Not as good as we are honest.
We lost another game and there were some well -known patterns.
Our attacking game was Stodgy and slow. We were pretty easily torn apart by going up opportunities. The new players are not enough integrated to give us a new taste.
Nico Pepe was also the best player on the field …
I will not perform agendas in this phase of the season (pre), but there were nowhere of the striking moments to prevent them from having a negative picture of a match against the team that ended 5th in La Liga last season.
The left still looks very unsatisfactory because they are the same players as we rolled in the last campaign. We saw Madueke appear a bit there, but he is painfully early in his arsenal journey. Martinelli didn’t have his best game. I would even say he had his standard Arsenal game. A lot of promise. A few half chances. Gentle output.
Gyokees looked a bit like how I thought he would be very involved with much. Made a lot of runs. Tried to link the game. Desperate to score a goal. Did not happen for him. It is early days, he is not fit, and it will take a while before he fully imposes on Arsenal.
We have not given him much creative. Martin Odegaard was not particularly helpful, nor were our broad players who had trouble finding his runs. We do not move the ball fast enough, we have to animals a lot, and a large part of our chances does not feel that they are of high quality.
You get the impression that we have completely dominated the game … because we did that. But it’s not a deadly dominance. It is beaten with a ping -pong bat, not a medieval club.
The only players who have really appeared this preseason so far are Zubimendi who certainly added something to the second half, and a 15-year-old named Max Dowman.
Norgaard is defensively healthy, Mosquera looks clear, but we could not compete with those fast transitions against a team that would end 12th in the Premier League. Place Mbuemo, Sesko or Cunha on those counterattacks and we can be in trouble for that United Away game.
But … let’s go back to the rules. It is only fitness that matters if you lose.
My only problem here is that I have not seen good performance all the preseason. I no longer felt immediately in our game. This feels like the same script, different actors … but the actors are not experienced in the way we make films.
Things should get better, the first game of the season has to work for the Academy Award that we will try to win next season.
Ok, short post, because I don’t waste energy about writing about that boring show.
We are in a season without apologies. I am sure that Arteta will get well for United, but damn it … I feel a bit nauseous and my instincts are that I have to start writing content that bombs for a slow start.
Don’t let me write ‘We just have to be at spit distance by December’ because I want us to lead this season. Strong start, strong middle, strong finish.
Okay, we have not been able to one On the whistleBut we have a pod later Therapy Tomorrow. X
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