Our half time analysis picked up on Sterling’s troubles identifying things he’s trying to get away with because of his “lack of pace”. It concluded by saying it’s difficult to watch (with how badly he’s playing) and Arteta may need to take him off at half time to spare him any more of this.
I think most people were shocked by Pep’s willingness to move him on 2 seasons ago given how important he had been to them up to then. But it’s like he’s been replaced with a Pod Person version of himself since then, one who cannot play football and has the legs of a 50 year old.
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They are making themselves difficult to play against today, which is about as far as my hopes ran.
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I think are Arsenal are doing a pretty good job of making each other difficult to play with as well though.
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I reckon the Pep doping was no longer working sufficiently. Now away from the cheaters it’s all catching up on him. He does look like a player who’s come out of retirement after a couple of years
Partey barely touched and rolling around screaming. He’s touched women harder than that (allegedly).
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You can’t tackle any more. No way that is a yellow card. Perfectly good tackle.
The studs raking across the front of the leg are going to earn one more often than not. If the followthrough contact had not been with the studs, unlikely to have been a yellow - quite possibly not even a foul
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Helps that Liverpool aren’t playing.
Arsenal corners are really almost like rugby, where the referee can call 2-3 fouls on every sequence but has to make a judgement about which ones are relevant to the play. The amount of holding and shoving is just absurd. I have to wonder what percentage of their goals could be called back at a ref’s discretion.
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Ref finally gives a foul on a corner and the Leicester crowd cheer like they got a penalty 
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Leicester are essentially setting basketball screens to stop Gabriel’s run.
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Bobby Reid and Jordan Ayew on the wings, it’s like the stuff dreams are made out of.
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Understandable given the fouls the ref has not called on Arsenal corners…
Leicester are fucking shit. If they manage to shithouse a draw here it’ll be a miracle and should be treated as such.
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Feels like they are on the ropes now
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Surely now they have taken off Sterling they will have to score?
Raheem looks like the rare case of a cheap speculative punt of a player you dont need on loan can still be a bad move for you. He’s been so pointless for them they’ve now got a box to box midfielder playing up front just to get him off the pitch
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The Arsenal machine have managed 1 shot on target, they’re shit.
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Sign of the times, clock reaches 70’ and my thought is that they have about half an hour to go
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