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Wolves (h) - Instant Reaction - Sadness Edition

Elliot, Paul, Clive and Tim try to make sense of a troubling defeat to Wolves with a real examination of Mikel Arteta's status at Arsenal. The conversation hits a lot of topics but of course, includes headlines, stock rising and stock falling.

Wolves (h) - Instant Reaction - Sadness Edition

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shambles. what pissed me off most about the game (and there was a lot) was leaving Luiz on. I cringed when I saw him head the ball after the incident. just common sense. it's just a game. take the guy off. his health is most important. so what if he passed the questions and wants to stay on. Arteta should have stepped up and taken him off.

A few points that I’ve been thinking watching the last couple games: 1. Going forward, I’m not sure if Saka is the answer for us on the left wing. The outgoing academy official, Marcel Lucassen said that he felt that Saka could be a top 3 wingback or a top 30 winger, and I think I’m starting to see why. The way he carries and hits the ball on the left leaves him such a narrow corridor to do anything. Either he needs a lot of momentum or a lot of space to do damage. Earlier having him on the left worked, but I think teams know his moves now. At this point, I think he’s definitely is more of a 3-4-3 player and should be moved back to more of a MF/ LWB position. 2. I think that a Reiss Nelson type player on the left would help our attack. Understanding that this is a limited sample size, he seems to have that ability to carry the ball and connect the attack and add some unpredictability to the attack, something that’s been missing for the past couple games. 3. If pepe comes back on the right, I think we need to play someone like AMN/Cedric behind him. Those two appear to have a better connection with him than Hector. We may lose a bit defensively, but I feel that the right becomes more dangerous with that combo instead of Bellerin/Pepe

Arteta isn’t the issue but he’s not the solution we can’t *afford* (literally) to give him the benefit of the doubt that he could get it sorted and three years down the line we can make top 4

Embarrassed with how the club dealt with the luiz injury, utterly dumb classless club. imagine the players were still concerned about his well-being for that whole first half. Make a sub and re fresh! Arteta is being cowardly. Usual suspects keep letting him down again to the point where young players with the necessary attributes would fair no worse in those positions. Really think AMN at the right of a back 3 gives us recovery speed and versatility. He’s a wan bissaka so focus him defensively! Arteta it was YOU who chose to keep him so be brave and own your decisions! Don’t tell me AMN can’t adapt to playing in a high defensive line of a 3, he’ll cost us points here and there but could it be any worse than this?! Fuck it, I’d rather have runnarsons sweeping and ball playing style than Leno’s shot stopping at this stage. At least we’d be further developing our supposed process at least against the smaller teams. Performances are so bad, we’re wasting valuable minutes on too many pointless players. Be brave arteta or this circus called arsenal will swallow you up ! P.s elneny does the thankless work to give his midfield partner the spotlight. Just don’t make that partner a xhaka or a loanee ceballos, please no more it’s giving me sleepless nights. Partey injury news made my stomach drop, but give me a willock/(pattino!? Ikr) in the mean time for gods sake!

We don’t create enough chances to be as bad as we are at missing chances. We had 2 clear cut chances that we missed today and Wolves took the chances they had. I agree with Clive. We’re stupid and we’re mid table at best. 2 seasons we’ve been where we are now. The issue isn’t Arteta. The issue is the squad. Bang average.

"Specifically David Luiz injury" come on

I hope you guys touch on Raul Jimenez. The fact you guys didn't wish his well being first and foremost is disappointing.

Regarding the complaint made by Clive at 38:40 about players dropping off and not being quick enough. His examples were Luiz, Xhaka, Ceballos, Bellerin. Arteta publicly pleaded to keep Luiz. pleaded for Xhaka to stay even though the player and the club were ready to part ways. Ceballos was ready to leave last January and went back to Madrid in the summer -- Arteta wanted him back. Bellerin he trusted when he wasn't fit last winter and took out the in form AMN. Blood on his hands. The players are bad, but the repeat offenders are the ones Arteta is protecting. It's delaying us from moving on and might play a big part in losing his job -- just like Emery.

That 343 system was the biggest false image thing to happen to this club. Made Xhaka and Cellabos look PL quality and ever since we've moved on from it, we are finsihed. Midfield has been a massive issue for years now.

can you cut out all the intro and just start?

Convince AMN to stay and then don't use him. Freeze out players. Hold onto marginal players. Scared to sit the failing star striker. Under-utilize Nelson, while over utilizing Willock. Signing Willian. Xhaka still starting. Donut hole soccer? Saliba? Certainly top flight French football is more competitive than English U23 football, no? Low on cash? Cherry pick the Championship for the best players. No way there are no PL ready players there.

Okay Mikel who let the team down today

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