Chambers is physically too weak as a central defender

Well that sums up our luck at the moment

More comedy defending. By their keeper. Should have been 2-1.

No. He’s mentally too weak.

Bolton, Schalke 04 and Southampton. I suppose Kolasinac has more of an excuse than the others as he’s a left back, not a central defender.

City is playing against us the way we played West Brom the other night.

It's like we've had a player sent off.

Inconsistent officiating again.

We’re rubbish enough without that.

I do wonder if your just better off scrapping the 3 defenders in exchange for an extra midfielder. None of them can defend anyway

I don’t want to do a Rich but Kolasinac was booked for an ‘offence’ that wasn’t even a foul. Doesn’t really matter much though.

Clear holding of Emile Smith Rowe in front of referee. And he gives nothing.

There was an enormous gulf in quality between us and that West Brom U23 side, but at least they came out fighting. We just gave this to City. Politely, like we don't want to get in the way of them collecting their three points.

That was the one that provoked my comment. Ridiculous and inconsistent. The day is annoying enough without that.

Wouldn't want to upset anyone at Etihad Stadium though now, would we ?

Xhaka.

Again.

Goodbye Xhaka. Never seen you do that before. Doh!!!

He can see the future !

Well, now we have a man sent off.

Oh well.

Arteta should be screaming at Xhaka, not patting him on the back.

How many chances does one player get?

We are deluded if we think that our club is going to be returning to the top table anytime in the foreseeable future. Championship more like.

The club is rotten to the core.

Xhaka reckless. Unnecessary tackle.

The game is lost. Lokonga and el nenny on.

Emile Smith Rowe off,

At least he misses games now.

Ship him out to Italy.

For all this talk of needing ‘experience’ in midfield, Xhaka doesn’t show it much does he?

We are trapped in purgatory. This is an episode of lost

We will forever be watching chambers, holding and Xhaka screw up for a thousand years

At least now he won't be playing the next games

Sigh.

Chambers again.

Standing half a pitch off Grealish.

Another one who should not play for Arsenal again.

To be fair to the bloke.

At least he’s trying to kick people and make things difficult. He’s an outright liability but he’s not a character of passive of soft quiet failure like most of our players

Suddenly 8-2 is looking like a good score.

Can’t quite understand why the hand in the face of Chambers is deemed absolutely fine and no need to chalk off the goal then Kolasinac gets booked for something similar. It seems VAR this year will just follow the onfield decision unless it’s a clear offside.

Many debates on here about quality of players vs quality of manager but FFS, chambers, Xhaka, Kolasinac, Cédric, holding - all will let you down regularly

I know it won't be but it should be Xhaka's last game for the club.

You could probably throw in Chambers, Kolasinac and Cédric in with that as well.

But he doesn’t have the brains to do the dirty properly. He’s just a massive liability, and there was no need for him to do that then.

Well we won’t be signing anyone now, because no-one will want to come anywhere near us.

#Kroenkeout

I know exactly what you mean and he’s let down a load of young players out there who desperately needed him but seems a bit refreshing watching one of ours trying to kick someone

Where do you see the 2 coming from? Own goals?

Guardiola will take pity on Arteta. Probably stop at 4-0.

The first goal is a total joke. An absolute farce

Man City won't get out of second gear in the second half. Arteta has a lot of work ahead of him.

It's not all on Kroenke, we've spent £140m this summer and only one of those players was playing today. If it is on him its more to do with the people he is entrusting to make the right recruitment decisions than his unwillingness to invest.

The team selection and tactics were shocking, the lack of motivation and complete inability to carry out even basic footballing principles even more shocking.

This is one of the very rare times where Arsenal is on at a reasonable hour down under. But I simply can't be bothered and just now checked in to see the score. Oh well, back to Netflix to watch something entertaining.