Are Arsenal better equipped for a title challenge this season? 🏆 | MNF analysis

Once Partey and Timber come back in, they're definitely better equipped.

Its gonna be a long night for cara from doing Monday night football to travel to miami

We're lacking a clinical striker.

We've played some big games and had injuries, but I think you can see players hesitating a bit more even when maybe they should turn it up a bit because we're playing such a controlled patient style. It's just turning up to that next gear that we can get better at, but it might be better than going gung ho for 30 – 40 minutes and then dropping back and inviting pressure, giving teams confidence and all of a sudden they could smell blood, cause that's what Arsenal did last season. Top of the table though, can't complain too much 😁😁😁🔴⚪

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They look better. Winning whilst looking as defensively solid as they have with a constantly changing frontline and midfield (due to tinkering but also injuries) and all whilst not getting out of 2nd gear. Thats exciting if you ask me. Theyre getting results without too much hassle already with most of the toughest fixtures out the way (playing city, utd, spurs, chelsea, newcastle (a)). The team will settle now the front 5 are all fit and with the games coming thick and first theyll get plenty of practice in for things to start clicking again. Its all about fluency and that only comes through repetition. Open play xg also a little misleading as arsenal have had 5 penalties which usually mean in a good shooting position you get fouled, so no shot and thus no xg is recorded for open play. Its still worse but not as stark as the stats make it appear

City will still win it lmao

I have a feeling its Aston Villa that Man City need to worry about.

Ljungberg wants to talk ball but Carragher's here to make tiktoks

Arsenal have played Brentford, Everton, Palace, Newcastle and Fortest with an horrid low block. Stats without a context are useless

Are they comparing 13 games to 13 games or 13 games to the whole of last season? My brain hurts watching somehow

Just a couple weeks ago they were saying Tottenham will take it all😂😂its not even mid-season 😂

The reason for our drop in attacking stats is twofold, one no Partey in the team on a regular basis to give us the platform to build in possession with our usual style of play becos Partey when in the squad had that ability to beat the initial press and spray the first midfield pass to the attacking players. Secondly, teams have sussed out the key link between Odegaard and Saka in the way we move the ball and create our patterns of play. Now, although these stats are not ideal from an attacking point of view, the fact that we r much more sturdier in defence bodes well for us because having a strong basis will enhance performance over time during the season. It is key now we get to January still within touching distance of Man City and Liverpool for the title. Arteta has to now strike the right formula to get the front 4 firing in the team. I personally would like to see Trossard in the 8 role with Odegaard behind the main 3 of saka, Martinelli and Jesus till January as Trossard work rate off the ball and his adaptability will provide us with more threat to the opponent.

Im not taking anything away from Jamies achievements in Football but is it fair to say that carraghers opinion on winning a premier league is pretty much useless giving he hasnt won any? 😂

Yer they are playing shithouse park the bus football and have been lucky in games against City Spurs Chelsea Brentford.

Everything’s falling their way thats the only way they will win it.

Dispite all their cheating with ffp, I think arsenal are still not as good as liverpool, city.