Arsenal has just dropped valuable points in the title race after a 1-1 draw against Brentford in the Premier League this afternoon.
The Gunners have remained atop the league table for most of this season but have now dropped five points in their last two matches.
They lost to Everton before facing Brentford, but their closest rival, Manchester City, lost against Tottenham on the same match day.
With a game in hand, Mikel Arteta’s side sits six points above the champions before the latter plays and both title challengers will face each other in Arsenal’s next match.
Fans will be disappointed by how they performed in the game against the Bees and Givemesports’s Alex Batt warns them that they simply cannot play that poorly against City.
He tweeted:
“Play like that on Wednesday and we’re getting torn apart.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
The draw against Brentford is a big blow because we needed to win that game and show we have bounced back from the defeat to Everton.
It is obviously disappointing but we are still clear at the top and we will bounce back, this is a mini-slump but we always pull out of them, generally against a big side, so we still have every reason to be positive this evening.
I hope it will be a better game against city. We wont need to be as physical. I thought he picked the wrong team today. Tomi and Tierney should have started as well as Trossard, just for starters.
Zinchenco has been utter shite these last 2 games, always losing possession, out of position and constantly shooting when he has other options. Tierney is much better LB
Well im pretty sure Zinchenko will play against city.
Arteta is a very good coach but sincerely as I’ve always say, his match management skill is sub par. He really need to improve his match management. He is too predictable and rigid making it easier for opposing teams to plan to counter us. Trossard for Nketiah, Tierney for Xhaka thereby pushing Zincheko to the middle and Tomiyasu for White would have change the dynamics of the game and confuse the opponent yet giving us more attacking threat both through the middle and wide areas but our coach did as predicted by the opponent.
Arsenal are too predictable making it easy for Nu,Evefton and Brentford.Their physical approach and aerial balls seem to unsettle the gunnerz.
Ma wants to be like Wdnger trying to thread a ball througha massed defence.
No pla b.Have crosses and lesden the passes anf shoot more often
If Martinli and saka are stifled the attack is as good as deaf
lol (doesn’t deserve serious commentary)
There really has to be some perspective
I’d be lying if I said that the result was what I was expecting and it really is difficult to gain too much insight having listened on the radio rather than watching it live.
However, I’m trying to be realistic about our chances over and above top4. The ‘big boys’ are not exactly ripping up trees and yet there are those who at almost the first sign of a blip see us plummeting down the league. Then there are the first posts I’ve seen in a while showing disquiet about Arteta. It is irrational to me. Does a Leicester hefty win over Spurs make Rodgers suddenly superhuman and Conte a total failure? Did Bournemouth drawing against Newcastle make Howe look as though he’s peaked?
We didn’t lose against Brentford- who sit in 8th – above both Liverpool and Chelsea.
There is always the assumption that the two Manchesters will go into overdrive and until that happens I’m not going to panic. We didn’t lose.
The fans didn’t stop their support which came across fantastically on the radio so hats off to them
I’m not upset about the result, but i think we needed to turn up and show that the loss against Everton was just a blip, and we didn’t really. I agree that there should be no panic, but we’re in danger of dipping into a poor run of form. We just need something to wake us up.
While the other sides aren’t doing great either: 1) I would love for us to win this league with a great performance, not to just be champions by default and 2) I do think City will be around at the end of the season – however poor they’ve been relative to recent years, if we start to drop, the momentum and confidence will soon turn in their favour and they’ll end up taking first. We’ve seen this many times in the past.
And honestly, second would be a very good season in the context of how we’ve been for the last decade, but we’ll regret not taking this opportunity.
Very fair comments there Davi