[Match Thread] Arsenal F.C. vs. AS Monaco

WAHEY! WE'RE GARGANTUAN

cross intercepted by *checks notes SMITH ROWE

the Smith Rowe revival can't come soon enough

Partey showing why he's playing at 6 and not Rice lol

Arsene deserves to watch better football in the house he built

That's a SPICY MEATBALL

Smith Rowe needs his own song

Maybe we can pull out that Koscielny one but change it to need

Well at least the inevitable shoot-out will mean something now.

...well as much as something can mean in the emirates cup

Rammers you beauty!!

God KT is so fun to watch

all bald men hate the Arsenal

IF YOU HATE TOTTENHAM STAND UP LMAOOOOO

We're gonna win a meaningless friendly cup let's fucking go

RAMSDALE!

the most outrageous opinions on football twitter are boosted to the top, thanks to the paid blue tick

Timber is on the left here? I thought it would be Tomi ngl

Stream switched to English, the Arsenal TV feed. Rice is extremely creative there

Tim Lewis getting himself some Arsene facetime I see. Such a fanboy.

+5m for Eddie

Are we expecting someone to be in the box....? That's the second time I've seen a great cross go straight across with none of our players in sniffing distance.

Did not realise how fucking tall Rice is tbh

Gabi, Gabi, my boy, what the fuck was that?

The biggest difference between Eddie and Jesus is the pressing. Eddie doesn't block the CBs passing lanes and they can play it out so easily.

Fabio's crosses could work well, only if we brought on Havertz or let Deccers move that far up the pitch

No chance of that being saved..

A-A-RON

Can't wait to see timewasting addressed and having Newcastle suffer for it.

WHAT A SAVE RAMSDALE

Can't fool him a third time down the middle

If this wasn't a friendly, Saliba would be off

COYG

7 subs lol, practically a new team

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT

Vieira shoulda got a foul called there

Very close

PASS

Martinelli, ESR and Rice look very good.

If Nketiah is trying to convince everyone that he can lead the line, this isn't it.

we still can't defend set pieces

Vieira looks hungry, hope he gets a goal

Rice is wider and deeper than our usual left 8, if I'm not mistaken. Interesting.

Down the middle, TWICE >>> TWICE

Trossard, Havertz, Saka and Odegaard are gonna have a field day

The one time Eddie is in prime position and no cutback, feels bad

I want my KT

Monaco look good full credit to them

Ramsdale's crucification coming up

Greedy by Trossard

Good from Eddie there. Amazed that ball got to Vieira tbh with how many people were around him.

These Spanish speaking commentators love Martinelli and Smith Rowe

So close

I accidentally fell asleep during the first half (been traveling a lot) how are we playing?

Nketiah!

Coming On: Martin Ødegaard, Leandro Trossard, Kieran Tierney, Gabriel, Kai Havertz, Jorginho, Benny Blanco

Coming Off: Gabriel Martinelli, ESR, Jurrien Timber, Declan Rice, Thomas Partey, Takehiro Tomiyasu

no one blocking cut backs and crosses

Oooo that was a nice interchange

nelli my lad

Tricksy tricksy

Apparently the Emirates sponsorship might be a record value 👀

Need a goal from open play here. I won't be satisfied by a set piece goal.

FUCKING FINALLY

Did we forget how to defend set pieces?

YEAH BOI

These subs 😍

Rice playing LCM, much higher up the pitch than in the utd friendly

j20 oh my days

Havertz as False 9?

What a ball from partey but still couldn't pull off the final pass

Smith Rowe needs to stop dragging players back with both hands, he's not strong enough and that'll get called at some point

seeing that Trossard chance is a reminder of how ineffective we are at transitions

Jesus issue isn't serious, says guy I don't know. Tier - what I wanna hear

Eddddieeeeeeeeeee!!!! ❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥🤯🤯🤯🤯

What a ball..

Looks like it's on Fox Deportes in the US, which I thought I got with my YTTV subscription but apparently I gotta pay extra for it.

So if anyone knows of a link where I could definitely totally legally watch, let me know!

Francis Jeffers died and was reborn as Eddie Nketiah!

GG

Terrible foul from Partey

Saliba having a weirdly bad game

Declan riceeee!! 😫

Probably same thing with the United game with Arteta telling the lads to fix what they screwed up haha

Minamino has already got our defense shaking, wtf

Good luck beating KT 1 on 1 haha

OUR FOX IN THE BOX

We are FLYING into some tackles

Thank you boss

WHAT A FUCKING TOUCH

Ridiculous defending

I can see why we were interested in Fofana btw. Looks very good.

Risky from saliba.. easy red

I foresee an ESR goal before halftime

Just realised I have no idea who's at Monaco

Also wow did we get lucky there

Raya out 😁😁😁😁😎😎😎

vieira missed an easy thru ball opportunity

What a turn from nketiah.. second one this game

Gabriel just got bodied

we are The Arsenal, we don't rely on set pieces😤

We're using our heads, what a sight to see

Not a great ball from Havertz to Vieira ngl, bit too much spin on it, slowed things down

Poor from Saliba that

Rice and Martinelli looks so so nice. Fantastic combinations.

Martinelli OOOF. Having a quality game until that moment. He's gotta make up for it now.

Wenger is watching this. Imagine how he's feeling watching Artetaball 🤩 🤩 🤩

Tbf for the set pieces thing, Gabriel has always been the best on those and he ain't on lol

Nicely done by Vieira there and Eddie should get a free kick haha

Bit poor from Ramsdale not catching the ball ngl not that it mattered cuz offside

announce the treble fucksakes

Nice line up, saving the big guns for the Community Shield. Love some Timber and ESR minutes.

Maripan is never gonna give his team up or let it down

Trossard is taking up Havertz's space

Think the card on Saliba is fair tbh, especially given it's a friendly. Set the tone.

That was an interesting tackle from rice lol

Martinelli looking up a bit more, not enough to grab a goal there though

Monaco look more up for it than we do.

Get in Eddie!

Who blows the whistle there??

Is ESPN the one having issues lol

Always wonder how much it hurts for the players if the ball hits them in the wall, you've got the force of a pro player essentially all going into to you.

Teasing ball from Eddie there

Ødegaard before Jorginho. Didn't expect that.

Felt like volleyball that

Declan rice looks right at home, if not as involved as Xhaka normal is (I think that's tactical)

Decent enough try for ESR there given how that ball was

Ngl was expecting a shot from Monaco outside the box there, too used to what our 6s do lol

Why is Timber there LMFAO

What was that foul

About to give up on English searching lol

That was basically not a foul tbh

Saliba as RCM is wild

Couldn't hear, who got subbed?

Another one of those chemistry mistakes there, good idea from Rice

I just clocked this while updating my google form for later: ESR is playing on the right CM. Haven't seen him do that IIRC.

Needs to hit that header for Monaco lol

Fabio needs to stop hitting defenders with the ball /lh

Marquinhos on for Eddie.

Ref's micced up. Should be using it to tell everyone why they're deciding what they are haha

Stop dragging people back, it's literally always a foul XD

Martinelli tryna learn tricks from Saka with that tight finish lol

Good save

Love Tierney's long throw in balls

Kinda wanna see us play four four fucking two with Havertz up top just to see what it would be like lol

Rice as an 8 huh. Probably what we're gonna be doing Sunday, so makes sense.

THERES ONLY ONE ARSENE WENGER

STREAM TURNED ENGLISH SUDDENLY?

Wonder what our penalty order will be. Obviously Jorginho first, but who's next

Oo good spot to win a free kick Partey

We haven't seen the goal in a bit too long for my liking ngl, put Saka on

What was that card for?

Not off to a great start

Good ball steal (idk the fucking terminology for that tbh it was barely a tackle) from Vieira

Bro the minutes weren't even up, ref pls

What was that smh

Holy shit Eddie keeping that in

Eddie needs minutes, because based on his performance so far, he needs replacing

No way Trossard saw Eddie there that was absolutely a one track mind lol

Good fucking save

Vieira just isn't good enough I'm afraid