Lacazette golden chance squandered

Not as sharp as he used to be

Saka took too long

Any chance of a yellow card for time wasting before the last couple of minutes?

He sure does - A few others with some notable misses too.

This really is not what a team going for 4th should be looking like.

Emile Smith Rowe off - Nketiah on.

We're better off drilling crosses in on ground rather than air.

This will be a massive 2 points dropped. For me if we don't win this you can put it squarely down to the lack of depth and quality in the squad together with the lack of signings this window........we should also look at the stupid pair of Xhaka and Partey who got themselves suspended for this game

We have no strikers and no midfielders.

Hmmm - Might check how that Vlahović deal is coming along...

I know it isn't gonna happen though ......

Needs to be a lot of added time for all the time wasting seeing as he’s booked no one.

Arsenal ------ Burnley
20 Shots 7
5 Shots on target 1
75% Possession 25%
598 Passes 203
87% Pass accuracy 65%
9 Fouls 10
0 Yellow cards 2
0 Red cards 0
0 Offsides 2
11 Corners 4

Wow, how have Liverpool been given that penalty. Utterly awful decision. Incompetent refs up and down the country every game

No yellow card for that ????????

4 minutes to nab 3 points

What is it with refs ignoring time wasting - only 4 minutes of added time.

Not good enough really, even considering the circumstances. The point that we don't win when we don't play well still stands. Our top 4 challenge isn't dead, but this makes it more difficult than it needs to be.

Dreadful performance.

Really big 2 points dropped. Desperate for new players in to this team. Was sad watching Villa v Everton yesterday and realising there were 3 strikers on the pitch better than what we have.

We did it to ourselves. Started too slowly with too many sideways and backwards passes. Why can't we just seize the initiative as we did against City? We could have scare them from the onset. Instead, we allowed them to tactically paralyse us. Arteta's passive tactics again lost us easy points.

Not really. It just didn’t work today

Lacazette is useless for us. Nketiah no better. What are we waiting for? Get the striker in now.

4 games in a row without a goal, never mind a new striker in january I think we could do with 2 new strikers! Missed Xhaka and Partey today, yes they don't score but they give the passing foundation and allow Ødegaard further up the pitch. So flat, players look tired as the same ones have been flogged every game. 2 games in 3 days was crying out for a bit of rotation to freshen things up but we just don't have the numbers or the quality.

Our season hinges on what transfer moves we make in the next 7 days. New Striker or bust

I wouldn't put money on us getting 4th. If Vlahovic doesn't want to come drop it and get someone else. Partey's ridiculous red card came home to roost.

I cant believe Arteta's last words to the team before they go out are to make sure we play plenty of slow sideways and backwards passes, don't worry about pace or penetration and just float some hopeful crosses at their giant CB pair. Sometimes the players just don't play well enough and firing up the sort of energy they did for City at home after playing 3 days ago and a number of this team having come back from niggles and knocks isn't easy.
I'm not defending the fact we couldn't beat Burnley, we should always beat Burnley no matter the circumstances but today I don't think it is tactical, it was poor performances and a complete lack of options to bring in to change things up

Wot a div

To be honest, I wouldn't put money on any team getting 4th this season... All the teams fighting for it are flawed in different ways.

It seems like we only get up for tough games. Had we played the first 15 minutes with same sense of urgency of the last 15 minutes we might have gotten something out of it.

Burnley sat back and we were lackadaisical for most of the first half. We had the same game from Burnley last year and lost. I like Tierney a lot but if the same type of crosses aren't working, you gotta improvise and change things up my friend. We kept doing the definition of insanity in some cases: doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

Burnley have tall powerful players in the middle. Even Gabriel looks average among them. We weren't going to head many in with them. When we pulled balls back or were in the middle at the top of their box we could have gotten them in trouble with short Lundbergh-esque 2 and 3 meter runs there.

Very, very disappointing considering everything. Burnley are the bottom of the league, we have them at home, it should be a 3 point banker.

We gotta shake this squad up Nketiah caused problems. Maybe he needs a run out? Not sure what use Lokonga was out there.

I think Partey would not have made a difference today. He would be too fatigued. He should not have had to play against Pool. Should have been given time to rest for this game.

If we hadn’t loaned out AMN early in the window we wouldn’t have had to play Partey v Liverpool and he’s at least be an option for today.

Ok, I over reacted because I am so disappointed. Easy 3 points on paper, but we dropped 2. I still think we could have played with urgency from the onset, or at the very least, from start of 2nd half.

Lokonga was our only CM, he had to play, just because you play a weaker team at home doesn’t mean you just play 4 attacking mids and 2 strikers.

Also when Liverpool played Burnley earlier in the season Jota scored a header dead centre of the penalty area between their two CB, height is one thing but delivery, speed and movement are far far more important

How many of our attacks came through the centre?
Are we over reliant on the wing play?
Does that make it easier to set up defensively against us?
Our tactics too easy to read?

Was saying the same to my son. Why do we always go wide. Why not a sidestep or swerve and shoot?

https://www.football365.com/news/early- ... aubameyang

Key points:
Burnley should have had a man sent off
Arsenal shouldn’t need a man sent off to win at home to Burnley
Arsenal desperate for a striker!

You can say that again. Pay Vlahovic’s agent another couple of million if he joins.

Any striker right now will do. Broja on loan at Southampton from Chelsea is better than what we have. There are probably 20 strikers in the Prem alone I’d rather have

https://twitter.com/wowcancelo/status/1 ... 74178?s=21

Another weekend and another interfering var ref. Seems to happen quite often where the onfield ref calls it as he sees it and then var gets involved and wants to try to find something in any incident. As soon as var tells the onfield ref to view the monitor the initial decision is going to get over turned every time.

At least Spurs were convincingly beaten by Chelsea 2-0. Keeps spurs behind us on goal difference but with a game in hand.

Wolves up next after the winter break and they’d go above us if they beat us! Could they drag themselves in to the top 4 race?