Mikel Arteta, First-Team Manager

[Ach]

The process doesn't do time limits

[swipe right]

This is the biggest con of all. Keep believing. Not your eyes, not your judgement. Just my word. It’s how cults function.

[alexis2015finalgoal]

Got outschooled tonight. Was bossed by Enrqiue and we couldn't handle their technical level.
Made his subs too late, and should have subbed off Odegaard long before he did.

We got back into it somewhat in the latter first half, but then Arteta was cooked tonight.

[alexis2015finalgoal]

1-0 isn't impossible to come back from, but then he didn't do himself any favours tonight.

[theHotHead]

Positive is we came back into the game and looked very good.

But I can't take much more of this idiotic football, pointless crosses into hobbits in the box, Watching Odegaard do absolutely naff all - all game, Martinelli not finishing well, Trossard trying too hard to force it.

On the balance of play and chances we are lucky they are not 3 goals ahead of us at least!

[VCC]

Putting this out here.

If players are not good enough to start games when players are out, they are not good enough to be in the squad,
That is the level we need to reach

Should never be a need to move half a team around to accommodate one player missing

[alexafc12]

Not a fan of his post match presser

Basically suggesting our performance was fine , we don't need to change anything for Paris , just take out chances

I get what he's saying but there's no way that level of performance will be good enough to send us to the final

Need much more

[VCC]

I want to bring up why the striker signing was so important.

Today we had two good goal scoring chances one to Nellie and in particular I want to highlight the Trossard chance.

Trossard was through on goal, nellie followed in two defenders to the 6 yard box at the time he was in the cf possition, a CF run would have been to check his run at the penalty box spot to create the space and a square ball from trossard, if we had a CF I have no doubt that would have happened and the striker would have had an easy finish. Exactly the reason we needed a striker

[Losmeister]

Not a fan of his post match presser

Basically suggesting our performance was fine , we don't need to change anything for Paris , just take out chances

I get what he's saying but there's no way that level of performance will be good enough to send us to the final

Need much more

I never talked this shit too seriously.

there's the face you show the public. there's what happens inside the locker room and facilities.

[VCC]

Should of started with the youth squad

[theHotHead]

I want to bring up why the striker signing was so important.

Today we had two good goal scoring chances one to Nellie and in particular I want to highlight the Trossard chance.

Trossard was through on goal, nellie followed in two defenders to the 6 yard box at the time he was in the cf possition, a CF run would have been to check his run at the penalty box spot to create the space and a square ball from trossard, if we had a CF I have no doubt that would have happened and the striker would have had an easy finish. Exactly the reason we needed a striker

This is exactly the problem

A proper CF knows when to make the right runs, sometimes the runs give space to your teammates, sometimes the runs give options to your teammates. There is so much to being a CF, the good ones are not brain dead headless chickens.

[DiamondGooner]

What concerned me the most was......

PSG play very similar to us, 4-3-3, pressing, possession etc, but the issue is they did it far better and have just as good if not better players in alot of positions.

They also looked more at it and up for it, we played timid.

For me that doesn't bode well for the 2nd leg.

[Goonerfromafrica]

Still unnecessary that we moved Merino back in to midfield. He has literally been responsible for saving Arteta’s job in the last few months with his off ball movement, passing, and physicality. Trossard cannot do this. How Arteta is unable to see how crucial Merino is to our side, in its presently botched state, is beyond me. MLS would have played a wonder game at CM.

Ultimately, this all does come down to a lack of proper striker, and it is insane just how clear it is to see, made even more painful by the months and months of repeating this. Keeps coming back to bite us.

Get merino up top for the away leg if its the last thing we do

[Goonerfromafrica]

He used his best line for rallying up the fans - probably been thinking about it for weeks - only to make two subs total and get completely bodied by a high press. Just play long balls over buddy

[Goonerfromafrica]

The failed Tifo symbolises everything. We have small club mentality