Arsenal v Leeds Utd Match Thread

[White Riot]

Maybe they'll apply tariffs on him.

He was tariffic

[AcrossThePondAsh]

I made the point that all Arsenal's signings were over 50 million. How many of those do you think we can make? Maybe 1. And that will make no difference at all. Adding depth and spreading the money is the only way we're going to establish ourselves. And we'll beat worse teams than Arsenal this season

I get what Sub’s saying—days like this make it easy to think the only answer is chucking £50m on one or two headline players. But Andrew’s right, we came into this summer with holes in quality all over the squad and nowhere near the budget of clubs like Arsenal. If we’d blown it all on a single name, we’d still be short in four or five other spots. Seems like the approach has to be about getting the overall level up across the pitch, even if it means we’re not matching them man-for-man today (or any other day).

[SG90]

Still very poor goals to concede

Set pieces and ridiculous passing out from the back, that is something he could or should have worked on.

Exactly. Some are acting like Arsenal scored worldies. All the goals were easily avoidable and can happen v any side in the league.

[Madron]

We may get used to this, these are some of the best players in the country who are worth £100’s millions and are not the teams we need to beat. Lose to Burnley, Sunderland, West Ham etc then it’s time to get worried.

Exactly, Think some have lost their grip on reality and where we really are.
This is as I expected . Newcastle , next week will be totally different.

[The Subhuman]

Arsenal playing at half speed since the fourth ..

[Pullhard]

This is how Plymouth, Cardiff etc felt playing against us last season.

If we get one point from the 10 games against the Top 5, it will be an anomaly.

[Cjay]

Aaronson just passed the ball to nobody

And people still defend pushing out Ramazani

Mental

[Clitheroe White]

Stach looking v tired now. Hes tried very hard.

[1964white]

Another sensational pass to a gooner.

[YorkshireSquare]

So what should he have done?

More solid midfield, especially with Ampadu out, play Longstaff rather than Tanaka.

[malcolmw]

There a stat in golf called 'bouncback'. When you play a s**t shot or screw up a hole, how well do you bounce back with good play.
Tiger Woods was by far the best at this ever! He followed a bogey with an immediate birdie frequently.

We have duffed this one. Learn and come back as strong as possible next week.

As you can tell Im bored now. Flipping between the game and the FedEx Cup final.

[Cjay]

Exactly. Some are acting like Arsenal scored worldies. All the goals were easily avoidable and can happen v any side in the league.

Would agree

I doubt anyone is naive enough to have expected a win

But to compete and make it difficult? Even league 2 teams in the cup do that

We haven't even made them play well, soft goals

[AcrossThePondAsh]

So what should he have done?

I'm always genuinely interested in hearing this in these situations.

[BlackHillsPaul]

We're getting beat by one of the VERY BEST TEAMS IN THE WORLD!! In their home stadium. What the hell did some of you expect??

[malcolmw]

More solid midfield, especially with Ampadu out, play Longstaff rather than Tanaka.

Hindsight, no? Gruev was a safe bet. Tanaka was man of the match against Everton.

[1964white]

Arsenal playing at half speed since the fourth ..

Thank god.

Still time to gift them another soft goal.

[Clitheroe White]

More solid midfield, especially with Ampadu out, play Longstaff rather than Tanaka.

I’d have gone longstaff over gruev. Also we held a midfielder back (usually gruev) too often which meant Arsenal always had a spare man in mid.

We never looked like competing in midfield.

[SG90]

We're getting beat by one of the VERY BEST TEAMS IN THE WORLD!! In their home stadium. What the hell did some of you expect??

To actually defend? Rodon not stand around like a chump ball watching. Not to play out from the back.

[STLWhite]

So what should he have done?

The approach was safety first. 4-5-1. Flood the midfield and play deep in our half. The problem with that is every Arsenal player is very confident on the ball and off the ball their movement is excellent. We barely pressed in their half because we played in a low block. Great approach if it works. It didn’t. They have too much class.

[SG90]

Dive