Just reading the BBC predictions thread, Arsenal have an immensely tough first 6 games:
Man Utd A
Leeds H
Liverpool A
Forest H
City H
Newcastle A
I expect if they aren’t somewhat off the pace after those games then they can be considered serious title contenders.
Trossard always caused us problems when on the pitch
Unless they suffer with injuries. That’s the only thing that’s stopping them from winning the league.
They’d still be the best team and deserve the trophy.,
Cue Chelsea revealing their master plan to buy Arsenal and send the rest of their flops to North London
The flip to that is you look at that list and think dropping points in 4 of those games is not unrealistic which could see Arteta facing serious questions about if he is the right person for the job
They drop points in any and those tiktok YouTube wankers will be seeking viral garbage.
From the Guardian’s football countdown …
Mikel Arteta has got his calculator out again. Ahead of Sunday’s game with Manchester United, he had this to say: “If you keep digging, digging and digging, then one day the gold is going to be there. All the time, it is what I have been taught my whole life. For the last three seasons we have more points [combined] than anybody else in the league and that says a lot about our consistency. Now we just have to do it in a season.”
Dean Haigh has this to say on Mikel Arteta: “[He] might need to check a (second..?) calculator, or to stop digging and/or clutching at straws. For the last three seasons Arsenal HAVEN’T won more points combined than anybody else in the league. Predictably, they’re in second…”
Yeah, 4 points worse off than City in that time.
If we take just the last two, we are top, 3 points ahead of them so maybe that means we actually won back to back titles?
You will never find gold if you dig in the wrong place..!
Insert Joachim Low gif
He also has one of the most slappable faces in football.
And we took a month off.
Plastic pep playing 4 CBs today. For all the cry arsing, they have a stacked squad.
Todays bench: Arrizabalaga, Mosquera, Merino, Nwaneri, Madueke, Havertz, Lewis-Skelly, Timber, Trossard
Hope united shit house their way to taking points from Arteta.
Arsenal fans started crying about this when fixtures came out.
Odd to have Trossard there as I thought his transfer was likely soon.
1-0 to Set Piece FC. Saliba was fouling the goalie too.
On today’s evidence Man Utd look competitive. They played better than I’ve seen them play in ages and might have an outside shot at 5th.
Same issues they had though, absolutely no end product it’s been the issue for the last few years. Defence you can’t judge as Arsenal didn’t attack enough to test it.
They do have a higher ceiling than Arsenal but then Arsenal are already ahead of them.
So you’re allowed to bundle the keeper into his goal to stop him getting to the ball? Or is that just Arsenal allowed to do that?