[Match Thread] Arsenal v. Nottingham Forest

Love to see all the players still being so friendly with Turner. Looks like he was well liked in the locker room.

Seems a good lad, hope he gets us some leeway against City

Saka banger! Bet Turner has seen that in training before when he was with us.

Love to see the support Mo shows everyone in the team. Even injured he’s remaining involved. I can see why Arteta still has him here

I can see him joining the staff if he doesn't keep his academy going
- Elneny has his own academy?
- Wonder if he’s finishing up his badges.

Who knew that when Turner would be starting a league match it would be against us.

Amazing from Martinelli and what a finish from Eddie

Lmfao that's horrible from them, but also horrible from us defending

Eddie with the first goal of the season. Excellent finish!

Trossard scoring last minute to win a trophy: am i a joke to you

Our first match of many against a low block this season.

Tierney, is for me?

Should be playing today sigh
- Timber's injury might be serious. I hope Tierney gets subbed on.

Incredible goal from Saka. Man is pure class.

Need a Kai goal soon

Wow, an actual yellow for a foul on Saka??

I need to stop reading stream chats, it's so dumb and toxic lmfao

It's so much better for the WWC smh

SAKAAAAA

Did his season just go timber?

(too soon?)

Lemmy world is being annoying lol, i swear the guy taking this thing down is a spurs

Trossard kicking it forward for a foot race is what we wanted Pepe to do instead and cutting back.

You could have both Americans in the goal and he would have still scored

You could put Neuer in goal and he'd have still scored
- Hell, prime Buffon wouldn't have saved that, that's entirely on the defenders lol

hmm starboy moment

BUKAYO

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT

Genius move for Arteta to play Partey at RB. If he's not a full back, he's not gonna get injured for us XD

Oliver has been fucking with us the last 15 minutes I swear. Call after call after call going their way for no fucking reason.

For the love of God please give Havertz the ball

Man is standing in some great positions and always knows his next pass

Different Knock on twitter

He needs to make better runs. Eddie at least is making the better runs of the two.
Needs to make some better passes to Eddie too, several times this game he's been on with a good chance and just not gotten the ball.

Kai doesn't like shooting from distance

Probably needs some training on finishing anyway, put him in a room with Partey and Elneny and he'll be replacing Xhaka in no time
- and Saka after today's goal

Don't want Zina to think he's a "second choice" LB

Man needs to not get constantly injured if he wants to play lmfao

Did the Forest players not get the memo about stoppage time? 😑

Neither did Oliver (?)
I forgot about it ngl, should be fun lol

Eddie..Nketiah just saved us $200m

Or maybe that was pounds 🤔

Martinelli's assist, oh la la tres bien

NKETIAHHH

That burst from Martinelli 🔥

Stream chat keeps asking for Balogun, who's injured and has done jack shit in the PL lol. Cmon lads, be sensible.

Hale End boys having a field day at Ashburton Grove

The one I posted while on sdf.org doesn't seem to have gone through, this one it is! Lemmy.world keeps going down when we play lol

Prepare to see Steve Cooper's face at least 50 times today. He's a beauty isn't he.

Slept through my alarm and was mad that I missed the first 20 minutes. I was super confused when I turned on my stream and it had even started yet.

So that's why the game got delayed huh
- Made the entirety of London wait for me. Lol

Shaky defense already, I don't approve of this setup

Weird without Big Gabi. He'd started pretty much every match for like a year.

Feel like Tierney would be great this game, backing the gaffer tho.

Looks like Tierney is leaving to Spain possibly.
- Nooooo :(
@Astrealix @ironeaglebird
Yep, but I think we have far too many options ahead of him unfortunately, and his injury record is not the best. Love the lad but think another team he'll have more game time.

tO THE ARSENAL ONE NIL

Hopefully this forces Forest to push out a bit more and we can batter them.

Lol get innnnn

Martinelli disproving the twatters that say he doesn't have the joga bonito gene

I'm just happy that he and Eddie connected

Ødegaard shoulda megged that, add some insult to injury lol

2 fantastic goals

Btw while not much is happening, interesting that we rate Hein more than Okonkwo it seems.

Turner coming over to check on Timber.

Think he's just there to chat up nelli lol

Martinelli upset when he loses a duel. He sprinted that Forest player down.

Timber not looking so great today ngl, I might be biased for Tierney tho

He hasn't looked good. He's made a couple sloppy passes. A better team would have capitalized.

Looks like everyone stuck at the loo lmao

Middle tier looks so empty

Declan already being a leader lol

What the fuck is this average formation lmfao

Fuck em up, Eddie!

Oh shit that didn't look good

Just a clattering, should be fine
oh nevermind my stream didn't get there yet

Alrighty Tomi let's goooo

THIS IS WHY WE NEED TIERNEY FFS

I'm in full agreement. You can tell it is likely a serious injury about how he originally limped off. That's why I was excited for Tierney's appearance. Yet, I didn't know he was on the team sheet.

Ooh Tomi going for goal isn't something we see every day

Good shot tho all things considered, got it on target
- I want to see him do more of this
you're like 2 minutes ahead of us :p
- And Peacock is a minute behind...

Never a dull moment

Could've been a good one with Tomi and Martinelli

We're way to comfortable at being 2 up.

Trossard is absolutely dynamite. He's singlehandedly changed momentum at least three times since he's come on.

I don't like this lineup by Arteta. Steve Copper almost had the right configuration in the second half to make a comeback. We should steamroll teams like Forest. It was helter skelter after the first Forest goal.

Well defended but a real chance there.

just 3 minutes, not bad honestly

Very interesting setup and movement right now.

Also thanks ironeagle for getting this match thread up.

How's that not a foul they literally just shoved Saka to the ground

And Jesus Christ that stomp should be a red

This feels like that Everton game at Goodison

Still early days, calma

He's walking, can't be that bad at least?

We barely look like we have a formation today what's going on lol

Ramsdale coolly catching that

@Astrealix @ironeaglebird was fretting that one
- Yeah I was a bit worried, good catch tbh

fuck

How are so consistently bad at blocking cutbacks?

I still don't know why they keep showing shots of ElNo Musk

How's that not a foul on Havertz ngl

Can we at least try to score another goal

No foul there man cmon

I am so confused by our system, why is Havertz there lol