I will say, if Mikel Arteta got the White injury sub wrong (he did), it was a big call to take Zubimendi off again, but needs must. We have a title to win. Managers will always say you learn though mistakes, Arteta made a big one today but just about got away with it.

Cut to the away end, I need to see if your man has his little Arsenal bottle with him again.

Chelsea and Man City in the FA Cup final. No other English clubs have systematically ignored, bent or broken the rules like both have done. In terms of trophies won, no other English clubs have been as successful over the past decade and a half either. The moral of the story - is that there is none.

Seven added on for that half of football is mental, it's for TV and has nothing to do with the integrity of the game. You'd get one in the Bundesliga. Nothing has happened.

A proper game of football, this one, berween a team that should have wrapped up the title already and another which should have been demoted to League One a long time ago.

And if we don't do it, it has nothing to do with today, it'll be about the performances over the course of the season. If we'd played anywhere near this level in some of the games we've dropped points in, today wouldn't have mattered at all.

I’d say it was fun while it lasted but it wasn’t.

This is the fear. Running out of steam from going so deep in all four competitions.

Havertz now has a good 30+ mins to get into the groove at centre-forward, with Eze behind him. Surely that's the attacking duo Arteta has in mind for the City game. He can't persist with Gyokeres in a match of such importance.

if we don’t win the league, winning the FA cup will be no compensation at all. staying in the fa cup isn’t good for our chances of winning the league. we have run as far as we can in four competitions.

None of you are going to give a shit about this at the parade.

Meltdown incoming. But going out of the FA Cup is ultimately the best thing that can happen for our chances of winning the Premier League. This team don't have the legs for three competitions. Eyes on the prize.

Let's be absolutely clear about one thing: Arsenal haven't really played well for months. No matter who has played or who the opposition has been. Find it hard not to feel like the rest of the season is just about somehow, no matter what it takes, finding a way to get over the line.

If Declan Rice does another interview this season I want everyone sacked.

League titles do not fall into laps, they have to be won, they have to be claimed. And this group of players doesn't look like it believes it can do those things. Still plenty of time but they have got to snap out of it immediately, they've thrown away the cushion they'd given themselves.

And to be clear, I'd have been furious even if we'd won that game 2-1. It was so bad on every single level.

Got what we deserved. And worse, the psychological damage of that result will kill this season. Everybody is laughing at us. Manager got it completely wrong, players completely off it. How are we ending that game with guys who can barely run? Mad.

this front 3 has the passing range of a cybertruck.

Just need to renew Michael Oliver's contract and they'll be all set.

Man City winless in three, Chelsea winless in five, Man Utd one win in five (and drawing), Tottenham one win in six. Somebody pinch me. Just please wait another 25 hours.

A few years ago City might have a game like tonight’s where Haaland has eight out of their 13 shots but a few of the others drop to Gundogan or De Bruyne and they do something special at the death. That’s the team many have been seeing City as. And they aren’t that team anymore.

Bournemouth really do make it tricky. An inexplicable mistake from Gabriel to gift them the opener, but made up for that with a fine finish for the equaliser. Don't think we're getting enough out of any of the front 3, who are all replaceable from the bench if things don't change in the 2nd half

HT: Difficult half. Way too stretched and open from an Arsenal perspective, playing into Villa's hands who want space and the wide areas to run into. We can't match their running power with this midfield three. They're being allowed to slow the game down at every chance and we can't get going.

Frustrating game, Villa had a 10 min period where it looked as if they could score through our middle. I think Gyokeres should score that first chance, second more difficult but good movement from him. Nevertheless, if Arteta made a half-time change in the front 3 I wouldn't be surprised.

Every time.

Arsenal are down their two starting CBs, now a third CB, and conceded only .34 xG. Either it's devil magic or Arteta is just a ridiculously good coach.

Bayern Munich are very good by the way, they completely overwhelmed PSG when it was 11v11. Think Arteta may have a special group here

Arsenal goal involvements in all competitions: 10 - Trossard 8 - Eze, Rice 6 - Saka, Gyokeres 5 - Martinelli, Merino, Timber, Gabriel

Said this to @tomcanton.bsky.social on the Arsecast on Friday 👀

Carlos Cuesta's Parma hold Cesc Fàbregas' Como side to a 0-0 draw. Como with 71% possession, Parma outshoot them 10-6 anyway. Exactly how I'd expect a Arteta-Wenger protégé derby to play out.

Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif. Frankly embarrassing.

I’ve been *so guilty* of this myself so please take what I’m about to say with a huge grain of salt: I think we have to start to move away from the analysis that having most of the ball & pushing the opposition back is “dominating a game” if you’re not creating a decent volume of good chances

let’s say he doesn’t dramatically change as a player in the next 3 years from what we see now, I still think the Gyoker signing is fine if he scores against the middling sides and offers some depth. but on the evidence so far he isn’t troubling Havertz for a starting spot in the big games.

What’s great is that almost every post mortem post here hasn’t mentioned Odegaard or Havertz missing. And their absence was a BIG factor today. But very few are even pointing out those absences. That’s how good we are now, even with what was a disappointing result.

What a goal!!!!!!

Madueke is really good lol

Madueke is really strong

I see the injury curse is still in full flow. Would be nice to have our best team available just once against the other top teams but seems that's too much to ask.

How are you injuring your shoulder twice in consecutive home games. We're so ridiculous.

Ffs how unlucky Odegaard injuring his bad shoulder again #arsenal

Performance was fine. Result frustrating but by no means a disaster, especially three games in. Hopefully we have some players back after the international break.

First half has me greedy, I want the win. Got to remember a point is still a better result for us than for them. That, at Anfield without Saliba, Ødegaard, Saka, Havertz, was excellent.

The Premier League in 2025

The Premier League's strength in depth will be the reason Premier League teams don't win the Champions League consistently: PSG, Bayern, the Spanish giants can play in second gear in the league most weeks in a way the English clubs can't and it'll often show in April and May.

A genuine disgrace from the worst Manchester United team and manager of my lifetime

Imagine grown men spent money to make this

football fans in general have just become too obsessed with other clubs

It means little now, but I'm quite surprised Nwaneri didn't get off the bench tonight. We needed someone with goal threat to try something late on, a shift and shot - he can do that. This also means nothing, but I'm tired of watching Saka needing to beat three players every time he gets the ball.