Newcastle United shocked Arsenal with a 2-0 win at the Emirates this evening, leaving the Gunners facing an uphill battle to reach the Carabao Cup final.
Arsenal began the game well, but Newcastle has always been a formidable opponent and arrived at the Emirates in terrific form.
The Magpies, well-drilled and resilient under pressure, executed their game plan brilliantly, threatening Arsenal at every opportunity.
Their persistence paid off when the red-hot Alexander Isak broke the deadlock, scoring the opener.
The Gunners were stunned, as Isak was the one player they couldn’t afford to leave unchecked given his blistering form.
Arsenal responded by ramping up their efforts to get back into the game, but Newcastle’s disciplined defence thwarted every attack, packing the box with bodies whenever the Gunners advanced.
Six minutes into the second half, Eddie Howe’s side doubled their lead. Isak was involved once again, setting up Anthony Gordon for Newcastle’s second goal.
The Emirates was left in shock as Arsenal struggled to cope with a hungrier, more determined Newcastle United side.
Newcastle’s relentless pressing forced Arsenal into uncharacteristic errors throughout the match. In an effort to regain control, Mikel Arteta brought on Jorginho and Gabriel Jesus, hoping to turn the tide.
However, Newcastle responded with four substitutions of their own, keeping their team fresh and dangerous. Despite Arsenal’s best efforts, they failed to capitalise on the few chances they created and could not find a way back into the game.
Playing like this. Losing like this. At home…😟
Damn! Are we not embarrassed?!
7 days into the transfer window and still no striker. Get rid of Arteta and replace him with potter before he goes to west ham
I hope you’re joking about Potter
I would take Harry Potter over Arteta at the moment as his arrogance seems to have rubbed off on the players who think all you have to do is turn up and put zero effort in. Majorly disappointed with the team this evening as that is our season over
1. Premier league no chance
2. Champions league no chance
3. Fa cup no chance
The centre backs this evening actually embarrassed themselves with that performance and if Rice is worth 100 mil on the last few weeks then what price some of the newcastle players
I’d honestly take him too if he’s available
Why. What is your reasons that you think he couldn’t do a better job
Has he really proved himself anywhere else? Not taken any employment opportunities in approximately 2 years
SueP would you honestly say that Potter couldn’t do a better job with this team than Arteta currently is? The guy was doing a great job at Brighton before he went to the mad house that is Chelsea, I’d definitely take him over Arteta and the dross he’s serving up, the guys won us nothing, that FA cup win in 2020 was with players from the Wenger/Emery era.
Dave
I honestly don’t see the relevance of the FACup win with Emery’s and Wenger’s players other than Arteta did actually win it.
Whilst he improved Brighton he didn’t win anything there – best finish was 9th and then he had a torrid time at Chelsea. Wouldn’t you want a bit more certainty around the record of any new manager at Arsenal?
SueP, what certainty was there when Arsene and Mikel took the job? Even Bertie Mee was a bigger gamble and look how that turned out for the club.
Potter had more PL credentials than all three of them.!!
None at all Ken1945. Mee was a definite gamble. He was the physio if I recall correctly, with limited playing experience.
AW had managed before but was definitely an unknown over here at least. MA had nothing more than being an assistant coach at City and a career as a player.
My view on Potter is based on a gut feeling as much as anything else. The Chelsea job could have really showcased him, but it didn’t work out like that. Liverpool have done a good job in replacing Klopp so far. Slot looks comfortable being there.
SueP,
On that basis, what were Arsenal doing employing Arteta on his previous record.
Potter😂 are you having a laugh?
What irks me the most is the lack of attacking pace. The team is so pedestrian and slow paced. The opposition will always have a field day defensively with our slow build up play. Arteta has been found out by even the small club managers. They can easily work out a way to bypass arsenal’s trepid midfield. All d best guys. The season is over. Second leg is a formality. It will be Liverpool and Newcastle final. Arsenal should just consolidate their annual top 4 status . At least arteta has earned that as much
GB,
You may laugh, but its surprising what you can do with a wand. 😂🤣😉👍
Sadly it will be like this. Whats going to change? We have no money for new players and our squad has been paper thin all season.
That’s because we sold / loaned players who had character and were willing to give all. It is our own making. No wonder Edu quit
70 per cent possession and lose 2-0, just about sums up where we are at the moment.
Hats off to Newcastle who looked fresh, motivated and hard working. They also defended as though their lives depended on it and most of the time Arsenal limped forward with the slow build up. Newcastle were able to fill the box and many of the crosses didn’t stand a chance of getting through the melee. When the opportunity arose they reacted like lightning whereas we did the opposite. Arteta and his coaches need to encourage movement in goal scoring positions
It would take a miracle to get anything from the away fixture.
I never liked Arteta. I never believed in him. The team has already over-achieved. He sees himself as Guardiola in the mirror. Arteta out campaign should convene.
A man after my own heart.
I second that Nomad,
Motion carried.😉👍
And we face a rejuvenated and well-rested Manchester United next in the Emirates FA Cup.
What an anticlimax of a season!
But my love for my team, and the beautiful game we cherish so much, remains unwavering
COYG!
No big deal, don’t give up, it’s because Saka wasn’t available but we’re turning it around in the second leg
Saka is one player. Whilst losing your best players is always going to hurt it is no excuse for that performance.
Ben,
It doesn’t say much about said club, if one player missing which was the case against Newcastle, affects the team in such a big way.
That suggests to me that the manager has not provided adequate cover in said position. 🙄🤦♂️
We are going no where in all competitions, another trophyless season. Management can rescue this season by filling in the blanks, we need attacking players. Jesus, Martineli and Trosard cant win us trophies they’re average players.
fact these attackers won’t win the team anything. even our defense should have done better, the right side was a let down
Far to rigid and as always no plan b. Its not a coincidence that we always struggle against teams like Newcastle and Everton as it is their bread and butter.
As much as we miss Saka, there are fundamental problems with this squad and that lays with the coaching and fitting square pegs in round holes.
Sometimes you can get results with the hand brake off. Especially when you are 2 nil down with 30 minutes to play.
Arteta’s tactics are becoming too predictable by top managers. And he seem to lack ideas when things aren’t working. Eddy Howe came with a game plan and his experience got Newscast the result they needed.
Our midfielders always have problem with mobile opposition midfielders because we have players that are slow on the ball.
Compare NewCastle bench with Arsenal it tells a better story.
With this kind of loss at the Emirate the players begin to lose winning mentality in competitive games.
The sad thing is that after every game Arteta would always speak of positives even when obviously there is non.
We are getting to the point where if we are not careful, the season will be over bar the shouting. The managers mistakes, the player mistakes, the lack of quality, the lack of a striker and the way we play, are really biting. Yes there is injuries but Newcastle had both their CB and their best midfielder out, among others and they found a way to cope. Howe even had the nerve to take players off to save them and introduce the substitutes to do a job. Something Arteta is/has struggled to cope with. I am looking at the way we play and it is very worrying, robotic, easy to read football and very little power play. We are not very clever and make silly errors far too often. The Carribou cup is NOT the holy grail but today was another reminder that we are struggling with the way Arteta has us playing. It all seems very very stale. Newcastle were really really up for this, we looked like we have done for most of the season, one paced and doing the same things over and over. Are we getting read and found out. We can not rely on set pieces getting us out of trouble. We have to be better than that. I don’t see how we can be, doing what we are doing.
On tonight’s performance I have to agree.
Just tonight Sue?
I think we have played worse and got a result, this season. But tonight all are eggs came to roost. The finishing was dire but the football is so one paced and lacking.
This season has been incredibly disjointed. Arsenal don’t look like they did 2 years in succession ( I generally enjoyed the football even though we failed at the final hurdle- it was entertaining).
I think that to get close to winning the title you need to field a settled side more often than not. And we haven’t had that good fortune. That’s not an excuse- it’s a fact. You don’t need me to list the players who have been missing for considerably more than the odd game. White was struggling with an injury and was in and out until he had to have an operation and will have missed weeks and weeks. The right side has been decimated. Saka had a couple of short absences until the big one. Call it over use but when Odegaard was out, at least he provided the spark; the flair.
It was ponderous. Everyone has mentioned the slow build up and lack of movement in the final third. Possession for possession’s sake is no use at all. Newcastle defended resolutely and as Howe said afterwards, they rode their luck at times. There were chances. Havertz’s miss timed header just about summed up the evening
SueP,
Watching Arsenal is like going to the barbers.
Short back and sides anyone.😂🤣😉👍
Hahahaha… so true, Derek. And lately we seem to be getting more length over the top from Raya as we panic from the high press. Ultimately it all leads us to a lack of goals and the same drivel over and over again..
Reggie – the worst part is our football is dire and boring to watch. Arteta is too predictable and set in his ways. His preference in versatility rather than specialty is his own undoing. What is Havertz, Rice and Timbers role? Plus, why is Odegaard, an attacking mid works only on one side of the field. There is no freedom in this team.
I do think Arteta has reached his ceiling. I have said before. There is nothing new. Its same old same old. The players look like robots. I think we have reached and probably over reached Artetas limit.
🙏 👍 👌 That is it.
I’ve said the same thing. The main attacking onus always came from Oedegard, Saka and White on the right side if the pitch. Where it became commonplace and predictable. Teams started to double up and employ rough house tactics to those three players. Saka became predictable for wanting to cut inside and have a shot so teams nipped that in the bud also. Oedegard could be better employed supplying other routes if support, not just the right hand side and or Saka. In a nutshell, everything about us is predictable!
I think that left flank is the only place Ødegaard can function. I do think he is one of the most limited players at Arsenal ( though one of the most loved ) move him away from that left flank . . .
He totally disappears.
Thrill,
I personally think that he shouldn’t be club captain.
Gabrielle should be in my opinion.
Odegaard has only had 2 assists since April of last year, and he’s scored 2 goals and one of them was a penalty. Hardly club captain material is it.
And he goes missing in to many games. Mind you, currently that accusation can be chucked at quite a few players to be honest.
movement. Its hard to tell where this tinkering Arteta ball was conceived, Everton or La Masia? With this style of play no striker will help us. Nobody seems to even pass forward feels like even their thinking is in slow motion. I suspected we would be deep in this when a senior player said Arteta was teaching them to not release the ball until they are engaged by opposition player! And so now we wait until they are in their shape before we attack, no passing thro the centre, no counter attacks… just passing backwards
We our current front line and risk averse tactics employed by MA, we are not going to be any decent team. I won’t be surprised if we lose or draw to ManU
Quadruple is still on, keep the faith. It’s the ball that was rolled into our net but refuses to enter Newcastle’s net 🤣
It’s just a blip, Trust the process
The usual barage of criticism aimed at our front three when, in reality,our midfield was pedestrian, and our much vaunted centre backs failed to get their act together and allowed Issak space to cause problems.I would certainly not absolve our Manager from blame, as his inverted left back tactic are actually the cause of the deterioration in the link up between Saliba and Gabriel who now spends most of his time deep on the left when before, he and Saliba worked closer together to eliminate space for opponents to exploit.Unless the current set up is changed ,the prospect of us winning any trophies this season are remote in my opinion.
Agreed… but I’m sure we will buy another left back this January😉
Meanwhile Tierney rots on the bench. Criminal of our manager. Unless Tierney is sh@££ing his wife. Even if he was, Arteta has to be bigger than that.
Lol!😂
That’s what Arteta’s wife said.🤣😂😉👍
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They are playing according to Arteta’s instructions. Arteta prefers sideway slow passing so that the team is in control. Gone are the days when they plays slick one touch passes to move the ball forward. It now takes 10 to 15 touches by the defenders before it reaches midfield.
True….as i have stated a while ago…the
micromanagement is extreme to the extent it cost Timber the game against Brighton. Yellow card for time wasting?? He then played partey at RB and we lost control of our midfield.
He overmanages to the extent that thev players have lost their individual flair, martinelli, rice, odegaard have all regressed because i beliwve, he gets them to play to HIS tactics and he doesnt have an escape plan when it doesnt work…he doesnt know how to play against low blocks as his tactics are too SLOW…sideways to try to move forwards, worst thing us the sideways allows the opp to get back into defence and we try to play down the wings when the defensive lines are set, crazy.
Sadly, brace yourselves for a period like the last 10 years of wenger….hope but dissapoinment. Our owners are happy with CL so they wont sack him and he has no ideas on change. Think like his tenure as captain….no achievements.
#Grandad👍
It used to be one inverted full back but now it’s both full backs that are playing inverted role leaving a lot of work for Gabriel and Saliba. Saka used to help right back defensively when we are without the ball but Trossard lacks pace and defensive abilities..
Arsenal bench is also thin, yet we are not active this window. Arteta always speaks of positives in every game without considering how sloppy our midfielders are when moving the ball.
Grandad,
I’m liking your points more and more.
Well put grandad. The irony that MLS was our best midfielder last night.
We are in danger of becoming an also ran, again. Too slow and predictable, pass to side, back, to side again, repeat. We have no players who can run with the ball, we are too easy to defend against.. we are no good
I said here we should just sit and enjoy the ride.
This team is too thin and so average to compete in 4competitions leave alone winning anything.
I just feel for the few good players we have around. They surely must be thinking of where they can get there hands on some silverware.
Arteta does not know how to cross the finish line.
He doesn’t as well know to start. Blind fate in him is why he still has a job.
Without trying to rub salt in the wounds…
According to the press, like minded people
and Pep this season is the worst in his entire managerial career… but they are only 6 points worst off from us.
So if Newcastle made us look pretty limp at home can you imagine what a rejuvenated Man City will do? Mark my words they will come good before the end of the season and will have a say where the EPL will go.
I’m more worried about top 6 than top 4.
Just saying 😭
I said it here today that Arteta is the problem for AFC. We can’t even blame the CB, why bench Calafiori and bring an inexperienced Skelly to defend the dangerous attacks of Isak, & Gorfon? This makes Gabriel & Saliba to concentrate on covering the void left by the LB.
Hopes of winning any silver ware is just a dream which is way far from reality.
Totally outworked and outclassed by Newcastle in almost every area of the pitch. Shocking! We are just not good enough, especially without Saka.
One particular post on this site hit me like a ton of brick: it says, we had a grand total of 5 leftbacks sitting on the bench today. What a ghastly misuse/waste of money? (over 800M over 5years).
Mikel Arteta still IN?
Arteta like a left footer. Its his fetish.
Am happy some fans are beginning to appreciate the fact that Arteta is the biggest problem of AFC. His mediocrity has rubbed off on the team. Just as I said before and I will say it loud that with Arteta as the coach, the club will not win any trophy. His arrogance has kept the club where they are. The world football fraternity accepted that the club needed a top goal scoring striker apart from Arteta, the czar of football.
Gradually, the reality of mediocre level of this baby coach, is really dawning on our fan base especially, Arteta foot soldiers
This is the only reasonable thing I have seen from you in JA.
All those LBs and not a striker in sight ,mind you we had a good in Auba and this guy ruined him when he came in .
Rfrancis, whoever wrote that post that there was 5 leftbacks sitting on the bench is wrong. There was 2 natural leftbacks, Tierney and Calafiori.
COYG! ON TO THE NEXT GAME
The biggest and most defining problem that is Arsenal in a nutshell was Martinellis miss. It encapsulates everything about this Arsenal team. The football is poor fair but little moments like that and then Newcastle scoring with a punt down the middle and punishing us, for defending it poorly. Is our season and our football under Arteta. It is singling Martinelli out but it wasn’t meant to be that. It is the typical Arsenal situation, that we do far too often.
23 shots with 3 on target, 11 corners to their 1. There you have it in a nutshell, misfiring Gunners!! I know it’s not in MA’s playbook but we do need a clinical striker, Havertz is anything but.
I have said it from day one, Haverz and Jesus are not, ever and never will be a striker. Two of Artetas biggest mistakes. Thinking they could be.
Talking of mistakes… Sterling? I mean, WTF? I wish Arteta would stop swooping for Cities outcasts!
He need a change, either in ideas or personnel before acquiring new players. The problem is not the players but how they are structured to play.
If we don’t change ponderous, low intensity and possession base football, no striker will succeed with us.
The statistics given above suggest we need to be more clinical.
Bro,
3 on target shot
10 off target shot
10 block shot
Makes up that 23 shots he stated. That is a mark of desperation to cover for our shortcomings under this coach.
Newcastle has 4, 2 and 1 shot in the same order. It not about running around, having more possession or trying to be perfect. It about efficiency, about getting more goals than your opponent..
Given that so many shots were off target I agree that it would suggest that there was some desperation. However, that does not negate the view that we needed to be more clinical.
That would mean taking out Partey, surely. As soon as he receives the ball his first though is to face our defenders or keeper and pass back. That is where our attack fails. In the current setup, he just doesn’t provide speed in attack!
We left the squad far too thin after the summer transfer window. Letting ESR Reiss Nelson and Viera go, ok they weren’t tearing up the pitch, but we could do with them now, esp Reiss up the right wing, and we should’ve looked to get at least one or two replacements. If we are going to win the PL we need a second team on the bench like city had, we don’t even have a first team atm.
Arsenal has continued to leave the substsnce and chasing shadows. The system of play or formation is becoming unproductive to teams with Tactical system of play. A team without a central striker will struggle to score when facing opponents that are tactical and flexible in the way the appriach games. Thats why teams have decoded arsenal and render:ed its formation unproductive. We experienced this in Fulham, Brighton and now Newcsatle.
Arsenal should go for a world class striker.to combine with playing from the wings . Otherwise, its going to be same story year on year (YOY).
Not blaming officials tonight then peeps ?
Remember last season where I argued with the idea that Arteta ‘ revotunislised Arsenal ‘
‘ the winning monster ‘
Arteta blames the ball, apparently. I blame our performances. We are where we are not because of official’s or equipment. That’s for sure.
GunnerRay,
You really can’t make this stuff up, can you.🙄🤦♂️😣
The result is hardly a shock. Are we even surprised? Newcastle came into this game in good form and we are simply not in good form. That said we conceded a soft goal and missed plenty of chances. I guess the pitch forks and torches will come out again. I am not in the least bit surprised but l am very disappointed all the same. We are light in depth at the moment but there can be no excuses, we were second best IMO.
We are as I said before a byproduct of Arteta’s tutelage under Guardiola. City even with a world class striker are not producing the same results.
As i said many times before this style of football has become stagnant with teams forming low blocks and being very efficient on the counter. Liverpool has been transformed under Slot because they can
posses with a purpose. Everyone can see Arsenals rotation of ball is slow/predictable and lacks penetration options. Recycling the ball numerous times allows the opposition to sit absorb pressure while they rest . Now when space opens they can progress causing issues for a defense even as good as we have and the numbers this season show that. We are allowing more goals per game.
Even buying a world class striker it will not solve the problem if you cant create and supply .
We need a total change of style and 2-3 world class player to consider us a title contenders again.
Remember MA touted about his plan to make us unpredictable which justified his using players out of position and buying players with no obvious use. Ironically, all those only got us to become categorically predictable.
For anything to still think Arteta is the right man to take arsenal to the promised is simply delusional at best.
Arteta inherited a team that he deemed not good enough but used them to win FA and community shield. Now over 80% of Arsenal’s team is Arteta’s recruitment that he has spent close to a billion £ to build. What’s gonna the excuse now?
He met one of the best strikers in football but fought him tooth and nail until Arsenal lost a huge sum of money terminating his contract. With all the money he has spent, what’s the result?
#Artetaout# banners should start flying now if Arsenal is serious about winning trophies.
So do you believe that the team inherited by Arteta was good enough?
David, the MA solicitor and advocate.
They weren’t good enough but one His only FA cup and community shield. While the once good good enough have won nothing. How do you judge GOOD ENOUGH?
So AG, you’re ok with a player continuingly breaking the club rules ? PEA had a history of breaking club rules at his previous clubs, that’s why they got rid of him.
I prefer a scoring occasional rule breaker, to an obedient defensive striker that scores 3 goals in 33 games. Why won’t he be living by the rules
It’s time for a new manager to come in and revitalise the team. I’d give Arteta till the end of the season of course but next season we must change things up starting at the top. Ship out Trossard, Merino, Havertz and possibly Martinelli and Jesus. A total revamp of our foward players.
That we are battling with injuries is a fact.
That the loss to Newcastle was a chock, NA!! No ways.
Before we even heal from this, I’ve got goosebumps about the ManU appointment after what they did to Liverpool this weekend.
The loss to Newcastle was a surprise
Did you think that Arsenal would be so ponderous going forward or that constantly crossing into a packed box would provide the breakthrough?
Without doubt there were at least 3 chances that should have resulted in a goals but overall I thought the slow build up allowed Newcastle time to position themselves. A clinical striker on the night only highlighted the weaknesses that exist. Injuries and illness have taken their toll but I expected more than an inability to create any sort of havoc.
The players look over-coached and micro-managed.
The slow build up is meant to control the game and create chances without over-exposing the team from transitions. As it was we actually created a number of very presentable chances but failed to take any of them.
We had an xG of 3; Newcastle’s was 1.2. The stats tell a different from the game and are at odds with the narrative being driven by a lot of fans.
As it is I was frustrated by the misses. With the way the game went even though our overall performance was subpar we really should not have lost. We not outplayed by Newcastle but they were more efficient with the chances they had.
I’m not surprise that you were surprise.
@Quantic Dream I think if Arteta can not give us any trophy the earlier he goes the better. A new coach will need to know the team and how he will improve it before the June July transfer window.
There is a lot to complain about Arteta and we have been vilified here when we have said a club of Arsenal’s stature should measure success with silverware. With silverware comes financial success as you can get better commercial deals which enables the club to get better players. Silverware also draws in more fans which galvanise more income to the club in various ways and also attracts better players whilst retaining the stars in the team.
Arteta has received all the support he has but has just failed to deliver. Modern football doesn’t give you the time to build a team for so long with no trophies as the big clubs are investing every season in better players and coaches.
As a fan all I need is success. There is no time to accept failure as the same coach and players who are messing us can wake up at another club. They need to deliver in line with how they are earning.
This team has been made to depend too much on the Saka-Odegaard combination such that one is pretty ineffective without the other,and the team toothless as a unit
Fair comment
They are pretty much the only flair players we have. Jorginho has vision and tried to get the ball over Newcastle who lined up in the box in numbers
Seriously what a joke we have turned out to be this season.
This was no shock. Could see it happening.
Teams have worked out our so predictable patterns of play with no change once negated.
Arteta blaming the ball 😂😂
Apparently it was made by puma and not the usual standard nine ball they use in the PL .
I did wonder that myself when I saw it hit havertz shoulder 🙄
Could t make this sh1t up .
Shocker
We look over-coached these days. Too much systemisation has taken away individual flair. Martinelli good example. A shell of his former self – we know he has it in him, we’ve seen it. Do wonder if one of these days a player will snap at the micro-management from the sidelines.
That’s what is interpreted as egoism in some players. Calling the whole team together every time play stops.
Aubamayang and Ozil where too big to be treated like kids by their former teammate.
Is our squad really thin? Cos we had many senior subs on the bench, just that half were left backs. SQUARE PEGS IN ROUND HOLES
Is it a shock that we lost. A result like this has been coming. No striker and our predictability have made us easy to play against and teams have sussed us out. Granted we should have scored but our players just haven’t been quite at it this season and the manager obviously hasn’t learnt anything. Disappointed but expected.
thing i have noticed is, our decision making going forward is bad, our player seem to have been over coached into a system. so they lack the ability to take the game by neck. upfront martinelli, jesus, and havertz are not going to win anyone the league. the defence, i wonder why arteta cant instruct either fullback to go inverted while the other goes on overlap, and they keep alternating during the match on who goes forward or who stays. finally i believe arteta might have hit his ceiling.
I wish Arteta could look at the comments on this site and make the necessary corrections.
First, our attackers have been disappointing this season. We must sign a Striker this January—a top CF—even if it is a loan deal.
Martinelli has been awful this season. Trossard should be moved to the middle.
Raheem Sterling should play as a CF. He has the experience. Arteta is too rigid for my liking. He is not flexible at all. He is so predictable and can’t think outside the box.
The truth is, we have been poor this season. Our football is so predictable. The defence is solid. but the attackers have been very wasteful. Sterling should play as a CF for now. G. Jesus should play on the right.
Trossard Sterling G. Jesus
Merino Partey Odergaard
Calafiori Gabriel Saliba Timber
above should start.
Rice and Martinelli should be rested for now.
Read this morning in the paper that Arteta blames the Puma football as it moves differently and our players found it difficult playing with it. Shouldn’t Newcastle have had the same issue. As excuses go it’s right up there with the best.
No this idea officials have a nationwide conspiracy against the club is the best excuse
Apart from retaining possession,usually in our own half, what exactly do inverted full backs achieve for the team?They do not pose a threat going forward and merely allow opposition defenders time to regroup!
Exactly. That phase is done now except for us and City. I would actually have no problem with Zinny playing the left side of midfield and just let our fullbacks be fullbacks. Tierney is our best attacking LB so he will go to a team that plays properly and regain his old form.
We played like a Eunuch in a Harem. Unable to penetrate the Newcastle defence and get a clear shot off and score.
Wild😂
That’s a cracker 😂
Good morning fellow Arsenal fans, It’s one of Arteta’s biggest detractors here. So strap in and away we go.
First thing, Arteta is trying to blame the ball🙄, he wasn’t blaming the same ball when we won in the previous three rounds was he🤦♂️.
Second thing, the play is so slow. Against any team that defends deep, you must play a quicker tempo with plenty of movement to create doubt in their defense. That along with quick one and two touch football.
Third thing, that team tonight had 10 players that can be considered regular starters, and the only player missing was Saka. (Big miss though he is).
Fourth thing, I fear that we’re not going to win anything this season again. Arteta’s insistence on inverted full-backs is clearly affecting the way we play, but his stubbornness is going to cost us big time.
Fifth thing, I found it hilarious when Arteta was shown looking at his watch on and around the 81st minute, how ironic was that. We’ve been wasting time all season, a perfect illustration of that was when we got a first half free kick. It took us 4 minutes to take it, and then our captain fantastic 🙄, shot it straight into the wall.
I will probably paint a fuller picture of what I think of the current team and their manager in further posts, but this will do for now. This is just a warm up.
Get ready folks.😉👍
I look forward to the full version! Pretty accurate assessment.
Embarrassing performance all around including the manager.
Blaming the ball now, a new low from Arteta. Time to wake up and face obvious problems.
Style of play, lack of striker and clinical goal scorer, and overly defensive midfield with 4 DM’S on the roster.
Stubbornness and ego on full display from Arteta, which culminates in him blaming the ball. Embarrassing
4 DMs, 5 LBs plus 2 defensive strikers
@Derek and Durand. Love both of your honest interpretation of the state of THE ARSENAL . Every player under Mikel Arteta have regressed under his regime. The most damming thing was, gutless, ballest, nutless MIKEL ARTETA walking off the EMIRATES STADIUM without acknowledging the NORTHBANK. How gutless is that. As Derek said,,,, the ball is used as an excuse. Arteta is a SPINELESS So and SO. Yet you will get the DAVID’S and SUSSIE’S, GOONSRERS on this site and make all the excuses for MIKEL ARTETA. I’m convinced that some of these people kneel down to MIKEL ARTETA. I really hope they have a TISSUE or HANKICHEIF in their pockets to wipe their mouths after the event. YUK🤮🤮🤮
Every player has regressed ? Seriously ? Saka, White, Saliba and Gabriel have all progressed under Mikel.
Obviously in a very bad mood HD
Not in a bad mood SueP. It’s starting to be a chore to get up early hours and see this Dross football under this so called GOOD LOOKING SPANIARD the Emirates Stadium has posted around the Stadium. Arteta loves this so called inverted football. He probably has a fetish for INVERTED sex with the missus
Probably drunk too much Nihon-shu SueP
THE CLOWN 🤡 has broken SAKA and WHITE by playing them while injured .What more proof do YOU NEED. The same CLOWN 🤡 is playing DECLINE RICE with a BROKEN TOE. HEEEEERRRR DRIER, obviously you have never played FOOTBALL in your life. I have,,, and still coaching at INTERNATIONAL LEVEL at the age of 58. Kneel down to me BUDDY,,,, I need the relief 😌
Saka and White have both progressed under Mikel, if you can’t see that then a visit to the opticians would surely help you.
I don’t kneel down to anyone 😁.
A couple of tips, I’m not your buddy and maybe lay off the Nihon-shu.
@Herr Drier. Maybe you need to lay off the milk 😁
pj, nah, love it in my coffee 😁
You are sure those people you mentioned kneel down to Arteta . . .
But you are annoyed Arteta didn’t worship those at the NorthBank.
Nice.
Very surprised by the way Newcastle played last night, thought they would have come here and played a low block after their hammering here last season.
As for us, another disappointing performance, following on from the performance at Brighton. As much as he’s showed promise in his recent games, MLS was disappointing last ñight. Slow at moving the ball, and hardly moved into midfield. We looked much better when Zinchenko came on, shame it wasn’t earlier.
As for Mikel blaming the ball, absolutely pathetic.
Man for man on paper:
Raya > Dubravka
Gabriel & Saliba > Burn & Botman
Timber > Livramento
Hall = MLS
Odergaard > Willock
Rice > Joelington
Tonali = Partey
Forwards
Isak, Gordon, Murphy > Havertz , Martinelli, Trossard.
On the pitch – every Newcastle player outplayed us. How can a converted midfielder in Joelington do the same, sometimes better, than our 100 million signing.
In the changeroom and on the drawing board – Howe >>>>>>> Arteta
You are sure those people you mentioned kneel down to Arteta . . .
But you are annoyed Arteta didn’t worship those at the NorthBank.
Nice.
Looks like the wheels are starting to come off for Arteta’s Arsenal, all that money spent and nothing to show for it but the FA cup and that was with players from the Wenger/Emery days, imagine if they win nothing again this season and the Spuds win something? Surely that’s got to be it for Arteta, no more money for him to spend on dross like Merino and Calafiori, get him out now 🙄
Arteta has taken us back into top 4 and we are a top 4 team again, however, this is as far as Arteta can take us.
He has hit his ceiling and can’t do any better, nothing wrong with only being upper-mid level manager that he is.
we now need a manager with a higher ceiling and can take us on to win trophies.
Time to say good by Arteta.
It’s unfortunate that many of us are already fans of Arsenal before kill joy Stan Kronke bought the club over. Friends! I tell you the fact and truth I am not joking we are in a ride to experience the same last eleven years of Arsene Wenger, our trophy – top four has set in as long as MA still calls the shots. Arteta is saturated and he is retrogressive tactically and manager wise. The problem is that the club owners are not interested in trophies and Mikel Arteta knows that. Arteta should leave or be sacked, I wouldn’t mind Howe or Potter taking over, sign up Rashford to give Martinelli run for his shirt. Replace ageing Partey and Jorginho with fast and skillful lion hearted younger players. Merino remains another Arteta’s unnecessary arrogant wrong signings, we still need a strong skillful fast pace LB that is not injury prone. Man.U are more favorites to sign Gyokeres so Arsenal should go for Victor Osimhen and sign him up by all means if they have decided to truly land Epl trophy. Osimhen will not click for Arsenal if Arteta still remains in charge plus his slow midfield and sideways tactics. By the time they might have finished rehearsing and over rehearsing their slow paced and sideways passing the DMs and the rest will be set to neutralize him by all means. Arsenal should should stop going to Chelsea’s waste bin for their rejects the club is not running rehab center please enough is enough.
its obvious we need a player who can take a man on
1vs 1 and create something out of nothing fx Kudus Yamal
etc.. with Saka out for at least this season, they need to
cough up some funds or risk mutiny within the fanbase