🚨 TITLE RACE OVER?🚨 Shaka Hislop is Arsenal’s BAD LUCK CHARM?! | ESPN FC 

I remember Gab having one of the worst football takes ever when he said City have a tricky fixture against Luton compared to Arsenal and Liverpool😂

They just got Unai Emeryed

It took quite sometime for Emery to regain his reputation after he was fired from Arsenal. It just had to be his team that ruined Arsenal’s league title chances.

Arsenal needed a result but people are forgetting so was Villa needed a result.

Absolutely agree with stevie and the panel. Arteta wanted to appear smart but ended up shooting himself on the foot

Cmon instead of criticizing Arsenal's performance may be we should look at Aston Villas today. They were very good in the second half.

Whenever City take the front seat everyone gives up.. Pep sets standard..

Arteta moving players around trying to be clever backfired massively. Also, Zinny is awful

Unai emery is the final boss

Good Ebening masterclass

Look what " the most competitive league in the world" has come to By the Looks of it 4 titles in a row 6 titles in 7 years Yh pretty competitive lol

*"Give us Madrid, Give us Bayern, they'll feel our wrath"* - Arsenal fans 😂👍👏

Zaniolo was excellent I don’t know what Shaka was watching 😮

This is Purely Man City effects on Arsenal and Liverpool at this point of the season. Manchester City’s dominance in the English Premier League (EPL) undoubtedly has an impact on other teams’ winning chances. Firstly, their consistency and quality set a high bar for the rest of the league, making it more challenging for other teams to compete. When one team consistently dominates, it can create a psychological barrier for their competitors, affecting their confidence and performance on the pitch more so during the RUN INs. Just imagine because of Man City; room for error is literally thin and thinner to any team attempting to win this league….

Arsenal 11 points goal difference lead on City at 31 matches now reduce to 5 at 32. Thats a swing of 6 goals in one match ‼️

To win the title with Pep around you have to win early like Liverpool did during covid. If you leave it to last few matches you ain't winning. Pep doesn't lose title races.

Heyy... Liverpool has lost twice in the same week at Anfield... shouldn't that video be first, or is Stevie not having it😂😂😂😂

Ten hag only man to beat villa home and away give the man some props👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Arsenal fans needs to calm down lol. Still long way to go. But they were never favorites cuz they gotta play Man u and chelsea and Spurs.

NO surprise Arteta tampered with this game ..He learned from Pep...

This pundits are flip flopping and changing every weekend. I am not a City fan, not an Arsenal fan nor Liverpool fan. But I have analysed many factors since the beginning of the season that City is gonna win the league. Back in 2016 when pep joined city, I also said that no team will win the league except city until pep leaves, though I am slightly wrong about that. Congratulations to city and pep once again 🎉

Finally respect to Unai Emery's name, he's one of the best minds and tactians in this game. I believe this game was won the touch line. It was just a Unai Emery's masterclass in that second half❤ .

It really annoys me how scripted the media really are. It annoys me even more how easily they control the minds of onlookers through the narrative . Crystal Palace's and Aston Villa's efforts are being downplayed in such a condescending manner, it's as if they committed a crime.

Don’t compare Foden to Saka, Saka non existent vs Aston Villa and Foden hatrick against them…big difference

Trossard probably asked to go up front. He has been good too.

Good point Stevie whether anyone in Arsenal coaching staff got stomach to correct Arteta's thinking, same unfortunately can be said of Klopp and Liverpool who is blundering his way to a Carabao Cup Kings season

You can't win anything with zinchenko as a starter.

7:35 Stevie is spot on. I remember in 2021 UCL final, when the players were waiting on the tunnel I was like "why is Rodri on the bench, why didn't anyone in that coaching staff tell Pep it's a bad idea"

Fully agree with the guys. Arteta got this all-wrong playing Havertz in MF....Zinchenko was a liability too! Starting XI should've been: Raya, Kiwior, Gabriel, Saliba, White, Rice, Jorginho, Odegaard, Martinelli, Havertz and Saka. If we lose to Bayern then I imagine the confidence of the team will be shot and mental frailties will be exposed. The team needs to be more ruthless up front and that's where Havertz and Jesus don't do enough. Arsenal should sign Osimhen.

These pundits, OMG! Postecoglou: you can't play the same team the whole season. Arteta: you can't change what ain't broken. Goodness me

Arteta’s the goat of bottling everything

These ESPN pundits are the worst and frankly naive in their comments. So Shaka saying if Arsenal defeat Aston Villa they will go on and win the title as even the remaining fixtures are push overs. Even as Bad as Utd are, that game is unpredictable. Not To mention other games.

Arsenal should be given the honors of representing the word "Total Bottlers" in the Dictionary 😂

Arteta changed the whole dynamic of the team from start.

Finally everyone can say what they want without Craig talking through half the whole show.

Whenever Arsenal have an opportunity to capitalize on other team's mistakes, they inevitably dissapoint!

Arsenal fans celebrating our disaster against palace only to come up small too. Another title for city

We can criticize him for the lineup but had they scored their chances in the first half it wouldn't be an issue. But I suppose that's how it goes in football, if you win it's ok, if you dont then it was the wrong decision

The Havertz-Rice effect 🥶

How would you think diaby was better then zaniolo when zaniolo had arguably his best game yet for villa and diaby was nowhere whole game

it's a repeat of last year....they choked last year at the end of the season where everyone thought they will win EPL. Same thing this year too. lol

Arsenal and Liverpool did choke job at same day in home match 😀is surprising

The point about why the manager changed havertz etc, i can only think of jorginho not being able to play every 3 days at his age. But I would think Partey is due for a start.

They always talk about the know how. It's a thing. City has the mentality. I'm a city fan and I don't think were gonna be perfect to the end. It's not over. I hope it is but I don't think so

Maybe the focus should be on Villa, having been crush by City they somehow bounced back. Credit to the players and especially Emery, this guy has transformed Villa, he’s done a fantastic job. No one thought they would be in the top 4 with 6 games to go.

And most of these pundits said arsenal will win the league😂 for some reason every season people doubt city

Not only Harverts but Gorginho and Rice has been a parterniship performing well why Change it ?

Craziest title race ive seen in years

We have come to that that part of the season where “ we have the best players in the league “ to “ how do we compete with city “ 😅

Everyone needs to stop picking on Arsenal. It’s April…they’re just doing what they’ve done the past 2 seasons: first they begin to crumble which then leads to them bottling whichever ambition they were trying to attain. It’s like clockwork.

And you’re telling me that they’ll go to the Allianz Arena and beat Bayern? Don’t think so

It is a good ebening for City indeed

Post match anti doping controls expected? It could explain a lot. Same for 'Liver' pool.

I’ve been saying this for a couple of years now, Arsenal DO NOT have a big game player. City has KDB, Liverpool has Salah(most of the time), Arsenal have who? Saka? Havertz? Martinelli? Splash that money on a big player this summer (LW or striker). I’d personally splash money to bring in Rodrygo.

Maybe Havertz was being rested like Rodri 😂😂

Stevie is right on point in his mono and so is Kasey. Jan is too optimistic, look at City's remaining 6 prem fixtures, they ain't dropping a point unless they're weak mentally. And they aren't.

Did Dan say for the first time in 2004?

With 7 games to go and a 1pt, 11+ GD over CITY, with not having to play them or LIV again, it was in our hands and we trumbled under pressure, once again, to spill the coffee beans. It's a bad de javu from last season and if we're in the title race at the latter stages next season, I so hope I don't have to endure seeing those frustrating CITY rejects in our team, because if they are, it will be a hattrick of de javu's!

it just 2 points separating 1st and 2nd/3rd and city can always slip up. Villa is not some bottom of the league team and they will probably be the 4th in the EPL. Liverpool losing to palace was actually more embarrassing.

Unai done the double on Arsenal!

The Emi and Emery Revenge Double.

Haverts being in his best form is the real league 2 player

Very good point from Stevie and I normally do not agree with him. I was astounded at the team selection and feared this kind of performance. It played out in slow motion in front of my eyes. Bitterly bitterly disappointing.

The team physically died in the second half, late to every ball, losing every 50 - 50, essentially bending over and I'm almost tempted to say, playing for a draw. The manager and the players have to ignore everything around, go to Bayern, get to that semifinal of the Champions League and that should bring the confidence back. It's not over!

MOTM is Dibu. Brilliant saves n pls give credit to AV

I said from day one, when the pressure hits, Arsenal crumble. I was proven right.

Arteta doing what he did last season just around this stage. Pep said it; they were at the same spot last season and confidently said they'd win it. It might be so

I’m with Stevie. When the lineups came out, I just knew Arteta was trying to outsmart Villa by taking Havertz back to midfield. That has NEVER worked for us. What was he thinking? Plus, we need either Jesus or Havertz fresh for Bayern and he starts both!

Arsenal got dominated at home vs Aston Vella, they were bullied

As an Arsenal fan since the invisibles, would anyone be willing to listen to me now? Villa squeezed the life out of us totally in the second half (we weren't great in the first half either mind you). We were lacklustre against Luton (how many times have I said this) and we escaped because it was Luton we were playing against. The top teams (which villa) is will and have punished us at home. Villa played a high line and we lacked pace to counter. The least I would say is that we didn't bottle this season because it's never was about the title last season and this. We need to build a couple consistent seasons challenging before winning it.

Emery ruining Arsenal’s title chances 😂you can’t write this stuff 😅

A big win for City without even playing today! Onve again clutch while everyone else falls apart.

Emery got Revenge..He was Gutted when we Sacked Him..I so Wish we kept him..😢

The difference is most teams have a best squad and some good subs. Man City has a collection of players who you can rotate with little to no drop in quality

Being saying that Assna is just above average and is simply benefiting from other top 6 teams being way below.

It's not over yet.

Arsenal problems always surface after Beyern encounter 😅

Shaka surprised Zaniolo (by far the man of the match) didn’t get taken off for Bailey. DEI hire if ever you saw one

Arteta overthinking things is like Pep overthinking Champions League knockout matches with City. Perhaps, that's where it comes from 🤷‍♂️

Dibu Martinez was the difference: he made at least two impossible saves.

Bottling the title is a mental issue at Arsenal.

Arsenal will never win the league, i just don't understand this team, they underestimated Villa and they got punished 😂😂

Why are we feilding two man city players in the title race They certainly are not playing for Arsenal'!!!

All the ills of today's performance can be laid at the feet of Arteta's selections and substitutions. They were unfortunately emotional and arrogant. He believed that his coaching could override the natural dispositions of players. It was a pre-Dubai team selection with pre-Dubai results (plenty opportunities but an inability to score). As a fanbase we've been very superstitious about what happened in Dubai and how it transformed us. And of course we dont know all the secret sauce tactical, cultural, and psychological interventions used- but it is clear that one major visible transformative pivot was positional- Havertz as the centre forward, the 4 part midfield with Jorghino as base, etc. It is telling that the first game that we reverted to the pre-Dubai shape we got a pre-Dubai performance and result. Cause and effect. Let's learn that lesson quickly! Our flaws against Villa were entirely positional. And those affected individual performance. Im stating the obvious: Havertz should have started as centre forwatd not midfield. Jesus should have come on as a second-half sub- and then to replace Saka. Martinelli needed to start because this match was supposed to be a match for sprinters. Trossard should come on in his best role as high-impact substitute. Jorghino needed to start in the midfield and he and Rice could have alternated roles- on top or sitting deep- during the game according to the workload and to confuse Villa. Tomiyasu should have started over Zinchenko for defensive solidity. We all know what has worked in 2024! By messing with the line-up Arteta messed with the team's flow, and we are at a part of the season when flow is supreme, when muscle memory can serve you well to get over the exhaustion and injury line when you're knackered. Players should get rest by playing only 45- 65 minutes- not by sitting on the bench during their most productive period. A post-Dubai team selection puts away those chances we were presented.. Arteta's unnecessary tinkering derailed the campaign last year pre-City, and he needs to learn the lesson quickly that Frankenstein monsters dont work for title charges!. Let the team be the beautiful Monster that it originally was post-Dubai. Now is not the time to tinker and second guess. Play People in their natural positions!!! There's nothing as tiring as having to act against type- and the team today simply suffered from being miscast... Look, I love Arteta, but today he just got it horribly wrong. The other issue is that it is time we formally designate Unai and Villa at home as bogeys. The reason why this is important is that Arteta and this Arsenal have overcome every single bogey systematically. Lets officially put Unai and Villla on the bogey-destruction whiteboard and execute. Next to Bayern... We can still win everything by beating every team in front of us (and praying that City slip up at least once!)- the Super post-Dubai Team can do that with a cleverly used subs bench. Lets learn that lesson. Let's go, you Gunners!!!

I love how this show is humbled every week 😂

Watkins wasnt that cool with the finish, watch it again! It was going wide until smith-rowe stick his toe on it and put it goal bound 🤣🤣

Villa suffered from renne and barely got away they probably wanted to reset to prove they good enough before playing 2nd leg

I think they way handle the Ozil and Aubameyang situations is costing us. We need to apologize to them. Is a charm to be honest.

I can not understand why would ESPN hire someone like Shaka, who offered nothing except doubting & criticising Arsenal?

Good ebening

The xG just makes it worse. We had the chances and didn't finish...they had one great chance and converted it and then another half-chance and converted that too.

Xhaka is scoring bangers in title winning matches while Arsenal is producing bangers in Bottling production everybody is happy 🥲🙌

Villa went to Man City & laid the red carpet for them, they even rested their best players! They had one goal! Show Arteta who's the actual boss! As for my Liverpool, the cracks have there the whole season! We always concede in the 1st 10 minutes of every match! Klopp has no idea how to fix that!

I quickly changed my bet to Aston Villa win when I saw the sloppy way Arsenal started. It's very uncharacteristic of Arsenal to start on a slow pace and lower momentum. Arsenal players' hunger diminished upon seeing Liverpool's loss to Palace. Arsenal being Arsenal 😃

They will never wine premier league

No coach was moving players as they do now until Pep came into the league🤔 and not all coaches will impress by doung so🤔

Steven is on the money on this one 💯

I think selling Zinny and Jesus was a tactical move by Man City... they went from being assets to total liabilities to Arsenal 😢

Havertz is not a midfielder at least at Arsenal quality. He's a decent 9

Arteta thought He is Pep and Can make tactical changes and get same results against Villa like City…. 😅