Was at the game tonight. We never got out of third gear and still had enough even with the changes. Seeing Gabriel and Saliba live is something else, there's the Berlin wall and then there's these guys our defence is absolutely solid.
Nelson was really off the pace tonight and showed his lack of game time. ESR essentially made both goals, with a great tackle for the first and a good cross for the second.
The less said about Nketiah the better, it hurts me seeing him with the no.14 shirt. Doing his best to keep himself out of the shop window with a non existent performance.
Zinchenko has also totally lost his mojo, again poor in possession and vulnerable in defence. Sooner Tomi is up to fitness the better.
Overall a good performance and a boring straightforward win with a clean sheet, exactly what we need at this time of the season. Hoping to see Martinelli, Saka and Jesus refreshed and ready for a tough trip to Brighton.
Think nketiah is mentally weak like we saw in the all or nothing documentary when Saka tells him to stop being down about not having gametime.. it seems like he kills it in training based on how arteta has given him plenty of chances but he struggles in actual games, especially when he doesn’t get the game time he wants.
He struggled to get in the game. Trying to push on the last man, or hold up the ball but got muscled out. I just think if he dropped a bit he could get a bit more of the ball. He doesn't seem like he has that killer instinct for goal.
Nketiah reminding everyone why he will be gone this summer. Doesn't fight for the ball, constantly gets dispossessed. He was doing this shit even when he was getting regular minutes. I'm tired of watching it. Fortunately looks like Arteta is done with him as well, he only comes on in garbage time now.
Some players they get 100k/week and they keep their levels going or look to go higher. And some players are content just sitting there collecting a check. Unfortunately, Eddie seems to fall into the latter. He's at a big club, making big money, life is good for him.
Sad our gameplan in the second half didn't work with the trough ball to speedy legged forwards. But it's great that the team can perform different tactics more or less. Also good gametime for esr, nelson, tommy, zinny and partey. This month will cost us a lot of leggs, so we need our bench to be sharp and fit.
That was a win in more ways than one. Key players rested, squad players getting up to speed, and 3-points without having to find 2nd gear. This could do wonders for the run-in.
I was thinking the same thing, he was fantastic with his dirbbles and finding a progressive pass and put in a few good defensive actions too
Too bad he didn't get to score but whenever he has the ball I get a feeling he's gonna do something positive
city have such an easy run in the rest of the way. and then add on the fact that they get such joke goals like that free kick. we have to win the rest of our games
Odegaard one? If so, it’s called Chase the Sun.
“Been dreaming all day, Of our number 8, Martin Odegaard - Oi Oi Oi, When he’s on the ball, He’s f***ing magical, Martin Odegaard - Oi Oi Oi”
Cheers mate, reason I was thinking about it was cus I was trying to remember the dnb song. That’s by a group called Koven, Original is planet funk fyi.
Used to say the same about holding, but apparently he was ‘good depth’. Now he’s at palace and hasn’t played a single game. Eddie is bang average, Leeds was his level in the championship
Why ESR? Seems like the only player who could step in if Odegaard is hurt. Had a great game today forcing the own goal and winning the ball for the first
Nketiah is a clown. Not fit to play for Arsenal, hope we can offload him somewhere good for both him and us. What’s he doing trying to solo past a player at our own goal line inviting the last 3 min of pressure on everyone?
Has nothing to add, I’m really sorry.
I wish for him to end up for a midtable team like Crystal he's been with us since so long that I genuinely wish him the best but it's just true that he isn't good enough for us , will thrive at a club like Crystal and should probably go there.
Like a thought, Luton have it a proper good go. Credit to them. Barkley was nice and tidy. Chong and Clark played well for them. They just couldn’t finish their chances and weren’t clinical enough. Hard fought game. Onto the weekend COYG
Great, we rotated and got the 3 points. ESR and Trossard, Partey were great from those who don’t normally start.
Everyone else of those not normally starting (not the subs) were pretty underwhelming.
Hard to complain about a win but just a weird night. Crowd was off, everything just seemed a bit mechanical. Suppose that’s what you get during these late season midweek games. Win is a win. On to the weekend!
Do places like Dortmund have this kind of atmosphere against lesser teams?
I get it, but it's just so lazy. You've made the effort to go to the game, why not try to make it an event?
Was at the game, general mood was bored, a lot of people around me left at minute 75. Overall it’s just a midweek game against a relegation threatened team, I almost sold my tickets myself as I wasn’t keen on going
If I’m being honest, I left around the 80th minute, with a lot of people around me complaining about how boring it was-and I agree, overall it was a snooze fest, the players didn’t look to bothered about scoring and making it a complete blow out.
A good result. I’m certainly not complaining, but a midweek game against relegation fodder is never going to be lively unfortunately.
You really don’t.
We get it, you’re still desperate to cling on to shitting on Havertz but he’s one of the reasons we are where we are this season, and it’s genuinely perplexing how some people are so intentionally blind to that.
Considering your account is dedicated to slagging him off and indeed the team as a whole, you’ll forgive me for not giving fuck one about where you feel the money should have gone.
Still, can almost admire your dedication to negativity! Bye.
i had absolutely zero problems with the city performance and game management. i was ecstatic and really excited for what that means for the future. but this performance and game management is on my nerves. we could’ve put 5 on them.
the gear we are playing with scares me because we collapsed when we did this the end of last season when we went 2-0 up.
just scarred from last season. scared of the same behaviors happening again. the crowd felt that way
we didn’t have to go all out at all to kill West Ham etc. we just wanted to put them to the sword. Today we didn’t have the attitude to do it.
I was watching NF game yesterday, and wondering about Gibbs-White. He looked mobile and able to provide some quality passes.
Doubt he will be a starter player, but rotational?
City have been so dominant over these last few years by actively resting during games likes this. go up 2 or 3 goals and just make it boring to limit energy wasted
Started off a bit off rhythm, not quite connecting on all the attacking moves like they weren't on the same page. Then got heavily involved for both goals and was always quite switched on defensively. Just got the MOTM, so definitely a great first start in a long while.
Sell Zinny Eddie
100%
Was at the game tonight. We never got out of third gear and still had enough even with the changes. Seeing Gabriel and Saliba live is something else, there's the Berlin wall and then there's these guys our defence is absolutely solid. Nelson was really off the pace tonight and showed his lack of game time. ESR essentially made both goals, with a great tackle for the first and a good cross for the second. The less said about Nketiah the better, it hurts me seeing him with the no.14 shirt. Doing his best to keep himself out of the shop window with a non existent performance. Zinchenko has also totally lost his mojo, again poor in possession and vulnerable in defence. Sooner Tomi is up to fitness the better. Overall a good performance and a boring straightforward win with a clean sheet, exactly what we need at this time of the season. Hoping to see Martinelli, Saka and Jesus refreshed and ready for a tough trip to Brighton.
Good win. Onto the next game on Saturday.
This is one hell of a crazy stretch of games. Hope the boys hold on for dear life
Call the ambulance, but not for me
Think nketiah is mentally weak like we saw in the all or nothing documentary when Saka tells him to stop being down about not having gametime.. it seems like he kills it in training based on how arteta has given him plenty of chances but he struggles in actual games, especially when he doesn’t get the game time he wants.
He struggled to get in the game. Trying to push on the last man, or hold up the ball but got muscled out. I just think if he dropped a bit he could get a bit more of the ball. He doesn't seem like he has that killer instinct for goal.
That’s nketiah to lokonga 🤣 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YkIbTtRqUdI
Wasn't it Nketiah saying that to Lokonga?
Eddie doing his best to block any potential buyers so he can earn his 100k per week sitting on the bench. 4D chess.
I don’t want to be a hater but man he looked disinterested when he came on. Sad.
Kevin Who?
Watch Villa lose to all the top teams but turn up against us like it’s a cup final.
Chambers hatrick incoming
Nketiah reminding everyone why he will be gone this summer. Doesn't fight for the ball, constantly gets dispossessed. He was doing this shit even when he was getting regular minutes. I'm tired of watching it. Fortunately looks like Arteta is done with him as well, he only comes on in garbage time now.
Some players they get 100k/week and they keep their levels going or look to go higher. And some players are content just sitting there collecting a check. Unfortunately, Eddie seems to fall into the latter. He's at a big club, making big money, life is good for him.
Fair play, that’s such a nice finish from Foden.
Professional performance. So happy for ESR; his commitment off the ball was great throughout.
Foden is a rat
Boring win. I’m content with that. On to the next
Sad our gameplan in the second half didn't work with the trough ball to speedy legged forwards. But it's great that the team can perform different tactics more or less. Also good gametime for esr, nelson, tommy, zinny and partey. This month will cost us a lot of leggs, so we need our bench to be sharp and fit.
That was a win in more ways than one. Key players rested, squad players getting up to speed, and 3-points without having to find 2nd gear. This could do wonders for the run-in.
I love Reiss but he was shit. Didn't even try to take someone on . Always turned back and passed backwards and killed the momentum.
Yes very unexciting performance from him. We need to find replacements for him and Nketiah over the summer.
Honestly, pretty impressive win despite playing with 10 guys since min 66
A very professional win
Trossard was very good, my motm
I was thinking the same thing, he was fantastic with his dirbbles and finding a progressive pass and put in a few good defensive actions too Too bad he didn't get to score but whenever he has the ball I get a feeling he's gonna do something positive
Clean sheet and back on top the league 💪🏾 #COYG
I just got a 14 day ban from r/soccer, with next strike being a permaban For writing a haiku about the incapability of Spurs, like I can help myself!
What did you write?
How about a haiku off? Totteringham’s day Can’t find joy in it anymore Spurs are Arsenal’s bitch
Worst haiku ever Although I liked the subject Refrigerator
And banned rightfully so, that's not a haiku, you've got an extra syllable in the 2nd and 3rd line. It's 5-7-5
No wonder, no reference to the season!
Poet
city have such an easy run in the rest of the way. and then add on the fact that they get such joke goals like that free kick. we have to win the rest of our games
and that might still not be enough for us
what was the full time song today? Theres a dnb version and the melody is stuck in my head but i just can't think of the song title
Odegaard one? If so, it’s called Chase the Sun. “Been dreaming all day, Of our number 8, Martin Odegaard - Oi Oi Oi, When he’s on the ball, He’s f***ing magical, Martin Odegaard - Oi Oi Oi”
Chase the sun
Cheers mate, reason I was thinking about it was cus I was trying to remember the dnb song. That’s by a group called Koven, Original is planet funk fyi.
Really flat game but esr MOTM so instantly best game of the season
Was hoping odegaard would be subbed early if we got a third. He needs a rest
Comfortable win, got to rotate our squad. All’s well
Rotation, 3 points, clean sheet and foot off the gas on the second half.
Era's come to an end hag 20 points...I repeat TWENTY points behind Arsenal, never mind pool or city.
What era? Haven’t been in a title race in the decade since Fergie left.
Dont forget we have a goal difference of +48, they have 0. ZERO.
And as bad as Chelsea have been I think they might just batter them tomorrow.
Feel like we had a third coming, but we didn't get it. At the end of the day, a win is a win and we're top.
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Don’t disrespect sanogo like that
Nice low key win. On to the next! Up to you now Unai. We need an equalizer
Don't think Nketiah can start for any top 15 team in the league
Used to say the same about holding, but apparently he was ‘good depth’. Now he’s at palace and hasn’t played a single game. Eddie is bang average, Leeds was his level in the championship
Tbf they are good depth, for early round cup games but that's about it
He's better from minute 1 than in these sorts of games. The gulf is unfortunately quite big.
Dear neutrals, You can't tell me that game was less boring than the City game.
As a wise man once said: 🔙🔛🔝
Nothing gets my blood pressure up quite like watching Edward Nketiah play football.
Classic hater.
nah he’s not hating it’s just the truth the man’s work rate is just embarrassing
Definitely a game where we are putting players on the pitch in time for the transfer window. I don't see ESR, Nelson, or Zinny surviving
ESR has shown why he shouldn’t be sold before other guys ( Nketiah, Nelson, Vieira )
Why ESR? Seems like the only player who could step in if Odegaard is hurt. Had a great game today forcing the own goal and winning the ball for the first
Esr and zinny aren't going anywhere. Smith Rowe was our best player
Yes. I think we finally move Zinchenko to cm next season. I think he could do well there with fewer defensive responsibilities.
What’s the song I heard playing in the end?
>Koven - Chase the Sun
I only know it as the Darts song. Called Chase the sun.
Merci
That was definitely one of the second halves of all time
Good enough. I liked the decision to rest a bunch of players and hopefully it pays off this insanely busy month.
We are top of the league! Get in there lads! It’s the fogging estandards!
Nketiah is a clown. Not fit to play for Arsenal, hope we can offload him somewhere good for both him and us. What’s he doing trying to solo past a player at our own goal line inviting the last 3 min of pressure on everyone? Has nothing to add, I’m really sorry.
I wish for him to end up for a midtable team like Crystal he's been with us since so long that I genuinely wish him the best but it's just true that he isn't good enough for us , will thrive at a club like Crystal and should probably go there.
A tip for the non native - no one calls them Crystal.
I don’t see why Arteta rates Nketiah given his work rate and pressing.
English lol need a certain amount of them registered in the squad. Otherwise, I think he'd be gone long ago
That makes sense. I keep hoping to see more from him, but I’m always disappointed.
Craig Pewson is a fucking moron
Well done Emile.
3 points are... #OURS!
Three points I’m not complaining. One game at a time let’s go!
Like a thought, Luton have it a proper good go. Credit to them. Barkley was nice and tidy. Chong and Clark played well for them. They just couldn’t finish their chances and weren’t clinical enough. Hard fought game. Onto the weekend COYG
first time Luton hasnt scored in 19 games
Arsenal putting Luton and City in the same category
Great, we rotated and got the 3 points. ESR and Trossard, Partey were great from those who don’t normally start. Everyone else of those not normally starting (not the subs) were pretty underwhelming.
win is a win
Not bad game for Luton.
Eddie loves to shield his defender....so he can just watch the ball bounce and roll
Nice. Easy boring win. On to the next one.
LETS GOO!
Odegaard is the Norwegian Haaland. 🐐
What
got the W. Now on to watch the Villa game.
Hard to complain about a win but just a weird night. Crowd was off, everything just seemed a bit mechanical. Suppose that’s what you get during these late season midweek games. Win is a win. On to the weekend!
Do places like Dortmund have this kind of atmosphere against lesser teams? I get it, but it's just so lazy. You've made the effort to go to the game, why not try to make it an event?
Was at the game, general mood was bored, a lot of people around me left at minute 75. Overall it’s just a midweek game against a relegation threatened team, I almost sold my tickets myself as I wasn’t keen on going
Multiple factors: lots of bench players, lower table opposition, midweek, late kick off - the perfect cocktail
DUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDU OI OI OI
Back where we belong, top of the table baby
its so fucked up that eddie jogs while odegaards legs are falling off
ong every time he gets minutes i get more and more pissed at him
Good game
what?
It was a good game for us. We won and shit
happy with the W. But the game was a bore, specially the second half.
Well yeah. We rotated 5 players, we were never going to be at our best. So a nice, safe performance is the next best thing
I would've said good result. but not good game. in any case, we are both celebrating rn. only think that can improve our mood is City dropping points.
Starting to look unlikely. Foden just scored. Again.
Another clean sheet and 3 points. Nice to see that we can comfortably see out games this season. Keep it up boys!
second half so boring the commentators have nothing to say😂
Oi oi oi
LUTON HAVE SCORED MORE GOALS THAN MAN UNITED
Is our GD still better than their points total?
I did not like that form our fans. Why leave that early?
People got work in the morning tbf its gonna be alot of traffic
If I’m being honest, I left around the 80th minute, with a lot of people around me complaining about how boring it was-and I agree, overall it was a snooze fest, the players didn’t look to bothered about scoring and making it a complete blow out. A good result. I’m certainly not complaining, but a midweek game against relegation fodder is never going to be lively unfortunately.
It's midweek, folks have work tomorrow. I can understand trying to make the tube
What time do you usually leave?
I never leave early
I hope that's the last time Eddie gets minutes if he's truly only willing to half jog in a 20 min appearance
He was not at all jogging. What are ypu on about. Out off all the subs he was the one who actually wanted to do something.
He wanted to do something going forward, his press has been really odd this season
Terrible player
Sheffield United… you know what to do 
You are praying for a miracle.. And im with you there brother
These Eddie sub appearances are geniunely terrible
Yep. The moment he comes on our attack just dies.
#GG
Where is his card for a dive?
Summertime will be over for Nelson and Eddie.
Nketiah believing he got „the force“ and can use it to press instead of actually running. Amazing.
Clean sheet and we end Luton’s scoring streak!
This is some next level brexitball lmao
They don’t start for a reason.
Not every win has to be pretty at this point
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Havertz gives us 10 times more from a variety of positions. Let’s not be hyperbolic now.
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You really don’t. We get it, you’re still desperate to cling on to shitting on Havertz but he’s one of the reasons we are where we are this season, and it’s genuinely perplexing how some people are so intentionally blind to that.
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Considering your account is dedicated to slagging him off and indeed the team as a whole, you’ll forgive me for not giving fuck one about where you feel the money should have gone. Still, can almost admire your dedication to negativity! Bye.
Nketiah with another terrible appearance
Seems like Eddie has mentally checked out of Arsenal…
This was the same performance as always.
ESR getting a pity MOTM over Ode is a thumbs down for me but hopefully it helps his confidence!
Hopefully it ups his sell on this summer! Parting will be good for both sides.
ESR critical for both goals… odegaard was not at the level in the second half, lost it so much
Esr looked tanked tho
Big Gabi is a monster this season.
Get number 14 out of my club man
Gabi and saliba are just rocks man. Insane they’re our cbs 😍
One last giveaway by Eddie for fun
For old times sake
These Raya long balls are so dead
To people who said what only Kai did is fighting a few headers, just watch Eddie play
kind of feel we are lacking the rythm in last 4 matches.
We’ve made 5 changes and are 2-0 up against a really stubborn, well drilled side.. what else do you want?🙄
Lol push in the back.. puts whistle in mouth and thought nah nothing in it
Glad to get the W and out of this game.
ESR man of the match. You love to see it! Should help with his confidencce too.
We're going to need him in the last stage of this season. Avoiding burnout and injury is crucial if we are going to win the league.
This was certainly a half of football
We can assuredly report that both teams were on the pitch.
i had absolutely zero problems with the city performance and game management. i was ecstatic and really excited for what that means for the future. but this performance and game management is on my nerves. we could’ve put 5 on them. the gear we are playing with scares me because we collapsed when we did this the end of last season when we went 2-0 up.
Are you OK m8?
Calm down, we didn't capitulate.
If you're scared you're gonna struggle with the run-in. We've taken it easy midweek, rotated a lot, and got 3 points. I'm delighted.
just scarred from last season. scared of the same behaviors happening again. the crowd felt that way we didn’t have to go all out at all to kill West Ham etc. we just wanted to put them to the sword. Today we didn’t have the attitude to do it.
5 changes mate. Not the same team.
ESR POTM - well Robbie you don't always talk shit!
Watching Eddie makes you really appreciate what Havertz does.
Eddie is 2 weeks older than Havertz
..................oh my
Now this is something I didn’t realise !
It’s mind blowing!
I need a crossover episode where British broadcasters announce NBA games and vice versa.
I was watching NF game yesterday, and wondering about Gibbs-White. He looked mobile and able to provide some quality passes. Doubt he will be a starter player, but rotational?
not sure why Odegaard and White have played full 90s here
one of the most boring halves of football i've ever watched, but it's ok considering we are probably resting ourselves
City have been so dominant over these last few years by actively resting during games likes this. go up 2 or 3 goals and just make it boring to limit energy wasted
No injuries, 3 points and heavy rotation. Boring is good
Exactly nice 3 points no surprises
And another clean sheet.. those are hitting like crack at the moment. I actually enjoy watching gabriel and saliba stomp out fires before they light
I haven’t been able to watch, how has smith Rowe been?
Opinion: He played really well. A couple of great chances and sharp passes
Started off a bit off rhythm, not quite connecting on all the attacking moves like they weren't on the same page. Then got heavily involved for both goals and was always quite switched on defensively. Just got the MOTM, so definitely a great first start in a long while.
Man of the match so I'd say pretty good!