Subs: Martinez, Sokratis, Tierney, Torreira, Pépé, Saka, Martinelli

Not sure why youd pick Kola over Tierney at this point in time. Most interesting to see how Willock is utilised. He's not going to be an attacking no. 10 type with Özil on the pitch you'd think.

Makes no sense. I hope Freddie knows what he's doing or he could become another Arsenal record holder.

Minutes silence for Benik Afobe's daughter?
rip little un, god bless x

Sheffield Utd 1-0 up already

Nice bright start. Just need to keep concentrated and not get caught on the counter.

Xhaka good pass to their goalie................

Good pressing from Arsenal. The ball is also being moved faster out of our area.

It’s more visible that dare I say it the players are actually trying this time.

Something had clearly gone awry

Guendouzi certainly a different player.................

Have to say that Norwich look bloody awful.................

oops

ffs

Luiz and Mustafi have to do better there. Very poor.

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.