Bar Brother is class, good amount of Gooners and the barman is a Gooner as well!

Who was? Jesus?

Jesus is great at ball retention, but not at winning aerial duels against fullbacks who tower over him. The long ball tactic only started coming off once we had Havertz subbed on to bang those balls into. Raya played some magnificent balls in the second half no doubt, but Ramsdale had talked about how Arteta had given him the freedom to play the ball he felt comfortable playing. Now it’s getting banged to death that Raya “stuck with the gameplan” of playing it short which he barely got away with. If he makes a mistake in that first half and we concede one or two then nobody would be mentioning this at all.

southgate is a shit manager and his player selection is garbage, Ramsdale should have gotten into the England side more by now.

The whole thing seems really strange, Mikel knows that training alone isn’t a big enough stage for these two to battle for the position. I’m sure by the end of the season Ramsdale will have played more on average, but seems wild that he’s not getting any chances to prove himself again in the league or the CL at the moment. Raya, for as great as the stats make him appear, has also had some really shaky moments as well and has been bailed out by our good run of form.

We started breaking through more, and eventually scored when we played long balls though. As committed as Raya was to the game plan, playing short didn’t really work except maybe it set up the long ball option better for the second half.