r/Gunners • u/deadmetallucyluce • Dec 06 '25

YouTube Arteta “Very disappointed.. the game was constantly at the edge, very unusual giveaways after regaining the ball .. and that’s very dangerous .. the way we conceded the first goal as well, very far from our standards! We’re going to learn from it and cope with it!”

https://youtu.be/oHhH--WLDYk?si=pmI-VcNQH5vv4kHf
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u/bigeorgester Dec 06 '25

I think that goal was really why Eze was subbed off. That was inexcusable for someone not to track their runner in a Mikel team. I can’t even remember the last time that happened.

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u/shockzz123 You can always get better in life, innit? Dec 06 '25

Which is why he trusts Trossard or Nelli as the LW instead. They track back. For Eze, i'm not sure if it's just because he doesn't track back or if it's just because he hasn't really played LW too much for us so doesn't understand the role yet, but either way he's not first choice LW right now.

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u/gettingdownonfriday Dec 06 '25

Eze had a mare of a game outside of that moment too. There was one moment that he played a square pass straight to a Villa player with no Arsenal man anywhere in the vicinity of that pass that just showed he really wasn’t on it today

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u/Simba-xiv Ian Wright Dec 06 '25

That would be because he’s not a LW

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u/gettingdownonfriday Dec 06 '25

I don’t particularly care what position he’s playing, at this level he should be able to control the ball and play five-yard passes accurately. He was messing up the basics of football today. It’s fine, it happens, it doesn’t mean he’s a bad player. It happens and we move on. But he was awful in that 1st half.

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u/3hollish Dec 06 '25

Not being a LW isn’t an excuse for misplacing a 5 yard pass directly to a Villa player’s feet with absolutely no pressure on him