Was that your view or the performance 
Arteta put on 5 subs, all of whom should have had an impact on the match. Odegaard was very below average today but he wasnāt alone. Nwaneri had 30mins to make an impact and was nonexistent. Everton always set up like this and the key is to get an early goal to open the game up. Very frustrating but have to move forward and focus on the next game and still same gap to Liverpool.
Everton fans were shocking leaving the stadium celebrating like they won the league!
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Absolutely fuming leaving the stadium today. Honestly what the fuck was that. We basically tried the same shit sequence of passes for 90mins with no change in approach. Lets just keep doing the same thing over and over again shall we even though the first 100 attempts havenāt worked, yeah fucking great idea that.
Everton are fucking SHIT. They have a 39 year old right back and we found it hard to expose that!? This reminded me of those infuriating Wenger games where weād pass it around a bit doing nothing and then the final whistle goes - absolute disgrace for a team meant to be challenging for the title. There are zero positives out of today. It should have been 3 points and send them packing. Dreadful. Just fuck off.
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More on the manager than on players.
We just pulled the hand brake for 70+ minutes
Iād say that was the worse match Iāve ever attended in terms of attacking performance from an Arsenal team. That was bizarre to watch. Just the same bullshit again and again and again.
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Tuned in at the 80th minute and watched about 10 minutes. Looked like Iām watching a game in AET.
Everyone looked leggy and we kept passing it around looking clueless.
Felt like watching a mid-table, inconsequential League 2 game at some points in that match.
Seems like we only started āplayingā at 80-mins, by then it was too late.
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That was us trying?!
There was definitely more urgency at the very end. But yeah, it was still a piss poor effort from them all tbh.
Wasnāt even that, at least league 2 farmers would probably be hoofing it around or running after the ball. We spent almost 90 mins passing sideways or stopping on the spot and playing a 3m backwards pass.
We were so calculated but got calculated by opponents also
If there was one team that I know could come away with a clean sheet, it would be Everton. They are coached extremely well defensively but despite that, I really expected Arsenal to deliver in terms of goals.
Itās a sad situation we are in - all our offensive players bar Saka are struggling in terms of output. But then you can also question is it it because they arenāt good enough or has Arteta become too obsessed with a risk free approach so now heās coached them to be a risk free, structured and highly systematic team?
At the moment, I feel confused to answer the above but times like this, patience will need to persist. But canāt lie that itās extremely disappointing. Right now, itās not even worth tracking Liverpoolās title run; we need to simply focus on our problems but these problems are basics that we shouldnāt be having after the two seasons weāve had.
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Just looked at the subs @Darkseid looks mostly like for like again apart from Jesus for merino.
I do think his use of subs is atrocious most of the time, 5 new players within a 12 min spell is just gonna cause chaos and throw everybody off.
Too many new players trying to get into the game and the ones that stay on must be like what the fuck do we do now.
No it isnāt like for like
I donāt think Arteta waits that long to bring on a defender, no bloody way
I donāt understand what you mean.
Jorginho for rice
Partey for skelly
Nwaneri for Odegaard
Trossard for martinelli
4 that look like for like. Jesus for merino suggests some slight formation change.
Slot waited until the 70th minute bring on Quansah whilst down to ten men
In similar circumstances Arteta isnāt doing the same thing, not in my opinion anyway
Okay, not sure why the slot talk came into this thread but the point makes sense.
I was just talking about the general topic weāve had before about the subs from arteta lacking impact.
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Did you respond to me in the wrong thread? Lol
I havenāt seen the match, I was listening on the radio. I assume it was frustrating.
Might be an un-nuanced take but I think we simply donāt have a traditional, proficient striker who can turn half-chances into goals. So weāre usually reliant on set-pieces and those stunning goals where several neat passes work and the ball arrives in the box with an unmissable chance. While Eddie N wasnāt that āproficientā striker, Iād rather have him around than Jesus and Sterling at the moment.
No was two separate posts, hadnāt seen you replied to me in the arteta thread when I posted the above.