Óscar Portugal

At least you could try and debate, but at the end, it's up to you. Good 2nd half after Ødegaard came in, hope you liked it too.

Excluiding plays coming from corners, they literally have failed to shot from inside the box, and have shot only 1 from outside. They seem incapable of creating anything semi-dangerous other than Madueke's 1v1 outside on the right. I don't think that's what you call "intent".

And in Woltemade's goal Gabriel just loses the position to him and gets slightly pushed the same way Gabriel himself usually does in these kind of plays. Everything looked correct to me.

To me it looked like the right call. It's true that Pope trips Gyokeres, but he touches the ball first.

With midfielder I meant the CCB acting like a "mediocentro" (I can't remember the term in english) by stepping up one line to form a double pivot. I think it's a repeatable plan even for teams that don't usually play with 3 cbs and actually quite a challenge to Arteta to adapt.

Any chance teams will look for a 3-4-3 structure with a midfielder between 2 wide CBs and wingbacks upfield to get advantage of this weak spot in Arteta's plan?

"MLS has been playing great and has a really special talent, but if he wants to establish as starting wingback he has to stop losing possesion in dangerous zones."

Of course other days (like yesterday) things just doesn't go his way and the advantages are for PSG.

Well, that's something about his game that we've all seen since day one. Actually the most extraordinary thing about him is his high "win percentage" in those 50-50 situations in which he is under pressure but somehow manages to escape and create a huge advantage for his teamates.

Probably Nwaneri has some issue. It's so weird he didn't get to start vs Palace if he's not injured.

Maybe this off time has helped him to analyze his game a bit more. But yeah, suddenly he looks up instead to his laces when making a cross!!

How is possible that suddenly he's making all the right decisions when before his injury he was always making the wrong one?

Do you really think Gyokeres is the kind of 9 Arsenal need? I think the best Arsenal (on offence) we've seen under Arteta was with Gabriel Jesús up top more as an associative profile rather than a pure striker (Gyokeres), wouldn't Isak fit better than him? Is he really that expensive? #arsecastextra

Adding Isak to the equation I think it would be a must for Arteta to win some major trophy.
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+ Nwaneri, Trossard, Martinelli, Havertz... looks like one of the best squads in Europe to me.

As I just answered on Tw: Rice-Zubimendi-Ødegaard and instead of signing another midfielder I would invert that money in a quality LW. Zubimendi is more than capable to play the ball from the back by himself so Rice can have more freedom to play more like 22/23 Xhaka as a facilitator in that LHS.

Óscar Portugal on X: "Me es imposible no imaginarme escenarios en mi cabeza. Sería la persona más feliz del mundo si él,de entre todos los posibles, fuese el que le diera el pase a semis al Arsenal en el Bernabéu. Lloraría como un mamón." / X Me es imposible no imaginarme escenarios en mi cabeza. Sería la persona más feliz del mundo si él,de entre todos los posibles, fuese el que le diera el pase a semis al Arsenal en el Bernabéu. Lloraría como un mamón.

So am I. Specially knowing most RM fans call him a crybaby who ran away as a coward from the Madrid challenge insted of fighting for a place in midfield (Peak KCM). So it would be a double-pleasure to shut them up in such fashion. (I tweeted this today which explains it better)
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Absolutely agree. This season he's been slightly above average (yesterday he was just above +0,4) but I demand more in order to match his CBs pair. Another flaw is his silly mistakes (ex: that cross he deflects to Saibari vs PSV which could have cost Arsenal the 1-0) that cost goals.

True. Felt way more comfortable on the ball. Obviously still catching strays on Tw but this performance could be a turning point in his season. Maybe it's too late...but if he plays well enough against ATM/RM while the atackers are slowly recovering... Arsenal might still have a chance!