***Official*** English Football Season 2019-20

[cpr]

Well that was definitely a "90 minutes of my life I'll never get back" match, but oh well. A great vindication of VAR, but Emery's decisions continue to baffle.

If we're ignoring the blatant penalty not given 5 minutes before

 

[sledger]

Blatant penalties not being given in games played at Old Trafford? A fiction if ever there was one.

 

[Uppercut]

Yeah that was painful. Both teams in danger of dropping out of the top six.

 

[sledger]

It's evident on that showing that neither are much cop. Neither team could keep the ball, and the defences of both sides looked like they'd concede constantly, until you realised that both attacks looked completely ineffective and bereft of ideas. Just a horrible watch.

Leicester would roll either side on current form.

 

[GIMH]

Didn't United beat Leicester about 2 weeks ago?

 

[sledger]

Also the treatment of Ozil is entering meme territory.

It's now well known that Emery doesn't rate him, but it's obscene to pretend he doesn't provide a level of creativity and an extra dimension that no other player in the squad is capable of.

For whatever faults he has he's an absolute gun of a player, and the fact that he's being wasted left out of the squads is dire. Not just bad for Arsenal, but bad for football. We are all being robbed of being able to watch him, and it is no good.

 

[sledger]

Didn't United beat Leicester about 2 weeks ago?

Yes, that "current" time 2 weeks ago. Genius posting from you as usual.

 

[andmark]

The table still looks weird ("yeah, Liverpool are top har har har") for Arsenal and United seven games in. That can't exactly be cause for optimism for either side.

 

[sledger]

I'd say the table actually flatters Arsenal tbh

 

[marc71178]

Just clocked this, on the official fantasy site.

There is one running already - 162887-78752

 

[Burgey]

That game has stemmed the bleeding for United. Can't see us losing another game this year. Will win the league by 4 points.

 

[Jarquis]

Arsenal are currently 4th having played at OT, Anfield and hosted a NLD.

We're still **** but all of this talk of us dropping out of the top 6 should be based on performances and not results.

 

[duffer]

I think the people calling our record signing Nicolas Poopoo and Pepé Le Pew should wait a bit too.

 

[Uppercut]

Arsenal are currently 4th having played at OT, Anfield and hosted a NLD.

We're still **** but all of this talk of us dropping out of the top 6 should be based on performances and not results.

Yeah they're kind of defying gravity. I could definitely talk myself into thinking they could bring their performance level up to meet their results. I think the results reflect the quality of the squad better than the performances do. Emery could accidentally stumble on a competent system, like Van Gaal used to when RVP or Rooney got injured. Or he could get sacked.

But also, every time I think a club can continue to defy gravity I'm wrong and they eventually just tank.

 

[Jarquis]

In Auba we trust.

 

[Cabinet96]

Aubameyang's carry job so far this season is incredible. I think sometimes when people predict big clubs to drop down the table they underestimate the impact elite attackers make.

That's actually United's biggest issue at the moment. They don't have an elite attacker. Obviously they're hoping Martial and/or Rashford grow into one but there's no evidence they are one yet. Pogba is probably the closest they have to an elite player going forward, but since he's not a reliable source of goals himself it's hard for him to have a direct influence. It reminds me a bit of Arsenal in 13/14 when we had Özil but no Alexis, or any other exceptional attacker.

Chelsea probably don't either (though I think we have to be very open to the idea Abraham already is) but their collective seems to be a lot better than either Arsenal or United so far this season.

 

[Uppercut]

Aubameyang's carry job so far this season is incredible. I think sometimes when people predict big clubs to drop down the table they underestimate the impact elite attackers make.

That's actually United's biggest issue at the moment. They don't have an elite attacker. Obviously they're hoping Martial and/or Rashford grow into one but there's no evidence they are one yet. Pogba is probably the closest they have to an elite player going forward, but since he's not a reliable source of goals himself it's hard for him to have a direct influence. It reminds me a bit of Arsenal in 13/14 when we had Özil but no Alexis, or any other exceptional attacker.

Chelsea probably don't either (though I think we have to be very open to the idea Abraham already is) but their collective seems to be a lot better than either Arsenal or United so far this season.

Aubameyang right now is where De Gea was in 2017/18 i.e. performing so well that it's totally unsustainable even accounting for the fact that he's amazing.

 

[sledger]

Auba is just ridiculously clinical. One of the best opportunist attackers I've ever seen, and definitely one of the best to play for Arsenal in my lifetime, perhaps the best. Only needs 1-2 or semi-decent chances a game, and you'd back him to take at least one of them. Ice cold.

 

[duffer]

Eduardo was cold blooded in front of goal too. Obviously an inferior player to PEA but **** I loved that guy.

 

[Cabinet96]

Aubameyang right now is where De Gea was in 2017/18 i.e. performing so well that it's totally unsustainable even accounting for the fact that he's amazing.

Yeah well he's obviously not gonna get 38 goals. But if he gets 25, that's something that mid table clubs never have.