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[hamis77]

Arsenal's squad has glown up under Mikel Arteta 🔥

 

[hamis77]

‘I will give every drop of blood for this football club to make it better’

Mikel Arteta, 2019.

 

[hamis77]

JAMAA WAMESEMA LEO WATAFUNGUKA HAWAKAI NYUMA


'Tottenham only defended, Zurich only defended - if you do that you won't stand a chance against them.'



Bodo/Glimt's head coach, Kjetil Knutsen on Arsenal

 

[hamis77]

Arteta on working with Pep Guardiola:

“The greatest thing with Pep was that I was able to see and feel what the role [football manager] meant. Working in another office & looking through the window or trying to read what he was feeling.”

[@btsport Podcast via @MirrorFootball]

 

[hamis77]

🗣️Thierry Henry


: “What I like about the Arsenal team is it’s a different team. If you talk about something that’s important. Gabriel Jesus is really changing, not only him, we talked about William Saliba at the back, he allows them to play a back four.

“Mikel is doing what Pep does also with Zinchenko. Xhaka is playing way better. That’s what I was most impressed with than the result against Tottenham."

 

[hamis77]

Gabriel Martinelli:


"Bado nina miaka mingi ya kukua kama mchezaji, lakini nadhani katika miaka hii mitatu [ndani Arsenal], mtindo wangu wa kucheza na uelewa wangu wa kimbinu umebadilika kabisa."

 

[hamis77]

Mikel Arteta just said that the aim is to make a team capable of winning 100 points.

 

[MO11]

🗣 Granit Xhaka on his chant starting at Bournemouth: "It was funny because I was joking with Zinchenko in the warm-up. They were singing his name after just three weeks at Arsenal. I told him, ‘I’ve been here for six years & I don’t have a song & you just got here & you do'."

"Then at the end of the game, I could hear our supporters singing my name. It was absolutely amazing, because everyone knows what I went through with the fans."

"To turn it around & be able to show them the Granit that I always wanted to show them & to feel connected, hopefully, we can stay with this connection now, not just with me, but with all the players, because it’s very important for us to feel the love from the fans." ❤️

 

[hamis77]

Saa 4 ifike tuone mpira mzuri.

Kwa kweli ukizoea kuona Tetaball hizi team nyingine unaona kama zinarukaruka tu.

 

[Aaron Arsenal]

Yaani casemiro hana fitness kabisa
Umri umemwacha

Ndio watu wanataka na sisi tumpe mkataba kante na tulete wazee dah🤮

 

[Aaron Arsenal]

Kama NILIVYOTABIRI kasoro kwa Nelson kaanza Martinell


📋 Arsenal XI vs. FK Bodø/Glimt: Turner; Tomiyasu, Holding, Gabriel; Marquinhos, Lokonga, Xhaka, Tierney; Fabio Vieira; Nketiah, Martinelli.

 

[HENRY14]

Arsenal forward Beth Mead has been voted as the England Lionesses Player of the Year, joining Bukayo Saka who won the men’s award.

Huu mwaka huu....

 

[HENRY14]

In Focus: Granit solid as a rock for in-form Gunners

Matthew Storey
LiveScore
06/10/202211:45

Granit Xhaka has produced his best form for Arsenal in 2022


In an Arsenal team full of young and exciting players, Granit Xhaka is turning into an unlikely fan favourite.
Six years after signing for the Gunners, the 30-year-old is beginning to look every inch a top-class Premier League midfielder.
Ahead of tonight's Europa League clash with Bodo/Glimt, we look at how Xhaka has turned his Arsenal career around.

Arteta's backing​

Xhaka has continued to be a regular ever since Mikel Arteta was appointed in December 2019.
Even though Xhaka had his heart set on leaving the Emirates, the Spaniard managed to convince the midfielder to stay.
Two years ago, Arteta said: "I wanted him to hear from me my opinion on him, and that I was ready to support him and that I was ready to push the club to be supportive of him too, because I thought he could be a really, really good player for us and he could enjoy playing under me in this football club.
"I tried to convince him that way. He thought about it, he had a very positive response afterwards, and I think he changed his mind."

Preferred position​

Mikel Arteta has brought the best out of Granit Xhaka at Arsenal
When a 23-year-old Xhaka moved from Borussia Monchengladbach to Arsenal back in 2016, he did so as a box-to-box midfielder.
But until Thomas Partey was played alongside him, he was more often than not used as a deep-lying one.

Arteta has changed that in the past 12 months and Xhaka’s performances, driving Arsenal forward and being much more involved in their attacking play, have improved greatly.
He has already scored or assisted five times in the league, more than he managed in each of his past three seasons.
And a player known for moments of madness is committing just 0.63 fouls per 90 minutes this term.

Repairing relationship​

That is why just three years after he was booed off the pitch when subbed against Crystal Palace, Xhaka’s name is now being sung by Arsenal fans.
After its first airing at Bournemouth, Xhaka said: "It was an absolutely amazing, amazing feeling for me, because everybody knows what I went through with the fans. That’s in the past now."
In last month's club Player of the Month poll, Xhaka received 83% of votes from the Gunners faithful to win it.
Gone are the days of the awkward relationship between supporters who wanted him out and a player who knew it.

Still a leader​

Granit Xhaka's heat map shows the more advanced role he has played at Arsenal this season
Following the incident against Palace when he threw his shirt to the ground and stormed down the tunnel, Xhaka was stripped of the captaincy.
While managers liked his leadership qualities, the fans saw an ill-disciplined player and were thrilled to see the armband taken off him.

Martin Odegaard is the current club captain yet footage in Arsenal's recent All or Nothing documentary shows Xhaka still has a very vocal presence in the dressing room.
"I believe that you are born with a winning mentality or as a leader. I don’t believe that you can become that later, I think it’s within you. You either have it or you don’t have it," he said.
"I like to have this feeling, because without challenges and these objectives in front of you, I don’t believe you can achieve anything. This is how I’ve played all my whole career, and it’s how I’ve lived my life too."
Read more: Arsenal vs Bodo/Glimt predictions

No slowing down​

Xhaka is a determined individual and he will be only too aware that neither he nor the rest of the club can rest on their laurels.
He said: "We can improve and that’s the good thing, we can see those improvements. It’s always good when you can get better, and I have a good feeling that we are on the right way with that.
"The most important thing now is keeping our focus day by day, keep working and afterwards let’s see how far it takes us."
He knows that if his level drops, the criticism will return, and if Arsenal's does, it will be a battle for the top four, not the title.
But do not bet on that happening now Xhaka is playing in his best role for the Gunners.

 

[mkale]

marquinhos inabidi aoneshe ata jpo nusu tu y uwezo wa saka..

 

[Mervin]

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[Camilo_Cienfuegos]

marquinhos inabidi aoneshe ata jpo nusu tu y uwezo wa saka..

That is what he is doing

 

[Trick mirik]

Yaani xhaka alivyotoka naona pale kati pamekufa kbsa

 

[Kakumamoto]

 

[MO11]

kwa kweli europa siipendi
turudi tu uefa basi

 

[ERoni]

Hongera The gunners, progress nzuri sana.