Administrator Stan 18,366 Posted February 23, 2020 Author Administrator Share Posted February 23, 2020 Leno releasing his inner Manuel Neuer and timing his rush out to deny Richarlison... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Mel81x+ 3,612 Posted February 23, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted February 23, 2020 Leno comes out to good effect. Stays on his line and Richarlison gets a chance on goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber RandoEFC+ 7,644 Posted February 23, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted February 23, 2020 Calvert-Lewin is still 22, there's room for improvement yet. Sigurdsson has been poor on the ball again. I think Carlo took off the wrong two midfielders on the hour mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Artful Dodger 1,831 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 That’s it. That is the chance ffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,366 Posted February 23, 2020 Author Administrator Share Posted February 23, 2020 Wow, that should have been on target at the very least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Artful Dodger 1,831 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Very fortunate arsenal win. We will hear all about this for days on end from the broadsheets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber RandoEFC+ 7,644 Posted February 23, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted February 23, 2020 So annoying. Arsenal were the better team up until about 60 minutes but we did enough to get an equaliser at the end. Both Aubameyang goals were too easy from a defensive perspective. Sidibe is available for £12m as a clause in his loan. He isn't good enough to be getting us into the top six as a first choice but it's possibly an option worth exploring still as he's good going forward but that's only enough against non-top six teams at home. Pickford, Mina and Holgate can't really be blamed for any of the three goals though Pickford was lucky to get away with that one where Nketiah hits the bar after a misjudged pass into Sigurdsson. While not directly at fault for any goals, Baines looked his age for probably the first time, didn't offer much going forward. Gomes who has barely walked for three months was so much better than Delph and Schneiderlin when he came on it was embarrassing. He has to start for the rest of the season alongside Schneiderlin or Davies. Schneiderlin and Delph both offer very little going forward but at least Schneiderlin doesn't regularly give the ball away like Delph does. I can't see any benefits in playing the lad, rather give Davies the minutes. Sigurdsson has been alright in recent weeks and I thought the narrow midfield four worked reasonably well today but it's time to start phasing him out. I thought Iwobi should have stayed on instead of him with Bernard coming to the left wing, but Iwobi himself is recovering from an injury so may not have had 90 minutes in him. Richarlison and Calvert-Lewin did alright. Obviously both scored, but then Calvert-Lewin also missed two chances that were easier than the one he scored. The header at the end was just a bit too high for him but the one that fell to him at point blank range, if it was onside, should have been a definite goal, and he should have got more on that other one that came across goal from Richarlison. Can't be too upset with the way we played overall. Two teams who gave away too many chances (which is annoying as that isn't usually our problem) and our forwards weren't quite as clinical today as theirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,366 Posted February 23, 2020 Author Administrator Share Posted February 23, 2020 Just now, RandoEFC said: Richarlison and Calvert-Lewin did alright. Obviously both scored, but then Calvert-Lewin also missed two chances that were easier than the one he scored. The header at the end was just a bit too high for him but the one that fell to him at point blank range, if it was onside, should have been a definite goal, and he should have got more on that other one that came across goal from Richarlison. That was the main chance he should have scored. Was onside as Xhaka played him onside in the LB position near the corner. Leno did well but as a striker in that area you just have to hit the back of the net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
...Dan 758 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 2 hours ago, Eco said: How has Pepe been at Arsneal this year? I loved him last year at Lille, but haven't seen him since his move to the EPL. 2 hours ago, Storts said: He’s awful - buying from that farmers league is very difficult 6 goals and 8 assists in 19 starts at a new club in a new country. Obviously not as good as he was in France, but not bad at all. People are so quick to label players as flops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ 1,915 Posted February 23, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted February 23, 2020 That was actually a really enjoyable game I thought. Pretty end to end, both teams really going for it and most refreshingly of all very little VAR nonsense. Wish there were more games like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Artful Dodger 1,831 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Some promising young players for Arsenal there, need to keep them all together. Everton ahhh, nearer but still so far. Ancelotti has clearly had a positive effect on the team but they need to pick up one victory against the Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool for their fans to feel it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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