The Alexis style press isn't for him and he quickly disappeared from the game within 30 minutes.
Na, that’s my thing man. I’ll always exist here to counteract the negativity.
I will need to be banned to be stopped from doing my duty. I don’t enjoy it, but AM needs it.
Not just his energy, but he got marked out of the game by Bissouma and Sarr. Those 2 are clearly more physical and stronger than him, but our other number 8 is useless and can't occupy them, making it easy for them to hit on Ødegaard
The point is that under Arteta we play a real team game that’s only as strong as it’s weakest link. When we’re carrying the left 8 the burden it places on Ødegaard, especially when there’s 2 pretty competent DMs on the pitch, is a heavy one.
See I read all this stuff and I just interpret it as people blaming less popular players to explain the bad performance of popular player.
I think Ødegaard started brightly but ran out of gas due to the aggressive pressing (and yellow) and just had a bad game. It's not the first bad game he's had as well there is also a pattern when the games are tight and he's not free to play.
Just finished watching the game and I have to say, Ødegaard was absolutely atrocious. Him and Nketiah really stood out in terms of letting everyone down, outside of the big obvious mistake by Jorginho of course.
Might genuinely be the worst performance I've seen from him. Absolutely nothing he tried was successful, the yellow card completely neutered him defensively and on top of that he was generally sloppy with his play.
Not exactly the game you want to have this type of performance in, but it happens. I doubt it's a sign of anything but it just stood out to me as he's usually so brilliant.
Listen man. I’m basically hating on Arteta at this point. Why you shutting it down? Let the rage spread fs
It always gonna happen when you really change shape of your midfield Partey and Xhaka give us something defensively and gave Ødegaard more freedom we gone to Rice and Havertz. Rice been excellent but we still have problem with LCM that's why i wanted us to sign more natural LCM. Havertz is not LCM and we already seeing this he not connecting with our forwards Vieira doing well but he also adapting in this positionThis man.
I know guys (@Yousif Arsenal ) were questioning why some of us were singling out the Havertz transfer yesterday when other players had bad games etc.
The point is that under Arteta we play a real team game that’s only as strong as it’s weakest link. When we’re carrying the left 8 the burden it places on Ødegaard, especially when there’s 2 pretty competent DMs on the pitch, is a heavy one. And he’s been doing it every game man.
We cannot afford passengers like this. Don’t get me wrong, plenty of players turned in stinkers yesterday but my target is focused on Arteta for failing to replace Xhaka.
Had Jesus taken his chance though, everything looks better. Sp**s venture out more to equalise and we don't have to press as much anymore. Jesus more or less threw away the game not finishing his chance.
Still better than Özil who would not even botherWe got City next Sunday and I guarantee you he will do nothing as he'll be simply marked out of the game and do fugazi Alexis style pressing to wow the fans.