That's a good chance, need to do more things like that with Brighton pressing on.

Emile Smith Rowe is a player

Lacazette and Pépé are making a difference

Lacazette's a better fit the way we play think Aubameyang needs some time on the bench.

It's so easy for them to win the ball back

Awesome. Ramsdale.

Very

AMN or Martinelli for Saka. Saka is knackered.

Brighton so much more tenacious

This game is not going to live long in the memory. Rather like visual mogadon.

Decent point in difficult circumstances. Rode our luck no doubt but don’t let the doom mongers fool you,we missed the best chance of the game.

The commentators were desperate for Arsenal to lose that.

Uninspiring.

Saka and Smith Rowe good, Lokonga solid enough.

Could have been one of those games where we folded, but we didn’t.

Small steps.

A lot of teams will come to Brighton and struggle, but you have to say that's a poor performance from us. Couldn't get any rhythm going all game, and we had no answer to Brightons pressing and intensity.

Thanks on Moss, play well over the 93 minutes while Brighton attack and then blow the whistle as Arsenal break.

0-0 will have to be a point gained than 2 points lost. Brighton are an impressive team, we weren't at the races

We were second best all night. Got away with a point so it could have been worse.

I think Palace will be a similar game.

Fair point earned. We don't deserve anything more from today's game.

That was a great point because we were shite and Brighton wasted some fantastic opportunities.

A disappointing, some might say lacklustre, performance that raised more questions than it provided answers.

Emile Smith Rowe top performance in difficult conditions.

Saka good, Gabriel and White decent. Ramsdale made a couple of good saves. Not much else to say really.

Brighton the netter team but how often did they really trouble Ramsdale? Did he have to make any really good saves - there was the palm out of the cross at the end that was very good. But if we'd played at home as brighton did and didn't fashion clear cut chances with all the possession and dominance they had there would be plenty of Arsenal fans saying we didn't deserve to win because we didn't hurt the opposition enough. It took Brighton until the 80th minute to have a shot on target.

Important not to lose that though going in to the 2 week international break. 2 weeks for Arteta to coach an intensive press that Brighton displayed today.

Most Arsenal fans wouldn't swap any of Brighton's players with ours but they were impressive

Surely not. We're at home to Palace, I'd expect us to dominate possession and territory and Palace playing mainly on the counter.

Unless you were suggesting by the Palace game being similar that we'd be taking on the Brighton role and Palace the Arsenal role

First time I’ve watched Brighton this season. A back 3 of Dunk, Duffy, Burn are not the trio you would be confident holding a high line and playing out from the back, but Potter has a system where it works.

Coming back to stats, last year Brighton were a clinical striker away from being a top 6 club based on expected goals, from box to box they are generally very very good, they just struggle the finish.

Looking at our next 4 away, Leicester, Liverpool, Man U, everton…..we need to be taking maximum points from the next 4 at home, palace, villa, watford, Newcastle

To be fair socrates, Arteta has spent £90m on our three central midfielders today (Partey £45m, Lokonga £15m, Ødegaard £30m) in the last twelve months. I think it’s reasonable to say he has addressed that area of the pitch.

Hi Bernard,

I was talking about changing something in today's game. I thought our midfield was poor and failed to function as it needed to to give us a proper foothold in the game. Partey, Ødegaard and Lokonga were all pretty poor for most of the game.

Lokonga kept dropping into a left back position, presumably under instruction to cover Tierney's forward runs, but it left us light in midfield.

Yes agree Glenn. Some of our fans need to take a good look at themselves

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Almost afraid to admit I watched the WSL game live. I enjoyed it though.

If Partey, Ødegaard and Lokonga were all poor, what options were there? AMN? Elneny? I don't see that myself. Never easy for a manager when all the main options in a position are having a bad day.

I've only really read comments, but it seems we were defensively resilient which is a positive change from the first three games. We just haven't shown much offensively except in the Spurs game. We're as toothless as Brighton at the moment, so 0-0 isn't a huge surprise.

While on the other side, Saka was not covering Tomiyasu enough in the first half. Tomiyasu was being over-ran too often. Arteta addressed that in the second half.

My post disappeared. Okay, anyway, obviously we didn't play well enough. Especially compared the efforta against sperz. It was our first tough away game since we started playing well. It could have been much better. The 'good' I'm taking from this game is that we'd have lost this game a month ago, 2 or 3 to nothing.

We should beat Palace. I obviously have a soft spot for their manager as well as their team. I want us win nonetheless.

I read that Derby still owe us £8m from the Bielik transfer. Not sure the methods of getting that money from a club in administration

Lokonga being asked to drop in to the positions Xhaka usually takes up didn’t seem to work yesterday. I didn’t think Lokonga was poor it’s just his natural game seems quite similar to Partey. I wonder whether we would have benefitted from having Ødegaard play a bit deeper to get our most technical player on the ball in deeper areas to get through the press.

Brighton’s back 3 seemed happy to go man to man on our front 3 which gave their wing backs licence to really push on and with support from their midfield 3 we were getting outnumbered in wide positions. Cucerella was very good on their left.

If you play against the very organised high press then you either bypass it by going more direct, which is probably more Lacazette’s game holding the ball up, or you need to get through that press early on to make the opponent just back off slightly as they realise you can cut through them.

Hi Rich,

Can we get the player back?

It left our midfield light of a body and made it very difficult to get any control of the game in the middle of the park.

It's a difficult one because it many teams Tierney's overlaps and crosses would be a potent weapon but not in ours.

I've always said that well directed crosses into the area of uncertainty between the 6 yard box and the penalty spot are big attacking weapons, as United showed during their peak years, but they only really work well if you get bodies in the box on the end of them. Aubameyang is not really a big threat aerially or physically and quite often he is our only body in the box. It means Tierney's crosses need to be pinpoint accurate for him to benefit from them.

When we have a week in between games to prepare the very least I expect is for us to be physically and mentally ready and we didn't look that way yesterday.

There appeared too little intensity and I thought Arteta's tactics were very passive. Where was the desire to take the game to Brighton, to create chances and really give them a game.

Brighton are a decent side but we have to start giving decent sides a proper game, home and away.

Despite having two of the brightest young attacking talents in the PL we can't score goals. It's a massive problem.

Partey only won 2 of 12 duels he contested. Not laying the blame at his feet so let as I suspect lots of the team would have similar stats, but that’s really poor for a central midfielder. It meant we failed to retain possession or any control in the middle of the pitch

Was thinking the same thing during the match. Not much point of getting Tierney forward if there's nothing for him to aim at in the middle. But I also don't want to downplay Brighton who played very well and had a lot more experience on the pitch who could read the game on the fly and apply pressure. I only saw it yesterday that Arsenal have the youngest team in the league with many still trying to figure out how to play together. I'm certainly happy with 10 points from 12 and like you said last week after Spurs, there will be a few bumps.

Not sure what he's doing on the training pitch either cos his shooting was atrocious. :)

I thought last week’s Tottenham game was Partey’s best performance so far in an Arsenal shirt. To say he didn’t reach the same level yesterday wouldn’t qualify you to be a master of the understatement. It would make you a doctor of the understatement.

Totally off form or just missing Xhaka?

We have an unresolved striker problem. Lacazette has never been as prolific for us as his previous stats, and general quality, suggest he ought to be. Eddie and Balogun aren't good enough (yet). This leaves us with Aubameyang who has been out of form; much closer to it vs Spurs but off it again yesterday; and he's a very particular type of striker anyway, and I'm not convinced Arteta is building a team style to play to his strengths (which is fair enough since he's unlikely to be here when this team hits its peak years). I think that the various bits of transfer speculation about Lacazette and Aubameyang, and singing a new striker, are partly because many people see this.