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We go again after the international break.
09/19/2026

We go again after the international break.

09/19/2026

BRIGHTON 2-0 ARSENAL HT.
work to do in the second half.
We will respond.

🔴 Here’s Arsenal’s starting XI vs Brighton
09/19/2026

🔴 Here’s Arsenal’s starting XI vs Brighton

🔴 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛𝘿𝘼𝙔 ⚪️🆚 Brighton & Hove Albion🏆 Premier League🏟️ American Express Stadium 🏟 👌
09/19/2026

🔴 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛𝘿𝘼𝙔 ⚪️

🆚 Brighton & Hove Albion

🏆 Premier League
🏟️ American Express Stadium 🏟 👌

09/18/2026

Preparation for Brighton is serious business. 😤 Are we ready for 3 points this weekend?

Everywhere good 👍 😄 🤣
09/18/2026

Everywhere good 👍 😄 🤣

The Bees doubles their lead!Thiago 82' Brentford 2-0 Chelsea*
09/18/2026

The Bees doubles their lead!
Thiago

82' Brentford 2-0 Chelsea*

09/18/2026

️61' Jaidon Anthony scores!

🐝 Brentford 1-0 Chelsea 🧿

09/18/2026

Rice stunning free kick against Real Madrid 👌
See you soon again at the Emirates

I totally agree with thi 🚨🔴⚪️ SO WHAT EXACTLY IS WRONG WITH ARSENAL’S STRIKERS?We need to have an uncomfortable conversa...
09/17/2026

I totally agree with thi

🚨🔴⚪️ SO WHAT EXACTLY IS WRONG WITH ARSENAL’S STRIKERS?

We need to have an uncomfortable conversation about Mikel Arteta’s attack.

We let Aubameyang go — and he went on to score goals elsewhere.

Gabriel Jesus arrived with an elite goalscoring pedigree, but at Arsenal we have spent years debating whether he is actually a No.9.

Now look at Viktor Gyökeres.

This is a striker who arrived after scoring 54 goals in 52 games for Sporting. Arsenal bought him because he was a devastating No.9.

And yet, after joining Arsenal, his game has looked completely different.

He still managed 21 goals in his debut Arsenal season, including 14 in the Premier League, and played a role in the title-winning campaign.

So what actually is going on?

At what point do we stop blaming every striker and start asking whether the system is getting the best out of them?

Arteta demands so much from his centre-forward — dropping, linking, pressing, combining, creating space, occupying defenders — that sometimes I wonder whether we’re trying to turn every striker into the same player rather than letting them destroy teams with what they are actually elite at.

And Kai Havertz?

Kai is a quality footballer, but he isn’t a traditional No.9. We’re asking him to do that job because Arsenal don’t have another option we completely trust.

Meanwhile, we’ve got a striker who scored 54 goals in 52 games before coming here and we’re asking ourselves why he doesn’t look like that player anymore.

🤦‍♂️ FFS, something isn’t adding up.

Maybe the problem isn’t that Arsenal keep buying bad strikers.

Maybe we need to seriously examine how we’re using them.

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