#32: Fumbling at Forest, Backup Profiles & Baked Beans (Q&A)

May 25, 2023

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On the penultimate pot-shot episode of the 2022/23 season, Towells, Alex & Seb assess the 1-0 loss to Forest (and decide whether or not we care), before answering your questions about our drop-off in form, how we should ideally be looking to build a squad & beans. Yes, beans.

Thank you to everyone who asked a question - apologies if we didn't get around to yours this week, but keep an ear out, as it may well get answered in a future episode!

Timeline:

0:00-0:52: Intro

0:52-24:08: Nottingham Forest 1-0 Arsenal

0:52-9:02 Partey at RB
9:02-10:44 Kiwior at LB
10:44-17:24 Trossard's struggles & lack of LW width
17:24-20:21 Why haven't Nelson & ESR gotten minutes?
20:21-24:08 How apathetic are we feeling?

24:08-54:52: Q&A

24:08-30:19 What do you think about Arteta’s insistence on using Jesus up top?
30:19-33:50 Aside from more quality in the squad, what are the key things we need to address going forward to avoid another drop off in crunch time?
33:50-25:24 Saka's accumulated minutes? Is that going to be a problem? And if so, when?
25:24-44:02 When it comes to squad building/planning do you think its more important to prioritise having backup players with similar profiles to starters so you can retain the same playstyle if you need to rotate, or with different profiles so you can change styles midgame/season if needed?”
44:02-47:49 How much of this post-Saliba/post-lfc fall-off can be attributed to Arteta and his seemingly regressing ability with substitutions/rotations? Players on too long, players never on at all, infrequent cameos until they had to become saviours etc. Is this a worry with UCL next year?
47:49-50:30 What do you think of the dog?
50:30-54:52 Top three types of bean (individually, not a group effort)

54:52-56:00 Outro

A question was asked about our defensive dropoff post-World Cup, a topic we spoke about in depth on Episode 23. Check out that episode here: https://pod.fo/e/16ccf7

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