Have they? I think both teams are more or less showing fragilities and strengths of their own.
City have the Forest slip, we have the Wolves one. The main differences is that Arsenal have the edge on the leaderboard and City have the tougher games left on paper.
The former is a real advantage, the latter is proving to be irrelevant.
Them throwing away a two goal lead to Spurs has aged horribly. Us dropping points to Brentford and Wolves has been undone somewhat by the City game vs Forest. City aren’t applying proper pressure. Bernardo Silva exposed the fragility in the camp. As much as I wasn’t a fan, Declan Rice did a media run showing belief.
But that’s down to the point gap, right?
Currently performance wise in the PL neither side is blowing anyone away and almost every game is defined on details.
They basically exposed that if the points gap went to 8, it was time to call it quits. That was on the 8th of Feb. It is 7 points on the 9th of March - they’re one bad game week away from chucking it.
Only the Wolves result was shocking from us since then. We’ve held frame despite playing after City.
Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. The main difference is the point gap.
Performance wise neither side is blowing anyone away.
Think as long as that game at the Etihad is there, they can still recover hope even if they drop points again.
Has their game on hand been scheduled yet? I’ve not heard anything but it feels like it’s being left as a gotcha type of game.
I really need them to get it out of the way so we can see clearly what the numbers on the board truly are.
This is a heavyweight slug-out right now. Both teams are on the ropes, throwing and puffing, trying to get the job done.
Not scheduled yet. Would have been QF weekend if they hadn’t progressed. What Palace do in the conference League will likely further complicate it’s scheduling.
Is there a team more spoiled with players that favour that right half space?
Saka, Madueke, Odegaard, Nwaneri and Dowman.
Shearer & Rooney’s right, though we haven’t done true tiki-taka football since Ozil, Auba, Ramsey, Wilshre & Co were in the team…
We did in 21/22.
Tiki-taka? 
Someone tell Rooney it’s not 2010 and we haven’t played that way since even before Wenger left.
Arteta ball has never been tiki-taka.
Obi-Mikel nuff said - absolute melt !!
Gonna win the quadruple in the stinkiest way possible.
2 OG’s to beat city in carabao.
Penalties to beat Chelsea in FA cup.
Win the league on GD
Rice corner goes in off Bayerns GK in the CL final.
Arsenal better win trophies this season, not for me but just cause I can’t see a repeat of this approach to football to win matches/trophies happening again for a long, long time. Talk of rule changes and other shite in the grapevine…
Gyokeres, Martinelli, and Eze just honestly do not have the quality to be starting regularly for a team that wants to win the biggest trophies. All have their uses as squad players and you can carry maybe one at a time in the starting lineup but if you’re relying on all three its trouble. We badly need Havertz, Odegaard, and Trossard to get healthy and back into some semblance of form or we’re not winning much this year. Even a Merino return in May would be huge for this team right now.
Our attack is extremely poor - It’s commendable we are even thriving this season with the kind of output our attackers are providing.
Saka used to carry the attack in previous seasons but even he is off form the whole of this season.
Wow 6 of our last 8 fixtures have been away. Time to really capitalize on our home form now.
Considering we gave 4 points we lost against United & Wolves were complete giveaways, this is statistically really good form.
As per eye test though, we are horrid.
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