Cavani movement still good, but dat finishing tho

^ ooho damn, savage

nice hattrick from bergkamp

eh...?

elneny/coquelin imo is too... un-creative. when will one of xhaka/santi/ramsey coming back?

expecting a borefest tbh

ooooooh shit did i say borefest? my mistake

oh shet what a header alexis

what a cross AOC

G thrives on competition.

sanchez is really vital to this squad now. best player on the flanks, now also can play up front, provides competition that giroud needs

just to play the devil's advocate, would it be that bad if we for one season dip into the EL and try to actually win it? it would probably be more financially beneficial if we crash out of CL knockout stages compared to EL (maybe?), but sometimes i wonder how we would fare in the EL, we would probably be the favorites to actually win it, rather than continuously crash out in the Ro16 or quarter.

of course the way sanchez and ozil are playing this season so far we might go further than quarters, but hindsight is 20/20. EL of course does not have the same glamour of CL, but at least we're going to be favorites to win the title. not to put down the other teams playing in it, but come on we're not a bad team are we?

it's the derby, form goes out the window. always like that

monreal hasnt been that good this season, keeps getting skinned by speedy wingers. gibbs deserve another run in the team.

coq/elneny is so uncreative in the middle, but i guess wenger wanted a solid CM rather than the slow yellow card magnet Xhaka and positionally undisciplined Ramsey. we really miss santi in the middle.

^ dedebu's pretty unlucky too. lost his spot to bellerin due to injury, lost his chance to replace bellerin to jenks due to another injury

way i see it, sanchez has a great partnership going with mesut this season. i think mesut's worth every penny. he hasnt been as electric as he's been before, but i've seen him in worse form at Arsenal. i dont think he's playing bad at all, just not the best we've seen from him. alexis is on the form of his life, and currently thriving playing up top. these two are probably the closest we've ever gotten to henry/bergkamp levels since their departure.

ramsey is an example of a player playing bad and struggling to reach his own high standard. although the new partnership with xhaka might change his form, we've yet to see more games with the pair.

we've got a good enough spine for the team tho, with cech-kostafi-ozil-sanchez. it's been a while since we've had a striker that's properly lethal, and now we've got sanchez it feels like a proper team again. not saying giroud is terrible, he's still a great option to have, but we've really missed having a lethal striker since RVP

we kinda miss mustafi already