The answer is pretty much they move the ball too damn slow. There’s really no reason to over think this at all..
Arteta. Constantly complaining just puts more unnecessary pressure on the team. Too emotional on the touchline, a distraction + even more pressure, probably even worse in the dressing room. Not something a young squad needs.
Unable to change tactics, teams have figured them out. Teams are just pumping the ball towards Zinchenko because he’s a fucking liability defensively. Sit deep, stop wingers, counter.
Simply they overperformed last season.
They have good defensive players but quality of attackers are just mid table. They will go down soon.
The league this season is just calling their bluff… This is just the same old Arsenal, except this year not everyone else is having a shit season.
Lots of issues but I think it mostly boils down to a young squad.
That dog. That’s what’s behind it
It’s a nonce club.
They always over perform until they visit Anfield and then it’s season over. Same thing happened last season in April.
Cabbage players
Nothing much. Just us not being able to produce goals finally catching up with us.
No urgency. Just a bunch of side passes, i hate Partey so much but we are so finished without him.
Lmao at all the downvotes from arsenal fans
Their supporters asking questions like this.
The amount of downvotes people are getting for giving constructive opinions is a joke. A question was asked, people answered.
The unofficial Arsenal sub Reddit. Fanbase is unable to take criticism like any other. Fucking ban them from the sub or rename it.
Its not that complex. Its like no one has ever played football manager!
They have more competitions this year so players are fatigued.
They were good last year so every other team has spent more time preparing to play them and have adapted their tactics to counter Arsenals.
They don’t have a goalscorer in form. But people act like that’s easy to get. Haaland cost Man City like £300 million all in and took months to negotiate.
But it really is the European games that make a huge difference and expose squad depth problems. Its not coincidence the blip is at the point the players fatigue is at its highest.
They aren’t winning as much
It’s the refs fault
Other than the Fulham game which we were poor and 2nd half against Liverpool, we’ve played very well just have been poor converting our chances. Should have won against Villa and West Ham
1 win in 5 Is a huge slump they went from top to 4th in a week.
Ben and Saka are playing through injuries
They have a bottlejob culture and their players and manager simply are not good enough to win the big titles I’m afraid. Crying softie Arsenal fans can downvote this if they want but its the truth.. They had a solid last season and can add that to their 2nd place trophies, maybe it will go next to the CL 2nd place trophy from 06, it is a well known fact that Arsenal are not made to compete with the big clubs. Their realistic target should be finishing above Spurs maybe, leave the big trophies to clubs with champion mentalities
Them being shite bottlers I expect
A lot of minutes being played. Tomkins Times did a great article about how Liverpool are able to rotate heavier this season because we were god awful last year and thus aren’t in the CL against stronger teams. With the EL we have been able to utilise more of the squad.
He put a graph together of the top 25 players’ minutes for City, Arsenal and Liverpool up until Christmas. The top 14 or so are Arsenal and City players. Liverpool only have 5 in the list and one of them is Becker.
For comparison: Saliba has played 800 minutes more football than Virgil.
Newcastle are also finding out that having to compete on multiple fronts is hard and you can buy a few players to get CL football (helps if two teams like Chelsea and Liverpool are off that year) but keeping it relies on continual strengthening of the squad.
I can’t seem to put images here so here is a link:
Playing 4-1-4-1, Rice has a lot on his plate. Plus he can’t play centrally like partey could. Doing a great job nevertheless. Also with the advent of havertz, we can’t commit fullbacks playing inverted completely and when we do, we’re often at a risk of conceding on counter. Also need a new striker. Partey needs to come in clutch with ucl knockouts upcoming
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Why can’t Arsenal win every game they play? Are they stupid?
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The answer is pretty much they move the ball too damn slow. There’s really no reason to over think this at all..
Arteta. Constantly complaining just puts more unnecessary pressure on the team. Too emotional on the touchline, a distraction + even more pressure, probably even worse in the dressing room. Not something a young squad needs.
Unable to change tactics, teams have figured them out. Teams are just pumping the ball towards Zinchenko because he’s a fucking liability defensively. Sit deep, stop wingers, counter.
Simply they overperformed last season.
They have good defensive players but quality of attackers are just mid table. They will go down soon.
The league this season is just calling their bluff… This is just the same old Arsenal, except this year not everyone else is having a shit season.
Lots of issues but I think it mostly boils down to a young squad.
That dog. That’s what’s behind it
It’s a nonce club.
They always over perform until they visit Anfield and then it’s season over. Same thing happened last season in April.
Cabbage players
Nothing much. Just us not being able to produce goals finally catching up with us.
No urgency. Just a bunch of side passes, i hate Partey so much but we are so finished without him.
Lmao at all the downvotes from arsenal fans
Their supporters asking questions like this.
The amount of downvotes people are getting for giving constructive opinions is a joke. A question was asked, people answered.
The unofficial Arsenal sub Reddit. Fanbase is unable to take criticism like any other. Fucking ban them from the sub or rename it.
Its not that complex. Its like no one has ever played football manager!
They have more competitions this year so players are fatigued.
They were good last year so every other team has spent more time preparing to play them and have adapted their tactics to counter Arsenals.
They don’t have a goalscorer in form. But people act like that’s easy to get. Haaland cost Man City like £300 million all in and took months to negotiate.
But it really is the European games that make a huge difference and expose squad depth problems. Its not coincidence the blip is at the point the players fatigue is at its highest.
They aren’t winning as much
It’s the refs fault
Other than the Fulham game which we were poor and 2nd half against Liverpool, we’ve played very well just have been poor converting our chances. Should have won against Villa and West Ham
1 win in 5 Is a huge slump they went from top to 4th in a week.
Ben and Saka are playing through injuries
They have a bottlejob culture and their players and manager simply are not good enough to win the big titles I’m afraid. Crying softie Arsenal fans can downvote this if they want but its the truth.. They had a solid last season and can add that to their 2nd place trophies, maybe it will go next to the CL 2nd place trophy from 06, it is a well known fact that Arsenal are not made to compete with the big clubs. Their realistic target should be finishing above Spurs maybe, leave the big trophies to clubs with champion mentalities
Them being shite bottlers I expect
A lot of minutes being played. Tomkins Times did a great article about how Liverpool are able to rotate heavier this season because we were god awful last year and thus aren’t in the CL against stronger teams. With the EL we have been able to utilise more of the squad.
He put a graph together of the top 25 players’ minutes for City, Arsenal and Liverpool up until Christmas. The top 14 or so are Arsenal and City players. Liverpool only have 5 in the list and one of them is Becker.
For comparison: Saliba has played 800 minutes more football than Virgil.
Newcastle are also finding out that having to compete on multiple fronts is hard and you can buy a few players to get CL football (helps if two teams like Chelsea and Liverpool are off that year) but keeping it relies on continual strengthening of the squad.
I can’t seem to put images here so here is a link:
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F521e0c74-6323-481c-8abb-4afa09f15d47_1966x1952.png
Billy Carpenter also wrote an [extremely good (and long) piece](https://billycarpenter.substack.com/p/what-ails-arsenal) on this particular subject.
THOMAS TEYE PARTEY.
Playing 4-1-4-1, Rice has a lot on his plate. Plus he can’t play centrally like partey could. Doing a great job nevertheless. Also with the advent of havertz, we can’t commit fullbacks playing inverted completely and when we do, we’re often at a risk of conceding on counter. Also need a new striker. Partey needs to come in clutch with ucl knockouts upcoming
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Why can’t Arsenal win every game they play? Are they stupid?