Definite pen............

Pen!!

Really ordinary spot kick

Luiz is pointing fingers at everyone but himself

Penalty!!

You just knew that would be saved

Encroachment going to be retaken

Retake...........

Oh ffs!!

Scored on the retake.

Farce. VAR gives encroachment. But where was that when the Southampton player was in the box for ward prowse penalty last week?

VAR just seems to pick and choose when they intervene.

There was a Southampton goal yesterday that the bloke accidentally handballed before crossing for a goal, which should have been ruled out but VAR didn’t take any action

Aubameyang !

There were 5 of theirs to one of ours encroaching maybe the Saints one wasn't so obvious?

and it is Mike Oliver who is the best ref in the Prem.

Not to mention when Krul saved two penalties v Man U earlier in the season he was off his line for both. VAR has so many problems but issues of black or white really should be consistent for every game

Comms I’m listening to saying Arsenal chase back in numbers when they lose the ball, not seen that for months

Only goes to show how incompetent our refs are. Use the retirees I say.

We can literally concede 2 goals to anyone.

Does any team miss a good chance vs us? No one ever seems to mess up good chances.

Jesus wept, completely suckered on the break.

Always killed for pace. So easy to counter attack because we have players without pace and without any sense of danger.

Jesus wept, says it all for me..............

Xhaka, mustafi, chambers- they are never going to gain pace. There might be hope they’d learn positioning and football intelligence but they’re all experienced enough - they are not going to get better. Pretty shameful that we still put theseplayers our in the pitch.

Slowest back 4 in the prem in front of the slowest and least mobile midfield ‘protection’

Nobody tracked the free midfield man. We need someone to organise the defensive unit. Too much panic.

I want to be ahead of the curve on this.

Freddie out!

I thought going forward, in terms of link-up play and movement, it was the best we've played all season.

And yet..........we find ourselves 2-1 down because our fullbacks bombed forward, we lost possession and our midfield is not quick or alert enough to cover the space.

I am convinced Mustafi is deliberately messing it up. As a seasoned professional, he cannot be so poor.

When you see our defence and the so called protection from midfield and add in that we will concede 2 goals to anyone in the league I’m left scratching my head why we aren’t in the relegation zone.

The current bottom 3:
Watford battered us, should have won and had 31 shots
Southampton our play is all game and should have won 4/5-1
Norwich now just picking us off so easily and 2-1 up

These are the 3 worst teams in the league.

Add in Newcastle who are hopeless and we only have 1 shot on goal v them.

This group of players deserve to be in the bottom half of the league - minimum.

Who was the last senior player arsenal signed who improved whilst being here?

Xhaka's tracking back is like running through treacle, but we know that. Unless you have a Kante in there alongside him to cover the ground and put out the fires when he gets caught ahead of play then Xhaka is a liability.

I keep banging on about pace, it’s simply irreplaceable in the game. You can make mistake after mistake but your pace can get you back in position or hold up an attack. Literally zero tactical nous required, just pure physical attributes.

I think you could field a team of technically very average footballers but who all are lightening quick and physically strong and they’d do absolutely fine in the league if they just play to their strengths.

And therein lies the fundamental problem. No player at Arsenal should HaVE to have a certain player alongside them to cover their major weakness.
Even if we did have Kante then you’re asking Xhaka to play box to box - he can’t do that either.

Very disappointed not to see a more radical selection in the first place from Freddie.

The points that are hard to comprehend are just....The sheer stupidity of it all.

Our talisman striker being player wide right and isolated when you need him around the box .

Our record signing who plays wide right on the bench

Our problems in central defence compounded by bringing Mustafi back in the fold.

I’m not blaming Freddie at all but it’s like we are trapped in purgatory with the same stuff happening over and over till eternity

We play Brighton at home in the league next....then by my rating I think we play 10 games where I really can’t see where a win comes from before we play Newcastle at home. That awkward combination of very good teams coming to the emirates and us going away to average teams. It is a run full of defeats and a few draws.
We really could find ourselves in the bottom 6

2-2 was just about to say we’ve had so many corners today about time we did something from them!

Aubameyang!! God help us when he goes.

Aubameyang !

Saved by Leno. Phew.

Mustafi is just all over the place.

All at sea

The board should mandate that the next player (or two) bought MUST be a central defender. I don't care if Messi says he wants to come for 1 pound a week and buys out his own contract.

Another symptom of no pace and no mobility is that players like chambers, mustafi, Sokratis, Xhaka and Guendouzi are walking yellow cards every game

It would seem that we can let it goals at any time, usually about 2 in a game. And Aubameyang can score goals.

Plus ca change ...