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Hi, I'm Umer. I like ice cream, fast roller coasters, fairness in the workplace, llamas, actionable activism, empathy, world domination plans and Arsenal. I'm also easily distracted and lose track of...Hi, I'm Umer.
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Just murdering whole groups of orphans and it makes zero headlines in the west.
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Yes. Its because shitlibs like him who make up the majority of the modern Dem party are fundamentally okay with how things are being run and work with the same donor class. The only way they differ is through culture and decorum politics. There's only a surface level opposition to the actual policy.
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Yes but rules don't apply to them. A direct consequence of the media narrative by Sky regarding both teams this year - of course the refs will be affected. Arsenal getting refereed to a different set of rules and standards isn't a conspiracy theory, just a fact.
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Ehh, I'll take it if that means he won't be completely beyond useless for one freaking game.
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Its not incompetence, considering its a repeated, observable pattern of behavior with him and Arsenal only and no one else.
He may be biased, but that's irrelevant when it comes to premeditated decisions like this.
Its corruption. The sooner we call it out for what it actually is, the better.
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Yes, its corruption. Not incompetence, not variance, just plain old corruption. Oliver had decided coming into the match an Arsenal player was getting sent off so they miss his employer's game. Myles now misses the City game.
This is a repeated pattern of behavior from Oliver.
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He saw the player wearing an Arsenal shirt and knew that sending anyone wearing that shirt would make them miss the City match. Its "strange" that we are pretending otherwise, this is a repeated pattern of behavior from Oliver. If this was happening in a 3rd world country, we'd call it what it is.
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Michael Oliver is absolutely, undoubtedly corrupt. Not incompetent, not cowardly, just straight out corrupt. And I'm tired of us pretending he's not. Time after time, you'll see him send ONLY Arsenal players off for ridiculous reasons. PGMOL needs to be burned to the ground to root corruption out.
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Exaxctly
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Because the team are stuck in a mental block and have given up trying to do everything they can to get the ball in the net. They expect to miss and therefore don't have any conviction in front of goal (also see Havertz), creating a self fulfilling philosophy.
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Consistent bad finishing is not luck. Unless you go for a Salah / Haaland level player (with all the risks that come with going for a mega signing like that), this is close to our ceiling with these attackers outside of Saka.
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Every single game is another disaster at this point. You're asking a fully burnt out, injury stricken squad to play through the red zone. Sheer lunacy by the club not to use the transfer market here.
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The absolute worst I've seen him play since joining Arsenal, and that includes his slow start. Just absolutely abysmal. Not sure how he's escaping the pelters Martinelli is getting, despite playing much worse.
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An utter coward who’s more interested in being a hard man than doing the basics right. Has let the big man hype get to his head and is only interested in hurting opponents to show he’s “imposing himself”. He’s a whole nuke dodged, not just a bullet.
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Totally agree on shifting the balance towards more risk taking. We do too much risk averse ball circulation in the final third. Considering how good we can be off the ball, we can accept losing the ball more than we do now.
Not just plan B though, even plan A needs more variance outside of Ode/Saka
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For context, we haven’t scored in over 21% of games this year - and that’s including our attacking blitz periods! Can’t just pick and choose a small subset of games to brush away these issues. It’s natural that teams are studying our system more and have come up with better ways of stopping us.
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We’ve been held scoreless more times this year than most of last year already. We’ve failed to score in 10 games this year. Or xG (including set pieces) is our lowest in 3 years.
This doesn’t mean we don’t know how to attack. But when it doesn’t work, we don’t have any alternate ideas to fall back
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I think you misunderstood my point. I’m not saying we have a bad attacking system in general or that we won’t score a lot. I’m saying our attacking plan doesn’t have a lot of variance in it. So when it works, it works great (as goals scored shows). But when it doesn’t, we don’t have fallback options
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Disagree. Getting a better CF / LW /L8 doesn’t fix these attacking issues. Even with better attackers, out attacking style is stale, there’s not enough variance in our play. We require game breakers like Saka “because” that’s the only thing opposition hasn’t neutered. Open play creativity shows this