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The progress he has made since settling in is insane. He bulldozes past players with strength and power and has finesse and intelligence. Really excited to see what his ceiling could be. 

To have the assists he has without playing as a wide player and not taking set pieces is unbelievable. 

Think 2 wins should do it. I don’t see Spurs getting 4+ wins out of their fixture list. This week has been huge. 

I am so proud to be a supporter of this club. That’s an unbelievable performance off the back of the week we’ve had. Emery an absolute genius. Konsa, Rogers, Bailey and Watkins - take a bow. 

Not watching second half but get the **** in!!!

Big goal that just before half time. We need to push on even more second half. Rivers and Bailey some players. McGinn grew into that too - need a captain’s performance second half now!

Really poor here. Diaby getting bullied. Watkins off it today as well. Need to get Rogers in the game. 

Cash has that in his locker. Diaby poor too. Just what we don’t need on this one as we have no options going forward on the bench. 

Going for it here! Surprised Diego hasn’t come in to be honest. Hope we put in a shift for an hour and get ahead as there isn’t much on the bench. Shows how decimated we are with injuries to be honest. 

I just don’t see him leaving until he has accomplished all he thinks he can with us. He doesn’t strike me as a manager to abandon ship when a ‘supposed big 6’ club comes calling. When he does leave I think it will either be Real Madrid or Barcelona. Man United are in disarray and they would not change their whole football structure to accommodate Unai like we have done. 

Tough one this. Think it might be something like:

Emi

Konsa Carlos Lenglet Digne 

Bailey McGinn Tielemans Rogers 

Diaby Watkins 

Hopefully Zaniolo is fit to get minutes. Cash, Duran and Tim to also come on for minutes. 

I don’t think many fans celebrated as passionately as Unai did in the clip! So grateful. 

He was very rusty, but he always puts in maximum effort!

Get the **** in!! Smash and grab!! We were happy to let it go to pens - no surprise with the maestro in goal!!

Are we all watching?!

That Luiz chance was the one. 

Goal?!

Just now, Rugeley Villa said:

First bit of proper pressure on them and they start flapping . Imagine if we’d done this earlier. 

Emery has overthought this. 

What a let down this has been. Genuinely didn’t think we would be able to put such a poor performance in. **** me. 

McGinn a genuine 0/10 tonight. 

Just now, DCJonah said:

Absolute shambles. 

How do you get to a QF in a winning position and put in a performance like this. 

I’m absolutely stunned. This has been embarrassing. 

Just now, JoshVilla said:

We look terrified of them.

Arsenal are much the better team. Think the occasion might have got to us here. 

Just now, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

A yellow for that?

The prick asked for it as well

Shouldn’t he book the word removed?

When McGinn is off his game so are we. 

2 minutes ago, The_Rev said:

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.  

Very true - it was a gut reaction. Just seems we are doing it much more than usual and are even more ponderous. There needs to be occasions where we try and pass ourselves up the pitch! Lille are doing very well in stopping our play.