From Marsch's post match comment, he only took Klich off as he was on a yellow and didn't want any more suspensions, same with Raph, so would say they both start Tuesday
Evening all. I was busy today so couldn't watch the game but caught a couple of minutes - as they were reviewing the Ayling head off. As soon as I saw the replay I knew it was a red. I've watched the highlights and we would have conceded the first two against a fkn pub team. Everton and Burnley are standing up to be counted. We are falling apart! I'm so fkn pissed off with us being so ****. I'm resigned to us going down and clearing the decks. No way in hell we're winning any more points this season.
https://hdmatches.net/2022/05/08/video-arsenal-vs-leeds-united-highlights-full-match-08-may-2022/#2 Anyone who didn't get to see the "game" this is a replay of the whole thing.
I'm no tactical genius but watching this game, Martinelli has the ball, 3 Leeds players square up to him, he plays a quick 1-2 to take them completely out of the game then plays a ball into the space they've left. If I was watching a kids game I'd be disappointed. We are always under pressure when we have the ball and they just want to get rid of it. They find maybe 3 passes until the noose tightens and they either hoof it up the pitch or just give it away. When Arsenal are passing it they have a purpose, we have no plan at all. It is shocking. With anything like decent finishing they'd have scored 6+ We are in so much ****.
What happened today was we went to the Emirates and lost...totally as expected and now we're in the last of the relegation spots. The good news is we have three games (2 at home) to save ourselves. The team we probably have the most chance of finishing above is Burnley and for what it's worth I'd say we have a 50/50 chance of doing so.
And if the worst wast to happen, I don’t think todays game will have had anything much to do with it. If we’d have been battered like it looked like after 15 minutes I’d be despondent but we weren’t and I’m hopeful still. Still think there’s a real chance Burnley mightn’t get more than a point in their last game
The problem we have is that if teams have a player that can hurt you, they always do against us. Martinelli has now ripped us apart in 2 games. We can't handle him. We couldn't handle Trossard in the reverse fixture. We won't be able to handle Eriksson and Toney. Chelsea have loads of players who can hurt us. I would absolutely love us to dig our way out of this but I just cannot see it happening. It's a crying shame that we're not **** enough for me not to care. The Championship gets even tougher to get out of every year. It's the hope that kills you.
agree we always look more under pressure with the ball than our opponents… and our passing is rushed and imprecise they didn’t rip us apart with chances though… their xg was below 3, and considering the first goal was a tap in and would account for 1 of those and we played 60+ minutes with 10 men
Now we have finally dropped into the bottom 3 and rightly so.... what a sniveling bunch of bottlers with a weak mentality sick to the back teeth of trying to find any positives from that **** show today....what the **** is your captain doing with a reckless challenge when you're battling relegation and taking an already depleted squad further into the mire....I don't believe in miracles but now it's surely our only chance of survival,
Did anyone notice how Dan James suddenly looked a decent player when he went to right wing/full back ? In fact both DJ & Raphinha dealt with Martinelli way better than Ayling who quite frankly let himself down so badly with that challenge today. We'll surely go to 5 at the back now for the remaining games as that's how Chelsea, Brighton & Brentford all line up.
You mean the same bottlers who after going down to 10 men didn't concede again and actually gave us a shot at grabbing the most unlikely of points ? Individual errors yes most certainly, but you can't blame all the players. Koch Firpo Harrison Raphinha James Struijk Bate All the above were decent today.
Ayling should be ashamed of himself. I don't remember any other player making such a ridiculous tackle this season in the EPL considering VAR will just send you off. If he was 19 I may understand it but he's a seasoned professional and captain, Fcukin muppet and I'm glad he won't be seen again this season. Klich has been a passenger for most of the season, I fail to see how any manager can pick this waste of space. Harrison needs to drop into defence or just get rid. He's not an attacker, in any position! KP just doesn't seem to be at the races since he came back, I can't understand it. Was Rapha pretending to care when Ayling was sent off? Or was he trying to join him in getting sent off? Shocking display, I despair.
Raphinha can't win with some of you can he ? The guy gave his all for the shirt, showed passion, filled in at right back for the 2nd game in a row and did it diligently. Yes he got over agitated at the red card but he knuckled down and fought hard to keep us in the game. Pretty sure in those last 15 mins Jesse was regretting the decision to take him off.
Just checked the odds. Burnley 10/11 Leeds 1/1 50/50 as said earlier...keep the faith boys 'n' girls.
After Ayling krap pass to meslier for the first goal what struck me was the Arsenal fans acting all superior. They were smug and clapping accidentally getting the ball back from our wayward passing. They think they have a right to be better than us but they were not. Ayling was a disgrace and he is not good enough.Grealish beat him easily and so did Arsenal. I was happy we never gave up and please stop slagging off raph. If phillips had shown as much passion instead of turning into the crab ray wilkins but sadly he looks happy to potter about the pitch. Rodrigo could have got us a point but his header was weak and did not clear the goalie. Dallas and Ayling who i thought along with Cooper and phillips were the characters in our side have failed to play their part.cooper through injury i admit but that is nothing new. Other players battled and stepped up yesterday and marsch needs to pick those with spirit last three games. He looked absolutely peeed off and baffled the way we started the game.
As Jammy said, we always look rushed in possession. We were the same this season under MB. The amount of times I see us pass a short ball, it comes back and then it's passed again to the same player. It says "I don't want it" to me. I thought Dan James worked hard, I thought Llorente, Koch and Struijk were decent, Firpo couldn't get near Sako but not many LB can, I hardly heard Philips name mentioned but I was impressed with Bate. We're not disciplined enough.
Must be frustrating for a coach yesterday. Spend a week preparing squad for a huge game and thanks to two idiotic mistakes, it’s all over after ten minutes. I warned we can’t get past 15 minute mark without conceding. It better change in last three games or else
