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He's not JT either... we need someone a bit more vocal to get things organized out there... and was it me or did Rogers disappear in the 2nd half ?

Soft and unprepared: Now how will the players respond to this?

Man of the match performance against Strasbourg. Of course.

Patience as in we are not screaming "Alonso out"? Sure, Alonso gets plenty of time as a new manager, along with how we massively failed him in the window. That does not mean he, and the team, should not get heavily criticised for performances and results like this one. Hull managed only 3 league goals in their first 3 league games. Aston Villa kept a clean sheet vs them at Hull, villas only point in 4 games now. Coventry only let in a single goal and that is Coventry who have lost all 3 opening games. Yet Hull managed to score 2 against us and get a point at our home. 4 league games and we only managed to get wins if we score at least 3 goals. That's abysmal. Alonso picking Gusto again despite him being a terrible footballer with a dreadful attitude. That's abysmal as well. Leaving out our best center back back who is also the best at defending in the air vs a team who rely on the ball in the air. That's abysmal. I want a long term manager. I want that to be Alonso but the above has to be fixed. Basic tram selection is on him.

I doubt anyone can defend Alonso selecting Gusto again today. After his horror display vs Leeds he follows up again today, and that is on you Xabi for picking this waste of space! Had Josh and Reece who you could play at right back and both of them stop that cross, Gusto jumped out of the way FFS! Learn from you mistakes, keep picking Gusto and you will be out of a job.

Gittens could have really done with a loan this season. Would have been better so send him to Strasbourg and kept Essugo.

Garnacho an unused sub again. Will be our problem again next summer. This seasons Harvey Elliot for Villa.

Good to see him finally get carded for encroaching outside of his box, has been doing it for so long In fact would guess that last season Arteta actually had more minutes on the pitch than Lavia.

Assuming that we continue with Wing backs and the first choices will be Palestra/Chavarria, then there will be limited opportunities for the likes of Quenda unless we pick up injuries. Hopefully he gets a chance off the bench soon, or a start in the cup.

Agreed. I had a feeling we would start slowly this season in terms of results. A new manager with a new system, a chaotic transfer window, and with several key players unavailable. At least it has been quite entertaining to watch a lot of the time. Thankfully we have an extended international break coming up and hopefully that will provide some time to get key players fit and work on improving our defense. Caicedo should not be allowed to travel with Ecuador at any costs. He needs to fully recover, and we need him back to his best.

I suspect that will happen once Palestra is fit enough to start.

He has some positives but he is pushed off the ball way too easily. Makes Estevao look like Granit Xhaka.

f**k Arsenal but at least we can laugh at the Spuds for not scoring goals in 4 games. Trash club

Been on Ghost of Yotei for a while. Another game that’s fun to begin with but just becomes repetitive and feels dragged out.

This is the worst era. Arsenal are just on another level now. Too good defensively, really strong in midfield, have enough in attack to get the job done, a bit of sh*thousery. They don't have a superstar, but they don't need one, they're just a proper football team that click in all areas. Sickening really. They remind me of us under Mourinho. They don't need to blow teams away or play jaw dropping football, they're just perfectly balanced in all areas. If they ever did sign a genuine superstar that didn't have an ego that upset the dressing room, like a Hazard type of player, they would probably dominate and go on to win multiple Champions League titles. I could even see them winning it without one. I don't see any improvements in Europe that will stop them outside of PSG, but PSG can't win it every year.

I also think a lot more patience is needed. Alonso did well this summer to start to move us away from just signing kids and shipping out a lot of dross and bad fit players but we need two or probably three similar windows to try and fix this squad. We are looking far more effective going forwards (f**k me it has been a while since we could say that) but there is no doubt we have a lot of work to do to fix our defefensive capacity. I don't think we will ever do that with this squad of players which is why we need to be patient.

Well said. For some people on here there is no sense of perspective, no middle ground. They expect perfection from every player, every second of every game. You could have Maradona playing for us and the minute he missed a header, or lost a tackle they would be saying "he's sh*te". And if it is a player they personally dislike, they will criticise every minor error and will never, ever, under any circumstances, give any acknowledgement to anything they get right. IMO the only player today who was really poor in nearly everything he did was Gusto.

Arsenal annoyingly predictable. League over in September.

Hate to say it...but Lucky to only concede 2...☹️

At some point we’re going to have to bite the bullet and admit that James is not a midfielder and he should go back to shoring up the defence. It’s also clear that Gusto, Hato and Fofana are not our best defenders and I cannot for the life of me understand why they all started today. Our back three, if we’re going that route, should be James, Lacroix, Colwill.

Totally agree, he has a touch of JT about him, fights for every ball.

It’s certainly Colwill’s last chance to show us he should be the partner for Lacroix. If he doesn’t improve his game massively at some point this season I can see us going after another CB next summer. It feels harsh to criticise Colwill this early in the season with him having been out for a year, but I am very disappointed with what I’ve seen so far.

Disagree, Barco frequently passes forwards.

We haven't beaten them away since December 2021 when we scored twice in the last ten minutes (own goal + Jorginho penalty) to beat them in the League Cup. Another great BlueCo record. Thank God Tottenham are dogsh*t or Eghbali's head would be on a pike.