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Hitting the first man is overplayed as a thing that people get annoyed about. Any pro footballer can beat the first man and put a ball in the box, if they take a bit of pace and direction off it. Doesn't mean it will be threatening once it gets in there. We saw that for years with Pardew set pieces. To get the pace and direction needed to be a real threat at this level you will always risk hitting the first defender. As much as Trippier has annoyed me a bit his chance creation is really high. I think our CBs have been a let down in an attacking sense.

Feel like one of the biggest let downs from a goalscoring perspective has been Botman and Schar from set pieces (Burn too, tbf). We've got 3 big centre backs in there and not one of them has scored from a set piece. This can't be entirely down to Trippier.

Here's to the nervous wait ruining my whole week

Took the £60 from Arsenal winning and stuck that on us to miss out on the top four as well. Due about £600 across two bets if we fuck it up now, all from a free bet on Sky. Would still ruin my fucking summer.

Midfielder to add more control and solidity. Top quality right winger. First choice left back. Right sided centre back with recovery pace (ideally who could also play RB) I'd go big on all these, particularly the first three as first teamers.

Yeah I've never got it with Rice previously but he's been outstanding every time I've watched him this season.

But Champions League means more revenue and is far easier to attract players. Europa League adds extra games without any of that. I know it's a cliche, and I normally hate this attitude, but EL genuinely be a problem for us at this stage because of how fast we've accelerated from relegation candidates. CL gives us the chance to leapfrog forward.

This is it for me. Those stats are bollocks at the end of the day. Football is far too random. And as much as our form has been brilliant recently, we have also had bad runs this season. So getting only 4-5 points from the last four is perfectly possible. I still think we need Liverpool to fuck up one of the next two for me to be confident.

Tend to agree that playing Wilson and Isak together was a bad call like. Also thought Miggy on for Murphy was a waste of a sub.

Well we're gonna find out if that's the case. I hope so.

Most worrying thing for me today was our mentality. Think we will bottle it now tbh.

Schar lost his head in this game. Deserves that IMO.

Tbf to us I think Arsenal are just clearly a very good team. You can see why them and City are so far ahead.

Arsenal have been good. Helped them getting the goal but they've settled and probably should have had a second to be honest. I understand intensity being our identity and all that but I think we've taken it too far here. We've looked sloppy, wreckless and lacking in control with out play. It feels like we're a second away from another Liverpool (H) moment of madness from one player that ends the contest.

Poor closing down and poor keeping.

Shitting mesel

Aye. Serie B is always pretty even/competitive/shit so it doesn't happen very often. Last time was when Juve, Genoa and Napoli all went up in 2007. Napoli and Genoa drew 0-0 last game and both celebrated promotion as a result.

Yup. 10 points or more and third goes up automatically.

35 points difference between the two teams

Haidara is their first choice LB. Good to see his career come to some fruition.

Would literally stab a nanna for a Brentford point man

Sometimes a player needs to leave to make it though. Loaning players out is always a minefield and can often kill their development rather than than help then. They need to move a club that will actually invest in them and their development. We can see with the Kuol situation that loaning clubs just don't have the incentive unless it massively benefits them in the short term. Personally don't think Toney becomes the player he does without the moves to Posh and Brentford. They're both clubs, at slightly different levels, that take punts and develop players because their model is buy and profit.

Wouldn't go so far as to say it's a must win game, but definitely feels like a must not lose now.

I've absolutely sussed gambling like. You just bet on the exact opposite of what you want to happen.

Why does anybody care about booing the anthem It's not even like it's disrespecting anybody deed this time. They're perfectly within their right to air feelings.