Bernard
I agree. Totally unacceptable to slag off Ramsdale directly on social media.
i was one of a few on here that voiced his disapproval at us signing him because i genuinely didn't believe he was good enough.
But he is here now so i will support him as he is now one of ours.
I have been impressed, so far so good but still a way to go.
I am quite happy to hold up my hands and admit i was wrong if he continues how he is doing over a longer period of time.

Greetings Pode
If you are Burnley you want someone who can stop lots of shot and hoof it a long way towards where the neanderthals have gathered for a knock-down. I'm not sure if Sheffield United played that way, but I'd imagine that the kind of skills you need for an ambitious team would not be at a premium for the relegation fodder teams where Ramsdale cut his teeth. Not only does your keeper need to be good with his feet, you need a keeper who can 'sweep' and will allow you to play a high line, for example. That means the keeper has to be very quick, and be able to read the game excellently.

Also, the pressure is different, I think. For a lower level keeper, the odd cockup would hardly be noticed if it was mixed up with heroics. Completely different if you are playing for a top side.

My point was simply that the ability to make a decision only exists within someone's sphere of competence. The evidence suggests that Ramsdale has more of it with this skill, so he has more options.

Hi,
Sheffield United weren't expected to be relegation candidates when he went there; had bought ambitiously iirc. Nor were Bournemouth the year before (7th at the beginning of November). Ramsdale seems to be better with his feet than Leno.

I'm not saying he's better than Leno, but he's the one in position, he fits in well with the team and there's no obvious reason to drop him. He's also likely to be with us longer than Leno if it comes to that.

Looking forward to tonight’s game. I expect us to win, draw or lose. If Arteta drops Ramsdale he’s an idiot, likewise if he drops Leno he’s also an idiot. If he plays first team players I intend on accusing him of risking Sunday’s result and if he doesn’t I intend on accusing him of being an idiot for not taking the competition seriously.

Greetings Bernard. I think that decision making and mentality is what distinguishes the really great keeper from the average keeper.

I'm sure you could find lot of young men who are as big and quick as Neuer and have have as good reflexes. The mentality of a really top keeper is a much rarer thing: consistency (which comes from their power of concentration and resilience), the right sort of bravery and confidence (which doesn't cross the line to foolhardiness and lunacy), and most of all, football intelligence.

I do agree. However, where I differ from some posters is that I really don't think it would be a terrible decision to play Leno against Spurs.

With hindsight helping us, we can put the loss to Brentford in its proper perspective. They are a good team. They have been playing together. They barely missed out on promotion before. They were more prepared as a team than we were. I'm not saying we deserve to lose or should have lost but we would have to be about where we are now at the very least to have beaten them and a draw might have been the best we could have gotten that early.

Totally agree that the GK has to make their judgment call. I am happy Ramsdale made those decisions early and came out to claim the balls assuredly. He will make some blunders in the future, no doubt. But better being proactive and blunder (on the rare occasion), than preferring to be reactive, imho.

trying to be cute eh?

Mustn’t discount the possibility that the game could be postponed. Might be a nice day now but it only takes an asteroid to hit London in the next couple of hours and they’ll have to call it off. We learned that when Tyrannosaurus Rex Albion vs Triceratops Rovers had to be cancelled 66 million years ago.

Why is this even a debate? Sol would be a better debate.

https://www.90min.com/posts/ledley-king-vs-tony-adams-arsenal-tottenham?utm_source=RSS

You mean Sol v Adams? Because Sol v King isn't a debate in my book either.

It is a strange article where they compare the players in 4 categories
1. Modern defender traits
2. tackling and aerial ability
3. ball playing ability
4. reliability

1 and 3 might as well be the same thing. And judging a player from a different era in how they would cope in today's game is illogical. If we used the articles logic then we'd declare Greame Souness an inferior player to Scott Parker because Souness would spend most of his time suspended in the modern game. But of course Souness was one of the finest central midfielders of his generation and if he was playing today wouldn't just go round two footing everyone with gay abandon.

No mention in the article or positional play, pace, strength, leadership.......trophies!?

Yes, Sol vs Adams. King, may...may get an honorable mention in some lists.

I put a low value on trophies. Trophies are very, very reliant on the other 10 men. Put Messi on Norwich in his prime and he'll score loads but wouldn't be considered one of the greatest ever, if not the greatest because his team wouldn't have won much and definitely no trophies.

Here is our predicted XI for tonight's tie: Bernd Leno, Cédric Soares, Rob Holding, Pablo Mari, Nuno Tavares, Mohamed Elneny, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Charlie Patino, Gabriel Martinelli, Eddie Nketiah, Alexandre Lacazette.

The big news from that would be Patino making his competitive debut for the Arsenal senior team.

This from Football London for Arsenal v Wimbledon.

Ok I’m livid

Arteta has dropped Ramsdale even though he’s currently the best keeper in the world on form. He’s an idiot

In addition to that he’s risked Partey and put the derby at risk whilst not taking this competition seriously enough by playing Tavares and Lokonga.

If we win the coin toss and choose to kick off first that’s a mistake as we should switch ends to confuse the opposition instead or if we do win the toss and choose to switch ends then we aren’t taking the initiative to impose ourselves on the game first. *%^@ you Arteta what are you playing at with these ridiculous coin toss decisions there isn’t a strategy.




.. wow I’m starting to get really good at this ..

No sign of Patino, Balogun on the bench along with Saka who i thought was carrying an injury?

Wtf?

Anyone got a link for the game?

I'm surprised Arteta is playing Partey but I'm assuming he is slowly building up his match fitness? Presumably he will be subbed mid way through the 2nd half.

Penalty 1-0

Seems like no channel is showing the game, so no streams. Lacazette jus scored from a penalty after Martinelli was brought down.

Radio Commentary on Arsenal FC website

I know we’ve scored but because I can’t get a stream I don’t know what happened for the coin toss. Can anyone let me know what happened

Radio commentary on 5 Live Extra

Says it's on Sky ?

https://firstsportz.com/football-efl-cu ... ve-stream/

Yes, evidently Old Man of Hoy and Long Time Gooner were looking forward to that game.

Nope, not televised in the uk

Oi!

ARS // AFC W 77 mins
13 Shots 2
3 Shots on target 0
65% Possession 35%
477 Passes 259
88% Pass accuracy 78%
5 Fouls 8
0 Yellow cards 2
0 Red cards 0
1 Offsides 5
8 Corners 2

2-0 Emile Smith Rowe

2 Nil !!

Alexandre Lacazette 11' (P)
Emile Smith Rowe 77'

woohoo 2-0 Emile Smith Rowe

No Xhaka?
Oh No!
Bad omen for weekend game

Emile Smith Rowe !

3-0 Eddie

Eddie Eddie Eddie Eddie 3-0