Superb performance today. Everything you’d want after Thursday night, Bournemouth are a good side and we dealt with them with relative ease. No drama after conceding first. Watkins was immense.
Couldn’t see from the stands but what happened before the penalty? He went down in the centre circle like he’d eaten a left hook from Anthony Joshua. Konsa was going mad at him after. Im guessing he was being a fanny?
It nearly worked just now, they got out and then the ball went into Watkins, back to Rogers and his pass nearly set Diaby away. If it does work then Diaby is clear on goal but it does seem pretty low percentage.
We are trying to get in behind their press. It’s been a hallmark of the team since Unai took over as manager. As the half progressed it became more obvious what their triggers have been (a lot of it has been one man running at whoever has the ball for us then two running at whoever passes to while a fourth guy stays spare) and I guess the theory is that if we do get in then we’ve taken half their outfield out of the game. It’s not working brilliantly, we’ve been pushed right back so there’s still a lot to do even if the passing is accurate.
If it’s as good as the one on FourFourTwo then I’d be amazed.
It breaks down every to what Arsenal were (probably) thinking ahead of kick off, how it nearly worked at what Villa did to deal with it.
Might have been one of the players who got called for a random drugs test. He got called for one on Thursday too but as that was a UEFA competition I don’t think it has any bearing on whether he’d get chosen for a Premier League one. Or he could have gone to do post game media. Or needed a poo. Basically it could have been anything so I don’t even know why I’m trying this response.