Worst half as half of it was pretty good.
As for Everton that was a certain ref.
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Sure Oliver did play his role in denying us.
But our play wasn’t really good in the Everton match.
I think Arteta has done a good job in general, but his obsession with CBs could be his undoing. Arteta copied Pep. Pep decided he wanted to take all the risk out of the game, and decided to move from playing 6 MFs to 4 CBs. That made some sense given that Haaland scores a lot of goals but doesn’t contribute anything else. But MC also had a boatload of creative talent whereas Arsenal do not. So any breakdown or injury leaves the squad exposed.
And I don’t know if it’s getting any better. I understand why he wants Zubimendi. A MF with him sitting deep, Rice as the box to box, and Odegaard pulling the strings looks enticing. But their most pressing needs are obvious. And I’m not sure if Kroenke is going to shell out the £100 million plus it’s going to take to get Isak after their net spend on transfers has been something like £400 million over the past five years.
The funny thing is that they’ve become an unlikeable club. I enjoyed Wenger’s sides, and always rooted for Arsenal v ManU or Chelsea back in the day. But when your supporters are painting murals of your set piece coach, and you’re whining about the ball being the reason why you lost, it’s hard to have much sympathy for them.
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I don’t quite think its a good job that Arteta has done. He’s done an OK job.
All the money spent and he’s only delivered the FA cup thanks largely to Auba and that too very early in his reign when he hadn’t spent that money.
That can’t be true, surely??
It’s Arsenal fans. It can be true. Those fuckwits aren’t known exactly for their intelligence.
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Hahha
I somehow missed this. I’m not as witty as @SBYM or @PeachesEnRegalia, so I’ll leave it to them to crack a proper joke.
Over to you, lads!
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I say again who scores goals for Arsenal, they aint no Newcastle if you offered Arsenal Wood and Odoi now they would snap your hands off.
No worries pal, you can concede with your live body. Perhaps giving us a guard of honour at the Emirates, while reflecting on your 6 years of abject failure 
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Better still… they can give us a guard of honour at Anfield 
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I wouldn’t agree with his language, but I’m not sure what he’s supposed to say here.
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I think nothing he says is wrong and it is right 5 days ago Liverpool were struggling and Arsenal were closing in and now it’s over apparently?
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Yeah because we couldn’t string a period of play together because we kept getting fouled.
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He’s done a marvelous job. Arsenal had become a joke by the time he took over, having made a lot of the same mistakes that Utd were making. It was not an attractive role given things were likely going to have to get worse before they got better. He came in and oversaw brave decisions, steadied this ship during those difficult times, and ultimately turned them into a very impressive side. And for most of that period he had them playing really enjoyable football. That 3-1 win at the beginning of spring last season was one of the more impressive performances I saw any side ever put in against a good Klopp side. That appears to have been their high point though. It was one of the last times, maybe the last time, they met a good side head on and outplayed them playing the style that got them there.
Obviously they came up short for a second year in a row and looking like they will again this year. I think the situation they are facing is a reality that the things that get you from C to B are often not the things that get you to B to A. In lots of areas it is new leadership with a variation on those older ideas that is needed to make that next step. It is possible, even likely, he isnt the guy to give this genuinely very impressive side the final tweak they need. It would be a shame in football terms if that excellent work got waved away in the bantz of him failing to win it again. He is annoying and has turned what was for a couple of years an enjoyable side into annoying cryarses, but the quality of his work there should be credited
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As I have often stated before, it must be borne in mind that they have been up against two outstanding sides domestically. No matter how hard you try, it isn’t easy to depose teams of the quality of Manchester City and Liverpool.
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I think also their serial failure to get a signature win against City until this month is psychologically telling. Their big ‘coming of age’ win against City at the Emirates just got bettered by LFC going into the Etihad to take the same 3 points - leaving them having dropped 2 points as against LFC versus City.
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In the end, I think Arsenal and Arteta are simply encountering the difficulty of improving a really good side. There isn’t a great reservoir of great talent in terms of players or managers they can readily turn to - it is easier to get that decision wrong than to get it right.
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Yeah, I have raised this analogy before - Middle income trap - Wikipedia
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