let's be honest - one of the best things to ever happen to use recently (after Bielsa joining obviously) was kiko getting that ban so that meslier could go in goal - found what looks to be a young gem. who knows if we would have got promoted with calamitous kiko still making mistakes in net?

So if Dallas is a must start and Alio possibly the best defender over the last two games, where does Rodrigo get in...You can't start 12 players Madely played a lot because we rarely had our first 11 fit...but woukld he have if Reaney Cooper Charlton Hunter Bremner Giles Gray Lorimer Jones Clarke a...

if only he could score.... ...or cross.... ...or take a man on.... But can't fault his workrate - gives his all for the team really need to work on his composure in front of goal - has been guilty of missing several really good chances recently saying that helder didn't do any better when he came on...

It will be interesting to see if there are any repercussions for Paddy. Bielsa (imo) sees football as a team game and believes (again imo) that players should put the team first and not themselves. Alio should be punished then for going for goal rather than simply squaring it if this is the case. P...

Great win KP and Raphinha were huge and absolute standout But our nightmare show in front of goal continues. Ali and helder at the end in particular. Jack and Klich guilty beforehand. Why can't we just put the Ball in the net? We seem to have everything else at the moment! Cant actually believe alio...

Alioski deserves negative points for that horror show at the end, same with helder

Raphinha
KP

Those two absolute standout performers

Meslier
Cooper
Klich
Ayling

JUST PUT THE BALL IN THE NET JACK

Jack can defend, Helder not so good. It's important in our scheme This is true. I'd rather not have one of our three main attacking players in the side because he's good defensively though. Can't fault Jack's effort and passion though as I said, just think a bit of quality of lacking (at the moment...

Helder must be kicking himself that Jack is starting ahead of him. All effort but zero end product from him

JUST PUT THE BALL IN THE FRIGGING NET

White Riot wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 7:21 pm We also don't get to the goal line enough.

On the one occasion we did they were wide open.

yep

SG90 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 7:12 pm Far too often we cross when he don't have much height in the box. We need to be slower and patient, wait for the right moment rather than hit and hope.

agreed totally

Positives - dominated the game + clean sheet

Negatives - same old story as last season - can't create many clear cut chances and the ones we do we don't take

Meslier
Cooper
Bamford
Phillips
Raphinha
Alio

i'm not sure if we were really good or arsenal were just really poor... but man we dominated the entire game from about the 30th minute which is great - despite our passing being quite sloppy BUT the same problems let us down, just aimless punts into the box going nowhere, hopeless long range shots ...

gessa wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 5:17 pm Won't be surprised to see Raph off at ht, went missing for most of the last 15 minutes

Offers us something different but thought his passing was a bit off and doesn't offer much defensively

Poor passing in general but really good end to the half. Just some abysmal finishing from basically the whole team. If we don't get a goal while we're dominant in games like this we know arsenal will have a dominant spell and likely take their chance

Well technically VAR made the right call according to the rules. The issue is the rules and how strictly VAR is applying them. Literally Noone was calling for that to be offside. In Germany before the bar check the commentator was like...is there any offside...watches replay...no definitely no offsi...

Is it time for Casillas to come back ? Letting goals like Messier is right now , whether his fault or not , won't do long term confidence good IMO . 17 goals in 8 games not healthy , 8 in 2 ..........albeit may not be down to him , but maybe more experience to Marshall defenders might be order of t...

I think unless our defences gets it's act together we're going to get tanked a few times this year - maybe just down to the nature of how we play. Need a bit more creativity up top too. But meh I'm not sure why we expected to be any better than we are. 7 points out of the relegation zone. why is tha...