I thought Ceballos should have gone for that foul early in the 2nd half tbh. Very, very lucky to get away with it.
I don't feel like Martinelli is going to make with us if Arteta remains in charge. Such a shame, every single fan wants to see him on the pitch getting an opportunity.
Same as me, I’ve been cutting Arteta a hell of a lot of slack this season, but that game made it impossible not to blame him for the result. The team looked clueless, like he’s told them the false 9 thing 5 mins before kick off. Ceballos was not only playing like denilson on an off day, he was also on a yellow card, and has been fecking up consistently in Europe, so it was mental not to take him off. The system clearly wasn’t working at half time, Arteta needed to get a forward on, and get ceballos off. It’s just so dumb for no reason at all. I thought we showed signs we could get at them in first half, and if we changed things at half time, we could have had a good chance of getting a 2-2 tonight.
Arteta is incredibly lucky tonight that Villarreal messed up and we got a fortune penalty. He’s hanging on by a thread at this point
He basically tried to copy what Pep did last night. Except Pep has been playing without a striker for half the season or so
"two decisions tonight suggest a serious lack of judgement "
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Yeah, right along with the season full of decisions before them. Arteta's judgement was clearly poor from the day he turned up. It started with Ozil and Guen and just went downhill with bad decision after terrible decision from there. The man's a spectacular failure and his band-wagon of fans wanting to see the back of him is long long past well earned.
The serious lack of judgement here has been your own. For taking so long to see what's been plainly obvious from the start and downright impossible to miss since the halfway point in the season...
ARTETA CAN'T MANAGE and he should have stuck to being Peps assistant. Worst thing about it is he's only failed so badly because he's too arrogant to admit when he is wrong.
comment by RonAlvinho (U6117)
posted 16 minutes ago
I thought Ceballos should have gone for that foul early in the 2nd half tbh. Very, very lucky to get away with it.
I don't feel like Martinelli is going to make with us if Arteta remains in charge. Such a shame, every single fan wants to see him on the pitch getting an opportunity.
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Half the team ain't gonna make it under this fool. But he's cheaper than hiring someone who can actually manage a football team without shooting himself in the foot all season long, so ke's loves him.
I've been defending Arteta a lot this season, I think it's unrealistic to expect a manager to just immediately find the best players or formation and for everything to fall into place. I also thought he had shown enough common sense and a clear sense of direction from last season to warrant more time. I also don't think substitutions have nearly as big an impact as people like to think, and the idea that making better ones will fix things was always quite fanciful to me.
Yesterday's selection has me really wavering in my support though. It made no sense, it felt like going back to being managed by Emery, with random changes to the team selection based on our opponents, and Arteta's comments after the game about how we didn't see if it was going to work because we conceded after four minutes are infuriating. Mari has been a model of calm for us at CB, yesterday he was clearly rattled. I've played plenty of football and I know that something that rattles CBs is the feeling that the team can't keep the ball and has no out ball - something that happens when you don't have a striker to run the channels and collect a long ball, and your midfield can't retain possession under pressure. If Moreno had taken his chance, or Emery hadn't let us off the hook by becoming more defensive at 2-0 up, this tie would be over by now.
In the second leg we have to play properly or we will be out. In the second leg vs Olympiakos we attacked properly with a proper shape (Laca appears to be the only striker Arteta trusts in big games) and killed them in a 20 minute period. Similar to the second half vs West Ham. We need to play like that all the time, unless we have a very good reason to change our approach.
If we do manage to get to the final, there won't be any opportunities for learning or getting a second bite at the cherry. We will have to start properly from the very start. More bizarre selections from Arteta and I will be very much in the Arteta out camp. After everything he did when he came in and set us up properly with a consistent approach and shape, to see him messing around with our tactics like this is so disappointing. He's forgotten what got him hired and given the team manager position.
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posted on 29/4/21
I thought Ceballos should have gone for that foul early in the 2nd half tbh. Very, very lucky to get away with it.
I don't feel like Martinelli is going to make with us if Arteta remains in charge. Such a shame, every single fan wants to see him on the pitch getting an opportunity.
posted on 29/4/21
Same as me, I’ve been cutting Arteta a hell of a lot of slack this season, but that game made it impossible not to blame him for the result. The team looked clueless, like he’s told them the false 9 thing 5 mins before kick off. Ceballos was not only playing like denilson on an off day, he was also on a yellow card, and has been fecking up consistently in Europe, so it was mental not to take him off. The system clearly wasn’t working at half time, Arteta needed to get a forward on, and get ceballos off. It’s just so dumb for no reason at all. I thought we showed signs we could get at them in first half, and if we changed things at half time, we could have had a good chance of getting a 2-2 tonight.
Arteta is incredibly lucky tonight that Villarreal messed up and we got a fortune penalty. He’s hanging on by a thread at this point
posted on 29/4/21
He basically tried to copy what Pep did last night. Except Pep has been playing without a striker for half the season or so
posted on 29/4/21
"two decisions tonight suggest a serious lack of judgement "
---------------
Yeah, right along with the season full of decisions before them. Arteta's judgement was clearly poor from the day he turned up. It started with Ozil and Guen and just went downhill with bad decision after terrible decision from there. The man's a spectacular failure and his band-wagon of fans wanting to see the back of him is long long past well earned.
The serious lack of judgement here has been your own. For taking so long to see what's been plainly obvious from the start and downright impossible to miss since the halfway point in the season...
ARTETA CAN'T MANAGE and he should have stuck to being Peps assistant. Worst thing about it is he's only failed so badly because he's too arrogant to admit when he is wrong.
posted on 29/4/21
comment by RonAlvinho (U6117)
posted 16 minutes ago
I thought Ceballos should have gone for that foul early in the 2nd half tbh. Very, very lucky to get away with it.
I don't feel like Martinelli is going to make with us if Arteta remains in charge. Such a shame, every single fan wants to see him on the pitch getting an opportunity.
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Half the team ain't gonna make it under this fool. But he's cheaper than hiring someone who can actually manage a football team without shooting himself in the foot all season long, so ke's loves him.
posted on 30/4/21
I've been defending Arteta a lot this season, I think it's unrealistic to expect a manager to just immediately find the best players or formation and for everything to fall into place. I also thought he had shown enough common sense and a clear sense of direction from last season to warrant more time. I also don't think substitutions have nearly as big an impact as people like to think, and the idea that making better ones will fix things was always quite fanciful to me.
Yesterday's selection has me really wavering in my support though. It made no sense, it felt like going back to being managed by Emery, with random changes to the team selection based on our opponents, and Arteta's comments after the game about how we didn't see if it was going to work because we conceded after four minutes are infuriating. Mari has been a model of calm for us at CB, yesterday he was clearly rattled. I've played plenty of football and I know that something that rattles CBs is the feeling that the team can't keep the ball and has no out ball - something that happens when you don't have a striker to run the channels and collect a long ball, and your midfield can't retain possession under pressure. If Moreno had taken his chance, or Emery hadn't let us off the hook by becoming more defensive at 2-0 up, this tie would be over by now.
In the second leg we have to play properly or we will be out. In the second leg vs Olympiakos we attacked properly with a proper shape (Laca appears to be the only striker Arteta trusts in big games) and killed them in a 20 minute period. Similar to the second half vs West Ham. We need to play like that all the time, unless we have a very good reason to change our approach.
If we do manage to get to the final, there won't be any opportunities for learning or getting a second bite at the cherry. We will have to start properly from the very start. More bizarre selections from Arteta and I will be very much in the Arteta out camp. After everything he did when he came in and set us up properly with a consistent approach and shape, to see him messing around with our tactics like this is so disappointing. He's forgotten what got him hired and given the team manager position.
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