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Saliba has been errors at a surprising clip for a while now

Thought Arsenal would be bad, but this is unpleasantly surprising levels of awful

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This week either goes down in infamy as another load management blight on the manager… or we’ll never mention it again and dine off a fine season. Margins for greatness are narrow. Hero or zero, no in between. Wednesday massive for the club, the players, and the manager.

This is peak Arteta. Goes for broke to secure second with extremely strong team, loses the game, keeps his best players on far too long… all while PSG rest 8 players. Worst of all worlds today. Should have gone for a bench warmer 11 and made peace with the outcome.

1 shot in the last 20 mins tells you where the focus is

What a disaster of day here

70 minutes. No subs used.

Myles ability to pass around corners is a sight to behold… 👀👀👀

Have enjoyed the big improvements of Martinelli of late…

Issue with these games is Arsenal are 10% short of where they want to be because Paris is on the mind - Arteta probably knows mass subs could blow the lead - so he’s probably stuck keeping this 11 in tact. Not great before PSG - who will rest hard.

These full blooded starting 11s before a massive game with a trophy at stake give me deep, deep anxiety

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David Raya is the type of world-class keeper we've lacked for years. He kept this tie alive this evening. Some unreal moments.

Can't really complain. Arsenal created a whole variety of high-quality chances... but the finishing was dreadful (again). Big games call for big players, we lacked those tonight. PSG had Kvaratskhelia and Dembele. Still in it, plenty of game to go, not the end of the world.

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Arteta has to be careful here - Ipswich having nothing to play for, their fans are encouraging aggression, we could lose our CL hopes if something goes wrong. Protect CL at all costs. Let the subs bench take care of the second half. We have seen this movie too many times.

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Ollie Watkins fanboys got some explaining to do.

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Declan Rice going off script and just smashing his freekicks is probably what we lacked last year... Champions League wins can't be choreographed. Bang-bang magic comes from a feeling. Didn't think it'd be our £100m #6 who'd prove that a year after falling to Bayern.

Saka at 60% still a monster of a player.

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Really good half, boys lacking killer instinct, but so are Madrid. Gotta stop losing balls in dangerous zones of the pitch. Our best players the most guilty. More of the same with a bit more aggression in the final third for the second half. AFC way better. Madrid playing a deep-block is so funny

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Ref calling fulltime then cancelling it?

Tierney our most creative player

Martin shooting at his own foot feels representative of his season

Can't knock it. 1-0 up with a heavily rotated team. Zero shots on target conceded. Bit bland, but I'll take that. Just escape with no injuries and a clean sheet and we're rolling.

These games with no jeopardy worry me, because Everton players look like they think breaking an Arsenal player could be a secondary prize.