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Arsenal should have a pen there. Iwobi handball.

Joelinton casually tasked with marking two players. What a guy.

He's played an outrageous amount of football the last two years, never being rotated out as Pepe has shat the bed, think he's gassed to be honest and was much better earlier in the season.

If Trippier is marauding on the other side I see no problem having him, a less offensively minded full back, starting on the left. Plus if ASM is ahead of him, then that solidity is exactly what we should be looking for. Depends what Howe wants to do tactically really, if we're lining up next season with Targett I'd be happy, binning off Ritchie, maybe Lewis as backup and Dummett can be the 25th man at a push.

To be fair, Tomiyasu, White and Gabriel were tonight or recently coming back from injury. No excuse, but context. They got wrecked by our press.

You can see he doesn't have that top line acceleration or speed but it's all a moot point when he has game sense, intelligence, stamina and an almighty set of testicles.

Finally, Howe's on.

Arsenal messed up in January, they never had the depth or supplemented their youth and players like Saka have been running on fumes for weeks. Their entire defence being half fit doesn't help either.

Down with this sort of thing.

Thorough dicking here, Arsenal look like they're fighting for 13th, horrific performance.

Get the fuck in!

Wish he could stay fit, has all the attributes to be a top striker if he wasn't made of glass.

SHAKA!

Longstaff with confidence could actually be a decent squad option.

We've made Arsenal look like a Steve Bruce side, outrageous first 60 minutes.

Arteta is a lego fraud.

Surprised with a win, draw is definitely doable as their defence is on shaky ground currently, Ramsdale not in great form, Holding being a heed the ball against Son, White coming back from injury, Tomiyasu still seeking fitness, Gabriel too and Tierney injured. But, Nketiah, Saka. Odegaard, Smith Rowe and Martinelli have enough about them to rinse our defence, especially Burn's turning circle. 0-0, Arsenal in tatters. It also bears repeating, Arteta claps like a nonce, a 5th place diddler.

Disasterclass.

Philips - disagree, he's adequate, hence overrated, usual English inflation. Mount - same. Speed - posthumously pedastelled above where he should be rated, a good player with longevity, not great. Giggs - good but lauded in same tier as some of the best PL players, not for me Clive. Seaman - decent but shouldn't have 75 caps for England when Tim Flowers and Nigel Martyn exist. Lloris - perenially overrated, same as Seaman, Mandanda is better. Inler/Upson - they're overrated, never said they were rated as legends.

Some that come to mind...; Kalvin Philips Mason Mount Gary Speed Ryan Giggs Matthew Upson David Seaman Hugo Lloris Gokhan Inler

Ideally we'd hover in the 6-8th places for a couple of seasons, getting a taste of Europa or Conference League football as the squad takes shape. As others have pointed out, there's a raft of teams who can finish between 7th-14th every season, the margins are quite slim and we've seen teams like Wolves, Southampton, Villa, Leicester, Everton (lol) all float around these positions for what seems like decades. West Ham are the current best of the rest but you suspect it's not a sustainable prospect, same with Wolves. The aim should be to win every game and the league. The realistic goal should be top 8 with a view to Europe by 2024. But it's dependent on what investment we do get, I don't envisage a complete squad overhaul, and if we're hovering around 9th-12th come 2023, it's not the end of the world, unless we start losing players like Bruno because of it...

Leicester with the Swansea special, no FRET. Bruno deserves a statue.

Heard Kenedy's pretty good.

Woodman is in to muckbangs.

Targett's defensive solidity puts him above KWP at left back, especially if Trippier is fit. But he'd be a class rotational option for either flank over Manquillo / Krafth.