He’d deserves it for different reasons.
No excuse to be dominated like that in the 1st half, having to come back just demonstrates how he’s not up to it. We could have won but West Ham can say the same.
I’m not giving praise here.
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Agreed, the fact that the club has come back from being goals down a few times this season speaks volumes to how much the players play for Arteta and how he’s able to motivate them.
We never came back in games this way under Wenger.
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Hahahahaha “able to motivate the team”
Took him going 3-0 down to do it huh
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The first 30 mins was diabolical no doubt about that, fair play to us we picked ourselves up and dominated the last 60 mins in reality so I’ll give credit for that.
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Or does it show that he incapable of getting his teams motivated enough to start games properly…He has to go, enough is enough!
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Sometimes tactics and plans don’t work out and go against you, he pivoted and we came out a much better team in the 2nd half and pulled it back to 3-3.
Not the first time this season.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t love Arteta but this wasn’t a fluke. He definitely shouldn’t have tinkered with the formation with this game though.
Took two own goals. Pretty much was a fluke.
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We forced those own goals though… Auba was going to tap in that Bowen one regardless.
Lacazette’s was a chance we created.
Not like they were own goals that came out of nowhere.
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Worth mentioning we drew btw, we didn’t win. Comeback was nice but it wasn’t a huge result. Or a result we needed.
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Yeah, you’d have thought we won the damn game.
So Wenger-esque by papering over cracks.
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In his defense:
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As much as I criticise Arteta’s decisions, if he wins the Europa League he has taken us back to a competition we’ve desperately needed a return to and won our first European trophy in a long time. Lets be real getting into the Champions League is the objective every season until we’re in range again.
Long way to go of course and the Europa League is a competition with a long history of banana skins and only Sevilla have been consistent.
It doesn’t mean he’s done a great job but it’s an enormous backdoor escape route to a successful season for us.
He should still go if he wins it though but he most definitely wouldn’t if he did.
Wenger would never have been able to come back from 3-0 down lol
How many more fucking games till we stop conceding early goals.
Comeback or no comeback we had no chance of 3 points because we are 2 down in 20 fucking minutes.
We do it constantly.
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Papering over cracks is what I meant lol
He’s done it at least twice, no? 
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Literally just happened in his last season against Bournemouth 
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And Reading away in the cup.
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If you watched the games you’d see how many dangerous situations we created last hour, coming back from 3 down was no fluke, we deserved and got something outta the game.
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Lacas was a chance that was going wide and I wouldn’t bet on Auba tapping anything home right now.
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