Arteta Won That! (Stricto) | Nottingham Forest 0-1 Arsenal

Marty from FTV. I'm here with my guy, Stricto. Must be cold in here. Reason, man. Yeah? Robbie needs to start paying his bills in here. He's got a hoodie. I'm a bit disappointed. The hot dog. Where has it gone? Matchdays, mate. Matchdays? Oh, it's a matchday thing. That's like trademark. Yeah, it's just... I'm getting a lot of love for it. People see me in it, they're like... I've got a lot of love for it. I'm a bit disappointed. I mean, it's a great hoodie, but I mean, you know, you look very dapper. But the hot dog coming, it's iconic. I'll bring it out. Like the season ticket, Dash. Let's give it, I'll bring it out. So, talking about seasons, Arsenal beating Nottingham Forest 1-0 at the City Ground away from home in the Premier League Super Sunday. Was it super for you? Three points, definitely. That's all we came for, right? Everyone here watching this, you, me, everyone in the studio, we all came for three points and that's what was delivered. I could argue the way we went about it, but three points is three points. Okay, so I don't want to argue, but I mean, how did we go about it? And obviously there's some probably contentious points and some points that you're going to bring out about maybe the performance that I'd like to know. And I'm sure it'd be great if you shared them with everyone. Do not. I've been an Arsenal fan long enough to see Arsenal absolutely dominate teams from front to back, sideways, up front, everything. I've not come away with three points. I've seen that. And recently I've seen us just be more astute. not doing the tiki-taka stuff and get three points this is no different listen the manager I think it's one of them performances that I suppose people probably won't give him credit for he set up his team wasn't going well for it changed it this is literally what Pep Guardiola does you know they say Pep gets Man City like 20 18 to 20 points a season just off of games like this and that's what Arteta has done it wasn't a great game I think you know like what Belgium said earlier But sometimes you've got to give the opposition credit. You know, Nottingham Forest were very, very good. They set up very well. Almost sort of made us play as bad as we did. You know, just their set-up. They closed spaces. They also pressed at the same time. All that kind of stuff. But generally, a game like this, you have to credit the manager. It was his substitution. It was not for the first time as well this season. Bringing on Noni Madueke, taking off Eze. I think Eze had a poor game. Honestly, almost a piss-dink kind of performance. Ben White also I think another one that goes under the radar is that Timber Timber's substitution came on gave us a bit more freed up Saka a little bit you know so yeah give listen the manager my manager's done it again and I know some people will look and be more critical towards the team's performance but sometimes you have to win ugly football isn't always beautiful okay so you lead me on to a question that I've actually been thinking about it's obviously Maresca talking about managers and obviously you're talking about Man City and Pep Guardiola so Maresca's come in and they've had a fantastic start like they have not dropped a point okay so is that is Pep Guardiola brilliant or has Maresca just come into a machine that's already running well if we look if we're going to do that then we look at what Arteta walked into compared to what Maresca's walked into two different things you know Arteta's literally had to gut out everything and restructure paint plaster knock things down it was coving covering door handles there you go locks on doors tell them you know that's your that's your field so that's that's what he's had to had to come and do whereas Maresca's already come to a house where the handle is not even just a normal handle coving's banging painting's done patio's done the knob is driveway's sorted the track there you go on point proper landscape job and a nice car there for him oh yeah mate plugged in the lot exactly so there's a difference you know and that's that's the difference between what Arteta's walked into and what Maresca's looking to but also saying that we've got exactly the same record as Man City this season no we haven't of course we haven't we've both lost one game okay alright okay in the Premier League I'm talking about all comps all comps oh he brings that one out of bag I can do comp match in the bar bro I know you do I can do it too so listen the the gap isn't as crazy as it seems and what people need to realise is Arsenal are second playing this bad that just tells you that we're not we're not we're not blurring out the houses but we are still second we're three points behind it is a pressure this was a pressure game I know some people were saying we're expecting Arsenal to win 3-4-0 but the truth is if you look at like our front three you're not really going to get that you're going to get here and then in one or two games but I don't think that will be consistent this season that Arsenal are going to win 4-5-6-0 most games I think you can expect one or two goals you can expect our defence to be solid as it was today you think about Konsa's challenge when Liam Delap was through you think about Declan Rice's block in the same is it the same there's a different phase different sequence but you can always expect that but where we probably don't have the firepower of champions is probably that front three and Martin we need to address it and we need to address it sharp and my my issue is this it's not so much who do you get in it's about decision making it's the basics I'm not seeing from these guys I'm not seeing Eze hugging a touchline I'm not seeing Eze trying to beat his man likewise I'm not seeing Saka sometimes with his decision making you know he's not getting the decision not not not taking the best the best decisions you know and I've always said that's his best attribute is his decision making we're not seeing that then Havertz isn't firing but he does some things pretty well so these things got addressed but it's just the basics i'm not seeing from these players so you'd like arsenal to address that as quickly as they address the season ticket in physical to electronic after you dash in your season ticket yeah i know you couldn't wait to get that one in there listen i want to see arsenal retain the premier league that is something i want to see i want i I want this to be the dynasty, as people keep saying. And the dynasty only happens by being consistent. If you win the league this season, you win the next season. Win it again, bring in more trophies, throw in a Champions League in there. That's what I want to see. But you can also see a slight blueprint on why we haven't been able to retain the league title. Because we don't seem to improve on our transfer activities. If you look at the seasons before, where we just didn't buy strong players, or we sold players even you're winning the league and you're selling players so we just need to improve on things like that and I have no doubt in my mind because look this team ain't playing great we haven't even gone into first gear and we're second it's not a great watch but I tell you Marty bro give me three points that's all I come for any day of the week well you've been strict though even though you ain't been that strict I've been Marty AFTV signing out