Arsenal F.C. v.s. Everton F.C.

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Substitutions were terrible. Trossard turned it over every time he touched it, Nwaneri and Jesus had 5 combined touches, Partey and Jorginho passed it around at the back. Not to say the starters were any good, but the subs stood out as being particularly bad.
- one did notice that the team didn't involve nwaneri in the play as much as they did odegaard. as soon as that substitution was made, the ball went out to the left flank far more often.

It feels like we're regressing back to early Arteta football vibes. I think we are better but so are our oppositions smh
- We're just getting absolutely no luck and we're rolling 1s on every encounter.
- Our passing was abysmal today

We were definitely lacking in sharpness. And Everton defended well. But I still think we deserved a win today. Luck wasn't with us. And I still don't see how that wasn't a penalty when Partey was taken down.
I applaud Arteta for trying to mix it up at 60 mins with those changes. Usually he digs his heels in and doesn't try something new until five minutes before the end.
- I honestly don't think that was a penalty. If it was given it would be really really really soft.
  And if we're relying on one debatable penalty shout in the 91st minute to win a match against Everton then that's on us.
  We created almost nothing the entire match

I'm so fucking sick of this. Everyone seems to be completely clueless in front of goal all at the same time. Simultaneously, I feel our tactics are playing into our opponents' hands at times, like playing physical at Newcastle

Well at least I have the women's team to look forward to tomorrow 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
That Dubai refresh could not come soon enough

We just haven't been at the races for a minute. Even when the subs came on, everyone was taking four or five touches.

https://youtu.be/8Nnxv-7vOrk
This was really good

I just got back from a week of hiking. What should I choose:
A - 3 min highlights
B - 9 min highlights
C - 25 min highlights
D - Full replay
E - The Monaco match
- Get drunk and then watch the full replay
- I ended up choosing F - the WSL

I think a serious conversation needs to happen on if arteta should still be our manager.
We are back to the donut of sadness
No ideas
No forward passing
No urgency. Everyone just standing there looking around or taking 7 touches before passing it to the guy who has been open the entire time
No scoring goals. No taking people on. Everton had a geriatric at right back and we didn't go by him once.
No runs into the box. No interplay in the middle. Our entire strategy seems to be pass it wide and hope to win a corner.
I appreciate that we've been brought back to the top table the last two years but now we need to either really kick on or we go back to our bullshit years.
You will not win a title with Havertz and Jesus. Buy a striker. Buy a midfielder. Buy an actual left winger so Martinelli can be our sub.
- I think he still should, but with caveats. I don't want rid of Arteta, certainly not this season, but the clock is ticking and he needs to deliver a trophy soon. We need to sign a proper striker and a couple of other players in the summer, and we have to win a major trophy next season if we're unable to this time around.
  We've come a long way under Arteta, but it's time we started to see silverware.
  
  If we keep saying next season we are gonna turn into spurs and that is a frightening thought
  I'm not saying he hasn't brought us forward and we shouldn't be thankful
  But I think at this point a trophy this season is the minimum and we only have the fa cup and the champions league to go for. Im not entirely sure we will be able to win the champions league but I would love to be wrong there
  One more year he will buy two more centre/left backs and call it a day. Havertz should be a sub. Not a starter for a league winning team

Top 4 has always been the target so I'm satisfied

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