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Agree there mind, should respect the decision and leave the pitch. The levels of fame and attention he receives in & out of football probably mean he feels he has to make a play of it. Unnecessary.

Red card all day that like. Shame because it will make the Manchester derby a far less entertaining game.

To be fair he just completely made a mug of one of the best defenders in the league. The way he checks his run and then accelerates, and then given his height and strength he just poses such a different & difficult problem than most other top players. I'm not sure he does. He's a very good player no doubt, but that was just horrible defending. I think Koscienly is declining pretty fast anyway You might be right, he is declining. However, in the instance just gone, I was more struck by Pogba's ability to get passed him and deliver the ball rather than by Koscielny's mistake. Maybe the defender acts differently there if he's not up against such a good player, who knows.

To be fair he just completely made a mug of one of the best defenders in the league. The way he checks his run and then accelerates, and then given his height and strength he just poses such a different & difficult problem than most other top players.

Pogba too good.

Talks rubbish like, seems to think his opinion is more valuable than his co-workers by the sounds of the commentary on this match. When Ozil had his free kick the co commentator came up with a perfectly reasonable assessment of the situation and Dixon was just like "nope, that's not right". How do yee kna Lee.

Probably the best half of football I've seen this season. Arsenal have played excellently and can count themselves unlucky to not be at least level. Lacazette is hugely impressive.

When Arsenal play their 1 touch football in the final 3rd, I enjoy watching them more than any other team in the league. So much potential not realised often enough.

Aye, I've noticed. In my short time here I've found that the whole forum is generally calm, collected and well-reasoned... until Newcastle kick off.

I think Arsenal look really good and are unlucky. Hope they get back into it.

Don't think he's bene as bad as to say he's struggling defensively as a whole. He has good moments and bad, I'll take the option of focusing on those good moments rather than passing judgement of him as a player based on the bad. If he had been here 2 years I would agree, but he's been here 2 minutes and has shown us a lot of good moments, and has attributes our other defenders don't.

Really like the look of Christian Kabasele of Watford. He was fantastic defensively against us and has put Watford ahead today.

Who has written him off? He's been pap, he's costing us goals. He's struggling so much with basic defending. Every ball over the top he was scrambling. A lack of agility, a lack of pace. Spreading panic. Air kicks. Ducking headers. Playing attackers onside. He's rightfully being criticised. Over the medium term, I hope he can become good. But we need to stay up. We need points and clean sheets now. We need Lascelles in and Lejeune out asap. Reintroduce him and rebuild his confidence later. There's a lot of negativity surrounding him that I'm seeing. Don't think it's very useful personally, of course he's struggling at the moment, everyone is, but I tend to veer more towards staying behind a new player who is in an adjustment phase than to be critical of his every move. Still lots of positive signs from him this season.

Dont really understand those willing to write him off. It's very short-sighted. I still think once Lascelles is back Lejeune should still have a look in, I've seen enough to feel once he's completely settled we will see some quality performances from him.

I wouldn't be dropping Ritchie like. He's still one of our few players with genuine quality. He was playing effectively at full back today and whilst he made a few errors it's harsh to judge him too heavily on it imo. The whole team needs to find a bit more confidence and believe that we can attack sides and maintain pressure. When that's the case, Ritchie will begin to flourish again, I'm sure of it. Has plenty of assists in him but also goals, we just need to start getting in better, more advanced positions more regularly.

In my opinion, no. We need his quality on the ball to create more chances, even though he is sloppy at times.

Thought Murphy made a good account of himself again. Went from being shot of confidence to looking like a very brave player. Well done to Gayle for taking his chance, although I would have liked to see him get more involved afterwards, he became very quiet indeed. We were never going to go toe to toe with Chelsea, to get anything out of that game you need a bit of luck and we didn't really create our own today, in which case a few individual errors are always going to cost you. We move on

Looks like we've moved to 3 at the back. Mbemba playing much more centrally it seems.

We can still come away with something here, we just really need to focus more in dangerous positions. I don't believe our defenders are bad, I believe they are switching off/making little mistakes.

Ref being kind to us here

That's an unbelievable save.

We don't look like a team that hasn't won in 5, that's for sure.

Come on Newcastle!

8 starts 4 goals 1 assist this season for Deportivo. Doing well.