This was one of the most shambolic, boring football I’ve ever see my club play. I’ve never been this angry at my team. Arteta need to take all the blame for this performance. We did nothing worthy of a praise and every fan has the right to be angry.
I’m very disappointed in Mikel Arteta for the fact that he continue to play this formation even when he knows it doesn’t always work. We are playing at home against a team that has a lot of quality. Why are we playing 3 at the back? why cant we play an attacking formation?
I don’t think Arteta knows his squad. Very obsessed with the same system and same players every game. We have players that have been knocking on the door for quite some time now but they hardly get a look in. Saka is being over played for a 19 year old, he must learn from Pep how he uses Foden. Foden doesnt play every City 90 minutes. Then you have Aubameyang, who no matter what doesn’t get dropped. If he’s a winger now drop him so that other wingers get the chance to show what they can bring to the squad. Or change the system to bring the best out of him.
The other problem is Willian and Lacazette. How many times do they have to start when they offer almost nothing in a run of games? and what is the obsession of playing Nketiah when clearly we can all see that he’s not ready. Nketiah got a lot of chances to impress under Arteta and its enough to know that he’s not ready to be a back up striker at Arsenal.
The other problem is Bellerin, he never gets dropped as well, we have two other options in Maitland-Niles and Cedric why cant he give them a chance to show their side of the game.
To be fair as a fan base we are all behind Arteta and we all want him to succeed but how long will we continue going one step forward and two steps back? He need to look himself in the mirror and be ruthless and fair enough to all the players. I want to see Pepe starting, I want to see Willock and Nelson in the squad. I want to see a different system that accommodates all the players. We need to start playing a midfield three. Every team plays with three and we get dominated because of that. Saka is not a traditional midfielder and his operation from the left doesn’t allow him to penetrate other midfield areas, this means we play mostly with a midfield two.
Arteta need to change his ways and stop being naive. This is a top level competition and we are a big club we need to have an identity and play free flowing football.
The will be no player ratings this week. All the players and the manager gets zero for that shambolic performance. We need to fix this when we play Leeds United after the international break. On to you Arteta.
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