Precisely. It’s ok to be getting excited about Nwaneri showing glimpses but the kid ain’t there yet, especially now that teams have clocked his talent.
I think Odegaard is still on it. He just has no one he can trust and no support. He still makes plays but hes not a striker. He also seems to be the only one committed at this point. He still runs like a madman even when its game over. Rest of the team seems to be 3 steps behind
Nah it’s both, our system needs people to create for themselves as we’re not playing counter ball that Liverpool do.
But you take salah, jota and Diaz out of their lineup while their midfield was off form, then they’d struggle to have anywhere near as many chances too.
Well I agree a bit, but he’s nowhere near his top level we saw in 22/23 and even last year.
He’s trying and his poor shooting is blinding people imo but he’s also got to start doing it himself if others aren’t clicking with what he wants them to do. Plus there’s been enough time to work on that in training.
Yeah i can agree with you there - hes definitely not on his same level as last year - but idk if anyone is. Partey somehow actually improved over last year. The rest aged 10 years and took up smoking cigs or something.
Mentioned in a couple threads but his decision to take Rice and Calafiori was proved to be bad.
Our right hand side was dead and any threat we had came from the left. Beyond losing creativity we had from the left, having Cala and Rice in the box in those last moments would’ve been handy.
I really don’t see what we are doing with our fullbacks. Sure, the inverted thing would be fine if we actually flooded the midfield and utilised the extra numbers but we often don’t and just end up doing sideways passes at a slow pace which makes it easy for the opposition to defend.
As much as I love Timber, he spends a lot of time being neither here nor there and same sort of deal with Cala a lot of the time.
I’ll say this, our injury list is ridiculous. I will never accept not scoring at home. It’s not like the opposition keeper had a worldwide either. Dubai hasn’t worked this year.
Arteta gets one more season for me to pick up a major.