Greenlizard0 PL & Championship Football Thread ** spoilers ** [27th - 30th Nov 2020]
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Caporegime
Holding 
He's built like a brick **** house.
He's built like a brick **** house.
Caporegime
Holding
He's built like a brick **** house.
Born in the wrong era.
Don
You've got one wasting away
its never going to happen
Don
Get Giroud in
Caporegime
Weird Arsenal performance. Auba makes run after run behind the defence and no one plays him in and when he holds it up, he gets no support.
Hard to see what impact Arteta has had on their style of play in a year but they look so much weaker in attack under him.
Hard to see what impact Arteta has had on their style of play in a year but they look so much weaker in attack under him.
Arsenal have looked the same for last 5 PL games, negative, slow, no threat upfront, Leno probably made more passes and touched the ball more than Aubameyang, what does that say about this team? What is Arteta doing? Has he even got a plan B because Plan A is failing miserably. I don't think he has.
This might be the worst arsenal team I've seen in my lifetime, Emery's Arsenal wasn't this bad.
I'd happily take Eriksen on loan or whatever. Surely even a lazy old Ozil can at least put balls in to Auba/Pepe/Laca to run onto.
Emery did well before he came to us and he's doing well again after leaving us, I don't think Arteta is a bad coach either so it's hard to see what's going wrong. Emery had the initial good run too like Arteta, and it eventually flat lined like we are now.
Need to get Partey fit asap, and bring in someone who can drive us forward. Grealish would be perfect but that's never happening.
I'd happily take Eriksen on loan or whatever. Surely even a lazy old Ozil can at least put balls in to Auba/Pepe/Laca to run onto.
Emery did well before he came to us and he's doing well again after leaving us, I don't think Arteta is a bad coach either so it's hard to see what's going wrong. Emery had the initial good run too like Arteta, and it eventually flat lined like we are now.
Need to get Partey fit asap, and bring in someone who can drive us forward. Grealish would be perfect but that's never happening.
Surely the person to drive you forward is Partey?
Tony Cascarino is a absolute tool BUT he said this about Aubameyang in 2019 :
He's absolutely bang on here. This is from an Arsenal blog taking the mickey out of Cascarino...People get absolutely blinded by goals.
Caporegime
This is lost on a lot of people. It doesn’t matter how many you score if you are a negative influence on your team. People defended Rooney for years at the end of his time at United and pointed to his goals and assists. He literally brought the whole team down and made it impossible to play in any way but his way.
Its not necessarily about work rate, it’s about how well you suit the system and your positive vs negative impact on the team.
Currently at United we have this issue with Pogba. Brilliant at times but generally he isn’t worth it. If that player that wins you the odd game with a spot of brilliance is the reason you need those moments of brilliance a lot, they aren’t worth it.
Soldato
There was a stat recently that this team are the 2nd worst in the league at progressing the ball into the final 3rd (I think Newcastle were top) and... it shows.
It’s not as bad as peak Emery; I can’t forget the sheer amount of chances opposing teams were given free reign to take, the lack any defence, the panic, Leno being the best player in the side most weeks. Team is much better at the back than it was (a low bar to clear, admittedly), the issue is they only seem to perform outside of playing jobber EL teams when under the cosh for most of the team and having to play on the counter like against United. Every game where there’s a decent bit of possession and onus is to do something with it, it’s been a car crash, like they got okay at playing with a lot of structure to stop leaking goals and as soon as they’re asked to liberate themselves a bit and make something happen at the other end the pipe’s burst again.
Would also note as bad as this has been, a lot of other teams are all over the place as well although obviously some semblance of normal order is resuming at the top.
It’s not as bad as peak Emery; I can’t forget the sheer amount of chances opposing teams were given free reign to take, the lack any defence, the panic, Leno being the best player in the side most weeks. Team is much better at the back than it was (a low bar to clear, admittedly), the issue is they only seem to perform outside of playing jobber EL teams when under the cosh for most of the team and having to play on the counter like against United. Every game where there’s a decent bit of possession and onus is to do something with it, it’s been a car crash, like they got okay at playing with a lot of structure to stop leaking goals and as soon as they’re asked to liberate themselves a bit and make something happen at the other end the pipe’s burst again.
Would also note as bad as this has been, a lot of other teams are all over the place as well although obviously some semblance of normal order is resuming at the top.