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Arsenal FC | 2025/26 Season

SherWaqar said:
I was a lurker. Arsenal fans love to dish it out but can’t hack it in return.
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If you were lurker last season, you would've noticed there was a particular Liverpool fan who was antagonising Arsenal fans on this thread. In response, we invaded the Liverpool thread merely to troll him.

SherWaqar said:
Why are you guys afraid of admitting you are champions elect?
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Arsenal have fallen short and haven't won the title since 2004, so we'll believe it when we see it.
 
Going back to the Chelsea game.

Chelsea were fortunate that they only lost by one goal. If we go by xG, Arsenal should have won 3-1 as they dominated the game. But there is no reason why we can't at least draw to Chelsea in the return leg at the Emirates.

Gyokeres deserved his Player of the match award with his goal and assist. I thought his work rate was nothing short of brilliant.

Unfortunately, Saka and Martinelli are not beating their man so they're having to cut inside or pass it backwards rather than cross it into his path. As mentioned by AJ, Odegaard is too slow to release the ball. These three are not helping Gyokeres' cause and are leaving him starved of service.

Arsenal are far more right wing dominant and Gyokeres looks far more likely to score with Ben White at RB with his overlapping runs and Madueke on the RW, as he's regularly beating his man.
 
topspin said:
Going back to the Chelsea game.

Chelsea were fortunate that they only lost by one goal. If we go by xG, Arsenal should have won 3-1 as they dominated the game. But there is no reason why we can't at least draw to Chelsea in the return leg at the Emirates.

Gyokeres deserved his Player of the match award with his goal and assist. I thought his work rate was nothing short of brilliant.

Unfortunately, Saka and Martinelli are not beating their man so they're having to cut inside or pass it backwards rather than cross it into his path. As mentioned by AJ, Odegaard is too slow to release the ball. These three are not helping Gyokeres' cause and are leaving him starved of service.

Arsenal are far more right wing dominant and Gyokeres looks far more likely to score with Ben White at RB with his overlapping runs and Madueke on the RW, as he's regularly beating his man.
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I'm not a fan of xG, but if you look at the sitter Gabriel missed from a header, also the Sanchez save made in game. We should have won game by 2 goal margin.

The 2 goals were conceded were poor and I wasn't happy with that.

In terms of getting crosses in early, getting balls in early, our players are under clear instructions to recycle the ball and not play high risk passes or crosses. There has to be a middle ground where more risk are taken.

Gyokeres has been part to blame with lack of intensity in some games, at same time our players aren't helping him either. This is something that should already be worked on in training.

With madueke playing tonight, we may seem Gyokeres at least get a few chances from early balls into box vs forrest.
 
Pathetic decision making in the final 10 yards

Today is not a day where you are you are going to walk the ball in to the opposition’s goal. You’ve missed 2-3 sitters now right in front of it
 
Created a lot of chances, but haven't even hit the target. We need to test the keeper atleast
 
Shades of that Liverpool home game again

How Arsenal are just comfortable with Nottingham holding on to this much possession and running down the clock is totally absurd!

Nowhere near enough urgency to retrieve the ball!
 
Looks like arsenal insist on having possession back after Nottingham pop in a goal and we get a kick off again.

Really poor urgency off the ball by the Gunners!
 
Nottingham off the ball absolutely glued to our players

Arsenal just need watching NF pass the ball around at a distance!
 
Awful.

We could and should have been way ahead in the league BUT this is what makes this league so special... there will be more twists and turns and nothing is in the bag until it's mathematically impossible.
 
We beat Man City, and still Arsenal can't take advantage.

Arsenal have a better team than Man City, but the only thing that will stop Arsenal from winning the title will be Arteta.
 
Yet another lacklustre away performances we have scored just 14 goals in 11 away games. Yes he has won 6 games, but the performances have been like watching fkin paint dry
 
What's up guys. 7 point lead sounds alrite but should be way more.

Arteta has to take responsibility today for the line up. You can't be starting Madueke ahead of Saka. He is awful he really is.
The worst version of Saka is better than the best version of Madueke.

Also Rice and Zubimendi look shattered. Why do both need to start against 17th place Forest. Could have played 1 for an hour and then switched. Played either Merino or Eze.

Still think we will win the league nothing has changed but it's frustrating that we can't really do what Liverpool did last season by romping home. It's way less pressure when the chasing pack is miles away.

2 0-0 draws in a row is disappointing however we did enough to win the game today.

How are VAR deciding that's not handball.

Anyway hope everyone is good.

Would like to give a shout out to certain fans who were saying Spurs would do well this season because they lost the super cup final to PSG.

I've not really gone through the thread but my guess would be Liverpool fans are dancing for city to win the league?
 
MK7Z said:
What's up guys. 7 point lead sounds alrite but should be way more.

Arteta has to take responsibility today for the line up. You can't be starting Madueke ahead of Saka. He is awful he really is.
The worst version of Saka is better than the best version of Madueke.

Also Rice and Zubimendi look shattered. Why do both need to start against 17th place Forest. Could have played 1 for an hour and then switched. Played either Merino or Eze.

Still think we will win the league nothing has changed but it's frustrating that we can't really do what Liverpool did last season by romping home. It's way less pressure when the chasing pack is miles away.

2 0-0 draws in a row is disappointing however we did enough to win the game today.

How are VAR deciding that's not handball.

Anyway hope everyone is good.

Would like to give a shout out to certain fans who were saying Spurs would do well this season because they lost the super cup final to PSG.

I've not really gone through the thread but my guess would be Liverpool fans are dancing for city to win the league?
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Welcome back bro. We've missed you and hope you're prediction turns out to be true.

The way I see it, we've dropped points against 10 men Chelsea, depleted Liverpool at home and now 17th place Forest. If we're getting nervous in January, imagine what it'll be like in April/May. That's twice now where we've spurned the chance to go 9 points clear.

Utd at home next weekend will be tough. 3 points is a must.
 
topspin said:
Welcome back bro. We've missed you and hope you're prediction turns out to be true.

The way I see it, we've dropped points against 10 men Chelsea, depleted Liverpool at home and now 17th place Forest. If we're getting nervous in January, imagine what it'll be like in April/May. That's twice now where we've spurned the chance to go 9 points clear.

Utd at home next weekend will be tough. 3 points is a must.
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We seem to have almost gone into a try and win all home games, whatever we get away from home is a bonus. At moment we seem to be just bout getting away with it.
 
Amjid Javed said:
We seem to have almost gone into a try and win all home games, whatever we get away from home is a bonus. At moment we seem to be just bout getting away with it.
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And whenever we do win, it's mostly because the front 4 has been bailed out by the CMs and defenders, usually from set pieces.

So why is the front 4 not clicking? Is it Arteta's system, is he more concerned about work rate than creativity? There've clearly been instructed by Arteta to play low risk passes (backwards/sideways) and as a result the creativity hasn't been great.

I'm not convinced this approach will remain sustainable for the remainder of the season. 7 point is nice but never write off Pep, if there's anyone who's capable of going on a marathon win streak, it's him.
 
topspin said:
And whenever we do win, it's mostly because the front 4 has been bailed out by the CMs and defenders, usually from set pieces.

So why is the front 4 not clicking? Is it Arteta's system, is he more concerned about work rate than creativity? There've clearly been instructed by Arteta to play low risk passes (backwards/sideways) and as a result the creativity hasn't been great.

I'm not convinced this approach will remain sustainable for the remainder of the season. 7 point is nice but never write off Pep, if there's anyone who's capable of going on a marathon win streak, it's him.
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We aren't going to change tactically, we will keep trying to win games by suffocating teams, then winning from set pieces or individual brilliance. None of our attackers are thriving as keeping ball seems more important then ruthlessly killing teams off.

If we win league most people will forget the horrid football.
 
MK7Z said:
What's up guys. 7 point lead sounds alrite but should be way more.

Arteta has to take responsibility today for the line up. You can't be starting Madueke ahead of Saka. He is awful he really is.
The worst version of Saka is better than the best version of Madueke.

Also Rice and Zubimendi look shattered. Why do both need to start against 17th place Forest. Could have played 1 for an hour and then switched. Played either Merino or Eze.

Still think we will win the league nothing has changed but it's frustrating that we can't really do what Liverpool did last season by romping home. It's way less pressure when the chasing pack is miles away.

2 0-0 draws in a row is disappointing however we did enough to win the game today.

How are VAR deciding that's not handball.

Anyway hope everyone is good.

Would like to give a shout out to certain fans who were saying Spurs would do well this season because they lost the super cup final to PSG.

I've not really gone through the thread but my guess would be Liverpool fans are dancing for city to win the league?
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Welcome. It’s a 7 point lead right now on City but if Villa win tomorrow against Everton they will cut the lead to just 4 points. I know City are the real threat but just goes on to show that this league is in no way ‘done and dusted’.
 
The_KING said:
We beat Man City, and still Arsenal can't take advantage.

Arsenal have a better team than Man City, but the only thing that will stop Arsenal from winning the title will be Arteta.
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I do find this a bit of a strange take as I have heard a few people mention it

In isolation I understand why Arsenal fans will be disappointed they didn't beat Forest but they actually gained a point on City today

Also, slightly bigger picture, the gap 4 games ago was only 2 points, City had some relatively easy fixtures on paper so they have been bottling it

I think City will continue to drop points and I predict the lead will be at least 10 points in 3 games time
 
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