Jase

This reminds me of the 2016/17 season...

This is too much to take. And not to mention, we'll be "playing two games" on Sunday.

Am I going overboard or exaggerating if I say, despite having defenders as bad as ours or worse, Arteta has managed to make Arsenal more defensively solid and (somewhat?) consistent in less time than Lampard has with us? There are still individual mistakes within that Arsenal side of course but they seem to have a proper defensive shape compared to us. On top of that, they also seem more capable of "hanging in there" in games as opposed to just collapse without fail like last time.

This has gotten interesting all of a sudden...

@Magic Lamps You have jinxed Man City...

As if that's going to make any difference...

I need to stay away from permutations...

If City lose here, then 7th place in the Premier League won't be a Europa League spot... EDIT: Never mind.

Rice as CB and Kante as DM.

Because of the spygate controversy between Derby and Leeds last season.

FA Cup...the tinpot cup!? Jesus fucking christ!

Brentford with the bottlejob.

For the record, I never said City were uninterested against us. It's just your post was slightly off the mark.

But losses to Southampton and us are sandwiched between those wins...

Tell that to Bournemouth and Southampton...

Furthermore, we set up very similar in the same fixture last season against City, with Jorginho at the base of the midfield and we looked solid as well...

I already said that was due to the nature of our setup for that game - we played defensive and on the counter attack. That suited Kante very well. Even Christensen and Rudiger, who most people want out, looked great in that game!

Poor performance is poor performance. I could care less whether Jorginho stays but...

That feels applicable to us too...

That first half at Leicester was even worse than the closing stages at Palace. Anyway, AGREE TO DISAGREE. Significant rumors? All I've seen is some Italian sources saying it but nothing concrete and nothing concrete from the English media - e.g. Matt Law - either. Plus, if Sarri gets sacked by Juventus, that link then there goes out of the window.

Because we still look defensively vulnerable? The Villa game, the West Ham game. Would even include the FA Cup game at Leicester.

Because I don't think we are defensively safer or even just safe in general?

If you think we are safer defensively with Kante there, then good for you. Agree to disagree.