I could complain about the VAR decision, but it's pointless. Sooner or later these are going to start going our way. I thought it was a great game, and Arsenal played very well. A few defensive lapses were punished by excellent passing and finishing from a talented United squad. Arteta likes to play one way--the Guardiola way. Good counterattacking teams will enjoy playing against us when we're not as clinical as we need to be. I wouldn't have played so expansively against United at Old Trafford, but the Gunners nearly pulled it off. If we're pinging the ball around like that every game, we'll do well this year. If we could get Thomas Partey back, we'd do even better.
I missed commenting on the Villa win. It was another dominant performance and a deserved three points.
We had to lose sometime. We're top of the table yet, by a point over Spuds and City. Surprising Brighton and a resurgent Man U are just behind them. There will be ups and downs. We may have to give academy kids some playing time, and we have yet to use Marquinhos. A challenging period looms, but that's what we want. Beating up on the likes of Leicester and Bournemouth is easy enough; it's teams like United we'll have to pick up points from.
The amounts paid by Premier League clubs on transfers is astonishing. Arsenal's net spend was £97M, which is a lot, but United spent more than twice that, as did a couple other clubs. Arsenal was only 7th in the spending table.
Revived MU is our next opponent, and with only six points so far, we do not have the luxury of continuing not to pick up wins when we can, and can ill afford those draws that have been our bane the past two years
ReplyDeleteCP also benefitted from a egregious VARs decision against Newcastle. So tainted that the ref who called it got suspended for a game.
ReplyDeleteI read about that, and saw a replay. I think one of your defenders shoved Joe Willock into their own goalkeeper but the ref called a foul on Willock. Aston Villa also got robbed that same day. VAR is a great idea, but they seem to be determined to find excuses to rule out goals. It's pissing off the fans and the PGMOL will have to deal with this problem. The quality of officiating has never been great, but it is getting worse.
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