Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2020/2021

Ardennes1944 · 02-05-2021 2:21pm

Take Xhaka off at half time or he'll be sent off too

stuchyg · 02-05-2021 2:22pm

DenMan wrote: »

Utd fans are on the pitch at Old Trafford protesting en-masse against their American owners, the Glazers.

Hopefully be some arrests from it too, all clear as day on camera

omega man · 02-05-2021 2:22pm

DenMan wrote: »

Just saw a stat there, Arsenal have made 9 changes today since their last league game. It's the first time from the club since May 1993. 28 years ago!

The year of the double cup win over Sheffield Wed. Good memories of that time.

DenMan · 02-05-2021 2:24pm

jonneymendoza wrote: »

How did they get on the pitch?

They came in through the gantry he said. Stewart's very slow to act. About 400 got in they reckon.

jonneymendoza · 02-05-2021 2:45pm

DenMan wrote: »

They came in through the gantry he said. Stewart's very slow to act. About 400 got in they reckon.

Jesus

Royale with Cheese · 02-05-2021 2:52pm

Odegaard fairly quiet, didn't do much in Spain during the week either. Maybe he's playing to get his valuation down so he can stick around for next season.

tayto lover · 02-05-2021 3:11pm

Missed the first half and haven’t seen the goal yet but this second half looks like a friendly. Not much bite and very little pace to it. Luiz injured now.

brianregan09 · 02-05-2021 3:11pm

Just call us injury fc for **** sake

Royale with Cheese · 02-05-2021 3:12pm

Is that the last time we'll see Luiz in an Arsenal shirt?

tayto lover · 02-05-2021 3:12pm

brianregan09 wrote: »

Just call us injury fc for **** sake

He’ll be back for the final of the Europa league.

brianregan09 · 02-05-2021 3:13pm

tayto lover wrote: »

He’ll be back for the final of the Europa league.

Will he be cheering for United or Villareal ?

tayto lover · 02-05-2021 3:14pm

brianregan09 wrote: »

Will he be cheering for United or Villareal ?

😂😂

tayto lover · 02-05-2021 3:21pm

Azatadine wrote: »

That's it for me too. The blind faith without any history whatsoever to support it. As you say, it's talked to death but it's the vigorous support of his "process" when it's clearly not working that astounds me.

6 months ago, when big doubts were really starting to be obvious, people said he should be judged at the end of the season. Well, we are almost there and we are in 11th place.....are people now moving goalposts?

Yes. Goalposts being moved alright. He’s already had longer than Emery.

DenMan · 02-05-2021 3:24pm

Need a second goal now.

omega man · 02-05-2021 3:25pm

More like it Auba

Azatadine · 02-05-2021 3:25pm

Auba!

tayto lover · 02-05-2021 3:26pm

DenMan wrote: »

Need a second goal now.

There you are. Auba.

DenMan · 02-05-2021 3:26pm

The police are at OT now and the fans are leaving. One fan got into one of the dressing rooms. I still think the game will go ahead.

Well done Auba! 0-2

brianregan09 · 02-05-2021 3:26pm

Well one thing is for certain , we won before we played the 2nd leg against Prague so hopefully this will give us a bit of a springboard , also Martinelli has worked his bollocks off today

emmetlego · 02-05-2021 3:26pm

Some ball from Martinelli. Good goal

Ardennes1944 · 02-05-2021 3:26pm

What a beautiful cross and great finish from the main man. Get Auba off now and put on Nketiah

tayto lover · 02-05-2021 3:28pm

Auba and Xhaka off please.

Does anyone else get kind of dizzy watching that pitch the way the light makes it look like it has ripples?

brianregan09 · 02-05-2021 3:28pm

Would he take Xhaka and Aubameyang off now ffs man is afraid of subs

wonga77 · 02-05-2021 3:35pm

Surely time for a few subs now?
Martinelli is great to watch, lovely quick feet and always looking to make something happen

tayto lover · 02-05-2021 3:40pm

Madness keeping Xhaka on the field with a massive game on Thursday.

5star02707 · 02-05-2021 3:43pm

Xhaka got away with that one

https://twitter.com/Gunnerian/status/1388859986483232774?s=19

DenMan · 02-05-2021 3:45pm

Tommy P on now for Martin.

tayto lover · 02-05-2021 3:48pm

Ryan is very good under the high ball.

FixitFelix · 02-05-2021 3:48pm

tayto lover wrote: »

Madness keeping Xhaka on the field with a massive game on Thursday.

Man's a machine:)

tayto lover · 02-05-2021 3:50pm

Thought that was just a yellow myself.

5star02707 · 02-05-2021 3:50pm

Martinelli injured. That's a terrible challenge
Fuuuudge

Glad he's up but he's limping

DenMan · 02-05-2021 3:51pm

tayto lover wrote: »

Ryan is very good under the high ball.

Agreed! Leno would be flapping or punching there. Possible red for Newcastle.

jonneymendoza · 02-05-2021 3:51pm

5star02707 wrote: »

Martinelli injured. That's a terrible challenge
Fuuuudge

****ing brain-dead challenge WTF. scum!!!

FixitFelix · 02-05-2021 3:53pm

How come the ref didn't make Martinelli leave the pitch after treatment?

DenMan · 02-05-2021 3:57pm

A very good win. Well done boys! Villarreal next!

wonga77 · 02-05-2021 4:02pm

Comfortable enough win. We saw that out very well but by god Newcastle were awful. They look like a team already on their summer holidays.
Lucky enough that Xhaka escaped a second yellow too.
I like Martinelli, think we should see more of him. I don't think the tackle at the end was as bad as it first looked and id say he'll be fine after it.
Ryan looks composed in goal too but I spose he was never really under any pressure, can't remember any Newcastle shots.
No real bite to the game but I guess that's to be expected this late in the season with both sides having little to play for

DenMan · 02-05-2021 4:54pm

Villarreal have just scored a late goal from Pino against Getafe (79). I wonder are they resting players ahead of Thursday night.

wonga77 · 02-05-2021 4:58pm

OmegaGene wrote: »

Didn’t see the game today I just came home to see we won 2-0 which hopefully is a nice confidence booster for Thursday

Just spotted a random stat we have scored 2 goals in the premier league from midfielders and the average for the rest of the league is 13.8, Man City and United are currently drawn at 28

Today was Elnenys first ever league goal for the club. We really need our midfielders to be chipping in with a few more goals, can't be relying on the same 2 or 3 all the time

djan · 02-05-2021 5:13pm

OmegaGene wrote: »

Didn’t see the game today I just came home to see we won 2-0 which hopefully is a nice confidence booster for Thursday

Just spotted a random stat we have scored 2 goals in the premier league from midfielders and the average for the rest of the league is 13.8, Man City and United are currently drawn at 28

It's been an issue for many years. IMO the problem is that we don't have MF that can shoot. I remember Ozil always getting into excellent positions but not having a strong enough shot. The only decent striker of the ball is Xhaka and he plays too deep or out at LB to be effective. Just look at Partey, I don't think he has had a shot on target in over 10 attempts!

Quazzie · 02-05-2021 5:16pm

Was great to get the win today. Some brave calls making so many changes and I'm delighted it worked. I'd say there are a few in here disappointed that we got the win. Doesn't fall inline with their agenda.

A good win, and a big confidence boost going into Thursdays game.

DenMan · 02-05-2021 5:25pm

Rosicky was one player who could shoot that's for sure, especially from the middle.

tayto lover · 02-05-2021 5:27pm

Quazzie wrote: »

Was great to get the win today. Some brave calls making so many changes and I'm delighted it worked. I'd say there are a few in here disappointed that we got the win. Doesn't fall inline with their agenda.

A good win, and a big confidence boost going into Thursdays game.

Like who?
Perhaps it’s people who disagree with you regarding Arteta?

Azatadine · 02-05-2021 5:28pm

Quazzie wrote: »

Was great to get the win today. Some brave calls making so many changes and I'm delighted it worked. I'd say there are a few in here disappointed that we got the win. Doesn't fall inline with their agenda.

A good win, and a big confidence boost going into Thursdays game.

Such a nonsense post. Great to win but the rest of your post is absolute rubbish I'm afraid.

tayto lover · 02-05-2021 5:29pm

DenMan wrote: »

Rosicky was one player who could shoot that's for sure, especially from the middle.

Santi Cazorla scored a few.
Ramsey was a regular scorer too.

Quazzie · 02-05-2021 5:44pm

tayto lover wrote: »

Like who?
Perhaps it’s people who disagree with you regarding Arteta?

We'd one person saying that we were definitely going to lose after seeing the team. Then we had quiet a lengthy post from another pointing out we only scored and kept a clean sheet because Newcastle were so poor and were effectively on holidays already. Definitely no credit where it's due there. Team selection was spot on today. The game was won with relative ease with many main players rested. No praise there. Plenty of lads in here will be disappointed with how it worked out. As stated some were willing us to lose.

x PyRo · 02-05-2021 5:54pm

https://twitter.com/ZRAFC/status/1388898299692863488

haha!

tayto lover · 02-05-2021 5:56pm

Quazzie wrote: »

We'd one person saying that we were definitely going to lose after seeing the team. Then we had quiet a lengthy post from another pointing out we only scored and kept a clean sheet because Newcastle were so poor and were effectively on holidays already. Definitely no credit where it's due there. Team selection was spot on today. The game was won with relative ease with many main players rested. No praise there. Plenty of lads in here will be disappointed with how it worked out. As stated some were willing us to lose.

Apologies then.
I thought you were getting at people who had given up on Arteta.

Quazzie · 02-05-2021 6:09pm

tayto lover wrote: »

Apologies then.
I thought you were getting at people who had given up on Arteta.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and of course some will disagree. That's the fun of the forum, but usually we all seem to point in the same direction with our intentions. I see a breakaway from that recently as more and more are bitter towards the club, and all involved within it.

wonga77 · 02-05-2021 6:19pm

Quazzie wrote: »

Was great to get the win today. Some brave calls making so many changes and I'm delighted it worked. I'd say there are a few in here disappointed that we got the win. Doesn't fall inline with their agenda.

A good win, and a big confidence boost going into Thursdays game.

Rubbish. We might disagree on Arteta around here but no proper fan wants to see us lose. There's a big difference between someone saying the team selection is poor and they expect us to lose as opposed to hoping we lose.
The pro Arteta posters are quite capable of posting nonsense too

mossie · 02-05-2021 7:05pm

FixitFelix wrote: »

How come the ref didn't make Martinelli leave the pitch after treatment?

If the player who commits the foul is carded the player receiving treatment doesn't have to leave the pitch. Came in last season I think.

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