I honestly think he picked the wrong option every single time.
Even the shot he took to try and make it 3-1, Zubimendi was all alone to his left.
He was frustrating to watch today, and agree that his decision-making was off as well.
Thought he was okay. 90 minutes suggests that he wonāt start midweek.
Man is LAZY! Hangs around the periphery of the game, almost never sprinting. Loses the ball, opposition counter and he is jogging back. Crap decision making, had opportunities to shoot but insisted on taking a touch (poorly), shooting when passing is better. Passing was poor, we got robbed 
Thought he worked loads harder. The problem is, he looks flimsy when tackling.
He was just a second too late to everything today. But he still managed to force a good save and a few feet left and I donāt think Sanchez gets that long range shot.
He also made a couple of important tackles toward the end period and you gotta think Arteta will be happy with those.
Overall, not good but was still somewhat impactful.
This sums it up perfectly for me!
Our style really doesnāt suit him. At Palace heād be getting the ball given to him, and more on the counter. In the role he has mostly played for us, thereās an expectation that he goes looking for it and itās just not really his game.
But at 65m, he has to find a way to adapt and honestly we need that to happen pretty soon.
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Iād like him to have a spell on the left instead of Trossard for a bit.
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Iām so confused as to why Arteta seems against this. It seems like such a logical opportunity for Eze. We signed someone with the ability to play in multiple positions and we seem obsessed with playing him in one role that he hasnāt taken too particularly well
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He didnāt track back once months ago and Arteta got the hump
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Worth a try again but Iām confident weāll be frustrated either way.
Could play MLS in the left-eight role but Arteta wonāt either.
Stubborn as a goat he is.
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Or as a donkey. They are very stubborn too.
Because Eze does not track back, does not make forward sprints - in short, does not put in a shift - majority of every game, he is on the periphery watching the game unfold. Look at the work Saka and Martinelli/Trossard get through, no way would Eze be doing that.
Eze playing on the left, would leave our LB exposed. LB would make an overlapping run, ball would be lost and Eze would jog back. How Arteta sets up, there is no way he can have that
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Bar his obvious banger performances against the relegation zone totterers, I think he probably shouldnāt play central for us at the moment, more often than not I feel he is not getting much done, he ends up in the wrong place and disappears for stretches, his first touch is too harsh and his 1-2 short-range passing is too inaccurate. This might change any day but rn thatās how I feel.
In fact, in that ā10ā position we used to have one of the best if not the best in the world 3 years ago in ĆdegĆ„rd, who has fallen off tremendously and today I feel we donāt have anyone who can really do that role of linking up our attack and starting ruckus, particularly well. Weāve seen good performances at that postion, Merino comes to mind, but thatās in a different role.
I wonder if we shouldnāt try something like Eze on the left, a striker up front like Havertz (or Gyƶk), I guess Saka on the right (or Noni) and then have Jesus play in that creative type ā10ā role with more vertical running and 1-2s and inventive shenanigans and whatnot. He likes to drift a bit behind wingers as a false 9 anyways and is very comfortable there, and he works hard off the ball.
The usual Rice + Zubi behind, Rice does whatever he wants while Zubi plays more conservatively.
Then maybe we could get that Eze we hoped we had acquired from Palace, back in action, itās not like the usual left wide players in Martinelli/Trossard are firing on all cylinders rn anyways.
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I believe someone mentioned it on here before but he could have a shot at playing CF. He doesnāt āhave toā get involved as much, so the onus on him putting in a shift compared to a midfield role suits him.
Bring in Jesus and it could be chaos.
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I can understand why, based on this season, an Arsenal fan might think centre forward is a position where you stick a player who never does anything, but that is a problem we really should try to address rather than lining up more players to have no impact there 
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I guess heās starting at 10 again - change my mind brother Eberechi.
Who remembers the āPL provenā arguments that use to flare up occasionally on here?
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