Yes, twice last season.
Mikel Arteta | Lego Pep watch
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Both are wanks.
City for obvious reasons.
All Arsenal do is time waste and cheat. Boring as feck.
To be fair they were up against it and managed to score twice. I’m more surprised he wasn’t up to his antics more today but that may be because he’s playing against his ‘master’ and there’s a lot of respect there.
He's definitely gonna be in contention when pep leaves City so maybe he’s trying to stay on their sweet side.
He's definitely gonna be in contention when pep leaves City so maybe he’s trying to stay on their sweet side.
It's doesn't need to be bad guys vs good guys. It can be bad guys vs some twats and we can enjoy laughing at both.
Unlucky thunderbird.
Cry more.
Cry more.
Stoke 2.0.
Arsenal have scored 25 set piece goals since the start of last season
Highest amongst all teams with Everton 2nd with 21 set piece goals!
Arsenal have also conceded only 7 set piece goals since the start of last season, 2nd lowest amongst all teams only behind Man City(4)
Arsenal have scored 25 set piece goals since the start of last season
Highest amongst all teams with Everton 2nd with 21 set piece goals!
Arsenal have also conceded only 7 set piece goals since the start of last season, 2nd lowest amongst all teams only behind Man City(4)
What a coach! He has grown so much. Love to see it. He will win the league before any other club not named Citeh.
Bingo. Ultimately, he got a point away at 115 FC when down to 10 men for a half, which is a lot more than most could do.
Yet you'd give your left bollock for united to be where arsenal are right now.
Yeah a team that camps 10 in the box like that nearly always concedes. Even the famous Inter one from Mourinho that everyone remembers, they lost that game, just won on aggregate. And got a fortunate offside call.
There's no way Arteta would leave Arsenal for City. Mad idea.
Seconded. Other than his comical hair, I really don’t get the hate. When the alternatives are 115 and Liverpool, I’m rooting for Arsenal.
Also, I watched the Arsenal all or nothing, and must say I warmed to him a lot….seemed a really decent bloke
No they’re cnuts! It’s just City are even bigger cnuts. There’s no good guys here.
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Funny because Mourinho teams of the past were praised for the way they were set up. Agreed on the time waiting and even the cheating. However, you have to admire the defensive stability and the fact that they were up against the cheats.
Jeez. Has there been any other coach who has been hyped like arteta for achieving so little.
I can see that. I just respect Arsenal a lot more.
Respecting Arsenal "more" than City isn't difficult....
But still can make fun off them.
If that were the case we would be still playing surely
I just threw up
100% this. Forget the cringeyness but the amount of times i've seen him outside his technical area and/or catching/stopping balls going out of play and not giving it directly back to the opposition and stuff...other managers get booked for far less on the sidelines.
Everybody knows that EBL is an Arsenal fan.
Yeah, with two trophies less and the same amount of league titles in the last 10 years.
Arteta results-wise/ competition wise is barely better than Ole
They're competing for the title. Meanwhile we're clamouring for solace after drawing 0-0 because of a decent 60 mins against palace. A team in 16th, who lost 2 of their best players this season.
So playing anti-football is ok as long as it’s Arteta?
Yeah, knock yourself out I guess. They'll have the last laugh though.
Apparently.
There were people in the match day thread claiming that Arsenal were only playing that way because of the red card. Look at the passing stats for Arsenal.. ridiculous
What's anti -football?
They're competing for a title in the same way as we were under Jose or Ole...but also with a far better squad and basically 0 interest or ability to go far in the cups.
Ten Hag's first season - a cup, a final and third is better than any Arteta season
They basically played like vintage Mourinho, which has famously been called anti-football. Time wasting, playing all men behind the ball and not even trying to even string a couple of passes together. If a United manager (Ole got plenty for playing counterattacking football) gets to win in such a manager, they’d be massive criticism for taking us backwards and not playing progressively. But because Arteta is the darling of the neutrals, he’ll never have an iota of criticism on such matters.
I understand what your saying but it's borderline comical, Ole / Jose never challenged for the league when Mourinho finished second (highest position in the last decade for the club) there was a 19 point deficit between United and the league leaders.
On the contrary with Arsenal the largest gap has been 5 points in the same season where they were 1st for over 77% of the league campaign.
The reality is United haven't challenged for a league title since Sir Alex retired and Arteta has done it successfully in a few years during his first ever management role against some of the most competitive coaches in Europe.
I do think there's plausibility in the argument to win something which is perfectly valid, but on the premise of commanding United back to a level of dominance domestically I would take Mikel over Erik any day of the week.
Two goals, another couple of good chances, then defending with 10 men successfully for 53 minutes against City (away) is anti-football? Sounds like a pretty competent manager to me.