Arsenal F.C. v.s. Villarreal CF
Arsenal F.C. v.s. Villarreal CF
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What to say, what to say.
Let's focus on the positives. Mosquera is fast. Gyökeres his foot work looked good in the box Dowman keeps letting us know he's ready for minutes.
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Honestly speaking, after the Tottenham loss, I expected wholesale changes to take place to our tactics and we never got that.
Honestly, going into this season all the pressure is on Arteta and there was already question marks around him and his lack of rotation, but if it was just a sign of his inability to adapt, he may not last the season.
I said it in the match thread, taking off Gyökeres was bad enough but doing it to move Merino up front who didn't do nearly enough with his minutes in midfield, was criminal.
I actually feel bad for Nørgaard, he's a very decent DM but can't run midfield on his own and deserves minutes with Rice.
I also wanna see Madueke and Saka flanking Gyökeres.
It sounds like it was all doom and gloom, it wasn't. We looked decent at times, we're just not showing any progress or evolution and that's frustrating.
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Your comments are not wrong in the slightest, J just wonder if it's taking too much from a friendly.
The normal starting XI didn't start, so I feel this was a feeler game for the newbies more than a serious runout. Maybe I'm just hopeful...
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It's definitely too early to judge, but it's not just this game, there's been nothing I've seen this preseason that made me think things have changed. It feels like Arteta's expecting us to evolve via the changes we've made to the squad as opposed to him telling the players to pass through the middle as an example. In the end Gyökeres started playing wide and then we lost him as a goal threat.
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I see scheduling posts isn't working either...
I didn't manage to sleep yet, so I figured I'd check. This might be a problem, lol.
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We're just getting all our losses out the way when they don't matter... Right???
But seriously, it's a friendly, so I'm not going to worry about it too much. But we do need to shuffle the deck a bit before the start of the season. Sell off some stagnant players, and bring in Eze; and preferably also buy a young, hungry backup striker who has everything to prove.