Yeah, we’re in great shape.
Time to earn your money Gyok
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Yes. He should be banging some goals in over the next month and get going.
We should have had at least 9 cause we should have hammered City.
Hard to be unhappy with our return considering the difficulty of our opening 6 fixtures. I think we’d probably all have taken 13 points, 2nd place and 2 off the top if offered prior to match week #1.
That win showed real character and I’m hopeful the lineup is an indication of Arteta being willing to release the handbrake a little bit.
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Arguably the hardest opening 6 fixtures we’ve had in a very, very long time.
Hopefully we can stat pad a few cunts and stretch that GD even further.
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Don’t like the fact that we had two brainfart moments in the last two games which led to the Haaland and Woltemade goals. It seems to happen a few times too often.
Don’t like Martinelli or Trossard as the starting left wing options. Still need something for that spot.
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Trossard starting will always surprised me because his impact is always more often than not felt from the bench, whenever I see him start he’s just not good enough.
I’m pleased with the win obviously but I do feel like it papers over things a little, we should’ve been clinical in the first half before they scored then then spent until the 85 minutes chasing the game. I don’t want us to be playing like this all season, it’s not enjoyable.
First half was actually some really nice football to watch, not only that but showed we learned a way to adapt and dominated a team we’ve struggled against recently.
I was really impressed with the two spells where we cut them apart with some exquisite one-touch passing and running at their back line. In the first 30 mins and in the last 15.
Eze is definitely a more direct player in the middle and I actually wondered whether Odegaard will now have to adapt and learn to play the Eze way. Our captain certainly looked more assertive than he’s been recently during his cameo.
As for the finishing, I think that will improve. Just looking at Saka’s move to more of an inverted winger position tells me they’re trying something new and it may take a little while to adapt to having this many chances in an away game against a low block. The telepathy takes time.
If we can keep up this new attacking dynamic for 90 minutes we’re going to tear some teams to shreds in the coming months. Oh look, West Ham are next in the league!
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You serious? What you mean by “learn”??
Ode played better in 22-23 than this.
“Re-learn” then.
Probably my favourite part of this game. We played really well for most of that first half and Arteta selected a progressive lineup and went at them which we have struggled to do effectively over the last 3 or 4 seasons.
I hope it is the start of this being a regular thing.
leading up to the NLD we could be taking maximum points from those games, football is not that straight forward though
Viktor Gyökeres enters the ring.
We absolutely need to deck West Ham and Fulham once and for all.
To be in with a chance of winning this league, I think we need 90+ points again; which means a 16-point swing over last season’s results.
This is by comparison to the same fixture against the same/equivalent team last season right?
Rather than against the same gameweek as it kind of looked to me at first.
Same team as last year.
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We have to be taking maximum points from those games. I know London derbies are usually tricky but with this squad, we have more than enough quality to beat West Ham, Fulham & Palace. Burnley and Sunderland shouldn’t be a problem either barring sending offs or bizarre VAR decisions.