🚨 Cesc Fabregas on Martin Odegaard start to the season for Arsenal:
🗣️ Cesc: “When I became Arsenal captain, one thing I learned very quickly was that you stop playing only your own game.
You’re constantly talking. ‘Move there. Come closer. Turn. Press.’ Sometimes you spend so much time organising everybody else that you forget you also have to play.
I watch Odegaard now and he seems to have the opposite problem.
He’s pointing where people should stand, controlling the tempo, demanding the ball, telling somebody where the next pass should go… and then apparently he has decided he should score the goals as well.
Look at Napoli. Arsenal are trying to find the breakthrough, Martin is conducting everything as usual. Then the ball comes to him outside the box and he just hits it into the corner.
That’s four goals in five games now. City, Coventry, Chelsea, Napoli. For a player whose game has never depended on goals, that’s a serious addition.
I remember there were periods last season where people were questioning him. That’s normal at Arsenal; sometimes one bad month and people start interviewing candidates for your position.
But this is how a captain answers it. Not by telling everybody he’s back. You make yourself impossible to leave out.
And what I like most is that the goals haven’t replaced the other things. He’s still controlling games. Still creating. Still organising everybody around him.
He’s just added one more instruction this season.
‘If nobody scores, give it back to me.’”
@josh_kroenke Great job from the ownership. Your (Josh) active involvement specially made the biggest change. Great Thanks for that. I have been supporting this lovely and supper great club for the last 25 years from Ethiopia.
Thierry Henry fires back at Klopp over Arsenal dig.
With all due respect to Jürgen, that’s simply not true.
The Germany goal was rightly disallowed because it was a clear foul on the goalkeeper. You cannot block, hold, or impede the goalkeeper and expect the goal to stand.
And to compare that to Arsenal is unfair. Arsenal are one of the best set-piece teams in Europe because of their movement, timing, and delivery, not because they hold goalkeepers. We attack the ball, we create space legally, and we’ve scored plenty of goals that way.
If you’re going to criticize a decision, criticize it based on the Laws of the Game, not by throwing another team into the conversation. Those are two completely different situations.
@29Havertz43802@Rodra10_97 Arsenal shall take the risk by selling Kai and sign a lethal striker who can bench Gyok. They shall avoid the tactical confusion.
🚨🗣️ Henry: "I genuinely think Arsenal need to start playing better football. You might win a trophy by playing negatively once in a while, but you can't keep doing it and expect to win titles consistently.
Fans shouldn't get me wrong — there's nothing wrong with defensive football. In fact, José Mourinho built great teams that played defensively and won multiple Champions League titles.
But in Arsenal's case, it often feels like they try to score one goal and then sit back for the rest of the match. That's not how football should be played. They need to improve their tactics and stop killing the game."
It has been quite an experience to follow @Arsenal Football Club's epic adventure, from times of struggle and crushing setback, to successive seasons of recovery and resurgence on their glorious path to the summit of the English Premier League.
In this time, we have witnessed the power of hope, resilience, focus and relentless hardwork in action, and watched a team of dedicated professional do battle against formidable adversaries, matchday after matchday.
Tonight, the great reward is won. The team is victorious. It's faith and dedication is vindicated. And our commitment to succeed through work, discipline and teamwork is affirmed.
Congratulations to the Gunners
🚨 BREAKING: Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola on facing Manchester City tonight:
Scared of City? No. Honestly, I want the league season to end tonight, and I will make sure we do it. We are going to stop City. Why? Because we want Arsenal to have peace of mind and time to prepare for the Champions League Final on May 30.
"Arsenal saved English football this season. What they did for the to ensure Five English teams play in the Champions League next season is historic. Every club in England owes them a favor. Tonight, Bournemouth pays our debt. We are playing for North London.
Source chakwama Times