Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2024/25

Unfortunately, the better team won.

I've defended Ødegaard in the past, but that performance tonight is as bad as any I've seen. Simply didn't turn up at all..

That was a very hard watch. Completely outplayed. PSG were good and pressed us but Jesus we must have gone back to Raya 40 times. So frustrating to watch, the occasion completely got to a good few of them.

Nothing to lose now in the return leg, Partey will make a huge difference

We are still in it but that was awful tonight. Very little threat.

Not so sure we were worse that them. Stats is favour of us.

And to put a positive spin- If it was the other way around Os be bricking it if that’s all we had to bring home k owing our potential.

if 2 nil is a dangerous lead then …..

Whats happened to him at all? Do you think he's just having a bad season after the injury or is it more than that? He's been terrible.

Yep, MO’s form has been poor and tonight was no different sadly! Look, 1-0 is not the worst and yes it’s an uphill battle, but let’s be honest, as good as we are away from home, it feels like this season’s zenith may have been the Madrid games!

But I’m not giving up. I give us a good chance with that dope Partey back. We have so much more balance in the team with him in it.

I'd go as far as to say if an offer came in for him this summer I'd let him go. He offers nothing. Nwaneri should be given a chance in Paris but that's not going to happen. Odegaard needs to be replaced if Arsenal are serious about winning anything next season

If I see Odegaard try one more scoopy loopy chip pass from outside the box only for it to be cut out I'm going to scream my head off! 🤣

I wasn't reading the thread throughout the match but ffs I wish paddypower and the likes who make fun of us online could have to see how bloody realistic us lot are in comparison to the knee jerk dopes they found online. This was always always gonna be our biggest test tonight and we came up just short, didn't embarrass ourselves, it was close'ish but you won't find anyone here today saying we "deserve" or we "should" or "we're the best team left in this business". This thread is a representation of what every true arsenal supporter feels, we know where we are and we know what our limits are and we only live in hope.

0-1 isn't the worst. Go over there and score and they'll panic. It's just about the same as a 0-0 or a 1-1. Just go there with party in the middle, rice firing and odegaard with his head out of his arse and we can do this.

It's far from fackin over.

Have to agree, don't know were all the comments are coming from that we were poor, bar the first 25-30 mins we were more than match for them and could have had 2 goals but for poor finishing. Honestly can't see us being as poor in the opening stages next which is what cost us last night.

When we had sustained pressure PSG were very shaky and could be got at, just like with villa they were all over the place when villa scored.

It's far from over

Ok, I've had a chance to look at the highlights. We've created the better chances overall. To start they knocked the wind out of our sails by scoring from a scuffed shot that got past Raya because he was blinded by Rice in front of him. After that Donnarumma made the bigger saves overall from Trossard and Martinelli. Both of which were better saves than I thought when looking at them live. Martinelli's in particular was full stretch which I didn't think it was.

Where they won the game is the timing of their goal. It quietened a very boisterous crowd, and they never recovered. It obviously quietened the players too, who took a good half hour to get going after the goal. The ref blew for nonsense fouls in my opinion and Arsenal naively kept committing them, and it was only after the first half hour that they figured out that the ref would give them the same ridiculous decisions if they were just a bit theatrical. I think that evened out the ref decisions later on.

PSG controlled the game, and worryingly Arsenal were only too happy to let them. Rice was screaming at Raya in the 83 minute to slow down the game when he was trying to take a quick kick out. FFS. We're at home. That's where we needed to push on against an obviously tiring PSG.

We settled far too soon to the 0-1 scoreline, and all this bullsh1t talk of "it's only half time" was obviously drilled into the players at the interval. What they should have been told is that the game last night is arguably the easier half. It won't get any easier in Paris