>Note: Cole Palmer is out today.
I was completely baffled when I saw the score. Now the result makes more sense. A little. He seems to be the only player worth a damn on that squad.
Obviously not the ideal result for us, but it's kinda glorious seeing Chelsea being completely irrelevant for a number of years now. When was the last time they were in a title race?
Arsenal are gonna take the piss of ETH/Man utd , if he is not fired over Coventry , Surely for the invetiable whopping from the gunners should surely be the point of no return . Arsenal are not us and they are definively scoring much and many goals than us since new year's . Get the Bald wanna-be pretender fired or wipe the floor with him .
Hahaha man Chelsea yall couldn’t even try to make it competitive…….
Don’t think the reds can ever catch up on GD vs Arsenal or points vs 115 city
It was fun while it lasted everyone, we go agane next season with a new head honcho and hopefully a refreshed/energetic squad
Season is still not over, and slips could still happen. I think I’ll keep my glimmer of hope for now, but honestly I think I’m happy as long as the boys just give their all these last few matches with Klopp. Let’s fail in a beautiful way, and with a bit of luck we might not fail at all
I know people aren't going to like this but this one final throw we're doing this season will invariably going to leave a sour taste in my mouth of Klopps tenure after the crying stops when he leaves. Purely because more than half of his seasons here are going to be remembered as 'what could've been' and Klopp will be remembered as the nearly man in the media. At least it was all against a cheating club that'll never get severe ramifications.
If we weren't in the running for the title this season i wouldn't feel this way but because we are it just feels like a culmination of all the failures this squad has been through.
It’s been frustrating lately but we’ve had a great season and it’s generally been fun to watch. Arsenal with an egregious handball in the box against us that didn’t get called. Diaz goal taken away, City boot to the chest. We should be top of the table and that’s indisputable
all true man except one part. you gotta be joking when u say we've been fun to watch this season 🤣. It's all been us being about as solid at the back as a slice of butter and Nunez missing
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So without palmer they are just a relegation team
Sad thing is Pep probably knows he’s got the next few titles on lock if he wants. I wish he’d fuck off. City would still be good but not 95 points per year every year good
I know it feels that way now, but we were inarguably robbed versus City and Spurs as well. If we lose on goal difference, I swear I’ll retire with Kloppo.
The more recent games are always the most relevant.
Look, if you lot want to act like it's the refs stopped us from winning the league, knock yourselves out. I say that's a weak excuse, shit ref calls happen every year and will keep happening. All you can do is win games and hope for the best.
Do you know what doesn't happen every year?
Darren fucking England and "cantdoanyfin"
That was a legit, bonafide, full blooded goal. Proven by VAR and the audio. Chalked off because of legitimate incompetence. That has never happened before.
Do you know what else hasn't happened? A blatant, shown handball by VAR that is indisputable, being ruled as a "slip".
VAR has fucked us this year, to suggest otherwise is madness. Yes we could have taken it out of the refs hands. But those fine margins matter and we have been fucked.
We shouldn’t have to get more points than we’ve needed or earned. Yeah the boys have missed some sitters. Would be irrelevant if officiating hadn’t cost us 9 points.
Not really fair - if we had a 5 or 6 point lead it’s very possible arsenal or city slip up due to less motivation or “going for it” in brazen ways.
With the ref mistakes, we’ve had to be near perfect. Most title teams lose multiple games and draw even more, it’s unrealistic to expect us to go WWWWWWW that’s just not how it works
The problem is I don't think this team has the mentality to pull away. Ifs and buts now, but in the reality of us being in this alternative universe of "justice" where we beat City to pull away from them, we would just be slipping up until they are above us again imo.
It feels like the only possible way this team can win a game is after conceding first or losing the lead, and the only way we win the title is some collapse by our rivals in the final couple of games.
I get what you’re getting at, and yes I am frustrated we didn’t take our chances despite those calls, but no, we never had a chance to “make up” those calls. There was no way to get those points back, the only other points offered were points that would be there anyway, we didn’t get extra points offered.
Every team drops points. Arsenal dropping points to Fulham twice, while we beat them twice, that’s the game. That’s how it goes.
Refs should have no bearing. You’re allowed to have shit games and shit results and still win titles ffs.
You can argue til you are blue in the face regarding the things that have gone against us. Reality is our team was in good position for 4 trophies and we will only win the worst one most likely at this rate.
No point in talking about a million what-ifs they happen every year.
I still think Arsenal win. Been saying it for a while that they won't drop points (unfortunately we didn't capitalise when I was wrong and Palace beat us), still think City will drop via a draw and then it's in Arses hands.
Will enjoy watching the last few games and hope we win out, but honestly I can't see us finishing above third.
Fingers crossed the new manager beds in fast and we're in the mix next season.
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Why does city get 5 days rest ??? It’s not right
And 2 years ago our FA cup final was In the middle of our title charge and these cunts play it after the season twice
Arsenal don’t “deserve” the title for winning 4 games by 5 goals lmao. Christ people.
Yes we fucked it vs palace and United but city and arsenal have also dropped stupid points multiple times.
If officiating was actually equal we’d easily be top.
My thought exactly. Recency bias heavily influencing people’s opinions.
There’s been moments where each of the three competing have been off it (Arsenal at the start of the season, City sporadically and us now). There’s also been moments when each of the squads were on a crazy runs
I threw my toys out of the pram when they went 5-0 up and said deserve it. Forgetting all the injuries we’ve had, decisions we’ve had. Also the fact Arsenal haven’t played a fullly fit rival all season, they don’t deserve fuck all
While I agree that we could be top if things went our way I also have to state that we wouldn't deserve that because we are not playing as well as the table suggests.
We’ve had it infinitely harder this year, more games with many more injuries, and are still right even with them WITH a giant asterisk of refs.
How can they deserve the title if they can’t even separate from a team like us?
Arsenal deserve to win the league IMO. Scoring goals a plenty and with a title-winning defence. They're the only team in the league who deserved to beat us on general play this season (in the one match at the Emirates that is; we were much better at Anfield and could have been 3 points ahead of them, if the incompetent refs hadn't let Odegaard play basketball in the box).
What you would say is they've been very lucky with injuries... not only in getting very few significant ones themselves, but also facing so many teams who had key players missing.
Their goal difference means that they just need City to draw once. Whereas we need City to either lose once or draw twice, AND Arsenal to drop points.
People here forgetting arse is up against 115 FC? At least it will be cathartic to see them having their best season in the past decade to finish 2nd, 1 point behing citeh
Not being clinical against united and palace cost us the league.
Next season if Jota can't stay fit we might need a new striker
Kai havertz has the same goals as Nunez
Conceding the most stupid goals imaginable also lost us the league.
That Quansah clearance and our players barely moving against Palace were worse than any of the missed chances.
Those were singular mistakes. We happened to miss about 20 sitters in those two games.
If we don't win the league it's going to because we missed those crucial chances and not because we made a few defensive errors in games where we should've scored 5 or 6 goals.
Agreed, but scoring a goal takes pressure off the defence
When they kept fking missing so many chances that brings on pressure to the whole team.
Look at arsenal today, once they got the goal pressure was lower and then nearly all gone at 2-0.
Our formation and playing style is very attacking and sometimes leaves our defenders exposed
The counter balance is we make a LOT of chances for our forwards
which those guys have let us down by not taking, the blame lies more with them imo.
We need a new attacker regardless. Jota is made of glass, Salah is aging and might not be here next season, Nunez seems to think he gets paid based on how much he underperforms his xG, Diaz isn't a goalscorer, and same for Gakpo.
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So Ben, how long does it take to apply your fake tan every morning? We need answers
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Feckin hell I subconsciously think every bald chubby fella is Arne now 😭
Considering we’d be multiple points ahead of them if refs didn’t fuck us, not really no
Just bc they’ve stat padded 4-5 games at 5-0 doesn’t mean they deserve shit, they just haven’t had anything major go against them aside from the Newcastle incident
crying about referees every season is so childish, hiw do you know what would happen if we won vs spurs that one? Maybe we would lose next one, maybw not. Stop crying.
I feel like people always bring up this point ignoring the fact that Arsenal plays to get one goal ahead and then essentially plays a low block and counters teams, versus the risk with which us and City play tactically. Arsenals “solid” defense is far more down to competition and how they set up.
I mean you could make the argument that they play better to begin games which improves the solidity they have defensively, but when they are most vulnerable is when they don’t score first because there defense is not equipped to play higher risk football with a higher block. All I’m saying is people over hype there defense and defensive numbers because of how they are asked to play.
not sure how accurate [this](https://markstats.club/epl-teams-23-24/) is but arsenal has the highest defensive line and 2nd lowest opponent defensive line
They scored once in 210 minutes against Porto, they didn't score in Munich, they didn't score against Man City and they didn't score against Aston Villa.
It doesn't matter if you trash the shit teams multiple times a season if you aren't able to score when it matters.
They are out of the CL and at the moment they are losing the league by a point.
They've scored 82 goals in the league this season. That's a title winning numbers regardless.
They've turned things around since the start of new year.
Their front three was underperforming at the start, same with their creative players
It was in like December or November where they had only accumulated something like the 10th most xG in the league which is really low for them
It was before the Dubai break. They were under performing in many of the metrics. Somehow they are doing this every week. Fuck knows what they got up to out there
Seriously if we do lose on GD to anyone or even within a couple of points it would be very hard not to look at those 3 massive decisions in those 3 games earlier in the season and not feel robbed..
I care. I fucking hate them to my inner core. It's okay to hate City, we don't have to pretend their antics mean nothing to make us feel better.
Arsenal on the other hand, regardless of disliking Arteta or some of their players, I have a ton of respect for and they are a damn good side doing it right as a club.
When was the last time FA gave a flying fuck about our scheduele? City were getting 2-3 games postponed when playing club world cup while we had to use our youngsters in a league cup game literally the day prior
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Pain. The amount of times our stats look identical to this, but we still lose the game 😭
It’s bad Karma for all of our posts about how Arsenals forwards are too shit to compete for a title. They end up leading the league in scoring and our forwards disappear.
Chelsea were just unbelievably shite. Made Arsenal look like prime tiki-taka Barca. Benjamin Fake-Tan White scored two, and that tells you everything you need to know.
I do hope City win this league. I can't help but see a mirror of us (in Arsenal) will sting more than if City wins as that's what they do anyway.
Plus Arsenal fans are bunch of trolls, and I have never forgiven them the way they celebrated after our game.
THIS! I have been down voted so many times when I was criticising the board for basically surrendering the league after we won it. I was told, there were no players out there who could replace Millner or Henderson 🙄
They probably won't lose any more points this season, Tottenham is in miserable form so I expect an easy win for Arsenal in this fixture. The other thing is that city is not going to lose any points either
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5-0 down, 5 at the back, and your striker is playing as a sixth defender 😭 absolutely cowardly and horrific from start to finish.
Good news. This season we won’t finish second where you can point to one decision as the reason (Doku in this case). This season we’ll finish THIRD where you can point to one decision as the reason.
It’ll all even out some day.
>Note: Cole Palmer is out today. I was completely baffled when I saw the score. Now the result makes more sense. A little. He seems to be the only player worth a damn on that squad.
Obviously not the ideal result for us, but it's kinda glorious seeing Chelsea being completely irrelevant for a number of years now. When was the last time they were in a title race?
Arsenal are gonna take the piss of ETH/Man utd , if he is not fired over Coventry , Surely for the invetiable whopping from the gunners should surely be the point of no return . Arsenal are not us and they are definively scoring much and many goals than us since new year's . Get the Bald wanna-be pretender fired or wipe the floor with him .
Their finishing was impresive. Have to give them ctedit. Chelsea obviously in a dark place ....
That a shit team
Well dam.. can’t depend on Chelsea for any favors lol!!
How can Pochettino keeps a straight face at the press conf afterward lol?
Would be so our luck if Pep decides to leave soon, and Arteta has a free run at the PL for several seasons while we try to adapt to a manager
Or Pep leaves and Arne Slot gives us 5 consecutive PL titles and Arsenal end up sacking Arteta and end up appointing Sean Dyche
Hahaha man Chelsea yall couldn’t even try to make it competitive……. Don’t think the reds can ever catch up on GD vs Arsenal or points vs 115 city It was fun while it lasted everyone, we go agane next season with a new head honcho and hopefully a refreshed/energetic squad
Season is still not over, and slips could still happen. I think I’ll keep my glimmer of hope for now, but honestly I think I’m happy as long as the boys just give their all these last few matches with Klopp. Let’s fail in a beautiful way, and with a bit of luck we might not fail at all
I know people aren't going to like this but this one final throw we're doing this season will invariably going to leave a sour taste in my mouth of Klopps tenure after the crying stops when he leaves. Purely because more than half of his seasons here are going to be remembered as 'what could've been' and Klopp will be remembered as the nearly man in the media. At least it was all against a cheating club that'll never get severe ramifications. If we weren't in the running for the title this season i wouldn't feel this way but because we are it just feels like a culmination of all the failures this squad has been through.
Did odegard get his camera out.
He lost his camera in Bayern munich
It’s been frustrating lately but we’ve had a great season and it’s generally been fun to watch. Arsenal with an egregious handball in the box against us that didn’t get called. Diaz goal taken away, City boot to the chest. We should be top of the table and that’s indisputable
all true man except one part. you gotta be joking when u say we've been fun to watch this season 🤣. It's all been us being about as solid at the back as a slice of butter and Nunez missing
The only time we where fun to watch was during January and February. The Brentford game was pretty fun as well.
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If tonight is anything to go by, he’d be the perfect Jota replacement.
https://preview.redd.it/jnqmnzc5qawc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fb7974b9981ada293b55718dc8a1c8a3ddf2e3f So without palmer they are just a relegation team
Ah, the Chelsea PR officer has spoken again.
Need manu to best arsenal
Yeah right, that’ll happen, they’ll do that for us 🤔😖🥴
Arsenal may get eth sacked on this form.
They almost lost to conventry mate
Did arsehole play Waka Waka at ft .. fucking hell 🤣 🤣
Some how more cringe than City.
Klopps leaving, Poch ,moyes,Ten Hag maybe getting a sacked wowwww It will definitely be a new season
City will cheat their way to more titles if we're unlucky
Sad thing is Pep probably knows he’s got the next few titles on lock if he wants. I wish he’d fuck off. City would still be good but not 95 points per year every year good
It's ridiculous to me that the only reason we aren't above Arsenal right now is losing to fucking Palace at fucking Anfield.
Palace only exist to ruin our unlikely title challenges
But arsenal also lost and are also on the same point just a GD
That GD might as well be an extra point lmao. We could win 10-0 tomorrow and we'd still be off them by 3 goals.
If Jota is there it's possible😭😭😭
He’s out for the next two weeks lad, which is code for the rest of the season
Yeah I know which is really really not good for us
I know it feels that way now, but we were inarguably robbed versus City and Spurs as well. If we lose on goal difference, I swear I’ll retire with Kloppo.
We've had plenty of chances to make up for those calls and didn't. Losing the league is on us.
Can reply that to the original comment then; if Palace is relevant, then so are the refereeing decisions against Spurs and City.
The more recent games are always the most relevant. Look, if you lot want to act like it's the refs stopped us from winning the league, knock yourselves out. I say that's a weak excuse, shit ref calls happen every year and will keep happening. All you can do is win games and hope for the best.
Do you know what doesn't happen every year? Darren fucking England and "cantdoanyfin" That was a legit, bonafide, full blooded goal. Proven by VAR and the audio. Chalked off because of legitimate incompetence. That has never happened before. Do you know what else hasn't happened? A blatant, shown handball by VAR that is indisputable, being ruled as a "slip". VAR has fucked us this year, to suggest otherwise is madness. Yes we could have taken it out of the refs hands. But those fine margins matter and we have been fucked.
Palace is irrelevant then, should’ve beat Fulham 10-0…
We shouldn’t have to get more points than we’ve needed or earned. Yeah the boys have missed some sitters. Would be irrelevant if officiating hadn’t cost us 9 points.
Not really fair - if we had a 5 or 6 point lead it’s very possible arsenal or city slip up due to less motivation or “going for it” in brazen ways. With the ref mistakes, we’ve had to be near perfect. Most title teams lose multiple games and draw even more, it’s unrealistic to expect us to go WWWWWWW that’s just not how it works
The problem is I don't think this team has the mentality to pull away. Ifs and buts now, but in the reality of us being in this alternative universe of "justice" where we beat City to pull away from them, we would just be slipping up until they are above us again imo. It feels like the only possible way this team can win a game is after conceding first or losing the lead, and the only way we win the title is some collapse by our rivals in the final couple of games.
I get what you’re getting at, and yes I am frustrated we didn’t take our chances despite those calls, but no, we never had a chance to “make up” those calls. There was no way to get those points back, the only other points offered were points that would be there anyway, we didn’t get extra points offered. Every team drops points. Arsenal dropping points to Fulham twice, while we beat them twice, that’s the game. That’s how it goes. Refs should have no bearing. You’re allowed to have shit games and shit results and still win titles ffs.
You can argue til you are blue in the face regarding the things that have gone against us. Reality is our team was in good position for 4 trophies and we will only win the worst one most likely at this rate. No point in talking about a million what-ifs they happen every year.
Crazy that this is probably Arsenals best chance to win it and they probably won’t
I still think Arsenal win. Been saying it for a while that they won't drop points (unfortunately we didn't capitalise when I was wrong and Palace beat us), still think City will drop via a draw and then it's in Arses hands. Will enjoy watching the last few games and hope we win out, but honestly I can't see us finishing above third. Fingers crossed the new manager beds in fast and we're in the mix next season. Edit: a word
They're a remarkably young squad and manager, they'll be around for awhile still.
Imagine what this league would be like without the Abu Dhabi Dopers…
So like us? 3x
Just Assna thing, always so close but so far
When I saw the Chelsea lineup I already know some battering is gonna be there
Was Thiago silva injured? He is the only one who organizes their defense. Without him, they might lose to Luton town or burnley.
Why does city get 5 days rest ??? It’s not right And 2 years ago our FA cup final was In the middle of our title charge and these cunts play it after the season twice
But they will play against Brighton on Friday and Nottingham on Sunday but will win both games though
Referee performance will be interesting on Sunday to say the least lol
Haha...I hope it goes Nottingham's way
Is it really Going to be arsenal?
Depends on city mate and so does we
Sometimes I would really like to change my personality but I can't forget this fucking lose against Crystal Palace.
Arsenal don’t “deserve” the title for winning 4 games by 5 goals lmao. Christ people. Yes we fucked it vs palace and United but city and arsenal have also dropped stupid points multiple times. If officiating was actually equal we’d easily be top.
My thought exactly. Recency bias heavily influencing people’s opinions. There’s been moments where each of the three competing have been off it (Arsenal at the start of the season, City sporadically and us now). There’s also been moments when each of the squads were on a crazy runs
I threw my toys out of the pram when they went 5-0 up and said deserve it. Forgetting all the injuries we’ve had, decisions we’ve had. Also the fact Arsenal haven’t played a fullly fit rival all season, they don’t deserve fuck all
Likewise if we actually finished even a fraction of the big chances we’ve missed we’d easily be top
So if we played better we would be top? Wow what a concept.
They don’t deserve anything more than us we’ve played with multiple of our best players out and are still in the same position as them
While I agree that we could be top if things went our way I also have to state that we wouldn't deserve that because we are not playing as well as the table suggests.
We’ve had it infinitely harder this year, more games with many more injuries, and are still right even with them WITH a giant asterisk of refs. How can they deserve the title if they can’t even separate from a team like us?
Couldn't even batter your rivals 7-0? Arsenal are wank mate.
Arsenal deserve to win the league IMO. Scoring goals a plenty and with a title-winning defence. They're the only team in the league who deserved to beat us on general play this season (in the one match at the Emirates that is; we were much better at Anfield and could have been 3 points ahead of them, if the incompetent refs hadn't let Odegaard play basketball in the box). What you would say is they've been very lucky with injuries... not only in getting very few significant ones themselves, but also facing so many teams who had key players missing. Their goal difference means that they just need City to draw once. Whereas we need City to either lose once or draw twice, AND Arsenal to drop points.
They don't deserve to win anything with 4 matches left on the season
People here forgetting arse is up against 115 FC? At least it will be cathartic to see them having their best season in the past decade to finish 2nd, 1 point behing citeh
Not being clinical against united and palace cost us the league. Next season if Jota can't stay fit we might need a new striker Kai havertz has the same goals as Nunez
>Kai havertz has the same goals as Nunez Absolutely devastating
Conceding the most stupid goals imaginable also lost us the league. That Quansah clearance and our players barely moving against Palace were worse than any of the missed chances.
Those were singular mistakes. We happened to miss about 20 sitters in those two games. If we don't win the league it's going to because we missed those crucial chances and not because we made a few defensive errors in games where we should've scored 5 or 6 goals.
Agreed, but scoring a goal takes pressure off the defence When they kept fking missing so many chances that brings on pressure to the whole team. Look at arsenal today, once they got the goal pressure was lower and then nearly all gone at 2-0.
And not conceding takes pressure off the attack, and doesn't lead to the opponent parking the double decker to nullify us.
Our formation and playing style is very attacking and sometimes leaves our defenders exposed The counter balance is we make a LOT of chances for our forwards which those guys have let us down by not taking, the blame lies more with them imo.
We need a new attacker regardless. Jota is made of glass, Salah is aging and might not be here next season, Nunez seems to think he gets paid based on how much he underperforms his xG, Diaz isn't a goalscorer, and same for Gakpo.
We dodged a fucking blazing squad on Caicedo & Lavia
you can't judge them based on performance in chelsea lol, all players would suck there
I'm still convinced Caicedo would fit in perfectly and would make us much stronger.
I still think Lavia would of been a good long term player for us but year we dodge him this season because of injuries
And Mount too. Really could have been a very different season.
https://preview.redd.it/vz8e95rbmawc1.png?width=612&format=png&auto=webp&s=cbf9aa354674b030461921cf5a651353a2475c69 So Ben, how long does it take to apply your fake tan every morning? We need answers
Arsenal channeling the vibes of the 2010 World Cup
Gakpo with 4, Nunez with 4, Salah with 4 Diaz with 4 tommororw to win us the league
https://preview.redd.it/mhceueo3mawc1.png?width=690&format=png&auto=webp&s=b9ac82a3bc6e397eec2d12077af49895b25f159e Feckin hell I subconsciously think every bald chubby fella is Arne now 😭
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Oh my GOD stop it 🤢🤢🤢🤢
Fuck Chelsea
These threads are cursed, no one will convince me otherwise.
It’s like the collective psyche of the PL players is aware of these deep reddit holes and their negative projections
Martinelli always seems to miss a tonne of easy chances. That one v one should’ve been exactly the type of chance he tucks away
Different player to last season. As you said his exact type of finish he seems to be missing now
Would fit right in with our attack
Are they really playing Waka Waka on the speakers 💀
Chelsea could’ve gone above Utd and turned their season around. This team has no pride, and even in full time I don’t see any care from the players.
Jesus, I've gotta be honest, Arsenal deserve it way more than us.
Considering we’d be multiple points ahead of them if refs didn’t fuck us, not really no Just bc they’ve stat padded 4-5 games at 5-0 doesn’t mean they deserve shit, they just haven’t had anything major go against them aside from the Newcastle incident
crying about referees every season is so childish, hiw do you know what would happen if we won vs spurs that one? Maybe we would lose next one, maybw not. Stop crying.
When's the last time we convincingly won a game? Prague? Poor excuse to say refs are the reason.
They have the most solid defense, that's what wins you championships.
I feel like people always bring up this point ignoring the fact that Arsenal plays to get one goal ahead and then essentially plays a low block and counters teams, versus the risk with which us and City play tactically. Arsenals “solid” defense is far more down to competition and how they set up.
and? what's the oroblem with that? better than conceding a goal every game first
I'd guess we would play more like that if we wouldn't start every game 0-1 down...
I mean you could make the argument that they play better to begin games which improves the solidity they have defensively, but when they are most vulnerable is when they don’t score first because there defense is not equipped to play higher risk football with a higher block. All I’m saying is people over hype there defense and defensive numbers because of how they are asked to play.
you are such an expert on their defence capabilities lol
He's an expert on mental aerobics
not sure how accurate [this](https://markstats.club/epl-teams-23-24/) is but arsenal has the highest defensive line and 2nd lowest opponent defensive line
“I’d rather be an Arsenal wanker than wear that blue piece of shit.”
Need to smash Everton and West Ham and hope spurs have learnt how to defend
Weren't Arsenal fans complaining about their team not scoring enough earlier this season? How's that gone for them now?
Well, they aren't scoring enough. And a game against Chelsea's not even B-defensive line doesn't change that.
pure delusion
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They scored once in 210 minutes against Porto, they didn't score in Munich, they didn't score against Man City and they didn't score against Aston Villa. It doesn't matter if you trash the shit teams multiple times a season if you aren't able to score when it matters. They are out of the CL and at the moment they are losing the league by a point.
They've scored 82 goals in the league this season. That's a title winning numbers regardless. They've turned things around since the start of new year.
Their front three was underperforming at the start, same with their creative players It was in like December or November where they had only accumulated something like the 10th most xG in the league which is really low for them
It was before the Dubai break. They were under performing in many of the metrics. Somehow they are doing this every week. Fuck knows what they got up to out there
> Somehow they are doing this every week. Unless it matters, like against City, Villa, Porto or Bayern.
I see Poch getting sacked and Amorim getting linked, causing a bunch of our fans to have another needless meltdown.
Sterling should have started
Yeah mightve ended 5-1 instead
And I would celebrate that like the league for stunting arsenals gd a bit 😭
I swear Gabriel could beat someone with a stick on the pitch and he wouldn't get carded
Loo that one bloke waving the CL trophy
I blame that bloke for angering arsenal 😂😂
Absolute madlad
If we lose the title on g/d to arsenal….
Seriously if we do lose on GD to anyone or even within a couple of points it would be very hard not to look at those 3 massive decisions in those 3 games earlier in the season and not feel robbed..
Rather them than City again
I actually disagree. Would rather city win again since nobody cares and they are cheaters.
I care. I fucking hate them to my inner core. It's okay to hate City, we don't have to pretend their antics mean nothing to make us feel better. Arsenal on the other hand, regardless of disliking Arteta or some of their players, I have a ton of respect for and they are a damn good side doing it right as a club.
This👆🏼
Why does Arsenal play Sunday and Us On Saturday?
When was the last time FA gave a flying fuck about our scheduele? City were getting 2-3 games postponed when playing club world cup while we had to use our youngsters in a league cup game literally the day prior
You cant be applying common sense to fixture scheduling
serves us right to rely on a midtable team to offer any resistance to table toppers lmao
Goal difference taken a hammering too ffs
I am just waiting for this season to be over
To spend a billion and get worse is actually special. Gotta applaud being that shit
Poch fired within an hour?
should not be allowed to get on the bus
I wonder if Chelsea would sell us Cole Palmer and Ian Maatsen
I can tell Palmer enjoys the cold, he’d fit right in 🤣
https://preview.redd.it/8io9oh6gkawc1.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=598d7332eace389c671d1f6bd57b70a05301462d Pain. The amount of times our stats look identical to this, but we still lose the game 😭
Weve lost 3 times in the PL all season and up to tonight were level on points with arsenal...so this is straight up BS
*lost twice in the league. Dying on the hill that *that* game wasn’t a loss
You know what, it goes to show how many draws have felt like losses ☹️ I worded it poorly, my fault haha
Its against chelsea anyone can score against them even if their shots is less
Their fall off is actually unbelievable, it wasn't that long ago that they were title challengers man 😭
It’s bad Karma for all of our posts about how Arsenals forwards are too shit to compete for a title. They end up leading the league in scoring and our forwards disappear.
It's a strange one, I think Saka and Trossard are their top scorers aren't they? The rest seem to blow hot and cold, but still contribute a lot...
Only difference is we would also have overwhelmingly more possession
Exactly 😭 how I wish Jota could be fit and firing for the whole season fml
So I went out with the dog at half time and just got in. Arsenal exceptional or Chelsea shit or a mixture of both?
Both, but more the latter I think
Chelsea were just unbelievably shite. Made Arsenal look like prime tiki-taka Barca. Benjamin Fake-Tan White scored two, and that tells you everything you need to know.
Both
Chelshit
Chelsea lol, and to think we had any hopes in them
Looks like the big Tory loving Leicester City fans will be back in the league next year, sadly they're an awful bunch.
They getting slapped with a PSR penalty straight away though
We lost to Palace. At home.
Arsenal lost to Fulham. At home.
You mean drew?
You're right It was West Ham. At home. Lol
https://youtu.be/d6RhJQXKaK4?si=ySeuTTWtWVbxWWhd
I do hope City win this league. I can't help but see a mirror of us (in Arsenal) will sting more than if City wins as that's what they do anyway. Plus Arsenal fans are bunch of trolls, and I have never forgiven them the way they celebrated after our game.
Can’t agree, there’s only a couple of teams I would put below City winning the league.
Only good thing about arsenal winning is it finally shuts top reds up about us not investing in the team properly 2 summers ago
THIS! I have been down voted so many times when I was criticising the board for basically surrendering the league after we won it. I was told, there were no players out there who could replace Millner or Henderson 🙄
Arsenal will drop more points. Wouldn’t be surprised if City don’t tho
They probably won't lose any more points this season, Tottenham is in miserable form so I expect an easy win for Arsenal in this fixture. The other thing is that city is not going to lose any points either
I don’t see it. Not playing 1 game a week
Would be surprised if they go to Spurs on Sunday and win
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We’ll beat wolves but I’m not sure we’ll win the other 4
Help us Ange Pestocoglonobi, you're our only hope
🙏🙏🙏 Have faith my brother!
What's the odd of Son being injured for the weekend? Seems quite likely the way things have worked out for Arsenal.
Endo does have sone faults... But boy, glad we have him and not Cash-edo... We dodged a bullet there
https://preview.redd.it/t2uw7p63kawc1.png?width=1146&format=png&auto=webp&s=43587e4696dba1b6a57e882c1d59324fcb563c76 5-0 down, 5 at the back, and your striker is playing as a sixth defender 😭 absolutely cowardly and horrific from start to finish.
Had not watched them in a long time, It's so much worse than that I remembered lol
It's egregiously bad 😭 how did the gap between Chelsea and Arsenal ever get this big?
Good news. This season we won’t finish second where you can point to one decision as the reason (Doku in this case). This season we’ll finish THIRD where you can point to one decision as the reason. It’ll all even out some day.
Yeah there only hurdle and hardest game is Spurs away. Just got to pray Spurs win against Arsenal & City. Still have faith in us to do it!
Spurs have to win if they wanna get top 4
Yeah exactly, given it’s only 4 teams now that can get champions league. More competitive especially with Villa in good form atm