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Post #491241  Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:22 pm 
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Özil making a 'Fagregas-esque' pass :1laughter: well done!!

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Post #491242  Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:22 pm 
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If ever the pass before the assist makes 95% of the goal there it is. Özil has cut Leicester apart with a single pass, takes out their entire defence. Bellerin with the simple square ball and a tap in for Aubameyang

Whatever emery said at half time has totally rallied them. Leicester haven’t had a kick second half


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Post #491243  Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:23 pm 
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Post #491244  Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:23 pm 
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Better and better. 3-1 Sweeping teamwork goal. Reminiscent of the Invincibles

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Post #491245  Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:24 pm 
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3-1 just watch that and enjoy it. Very few clubs in the world can play like that.


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Post #491246  Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:25 pm 
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Post #491247  Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:25 pm 
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I want Lacazette to get in on the fun.

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Post #491248  Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:25 pm 
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Not been a perfect performance, but I'm not going to complain about a single thing when we score goals like the ones we've scored here. Özil is just a sublime player. What a performance from him today.


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Hazuki wrote:
Not been a perfect performance, but I'm not going to complain about a single thing when we score goals like the ones we've scored here. Özil is just a sublime player. What a performance from him today.

So much for Arsene’s opinion that he’d now be demotivated with nothing to play for

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Post #491250  Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:29 pm 
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This is purely the pace and intensity that is making this happen. To play with that pace and intensity you have to take risks. Gambling on winning second balls, making that run off the ball etc


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I like how Emery made half time adjustments and we are a different side in the 2nd half.

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Emery's team showing more urgency than Wengers Arsenal in their last few seasons. And less fannying around.


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You have to say that was because of the half-time team-talk
Well done Emery, and *%^@ you, wenger


The Lord forgives Babu..you can too. lol

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The vibes from this team are very good. It looks like they care and believe. It’s been quite a while since it felt like that

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Unbelievable!! How did Schmeichel keep that out?

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Post #491256  Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:38 pm 
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Standing ovation for Özil.
Still 10 mins left in his need to concentrate


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Let's not concede a second boys, I could do without any squeaky bum time.


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Post #491258  Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:43 pm 
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Commentator saying 3 things have gone against Leicester tonight
1 the handball not given and what they say would have been a second yellow for holding (bizarre logic that a simple hand ball needs to be a yellow)
2 that arsenal scored just before half time
3 Özil has been really on it

I’m not sure the last two really count as ‘going against’ them as though they are unlucky


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Lacazette lacks a bit. Iwobi outstanding tonight. 40 minutes of rubbish redeemed by some sequences of wonderful team football.


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Post #491260  Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:47 pm 
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So nice that rat-boy Vardy hasn’t had a kick tonight. He can go back to telling everyone how he turned arsenal down to stay at Leicester again


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Post #491261  Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:50 pm 
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Weirdly since Xhaka moved to right back he’s just been so much more switched on defensively than he is in CM. Good in the 1v1 and getting out to block crosses. He must know he’s not comfortable there so is just more concentrated


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Lacazette lacks a bit. Iwobi outstanding tonight. 40 minutes of rubbish redeemed by some sequences of wonderful team football.

Just one of those nights for Lacazette. Let’s remeber his deadly finishing won us the game at Cardiff and set us up for the Fulham win before others added the gloss.

We’ve got a team with goals from lots of sources, if one of them doesn’t get you the other one will. I’ll worry more when Lacazette stops getting the chances which happened at times last season when (we now know) he played through an injury


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Post #491263  Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:56 pm 
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Some credit for bellerin tonight. He's clearly being told to play very very high, he often has a right winger who drifts in and gives him little cover. Two assists tonight, he's been good for us this season, certainly improved from last year.

Özil MOTM for the 3 decisive moments, and put a 4th on the plate for Lacazette. But Iwobi was a constant threat all game, he was tyhe one driving the team forward when we weren't playing well in the first half


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Woof, woof.......that was some sexy second half football.

Stats before the game showed that our players have run further than any other team and made more sprints than any other team. That suggests we are fitter and more athletic than anyone else and perhaps explains why we improve in the second half when the opposition begins to run out of steam.

Iwobi was excellent. Özil as good as I have seen him for Arsenal in the second half.

Make no mistake, though, our defence is so incredibly vulnerable that eventually some team will take their chances and blow us away before we can click into gear.


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Babu III wrote:
Rich wrote:
This is purely the pace and intensity that is making this happen. To play with that pace and intensity you have to take risks. Gambling on winning second balls, making that run off the ball etc

just taking your finger out of your arse seems to be a great "Plan B"

wonder why le genius didn't think of that


There seems to be 110% less fannying around with the ball. When we get the ball into a wide attacking area we are carving out way more chances than we did previously. The ball is going in the box and the strikers know it so make more runs and it’s making a real difference.

I think we look a very different team to last season.

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Post #491266  Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 9:06 pm 
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I like Maguire and Chilwell but they both got completely done by Özil's magic pass (chilwell) and dummy and run behind (maguire). But then if you don't play for a really big club the media will forget those mistakes and only highlight your good games. Certain players get the opposite treatment, Özil is in that camp and so is someone like Pogba.
Tomorrow's headlines will be about Özil but I guarantee each report will also say 'why doesnt he do it all the time'. People are too quick to focus on the things Özil doesn't do rather than the things he can do. Media give body language more credence than actual stats that show Özil has created more chances than any player in the league since he joined, more than media darlings Silva and De Bruyne - in a weaker team


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Woof, woof.......that was some sexy second half football.

Stats before the game showed that our players have run further than any other team and made more sprints than any other team. That suggests we are fitter and more athletic than anyone else and perhaps explains why we improve in the second half when the opposition begins to run out of steam.

Iwobi was excellent. Özil as good as I have seen him for Arsenal in the second half.

Make no mistake, though, our defence is so incredibly vulnerable that eventually some team will take their chances and blow us away before we can click into gear.

I agree on the defence Soc. You could argue we were missing 4 of our first choice back 5 with Čech, Sokratis, Koscielny and Monreal out.
One more encouraging thing appears to be the cutting out of the individual mistakes.


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We really are a 2nd half team these days.
Exhilarating those 2 goals in the 2nd half.
Magical goals.
Özil came to life.
Beautiful pass to split them.
And great cross by Bellerin and the gorgeous anticipation and formality of Aubameyang just tapping it in.
3rd goal was a joy just like the 3rd at Fulham.
Stunning goal and proof we are really finding our feet and the players are enjoying playing for Emery.
Very encouraging we are making tweaks and 2nd half we tore them apart.
Very worried when we went a goal behind. Leicester were good.
First 30 very poor but great to see the character to keep bouncing back.


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Obviously it's not all because of Emery - the goals today were all individual pieces of skill from very talented players - but his ability to turn a game around is extremely impressive so far. Great substitutions in pretty much every game and he always seem to get the team going when we're struggling.


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Just feels so fresh under Emery


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Hazuki wrote:
Obviously it's not all because of Emery - the goals today were all individual pieces of skill from very talented players - but his ability to turn a game around is extremely impressive so far. Great substitutions in pretty much every game and he always seem to get the team going when we're struggling.

And there is the bonus that he can manage his Arsenal coat without looking like a complete prat. :9adore-boo:

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Hazuki wrote:
Obviously it's not all because of Emery - the goals today were all individual pieces of skill from very talented players - but his ability to turn a game around is extremely impressive so far. Great substitutions in pretty much every game and he always seem to get the team going when we're struggling.

And there is the bonus that he can manage his Arsenal coat without looking like a complete prat. :9adore-boo:


To be fair it’s a much more stylish looking garment than Arsenes old one !

If it didn’t have the garish logo on it I’d be tempted. Very city yuppie look


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Hazuki wrote:
Obviously it's not all because of Emery - the goals today were all individual pieces of skill from very talented players - but his ability to turn a game around is extremely impressive so far. Great substitutions in pretty much every game and he always seem to get the team going when we're struggling.

Huh? And there was me thinking I just watched three wonderful team goals...


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Hazuki wrote:
Obviously it's not all because of Emery - the goals today were all individual pieces of skill from very talented players - but his ability to turn a game around is extremely impressive so far. Great substitutions in pretty much every game and he always seem to get the team going when we're struggling.

Hope he puts his finger on the first half lethargy pretty soon, must be tearing his hair out.

Another sublime attacking performance in the second half! Onto Palace we go. 3 points there and we can take Liverpool for second in early November!

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Notice that the 3rd goal started from Leno playing it out short to holding. Xhaka plays an important part in bringing it out further by knowing that it is actually fairly easy to side step a player rushing directly at you with a high press, the defender finds it difficult to stop and change direction, Anyway from the left back it gets switched centrally and then right, then the final beauty of the dummy, the return and the classic square ball for a tap in.

Emery must have loved it and one in the eye for the dinosaurs of the football punditry world (Allerdyce) who say you shouldn't play like that.


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bromley gooner wrote:
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Mkhitaryan is lazy and ineffective. Drop him for good.

I think you're being a bit harsh there g7. I thought he improved as the half went on.


Yes, I was being a bit harsh

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Özil as a 10, not out on the right wing. This is where he has to play. If it means Ramsey on the bench or Ramsey being used in cup games only then that is what it has to be, even more so as only 1 of those two is currently committed to the club. We can't break up the 2 holding mid axis (including Guendouzi in that) as I think adding Ramsey there doesn't work because I just don't think he can curb is attacking instincts

Our best 11 changes each game because players keep playing their way in to it. Aubamayang has 4 goals in about 40 minutes of football, how can we get him and lacazette starting? Iwobi has to start games right now.


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Rich wrote:
Notice that the 3rd goal started from Leno playing it out short to holding. Xhaka plays an important part in bringing it out further by knowing that it is actually fairly easy to side step a player rushing directly at you with a high press, the defender finds it difficult to stop and change direction, Anyway from the left back it gets switched centrally and then right, then the final beauty of the dummy, the return and the classic square ball for a tap in.

Emery must have loved it and one in the eye for the dinosaurs of the football punditry world (Allerdyce) who say you shouldn't play like that.

That goal was all about 3 pieces of brilliance from Özil. The initial flick opened up the space, not Leno playing a short pass to a centreback. You don't need your keeper to play keep ball with his defenders to open up a team's midfield.

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bromley gooner wrote:
Emery's team showing more urgency than Wengers Arsenal in their last few seasons. And less fannying around.


Big difference to the "enjoyment" level too.

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long time gooner wrote:
The vibes from this team are very good. It looks like they care and believe. It’s been quite a while since it felt like that


The celebration after each goal shows the current camaraderie within the squad. I think the team genuinely play for, and with, each other now. Liking the body language, especially from Özil!

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