For the first time since April 2023, City beat Arsenal in a game of football. And I think the big thing is that Guardiola changed how the game was played, rather than it being played on Arteta's terms. theshortfuse.sbnation.com/opinion/3670...

Funny thing is one of the guys that most needs replacing is the striker brought in the summer (I don't disagree at all btw)

William Saliba withdrawn from France squad with a left ankle injury. He joins Jurrien Timber, Eberechi Eze and Martin Odegaard as Arsenal players who will miss out on international friendlies.

In the second half, Arsenal failed to complete a progressive pass until the 71st minute.

this is the issue. this is why the game turned. we couldn’t play it out because we don’t have small space players through the team.

It'll get lost in the analysis but good lord, Gyökeres was fucking APPALLING.

There's going to be a narrative now and we're going to have to deal with it. We've been second best for an hour. Can't lay a glove on them.

Any chance of Tyldesley taking City's dick out of his mouth?

We kept giving it back to City for fifteen minutes.

Technical quality matters and we don't have enough

Reckon Keir Starmer wins re-election easily if he arrests Gary Neville.

Not long now

under 1 xG against 9 players 👍

Robert Vilahamn on Jessie Fleming's effort tonight "I don't normally want to pick one player, but Jessie Fleming today is absolutely the player of the game. I think she was [for] the first game as well. She's so dominant that she's feels like she's on a different level ..."

An overconfident Team USA getting embarrassed by a much smaller country in front of a global audience is their last and most beautiful tribute to the American military yet

match report from the AWFC game today (was too sleepy to link to it at time of publication) arseblog.news/2026/03/repo...

A premier league season is only 38 games long, but because we got close the previous 3 seasons but fell short, this season's title charge has felt like it's been going on for 152 for us fans, this group of players, and the coaching staff, which is a big reason why league games feel so life or death.

Liverpool's issue is they're too dependent on set pieces for goals.

The Liverpool fans were right. Martinelli should be banned until Conor Bradley comes back.

Gyökeres fucking stinks.

Just bring Dowman on instead of Martinelli

Doesn't surprise me that Havertz came off almost exactly on the hour mark. Switching out Madueke for Martinelli is hard to explain. Feels like this is bound for a game where Arsenal came in the final third. If I were taking Madueke off it'd be for someone more small space.

Arteta keeps think Gyökeres and Martinelli are going to do something together. They're not going to.

think we’ve played really well this half. very annoying not to have capitalised but if we play like this in the second half we’ll be fine.

Remarkable refereeing.

One of those where the original call stands. Fair enough.

UNLUCKYYYYYYYYYYYY

YOU ALL THOUGHT WE FUCKING SUCKED LAST YEAR. KEEP DOING THAT

Reyna Reyes appreciation post #baonpdx

brother HOW much

it’s mad how misdiagnosed this is. it’s not an issue of a lack of quality; it’s an issue of a surplus of quality. all PL teams are too good, and they are too well coached. it creates tight, cagey games. good players executing well coached mid blocks and low blocks = find another way = set pieces

They are against us.

A little worried about this Spurs run towards relegation. I think they're absolutely gone. There's no way the football gods let us have this and winning the league.

And now you're gonna believe us

Such a funny thing to say when you produce under 1.0 xG

Massive appreciation for Havertz today. His sub made a massive difference towards Arsenal's ability to grab a foothold in this match.

Arsenal are still effective from those situations and have continued to score from them but the reliance hasn't really existed for ages. Before yesterday, Arsenal's last 12 PL goals hadn't been from corners. It was a couple of months since a goal from a corner actually earned Arsenal any points.

Spurs fans talking about "meatwall" corners. Focus on avoiding relegation, fellas.

Quite honestly, the amount of moral hand wringing going on about the State Of The Game is incredibly funny to me.

Arsenal are underdogs compared to some of the other big spenders in the Premier League (compare wages with Liverpool, City etc) and so set pieces is a leveler.

Chelsea completed 92% of their passes after the red card. Because our mentality minions just dropped off. Every time.

I honestly hate this team

Can't believe how badly we've been managing games and/or leads this calendar year. It's basically a different team to what we were watching August-December.

Arteta has spoken about 300,000 passes for 4 seasons and I don't think we've ever done it once

We've got a spare man. Maybe try to keep the ball?

ah the hypocritical redmen

Would for Calafiori for Hincapié and Havertz for either The Oaf or Eze