One Shot, One BANG! (@Th3CatchUp) | Nottingham Forest 0-1 Arsenal

Marty AFTV, I'm here with my man SB. What's up my boy, how are you? I'm cool, yeah, I'm good man, I'm good. After Arsenal beating Nottingham Forest 1-0 at the City Ground, away from home, a fixture that has evaded us in the last few seasons. Run me through this. Yeah, that was a quick dub man, no I'm joking. That was, listen, I can't lie, some of that... Champagne football? No, it wasn't, it was boring, but we got the job done man. Winners find a way in it, so I think right now, I think it's about getting points on the board. I know, obviously, I'm watching it and seeing it. It wasn't the greatest performance, but at the end of the day, at the end of the season, how you perform at Forest, no one's really going to remember it in the totality of everything because as long as you've got the three points. So I think that was the most important. I think I want to big up Arteta again. Why? I think a lot of times we get onto him as a fan base for being reactive. I think about one thing I've seen this season and it must be something that he's learned from last season. that he's being more proactive when he's seeing things he's making changes early he's not waiting for things to happen you could see that Eze weren't really having the greatest game on the left hand side the dynamic between him and Calafiori wasn't really the greatest I think they wanted to occupy the same spaces and sometimes Eze was getting left as a touchline winger which he definitely isn't so they we brought on Noni Madueke Nonzino was it Saka wake Nonzino came on and you know one shot one goal bang isn't it that's what it was today I think literally we had one shot on target one goal that was all that was needed and do you know what you make a great point at the end of the day you could have 30 shots on goal on target and if you don't score any of them it's a 0-0 you just need one and the one that we had went in the back of the net whether it was deflected or whether it you know came off the ref or whatever the bottom line is we won that game 1-0 that's it and I think with Noni like I want to big him up as well because he listen there was petitions for the guy to not even sign for the club so I saw an interview with him talking about like he never gets too high with the highs and never too low with the lows so he's done well to to come in and the last few weeks he's he really seems like he's grasping his chance to to nail down that that that left hand side because obviously as you know Zolas is injured um and he really looks like he's he's grabbing that with both hands at the minute and I'm sure that if it came off the defender's backside or his chest and it went in that's his best moment in an Arsenal shirt scoring a winning goal getting the three points so he got the man of the match so I'll big him up for that man It came off his thigh and it leads me on to the next question so right Solis is fit is this a case of Solis walks straight in or does Solis have to play his way into the team Nah you've got to earn it man I don't think there's So you're saying that Madueke right here right now from what you've seen the last few games he's done enough to earn that spot right Marty you see if you're going out and you want to go out and you want to iron your shirt you don't iron it when the iron's cold you got to iron it when the iron's hot when it's hot do you get what I'm saying to you so Madueke's got the hot hand right now so he has to play like that's what I want I want Zola to now think okay cool now he looks like he's actually active so when I come on I have to be on it because everyone's got to earn their minutes I don't think there's anyone in this team that has a God-given right to just play look You're even seeing Skelly played no minutes today. Top, top player. He's been playing very well this season. Bruno come in, okay, it wasn't his greatest game, but he done all right. Do you get what I mean? So we just want a competition for places. And if Nani's playing like this, I'm not saying he's the finished article, but it's a lot better than what he's been serving up before. So yeah, man, let him play. You make a really good point with that, that, you know, earning the right to play. And I think the competition element of what Nani Madueke is now bringing to that left-hand side, what we're starting to see, what I want to see is obviously him put a string of games together. We've seen it with a couple and then obviously today, match winning and then kicking on from this. And listen, when he signed for us, he did that, but then he got injured. And obviously injuries happen in football. And the thing that I think is important down this left-hand side was obviously getting rid of Martinelli and Trossard. then now what we could be seeing here now is Madueke pushing Solis for that left-hand side and that left-hand side actually being strengthened by um Madueke taking his chances and Solis being like do you know what i was a guaranteed starter got injured and and now yeah i got my place back and and i think with Noni as well like he's a little bit different to all the rest of the attackers i think Solis is like a fast a slow fast man like he's not really really fast like Saka is not really the quickest Yokele is not the quickest Havertz is not the quickest so he's someone that is completely different to everybody else so if he just touches up his end product and start adding some GA to his game like he has been doing for the last couple weeks then I can see that that side might be nailed down so just quickly you touched on Yokore so he's another player a lot of criticism maybe justified what are your thoughts he came on the pitch and what he did I thought when he came on made a difference man like he'd done things that I just want to see from him just be a little bit nasty hold up the ball bring other people into the game like you didn't score but you contributed I don't want you to be just someone who is just only about goals because you're not going to score every game like when you don't score what do you add to the team can you make it hard for defenders can you hold up the ball can you bring others into play and now that's one thing that I saw like and listen like I'm a football fan first I want to big up Liam Delap because he was I didn't think that he had a performance like that and today he just done the same thing was just hard to play against was ugly made it hard for Konza and Gabriel they knew that they had a good game they had to have a good game to to to to shut him down so yeah man Yokore he contributed when he came on man but so did all the subs I thought Marino was good when he come on Timber was good when he come on obviously Madaweke got his goal so I think everyone played their part especially the guys who've come off the bench and we've seen that in the last four or five games where the people that are coming off the bench they're contributing they're making the difference which is obviously what we want in a squad and it just makes it good competition within us So just quickly Wednesday night Bayern Munich away in the Champions League thoughts on that quickly Yeah Allianz Arena this is what you this is what you want you want to be tested you need a test like talk is cheap in it we can say that with this with that but until you play the best then how you gonna know and Bayern Munich PSG for me Barcelona probably the three sides that I look at and think oh do you know what these are top sides how good and how much will we fare against these teams and but saying that I'm not scared of them I'm not scared of nobody I think on our day we're better than we can beat anyone it's just about we just need to turn up I think those games might suit us even more than these Nottingham Forest games because you know Bayern Munich they're going to come with their chests out they're at their home pitch they're going to want to take the game to us I think sometimes that might even be better for us the game will be more open more space so yeah man I'm confident in that game I'm looking forward to it going to be at the watch party Curb Sports Bar coming you know show support I'm sure Marty will be there some of the guys will be there so come down show your support if you can't get down make sure you lock in but yeah man little promotion love that actions speak louder than words my man SB you've been a superstar thank you very much I've been Marty he's been SB and this is AFTV signing out