It's going to be HARD for Arsenal without a Number 9 - Frank Leboeuf after loss to Newcastle 👀
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Frank Leboeuf, Shaka Hislop and Craig Burley join Sebastian Salazar on ESPN FC to react to Newcastle knocking Arsenal out of the Carabao Cup with a 2-0 (4-0 on agg.) win over Arsenal.
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Miles Lewis Smelly not tracking back allowed Isak to destroy the backline😭
Exactly, he forgot he was a defender.
He's 18 what was you do at18 . I don't see the point having a go at a kid.
@@afctaylor12then he shouldn't have dissed Haaland... Don't give what you can't take.
It was the manager's tactic, not only MLS but Timber was also higher. Both CBs were alone.
@@nvh119 Wow! What's wrong with you - going in on a kid? After dissing Arteta and Gabriel during then after the end of the September game, Haaland also 'asked' MLS, "Who the f***k are you!!" so who was giving it large? Also, the meditation goal celebration is Antoine Griezmann's from 2017 onwards, so Haaland was just hijacking someone else's moves. Anyway, which EPL team were you playing for when you just turned 18 years old, and when did you score a screamer against a current EPL champion or any top pro team, let alone one of the best in Europe (except maybe on FIFA)? Relax yourself and don't let the tribalism fool you dude.
ARSENAL need to stay Humble😊
You will not win anything substantial if that is your attack.
Havertz himself is not the issue. He has 18 goals and 9 assists in his last 35 Premier League matches going back a full year. And 24 goals and 11 assists in his last 52 matches in all competitions for Arsenal. His productivity is much better than he’s given credit for. The real issue is Arsenal do not have another viable Number 9 for Havertz to play off of from midfield. Havertz’s most effective position is playing as a second striker floating in from the midfield when Arsenal dominate possession against low blocks. After a while, the criticism of Havertz from these pundits and a certain subset of Arsenal fans gets really old because they virtually never talk in nuance about him and just non-stop mock and slander him.
stop this rubbish. Havertz is a key part of the issue. stop these stats. show me how many of those goals were scored in key moments of a game. watch that City game - clear chance to make it 2-0 early and he misses but ends up snagging a goal when the game is dead at 3-1 to make it 4. will you now add such a goal as a reason he’s not a problem??? stop it
@@dead_r33d Nah, you stop it. I get it that you don’t rate Havertz and you constantly go on about it. But you’re exactly the type of person I’m talking about. Bigger picture, Havertz is not the long term solution up top as the striker for Arsenal. But that’s not even the position he should be playing in the first place. Like I said in my original post, his best position by far is coming in as a second striker from deeper positions against low blocks when Arsenal dominate possession. Contrary to what a lot of people think, he fits in very well in Arteta’s system from that position. As for crucial goals/moments. I find it hilarious how people like you very conveniently neglect to mention Havertz assisted Odegaard on the first goal at the weekend by paying the ball on a platter for him. You then act like scoring the 4th goal wasn’t important when that’s complete nonsense. He made the match 4-1 and prevented City from making the last 20 minutes nervy if they scored to make it 3-2. Likewise, Havertz put Arsenal up 2-0 against Villa a couple of weeks ago to ceil what should have been a victory. But Arsenal blew the 2 goal lead. Not to mention he scored the winner in the match before that against Ipswich. I get it, people like you are going to constantly downplay Havertz. But it gets boring after a while and is tiresome to read the lack of nuance people like you use to analyze him.
The pundits look at this from the right POV, Arteta has put Havartz in the position of being targeted as he is effectively their striker. You are right he is better feeding off or feeding a striker. It means effectively that Arsenal will get close but they won't win any silverware.
@@1stand11Say whatever you want Havertz is rubbish and the whole World see it and even Arteta accepted it.
@1stand11 OneHundredPercent correct! Same issue when Arsenal had Giroud but needed another type of striker with different movement and better goal: chance ratio (but Wenger didn't resolve it so Arsenal faded from winning the EPL twice in a row). But look what Giroud did for Chelsea, AC Milan and France when he had that support. Arsenal used to have 4 out-and-out CFs of repute in a squad when they were winning things - even bitd, Alan Smith eventually needed an Ian Wright. Wright then had Bergkamp, then Wright and Anelka, then Kanu, then Henry, RvP and so on. Even more recently, Auba had Lacazette. Arsenal had Havertz with Nketiah (Jesus is predominantly injured). Nketiah is not a high -yield goal-scorer and was sold on. Jesus is long-term injured again (3rd consecutive season). How many dedicated CFs do e.g., Liverpool, City, Villa, Newcastle, Chelsea, Forest and Bournemouth have in their squad/on the pitch? Havertz is not a true CF (hence the missed chances or deep starting positions) and cannot do enough by himself; he's part of the solution, not THE solution.
Arsenal gets beaten, it's a lack of a striker. Then they thrash Man city they're title contenders and then back to default and it's a lack of a striker 😂😂😂 the media babyteam always
Both things can be true at the same time. Come on, everyone and their cat has been saying the same thing for the past 3 seasons. Arsenal need a striker, end of.
Bottlers gotta make an Excuse n u r watching American 🇺🇸 Arsenal TV 📺
@@Lioness_UTV shhh 🤫 u make no sense‼️👎
@@Lioness_UTVyes, every time arsenal lose a match it's because they don't have a top striker. So presumably following this logic arsenal will win every game if they sign a top striker. They have a problem scoring goals but yet scored the most goals for an arsenal team in the league last season, more than the invincibles.
Makes a lot of sense
Just wait till we get another LB this summer 😂
Like Seriously what's the difference between Arsenal and Spurs !?
About 20-25 points
@donovanjohnson4279 N?
Arsenal at least won a major trophy a couple years back. Last time Spurs won a major trophy Tony Blair I think was still Prime Minister.
You will not win anything substantial if that is your attack.
R u srs? Arsenal is #2 and lost the tittle by 2-4 points....thats a project
Nothing to do with Havertz or Arsenal not having a striker, simply outplayed by Newcastle over 2 games
True. They had a bad day in the office. Don't overanalyze.
@@joshuamanampiu6489Three bad days at the same office. If I do that, I get my cards.
Newcastle are very underrated team with alot elite players like isak , bruno,tonali,gordon if they qualify for champions league and add 2 or 3 elite player in the needed positions (rb,moc,rw) they can fight for the prem with arsenal in the futur
I can not believe that is even a discusion who is gonna win the league.They have been talking since months about Liverpool's drop of and still waiting. But even if, Arsenal are just not good enough to put a run together.Anyone who understands football can see that.
Stay humble Eh
why are you quoting city?
I thought that unknown random kid Lewis Smelly was Paolo Maldini 😂
He trolled Haaland only to let Arsenal's backline smell 😂
There's only one Bobby Firmino, someone who can play false nine and be clinical at the same time.
Fermino wasnt clinical.😂😂😂😂😂 he missed loads of chances.
Gordon on beating Arsenal & reaching Wembley next "Important to STAY HUMBLE" 🧘♂️
You will not win anything substantial if that is your attack.
Newcastle 4 Humble boys 0 also 0 champions league and 0 cup this year 🎎
You’re not beating Liverpool anyway! They’re too good a team for trashcastle United to even think of defeating
@@Battuta2208trashcastle ?? 😂 what does that make Arsenal trashcastle have beat them 3 times this season 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@williamneailey6756The league table doesn’t lie. A cup tie only makes sense when you win it. Despite beating arsenal 3 times, Newcastle may still lose to Liverpool and fail to finish in the top 5
@@Battuta2208trashcastle? Still beat Arshitnal 😂😂😂
Stay humble eh..
People keep saying a no 9, but the issue is much deeper! The style is such that it creates very few chances for striker, and running behind will rarely work because the other team is always parking the bus against Arsenal, Arsenal don't play quick enough, so I feel even an Isak would struggle but he would not miss chances he gets, thats the only diff. Also the midfield needs more creativity, Odegaard is a controversial character for me, he has immense skills, but he just cannot do well when we need him most, he doesn't score, feels too passive and overthinking around the box, if it comes good its magic otherwise its nothing with him. Frank is right about style, the speed is too slow, if the speed was quicker, more direct, it would be better. Its tough for us Arsenal fans, the team has quality but it doesn't shine often and it doesn't improve consistently.
But what you forget too is times when Havertz recycles the ball when he doesn't have the pace or skill to beat a player, giving the other team a chance to reset, Isak won't. Isak would be so direct and run with the ball and get to the opposite box as quick as possible.
the rhetoric from some Arsenal fans that Havertz is NOT part of the problem is a fvcking joke. stop it ffs.
watch that City game - clear chance to make it 2-0 early and he misses but ends up snagging a goal when the game is dead at 3-1 to make it 4. will you now add such a goal as a reason he’s not a problem??? stop it. he’s part of the issue
You will not win anything substantial if that is your attack.
Only real Arsenal fans know that Havertz never turns up when they needed him. Drogba turned up when Chelsea needed him, Nunez turned up when Liverpool needed him, Havertz ran like a headless chicken when Arsenal needed him.
Small club preaching to others to be humble 😂 they couldn't even win a tea cup if it was being handed to them
Go and check arsenal and man citys history and let's put the total number of trophies over the years and see who is the smaller club, unless one champion league is worth 10 fa premier league then you right
No that’s a 💯 lazy take … It’s not “an Isak performance” … apart from his 30-minute VAR check where the lines were shared 20 minutes later?! It was a stellar team performance and an Eddie Howe management plan masterclass … again. Different formation… Same result … put some respect on him 💯
That's pReMieR leAguE media for ya 😂 they're gonna overhype him like R9 from now on whether he puts on stellar performance or not 😂
They won the stay humble cup over the weekend , what are arsenal fans complaining about ? you cant win everything !
“Havertz is a worker” 😬
No single team can win league without a lethal striker and world class wingers.
For 5 years, Arteta has been told to look across the world of 8 billion human beings and buy a good striker but he can't listen due to hard headness and stubborn.
Arsenal is the only team which can't defeat a defensive teams bcoz they don't strike outside the box. Arteta is awful. Newcastle used the same tactics as first leg, 5 defense 5 midfielders to make it hard to crack them. Arteta and arsenal players NEVER learned and practiced how to score against them. Arsenal should be having 5 to 6 different tactics to defeat defending teams
City won the league without a lethal striker lol
Stay humble, Gabriel.Izak and Gordon opened up that defence like butter, I guess Smelly was one of the reasons , can you imagine trolling the great man , with his zen imitation and then being opened up like a can of worm?
It beats me that even when arteta had the chance to get osimhen on loan he went for a sterling in the summer and totally ignored him in January. It's him , not the club. Edu leaving , was cos of too much power given to him
from matchday 1 to matchday 24, these intelectual pundits are still running the same old narrative of 'This Liverpool team can't go on with this brilliant form and will drop off'. Keep on it guys, great punditry.
All that talk after battering city and they back it up by getting absolutely positively smacked and humbled by Newcastle. All well to lose in a one off but 4-0 over 2 legs Newcastle absolutely deserved it.
What was ARTETA doing in the summer transfer window procrastination.
we all know that arsenal needs a striker or a proper number 9, and only Arteta knows he needs right back, left back and a midfielder 6. Show respect to the manager guys. 😂
So you can win things without a number 9?
Liverpool is playing Diaz as a false 9
Pep won the league with a false 9 before Haaland
@@otis1601 Exactly.
Pep did it
Why is every media outlet actively trying to sell Isak to arsenal?? The disrespect
I do think theres a bigger story here. Why aren't the owners not backing Arteta?
Frank is perfectly correct.
Keep calm and stay humble. 😞
Haaland was more of an ownership initiated buy than a Pep one. Pep had wanted someone, like Kane.
When one witnessed Kia Havertz being muscled out of possession for the entirety of this game, we fear for Arsenal Kia Havertz is not a no. 9, and not signing one in the January window will cost Arsenal. This has all to do with the Kroenkes, and no one else.
So it was the board who chose to buy Havertz instead of an out and out striker 🤔
Man U take note ... wing backs in a back 5 can work
Newcatle were better man for man across the field today. Although Isak was fantastic, so were the other 10 on the field. Isak can't win games by himself!!!!
Arteta and Arsenal leadership think they invented football, and football runs on true principles and not on assumptions.
Arsenal should learn from inter Milan. When inter bought lukaku they bought him for link up play not goal scoring. The main goal scorer was luataro and that was the Best link up play. Idk why arteta can’t learn from how conte changed that inter team
City won the league without gundogan, foden and sterling as the forwards. Let that sink in
"Their best chance of a trophy" Hello! They're in the Premier League title race.
Stay humble 😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂trying to comfort Arsenal fans. LFC is winning the league
Juventus got Kolo
Their main striker Vlahovic is on the bench now
He may lost some form
But this is the best moment to go and try for them
If any team needs a striker, that’s arsenal
True 9 a no the only issue we crack under pressure
How about you talk about Newcastle and the game they played. Please!!
Arteta is feeding on his pride
I don't think anyone will be surprised if Arteta tries to buy Zirkzee from United next season
Arsenal need to be renamed Bridesmaid FC.
Newcastle were fantastic, made Arsenal look second rate.
When an entire team plays the way Arsenal did last night, the best striker in the world wouldn't have made any difference whatsoever. They didn't play anything like they did against City. And yes, Lewandowski is great. Barca are currently 3rd in their table. The way these guys explain it, it's like Arsenal were behind Man Utd in the standings. Arsenal have the second-most goals in the PL. They're in 3rd place in the CL standings. They've lost 2 games this season in the PL and 1 game in the CL despite a rash of injuries. But apparently, according to Frank, they're using outdated tactics. Go figure.
It will be Liverpool versus Newcastle final clash
Starting off by blaming all on Arteta instead of subpar performance from some key players & The Kroenkes who don't back Arteta helped me save time to listen to all the wrong analysis. These guys perform their job no better than Arsenal and still have the face to criticize others.
All that matters is trophies
Arteta don't know how to manage a proper no 9 . That's why he doesn't want a proper ST
It's going to be HARD for Arsenal without a Number 9 indeed it is already hard with this Manager.
But let the fan base burn some more...
Arsenal's trophy 🏆 was beating City 5-1
Nwaneri??? 😂 Who tf is random unknown kid that Arsenal were comparing him to Yamal??? The way he gets close to Yamal is when he's running errands for Yamal 😂
How many comments have you made on youtube today? Is there anything else you could be doing with your time?
Nwaneri is 17 playing in much much more physical league can't compare. Also is he setting la liga on fire
@afctaylor12 😂😂😂 physical leAguE?? Absolute joke of a propaganda myth 😂😂 nothing but athletes with 0 understanding of football 😂
Arsenal couldnt afford Isak , stip banging on about it.
Newcastle battered Arsenal Newcastle have a great team but all you can talk about isak
Yeah Yeah... Sign a striker.... Striker goes down, out for 2 months... Should have signed 2 strikers... Better still... Spend a billion dollars, buy more... What about FFP?
LET'S ALL LAUGH AT ESPN😂😂😂
ESPN have the worst pundits in the world. If you want to make some cash. Bet on the opposite side when they do their score predictions.
Same tired players playing all the time; cannot expect energy.. no back ups except Sterling.
Could have at least recalled viera or nelson back from loan or promoted someone from academy, but already have lost chido obi to Man U. Sorry state of affairs at Emirates.
Craig said real madrid benzema but doesnt mention real madrid cr7 as number 9 guess he still hates him because he is too good. still sulky after so long
Liverpool don't have a true #9. Arsenal need players in other positions and a change in the style of play. Its become stale.
Odegard can’t score a clear chance and of course it’s Havertz fault according to these guys!!!
Espn pundits are stupid... how can shaka say arsenal have shown to be better in the second half of the season yet theyve bottled the league twice in the second half of the season. Even united are better at that than arsenal
Their pride and arrogance can't win them anything.
Arsenal need a New GK
I think Newcastle is a tough team most especially the first leg was lost 2 nil he should have prioritize premiership and UCL
I agree they are. But we all have seen teams come back from being 2 down. And why did they lose the first leg. It tells me they still do not have a winning mentality nor the team to back it up.
@@Lioness_UTVit made me laugh reading that comment re arsenal should prioritse the premier league and the champions league my friend🤣 my point being they are already out of the fa cup and league cup so they have not got much choice with that anyway really have they🤣
Arsenal be humble 😢😅😅😅
Drop off in Liverpool when that going to happen 😢. Arsenal can't play under pressure 😢. SIMPLY
It was easy just this Sunday, every time they lose they are given an excuse and they are the best ever when they win! What an absolute joke Excuses FC
Is proven by Liverpool you say 1 premier inside 10 years lol
And Newcastle has proven to that is the best system of play and they haven't won any thing sir? False 9 has no problem or any thing like position game cause just 4 years ago it won pep almost everything
Trust the process.. Trust the plastic bottle recycling process. Arteta the two times Charity Shield champions of the world!!!
Arsenal tactic was wrong today
Isaak is not going to Snel get over it
hard for arsenal without a number 9......???
...didn't they just stick 5 past city...?
Stay with Newcastle bro arsenal can't afford to pay his salary oil lol
Isak was not the difference only, such lazy jornos saying same old comments
How did city lose to this arsenal team?
Stop treating Arsenal with kiddy gloves every team in the premier league is a threat every game a cup final intensity hence best league in the world Liverpool,s points advantage and arsenal’s inconsistency is a fact and the end result is a foregone conclusion YNWA
Arsenal is an almost team, They’ll always be an Almost team, Saliba needs to go to Real Madrid and Saka might end up at city or Liverpool to replace Salah. They’ll never be a title winning team
The media loves arsenal 😂so much excuses
It’s over arsenal just copping
Yes isak was great and arsenal weren't but I really don't think this cup or match was a priority for arsenal and it showed.
So why did they play a full first team ?
Winning wouldn't really be Arsenal's priority.
Why wasn't it??? It's ridiculous not to go for it. They aren't going to win the title and they aren't close to any other trophy as yet.
What kind of excuse is this
But they didn't need a 9 to beat city 5 ? Arsenal is a joke. Am still shocked man city lost to this team
City is on a holiday this season
Stay with Newcastle bro arsenal can't afford to pay for u worth 100mill up and his salary oil lol
Arsenal beat Manchester City and the think we are best inn Premier league and that's why lost. They forgot that Newcastle are very good team 😂😂😂
Vraiment, je déteste Leboeuf et Desailly, même s'ils ont aidé à gagner la coupe du monde pour la France
Win which league
Must champion league can't BPL
Listening to this hypocrises is wast of time
Frenchie is weird and annoying
Don’t understand his bias 4 Arsenal since he was a Chelsea‼️🙄
First
Arsenal didn't care about the cup. A lot of big clubs don't care about it.
Like Liverpool.
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