didn’t work
Sambi Lokonga: 6
A good performance from the youngster. Hopefully we won’t miss Partey too much
Bukayo Saka: 6
Saka was very busy but with little end product
Emile Smith Rowe: 5
Not very impressive to be honest. Maybe he is better coming off the bench
Martin Odegaard: 6.5
He was trying to push the team but without much luck. Great goal too..
Alex Lacazette: 4
Hardly involved at all. Only touched the ball 8 times in 90 minutes!
Gabi Martinelli: 5
Tried hard and was unlucky to have goal disalloed
Substitutes:
Eddie Nketiah: 5
Still not very effective but he was trying.
Pepe: 5
Not on for long but got a couple of shots in..
Its just tells us how uncreative and terrible our forwards are when only goal in 3 games is a deflected 25-yard shot. Its just so forced.
the only thing we should do now is follow suit like chelsea and barcelona, fire and hire managers till we get the right one.
Xhaka position change didn’t work……no because he did not stay in the position he was meant to play in, he went walk about, therefore it’s a 3 from me.
Alex Lacasette no supose to be in that team again bcos i don,t see what he is playing
I think the 5’s are overly generous.
Possibly the worst game I’ve seen from ESR, when not invisible he either obstructed Saka’s shot or gave the ball away.
Odegaard dropped deep and mostly disappeared. Two 8’s and Brighton midfield swallowed them up in the 1st half.
Xhaka isn’t a LB so I don’t blame him, I blame the naive arrogant coach that thought it was better to play a midfielder at LB instead of 2 FB on the bench.
Arteta deserves a mountain of blame himself. Wrong selections, wrong setup, and failed to get a response after getting soundly beaten by Palace
Also, out managed for 2nd straight match. The supposed “tactical genius” had no tactics and nothing genius about weakening the team in January.
Yes Durand, too generous. I’d give everyone a 3 minus lacazzete who goes to a minus 2 and that is being generous to him should be worse
Something wenger would do
Martinelli was by far our best player ,but he couldn’t do everything on his own .
Midfield was shite as was the defence.
I blame Arteta for both games…top 4 hopes are gone for me…with poor team setup the players didn’t play with confidence….this team can play better than that
Our fundamental problem is that we have NO strikers at all who are evenmediocre, let alone adequate or good!
LACA is playing like an old man with arthritis. I have never rated LACA AND, THOUGH HE TRIES HIS BEST, HE IS WAY OFF THE PACE, LACKS POWER, LACKS HEADING ABILITY, LACKS CUTTING EDGE AND MOST OF ALL, HE LACKS GOALS!
In my book that cannot describe a PREM STANDARD STRIKER AND HE IS BY FAR THE WEAKEST LINK IN THE TEAM AND URGENTLY NEEDS TO BE DROPPED AND SOLD ASAP!
Agree with most of what you said, however, Arteta is the weakest link and it will come home to roost in the business end of the league.
Jon
We agree totally on toothless Laca and how he blunts the attack and team in general.
If Arteta drops Pepe, then fine Arteta has his reasons. But indefensible to keep starting Laca who can’t score or even position himself to be a threat!
The “link up” people attach to him is farcical at best. How was his link up against Palace and Brighton?
Where was his “leadership” when we needed it the last 2 matches?
He looks a tired old man unable to impose himself in matches offensively or defensively.
His presence is a shadow at best, as his 4 goals are outmatched by ESR off the bench, and 20 year Olds Saka and Martinelli are better options to score.
Shocking he starts quite frankly, and I daresay Martinelli or Pepe are better options as striker.
Durand Some Gooners point to the several assist LACA gave untillhis last two totallyinvisible games But I am with you completely and until we get a striker who has enough pace, cutting edge and does not always arrive a yard too late AND above all actually SCORES, we are not going to make the grade we need.
Auba was not the answer either. He was invisible and not a team man at all, let alone captain No serious club can indulge a captain – or any player at all -whose heart is not in the team. Auba HAD to go and I applaud MA for acting to shift him, albeit FAR TOO LATE, IMO.
BUT, BUT, BUT, we HAD to get a decent striker in JAN AND WE FAILED TO ACT. Huge mistake which has come back to bite us, bigtime.
For this season I’d play MARTINELLI CENTRALLY and use PEPE ON WING. Though Pepe too is NOT the answer at all, after this season.
Laca is just hot and cold. But when on his game everyone around him feeds off his energy.
But far too often he he can’t put together a consistent run of games. One game he is buzzing the next 2 he is poor. No wonder Wenger, Emery and Arteta all turned to him as the last resort.
Very poor stamina.
I have always rated Laca as a better overall player as compared to Auba. He does more but limited. Very hot and cold.
You can see why France always preferred Giroud over him. He is the midget version of Giroud.
Get viera next season a true gunner….
😂 .. y’all keep saying get viera .. he’s not even the solution to arsenal problems.. y’all need to see between the smoke. Crystal palace ain’t consistent.. apart from playing arsenal as a big match to them . Do you watch their other games? No !
Did you watch arsenal last 2 games and apart from a handful of games this season they were boring to watch….
Both goals came from shots in our box. To me it was obvious that the midfielders did not give cover to the back four. There was a gap and our opponents took advantage of it.
Somthing is telling me a player in Guendouzi mouldings would give us a 8 ranking.
Lackonga the closest player to him I gave a 7
Arteta is the of everyth becos he does’nt take anybd advice. Esr not suppost to start macthe especially when u’re playing against team like brighton that play physical futball