Arsenal Hopes Of Top 4 Darken Against Brighton

Arsenal continues a poor run of form with 3 losses in 4 games miserable week continued after a lackluster display at home. This marks 2 winnable games we've walked away with 0 points, 1 goal, and shipped 5, the form we had prior is slipping, and with no other competitions to contend with this is very disappointing.

Arsenal was slow and lethargic on the ball and clearly miss the energy of Partey, Tierney, and Tomiyasi but that is no excuse the team we put out today had more than enough to win the game.

Left-back, lagging

After Tavares poor performance against palace where he was hauled off, Mikel moved Xhaka into left-back who didn't fair any better and stuck with him again and was punished rightly so before waking up to the mistake and correcting it in the second half.

Mikel had far better options, he could have put Saka at left-back or brought in holding to form a back 3 and let Gabriel take left center back.

Sambi was left alone to run the midfield and was overrun and exposed, once Xhaka came to partner him in the second half he looked far more comfortable.

Sideways and backwards

There was way too much side ways and backward passing and little running off the ball, loads of diving and no hunger to get into dangerous positions, playing it safe hoping Brighton switch off and make a mistake, a game plan that can't work everytime.

Image source: - bbc.com

FULL-TIME Arsenal 1-2 Brighton

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Martin Odegaard’s late goal added some gloss to the scoreline, and it didn't look like Martinelli, Lacazette or Nketia would bag a goal. Nketia even hit the post and again proved why he is not good enough for Arsenal.

I think what would leave a lot of fans frustrated is the long VAR check to disallow a Martinelli goal just before half-time.

Now Arsenal has it all to do, to beat Chelsea and Spurs to try and retain their top 4 ambitions along with winning the rest of their games this season. A massive waste of the 2 games we had in hand and worse against teams we should be beating.

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