Still buzzing from commentating on this one 🙌🏼 A professional display from the team with a beautifully worked goal & one of our trademark set-pieces.👌🏼📺

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Two things can be true at once. Arsenal do need to find ways of creating more against low blocks. Those left frustrated by yesterday’s performance present some valid concerns. But we’re also incredibly effective, the reigning champions & the bigger picture is still a beautiful one. The thing I don’t get is the criticism from the outside. Whether people like it or not our identity is based on structure, hard work & being tough to beat. We can’t win in terms of the unfair narratives around us. They used to say we had a ‘soft underbelly’ and now we’re ‘unwatchable’. As long as we’re relevant, we will always have to deal with this nonsense. Call me a fence sitter but just observing the debate that’s developed since the Forest game - both camps have a point. We want/need more from our offensive players but we’ve also won at a ground that’s been notoriously difficult for us in recent times. Debate/conversation is good. Highlighting development areas doesn’t make you ‘negative’ and backing the boys doesn’t make you naive 👍🏼

The footwork and finish 😮‍💨

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So much we could and should have done better but it’s a big win at a ground we’ve drawn 0-0 at in the past two seasons. Madueke the match-winner & for me, Gyökeres’ best cameo off the bench in a while. Player ratings below👇🏼 patreon.com/thechroniclesofa…

That was a tough watch for long periods but I enjoyed calling the Madueke winner. As always, a pleasure to be on commentary alongside @davehillierr 📺

You can talk about an aspect of your team’s performance, squad construction or whatever it may be without it meaning you want it all ripped up. Theres so much more to love about this Arsenal team than to be concerned about. When did we lose the ability to discuss things without having to take a position at either end of the extremes? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Can praise Forest all you want for their defensive display & they’d deserve it… But we’ve got to be so much better at carving out opportunities when faced with a low block than we are. At times it feels pedestrian, not sure there’s enough desire to beat a man & take responsibility from many of our individuals. Have we evolved enough in attack? We only brought Christos Tzolis in and he’s out injured so I’m not surprised we’re lacking in that department again. I’m well aware this league is difficult and you need to grind out results at times but that was a tough watch despite the positive outcome.

Viktor Gyökeres was really good when he came on today. He stretched Forest, he pulled players out of position, he was strong in the duel & that’s much more like what we want be seeing from him. Loved how he reacted to winning a throw in too! 🙌🏼

Another plug for this ahead of this afternoon’s game 🙌🏼

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