Piers Morgan’s dissatisfaction is evident as he expressed his disappointment over Arsenal’s failure to secure a victory against Fulham, despite initially turning the game around after falling behind.
The match proved to be a challenging contest, with Arsenal largely maintaining control. However, they found themselves trailing early on, and Fulham’s resilience posed a significant challenge as they managed to level the score.
In the second half, Fabio Vieira’s entry onto the pitch proved to be a turning point. His involvement was pivotal in Arsenal’s equalising goal, as he was fouled to earn a crucial set-piece opportunity. Furthermore, his contribution extended beyond that, as he provided the decisive pass for Eddie Nketiah to score what Arsenal believed to be the winning goal.
Nevertheless, Fulham demonstrated their resilience by finding a way to equalise once again before the conclusion of the match, ultimately securing a valuable point from their visit to the Emirates Stadium.
Morgan was not happy with the result and blamed Mikel Arteta for the outcome. He tweeted:
“FT: 2-2. Bad result, poor performance, and it’s mainly Arteta’s fault. Tried to be too clever with his tinkering and we paid the price.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
It is hard to understand why we did not win that game because we clearly had it in our hands and should have gone for the jugular.
However, we let our lead slip and Fulham made sure we could not claim victory.
We need to find another win in our next game and start building momentum once again.
the problem is us trying to accommodate havertz and he arteta trying to justify the price tag, havertz isnt good enough to start in that team or any other serious team, he isnt better than smith rowe he isnt better than trossard, he can come in as a super sub yes but not as mainstay in the starting line up and if arteta insists on this he will pay the price with poor results
Yes.👍
Yes
Agree, he is extremely low on confidence and at the moment he is sub material.
Definitely need a proper striker can’t rely on Jesus for me he’s not a formidable striker misses to many chances, and looks injury prone and arsenal doesn’t even have a decent second not like city they can bring a number of players on and there be top class ,can’t understand why arteta hasn’t bought one or think they don’t need one ,they definitely do
Yes arteta needs to get wise in buying players ,for me rice is a good buy but not worth that amount of money but a good buy,havertz no if he couldn’t do it at Chelsea not gonna do it at arsenal not worth 65m, Jesus again if he was a prolific goal scorer do you think pep guardiola would of got rid of him definitely not,why is arteta and the senior board buying other teams rejects, look at wenger in he’s early years was shroud never bought rejects bought quality players some we never herd of even Bruce rioch bought bergkamp,not saying these new arsenal players are crap but if you wanna compete with city youv got to buy quality
I totally agree with you @ SA arteta should swallow his pride and move on with the team, the boys did a good job last season if any player should be brought into the team, should ave been a prolific goal scorer and not havert he isn’t adding any value to the team, also @ Ramsdale needs to be checked can’t always be eratic at this level of his career not good enough for the team. my opinion thoug !!.
Yep …….
Yes. I concur. So heartbreaking.
I agree 100%. Havertz is a big mistake and the earlier Arteta realize this the better.
Your right mr.morgan havertz is below standards.if arteta does not change and bring in other prayers instead we gonna loose more games
Give the guy a chance, it’s only the second game.
It is the 4th game my friend.
Problem with arteta he’s stubborn and doesn’t like advice doesn’t matter how rubbish a player is he will always defend him or any other player he’s chosen even if it means arsenal win nothing and the other problem Hel loose great players cos they want to win trophies and be something and they won’t want to sit on the bench forever I know many won’t agree with me but arteta hasn’t done to bad for arsenal but for me he isn’t the manager arsenal need , he’s more of a manager for a lower league to get experience just because he worked under pep guardiola for a while means nothing
I agree with you
If we can’t be honest at all times, then we have to try and be honest sometimes. Today’s BAD PERFORMANCE was entirely the coach’s blunder. Arteta is way ahead of himself in terms of what he can achieve with the team he has assembled. He undermined the views, opinions and expertise of senior coaches who worked with Havertz at Chelsea, and told himself he can mold the granite they couldn’t. That’s very silly of a novice, inexperienced young coach still learning his trade. He has been amazing, but he’s not invincible. He went and blew up £65mil of the club’s money on the German, and now thinks he has the superhuman powers to turn him into what he’s not, when clearly he can’t. That’s the short man-syndrome. Warriors fall on their swords; To ere is human. Ask Thierry Henry, Patrick Viera or even PEP Guardiola.. Grow up Arteta.
I can’t agree less with the fans and pundits that put the blame of current poor performance of Arsenal on Arteta. I don’t know what Havertz is doing in Arsenal team. Why will Odegard and Veira not play together while Havertz is sitting on the bench. Why is Gabriel Maga sitting on the bench. Why is Partey not in the midfield playing alongside Declan Rice so that White will play Partey position as he was doing last season. I believe Tierney is better in the number 3 position than the two players that stepped in this week and last week. Why is Arteta changing the winning team?? What they lacked last season was depth which they are addressing currently. The team of last season should be left intact to continue giving us results.
Amen to that.
Agree with opinions on Havertz. Rather Viera or ESR. Havertz is clumsy and cannot hold the ball. Partey shouldn’t be inverted fullback. We pkayed so much better last year. Should have kept Tierney. Better defender if we want to close the game. Zinchenko mistake led yo equaliser.
👍Aneke, spot on!
I totally agree to this,I don’t like that gabi magalhaes is benched for Havertz to be accommodated, this is too bad, immediately Kai went out the game changed,but it was too late,and I also think that we can’t be waiting to be hurt so that we respond,we should stick to a winning team 1st when we have atleast killed it 4:0 or three nil then these others can be brought,too sad to be going down this way…
A lot of questions begging for answers.
Experimenting is bad. That is what he is doing at the moment.
Absolutely true, my brother. Why change a winning team? He’s becoming a bit cocky and getting carried away with last season’s success. This is all Arteta.
We made a lot of basic mistakes – at times, this may have been due to players not being used to the system, but we’ve played pretty much the same way for 3 games now, and we didn’t have this issue so much before.
I don’t think trossard worked so well up front in this game because he was dropping too much and playing in similar areas to havertz
Overall though, I think there were two major issues: 1) our players were too careless at times, just sloppy in their passes and first touch too often; 2) Fulham came prepared – they pressed us extremely well and defended their box week. I think they had a great plan for us until arteta made the substitutions
I dont know what forces Arteta into playing Havertz. We are seriously losing our game tempo with him in there. Arteta must change those silly overthinking. Let him go to basic. D->(WHITE, SALIBA, ZINCHENKO) M-> (ODEGAAD, PARTEY, RICE) F-> (SAKA, JESUS/NKETIAH, MARTINELLI)
Totally agree. And I can’t stand Piers Morgan, especially when he is right.
We need to score goals by being offensively effective and efficient. Good ball control doesn’t equal win. It is obvious that we can’t score while defensive errors are inevitable. With that much control, we should have scored more goals. We are just too slow. It is a sign of snobbishness. As another fellow fan put perfectly, we haven’t won anything yet, humility can go a long way, both the coach and our players.
I say give Partey a chance to be back to midfield, give White a chance to be on the right, give our team a chance to partner Saliba with Gabriel. Honestly, Tierny is really good a player, we should play him instead of letting him go. Anyway, we are not invincible, we must stay focused.
I agree with you just 99.99%
If Arteta continues trusting Havertz then his downfall is in his fingertips. Havertz has disorganized the flow of out game,he should learn our system of play on the bench. Much money wasted on him other than buying a better player. Sorry for Edu and Arteta.
I totally agree with you. I see no reason 2hy Arteta cannot play his normal formation and normal team, then allow Havartz to come in after studying the match. Arteta, pls wake up now and bring back the old style of play.
Arteta should take all the blame for this poor result. Why doesn’t he put Partey in his real position and the defense be with 4 defenders Gabi, Saliba, White and Zinchenko or Kiwior. He should drop Harvertz in the next matches because he does nothing on the pitch. Arteta should learn he hasn’t reached the Pep calibre.
You wonder why changing the defense this season while we are struggling
I for onedont think Arsenal have had a good transfer window with thd pick of our signings Timber now missing for most of the, season Rice is just a little better than average midfielder and can not see why on earth we bought Havertz Its early daysin the league but Arteta has fo play White at right back Gabriel back alongside Saliba and play Partey with Odegaard and Rice i midfield Up front though i think we could do with a striker as neither Nketiah or Jesus will score enouvh goals but assuming we wont get a stfiker one of those two alongside Saka and either Tdossard or Martinelli I can see Raya bsing first choice before too long which leaves Kiwior or Ziinchenko at left back I fear for Arsemal againsf Manchester United and hope Aftdts does not play Vieira on the back of a better than normal performance today
@Stewart Jarman
REALTALK…
I’m so much disappointed today by arsenal. I even wonder, is this is how we’re going to servive as arsenal fans forever? what is wrong with Arteta and the technical bench. There’s no way you can poorly arrange the squad and expect to win anything. I said in this page and I repeat again, what is Havartz doing in arsenal? Arteta, can play a useless player the entire game so that you say “I’m justifying 65milion” OK justify 65 million and destroy the club. if this nonsense has to prevail, I fear the season will be the worst ever forget about any silver ware.
Arteta planning to sell Gabriel and Tieney when we have Champions League, Premiere League, FAcup which calls for depths in the team. He surely must stop being arrogant or he will never see trophies and will be sacked
Fire Arteta Now!!!!!!!!!¡!
-Had a team last season that was super dominant until Saliba/Tomiyasu went out, best defense, best attack in the league, you buy the giant Rice to strengthen and others to circumvent future scenario of Saliba missing or Lokonga playiing DM, GREAR.
City are weaker and less motivated. FAB stuff!
-Now, that’s not cool without some over-engineering to show sophistication (Pep complex).
Let’s totally rearrange the defense to keeping only 1.
-Let’s take the magical 4 of the top, friends with super chemistry, an then impose the passenger and no- team-mojo Harvetz on them, instead of just SIMPLY putting Rice for Xaka with ESR/Trissard/Viera in backbup, making passenger Havertz even the highest-paid player, and always play him.
Let’s ruin the magic, because the looks like astute sophisticated football team management !
-At 2-1 up, let’s take out best player, the general, Declan Rice out, when even Partey is out!
-Arteta is a great politician, super intelligent, motivates greatly, but the question is he a great coach, or a great manager.
His in-game game management is very poor, one reason he is always outsmarted by his master.
Sometimes I think Arteta gets similar credit to Rijkard when he managed magic Messi Ronaldinho Xavi Iniesta Etoo Puyol Piquet et al; a lifeless object could probably “manage” them to win trophies! Then he messed up at other teams.
We have had same caliber and chemistry players since Saka/Martinelli/ESR finally forced the politician Arteta to stop playing Pepe/Willian/Ceballos and let them take care of things.
Just have to pray it does not take very long till too late, like playing Ceballos Pepe Willian for ages for Arteta’s hard-earned learning with Saka Martinelli.
MUST kick Havertz out and tell him to “earn it”, rearrange back to the same team last year but with Partey and Rice in middle, with Saka, Odergaard, Jesus, Martinelli, and back to same back 4, only if Timber comes back he could take RB or LB, and of course, let’s try Raya for Ramsdale for measure!
The rest should take their chances when they come in, and earn their place, like Viera and Nketiah did against Fulham
I have always say this, and I don’t know why majority of the fans don’t see this, thanks for voicing it out. Arteta game management capacity is one of the poorest of a manager at that level. He may be a good manager but very poor in game management.
What is happening in club how can Gabriel magalhaes benched rather than partnering with Benjamin white? Why party is not playing in his original position?? I think here it’s just the bigining of troubles through out the season.
Bring back Wenger
They did, he’s standing out on the concourse. Doesn’t have much to say though.
Partey should not be playing RB. Kivior looked lost at LB. Nketiah should have started striker. Haverz is getting a free ride, which needs to stop. The Gabriel situation is hurting us, it needs sorting. Arteta doesn’t know his best team. Its all a worry at the start of the campaign and shouldn’t be.
@ Reggie
Is Gabriel Saudi or Real Madrid bound? If not why is he not playing him?
Nketiah is in form and has better hold up play than Havertz but does not get picked: Why?
Partey drifts into midfield rather than make overlapping runs with Saka: Then why pick him over White?
Why not go for the 3rd goal when you are 2-1 up and go for a defensive formation especially against a 10 man team?
Why not give ESR a chance when Odegaard needs a rest?
At least last week there was some fight shown and this week why is the fight coming from bench players Zinchenko and Vieira rather than the collective strong players?
Why are there more questions than answers for 2 of our home performances where the team enjoys the maximum support?
Agree IGL. Some big things not being done satisfactory.
Or should i say, to our detriment.
I can’t agree less. Why didn’t Arteta urged the team to go for the 3rd goal? Switching to defensive mode with 10 men is ridiculous to say the least.
Play party in hi usual mid and avoid using herverts in the first team, it’s very unusual having a midfielder at the defence. Bro wake up.
Too many questions and no answers. For once our fan base is in agreement, even we agreeing with Piers Morgan of all people hahaha. Arteta wants to be known as best tactician around but at the expense of the team. Havertz will sit on the bench in the Championship let alone the premier league. But it’s just the 3rd game and we have 7 out of 9 points, no one has more points than us though City could (it’s the PL, even City will have to earn those points against Sheffield united) let’s keep up the hope, Arteta has proved to learn from his mistakes in the past, let’s see how we fare against United. Maybe these tactics in past 3 games were to throw off United
Must he(Arteta) untill things get spoiled before doing the right things?.
Honestly I can’t fathom how Arteta discarded the formation that almost won him the league last season. He can go ahead and experiment new formation in Carabao cup games and not EPL.
It is a shame what Arteta is trying to introduce in Arsenal this season. He is killing his career as coach and destroying the team that was once feared by many. Harvertz s a disaster. He should be on the bench. As it looks we just only a player this season in person of Rice. How can a coach thinks of releasing a player in the rank of Tierney to be using a midfielder.
Arteta is a failure.
Partey at rb, no Gabriel, no striker and havertz starting, joke!
Big joke. Or arrogance, thinking you have arrived.
I don’t understand what’s going on, all our last season performance is now gone. Can’t Rice,Party and Odeguard play well on Central midfield? Plzz Arteta don’t force things, Havertz isn’t good enough to start the game. So painful 😣
If people have so much opinion on what they see on match day and not privy to how the footballers train and earn their selection on the basis of what would be decided by the Manager as a game plan and players not performing accordingly why blame the Manager? Why not focus on a player that is not performing on match day. In any event what do we base our commentary on?. Is it on the basis of the performance of a previous game? Do we not give credit to the opponents that would have played better and show the gaps…or because Arsenal ended in P2 we think they have a Devine right to win all games
You are talking like one of those fools out there. Who sets up a team or filed in players that one should blame the player and not the manager.
havertz out, party back to mid , but I don’t think if arsenal will win the trophy it’s just clear, judging from the last 3 games wining but just struggling.
I don’t know what arteta and Edu were thinking when they brought in Kai as an attacking or mid fielder, where as he is keen to sell likes of balogun. Is it that they both don’t watch the players before buying them, everyone knows Kai, lacks confident, Arsenal lost out last season at the end for lack of confidence and they went ahead to bring a lad who has almost zero technical skill and confidence. Always like he is lost. Same kind of ball Nikita turned into the oppositions net, Kai defended it from going into the oppositions net,. I could read the frustration from Bokayo a face
You are spot on, but know that Arsenal is to complete on different fronts this season. Tweaking the team against Fulham wouldn’t have been such a bad idea. We have a marathon potentially with many elite clubs and teams. So yes, he blew it, but not recklessly. My opinion.
He blew it recklessly. The difference last season was 5 points. A team gunning for the title gathers momentum from the beginning. You want other teams to fear you by your results. With the performance of Fulham, many teams will be confident playing Arsenal at home.
Is it not a wonder that Arteta would bench Nketiah after his performances in the first two games.
Why is Arteta experimenting when the season is just beginning?
Artata is playing with Fire.
Arteta has reasons string enough to put Gabriel on the bench?
Arteta might be out of its right decisions. Let arteta do experimentations at carabao cup and FA not EPL. Very embarrasing.
The manager is just so stupid and stubborn for all reasons. How would you try to sneak Kai Havertz in the starting XI that you used to almost win league last season? The only thing we need is Xhaka’s replacement and that got us to Rice and then we’re good to go again. He brought in mid Kai and wants to force him into starting XI. Who does that? He just needs to wise up and stop being a fool. #COYG💪💪
Arteta is shoving Kai Havertz down our throats. He is no good at all. Money wasted by Arteta. I just wonder what is it that he sees from him and not from Fabio V???