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Premier League

Brighton3 - 0Arsenal

emanuel@emanuel

☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★3d ago

I can’t believe we got pecked by the seagulls, FUCK! Always hated seagulls… Anyway, Brighton were brilliant. Faster at every step, absolutely frenetic pressing, and just wanted it more. Made everything very uncomfortable and difficult for us, and played their hearts out. Kudos to them, well played. I haven’t seen the Arsenal this off the pace in a long time. It wasn’t a matter of not having any ideas going forward, we seemed to have plenty of ideas, we just couldn’t pull any of them off it seemed. Slow to everything, midfielders dropping deep to receive and leaving an enormous void in the center of the pitch, where the Brighton press just snapped up every loose ball or loose pass. It’s like we knew what to do, we just weren’t doing it. Reacting instead of acting, and facing a tempo this high, that was a recipe for disaster. Watching the players get visibly more and more frustrated as they misplaced passes, mistimed runs, and were beaten to loose balls made me unbelievably frustrated as well. I’m not going to let emotion take over and declare the sign of the end times. Yes, we were dogshit on the pitch, but I’m not really worried yet. Some players could really be giving me more (ahem, Eze, looking at you…), and certain combinations just weren’t working at all (Konsa and Gabriel looked uneasy next to each other), but there’s certainly a cause for this which I’m confident they’ll iron out. The whole match looked like Arsenal had all been poisoned, and Brighton had all smoked crack in the tunnel before coming out, and we’ve seen enough of this Arsenal team to know that’s pretty out of character. Shit games happen, better now than later I guess. Saka is indecisive in front of goal, and is taking 1-2 too many touches. Havertz needs to put that away, but nice combo with Gyokeres. Calafiori is a total footballer. Dowman🫰 The only silver lining is that we didn’t give up a 2-goal lead, at least… The next seagull I see, I’m wringing its neck, sorry mate. COYG❤️🤍

Premier League

Brentford3 - 0Chelsea

theolovesvilla@theolovesvilla

☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★4d ago

First half was very slow, which was quite expected for Brentford to ruin Chelsea's momentum. But wow, Brentford really turned the tempo up in that second half. Great counter attacking play destroyed Chelsea's defence. I think Thiago struggled quite a bit throughout the game, but he was still there to put away his chance when it mattered. Kevin Schade looked very dangerous once again, he's surely on of the fastest players in Europe, no one can catch him. Bravo to Keith Andrews for getting everything spot on, everyone doubted him when he came in, including myself, but he's been unreal for Brentford since taking over from Thomas Frank. Finally, Brentford's stand out player was Jannik Schuster, he did everything right defensively and got an unlikely assist for his brilliant efforts. Chelsea weren't at the races today, they had a few early signs of good play, but never built on it. I think they heavily missed the quality of Reece James and Joao Pedro. Welbeck is not a runner nor a link up player, he didn't suit the way Palmer or Rogers were moving. I honestly don't really know what Barco offers, but he didn't seem to be in a role that suited him today. Alonso still has a lot to work with defensively, I sound like a broken record when reviewing Chelsea, but defensively they are just nowhere near consistent enough. No clean sheets in 21 Premier League games now, it's just not good enough for Chelsea's standards. MOTM is Schuster, very good performance from him.

Premier League

Sunderland0 - 2Arsenal

theolovesvilla@theolovesvilla

☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★1w ago

A match full of very physical duels, with Arsenal managing to 'Gun' the Black Cats down in the end. Sunderland had huge chances throughout the game, including an Enzo Le Fee penalty, which was heroicly saved by the Spanish wall that is David Raya, proving again why he is one of the best goalkeepers in the world. Dan Ballard had an excellent game I thought, winning duels and the penalty, also a spectacular goal line clearance with a diving header. At the other end, they couldn't find a way past the immaculate Arsenal defence. A Bruno Guimaraes screamer stunned the Mackems, rubbing salt in the wounds with his Newcastle ties. Late in the game, Sunderland also conceded a penalty, resulting in a second yellow for Reinildo. Bukayo Saka managing to find fortune and convert for his 3rd of the season. I don't think Sunderland were bad, but the amazing work of Arsenal's defence ultimately halted any chance of a result. Arsenal looking extremely solid again, you're wondering who will be the team to stop them, because they are on a steamroll of results. It's now 10 goals scored and 1 goal conceded in all competitions, extremely impressive. Signing Bruno Guimaraes has brought quality to the team depth and he helped Arsenal win this game with an unreal finish. I've mentioned this team getting better, which they are proving every single game. Got to give a lot of credit to Mikel Arteta, I'm far from his biggest fan, but he has done a great job in the past year. MOTM David Raya, without his presence and penalty save it might've been a different result for Arsenal.