🚨🚨🗣️ Wayne Rooney on West Ham United vs Arsenal Game: 🤯
“People keep talking about individuals, moments, luck, referees and all the rest of it, but when I watch Arsenal, I see a proper football team. I see a side that is coached at the very highest level. Honestly, if you don’t rate this Arsenal team or you can’t understand the level of football they’re playing, then I’m sorry, you simply do not know football. And I’m saying that as someone who’s played the game at the top level for years.
This Arsenal side are unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. They are so compact, so organised, so disciplined in everything they do. There are no gaps, no panic, no unnecessary risks. Every single player understands his role. When you watch them, you almost don’t even see individuals anymore, you see a programme. You see a machine. Everything is synchronised. It takes a very high football IQ and tactical understanding to truly appreciate the level this team operates at.
People will watch them and say ‘they’re boring’ or ‘they’re robotic’, but do you know what I call it? Elite. I call it winning football. I call it a team that knows exactly who they are. There’s a reason they leave no lapses for opponents. There’s a reason teams struggle to break them down. There’s a reason they control matches the way they do. That doesn’t happen by accident.
I backed Arsenal from the very beginning of the season to win this league and people laughed at me. People told me City would walk it, people said Arsenal would bottle it again, but look where we are now. Two games left and Arsenal are on the verge of becoming champions. And honestly, I’m delighted for them because they deserve it.
The fans deserve it as well. Arsenal supporters have waited a long, long time for this feeling. They’ve gone through years of frustration, banter, disappointment, nearly moments, false dawns, all of it. But they stayed patient. They kept believing in the club, believing in the process, believing in the manager and the players. Now they’re finally about to get rewarded for that patience.
I think Mikel Arteta deserves enormous credit because what he’s built is not just a good side, it’s a culture. There’s standards there now. Serious standards. Every player fights for each other, every player works, every player sacrifices. That’s why they’re champions in my eyes.
And I’ll say this as a Manchester United man, this is the level I want Manchester United to get back to. This is the standard. Watching Arsenal now reminds me of what elite football clubs should look like. The control, the hunger, the mentality, the structure. When you get to this level, football becomes enjoyable again for the fans because they trust their team completely.
Arsenal fans can finally smile again because this team has given them something to be proud of. And I genuinely believe this is only the beginning for them. I think they’re going to do great things over the next few years.
So to everyone who laughed at my prediction earlier in the season, you’re not laughing now. Maybe it’s time people start respecting this Arsenal side properly because what they’re doing is special.”
🚨💣 | Alan Shearer on the Bernardo Silva and Potential Penalty incident in the Manchester City vs Brentford game:
“It’s moments like these where you really have to look at the consistency of the officiating, because for the life of me, I cannot understand how we’ve walked away from that game with those decisions standing as they did.
You look at the penalty shout for Brentford there’s clear contact there he pushed him. In any other area of the pitch, that’s a foul, yet somehow it’s overlooked when it matters most in the eighteen-yard box. It’s a massive letdown for a side that worked as hard as Brentford did today.
And then we have to talk about the incident with Bernardo Silva. We’re told the threshold for violent conduct is high, but when you see that kind of intent, you expect the ultimate sanction. A yellow card feels like a massive escape. It’s hard to sit here and argue that if that were a player from a club lower down the table, or even another top-six side, the outcome wouldn't have been a straight red.
We brought VAR in to eliminate these 'clear and obvious' errors, to ensure that the big calls are getting the scrutiny they deserve. But when you see the same patterns emerging, it leaves fans and players feeling like there’s a different set of rules for different shirts. It’s simply not good enough for a league of this standard”
All football players & fans of clubs that reached their respective European final games are able to celebrate 4 getting there. Even before final whistle commentary on #Villa game “5 minutes before they can celebrate”.Yet when #AFC celebrate getting there,all slated for doing so🤔
@primegunner14@declanstar1 Everton cruelly robbed of extremely deserved 3 points though due to extra extra time given to City. Just like all the free kicks City got when they fell over
Feel for you #EvertonFC you played so well. Deserved the 3 points, every time #ManCity player fell over they got a free kick. You were better than the #ManCity team who scored the goal to draw after extra time #EFCvMANCITY
@afcstuff I see & listen to all this media crap against Viktor. @GNev2 repeatedly says he hasn’t yet touched ball. Nothing being said about Sesko & fact he hardly starts a game. All loving Haaland too much
Funniest thing is the touch from Pope doesn’t even matter because if he doesn’t take Gyökeres out (who is at full speed) the striker gets to the ball and scores on an open net. It’s a penalty all day no matter how you see it.
It’s a daylight robbery.
Arsenal parked the bus at the Etihad after getting a red card in the 45th minute and were slaughtered by the media.
Man City parked the bus for 90 minutes despite having 11 men.
I don’t hate it, but I’m waiting for the English media’s opinion on this.