![[Jake Entwistle] Despite playing 12 minutes, Kai Havertz won more aerial duels against Chelsea (3/5) than any Arsenal player.](https://alien.top/pictrs/image/30c5820d-e5e4-4d6e-90a1-a84ad4bd5e2c.webp){kind=link}
This fanbase is hyping up 3 aerial duels 😭😭😭😭😭
I think we needed to bring him on early, so many mistakes played with the ground game with the weather being so shit. Bit more target man and hold up looked like what we needed.
When he came on, we started winning fucking 50-50s and aerial duels for a change, like if its raining that heavily and you can’t pass it because of their press and the ref is giving you absolutely nothing, he really should’ve come on earlier considering odegaard’s performance.
We were 2-0 down and they dropped deeper to be fair so naturally more headers are won
Still fuming over that duel he won against Cucurella so cleanly and ref gave a foul
Cucurella’s game is all about dark arts. Kicking the shit out of you, grabbing, and then going down crying murder from nothing. Once he finally got booked, Saka cooked him.
let’s not forget Brighton bought him from Getafe, notoriously the dirtiest team in Europe
A comment from the r/soccer match thread was dick riding hard on warra world class performance he put in, a not fully fit, bad performance saka dribble pass him like 3 times got and assist
What does warra mean
‘Warra’ = where a (where is)
That’s why you’ll see Messi fans saying things like ‘Warra World Cup for Ronaldo’
It’s insane that he didn’t get booked untill the 70th minute, he was literally kicking especially Saka all the time.
Every time is like that. I have no idea why refs tolerate his way of playing. He makes 15 fouls to receive 1 yellow.
Every time Saka had the ball it was Cucurella pushes and pulls for days, not a foul in sight
It’s bullshit but at the same time I’d take that of my fullback is up against a world class winger
Yeah but the refs job is to ensure players like Saka don’t get kicked out of the game like he was in the first half. Cucurella didn’t do anything special against Saka. He kicked him constantly until he finally got booked. Meanwhile for an entire half our best player isn’t playing the game. No coincidence that once he had to stop pulling and kicking we immediately improved and found goals.
We were better when Kai came on as the 8 and Rice went back to sitting in front of the back line.
We were 2-0 down, of course we looked better and more attacking