Shout out to Mosquera too..

When you dont even miss Saliba's presence, that's how good of a job he's doing.. Such a stable dependable cb.

21 years young and costed 13m only, what a steal.

The thought of losing Saliba to RM will make any of us shit our pants last season, and now somehow if we were to lose Saliba to RM it doesn't sound too scary anymore..

Whoever scouted him or pushed through for this purchase, kudos.

Shud’ve buy £70-80mil of that striker money for Nico Jackson yinstead 👀

Gyokeres didn't receive much if any service at all vs Utd, Pool and City..

Unless Arteta's tactic changes, Havertz is still the most ideal ST for these type of matches..

But I dont think I can fully shit on Arteta's choice of tactics though, because clearly it works. We barely drop points or lose against the usual Big 6 teams nowadays..

As fans we all wish to see exciting football vs well drilled overly-structured playstyle every time, all the time.. But on the other hand, rmb the dark days where we dread playing against big 6 and how we always struggled/did badly against Big 6? Like we would expect to lose the game we just hoped it wont be a thrashing... if we somehow nicked a draw very cukur dy?? And winning was a freaking miracle.

Kind of cant have your cake and eat it too kinda moment. If we want to do well against big 6 sides, this is how we gotta play.
and pls we are not the only ones playing like this. Pool played the exact same conservative style as us in our match, and today City played even more conservative than we ever did...
It's just what top teams do when facing each other, now that is a fact of life, anyone trying to spin it as just 1 side playing haramball needs to get their heads checked.

Dont let the media try and push a narrative. If Arteta did what Pep did today, media and rival fans will grab their pitchforks out to slaughter Arteta for playing haramball or terrorist football when even freaking Pep Guardiola started parking the bus playing fucking 5-4-1 to defend a 1-nil lead in the 2nd half.. While his players flailing at the slightest of touches and Donnarumma time wasting..

In fact, Pep's 11 men today played like how Arsenal played with 10 men last season trying to defend a lead.
But you wont hear a squeak about it from outsiders..
Personally, I wish Arteta would trust his players more.. that they will not fuck it up if they play with more freedom..

yeah, and? you feel that's the norm of our results or something? like just because we did it that one time means we can/will/should do it again and again? :confused:
Don't you think you're getting a little too carried away based off that 1 result lol

You know that match got no Rodri right? and we stunned them with a quick equalizer off a very lucky Partey deflection, which without it we wouldn't have been able to capitalize on their collapse for the 3rd/4th/5th goal..

Look man, sure I too would have preferred Arteta to be more attacking minded. It did felt like the game was there to be won for us..
I too didn't like Arteta's starting selection midfield of Merino/Rice/Zubi

But you guys need to realize at the end of the day it's still fucking Man City and Pep we were playing against... Not Chelsea.
The fact we made Pep play ultra defensively park the bus and Insha'Allah for a counter football, make him sub off the best striker in the world for a 5-4-1 formation..

I'm very sure you know what our past results against City is like, spanning across the last 10~13 years...
To go from that to this... I will take it.