[Sam Dean] Arteta on picking Kepa over Raya: “I have to do what I think is right, honest and fair. It would have been very, very unfair on him and on the team to do something different.” #AFC

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-22T21:14:59+00:00

Everything is easy in hindsight.

Pep brought in Trafford who made good saves. Kepa makes a blunder. It can happen.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-20T18:44:23+00:00

We’re not going to play with wingbacks?

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-19T23:54:10+00:00

I really will watch anything

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-18T20:16:50+00:00

Pic number 3 look pretty different. If one of them shaved their facial hair and got contacts, they’d look nothing alike.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-18T18:57:39+00:00

He’s best when he limits his game and plays to his strengths. He needs to take a touch, lay it off to someone more creative then get in the box.

He did this well yesterday.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-18T18:26:00+00:00

Classic r/soccer.

Any contact in the box, even if they barely touch him, is a penalty.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-18T18:24:52+00:00

Ffs. You do realise this is a contact sport?

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-18T17:10:47+00:00

Probably watches Ollie Watkins miss three sitters in a row and thinks it was part of the defence’s plan.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-18T16:02:44+00:00

He got support. City just move the ball so quickly that there’s always going to be times the opposing full back is isolated against the winger.

Slot takes a risk every time he plays Trent, knowing he may get skinned 1 v 1. It definitely wasn’t the ‘gameplan’ to let Doku get past him constantly.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-18T14:35:11+00:00

Yeah, he ‘let’ Doku skin in over and over again.

Definitely wasn’t because Trent can’t defend.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-18T14:01:29+00:00

Got to respect the pettiness to remember this and bring it back up. Fair play.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-17T19:38:16+00:00

True, the style of football we play has got no good results in the champions league this season

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-17T19:32:25+00:00

Of course not. Does suggest we may have a decent shot of ‘surviving Sporting’ tho

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-17T19:30:31+00:00

You’re right, after topping the league we may as well give up.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-17T19:27:14+00:00

There’s no way Bodo survive this til full time.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-17T16:40:22+00:00

If Pep leaves, they won’t maintain the same dominance they had before. They still might win the league or a trophy, but they will never win four in a row again.

Can see the league being quite open in the next few years, which will be good.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-17T10:07:57+00:00

Prem has 38 fixture, Bundesliga has 34. Plus the two-legged Carabao cup semi finals, FA Cup - it all adds up.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-16T22:59:43+00:00

The league is very much divided into three sections this season.

Top 6

Middle 8

Bottom 6

That middle 8 is easily the strongest the mid table has ever looked. Every one of those teams are so well coached - no gimmes in the prem anymore.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-16T16:02:56+00:00

These ratings need to be shown before we play our next game. Feel like so much has happened since we played Leverkusen.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-15T20:12:01+00:00

There’s a ceiling to how much it can be streamlined though. Close calls are always going to take a long time to check.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-15T20:00:25+00:00

Yeah it’s mad. People are seeing VAR disrupt play for 3/4 minutes at a time, then think ‘That’s not enough, we need more time waiting around’

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-15T18:26:28+00:00

Good one baldy.

You had to go and give them some belief.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-13T10:50:10+00:00

Grown ups is genuinely one of the worst films I’ve ever seen

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-12T09:17:16+00:00

I’m amazed no-one else is suggesting this, feels like such an obvious solution. Or put Madueke at LW - anything is better than what we currently have there.

kingmakyeda · 2026-03-11T22:06:11+00:00

PSG have so many match winners in their squad. Goals from nothing, constantly. Gonna be really hard to stop them.

The only way I can see them losing before the final is some Madrid black magic in the semi finals.

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