Arsenal were held to a goalless draw by Nottingham Forest this evening. Here are the player ratings:
David Raya – 6.5
Had little to do but reacted well when called upon to deny Chris Wood.
Jurrien Timber – 7.0
Delivered a solid defensive performance while also supporting the attack effectively.
William Saliba – 6.5
Handled Wood well and remained composed at the back, though he was not tested too often.
Gabriel Magalhães – 6.5
Another steady display alongside Saliba, maintaining defensive stability.
Riccardo Calafiori – 6.0
Came close to scoring but remains unconvincing defensively.
Jorginho – 6.0
Used his experience to control the midfield and helped Arsenal progress the ball.
Martin Odegaard – 5.5
Struggled to provide the creativity Arsenal needed, continuing a dip in form.
Declan Rice – 6.5
Another energetic and composed display in midfield, offering balance and drive.
Ethan Nwaneri – 7.0
Looked dangerous whenever he was involved, providing a lively presence in attack.
Mikel Merino – 6.0
Like against West Ham, he was well-marshalled and unable to make a decisive impact.
Leandro Trossard – 5.5
Found it difficult to get the better of Ola Aina and struggled to influence the game.
Substitutes
Kieran Tierney – 6.0
Added more defensive security after replacing Calafiori.
Oleksandr Zinchenko – 6.0
Did not offer much beyond a routine left-back performance.
Raheem Sterling – 5.5
Failed to make a meaningful impact after coming on.
Thomas Partey – N/A
Ben White – N/A
We should be having a rating for the manager as well. Other sources do it. It’s no big deal
dgr8xt,
I don’t think they do a – (minus) 10.😂🤣😉👍
Declan Rice, our statement signing for more than 115M, is in the running for the worst signing in the history of the Club.
65M for Kai Havertz is looking like a cut-price bargain in comparison with Rice.
These two transactions alone probably explain why we are so short on talented players.
Thank heavens for the academy players (Nwaneri and Miles Lewis-Skelly). Where would we be without them?
Trust the process to spend our fortune on average players.
I don’t agree with your Rice and Havertz verdicts. Rice mostly has good games for us. There’s always going to be that odd game. Happens to every player
Calafiori is not a good left back, he is too slow to turn and he is cumbersome. Maybe as a LCB he can be at a decent level.
Why give a mark to Sterling? Chelsea said he was too lazy to train. He has guarantee of a lump sum that he is enjoying and has no time for football anymore. he is so shameless.
Terminate his loan now.
I think so as well JBGS. He will be better as a centre half who also has a lot to offer as an attacking weapon. I was hoping Arteta would take Merino off, move Califiori to his ghost 9, position, as well as bringing on Tierney. A.K.B., however so we had a yawn of a second half. I know where Merino’s 6 rating has come from. Would it have mattered if he hadn’t been on the field? As well as not having any impact, he gave away stupid free kicks which wasted more time and put a break on what liti rhythm we had. Pathetic signing. Someone up here criticized Tierney who I thought played well. It’s not easy trying to fit into a set up where you have been shunned and the manager wants to see the back you. Kudos to Tierney for doing a professional job and demonstrating that he has always been a better player than Zivchenko.
Jeez!!! Has it gotten to the point where we now call for Calafiori a center back, who is being played as a LB to come play as our striker? 😭
I don’t know where Merino’s 6 rating came from? Six for effort?
Well that all title hopes gone, won’t be surprised if we get knocked out by PSV. It just occurred to me that we don’t have attacking midfielders. I mean we used to thrive with 3 of those in our squad, Pires – wiltord, – djunberg. Roscicky – Hleb – Fabregas.
Carzola-Wilshere-Ramsey. Ozil-iwobi-sanchez. This was how we played, these were the reasons we played beautiful attacking football while creating multiple goal chances.
That’s all gone now because we have a manager who has a mentality of playing static central midfield play then priorities a makeshift left back who is essential the one charged with moving the ball forward.
When arteta said he doesn’t need a striker as he believes we can score from anywhere I knew this man didnt know what he was talking about, that was why he sold/sent out on loan all the attacking midfielder we had. His trio would have been Nelson-Smith Rowe-marquinhos. I will never understand what in the world was going on in his mind buying us merino and calafiori and sterling. It is still shockingly baffling. But hey I should I be surprised at someone who bought over 4 goal keepers only to sell them all one after the other, who bought seven left footed CB/LB, the one he currently using is an academy player.
Such a waste of money, waste of resources no wonder the board refuse to give him money in January. If I were the owners of the club I wouldn’t.
Our best chance of winning the league was last season and he blew it, we had a better chance this season and his mediocre /abysmal signings (I feel he only signs players he is a fan of not players we need) have cost us this season.
Shame really.
That was a complete shame to watch. To be honest I didn’t even watch the second half as I could see where it was going and didn’t want to go to bed in a bad mood…
I went to bed in a bad mood.
Reggie,
I went to bed in a good mood, because I was wise enough to not watch the the dross in the first place. 😉👍
2 strikers were offered to us in January without the obligation to buy but we flatly turned the offers down; Kolo Muani and Morata. We did not think beyond our noses. Now we are in real mess.
Our fate in Champions League is no difference from EPL
We were offered Muani and Tel but Arteta/Arsenal didn’t want a striker that they were not working with long term. We basically refused to sign a loan striker.
We basically refused to sign a mediocre stopgap that the club didn’t want.
Look at the grief from signing Sterling as a stopgap for the season and your suggesting we should do it again?