Tiresias

This. We need to try and soak up pressure better, we can't give ball away so much, there's not wrong with when we get the ball recycling it around and away from their press for a bit. Could see that yellow for Bruno coming for literal seconds. Brainless.

Just again letting ball go through us. Don't understand where the defensive sloppiness has come from we were so good for a long time.

It's so easy getting through our team. We can't push so high up and lose the ball so easily.

Ok all worth it hahahaha TAA hahaha

All came from an easy short pass to someone under pressure for no reason.

Gallagher makes sense for them as would count loads for ffp, murdyk less so

Hope Villa can cling on in but can see City and Liverpool accelerating away. Neither seem particularly great sides. Arsenal haven't looked overwhelmingly brilliant this season either so hardly shocking results drying up. Poor season, absolutely ripe for Villa to do a Leicester, super solid and scoring...can't see it tho. City probably will win every remaining game.

Fair, and i agree, but my point is we can't press we need to be more compact, no matter what I don't think conceding 3 at home to Forest is good enough. I am not pissed off, still very much team Howe lol, and think we were always going to have a tougher season, but think this is embarassing even with dummett and lascelles starting shouldnt be happening

If we can't press like mad all season, we need a plan for when we can't. For now the squad is still being built fair enough, but to be honest there can be no excuse for shipping 3 goals to chris wood with arguably our first choice backline. The defense isn't working and should be.

Front to back it's not working, nor is this new just infecting home form now. Lack of intensity means we aren't generating dangerous chances, lack of creativity from our attacking players, and most worrying of all absolutely no defensive organisation. Should be embarrassed to let Chris Wood score 1 let alone 3. I have always and remain critical of anyone reacting with fury, this season was always going to be tougher, but this maybe is a lower tier performance than even I, the arch pessimist was expecting. I am not going to panic, nor do I question Howe too much, clearly the players are in the ground and in need of a break they aren't going to get. However we do need significant change. I have been also critical of the demand for Lewis Hall, I don't think when he has played he has look as good as some have said but probably worth a shot out of desperation, but more, I think Howe maybe needs to adjust how we play. We aren't able to do his high intensity style, we need to I am afraid to say focus on being really solid. As someone has defended Miggy a lot he has totally failed to push on from the form he found last season. We should be looking to replace him next month and ship him in summer. Not good enough unfortunately. Too much responsibility is on Miley's head at his age. Another attacking option beyond that needs to be found. At the back, I think it's a case of pulling it back a bit, bit more first principles defending and maybe be a bit more counter attacking than proactive until we return to some semblance of fitness with players back.

absolute garbage, not really sure how Howe can change this up but something must be done, the squad is not functioning.

I do wonder about Howe needing to spend some time on a lower intensity plan b for these stretches. Clearly players aren't in form and we aren't creating chances. When the intensity drops so hard to create goal opportunities

This can fuck off like. Yes Hendrick has no redeeming features but Ritchie and Hayden have been good servants in shit times, no they aren't good enough anymore but deserve better than to be referred to as turds ffs.

Have you seen the state of our politicians man?

Europe is fun because matchups aren't that common dreadful to make them as common as a league one. Then it's just to make the super clubs further distracted from the rest. I also give uefa don't credit for the europa conference league, everyone pisses on it but i think it's great opportunity for European cup fun for plenty of teams that never would before. This is just everything horrible about modern game, that more more more glitz stars etc makes things better. Albeit European footy had peaked with dan burn scoring against psg.

Aah fuck this season wake me up in September

It's difficult to know if a lot of the players of the Ashley era could have been absolutely class if we'd had half decent coaches. Cisse may have sustained his scoring with decent help.

Hmm feel comparing to Bellingham may be pilling slightly too high expectations on the lad. We can dream ofc

Very possible, shame very likeable bloke

God I'd be so upset seeing him go to City. Would fill their gundogan shaped hole pretty well too... Not gonna happen not gonna happen....

I'm not saying he will be sold or wants to go or anything but i think the idea that a player can't both love playing for a club and also make hard nosed decisions on their career on discussion with their team is a bit of a fan fantasy. It certainly makes it more appealing for him to stay, and easier for us to refuse to sell. It is the nature of the modern game unfortunately that agents are highly motivated to arrange moves for their players as they earn massive financial rewards for doing so (would love for this to change I'm sure little has contributed more to that crazy player price inflation) and players want to play for as high profile a club as they can. I also don't think that means there's any dishonesty in how much bruno seems to enjoy it here tho.

Column inches per game is probably metric that is used lol

Sigh wish we'd made some sort of europe. At least part of me feels a bit less robbed from the PSG game considering we couldn't win this game and not winning at home against PSG and even a point against dortmund going through would be somewhat a fluke. We're not good enough, patience needed all round.

We're not good enough for this level sadly, harsh lesson

I'm way more angry at how furious some people are that this squad on its last legs is struggling, top 4 last season was a miracle! Dan Burn scored against PSG in the Champions League! We have beaten Man U, Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Villa this season and the only reason we aren't in a strong position to get out the champions league group stage is one of the worst refereeing decisions of all time. Things aren't that bad! yes our away form needs to improve! Yes we probably won't see us full strength again till next season but jesus were some of you here or just trapped in hyperbaric chambers for teh whole Ashley era? Is suddenly winning the only thing that matters? We lack depth have had terrible injury luck, things will get better, for the first time in a long time all the things that are wrong I know the club will actually address! Sorry just had to get that off my chest. I just see people acting like people on Arsenal Fan TV and what are you talking about???