Loss PL: Brentford 2 - 0 Arsenal | Friday, August 13 | KO: 20:00 BST | Sky Sports

[Papa Wonga]

Even the fixtures are taking the piss

 

[Taneruit]

The Captain of the club should go and speak after a loss. You know that. Let's not play dumb. Xhaka is a disgrace eclipsed only by those who allow him to remain at the club and pollute that armband.

And just to mention here: Xhaka does this in the national team. Almost always speaks after losses. Another reason why I don't think its chosen by the players.

 

[Riou]

I bet we will end up buying the Brentford keeper after his performance tonight, but it will turn out to be a one off, and he will be crap for us.

 

[boonthegoon]

Even the fixtures are taking the piss

Oldest joke ever. Literally most teams will have h a h a fixtures.

 

[rich 1990]

I bet we will end up buying the Brentford keeper after his performance tonight, but it will turn out to be a one off, and he will be crap for us.

? He didn't have to do anything

 

[Batman]

And just to mention here: Xhaka does this in the national team. Almost always speaks after losses. Another reason why I don't think its chosen by the players.

I'll address both of your responses in this one. The captain is always supposed to speak after losses. It changed because Auba is just as cowardly and started hiding. It's nothing to do with the media or the club. The captain is supposed to do it and if he shirks the responsibility then it falls to someone else. This is as much a failing of Arteta's as of Xhaka’s because no Captain should feel it's acceptable to hide. Respectfully, I do not give a flying f*ck whether he does interviews after losses for Switzerland. He was awful yet again today and yet again his performance of the functions of a Captain was nonexistent. I am sick and tired of players who are not only not good enough for this club but actively display open contempt for it by continually disrespecting the badge and shirking their responsibilities while they collect a fat wage. Xhaka is by no means the only such player on the books but he is comfortably the most egregious and arrogant repeat offender and his status within the club correlates directly with the tailspin we are in.

 

[Halcyon Daze]

someone post what the **** had to say after the game

He basically said on Sky:

- didn’t cope well with the long balls
- rubbish first half
- no threat and not enough shots on target
- we weren’t good enough to beat them
- Leno was held for the goal

After that performance he got to look at Laura Woods interviewing him too. So wrong.

 

[Riou]

? He didn't have to do anything

He made some good saves, the one from Pepe was quality...and gathered the ball very well under pressure, passed it pretty well too.

 

[Halcyon Daze]

He made some good saves, the one from Pepe was quality...and gathered the ball very well under pressure, passed it pretty well too.

Raya was good, in terms of what he had to do.

 

[rich 1990]

He made some good saves, the one from Pepe was quality...and gathered the ball very well under pressure, passed it pretty well too.

You're easily impressed.

 

[boxerumble]

Even the fixtures are taking the piss

Surely 1 point from 6. Norwich home where we may sneak a draw.

 

[Halcyon Daze]

Carragher: no way in the world we get top 4.

No s**t. Smug prick.

 

[Blankety Blank]

The Captain of the club should go and speak after a loss. You know that. Let's not play dumb. Xhaka is a disgrace eclipsed only by those who allow him to remain at the club and pollute that armband.

Ok Auba never really comes out after a defeat tbf.
We sent the ex Anderlect Captain out.

 

[Batman]

Ok Auba never really comes out after a defeat tbf.
We sent the ex Anderlect Captain out.

Yes, which I addressed above as well as in Auba's thread. Mr. Non-negotiables runs such a tight ship that his captains hide from their media duties and he rewards them with new contracts and wage increases. Absolute joke.

 

[Blankety Blank]

Raya was good, in terms of what he had to do.no

Leno was not

 

[fred1266]

 

[Alexs]

Second goal is an utter shambles.

 

[Diesel]

How about ben whites ariel duel percentage today. Lollll those are worse than mustafi numbers. Reminder to anyone on here who doesnt remember... we got lukaku next week. Solid team we have built here. Let one guy run the whole ship for a long time. No delegation. And now we have the most dysfunctional "top" 8 team in league.

 

[Riou]

It reminded me of a exact copy, of the defeat to Sheffield United away in Emery's last season.

We were bullied, but in a completely fair way that you can't even complain about.

 

[Sebastes]

For ****s sake. I was actually more positive once the lineups were dropped seeing both Martinelli and Balogun in there. But all in all a very poor performance. Again just exposes the flaws of Arteta being principled over pragmatic and trying to play possession football with these players and not play to their strengths.

That said, this is a game we have enough talent and skill to win regardless. I’d give Tierney, Lokonga and ESR a pass. Thought they were decent. The rest was poor.

And we wouldn’t have conceded two if Holding had played. Just saying