Why can’t Auba just run across the line. Vardy cameo made Auba look a bum last night.
Watched Wrighty do this for years in lesser sides.
Auba needs too be having a word as well with Arteta today.
Can also step back from the social media shit and get this sorted.
Starting to look all a bit sulky this. Fuck this flakey DNA. Lets get some character shown. Fuck knows the last time Arsenal players showed anger.
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If Auba plays CF and Pepe plays RW, Pepe will show his class and score many goals I am sure of that.
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How sure? Btw, Willian with his dad bod is coming back. Pepe will be lucky to start the EL game at least.
Auba and Pepe works. I am fine with Willian on the other side, we need creative players.
We have got creative players (ESR, Nelson, Pepe). Arteta just doesn’t want to use them because he has his favourites.
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This. It’s not like every other team in the league has KDB, how the fuck are they creating chances? The formation needs to die now. Fair enough if he wants to play this way against City or Liverpool, but all the other teams outside that 2 don’t need us to set up with 3 at the back and an inverted left back who channels all of our attacks through one side.
4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1, stretch the play, use both wings, let both the full backs push up when needed, or use wingers. Anything
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Unfortunately, we don’t have the midfield to play that.
Maybe Willock will step up to be the attacking minded midfielder, but it’s a tough ask.
Instead managers like Arteta and a bunch of others it seems, will play as follows:
Auba LW, Pepe CM, leno CF, xhaka false 9, 3 musketeers CB
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Fucking Willock what a sad excuse for an Arsenal player he is.
Partey and Ceballos at the base, Willian or Saka at the tip of the midfield trio/CAM.
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https://twitter.com/ZRAFC/status/1319754536580505600?s=19
How about now you fucking lunatic??!!
Wish the fans were back, they’d let them all know what they think of this.
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Comments like this demonstrate his misplaced arrogance.
Perhaps the worst thing to happen was the FA Cup win so early in his career.
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This is looking like a case of a new employee taking on a managerial position, and taking radical/stubborn decisions to show that he’s not a pushover for the the people who work under him, regardless of what’s actually beneficial to the company.
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Signs of stubbornness etc, really not a good thing, I hope we start to go on a run of good results soon.
I think this is definitely the case with Guendouzi and maybe even Ozil, I’m in charge and it’s my way or the high way kind of thing to send a message to everyone else.
On this though I think he’s just being silly. He probably genuinely thinks he has some genius gameplan that nobody else understands.
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It’s a very fine line with managers
Having to be strong willed and stubborn and backing yourself.
Really hard thing to get the balance on who ever you are.
look what you have done to our boy Mikel
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I really hate how we are trying to scapegoat Auba.
Arteta is to blame here not Auba. He picks the team chooses the tactics
Not at all. I think the majority recognise that this is an Arteta issue.
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On here perhaps but I’m not sure about the majority of other Arsenal fans online. Not long ago the unpopular opinion was that Auba should play central, most people campaigned that Auba worked out wide.
When you combine Auba’s new contract with all this xG propaganda doing the rounds it definitely looks like there is an agenda from some Twitter dickheads that want to portray Auba as past it, or declining. It feels entirely separate to the issue of Arteta and playing wide.
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“I think it’s very important to see who is around him and why we’re doing it. Not just the fact we’re doing it, why we’re doing that and what we’re going to get by doing these positive things. Of course, there’s a very strong possibility to play him as a [number] 9.”
“From our side we have to give him more opportunities, more shots, put him in better positions,” he said. “We must try to accumulate more players around him to create better situations for him and he has to step in as well. When that happens, he has the right opportunity.
“In these games you’re not going to have 10 [opportunities] playing against a low block, you have to make it happen like he did a week ago in the Europa League [against Rapid Vienna].
“He’s so used to that, teams pay a lot of attention to him, that’s why sometimes we have to change the positions because every team is going to be preparing things to stop him.
“We have to bear that in mind so we have to distract the opponent other positions, other movement, other relationships in the pitch. We try to accommodate him without losing him in the position that he’s clinical.”