I'm not even joking. Our form is so unmercifully terrible that I'm asking the question seriously. We have lost to Bournemouth, who we can realistically be expected to beat, (then) relegation-ready Swansea, and Brighton, who normally can't score their way out of a wet paper bag. And these are just in the league - Ostersunds and Nottingham Forest also posed questions that gave our team an enormous collective brain fart. And let's not forget our defeat at Spurs - our hated rivals, who have since replaced us for the time being as the big team in North London and who we let take three points without so much as a 'by your leave.'
Sure, we handily beat Everton and have won against Palace and got a draw from also-troubled Chelsea, but look at the bigger picture - EIGHT DEFEATS IN NINE WEEKS. And five of these were against clubs who were either below us in the league system or supposedly unheard of in Europe.
This isn't isolated - it's the culmination of many seasons of apathy and stagnation. For a long time we have coasted by, content with 'challenging' for fourth, and now this permitted failure has finally come to bite us in the @r5e.
Before the Brighton game people still had optimism. "If we play like we did in the first half against City, we will win," someone even said. After the Brighton game, there was nothing to be optimistic about. Except that Aubameyang scored, which now gives him the same goals to games ratio of Lacazette. Actually, I'm not sure if there's optimism to be had their or not...
Our upcoming games are Watford, who left a bad taste in our mouths after the last game, Stoke, who are one of our traditional bogey teams, Southampton, who are a shadow of their former selves but are desperate for points, and Newcastle, who are another potential Swansea waiting to happen. So given our form, realistically how many points are we taking from these?
So where's our next win coming from?
posted on 7/3/18
9 even
posted on 7/3/18
comment by ||The Great AFL©||™ (U11952)
posted 29 minutes ago
Clearly things aren’t great, but some of you are going way over-the-top. We’re decent enough at home, so we’ll probably win the rest of our home games. Starting with Watford on Sunday.
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Ordinarily I'd agree with you but the atmosphere at the Emirates is so toxic that I think any psychological advantage we had has now eroded over the past fortnight.
Sadly we are just as likely to continue our poor run as halt it.
posted on 7/3/18
Meelan
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posted on 7/3/18
In 2 seasons against Leeds in the championship. Can you imagine?
posted on 7/3/18
Sanogo plays for Ogabooga, he's up to 28 goals already
posted on 7/3/18
We are in a bad place for sure, but you need to consider that we lost to Man C twice and then played away to an in form, confident and well supported Brighton - my local team.
There was a lot of confidence around Brighton that they could win on current form and it showed in the game.
AC Milan are in good form so it will be a very difficult game and the best I am hoping for is decent damage control. Then we have Watford at home who are on the back of a couple of wins, but I am expecting us to win this one. We'd better. But in order for us to get the win I think it will help the players s the fans in the ground can get behind them. I would like to see protests still,even if we win, but to be limited to maybe after the game.
posted on 7/3/18
Until we get a new manager even quality players will flop at arsenal. No one can seriously say that laca or auba are bad players. Look at how the likes of Giroud have improved since leaving.
posted on 7/3/18
comment by Stale Milk Woko (U21076)
posted 11 minutes ago
Until we get a new manager even quality players will flop at arsenal. No one can seriously say that laca or auba are bad players. Look at how the likes of Giroud have improved since leaving.
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To be fair Sanchez, Giroud and Walcott haven't done well at all since leaving. Sanchez has 1 goals in 8 and hasn't fitted in with Utd's play. Giroud is permanently on the bench even though Chelsea struggle and Theo has only scored in 1 of his matches so far and again has hardly been on fire.
All 3 should have been sold for different reasons and I've no doubt that we'd be doing just as badly if they were still at the club.
posted on 7/3/18
comment by The Gin Palace (U21084)
So you're saying that we are a better team without those three players? Yeah I think that every time I see Iwobi and Welbeck playing for us