If Madueke Didn't Play We DON'T Win! (Lee Judges) | Arsenal 1-0 Hull

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We said that on the back of the Liverpool game and in midweek Europe. And, you know, we got the job done. And the clean sheet defence, I thought, was magnificent. And Madueke again today, like, you know, if he doesn't play today, we don't win that game. He was that good. Yeah, he was. He was constantly a threat. I'm constantly coming forward, giving his defender lots and lots of problems. And, yeah, like you said, he's really won the fans over, hasn't he? You know what I mean? With the way he's been playing, you know what I mean? He's filling some very big shoes at the moment in Bukayo Saka. But we're not missing Saka at the moment. No, we're not missing him. And at the end of it, we have to look at that, and you just turn around and say to that today that the other two weren't quite up to standard, like, you know what I mean? So he is the one that's, from an attacking point of view, is pushing us through because... The other two today were disappointing, sorry Adam, but they were like, you know, and he's the one that's keeping the bar raised on the front three. I thought like midfield was good today. I've got to say, I don't know, my mate James mentioned it, but Bruno seemed to get better when Rice went off. They seem to like... He took the game by the scruff of the neck then. I thought that was a very good game from Bruno, to be fair. And I'll ask the question, would you want Declan Rice rested for 20 minutes in this game or 20 minutes on Wednesday? I think I would have gone for Wednesday's game. I've got to say, when I was watching that game, ringing in my ears was what you were saying the other night over in Prague, where you were saying, why make him play the whole game? Surely, get him off. So that he can be fully fit for this game. And he did come off early and he did look very, you know, he was his normal self today. So it looks like you were right on that. Of course I'm right on that one. Everybody's been saying it as well. I'm not just the only one. I think like if you, you know. I don't think you realise, well, I think we do realise what that game was like Sunday for him. It took a hell of a lot out of him. Yeah, Liverpool game. Yeah, Liverpool game. And you're away from home and you're having to defend and run and do everything like that. And you're asking him to go away on a Wednesday night when we've got players that could do it. Like, Miles Lewis-Skelly has not kicked a ball for the last two games, right? And if you can give me a logical answer why that's happened, I don't know. Because the kid's done nothing wrong. And not to play one minute in the last two games. In fact, he'd get more time playing for England than he has in the last two games. It's ridiculous, you know. No. Listen, all I've seen him do in the last two games is warm up. And I tell you, we worked hard up. Do you remember we watched him, didn't we? The warm down. Yeah, the warm down. Very harsh on him, really. There's no need to be flogging our players. And you've got a superman that you can play there as well. Yeah, he'd come on, Batman, and done well, didn't he, in the last couple of minutes. Yeah, and Superman, he'd come on. Listen. I will say today, the substitutions were very, very good from Mikel. I questioned him on Wednesday night, but I thought he got them right today. The front three wasn't worth it. We said before this game, right, that who would you play up front? And we both said that Yorke is for the sort of game that it was. This wasn't Havertz's game today, I know that sounds silly, it wasn't his game today where you needed a proper centre forward in that game today, I felt we looked a lot better when, not just when Yorke came on, when Eze came on as well, Eze should have come on maybe even before that, I would have done that, and he looked very very good when he came on. And listen, I... If you win the league or you win things or you're challenging and all that, there's a lot of these games. If you go through, like, you know, Liverpool when they was in their pomp. They would win a lot of games 1-0. Even back then, you know, we've got the famous 1-0 Arsenal and all that, like, you know what I mean? Chelsea would do it as well. And Man City have, like, as good as they've been over the years, there would be a few, three or four 1-0s. Listen, a few seasons ago, my mate said it, like, you know what I mean? This is the sort of game, two or three a year ago, we'd lose 1-0. You know, they'd get a chance to score. But today, that never was in doubt, Rob. And that's the positive you have to take from that game. Yeah, and it's put a bit of pressure on City. They're going to be playing in about the next 15 minutes. They kick off away at Forest. But as it stands, six points ahead of them. Six points. I think it's 12 points over Liverpool as well. Well, I do think. And Chelsea played well before them. So there was a little bit of pressure on today. I have to say that. But I don't know about you. I'm sitting here. I'm not... Going mad and I always felt that we'd get the goal. I don't know if you felt. I always felt that we'd get the opportunity and then when we took it, we'd done well. But, yeah, like, you know, when you look at games like this, they're not, you ain't going to, they're never going to be in the memory bank, are they? Let's be honest, you know what I mean? Where was you on November the 7th, 2026? Oh, that unbelievable game against Hull. But those games are the ones that win you the league. They mount up and you get the points. So, from that point of view, you have to be positive.