Utd have had a really **** start and are lucky to have any points. Lost to us and the filth and should've lost to Wolves and Forest, barring ref intervention. Ten Hag is probably lucky that they've got the international break now and they can reset.
Yeah, it massively flatters us. A draw would probably have been the right result. Our attacking patterns weren't there, rotations weren't as fluid as last season, we weren't doing enough to stretch them and we were extremely profligate in the final third. On top of that, similar to the Fulham game, we were leaving acres of space open for them to counter and made it easy for them to transition within 2 passes. We still don't have the balance right under these tactical tweaks Arteta's implemented. Whilst there's still cause for concern, if there's one team I absolutely don't mind getting a last minute winner against, it's Man Utd. So for the next two weeks, I won't be too fussed about how we're playing until we're back from international duty because the dopamine rush from this result is overbearing .
Imagine the reaction on here if we had signed Jonny Evans as centre back cover while retaining Lindelof and Maguire with all three of them getting on the pitch in the first game after the window.
Update from the heavy petting zoo: every ten minutes or so, somebody tries to get a chant going by bellowing "Gooners"...but before he can even finish it evaporates in the most apologetic manner
I still believe Pochettino would have got out of Sancho at the minimum the form he showed ar Dortmund. Well at least Citeh acknowledged that potential threat by not selling him to Spurs,
Barney Ronay is afraid that behind Todd Boehly's American idiocy lies some kind of evil genius. https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...bs-own-fans-as-obstacles-in-violent-new-world I can tell you from personal experience that the chances of anything lying behind American idiocy other than even vaster idiocy are really small.
Two soft midfields cancel each other out. Arteta's decision to eff up his team as a sacrifice to his own genius is trumped by ten Hag's decision to wheel in a defender from the old folks' home. Granted that Partey is hurt, it seems like common sense to me to play a midfield of Partey, Rice and Odegaard, at least against bigger clubs...and not to play a defender who's both a has been and a never was.
Davies, I guess. I'm surprised Man U would bring someone out of retirement who didn't look up to speed. I would have thought they could have found someone around Reguilon's level: not good enough to start for a top half PL club, but maybe good enough to start for a smaller one. In the past I might have been wise enough to refrain from criticizing rival managers, because I might have remembered comments like that have a way of coming back to bite you. But alas. There's no fool like an old fool.
I think in hindsight I should have kept what pass for my thoughts to myself. I have that feeling fairly often, and with good reason.
