Basically a top 4 side out. More than anything else this is what gives me hope for the title. Previously we’ve had a drop off when players are out injured & fallen away… this season we are where already despite the injuries. We’re currently at our floor.

The hate-watch after our final whistle is considerably less stressful than our 90 mins!! 🤣

Caicedo also rolled around ‘injured’ after this one in Sarr, which VAR didn’t recommend for review.

Declan Rice has still not received a single foul in the Premier League this season.

Must be nice to get credit for youth! Massive shout-out to Chelsea (man down, plucky upstarts). Meanwhile, our ENTIRE back four were younger and our CBs had never played together. Did that warrant a mention? No? Alright cool.

Points versus equivalent matches last season and in brackets projected totals if all results going forward match those of 2024-25. +10 Man City (81) +7 Arsenal (81) -6 Liverpool (78) -1 Chelsea (68) -1 Newcastle (65) -3 Aston Villa (63) +4 Tottenham (42) -1 Man Utd (41)

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

1st time I think we’ve been outplayed in large spells in the league all season. No strikers & both CBs out, no Trossard & Ode not fit to start. Taylor doing his absolute best to screw us over, away to 2nd in the league, after a massive 3 game week… & still 5 clear at the top. Can’t really complain.

Five points clear having been to Newcastle, United, Liverpool and Chelsea. Could be a lot worse

An excellent point -- want to emphasize how much the early yellows to all the defenders and Zubimendi forced Arsenal to play more conservatively. Arsenal rely on their defenders to win 1-v-1 duels to commit numbers forward. Without the two CBs and all the yellows, it's tough to do that.

To me, that yellow card disparity reveals a substantial, game-affecting difference in how the two sides were officiated.

Disappointing, but a point away at 2nd place isn’t a disaster, especially while playing without your 1st choice CBs & it being the 3rd huge game in a week.

Wild how different we get reffed. 1st foul… shoulder to shoulder: instant yellow.

How many times can Cucurella and Caicedo get away with it but Arsenal have 4 cards. Now Caicedo rolling around acting injured - what a joke.

The general week-to-week reffing of Caicedo makes that kind of tackle inevitable.

Watch how he now ‘evens it up’ by sending one of ours off for fuck all…

That’s gotta be a straight red for Caicedo!!! It’s his 6th foul, including shoving someone over. He’s a proper cunt, but Taylor has basically greenlit this by being tha pathetic l, biased cunt he is.

Taylor bottling the 2nd yellow for Cucurella

Already took the throw in before Taylor blew up & gave it to Chelsea. And Caicedo allowed to run around fouling all game with zero consequence.

I ask again ...

Caucasian with foul number 4, including shoving a player over, and still no yellow.

Building out from the back impacted a lot by the 2 CBs being out

We’re gonna have to watch them kick shot out of us all game, then swallow a Bs red card aren’t we?!

Anthony Taylor gonna Anthony Taylor. The great chode.

Can't wait till Caicedo seriously hurts a player and gets a stern talking to

Anthony Taylor is Anthony Tayloring already

Martin Zubimendi booked. Ridiculous. Two possible yellows for Chelsea not shown. First possible one for Arsenal shown.

Ffs how’s that not a fk on Timber?! Taylor is a huge c*nt.

Aaaaaand there’s the classic 1st foul yellow for us! Classic Antony Taylor, biased, bald, prick.

Ha, they won’t even give him a corner!

2 mins it took the wooly haired cunt to go right through Saka… obvs no yellow.

Still, they’ve reacted well after the early goals… 0.01xg 💀💀

Savage way to treat your own GK, even allowing for the horror show for the 2nd goal, from the Spurs fans.

Hahahaha Spurs

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Bukayo Saka has 19 goal involvements in just 21 Champions League appearances for Arsenal (12 goals 7 assists). #ARSBAY

Just a quick word on Liverpool too… their fans managed to reach peak-Utd-era levels in being insufferable c*nts last season so I’m finding their catastrophic downfall utterly hilarious.

Arsenal have played 19 games so far this season in all competitions. They have won 16, drawn two & lost just one. They have kept 13 clean sheets, failed to score in only one game, netted 42 goals & conceded just seven. And all this despite having between three and seven players out simultaneously.

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What we’re seeing from this team is incredible. Absolutely love the lot of them. Bodes well for what we can do with a fully fit squad too, if we’re playing like this without any strikers!

Out of interest, any GK coaches out there… why does Raya go with his left arm to try & keep that Richarlison lob out? Surely he’d have had a better reach with his right?

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Delightful weekend of football, thanks lads!

So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this

“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?” “Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?” You can have those for nothing, lads.