Man City v Arsenal

comment by Striketeam7 - the smartest person you know - Bronze medal khunt 2022 - Buy..Bellingham and another mid 20s Thiago type...lets just call him "frank" (U18109)
posted 1 hour, 25 minutes ago
comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 3 minutes ago
Saying that, we are not great at counterattacking football like spurs or united
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We’re schitt - we just have City sussed. Saka, Jesus and Martinelli can cause City nightmares on the counter
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If we had Saliba I'd be more confident, not only in our ability to defend in an organised way, but in terms of executing the transitional play required to expose City.

comment by Striketeam7 - the smartest person you know - Bronze medal khunt 2022 - Buy..Bellingham and another mid 20s Thiago type...lets just call him "frank" (U18109)
posted 53 minutes ago
comment by The Herd (U22980)
posted 19 minutes ago
We get taken to the cleaners every time we play City.
We are also bottling it against everybody atm
Too much pressure
This pressure got to stop
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I do think your issue with City is that essentially Arteta has built Arsenal on what he learned at City - so you are City lite. This is where Arteta has to rip up the play book and try something different because taking them on at their own game, at their own ground with the form they are in is a recipe for disaster
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Problem is that Arsenal HAVE to win

I want to see a scrap on the touchline between Lego Pep and the real one

comment by King TUt (U3732)
posted 2 hours, 31 minutes ago
We could certainly do with some of the humongous amounts of luck spurs have had against city in the last couple or three years. But it never happens for us against them
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It’s not luck, we’ve stopped them scoring against us for 4 years at home. Thinking it’s luck is why we keep getting away with it.

We play very narrow and compact against them, let them sling in all the crosses they want as they never hurt us - although Haaland is more of a threat than Jesus. We deny them any space, let them have the ball and surrender the whole middle portion of the pitch. We also go man for man - which is why we saw Romero launch out to the half way line just to put a snapping tackle in on Haaland.

We score 1 of 2 goals against them every time without fail.

1. We catch them on the counter
2. We rob the ball off their defence when they are twaaatting about with it on the edge of their own box.

Tottenham vs City is so predictable that it could be a drinking game.

I think Peps beaten us once at our ground and we’ve won 6 or 7 in his tenure - it ain’t luck, we just have a system that works perfectly against them

Our players should stop looking at social media UFN

Arteta's Arsenal is not a 'park the bus' type if team. They haven't trained for it and they will probably be terrible at it unlike the Spurs and Chelsea teams we have faced with defensive minded managers.

Arsenal can beat us but the need to be extremely lucky... and then need to be lucky again at Newcastle...

comment by PersGsus (U16509)
posted 8 minutes ago
Arteta's Arsenal is not a 'park the bus' type if team. They haven't trained for it and they will probably be terrible at it unlike the Spurs and Chelsea teams we have faced with defensive minded managers.

Arsenal can beat us but the need to be extremely lucky... and then need to be lucky again at Newcastle...
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And we're not really a transitional playing team either, which Spurs, for a period at least, were one of the best teams at.

On the surface you'd think we would be with our fast wingers, but getting the ball to them in the first place is the issue, particularly without saliba.

I don't feel good about it, with the injuries/drops in form our smaller squad has been very exposed and there's lots of weaknesses for City to expose.

Aside from Holding at CB, Xhaka may be out, Partey, Ode, Saka and Zinchenko look to be in bad form and Jesus can't be relied upon to score in the big moments.

Obviously football is a funny game and it can turn around very quickly, but if the form continues we're in trouble.

Start Trossard ?

comment by Ruiney (U1005)
posted 22 hours, 46 minutes ago
City 4-1
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god damn it