FT. 3-0. Well deserved win by Arsenal against a Forest side who probably didn't expect anything from this game. However, they still had some dangerous players on the pitch and they were a bit of an unknown entity with a new manager coming in, hard to know what to expect. Happy for David Raya to keep a clean sheet on his 100th appearance for the club. He's been a top class signing for us. A lot of superb performances despite the lack of team chemistry. My only two downsides are the Odegaard injury and the fact we didn't get more than 3, as we completely outclassed Forest this afternoon. Nonetheless, a great thumping win off the back of the Liverpool defeat and the international break. Onto the first Champions League game of the campaign, Athletic Bilbao away, which I suspect is why Arteta took some of our big players off a little early.
Great result honestly. I thought Madueki was superb again. Gyokeres looked at lot sharper today - thought he had a good game. 3 goals in 4 games for him now. Timber looks undroppable and Masquera was the bargain of the century honestly,
Better performance Madueke looked good - i love his direct play. Mosquera is undropable IMO Timber excellent Eze was decent , I thought. Best game from Zubimendi so far. Saw a bit of an improvement from Gyokeres in his work to find space, but still has a lot of convincing to do. Want to see more from Nwaneri. Having said that we looked better as soon as Odegaard went off, but i think that is more to do with Odegaard than Nwaneri. Overall a 6/10 performance with some bright spots.
You are very hard to please 6/10? I'd rate that performance a solid 8/10 considering a third of the team has hardly played together before. Cut a bit of slack
We've only conceded 1 goal in 4 games so far this season - and that goal was a wonder-strike free-kick when we played the Premier League champions. I don't think it's big headed of me to say we've got the best defensive structure/set-up in Europe. I can't think of a team that is better than us from a defensive standpoint.
Not going to **** on Noni, I want him to do well. But he has zero goals and zero assists, he needs to be chipping in, thats what Saka does. This was my problem with him when he was at Chelsea, he looked good but didn't have enough end product, without end product a wide forward is a passenger that we can't afford to have if we are going to win the big titles.
I said it from the off, Mosquera looks like an absolute beast of a defender, he has EVERYTHING. I think he has the highest ceiling of all of our defenders, I expect him to become the best CB at the club quite comfortably.
Comedy that he was a quarter the price of Huijsen even though they're both near enough the same age and Mosquera is objectively a lot better. Early days but I'm going to be sad if he has to come out the team for Saliba. I think he's faster and therefore potentially better than Saliba. Yet to see him against the top strikers though. Need to see how he gets on against Haaland at the weekend etc. If he gets rinsed then I'll eat humble pie and cry until Saliba returns.
said this many times, but i don’t care how many goals or assists an individual in the team gets as long as we’re scoring as a team. If the guy is direct and a danger, he’s going to draw attention and stretch defences. Opens things up. Madueke has looked really good. He and Mosquera are the two best signings so far, IMO. Eze has also shown some early moments that are encouraging.
