This service is provided on talkSPORT Ltd's Terms of Use in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Apparently he arrived at the stadium with a Tesco’s packet instead of his regular kit bag. Decent performance by the team, last 30 minutes(goal aside) were pretty much a training exercise. Georgson – Trying to see how many players I can fit inside a six yard box After a turgid first half, Pepe’s 56th minute introduction inspired Arsenal to two quick fire goals from Saka and the Ivorian. To sum it up, he forced the own goal and instead of celebrating, Nketia just threw his hands about in disgust, I was shocked.it was definitely poor from Eddie, despite he’s goal, he looked grumpy all game. Another good result. Those 2 bossed it. Arsenal 2-1 West Ham LIVE! People be mad but you have a point, Pepe is not as good as Robben to get away with being so one-footed. Saka looked to find space as the third central midfielder in the left hand channel while Elneny dropped back to cover for Bellerin on the right hand side. Obviously, it’d be better to improve by bringing in more talent, but the owners refuse to do it, so we’ve got to find internal answers. He broke through the Leicester defence, skipped past a couple of defenders and found Nketiah whose first effort seemed to be blocked but reacted quickest to poke the ball home. There is no luck over 20 games. True. I can only assume the referee’s view of it was blocked, because it sure was obvious on TV. Arsenal Football Club Official Website: get the latest club news, highlights, fixtures and results. Praet then shot well wide, and Mikel Arteta made his final change with three minutes to go, bringing on Hector Bellerin for Saka. And Nketiah awful again up front. And they show up in big games. Clips of live football goals, player interviews & video highlights from hundreds of games. When he first came I thought he’d play in the middle and he does look better there. Arsenal took all 3 points at home against Sheffield United in a game where they dominated for most of the 90 minutes. We still need to upgrade the midfield – I trust Arteta but really am not crazy about reports of us going after… Read more ». I don’t know how much better Arteta is. Arsenal made it through to the 4th round of the Carabao Cup as an own goal from Christian Fuchs and one from Eddie Nketiah gave us a 2-0 win against Leicester at the King Power stadium this evening. Today it is a win. Latest score, goal updates, team news, TV and Premier League match stream today, {{#singleComment}}{{value}} Comment{{/singleComment}}{{^singleComment}}{{value}} Comments{{/singleComment}}, {{#singleComment}}{{value}} comment{{/singleComment}}{{^singleComment}}{{value}} comments{{/singleComment}}, GOAL! This explains why we did not create chances. Once we went 2 nil up we massively took our foot off the gas and possibly became a little too relaxed but sheffield never really threatened us. Here’s hoping coaching and extra hrs on the training ground unlocks his potential. First one real unlucky for them, second one, can’t believe how the GK just stood and watched Eddie score, guess he expected the CB to clear that. He either over dribbles and then lose possession or always comes to the ball. There’s no one to open up defences, and we can’t keep playing counter attacking football, especially against teams that will sit back. Protecting with pace sharpness and intelligence. Yeah I saw a smile and a laugh and hands in the air as a wow ahaha way to Fuchs it up. Imagine if we’d lost him to Utd? If we don’t sign an attacking midfielder, I think we end up in the 6-9 range. There was no place in the squad for Mesut Ozil or Matteo Guendouzi. Georgson – (Smiles secretively) You’ll see…. We have absolutely not creativity in the middle of the park. Welcome to Arsenal's official YouTube channel Watch as we take you closer and show you the personality of the club. because everyone knows he’s not running behind and when he gets the ball he’s coming inside to his left foot everybody knows this he’s not intelligent enough to switch it up because he can’t use his right foot AT ALLLL. Arsenal Football Club Official Website: get the latest club news, highlights, fixtures and results. Oh a very low percentage he does make something magnificent happen, but that isn’t really Arsenal’s style. Things aren't quite as rosy at West Ham but a midweek win over Charlton in the Carabao Cup at least got them back to winning ways after their disappointing loss to Newcastle on the opening day. Really think as a fan group we have to reassess elneny and what he brings because he’s an excellent fit in this side and certainly campared to a torriera and for me xhaka too, simply due to speed at which he works. Of course a third or fourth goal would be nice, but not conceding the 2nd one does the job. NewsNow aims to be the world's most accurate and comprehensive Arsenal FC news aggregator, bringing you the latest Gunners headlines from the best Arsenal sites and other key national and international news sources. Follow all the action with Standard Sport's LIVE blog! That’s exactly why we have a huge gap between midfield and attack. Keep them guessing, Willian will be criticized for his performance but Pepe also didn’t see much ball after scoring. Even if it wsn’t a foul by Nketiah, Saka should still have had a penalty. Auba up top, flanked by Pepe and Saka changed the game. After a positive mid-week result against Liverpool in the Carabao Cup, Mikel Arteta retained half of his starting line-up for a tough league home game against Sheffield United. If we don’t find someone I expect Arteta will have to reconsider just how far off Özil is from being an option. Neville can go spin on one. Now that you mention it, perhaps a change in position would do Pepe some good. I’m slowly seeing similarities with Arteta and Uni Emery. Please don’t say this. There was some good news, however, as new £45million signing Thomas Partey made his debut off the bench. Him and the other Gabi are gonna be such legends here. Dude needs to use his right foot once in a while though. The Gunners now face the winners of the tie between Lincoln City and Liverpool which takes place tomorrow. Perhaps, this could be Arteta’s blueprint for future games, especially when the onus is on the team to commit to attack. Arteta – Hey Andreas, um… what are you doing?” Willock and especially Nelson were extremely poor and indecisive with their finishing, Nelson should have scored 4 goals. Also, isn’t the whole ‘play out from the back’ predicated on being able to find balls through opposition midfields and then defences? 2+2 ain’t 5 mate! Sign up for exclusive video content. I suspect Arteta knows it. I like the lad and I know he is young but I just don’t think he has the tools to make at the highest level. I just hope Kolasinac’s suitors were watching. Very old school. Another pretty underwhelming overall performance really. The win propelled Arsenal into fourth place though for many fans, including this writer, the bigger positive was how fluid the team looked in a progressive 4-2-3-1 formation. There’s going to be a lot of fixtures over the next few months, a lot congested as well – We cannot go a whole season with just Elneny, Xhaka and Ceballos as our midfielders honestly. If a CDM, better than a committed-to Elneny or AMN? I don’t think we looked good in the middle of the park, with or without him. Look how Elneny went back in the RCB slot a lot. Arsenal: Leno, Holding, Luiz, Kolasinac, Maitland-Niles, Elneny, Willock, Saka, Pepe, Nelson, Nketiah, Subs: Runarsson, Bellerin, Saliba, Ceballos, Xhaka, Willian, Lacazette. Looked that way to me as well. Latest score, goal updates, team news, TV and Premier League match stream today Willian is too slow to play out on the wing these days. Late in the game he said how good it is to see Bellerin back after that serious knee injury… that he returned from almost a year ago XD You reaaally notice the lack of fans watching that sort of flat broadcast. good headache for Mikel, DANI easy. Was the Nketiah goal a foul or did the defender just fall on the floor? This has been so obvious to everyone watching, I cannot understand why it’s taken Arteta so long. Good win. Smiter of those that ought to be smote. If only we created more chances, we’d blow teams off the park. Happened the last game too. He is a great dribbler and you want him to make runs off the line? Aubameyang moved into his preferred central position, Pepe took up the right wing and Willian flitted into the hole from the left to create overloads in attack. I’m trying to be patient and consider their age and relative lack of first team experience. I don’t think we have an answer to that; just hope there’s a transfer in there today. Especially Gabriel, who I thought was excellent. Our problem is we play heavily from left and involve right side very less. Arteta – Ok… Um, why? The problems are if we play the same players all the time, players get tiered and we get found out, Elneny and ceballos absolutely bossed that. Also, the involvement of our “fringe” players at the end of last season makes our “second choice” team look solid. The captain was only inches away from contact which would have certainly been the opening goal of the match.