Quote from: irhact on Today at 06:06:18 AM

Quote from: mamesso on Today at 04:01:30 AM

Arsenal are fortunate to have a goalkeeper as great as Raya who was able to ward off an Atalanta player's penalty kick and followed it up with a classy save when blocking the rebound. If it wasn't for him who performed brilliantly under the crossbar, perhaps Arsenal would have lost at Atalanta headquarters. Yes, maybe Arteta prefers to play cautiously to prepare his team for another Big Match against Manchester City in the EPL. Arsenal back line plays very well but was not matched by the midfielder and front lines, perhaps this is a lesson for Arteta who does not want to bring in a new striker at the start of the season.

Arteta has no choice as there are many games in the champions league and he's going to have his opportunity to win other games but he couldn't sacrifice losing this game against Manchester city for him to win against Atalanta. Drawing was a better choice and it was the game plan Arteta had for Arsenal from the begining of the match. Both team tried but I wasn't enjoying the game as they lacked goals. I thought Atalanta was going to win but the goalkeeper had an awesome game and it kept Arsenal in the game. Saka not taking his chances when it came was annoying to me as I thought a player like him is supposed to convert his chances to win the game for Arsenal.

Atalanta is actually lucky enough to be able to face Arsenal when they are in a limp like today, because I think if the injury storm is not experienced by Arsenal at the moment then it is likely that they will play very impressive to beat Atalanta,performance shown by Arsenal in the match was not the best game Arsenal remembered the lack of chances created in the match, So far we can see Arsenal collective play and also often do attacks that are built through the midfield and we don't see it happen when Odegaard is injured at the moment, so a draw is indeed a fair result for both teams although actually Atalanta was unlucky when their penalty kick did not result in a goal in the match, the ability and also the reflexes possessed by Raya are really quite qualified and he is indeed worthy of being the number 1 goalkeeper Arsenal currently,I don't think any coach will sacrifice points in the Champions League just for the sake of victory in the next game that they can't necessarily win and the draw Arsenal won in that match is indeed a form of their inability to beat Atalanta after their poor performance in the match.