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Martinelli has been so so fucking poor in this game, and he is often missing the ball. 

Afaik, Martinelli's performance wasn't as poor as you rated it, he worked hard in today's game, the problem is that he doesn't have someone to support him, if Timber often work closely with him, everyone would be able to notice Martinelli's form in matches. Overall, he did well, above average.

Yep. Besides his error 1on 1, All around Martinelli did alright in this game
This game wasn't gonna be a game where we saw his blistering best cos other ingredients to facilitate that were missing ala Rice and Odegaard. But he still caused Tottenham problems at the back and supported defensively so well, that I can't fault him today.
Missed chance and new scapegoat got people's judgment clouded

The whole narrative would have changed if he managed to score a goal, and worsen if the game ended in a draw or Arsenal lost to Tottenham. Luckily, they won, and still fans blame Martinelli for what actually? his appearances in the game was mainly effective, just that he missed his target or the goalkeeper intercepted it.

Also, he tracked back to help stop the Tottenham's player's possession of the ball. In all, every viewer or spectator have their special analysis of Martinelli's performance, which differs from how we view it.
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Martinelli has been so so fucking poor in this game, and he is often missing the ball. 

Afaik, Martinelli's performance wasn't as poor as you rated it, he worked hard in today's game, the problem is that he doesn't have someone to support him, if Timber often work closely with him, everyone would be able to notice Martinelli's form in matches. Overall, he did well, above average.

Yep. Besides his error 1on 1, All around Martinelli did alright in this game
This game wasn't gonna be a game where we saw his blistering best cos other ingredients to facilitate that were missing ala Rice and Odegaard. But he still caused Tottenham problems at the back and supported defensively so well, that I can't fault him today.
Missed chance and new scapegoat got people's judgment clouded

Even though you think Martinelli played badly but anyway, the fact is Arsenal still won and also, Martinelli was just replaced with Sterling in the 80th minute. Thus, then I think Martinelli did not play badly as you say because of course, if Martinelli played badly then it was very possible for Arteta to pull out Martinelli faster and not done in the 80th minute. With considerations like that, then of course Arteta clearly knows everything and Arteta also continues to play Martinelli and that means Martinelli is still playing well, and the most important thing is Arsenal still managed to get three points at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
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Although, it is too early, no one would comfortably predict the teams that will occupy the top 4. However, it seems that Manchester city, Arsenal and Liverpool will maintain their spots at the top of the table, leaving the fourth slot for the battle between Aston villa, Manchester United and Chelsea, if not New Castle.
Man United is on the list of contenders for position 4 is a little doubtful but hopefully this club finds its best game to get back on the right track as the reputation of this club is increasingly far from the initial vision and mission. Don't be surprised if there is an unexpected club that is clearly interested in competing for position 4 in the standings, it could be Brighton or Nottingham Forest. Because so far in the early season these 2 clubs have quietly carried out unexpected aggression from 4 matches without losing, it is already worthy of appreciation.

It stands to reason that many think Man United will find it difficult to break into the top 4 because their performance has been inconsistent so far. But I am quite sure that Man United can perform better than last season, and I even think they could make a surprise if they could find that harmony. There are some new players who still need adaptation. When they can get past that, and there are no more injured players, they should be able to do more than now.
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The first shocking loss of Arne Slot era has happened. Nobody expected Liverpool to have even have a chance that they would lose to Notthingham Forrest but it did happen and that's the sad part. I think it's clear that we are going to end up seeing this situation change quite a lot and I believe that we are going see many more of these happen in the future as well, feels like Liverpool definitely looks not that much worse since Klopp left, but not suddenly a great dominant team neither.

It would have been ideal for them if they lost to some bigger club but in the end they would have lost eventually so they just got that out of the way. Same week, we see United and Chelsea both get a win, two teams that are dealing with a lot of chaos right now, so it's definitely a good thing for them without a doubt. Specially United, who looked quite convincing while they were winning as well.

In the last few seasons of Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool, there was one big problem we could see in the games. The problem was the same that we saw on Sunday when Liverpool went up against Nottingham Forest at home. If you have watched enough games of Liverpool, you know what I'm talking about, and if you haven't, the problem is how poor the team plays against a low block. This set of players always goes through a really difficult time against a team who are just majorly defending and trying to get done with a draw or a very scrappy win.


https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/sep/14/big-setback-arne-slot-says-liverpool-fell-below-standards-in-forest-defeat

As Arne himself said after the game, this was the first time he faced a low block with this Liverpool team, and I might sound weird, but I'd say this loss is a good thing because this lets them to learn from how to play against a low block team, and now Arne can build the team from the loss. Nottingham Forest did not do anything crazy tactic wise, but I also felt that the Liverpool players were not giving their all on the pitch. They looked a bit careless, a bit slow, and not at their best. This also played a big role on them not being completely effective and lead them on to a loss. They need to bounce back from this immediately, as they face AC Milan in the midweek and have difficult league games ahead.
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There is going to be a wonderful game waiting for us next week! It is Manchester City - Arsenal at Etihad Stadium. What do you say for this game?  Huh

Let's have a look at the odds by the way.



Such attracting odds for Manchester City win right?  Grin  The thing is Manchester City can't beat Arsenal in the league for two games. The last one at Etihad ended up with a 0-0 draw. But I feel like Guardiola will finally manage to break Arteta's defense. I just see them better than ever. I must say I'm really curious about Haaland's effort at the same time. He started superbly with 9 goals you know.

Haaland had one important problem before. He wasn't able to contribute much in big games. Let's see whether it will change this season. I expect Guardiola to be the happy manager at the end.

Yeah, that's quite interesting odds. Though Manchester City's odds are slightly down compared to the last days.

Arsenal will likely use almost the same lineup against Tottenham. This gives City an edge, as they are in great form with perfect starts. Also, Haaland seems in his best form now. It will be interesting to see how fierce the upcoming match will be.

But I think I'd rather take a safe bet on this game. BTTS is unlikely to happen, and i consider Double Chance or Under as a good choice from this game. Either of the clubs is often playing safely to ensure they are not losing full points. That's why i think we will see only fewer goals to be scored.
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Ronaldo didn’t lie about Manchester United in his interview with Piers Morgan. It is my opinion that Manchester United were the ones who disrespected Ronaldo. Manchester United fans came up with the “Ronaldo is blocking the progress of Rashford and Martial.“ How many premier league goals have they scored since Ronaldo left the club? Has any United player under ETH surpassed Ronaldo’s 17 premier league goals? No! Martial left the club on a free transfer after earning over £200k at Manchester United. So what’s the misinformation you are talking about? This is football, our opinions cannot be the same on these matters but I don’t misinform anyone to make a point.

I never said shiit about the context of the interview being wrong and stuff. How did Manchester United disrespect Ronaldo?  Can you give the details? It wasn't the fans, people who brought about these claims has to be Wayne Rooney, Paul Scholes and Jamie Carragher, maybe Gary Neville.
I have stated it above, Marcus Rashford also scored 17 Premier League Goals during the same season Ronaldo left Manchester United. Ronaldo is a professional, he should have known the consequences of doing such a video outside would do before he did, but he went ahead to ( I love Ronaldo and I'm glad he called out the management ) do the interview. How is that disrespect from Manchester United management?  Saying Erik Ten Hag forced Ronaldo out of the club is what? Ain't that misinformation? It's obvious you have comprehension issues. Erik Ten Hag is not a poor manager, you just don't have good football knowledge to see it.
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Erik Ten Hag came to Manchester United and forced the club’s highest goal scorer of the season out of the club and replaces CR7 with Weghorst who could not score 5 goals in the EPL. Ronaldo scored 17 premier league in his first season. If Ronaldo had gone to Manchester City which he wanted to go before the call from Sir Alex Ferguson, he would have scored more than 30 goals that season. How many Manchester United players have scored 17 premier league goals under Erik Ten Hag? No matter how good you are, when you come to this United side you become a flop. Casemiro is a testament of how poor ETH strategy is.
I mean it's clear that Ronaldo was a great scorer and that is something nice for them to have a scorer like that, but that doesn't mean that we are going to see him be a good influence on the team. Surely Erik Ten Hag was bad, and surely United was terrible as well, Ronaldo was right that they had nothing new in machinery or anything, and they got new stuff recently just because of that and that's a good thing that United is improving because of what Ronaldo said.

Just because ETH is terrible and United was terrible and just because Ronaldo ended up scoring, doesn't mean that we are dealing with a right combination. Ronaldo wasn't the right fit and they should be realizing that they are dealing with something terrible in the end. Because of that I think we should consider them not do that well. We can't see this situation working for the benefit of either United nor deal with Ronaldo, they will not be fitting together that well at all.
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Although, it is too early, no one would comfortably predict the teams that will occupy the top 4. However, it seems that Manchester city, Arsenal and Liverpool will maintain their spots at the top of the table, leaving the fourth slot for the battle between Aston villa, Manchester United and Chelsea, if not New Castle.
Man United is on the list of contenders for position 4 is a little doubtful but hopefully this club finds its best game to get back on the right track as the reputation of this club is increasingly far from the initial vision and mission. Don't be surprised if there is an unexpected club that is clearly interested in competing for position 4 in the standings, it could be Brighton or Nottingham Forest. Because so far in the early season these 2 clubs have quietly carried out unexpected aggression from 4 matches without losing, it is already worthy of appreciation.
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The North London derby is one of the fiercest fixtures in the English Premier League so I wasn't surprised to see that 7 yellow cards were issued in the first half of the Tottenham Hotspur vs Arsenal game yesterday. Arsenal have been the better side of North London since the last couple of seasons and yesterday, they were able to steal a victory again. Mikel Arteta who was absolutely impressed with the resilient spirit of his men had nothing but praises for them.

Arsenal who at the beginning of the match were very doubtful to be able to win the match was actually able to silence every doubt that existed, Arsenal has had an impressive record when meeting its eternal rival but the number of Arsenal main players who were injured before the match started certainly made many parties doubt Arsenal capacity to be able to beat Tottenham, the rivalry that has occurred between Arsenal vs Tottenham Hotspur so far has left many stories and even I think the rivalry that takes place between them is no longer just about 3 points but rather the pride of who the real ruler of London is, compared to the derby matches that have happened between other London teams so far, obviously the match between Arsenal and Tottenham often causes a lot of controversy that occurs and the intensity of the match allows us to see a lot of cards in that the match, The heat of the match that occurred in yesterday match made the match often have to be stopped by the referee due to the frequent disputes between Arsenal and Tottenham players and 7 yellow cards are proof of the heat of the north london derby match.
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Southampton hosted Manchester United in the first match of the day. Southampton have been struggling to win in the league for 3 games and with today's defeat they are now 4 games up. Manchester United defeated their opponent with 3 goals to get 3 points and get their 2nd win in the league.Southampton are doing badly in the league compared to last year. They need to recover as soon as possible. In the 33rd minute they missed a penalty and 2 minutes later they conceded a goal and lost the match.

Onana The Worst Goalkeeper in The Premiere League? What a profound statement. I think The penalty save was the game's turning point. It gave Manchester United momentum, and it shows just how small the margins can be and Southampton didn't respond well enough to that and in that moment, United took some control, capitalised on that and we conceded two terrible goals from set-plays. With the neatness and discipline of the midfield commanded by Casemiro, i think Manchester United deserved to win.

4 games without a single point, of course not what Southampton expected, as you said, they have to improve a lot so that they don't get relegated. They brought in a lot of potential players i can say, Ramsdale, Fernandes, Ben Diaz and permanent Harwood-Bellis could add options at the back, which they lost Jack Stephens to a red card in the game against United yesterday. However, they need another strategy to concoct this team.
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The North London derby is one of the fiercest fixtures in the English Premier League so I wasn't surprised to see that 7 yellow cards were issued in the first half of the Tottenham Hotspur vs Arsenal game yesterday. Arsenal have been the better side of North London since the last couple of seasons and yesterday, they were able to steal a victory again. Mikel Arteta who was absolutely impressed with the resilient spirit of his men had nothing but praises for them.

It is fine that you called it stealing, they definitely stole the three points yesterday. On a fairer ground, both teams were supposed to share the points. I have seen that the Tottenham team is however becoming stronger and showing greater inclination to competing for the top 4 this season. Although, it is too early, no one would comfortably predict the teams that will occupy the top 4. However, it seems that Manchester city, Arsenal and Liverpool will maintain their spots at the top of the table, leaving the fourth slot for the battle between Aston villa, Manchester United and Chelsea, if not New Castle.

Arteta is right to hail his boys because they have been fantastic since last 2 seasons. The reason Arsenal did not with the league last season and last 2 seasons and also didn't win other trophies is more of the manager's fault and not the players.
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Martinelli has been so so fucking poor in this game, and he is often missing the ball. 

Afaik, Martinelli's performance wasn't as poor as you rated it, he worked hard in today's game, the problem is that he doesn't have someone to support him, if Timber often work closely with him, everyone would be able to notice Martinelli's form in matches. Overall, he did well, above average.

Yep. Besides his error 1on 1, All around Martinelli did alright in this game
This game wasn't gonna be a game where we saw his blistering best cos other ingredients to facilitate that were missing ala Rice and Odegaard. But he still caused Tottenham problems at the back and supported defensively so well, that I can't fault him today.
Missed chance and new scapegoat got people's judgment clouded
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Erik Ten Hag came to Manchester United and forced the club’s highest goal scorer of the season out of the club and replaces CR7 with Weghorst who could not score 5 goals in the EPL. Ronaldo scored 17 premier league in his first season. If Ronaldo had gone to Manchester City which he wanted to go before the call from Sir Alex Ferguson, he would have scored more than 30 goals that season. How many Manchester United players have scored 17 premier league goals under Erik Ten Hag? No matter how good you are, when you come to this United side you become a flop. Casemiro is a testament of how poor ETH strategy is.

All you do here is slander Erik Ten Hag all for post count and at the same time, misinform people here with your baised post fueled by hate and dislike for Erik Ten Hag. Grow up Granny. Erik Ten Hag didn't force him out, Manchester United management had mutual agreement for him to terminate his contract after disrespecting the club and manager during that interview with Piers Morgan. For your information, Wout Weghorst wasn't used a central forward that season. He didn't score more than that but did you pay close attention to his work rate and contribution for the club? No! Because, you don't know how to watch football properly. Ronaldo heading to Manchester City would've been archery. ( Sir had to block the move with that call ). You're indeed misinforming people here, before Erik Ten Hag joined Manchester United, Marcus Rashford has never scored 17 Premier League Competition Goals in a season but he did the same season (2022/2023 Season ). Do better than spreading lies.
Ronaldo didn’t lie about Manchester United in his interview with Piers Morgan. It is my opinion that Manchester United were the ones who disrespected Ronaldo. Manchester United fans came up with the “Ronaldo is blocking the progress of Rashford and Martial.“ How many premier league goals have they scored since Ronaldo left the club? Has any United player under ETH surpassed Ronaldo’s 17 premier league goals? No! Martial left the club on a free transfer after earning over £200k at Manchester United. So what’s the misinformation you are talking about? This is football, our opinions cannot be the same on these matters but I don’t misinform anyone to make a point.
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The North London derby is one of the fiercest fixtures in the English Premier League so I wasn't surprised to see that 7 yellow cards were issued in the first half of the Tottenham Hotspur vs Arsenal game yesterday. Arsenal have been the better side of North London since the last couple of seasons and yesterday, they were able to steal a victory again. Mikel Arteta who was absolutely impressed with the resilient spirit of his men had nothing but praises for them.
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Erik Ten Hag came to Manchester United and forced the club’s highest goal scorer of the season out of the club and replaces CR7 with Weghorst who could not score 5 goals in the EPL. Ronaldo scored 17 premier league in his first season. If Ronaldo had gone to Manchester City which he wanted to go before the call from Sir Alex Ferguson, he would have scored more than 30 goals that season. How many Manchester United players have scored 17 premier league goals under Erik Ten Hag? No matter how good you are, when you come to this United side you become a flop. Casemiro is a testament of how poor ETH strategy is.

All you do here is slander Erik Ten Hag all for post count and at the same time, misinform people here with your baised post fueled by hate and dislike for Erik Ten Hag. Grow up Granny. Erik Ten Hag didn't force him out, Manchester United management had mutual agreement for him to terminate his contract after disrespecting the club and manager during that interview with Piers Morgan. For your information, Wout Weghorst wasn't used a central forward that season. He didn't score more than that but did you pay close attention to his work rate and contribution for the club? No! Because, you don't know how to watch football properly. Ronaldo heading to Manchester City would've been archery. ( Sir had to block the move with that call ). You're indeed misinforming people here, before Erik Ten Hag joined Manchester United, Marcus Rashford has never scored 17 Premier League Competition Goals in a season but he did the same season (2022/2023 Season ). Do better than spreading lies.
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Something I later observed about Arteta after the end of the game in his decision of going defensive (against his usual attacking tactics) was that he knew he doesn't have the quality in the midfield he had to change approach in the absence of Odegaard and he got brilliant result at the end bwith his approach. However, Arsenal would need to work on their creating of chances and finishing as improvement on that would definitely help them when they meet Manchester City next weekend.

I think Arteta wanted to be in a safer side in this London derby. He knew that Tottenham have good team and he will be playing without Declan Rice and Odegard; indirectly, he was not expecting good creativity from the midfield even though he was sure of the defensive side because of the Presence Patey and Jorginho, he ordered his defenders to be focused and not to accommodate any mistake, and they did well because the defense won Arsenal the match since they defended very well and the goal from them.
Nevertheless, Tottenham were very good in the match, they dominated the match and played Arsenal very well, but unfortunately, they were not lucky as they lost to Arsenal because they deserve to get point in the match.
The red card obtained by declan rice in the match against Brighton became one of the nightmares for arsenal, remembering the role that declan rice currently has in the Arsenal midfield very important, it is not enough to stop in there, Arsenal problems are getting more complicated after they experienced a storm of injuries that made Odegaard, Merino and also Calafiori have to be absent, so it makes me and even some of us here doubt that Arsenal will be able to win over Tottenham in the derby match,  But what we thought before was inversely proportional to what Arsenal showed in the North London derby match, although Arsenal had a limited squad in the match but in the end their were able to win the match with a score of 0-1 over Tottenham Hotspur, the victory over Tottenham certainly makes Arsenal quite confident if this season they can be better than last season.
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There is going to be a wonderful game waiting for us next week! It is Manchester City - Arsenal at Etihad Stadium. What do you say for this game?  Huh

Let's have a look at the odds by the way.



Such attracting odds for Manchester City win right?  Grin  The thing is Manchester City can't beat Arsenal in the league for two games. The last one at Etihad ended up with a 0-0 draw. But I feel like Guardiola will finally manage to break Arteta's defense. I just see them better than ever. I must say I'm really curious about Haaland's effort at the same time. He started superbly with 9 goals you know.

Haaland had one important problem before. He wasn't able to contribute much in big games. Let's see whether it will change this season. I expect Guardiola to be the happy manager at the end.
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I think we have seen the best of Erik Ten Hag. Last season may be his best season managing Manchester United. ETH is the one that signed all the players at Manchester United aside from Garnacho and Mainoo who came from the academy. Casemiro who is being criticized by United fans is ETH signing.  Half of the players are either his boys from Ajax or Dutch players. ETH has spent over 700m pounds. If you’re spending all this money and you’re the person doing all these signings, there is no excuse why you’re not winning games.
Making signings, ETH should send out appropriate scouts out there. Winning comes from the cooperation of the players and also the coach, who also plays major role in the progress and growth of the team. It's a competitive race for Manchester United and they have to put things right for themselves. Winning games are more responsibility for the manager who's incharged. Manchester United are strong enough regarding their standards and this is will ruined their reputation as top club in EPL. Erik Ten Hag have poor stats when it comes to making signings for Manchester United. This is exceptionally weigh out of the line for the club.
Erik Ten Hag came to Manchester United and forced the club’s highest goal scorer of the season out of the club and replaces CR7 with Weghorst who could not score 5 goals in the EPL. Ronaldo scored 17 premier league in his first season. If Ronaldo had gone to Manchester City which he wanted to go before the call from Sir Alex Ferguson, he would have scored more than 30 goals that season. How many Manchester United players have scored 17 premier league goals under Erik Ten Hag? No matter how good you are, when you come to this United side you become a flop. Casemiro is a testament of how poor ETH strategy is.
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Yeah Jorginho was horrible today.  Sad  But Arteta had no other choice because of the injuries of his best midfielders. Jorginho is normally only a rotation player for Arsenal. He was even close to leaving the team in the summer transfer window.

I don't know how Arsenal won this game honestly.  Grin  They gave big spaces to their opponent but still they won by 1-0. Anyways, I'm glad to see this win after the draw against Brighton the last time.

But the real problem now is Manchester City as usual. They really are unstoppable. Actually I must say Haaland is the one very hard to stop. 9 goals in 4 games? That's insane!

First of all I don’t know why you actually stated that he Jorginho was awful today, let me start by this was his first start of the season which should be a nerve one considering the opponent too, nevertheless he wasn’t horrible if you asked me. Tottenham biggest asset was pace in their players and Jorginho and Partey were doing great things by filling up those places. They were a shield for the defense and once you play this way, then art of holding or dazzling with ball that’s what most people were expecting and isn’t there anymore.

Arsenal got a win today through the hard way, Arsenal has the best defense in the league and they proved it today. Tottenham were all over their defense but they still get to keep the clean sheet. Arteta today showed that he has grown as a manager, the defensive formation worked out well for them and I expect them to do it to even Manchester City
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There midfielder was not so strong on this match, actually if not that Arsenal is a very strong club Tottenham Hotspur would have won the match because there was so much lapses on that match especially there midfielder, Jorginho was not doing his work very well on this match because the role we expected him to play is not what we are actually seeing in him, I no that Tottenham Hotspur is a very promising club but not enough to win Arsenal at the moment.

However of all the players I expected to score on this match I never believe that there defender Gabriel Magalhães will be the one to give Arsenal there three points on this match, Arsenal shouldn't come back to there next match with this kind of midfield they have if not they may not be this lucky again.

The absence of Odegaard and Declan Rice lead to that. Well, this depth is not good enough for them to win the Premier League Competition. Like I have said before, we might see Manchester City winning the Premier League Competition for the fifth time this season.
Tottenham Hotspur did pretty well but Solanke missed crucial chances they should have scored. Tottenham Hotspur are always like this I'm not going to lie. They will do all the playing only for Arsenal to take all three points. Arsenal lacked creativity in this game today. Odegaard wasn't in the game and it affected how they produced and created chances. More difficulties would be seen when they go on against Manchester City next week.
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