4) Mikel Arteta deserves all the credit in the world for what he has done for Arsenal. And he will do so much more.
5) Nuno Mendes is the best left back of all time.
Just got back home from Budapest, so sharing some reflections on the match:
1) Piero Hincapie and Gabriel Martinelli deserve more credit for their performances. Martinelli has had a very tough season, but aside from the misplaced pass to Madueke, he hardly put a foot wrong
2) David Raya's long passing was very poor, which is unlike him. That had a huge impact on our ability to get out of PSG's press.
3) Gyokeres looked out of his depth, and had no impact on the game. He needs to be replaced this summer. And I suspect that he will be
This Gyökeres final should make multiple people lose their jobs at Arsenal. Every attack that went through his feet died. He looked like a random who won a lottery to participate in a UCL final.
Arteta: "We start to make some very important decisions if we want to reach another level. And we're going to have to show that ambition. We are more than capable of doing it, but it's going to demand us to be very, very ambitious, very fast and very smart."
The fact that there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that our “win now” marquee striker would be on the bench today is a stunning indictment of that signing. Sell him
@Tactx_ I think you are looking at this wrong. It should be set piece goals conceded as a percentage of set pieces conceded. Otherwise it ignores how good our defence was
Same mistake here. Sold Thiago and 4 other players, using all my FTs, just to get Ekitike. I went from 1.5k rank down to 40k, and had to spend the rest of the season just reversing that damage. Ironically, the 5 FTs FPL gave us were my undoing.
Its funny, people have asked me for my biggest mistake of the season...
Looking back at it, I did not realise how big a moment it was. So here is the story!
Saturday December 21st. 00:26. Gameweek 18, it was just gone midnight and I decided to make 2 early transfers on the Saturday night to catch price changes.
Saka and Thiago OUT.
Ekitike and Rice IN.
Ekitike who had just scored 13,13,9 then got 5, 2 before getting injured.
But most noticeably on the Sunday. Bruno got injured. Punished for making early moves.
I am then forced to use my 3rd and final transfer on Bruno to Cunha who scored 1 goal in 4 games.
Thiago who I sold got 6 returns in the next 4 weeks. Before I bought him back in GW22 and scored 1 goal in the next 6 games.
In Gameweek 19, I panicked and bought Saka BACK... For Semenyo, who had just joined Man City and begun to tear my season apart from the final 19 weeks!
Conclusion? On December 20th/21st, I wish I had gone to bed early! 😂
Zubimendi's biggest problem is not his lack of technical quality or press resistance. It is his mentality. He hides in big moments, and you can feel his self doubt.