emanuel

I can’t believe we got pecked by the seagulls, FUCK! Always hated seagulls… Anyway, Brighton were brilliant. Faster at every step, absolutely frenetic pressing, and just wanted it more. Made everything very uncomfortable and difficult for us, and played their hearts out. Kudos to them, well played. I haven’t seen the Arsenal this off the pace in a long time. It wasn’t a matter of not having any ideas going forward, we seemed to have plenty of ideas, we just couldn’t pull any of them off it seemed. Slow to everything, midfielders dropping deep to receive and leaving an enormous void in the center of the pitch, where the Brighton press just snapped up every loose ball or loose pass. It’s like we knew what to do, we just weren’t doing it. Reacting instead of acting, and facing a tempo this high, that was a recipe for disaster. Watching the players get visibly more and more frustrated as they misplaced passes, mistimed runs, and were beaten to loose balls made me unbelievably frustrated as well. I’m not going to let emotion take over and declare the sign of the end times. Yes, we were dogshit on the pitch, but I’m not really worried yet. Some players could really be giving me more (ahem, Eze, looking at you…), and certain combinations just weren’t working at all (Konsa and Gabriel looked uneasy next to each other), but there’s certainly a cause for this which I’m confident they’ll iron out. The whole match looked like Arsenal had all been poisoned, and Brighton had all smoked crack in the tunnel before coming out, and we’ve seen enough of this Arsenal team to know that’s pretty out of character. Shit games happen, better now than later I guess. Saka is indecisive in front of goal, and is taking 1-2 too many touches. Havertz needs to put that away, but nice combo with Gyokeres. Calafiori is a total footballer. Dowman🫰 The only silver lining is that we didn’t give up a 2-goal lead, at least… The next seagull I see, I’m wringing its neck, sorry mate. COYG❤️🤍

Absolutely sublime from Elche to hand out a thrashing like that down a man for 85+ minutes. Absolutely shambolic from Espanyol, I don’t even have words to describe how pathetic that was lol. Every Elche player gets a 10, every Espanyol player gets a 1. only sort of watched this game, but logging anyway…

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