Ødegaard is living up to his billing today

Ødegaard was probably the one of the 6 summer signings who had made the least impact. 3 goals in 3 games makes that no longer the case.

We need 10 goals and 10 assists from that no.10 position

Arsenal drop club captain Aubameyang from squad for ‘disciplinary breach’

Forward left out of Premier League game with Southampton
Mikel Arteta: ‘There are certain non-negotiables in the team’

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... ary-breach

Don't you just love Tomiyasu's "never say die" spirit?

Certainly. He has been a real success hasn't he, he's improved our first team, young, committed, and I'm sure he has the work ethic and 'team first' attitude you'd expect from a Japanese player.

Gabriel!!!!!!

Gabriel!!!!

Wooh hoo. If at first you don’t succeed…..

3 Nil !

So unlucky Martinelli

What a waste, Martinelli deserved a goal

We're all over them

Saka's turn to hit the post....

Just love the speed of our movement

Martinelli is fantastic today

Well played Gabriel. Makes sense to give Holding 20 mins and not risk a red.

Certainly more enjoyable. Pace and confidence.

Good sub to take Gabriel off as he’s on a yellow

Maybe Southampton should sub their goalie for another post.

Ramsdale is red hot.

We’ve hit the woodwork 10 times this season, more than any other side.

An interesting thing I saw last week was Rangnick saying the goals should be made bigger because players are a lot bigger than when the goals were first sized. What would the downside be of making the goals the width of the woodwork bigger? I suppose with the increased rise of the women’s game it could hinder that maybe

Some minutes for Nketiah?

Blimey, Pépé's still alive

Pépé. Not a bad choice.

There we go, Partey with his trademark shot on goal.

Rangnick’s comment makes sense. I have pondered that for quite some time now.

Curious to see how long Aubameyang ends up being in the sin bin for.

absent from training yesterday

Nice one. On to West Ham.

Thoroughly enjoyable. We must play like this all the time.

Ah well - 5th place for now. Nice ...

All of Dec, then he's off to ANC.

Nice solid win. I'm not going to read more into it than it is. Not going to complain about minor issues. Not going to make more of the win than it is.

West Ham beckons. A more realistic test of where we really are.

Maybe the Bugatti La Voiture Noire ran out of gas.

Liverpool, City and Chelsea pushed all the way at home by Villa, Wolves and Leeds. Shows the decent level of quality in the league and shows that we need to be doing better in the games against those 3 in the second half of the season.

Much needed 3 points today, could have been a lot more than 3, but also Ramsdale pulling off some great saves.

Ramsdale, Tomiyasu, Tavares, White, Lokonga and Ødegaard has been a very good set of signings all with room to improve further. What we need now is a potential boost in January with a striker or central mid - but probably more realistically a changing of the guard in attacking positions this summer of the success and quality we did with mostly defensive players this summer.

Apparently he had permission to go abroad for a personal matter but came back late which could or did put Arsenals covid protocols at risk

Fair to say if we’d played with that sort of attacking endeavour in the Man U and Everton game we’d probably have 4 more points right now

It is strange why we don’t consistently go on the attack, we always look better for it. Yes we will look more open at the back BUT we have a gk who is excelling and two CB who are quick and can defend a high line….not to mention a RB who is excellent in 1 on 1 duels.
Xhaka does feel like a weakness defensively if a game gets stretched.

Martinelli is growing every game and should stay in the team as he brings the pace and energy we need.

The ups and downs will come with such a new and young team and I fully expect more of them through the season. The issue right now for getting top 4 is West Ham look capable against the very best in the league and Man U somehow (as last season) manage to find ways of winning games they are abject in. We haven’t really found that consistently yet