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First half. He tried 4 crosses and 2 was blocked (well they looked blocked). He tried one take on, and failed. https://gyazo.com/d295ceb651ded2a89c564620dac79ae3.png

Find a manager from spain/germany who does super sick high press. Give me something to enjoy watching whilst we get relegated which seems nailed on. Offer them a lot of money

Just a standard player for a team in our position really. Makes quite a few mistakes. Does quite a lot of things right. He does more right than any of our cb's though and is clearly our best CB. Best of a bad bunch though...

10 comments about not missing his corners coming in 3..2..1...

this is one of the most retarded things ive read on this site. I bet youre paying for your coaching badges right now so that you can go earn yourself a couple mil£ in a straight forward job. Or is it too simple for you? Being a football manager is ridiculously hard and you have literally 0 idea what it involves. I bet you dont even know how to take a training session do you which is managment 101. you come across as the "complete thicko" here tbh. yes I do know how to take a coaching session thank you very much. Well the next obvious step is to do an AVB. Do a match report (obviously a game with westwood in it), say your standard "westwood is bad, pass ball sideways too much, not enough forward". Send it to a few teams to show your elite simple knowledge of the game. And very quickly rise your way through the ranks of the over-complicating complete thickos to earn yourself a few milly £ a year taking AVFC to mid table. But im going to guess you will just stay on message boards saying how simple things are without having a scooby.

if i was his dad i would let him do whatever the f' jack wanted as hes not 4 years old anymore....

Mourinho is the gift that keeps on giving! If they dont beat liverpool weekend, is that top 4 over? :S edit: just looked at table, surprised liverpool/spurs dont have more points compared to chelsea

this is one of the most retarded things ive read on this site. I bet youre paying for your coaching badges right now so that you can go earn yourself a couple mil£ in a straight forward job. Or is it too simple for you? Being a football manager is ridiculously hard and you have literally 0 idea what it involves. I bet you dont even know how to take a training session do you which is managment 101. you come across as the "complete thicko" here tbh.

Pretty anonymous in first half but so was everything down the left. Came out well second half, got assist, typical gabby shot (looking like he wouldnt score) and contributed well defensively. Pretty solid performance

you watch the same game? Bacuna and Gana were heaps better than Westwood. Tim cost us playing a couple of clowns again. They drove into attacking areas more, yes. is that better? We had a lot less cover in the middle on the break. that's tactical though. We've lost games when Westwood plays due to clowns too. Doesn't mean he's responsible. pretty obvious this.

dont think bacuna does what westwood does at all. Too many touches/slow and some easy passes that westwood would find easy hes over hitting. But he isnt doing bad in there sooo...

gil should be starting every game. not grealish

That is possibly the worst thing I've ever read on here... ever. you quoting it is just giving it what it wants. it has proven to be a troll before sooo....

but thats true?

Deli Ali has apprently been awesome for spurs sooo... (i havent watched spurs much, but spurs fans i speak to they been raving about him a lot this year)

and we know what sinclair, ayew and adama have given us so far this season. Its **** all

sinclair + ayew + adama have done nothing more than gabby. Sinclair, Ayew an Adama haven't played over 300 games for us. errrr ok. Wonderful point as to whether someone should start today or not.

sinclair + ayew + adama have done nothing more than gabby.

Worst topic ever: "whos bigger than who?". Who cares, footballers dont go to teams depending on whos bigger. Its all down to current league position and $$ (mostly $). Arguing over whos bigger is just pointless.

I want him in the side instead of sinclair/Adama tbh. Hes probably "created" the most or just as many as any of our players this season in the final third. Gil goal, sinclair should have scored, drag back to some other people i forgot who in another game. Given the options for the wing or at front, and given ^, think he should start. Sinclair is just pointless, doesnt do anything for 87mins. Adama is just a disaster to have in your side for 90mins curently

He needs to be given consistent games in the side, not the odd sub performance. no, he needs to be showing that hes better than westwood and co in training to get the consistent game time. Not just because hes a player we signed so he must get consistent games. You shouldnt just be given Apps, should be earning them and maybe he just isnt showing it training? (certainly hasnt shown hes an improvement over westwood and co when hes come on the pitch so its hard to just give him a game for sake of it. Seems wrong to)

no, not any better because i dont think theyre going to be having full on conversations on the pitch. Pretty sure every single one of them can understand "oi X, mark Y", "get tighter" "man on" "leave it" "Close down you prick" The amount of tactics/teamwork that is shouted between players on the pitch will be pretty small. It will mostly be 1 or 2 word shouting which everyone of them can understand. (or the difference would be negligible)

why is it a "little odd" if you understand xG metric? It becomes perfectly clear why i think Arsenal were more deserving if you understood it (which you apparently said you do) I would be making the same arguments for BM if they beat arsenal in the xG metric but ended up losing the game, which they never. They lost on both. I fail to see the point youre trying to make? Arsenal deserved to win that game and they did? Also if all that you took away from that is xG then you clearly didnt understand the point about looking at short term thinking (monaco went through so they deserved it) vs long term (using tools to try help reduce variance of variables to see who the deserving winners, one example was xG but that was only because you made a comment about it).

Maybe they should ditch actual goals and start using 'expected goals' to decide who wins matches. Does it really matter who would win the tie more often? Monaco won it the only time that it mattered. Unless you're going to use the precise same logic to point out why Bayern would have won last night "more often than Arsenal with the exact same setup/tactics"... Yes, of course it matters to look at long term when evaluating whether a team is good or bad, it reduces the effects of variables (which is what xg is essentially doing). If youre saying tactics/formation/team selection is good because you won the game, and its bad because you lost the game, then that line of thinking is incredibly flawed when it comes to analysing the game (e.g. monaco won the only time it mattered therefore wenger is naive/st00pid because he played high line/attacking) and predicting future results. Ill give ultra extreme example to help show the point: if aston villa played BM, and we played 11 strikers, BM had 1000 shots but hit the post everytime from 2 yards out, in the 90th minute, AV break, with BM only having 2 people at the back, our striker shoots our only shot of the game from 40yards, somehow scores and we win the game. Did Tim Sherwood get tactics right? and is Pep defensively naive because he only had two people at the back which didnt stop the shot and they lost 1-0? By your line of thinking "monaco won it the only time it mattered", then the answers to these questions would be yes. TS is a tactical genius and pep sucks. But i know you can see how flawed this is, of course pep didnt get it wrong, of course sherwood got it wrong (he could have set up the team which led to BM not dominating so much which means BM win less over the long run etc etc). BM expected goals would probably 700+, and AV expected goals would be 0.000001. The system pep used would dominate the system TS used way more often but the short term one game result of this 1 game doesnt show that so we try to use tools to get the real picture of the game. One way to get the "long term real picture" of the game is to use expected goals (and its pretty legit). You can do a quick google to learn about exactly what expected goals is. (the google will explain better than i) And yes we should ditch actual goals in a game and replace it with expected goals when were analysing teams performance as you will find out why if you google about xG, Given that its better at predicting future results and giving you the overall picture of previous results compared to actual full time goals stat. thats what were doing in this thread, analysing previous wenger games etc. Do i want it to be replaced in real life game? of course not, the variance in sport is exactly what makes sport fun. That random 30 yard screamer to win the game when you dont deserve to win is what gives the emotion of football and all the unknowns. But that doesnt mean we cant use other methods to analyse games after and see what went right/wrong. And if one method is proven to be better at analysing then why wouldnt you use it? People just have this weird phobia of stats. The funny thing about the xG stuff is that people do the exact same thing with their mates in the pub All the difference is that its put onto the map and the actual number for a shot is more legit and backed up. E.g. gabby should have scored 1 goal, so we should have won 1-0 (pub talk), whereas xG is saying gabby on average scores 60% of the time so villa should have won 0.6-0 Im not very good at explaning and im sorry if i didnt make the points clear, and if its just tldr. I feel like some semi important points were missing (about the data behind the value of a shot in xG is the "long term") but didnt want to make too long Hope it helped a bit though. Final edit: Of course xG isnt everything in football, but its far more legit and unbiased compared to a random guy saying Arsenal got ripped apart so wenger is naive because they let in 3 goals in this one game.

i did try to google it earlier but couldnt find anything. But i always thought Arsenal always had more points or on par with the rest of the top 4 teams against lower opposition (which makes talking about them games semi pointless, e.g. stoke etc) but they would just never win a game against top 4/5. Now with that changing and they can actually compete, they will have a serious title challenge like you said. I do think a lot of people would focus on their losses against lower opposition a lot more compared to the other top 4 losses because of their inability to beat top 4, but dont think we will see the same bashing for it this season (could be wrong with points vs lower opposition compared to other top 4 teams)