Didn't see the game but happy to have recouped some of last years losses on Arsenal away. I am hoping the introduction of the new signings will make Arsenal stronger. Lucky to be playing The Toon today!

Arsenal should still be a good price away from home judging by accounts. After the loss to Liverpool away the price will get even better and by then I hope a side has started to develop! There could be money to be made by this team. I hope Luis provides something special for the younger players.

Ozil and Kolasinac issue is a now a full blown gang war between the Turks who are protective of the players and the Eastern Europeans who carried out the attack and upset they are getting laughed at by everyone.

Guess they won’t be playing for a while...

Any chance we can suspend their wages? Not exactly our fault they can’t play.

The Turks are the ones who were arrested and the Eastern Euros are the ones protecting, supposedly without the players' knowledge
I don't see how an Eastern Euro gang would step in off their own bat and get involved. Both players have beefed up security in recent weeks and hired some goons to protect their houses. The Turks have reacted to being threatened by the Eastern Euro gang and issued more threats, according to the papers.

that is ridiculous dambuster!

Oh sorry are you talking about their footballing ability? oh alright then!

Ashley I would love to see the best of Ozil with that front 3 and a more solid defence and midfield.

In Wenger we trust?

500k a week down the shi++er

Anyways not like we need them right now.

We can't do that lybertyne, what about there human rights and all that b0110x

Really liked that win.

Our passing had a fluency and pop that I have seen in a while.

Ceballos is probably our best central midfielder since Fabregas.

Defence instantly clicked with Luiz and a sounder structure in front of it.

We need to be far better when out of possession but this will come...can’t solve everything straight away.

More importantly we played as a team and not a bunch of disconnected muppets hoping Alexis or Ozil will save us.

He surely won't drop any of them for Xhaka

Ludicrous puff piece on the BBC website by Ornstein. More than 75% direct quotes from Josh Kroenke. No interrogation or challenges from the BBC ‘journalist’. This explains why Ornstein is so reliable as a source at Arsenal. Completely in the club’s pocket.

But we have a kwality central midfielder for a season and everything must be done to show him what a future he has in the Premier League. Far better than sitting on a bench in Madrid and be subject to political shenanigans.

Similarly Willock could emerge and Pepe has yet to show us what he can truly do but he looks like he has something. We have two very good goal scoring forwards and maybe a left back. I would just like someone to come in and drill drill drill the defence.

Defence is the best form of attack!

To be fair to an otherwise very, very average player, he has the ability to hit long passes which would surely be the reason he is in there.

Another good interview with Claude on Arsenal fan TV., Says it as he sees it

I believe Xhaka is blackmailing Dick, thats the only reason i can see why he's picked

it was suicidal tactics yesterday, a dimaond formation gave the two best full backs in the country license to roam in in the areas that love to run into and cross or shoot, Robertson in particular put in some really dangerous balls that on another day would have seen a 4-1 or 5-1 scoreline. Ceballos played well through the middle last week, deployed further out wide this week taking away from his strengths.

The game was crying out for Torriera to start, with Kolasinac on the left wing to stop TAA's attacks, David Luiz in a back 3 as he can't play as well in a centre back pairing, he's like a fish out of water and doesn't want to be chasing/hustling defeners, he's a footballers footballer and should be allowed freedom to play in front of them, that's why Lamapard moved him on as he wants to play a back 4 and doesn't think Luiz fitted, under Conte in back 3 he did well. Liverpool play Mane/Firmino/Salah every week, no reason why Auba/Laca/Pepe should not have all started together to take it to them in turn.

Xhaka I can't see what he offers, in any team in any formation he looks like a square peg in a round hole.

the most disappointing thing is this kind of game was meant to show us exactly where we are at, against top opposition, but because the formation, the selection and tactics were all wrong we've all left none the wiser.

Beating Tottenham at home next week will help a lot to make up for him, he has to start Torreira in a game like that, and hopefully Pepe/Auba/Laca together, Ceballos would suit this game perfectly, after that it's a pretty good run of fixtures for a long while so should be in the top 4 by the time City comes around. Emery has to learn from this defeat.

I think he was probably making sure he has Torreira and Lacazette for Spurs (benefit of the doubt)

9 from 12 would be excellent. Will be honest and say that’s 8 more than I originally thought 2 months back.

Thought Willock was top class and took another step forward. He cannot be dropped!

Pepe was frightening at times and bodes well for when he’s fully up to speed.

Should’ve been going in at half time 2 or 3 nil up imo

Shame about the misses, the corner and Luiz’s brain f art.

Shows that we’ve improved when we’re angry /  upset we didn’t get something against them rather than depressed about another humiliation.

Almost tempting to go 4-4-2 next week with Willock and Torreira in the middle, Pepe and Nelson out wide and Aboomerang and Lacazette on top. Old Skool style.

He’s got options...players are improving...everyone fit...no excuses....

Worrying thing for me was that the Liverpool players were far quicker than us in getting the ball. As soon as they lost it Liverpool got the ball back in seconds.

Playing the ball out from the back as we did has to be the worse tactic ive ever seen in football. We will lose quite a few 'silly'goals playing this way.

Think Liverpool took their foot off the peddle at 3-0. Could have been much worse if they had put their foot on our throat.

Still a mile off the top sides but we knew that already.

Liverpool and Man City are in a totally different league than any other PL club. I agree that some of the tactics against Liverpool were naive. We improved (pointswise) on our previous season and I feel Emery is still finding his feet. Good work in transfer market and a good chance to finish top 4. For me its all about progress and it will take some time to be competing at the highest level again. I think most are happy with progress and CL football to start with and then push on again? Fingers crossed for 3pts today

Why is he ever in - surely another rancid performance won't dissuade Emery from picking him

Xhaka is stupid, he makes the same mistakes again and again. I couldn't work out why Emery took Toreira off and kept Xhaka on. I thought Guendouzi was very good yesterday and maybe be good enough to persevere with.

For as long as Xhaka is anywhere near the XI and we keep giving away cheap goals with no sign of him doing anything about it, you know that Emery will not get it right but 4th place is the plan as always and he might just do enough for that. I recall that we gave away a similar panalty and some poor keeping for the other goal in the 4-2 win last year

Given away a penalty for the 3rd league game in a row v Spurs, all scored by you know who, that is criminal. The guy is a serial diver who has been at it for Spurs and England for years. Waits for contact then goes down like a sack of spuds. He made a mess of his little trick yesterday and let the veil slip.