I mean, Arteta said the same.
The only negative he said in his presser is that we don’t have to put such a performance in every match.
A key element to our run pre-December was how quick we were to get the lead and keep it. Even when we lost it we were quick to take it back.
Since the restart we conceded first against West Ham, Man Utd, Everton, City and Villa. The team is on the back foot and we’re chasing the game, time after time. We exert more energy and we keep ourselves even more open at the back.
In the games we scored first and scored early, our opponents pretty much capitulated for the better part of the game and the second soon followed. That was against Brighton and Spurs. Even when Brighton attempted to save the result we simply inflicted too much damage for them to cover.
It’s lazy on a number of levels. Saying Leicester won it as everyone else was rubbish, saying Arsenal are doing a Leicester and saying Arsenal won’t retain.
When it said Johnson, I thought Boris Johnson was making that comparison, not an ex-footballer.
His facts aren’t even chronologically correct anyway, lots of crap big clubs that season after Leicester won too. Arsenal, United, City and Liverpool were still up to nothing. Chelsea took advantage and that was it.
We would be a better team but I don’t believe Chelsea, Liverpool and United would be as shit.
As it stands, It would be difficult for any club to do it consistently, even City. PL is going to be very interesting in next 2-3 seasons.
City have won 4 of 5 and pretty good chance of doing 5 in 6 here. But I agree squad demographic wise you have some key players now into the 30s, so they’ll likely need to splash soon to maintain the level.
Annoying how pundits always call out Leicester for winning the league on only 81 points when United won the league with 80 or fewer points four fucking times, including once with 75 and also including once as recently as 2010-11.
Talking about point totals is a pretty modern thing tbh (Guilty of it myself sometimes). Never saw it as a topic of discussion on Old OA for example. Think City’s ‘dominance’ and the 17-18 title race skewed the narrative even though historically there were plenty of 90+ Point champions.
Always say take the titles as you can get them. Here’s 1999-2000 La Liga for some good shit:
But that season La Liga had three teams in the semi finals of the Champions League.
That Leicester season does mean something in the grand scheme of things.
Even if Arsenal don’t win it next season (if we do this season) that still doesn’t mean that Arsenal aren’t as good or better. Just look at Liverpool. Three excellent season, but just the one League title.
Well glen johnson was a shit footballer so only makes sense he’s a shit pundit too.
Not even remotely comparable to Leicester, they were relegation candidates who barely stayed up, changed manager and won the league out of nowhere while eating pizza at half time. Arsenal were on the brink of CL last season and the improvement was already there to see.
Winning it will be difficult enough, of course retaining it will be even harder…what a genius.
