HE SAID HUMANS

As Eze put it brilliantly himself, he’s like a passed pawn that has become a queen.

Madueke does have the capability to be a target for Saka’s whipped cross, right?

1. MLS has the capacity to make recovery runs. We have seen him do that a lot last season.
2. There’s a difference b/w width holding and overlapping. The former is an act of occupying space, the latter is a tool (trait vs feature). A player who can’t hold width can still provide efficient overlaps.

Have any strikers and wingers jumped up or down after noticing this about Arsenal?

Yes, the team and the set up around him very much matters. I’d suggest not to limit your analysis of Nico to just stats. If you watch him play, the things he’s capable of, are of plenty. And more than that, a lot of those things are transferable qualities that Arsenal can use.

— or is it naive to say Calafiorication might have something to do with this

Hey Billy, do you think our fullbacks are dribbling more lately? Right after MLS goal against City, Arteta joked that he and his assistants spoke earlier that day how he can contribute more in attack. Lately, I’ve been observing MLS attempting more dribbles too. Do you think it’s a recent pattern?

And, part of being good/great is to limit errors as possibilities. A part of being human is to be okay with errors as possibilities.

You make sense, hard for me to think from a keeper’s shoes. I just think, certain kind of errors should exist in certain way. I don’t think every error should have the opportunity to be rewritten. If he had slipped without the double touch and missed, we’d all be okay with this error.

Instead, they should make the keeper-line cross a disqualify too. You can’t be crossing the line in 2025 imo, considering every Ref reminds you the rules before a shootout.

There aren’t many senior players who do it better

Tim, we can see the Slegers is doing a great job but if it’s not her, who would you like the club to go for? You can give your realistic and unrealistic options.