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the amount of times our players lost the ball during close control in the final 3rd was ridiculous yesterday, they seemed to think they were ronaldinho and without fail as soon as they lost it arsenal counter attacked with pace. Must say first time I've seen ramsdale since bournemouth and what he brought to the arsenal team in both goal keeping and intent was impressive, it shows what we havent had for a long long time. I think to be honest we have crap forwards and without romeu a crap midfield. JWP hasnt played a through ball in his life and our forwards have more luck with pin the tail on the donkey. I want to know what the real story is with Stuart Armstrong, this calf injury is bullshit. Edit - I really like lyanco though, his intent and steel he brings to our backlike is what we need - him and salisu next game please.

where is stuart armstongs calf he is the messiah

our goalkeeping options

I dont think there is a tactical system invented that has these players scoring goals and keeping cleansheets.

If we could of scored from the loads of chances we had we wouldn't be too fussed about conceding. Id love to see chances to goals ratio it must be like 8:1 or something over the last 4 games. We batter teams in first halves and either draw or 1-0 up at half time when it should be more.

adams having one of those days where he could fall into a bucket full of tits and come out sucking his thumb

try any of these https://soccerstreams-100.tv/game/eng-1/605891

he's just found out mccarthy is being offered a new contract

He tried something different to try and win - it didnt work and he changed it at half time. Not much to really say more than that. Better teams than us will get spanked by more. Edit - also i want to see lyanco and salisu start in a 4 next game.

I'd already heard of this guy a while ago and for the life of me i cannot remember why and its really annoying me. Nice boat, expect its going to the Caribbean for xmas.

If they do buy us I might actually investigate the Ratuken app that was pre-installed with my tv. Would be happy with this deal for sure.

Dont think Ralph would go to villa anyway - think he feels like he owes Semmens for sticking buy him after 2 wallopings the last 2 seasons when it was easier to fire him,.

I like what lyanco brings to our side when he plays and does either of our other CBs not make mistakes. Bednerak reminds at some point in every game of a teenage who has had a growth spurt but his coordination hasnt caught up with him

Salisu has this ability to wrapped his legs around people from random angles to nick the ball away even if he is off balance. Thought 2nd have we either gave away the ball to easily or we kept smashing it into our own players to launch a villa attack

Salisu and then Tino our best players easily this season so far.

random thoughts, Mo El has been more and more influential these last few games i'd like to see him and armstrong start as inside forwards purely for their direct running. Diallo early quick balls have made a big difference to us going forward. Thanks chelsea - can we borrow some more Redders maybe time to move to left full back - get far away from the goal

I think this season more than any other Ralphs wardrobe is going through an identity crisis. He's worn some weird combo's, maybe he will stick with yesterdays look for a bit but I dont see it lasting through winter so I suggest he goes for the innuit look.

At what point does it go from the other team were terrible to we stopped them playing ? Man City 1 shot on target / Leeds 0 shots on target

Dont think the problem is the strikers its been the awful service and quick transition opportunities they have been receiving from the wide forwards and midfield. I have high hopes with Diallo who is a naturally more attacking midfielder will push forward more than JWP and with Armstrong back both aspects of our play will improve. I think Adams will play more as well to help linking with them both.

We have played 6 out of the top 7 teams in the current table drawn 4 lost 3. We have shown tactical flexibility across a few formations this season and ralphs in game subs have improved significantly on their timings. We are struggling to score goals but i think that is down to both our inside forwards (missing armstrong a lot) and the midfielders getting forward quickly when the counter. Think Diallo is actually the exact sort of midfielder we need to push on up the pitch on the counter with speed so will be interesting over the next few games. I think our biggest issue by far is the assists goals we can expect from the inside forward positions per season. Armstrong/Tella/Redmond/Walcott/Djnepo scored 11 goals in total last season - that is not enough - i feel this is the area ralph should work on the most in the next 2 weeks and how diallo links up with them moving forward.

i blame the short length

dont care how but we need to win and score some goals

I think people are just surprised about you having such a strong reaction to a new player playing his first game for us, it seems a bit weird. We want all our signings to be great and the team to be successful but let's not think we have world class players and given our budget constraints sometimes we have to compromise. Give the guy a break and lets see how he develops, remember vestagaard was not 1st choice for a lot of his career here - he had a nice 6month purple patch last season though and good luck to him. Haters hate upwards.

He was rated the 2nd best player in the bolgna squad when he went there on loan - 7.03 on whoscored https://www.whoscored.com/Teams/71/Archive/Italy-Bologna?stageId=16548