Arsenal banter 6

27 Dec 2025 20:27:15
Evening all, hope all’s good, glad for the result today. BUT. we really need to start killing teams off. we are creating so many chances… but come on.! . we created 15 chances in the first half today and scored 1 goal. for a club like us/with the quality we have. it’s mind boggling why we aren’t putting at least 2/3 of them away and giving ourselves some real breathing space. we have the players. I watch a fair few of our training videos on YouTube/net. and I know training isn’t the same as being in a live match but we have players smashing in goals from all angles, headers, volleys, half volleys, and I watch thinking WOW. the boys look so sharp can’t wait to see them in the next match. even viktor is smashing them in, then come match day he can’t hit a cows arse with a banjo.

it’s really frustrating. a few years back we really was playing some awesome front foot attacking football and just fell short because at the time our defence didn’t have sufficient cover when big gabi or saliba weren’t available. and in my humble opinion it’s what cost us a couple of league titles but now we have options absolutely everywhere in our squad. yet we tend to play with the handbrake on, in an attacking sense. I know Arteta likes to control games, just wish he would revert to getting our attackers forward, fast and direct like it was a few seasons ago when we were hitting teams for 4s/5s and 6s…really killing teams off and sending a fear factor through the league. Sorry I’m just rambling on so il quit before it turns into real jibba jabba ✌🏻& 🫶🏻.

27 Dec 2025 18:42:36
Hello John, O, Leary and Highbury glad you all had a great Christmas. There, s obviously a lot of pressure on VG and it will only get worse if the goals don't come, but at the moment it's clear that our style of play doesn't suit him and when Kai is fit I think he will be first choice unless things change very quickly, but what is more concerning for me is this habit of sitting back and inviting pressure when we are in front, does my head in to be honest.

But we are top of the prem, top of Champions league only needing 1 or from last 2 games to finish in top 2.Semi final of the EFL cup, so Mikel and the boys must be doing something right and what do I know anyway.
Stay safe everyone
COYG💪💪.

27 Dec 2025 19:17:04
Hi Bill with a quick glance from just the right angle everything looks good mate, so I think I'll stay exactly where I am for now until either the view here dulls or its safe change my viewing position 🙈🙈🙈🙈.

27 Dec 2025 20:06:01
It is a good position to be and we need to be happy with the 3 points, however, it is also good to discuss what is not great and what can be improved. We can’t impact or change anything sitting on our sofas but sites like these are for us fans to share what we feel.

Elation and discontent should be discussed equally else these platforms will become like VAR, taking out the emotions from the game.

27 Dec 2025 20:34:03
I agree with you, Highbury. We should absolutely be able to discuss things openly and honestly, otherwise what's the point of coming to this site?

27 Dec 2025 21:13:38
Absolutely Bill mate, sharing view's and discussing things is what the site is all about.

Sometimes we all have things we want to get off our chest and other times we just want to share our happiness with those who feel the same way as ourselves

We can all only go with how we see things and how we feeling about things at any given time.

Take care Bill mate 👍.

28 Dec 2025 11:17:49
Spot on bill. 🫡.

27 Dec 2025 15:55:07
Ed001, Ed007, Ed033, Ed025, and 14. Hope you lot had a great Christmas. Ed025, hope yours was lemony.

To all posters, hope everyone had a brilliant Christmas.

{Ed025's Note - cheers Sharpey same to you my friend, after watching us against Burnley today it was very Lemony mate, we have Beto and Barry who are absolutely prize lemons, as its Christmas i wont mention the king of Lemons out of respect.. :)

27 Dec 2025 20:31:06
I do feel a couple of other teams have landed more lemony lemons in the last transfer than our lemon. Our lemon is the least lemony lemon by a country mile, mate.

{Ed025's Note - things can change very quickly in Lemonville Sharpey, your one may not be the yellowest of citrus fruits in the end but at the moment he is right up there mate..

27 Dec 2025 21:35:28
All I can say is, he's not the Wirst. There's also a Slovenian lemon doing the rounds.

27 Dec 2025 16:38:42
Hope everybody had a good Christmas!
As pointed out by some here, we aren’t involving Gyokeres as much as we should, he takes up some good positions but the ball isn’t passed to him, especially when Saka has the ball. Saka will always go for goal himself but there were at least two situations today where he could have squared the ball to Gyokeres.

And we have again got into the habit of putting ourselves in pressure situations with the defensive lapses. Hope we iron out these issues for the business end.

27 Dec 2025 17:26:19
He is a championship striker! Today he was gifted a golden chance early in the game and calmly passed it straight into the goalkeepers gloves! On the other hand what a worldie save from raya.

27 Dec 2025 18:01:57
Hi Bill, had a lovely Christmas thank you mate and hope you did too.

The raw data tells me we got 3 pts today and we are top of the Premier and Champions leagues.

I'm very happy to go with the raw data rather than delve into and analyse it all on the grounds I'm not at all confident I will come out of it all as happy as went into it. Apparently Ignorance is bliss so i'm going to give it a go 👏👏👏👏
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27 Dec 2025 19:33:35
All strikers miss chances, imo he had a good game today created space for him self and was strong to hold off defenders. We should have won the game more comfortably but delighted and happy with the win and happy with the players effort, and I'm continuing enjoying my week.

27 Dec 2025 07:39:35
{Ed's Note - Tusole has posted a new article entitled, Chelsea FC Is Drifting from Its Winning Identity

25 Dec 2025 17:08:49
Merry Christmas to all.
Did I have to much cheer, or was there a post on here earlier today, from Sy4.

25 Dec 2025 19:18:04
Hi Davy there was but it seemed to disappear after a while. Purely a wild guess on my behalf but maybe it wasn't really Sy and someone hacked his account so the Eds removed the post.

{Ed001's Note - he asked for it to be removed.}

25 Dec 2025 19:53:53
Ah, thanks Ed001. Merry Christmas mate.

{Ed001's Note - merry Christmas g62, good to see you mate. Hope you had a great day.}

25 Dec 2025 20:59:09
Yes thank you Ed001 mate its been a lovely day 👌 and I hope yours has been good too mate 👍.

{Ed001's Note - very good thanks mate.}

24 Dec 2025 14:21:33
To all the Ed’s and everyone that comes on this site and makes it what it is. (a fantastic place to come and express our thoughts, feelings sometimes our frustrations, our love of our great club the humour, the laughter the banter the humility and compassion when someone may not be at their best and needs a few words of kindness to help them get back on track. ) .

I’ve witnessed it all. making this a unique place to be. with a great bunch of people who’s love of THE ARSENAL and the beautiful game have given us this safe place to share. I’d like to wish each and everyone of you a very happy Christmas. peace and love to you all. ✌🏻& 🫶🏻. p. s all I want for Christmas is for the ARSENAL to find that killer instinct in front of goal. 🤞.

24 Dec 2025 18:10:59
Couldn't agree more on the forum front all the contributors. It's a great place to come onto.

I think injury have hit us quite hard this season again and disrupted the plans. Unfortunately the way the team is accustomed to play is without a striker and with no real preseason has been unable to train an experiment with an alternative. We are in the cusp of something very great. We are going to get it.

25 Dec 2025 19:34:30
I echo that gabi mate.

25 Dec 2025 20:03:53
Merry Christmas more to you and family.

24 Dec 2025 11:51:14
Wishing you all a very merry xmas, and hope you all have a brilliant xmas evening. Easy on thr booze tho hahhaha
Love and peace to you all on this form
Moe.

24 Dec 2025 13:06:48
Merry Christmas and a brilliant new year to you and yours Moe mate 🎅🎅🎅🎅🎄🎄🎄🎄.

24 Dec 2025 09:30:10
Did anyone see how Dec went to shake the CP players hands before running to celebrate. why isn't he our captain, top top man.

24 Dec 2025 09:02:08
Palace parked the bus and it was difficult to break them down.

The second half showed we still couldn't break them down.

Tip tapping about as though we are Barcelona from yesteryear.

Until we change our style with VG in the team we can kiss goodbye to the PL. That's not to say we can't win the CL as we play as it's a different style but weaker PL teams have us sussed out.

24 Dec 2025 14:07:50
Banbury mate, when palace parked the bus in the first half we couldn't break them, in the second half they opened the game and we started to male mistake after another instead of taking advantage of the open spaces. So we have to stop moaning about team parking the bus as we ain't doing better when teams play hi up the pitch and press us.

24 Dec 2025 16:04:23
Hi Moe other teams are entitled to play how they like, its not their job to make our jobs easy or to keep us happy, that's down to us.

We have absolutely no control over what other teams do or how many goals Haaland or anyone else scores, our fate is in our own hands and we have to take responsibility for ourselves and stop worrying about who else does or doesn't do what.

24 Dec 2025 16:27:54
Moe I have no problem with them parking the bus, I was highlighting we weren't much better when the game became open.

I think the BIG lesson though is. do not give away stupid free kicks in dangerous positions, we paid the price at the time but eventually went through.

I just have a real problem with us upfront and others should have, it's a big concern, it's daft to think otherwise IMO.

25 Dec 2025 19:38:22
I think you guys misunderstood my posts. I was critical of our way of playing whether the opponent park the bus or open the game and have a go at us. We always seem slow in the build up and not take advantage of either play.
Sorry, I probably didn't pass my message probably.

26 Dec 2025 12:09:21
Can't disagree with that Moe, we are far too slow aren't we.

I think we did as much as we could in the first half if I'm honest and met a keeper in good form but still didn't move it fast enough.

Second half was a disaster IMO.

24 Dec 2025 08:15:37
Merry Christmas to all the lads, Sally n Debbie

Thanks to all the eds hope you have a great day.

24 Dec 2025 08:19:58
And to you and yours Mal 🎅 🎄 ⛄️ 🎁 🍻 🥂 🍾.

24 Dec 2025 13:07:51
Merry Christmas Mark mate 🎅🎅🎅🎅.