Dammit my fucking machines screen jumped as i voted on this, can you change my Vote to Auba, not fucking iwobi.
Just fraud a Europa win to get us CL plz Unai you are the Europa specialist after all!
Weâre not a better team then Chelsea or Spurs, tough to say but I call it like I see it. Utd look like they are playing now, and they are slowly catching up to us. Leicester just beat Chelsea and City something we didnât do. PL isnât a three or four team league anymore. So getting top 5 is a damn miracle if you ask me.
Only Auba, Laca, Torreira, Bellerin, Skrotis, Guendouzi for me are good enough to take us on in the future. Throw in Smith Rowe and Nelson from the youths. But this side needs a ton of work done on it badly, and we need to get our heads out of the sand and just cop on that we arenât a top 4 team we all think we are
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I agree we arenât a top 4 team, I also agree with majority of what youâre saying, I was just merely pointing out we arenât really going to finish lower than 6th. We even managed 6th last season with Wenger.
Sokratis, so can I get a gold star sir please.
I think it was more the fact that itâs phonetically like scrote-is rather than pointing out a spelling mistake. 
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i aint that kinda guy, its just the coincidence of how it was typed that made me laugh, sounds like you gave him a nickname as being a scroat. I read it as âscroatisâ
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Have too agree last four league games against crap not even average clubs performances have been horrible watches.
Given Emery the benefit of the doubt but the Squad is complete garbage bar about 4 players tops. Too many bad habits and that cant be erased by a new coach. The only solution is we have to buy our way out of this.
Anfield next for us and united home to Bournemouth could see us accelerate toward a battle with them. Beg and pray we are buying 3 players at least in January otherwise this is looking bleak for me going forwards.
Bingo 
I also bet on Leicester to win.
Only ÂŁ3 but I won ÂŁ24.
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You can simply change your vote by clicking on the option you want, for yourself Any poll thatâs open, you can change your vote any time.
Anyways, I watched a fair majority of the game and we looked pretty poor. Real lack of ideas and creativity, especially in the second half. Ironically on days like today, we couldâve done with Giroud, but alas that ship has long sailed now 
December has felt like the kinda month weâd usually have in November, where results start going to shit and so to the performances. Simply not firing on all cylinders at all of late, and doesnât help with the injury list beginning to pile up. Is the Emery honeymoon phase now over?
Honeymoons over but still better than the x.
Who was our MOTM? Vote 
Man of the Match Thread
Some observations from yesterdayâs gameâŚ
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Matteo. I love the spirit, determination and confidence that Guendouzi possesses but itâs a sad indictment of the current quality of our squad that he has gotten so much game time this season. Yesterdayâs game was crying out for a midfield two of Xhaka-Torreira and then a front 4 of Iwobi, Ozil, Laca and Auba. I just donât see the logic in giving Guendouzi so much game time and at this stage Iâd rather see Ramsey given a run out at centre. Emery has a proven track record of helping players and if someone like Banega could thrive then I canât see why Ramsey canât be a good option for CM at his stage of the season.
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Misused experience. The signing of Lichsteiner was to provide experience, leadership and adequate backup for Bellerin. But when you sign a 34-year-old right back you cannot expect to play him so high up the pitch and us not be so massively exposed at the back. At the tail end of Dani Alves career, heâs been used by PSG and Juventus as an auxiliary right winger who provides a degree of defensive cover. Expecting him to bomb up and down the flanks in the fashion that Bellerin does just does not make sense. This was an Emery failing and it left Lichsteiner looking totally useless.
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Half-time. I think itâs criminal that in 19 Premier League games a team as big as Arsenal, with arguably the 6th best squad in the league, went into the break leading only once. I know a game is 90 minutes, so it doesnât really matter so long as the result is a win. But itâs indicative of a shaky 45 minutes where we just donât seem to be able to take control of games. Whether itâs because Emery doesnât have the players to play his football and the current crop are struggling to adjust or that heâs just not lining us up properly is something we will see.
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Patience. We have to have patience. I think the honeymoon period is officially over but by the same token itâs important that we are realistic. This is the squad that finished 6th last season and this squad has barely improved. Weâve brought in an error prone keeper to replace an error prone keeper. Weâve signed a centre back who we probably shouldnât have signed despite needing to sign a quality defender to replace our shit defender (Mustafi) and our injured past it defender (Koscielny). I think Emery has been dealt a tough hand in terms of our dealings in the transfer market and we all know he loves to line up with a different kind of midfield than heâs dealing with now.
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Youth. Let us be brutally honest here, we do not have a great assortment of first team ready players coming from our academy. We probably have some exciting 16-18 year olds but youâd argue the best performing young player in the squad is currently in Germany honing his craft. Players like Iwobi have no place in the starting 11 and are squad players at best. Players like AMN have no place in the squad full stop. He has good technique but there is literally nothing else to his game. He came on yesterday and was, yet again, utterly useless.
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Lacazette. Do I like him? Yes I do. Do I think he brings a lot to the team? Yes I do. But what weâve essentially done with him is sell Giroud, who wasnât a heavy goalscorer but brought a few things to the team and replaced him with a ÂŁ50-60m striker who, doesnât score a lot of goals, but brings different things to the team. I think we could recoup most of what we paid for when we signed Lacazette to be honest with you. And reinvest that money in a quality wide man because itâs evident Emery wants to use wingers heavily so let us fucking sign some.
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Context. Yesterdayâs result was poor and Emery got a lot wrong. But at present we are missing Holding, Mustafi, Bellerin, Monreal, Mkhitaryan, Welbeck. We had Torreira at risk of suspension and that probably explains why Emery pushed him higher up the pitch in the hope that he wouldnât pick up a needless yellow breaking up play on the counter. But defensively we are flat out with injuries and that played a huge role in our recent form especially when you factor in how many games we play over this festive period.
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Defence. Does it even look like weâve made any kind of defensive improvement because the answer on my end is a resounding no. We leak goals for fun and our defensive shape is a disaster at times. The only times Iâve been impressed with our shape is in the games where we have at least tried to be a little more compact. Hopefully itâs a personnel issue and Emery is just persisting with the full backs pushing so high and the defence being exposed until he can bring in better personnel. I donât know right now.
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Looking at our defensive options, the only players Iâd keep out of our entire defensive roster are Bellerin, Mavropanos and Holding. I wouldnât be disappointed if every other player was sold or released.
Whilst you can make an argument that our midfield and attack combined is capable of making top 4, our defence is nowhere near that level. It will continue to cost us until we improve this area with new signings.
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Have to say Leno at ÂŁ19m was a poor strategic signing really. That money should have gone towards defenders. Cech and Martinez would have been fine this season
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Cech had 1 season left and then what? And Cechâs reactions are someone shot
I would have preferred if we dealt with Cech next summer. I dont think you need to spend ÂŁ19m on a guy who closer to average than top quality because Cechâs reactions are on the wane meanwhile our defence is a shambles.
In fact if you take away all that play from the back stuff Cech has been average which would have been more than serviceable
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Tbh the club need to stop acting like paupers. Liverpool rise has come when FSG abandoned their moneyball strategy.
American owners seem to take longer too understand football over here. The games changed significantly enough for our board to now do the necessary adjustment.
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I wonder if Guendouzi got a promise of gametime or if he looks amazing in training or something. Either way Emery isnât going to throw 4 attacking midfielders/forwards on the pitch at the same time like Wenger
Lacazette brings end product and isnât someone we should be selling. TBH weâre already thin on the ground but Ramsey, Welbz, Mkhitaryan, Iwobi and maybe even Ozil are all out the door first
I thought you were coming to terms with Sokratis been a solid signing? Heâs been our best defender and will give us a few years of no nonsense defending