One reader has called for a boycott, or a Twitter hashtag, to avoid the constantly battered Bukayo Saka being the victim of a career-ending tackle. Also, a Liverpool fan will reluctantly be cheering on Man Utd in a cup final…
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What a game at Villa Park. In all honesty it would have been a travesty if Arsenal hadn’t won. Rivals will point to a dose of luck for the 3rd goal but Arsenal did more than enough especially second half to win that game twice over. The finishing was poor otherwise we’d have wrapped the game up long before Jorginho’s 93rd minute goal.
Talking of which I’m sure there were a few French fans with a smirk on their face at the fate of Emi Martinez. He’s easy to dislike (and to be fair probably easy to love if he plays for your team -that’s how it works). There is a certain satisfaction for the goal to bounce in off his head in the 93rd minute when he’s proceeded to waste so much time in the game. 3 gk in Arsenal’s last 4 games have had yellow cards, that and the constant fouls by of Saka seems to be the route to stopping Arsenal. The Saka thing is getting ridiculous now, the lack of free kicks and cards for fouls on him and that he can pick up yellows for reacting or breathing near an opponent. I’m sure palace and Liverpool fans have said similar about Zaha and Salah. If ever there was a guy you’d think would get some biased protection from English refs it would be England youngest star boy, humble, intelligent, likeable. It needs explaining. We have pundits lining up to say someone like Grealish is ‘clever’ but Saka needs to get used to it and must expect that he’s going to be targeted for dirty fouls!
Back to Jorginho, another superb game from him. Chelsea look like they could use someone like him with his calm line breaking metronomic passing.
Arsenal get called out for any dropped points always seemingly being down to some psychological defect, being soft/weak and not mentally up to it. Utterly terrible take, sometimes teams can lose games to simply not playing well enough. But even more so there are countless examples of money in the bank for the mental fortitude this side has shown, so why is the isolated one-off used as the precedent of returning to like? It’s lazy and wrong.
I’m looking forward to forensic analysis of Pep’s touchline behaviour affecting Man City getting the win, oh if only he was calmer and not berating officials and waving…
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