Arsenal FC 2024-25: Back Where We Belong

[Derka 6135]

 

[Ted Lange 16082]

Injury news ahead of tomorrow's 11:30 AM NBC matchup vs Bournemouth

 

 

[Dutch 4465]

Wasn’t it @Ted Lange who said “‘Tomiyasu’ is Japanese for ‘Kieran’”? 

That dude is so good when healthy. He’s just never healthy. 

[Ted Lange 16082]

I believe that was me. The good news is that Arteta has an affinity for acquiring defenders, so there is a ton of excellent depth. 

Edited October 18 by Ted Lange

[Ted Lange 16082]

 

No Saka or Timber.  I guess Timber picked up an injury in training?    Glad Ben White is back. 

[Dutch 4465]

Timber was carrying one before the international break (iirc had to be subbed at HT of the last PL match). 

Benny Blanco back is very nice. 
 

Still…. Let’s. Fucking. Go. 

Edited October 19 by Dutch

[Ted Lange 16082]

Also other than Sterling and Trossard all Arsenal players are 6’ or taller.  Corners should be fun.  

[Ted Lange 16082]

Pedestrian first 15.   The 3 6/8s midfield just lacks any sort of bite going forward. 

[Ted Lange 16082]

FUCK.  

And now 10 men AGAIN.  And no SALIBA vs Liverpool 

[The Maestro 750]

For fucks sake

[Ted Lange 16082]

Fucking half our games with 10 men 

[Dutch 4465]

 

I mean it’s pretty clear red. Horrible pas from Trossard  

Fucking hell. 

[Ted Lange 16082]

 

[Ted Lange 16082]

Fucking hell. Have to put that on goal Merino 

[Ted Lange 16082]

 

[The Maestro 750]

We’ve got to make more of these chances 

[Ted Lange 16082]

Martinelli on.   Please save us 

[Ted Lange 16082]

Oh FFS Martinelli 

[Ted Lange 16082]

Welp, we lose it on a corner.   JFC 

[Derka 6135]

martinelli blows it and one minute later we’re done. man he has been such a huge disappointment. FUCK.

[Ted Lange 16082]

2-0.  Absolute disaster 

[The Maestro 750]

Save us Jesus

[Derka 6135]

kiwior with one of the all time worst shifts in arsenal history. 

[Ted Lange 16082]

Not having Timber or Japanese Kieran came back to bite us 

[Ted Lange 16082]

 

Feels like we’d need a rash of injuries for pool and a points deduction for City to have a chance to win the league now. 

[CooterBrown 18001]

Once you give up hope of any title, life is a bit better. Unfortunately, this team doesn’t have the mentality to win anything.

[Derka 6135]

39 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

 

Feels like we’d need a rash of injuries for pool and a points deduction for City to have a chance to win the league now. 

this is the problem with soccer. with no playoffs, you cannot afford to get injured, or suspended, or play poorly, ever. in football you cannot afford lose in september and october and win the super bowl; in the nba you can lose in february and march and win the title; a couple of years ago the braves were under .500 at the ASB and they won it all. you can’t do that in soccer, especially when City exists. the entire season IS the playoffs, and you can’t afford to lose, because one team has so much money and so many world class players that they can survive all of the injuries and suspensions which a risky affect other teams. i mean KDB and Haaland missed a bunch of time last year and it didn’t matter.

at this point, i’ve given up on the epl season. i’m just hopping that we win a trophy in some other competition. so fucking depressing. 

[Dutch 4465]

5 hours ago, Derka said:

this is the problem with soccer. with no playoffs, you cannot afford to get injured, or suspended, or play poorly, ever. in football you cannot afford lose in september and october and win the super bowl; in the nba you can lose in february and march and win the title; a couple of years ago the braves were under .500 at the ASB and they won it all. you can’t do that in soccer, especially when City exists. the entire season IS the playoffs, and you can’t afford to lose, because one team has so much money and so many world class players that they can survive all of the injuries and suspensions which a risky affect other teams. i mean KDB and Haaland missed a bunch of time last year and it didn’t matter.

at this point, i’ve given up on the epl season. i’m just hopping that we win a trophy in some other competition. so fucking depressing. 

You can’t afford to piss away points in a league with City, and we absolutely pissed away three today. 

Sigh.

[The Maestro 750]

COYG!!  

[The Maestro 750]

A win is a win, but that was underwhelming. It’s good to win games when we don’t play well, but it would be nice to hit the easy button every once in a while.

[Dutch 4465]

2 minutes ago, The Maestro said:

A win is a win, but that was underwhelming. It’s good to win games when we don’t play well, but it would be nice to hit the easy button every once in a while.

Yup. There’s winning ugly, then there’s whatever the hell we just did.

We’re nowhere near as dangerous/creative in the opposition half without Ødegaard and Starman. Desperately need Saka back for Pool.

 

[The Maestro 750]

15 minutes ago, Dutch said:

Yup. There’s winning ugly, then there’s whatever the hell we just did.

We’re nowhere near as dangerous/creative in the opposition half without Ødegaard and Starman. Desperately need Saka back for Pool.

 

I think we can still be great missing one of those two guys, but when we’re missing, both were so much less dynamic. I suspect Saka was held out today for a strategic calculation so he can play against pool this weekend.

[Dutch 4465]

1 hour ago, The Maestro said:

I suspect Saka was held out today for a strategic calculation so he can play against pool this weekend.

This was my hope, too, but about that…

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[Ted Lange 16082]

We spent 100s of millions on the back 4 and we are still gonna be so short handed vs Liverpool that folks are talking about starting Rice at CB. 

[Mittens 8251]

😂😂😂

 

[Dutch 4465]

[Ted Lange 16082]

[Dutch 4465]

Partey vs Diaz?

 

Still…

Lets. Fucking. Go. 

[Dutch 4465]

 Maybe at some point we’ll field our first-choice XI. 

That would be cool. 

[Derka 6135]

vvd puts his studs into kai’s leg (twice) and he doesn’t even get a booking. can’t wait until trossard gets a yellow for looking at someone wrong. 

[The Maestro 750]

Sakaaaaaa!!!!! 

[Ted Lange 16082]

God did we need that from Saka.

[Ted Lange 16082]

Fucking hell 

[QuesoEspecial 255]

11 minutes ago, Derka said:

vvd puts his studs into kai’s leg (twice) and he doesn’t even get a booking. can’t wait until trossard gets a yellow for looking at someone wrong. 

And then he smugly scored on us…now I really hate him

[Ted Lange 16082]

And now Merino is out.  Looks like the same shoulder 

[Ted Lange 16082]

Seemed like a pretty harsh challenge on Saka with no call.  I’m totally fine and prefer that not be called, as long as it’s consistent 

[The Maestro 750]

Merino is a Gooner, well done

[Ted Lange 16082]

Ridiculous it took VAR that long.