Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2020/2021

wonga77

An ole shot on target would be great...

Alfred Borden

Dont get the Mari hype. Does well in the easy cup games but thats all.

Underground

How easy was that? A simple ball in between the left back and the centre back and we're carved open. We're not at the races at all tonight.

Hopefully we can stay in it, maybe nick a goal and bring a 2-1 loss into the second leg.

It's awful to even be saying that when we've less than half of the first leg played but we really do look sh*t tonight.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 wrote: »

We have "creative" players on paper only. In reality they don't do much.

Yup. Only so long the likes of Smith Rowe can be justified in the team before he starts contributing properly.

FixitFelix

Arsenal = 55 passes to get nowhere

Villareal = 1 pass and at the edge of our box

Underground

Partey's passing has been terrible too..

Quazzie

Partey and Gabriel have been pretty poor since their arrival. Not convinced by either

Underground

Bear with me as this is a bit of a radical idea, but I think maybe we should start the second half with a centre forward on the pitch.

Azatadine

Quazzie wrote: »

Partey and Gabriel have been pretty poor since their arrival. Not convinced by either

Partey started OK after his arrival but he's gone to dog ****e since.

Deeper Blue

Why start our most important game of the season with a formation that we haven't played since Arteta arrived?

Pretty hard to overstate how bad we were in that first half.

wonga77

No rhythm, no spark no nothing.
Villarreal can put this to bed tonight, can easily see them getting another 1 if not 2.
We still haven't had a single shot on target. Arteta needs to change this up, no point in waiting till the 75th minute to do something, its now or never cause the starting 11 clearly isn't working

Deeper Blue

Partey and Gabriel were great at Old Trafford and have at best underwhelmed since

bad2dabone

Azatadine wrote: »

Partey started OK after his arrival but he's gone to dog ****e since.

Particularly the last two games.

WoollyRedHat

Deeper Blue wrote: »

Why start our most important game of the season with a formation that we haven't played since Arteta arrived?

Arteta needs to wake these players up, throw some water on them, get them to drink a vat of coffee.

Ol' Donie

Azatadine wrote: »

Partey started OK after his arrival but he's gone to dog ****e since.

Himself, Ceballos and Pepe.

If Willock and Maitland Niles etc put in a load of their performances this season, they'd just be dropped.

Although Pepe is improving.

Deeper Blue

For the life of me I can't understand why Martinelli doesn't get a start in this team

OmegaGene

OmegaGene wrote: »

Are you being sarcastic or what
How can you say smith Rowe isn’t contributing properly ?

Quick Google says 1 goal in 10 in EL and 0 goals, 4 assists in 16 in PL this season. Whatever about potential, our attacking midfielders need to be contributing a lot more than that if we're to get anywhere.

x PyRo

Can we leave Ceballos in Spain please. And maybe a few others but him first.

WoollyRedHat

x PyRo wrote: »

Can we leave Ceballos in Spain please. And maybe a few others but him first.

Sell him to Emery.

FixitFelix

Big half for Arteta, players strolling around like its pre season, or are just mystified by this formation.

Ol' Donie

Alright, bad half, but we are definitely better than this.

We can defo get something out of this leg.

(Before we lose at home!)

FixitFelix

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Alright, bad half, but we are definitely better than this.

We can defo get something out of this leg.

(Before we lose at home!)

An away goal here and not conceding again is the bare minimum

Azatadine

https://twitter.com/c_d_14/status/1387859332306546688?s=09

al87987

Gotta go all out here for an away goal, we're not getting through without one. Big 45 mins for Arteta, please don't wait til 70 to make changes

Alfred Borden

No changes. Useless.

Underground

Such an Emery change that, Coq on for Alcacer.

Meant to say in the first half Villareal looked a bit loose towards the end. Emery being proactive with changes, could backfire if a good talking-to was all that was needed. :pac:

FixitFelix

Get Ceballos off before we're down to 10

Deeper Blue

How he can justify not making at least one change at HT I have no idea

Underground

Underground wrote: »

Bear with me as this is a bit of a radical idea, but I think maybe we should start the second half with a centre forward on the pitch.

Are we allowed make changes without injuries before 70 minutes though?

WoollyRedHat

Deeper Blue wrote: »

How he can justify not making at least one change at HT I have no idea

He's told Ceballos if he doesn't start playing well, we'll end the loan deal early and he'll have to go back to Real Madrid!

wonga77

How can management possibly look at that first half and be happy enough with what they saw to not even make 1 change? It's baffling altogether

farna_boy

Alfred Borden wrote: »

No changes. Useless.

Take Ceballos off for **** sake before he gets a red. Not because of any particularly bad challenges but how easy these lads will go down to try to take advantage

WoollyRedHat

Arsenal's place in the ESL under threat.

Deeper Blue

Deeper Blue wrote: »

How he can justify not making at least one change at HT I have no idea

I dunno either. Villareal coming out super deep to start the half though, should be chances with any kind of competence.

Quazzie

Odegaard has done absolutely nothing of note tonight either

Alfred Borden

Emery inviting the pressure on as per.

al87987

Villareal backing off hugely here and inviting us onto them. We need a striker if we want to take advantage

farna_boy

farna_boy wrote: »

Take Ceballos off for **** sake before he gets a red. Not because of any particularly bad challenges but how easy these lads will go down to try to take advantage

Think it was Torres for them got a yellow for nothing, every dribble should be at him.

WoollyRedHat

Quazzie wrote: »

Odegaard has done absolutely nothing of note tonight either

Thanks, also Pepe, not a chance he'll score, not a chance, never going to happen 😉

For all the talk about the two of them Ceballos has been better than Odegaard tonight.

WoollyRedHat

Villarreal playing 9-1 formation I see.

farna_boy

Deleted User wrote: »

For all the talk about the two of them Ceballos has been better than Odegaard tonight.

It's hardly his fault though is it, don't Odegaard, Ceballos and ESR all play in the same position?

FixitFelix

Saka change your boots ffs, slipped about 3 times in 5 mins

Alfred Borden

Definitely conceding at least one next week, so if this stays as it is, we would need 4 at a minimum. Need any type of a goal here.

farna_boy

farna_boy wrote: »

It's hardly his fault though is it, don't Odegaard, Ceballos and ESR all play in the same position?

Who the **** even knows at this point? :pac: I mean who would have ever put slow, cumbersome Xhaka at LB?

wonga77

We dont even look like getting a shot on target nevermind a goal, such a toothless diaplay

Alfred Borden

Useless. Has nearly cost us every knockout tie in Europe this year.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Classic arsenal.