Liverpool in the 2013/14 season: first time?

Arsenal is having an excellent season. Finishing 2nd is an excellent achievement for a young team which is IMO still 2/3 years away from hitting their peak. But they have bottled the league too. They sacrificed every cup competition and they were playing one game per week. Jesus,saka, zinchenko,odegard every one of them lost their form in crunch time.

So uh...a Top 4 finish is STILL really great for Arsenal altogether. But also, they did bottle arguably their best shot at winning the Prem for the next few years as I feel City is only gonna get stronger (if allegations don't get them), Newcastle's on the rise, Man U seems to be getting its collective shit together... It's a shame, too. I like the make-up of their team currently for the most part.

At least they didn't bottle a 4 goal lead in a League One playoff match.

As a Gooner, I'll sit here and take our lashings to say we bottled it. Every other top team in the league since Peps reign would've ripped your arm off to have that lead against City that deep into a title race. Not to mention, everyone is kind of cleaning up the mess for us in not mentioning how we didn't have an eight plus point gap on them once, but twice. And if this will be our last chance is largely contingent on our owners and how they interpret this season. They would've looked at this is good enough to go on in seasons gone past which only made the gap between us and the top larger. If they look at this as stepping stone to inprove and go again then we should be ok. But this summer is crucial crossroads in the history of our club, they have to do what's effective to get us back to this position.

They led for 93% of the season, you know how crazy that is? The highest a Premier League team had led the league without winning it previous to this was 78% (Arsenal in 02/03) and the maximum points they can now finish on is 87, that's just 1 more than Tottenham in 2017. If we can all agree that TOTTENHAM bottled it that season, how can we then even entertain the idea that ARSENAL haven't bottled it? Did I fall asleep and wake up in a universe where Arsenal aren't 13 time league title winners?? What is with this attempt to infantilise and coddle this great club into dismissing success as something that could never have been in their hands? Let them take their licks or forever relegate them to being the kind of team that is never expected to win things

Another great video, mate. Your unbiased approach is very refreshing. Arsenal have produced some of the best football to watch this season, without a doubt. Though, some of those games you quite rightly pointed out that Arsenal put themselves in some sticky situations to begin with. Most Arsenal fans knew from the start of this season that they needed serious depth to compete with City or Liverpool, when people say 'City have two first teams' its not a joke... They could put their subs into a B team and probably finish top 4. They didn't sign enough in January and inevitably a couple of injuries weakened them too much in terms of the way they play. All this bottle banter is only a good thing for the Arsenal squad, they're young, they'll learn and you'll bet Arteta will have a bottle show reel for the players next season so they don't forget where they've come from.

I think they overperformed a little in the begining ( they were on course to 100 point season), and couldn't keep that amazing form for the entirety of it ( injuries didn't help). Few upgrades in the squad (especially on the bench), and they can easily challange for Prem again. Their progress from last season is great, and defo we could see more of that side in the future.

Been a City fan all my life (it's a blood thing, not a convenience thing) and you just have to tip your hat to Arsenal this season for how well they've competed and the strides they've made in playing the way they want to play. Yes, you can argue they haven't quite had the squad depth, or the killer, experienced mentality needed to finish the season as strongly as they've been playing, but the advances Arsenal has made over the course of a year cannot be denied. Keep in mind that over the course of 4 years, City have beaten out Liverpool to the title by 1 point TWICE -- both times with both teams finishing above the 90-point mark. When City get into a groove and start looking at their best, any slip-up can get punished. I don't like people poking fun at Arsenal this season because they have so much more to be proud of than to be ashamed of. Any team that pushes this current City side to their brink deserves massive credit.

7:39 "Noone Thought Arsenal would get Top 4" Shows 9 predictions of Arsenal in P4

Everyone talks about the pool game but I think that’s typical ignorance from football fans. If you want to win the league taking 4 points from Liverpool is absolutely superb and nothing wrong with that, the media and all rival fans mocked them and made it seem like it was a failure not to win at anfield when a draw is a massive improvement considering they usually get pumped there. If you want to win the league you have to do the double over teams like Southampton, West Ham for example. Not Liverpool.

IMHO Arsenal have had a brilliant season. And I agree with you that their first XI is amazing, but their squad as a whole isn’t. But that should be on Arteta and the Arsenal board that they didn’t strengthen it when they should have. What I would say is if they had lost the lead like in the middle of the season, they wouldn’t be called bottlers, but for those calling them bottlers now wouldn’t be wrong. Liverpool were called bottlers when they lost about 7 point lead about 4 seasons ago. And the way Arsenal lost or drawn their games, and to the teams in question, hasn’t been great. On the topic of city, I’ve been following this team for almost the last 13 years, the point when I started watching football. There have been many great city teams, including this one, but I’d say this isn’t the best. In terms of pure footballing ability, it was the centurions team. In terms of mentality and strength, it’d be this one. But the fact that pundits including Carragher, or fan channels like Goldbrigde talked about city being “worse with Haaland” and now everyone seems to be crying about how city have so much money to spend and/or this being the greatest city side just shows how short sighted everyone is. This team is full of experienced players who’ve won multiple titles, they know when is the crunch time to get the season running. I remember almost every game from about game week 7 to game week 23 being absolute dross for Man City, players trying to find their way, nobody being able to find Haaland, backwards sideways passes all game only to be caught on a counter… While arsenal were lighting the league up with scintillating football. You can’t consider only one half in football. You can be amazing for one half and absolute shite the next. That’s what happened with city. Arsenal just need that sort of experience I feel. Talking about depth, I won’t say city have it considering Pep played only 19 players all season. In 17-18 we had an amazing B squad, this time not so. Of course, the players who haven’t played too much for example Lewis or Phillips can and probably will come good as time goes on, but city don’t have a “second B team which can achieve top 4” altho the versatility of players is so so good that people start to think City have an amazing depth. Which isn’t the case.

Saliba isn't a key player because he is a really solid defender, he is a key player because his speed allows the team to push higher up the pitch. That's something holding or kiwior couldn't do.

They did bottle it and no one is convincing me otherwise. “No one expected them to be there”. Well they were there and 8 points clear and even if we take the Man City game out, they win the rest of their games (which they should), they win the league! But they didn’t and dropped 12 points in 7 games.

Arsenal’s tactics after injuries and lack of squad depth caused the capitulation. Artetas lack of adaption to adversity and player management played a pivotal role as well. As a arsenal fan it’s comforting to know things may change but inevitably stay the same.

Slightly off topic but really loved your history of the premier league video top tier 👌

Finishing runner up with that squad will probably be the most impressive thing arteta have ever done

Arsenal have had an amazing season, far better than anyone expected, but they did bottle it. Both things can be true at the same time

First place most of the season just to drop to 2nd in the final stages of the season, that's a bottle job in my opinion. They have done amazing though and if they add to the young core they could be a force!

Comparing Spurs 16/17 to Arsenal 22/23 Both youngest team in the league Both fan bases hyping up putting on the pressure Spurs: 86 points Arsenal: Max 87 points League winner points 16/17: 93, 22/23: Max 94 Spurs: 0 days top, Arsenal:247 days top Can anybody explain to me why spurs bottled 16/17 but Arsenal apparently haven’t bottled 22/23

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As a spurs fan this is my highlight of the season 🍾🍾🍾

No no u don't understand this was mikels plan all along, to give city hope that they can win by giving them a false sense of security. Mikel knows that city will then go on to lose the rest of their matches while arsenal will win.

Two things can be true at the same time. Throughout the full season, they overachieved the expectations. But in the second half of the season, they had a big lead and it's not like they lost the league because they lost the games against Man City head to head. They couldn't beat way weaker teams. They wasted so many points. If they won the games they were expected to win in the second half of the season, Man City wouldn't be able to catch up.

the thing also is, they beat Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham and suddenly their fans and the players thought they are really the deal. Forgetting conveniently these teams were in a bad rut most of the season. Fittingly it was Liverpool, whom many Arsenal fans declared that they were taking over, who decided to put a spanner into the works with an improved second half in the 2-2 game that exposed Arteta as a clueless coach and the team cannot cope with pressure.

I especially appreciate this. Thoughtful.

The team is far from the finished article, still a year or two off of that. Sure Arsenal have some great players but do they have a full squad of great players and depth in all positions? No. They're also a very young team, so this season is just a very successful learning experience for them. People seem to forget they're up against a City team built over the best part of a decade with enormous money invested.

If you're not man city its expected that you'll have a bad run of form. Its normal. To compete with them you have to get at least 95 points, which is impossible if you're not a machine like city. So i dont agree that they've bottled it. If they wouldn't "bottle it" they would have to have a perfect season

As a liverpool fan I feel bad for arsnel as it's impossible to beat this man city in the league but the reason people are going at arsnel is becuse the way there fans carried on such as posting the 1000 tweets saying lonely at the top of the league and compering them selves to best teams in prem history If the fans had just relaxed and enjoyed it I think they would get less hate

If they can build around their solid young players like odergard, martinelli, and saka I could see them being contenders for years to come

As a wolves fan from Florida who hopes they can live to see the team reach Europe I agree with this video

Did they bottle it? Yes. Is Manchester City significantly better than them? Also yes. The real stumble was those 3 straight draws.

arsenal did not bottle the league, man city are just on another level. no one can compete with man city infrastructure, they are light years ahead.

They have had an amazing season and nobody would have considered them as prem winners but when you're ahead 93 PERCENT OF THE SEASON, you have bottled it. It is as simple as that!

Big fan of your content mate

Mathematically, Arsenal are still in the title race - it all comes down to this week that determines whether Arsenal are still in the title race. I personally don't see it happening and I feel as though it is a combination of Man City being incredible this season and Arsenal letting it slip in the last few games of the season.

This is the best video about our season i have ever seen yes we bottled it with those painful draws but i am also proud of this team nobody thought the boys would even be here and if anybody thinks im a prick for saying that bite me simple as that i will support these guys to the very end

Bottling is defined as losing a lead (Often a big one) in some spectacular way. Dortmund this season and Spurs in 2016 are called bottlers despite Dortmund constantly switching rankings with Bayern in the table and Spurs not actually holding 1st before they collapsed. I don't have anything against Arsenal, but they held 1st for more than 90% of the season. If that isn't bottling, I don't know what is.

As someone who doesn’t rlly support any pl clubs, i always appreciated arsenal and wanted a different winner this season. I think it was a combination of lack of experience from the players, injury of Saliba, and unstoppable Man City. They are miles ahead of the rest of the teams and they are going to improve next season.

It seems the only defence against them not bottling it, is people just tip toeing around the word ‘bottle’

This one truly deserves to appear in the annals among the "We're not letting this slip" Liverpool and the Titanic.

Hopefully this motivates them to go all out next season, being so close yet still losing it in the end surely will make them want it more. Arsenal will need to make smart transfers and bring in solidified players

Is there a catch to the cheap football shirts? The prices seem to be too good.

As a neutral lover of the beautiful game, city is just a well oiled machine their instensity and squad depth is bar non in Europe, arsenal are getting there but they don't have the legs of city.. in time, their intensity will be consistent, and they may be in another title run in the coming seasons.. God bless the premier league, and God bless the beautiful game

This one is gonna be satisfying boyss.

I think Arsenal can see it as progress, no one really did see their title challenge coming, and being back in the Champions League next season will likely help bolster the squad and give them the depth they're currently lacking.

As a gooner, we have bottled it. But, this was an excellent achivement from the team, finishing second after years and years outside of the top 4 is just good. And not only, we finished in top 4, but we have done it in fashion. Should have we won the league? Yes, did anyone expect Arsenal to win the league at the start of the season? No. It's very sad, that the team couldn't handle pressure, but this is a very young team, and they can only grow. As for Arteta, he couldn't become from student to teacher, but he is on his way. If we get our squad right, get depth in the defence, we can go into a good ucl run and potentionally win the league.

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It has been a rollercoaster of a year for football, Man UTD 4th Newcastle 3rd Arsenal 2nd and man city 1st. Relegation battle was crazy What a rollercoaster

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to be fair to arsenal,yes they have bottled it,but this goes out to everyone,how the fu*k is a club supposed to compete with literal backing of a whole state,a whole nation,a whole country... and they have had it for years and years and years unlike newcastle,and possibly united with qatar...the arsenal squad will be proud,arteta will be proud,and i will be pissed off because i will possibly see city lift a treble...as a united fan my worst nightmare,but with what kind of resources city has not even slightly surprised

I remember my brother (Liverpool fan) asking me what I hoped arsenal would do this season and I simply said I only want top four that’s it, the fact that we pushed city up until the 35th match makes me proud of the players and the manager. We did slip up in the league but bad runs of form happen to every team and they conveniently forget the times we came up clutch like in that Bournemouth game and home game against united. I also believe the people that slag off the team are secretly just bitter cause city won the league also

As a spurs fan this whole conversation is hilarious. Arsenal fans called us bottlejobs for years in our title challenge over two years we were top for about 20 minutes they were top for about 254 days. 8 points clear in April and lost/drew games they should’ve easily won there’s no other word to call than a bottlejob

8 points clear in April (albeit playing a game more) and finishing 2nd is unforgivable tbf. Conceding 3 against a relegated side and 7 in the next 3 is unacceptable

I mean I fee they did bottle it but that does not mean that they had a bad season, on the contrary they had a excellent season and they need to build on it next season is extremely crucial for the gunners

I love your videos

This guy is so underated

all this is Arteta's super plan. He masked his true ambitions which are winning the Champions Leagues against Red Star Belgrade in the final! Jokes aside as an Arsenal fan i think its very sad how we threw it away especially against Southampton, but i still think its an incredible achievement to be top for 247 days against this city team. Still i think we can challange again next season, yes united and liverpool will probably be back and they will strengthen themself but so will we. If we get Rice and/or Caicedo, a cb, a rw, fucking hell theres even rumours about us signing Joao Cancelo. I think this upcoming summer will be the biggest summer transfer window since we moved to the Emirates.

*We got it all in our hands*

The thing is though if you said to Arsenal at the start of the season that they were gonna finish second they’d have laughed and I’dve laughed so to finish second is an achievement even if they were leading for most of it

congrats to burnly for promotion to the prem can't wait to see what kompany does now

It's really the three 2-2 draws for me. While I still think Man City is a better team atm, and would have most likely won the league anyway, those three draws put Arsenal in an even tougher spot w less room for error Still an amazing season though

Arsenal had a great season and while many of us said that they've bottled the league, what they've done has exceeded expectations. If anyone at the start of the season told you that Arsenal would be in the premier league title race, we'd be laughing but that was the reality, Arsenal spent 8 months top of the premier league but just had a late season fumble and they can always pick themselves back up after this. Had they won against Liverpool, West Ham, and Southampton it's a different conversation and that would've put them a step closer to the title, now Manchester City are set to win their 5 league title in the last 6 seasons, including 3 in a row. Arsenal haven't peaked these group of players are still young and this won't take a mental toll on the players, they have to use it and learn from this experience. They've had habits of bottling it towards the end of the season and with experience, Arsenal need to close out seasons better because last season that cost them a champions league spot a poor end to the season and after being in 1st place for most of the season, their recent collapse has put Manchester City in pole position to win the league again and they have done it winning 11 games in a row. They've made too many mistakes something that wasn't happening to Arsenal earlier in the season, the pressure got to this young team and they'll go again next season.

At least their captain didn't say "we can't slip up", then literally slip on the pitch leading to conceding the goal to lose the game, and with that, a league championship. That one hurt.

Me: Arsenal have lost the Premier League title. Math: no

Like Arteta said, the same people who saw us finishing 5th 6th 7th are saying second is a failure. We might have bottled it, but its not a failure in my opinion

JUST LOST TO FUCKING FOREST LMAOOOOOOO

Haaland IS bad for City though JUST for City to have the *SAME* goal tally as last season in the league, they need to score 12 more goals and they only have 3 matches left Haaland has been taking away the goals the rest of the squad would score and it has made them come up short from their league performance last season. That's statistical fact, they went from a club who scored form everywhere and you never know who was going to be shooting to they spend most of the match trying to get the ball to Haaland; ironically the exact same thing that plagued United with that has been ronaldo

Let's be honest if this was Spurs in this position everyone would be saying we bottled it. People now say we bottled the league to Leicester despite never leading the entire season. How can you bottle something you were never leading in? Also the difference is that Arsenal lead the league for 90% of the season. They were 13 points clear at one stage. 8 points clear with 9 games to go and could now be 7 points behind after this weekend. That's not pushing Coty all the way i'm sorry that's just simply not good enough. Let's call it for what it is. They bottled it.

By their same logic Spurs didn’t bottle 2016 because they weren’t expected to win at the beginning of the season

I think you need to definite “bottle it” as a phrase because that would make everything completely clear. If you define “bottle it” as failing despite having all of the tools to succeed then that’s what happened. To that end, everyone who says they bottled it, points to specific fixtures and points in the season where Arsenal had the ability, the raw talent, and numbers stacked in their favor. People who say they didn’t just keep pointing at the “feeling” but there’s such a thing as factual statements and it’s gotten to a point where you can point basically at just the numbers over the last two months and say “here, this is where they messed up”.

ill be honest, throughout this season i really did not think we would win the league, while i wouldnt want anything more to finally have a prem title after two decades, I knew that City were just this insurmountable force to conquer with a world class starting 11, with strong bench players to rotate as well as a world class manager who could change his squad at a whim to be versatile and powerful, whereas our team was inexperienced, as well as every single player being a gear in the machine, whereas if you took out one player (not really the case with jesus but moreso with saliba) the system that made us so strong for the majority of the season would fall apart. I said multiple times that we wouldnt win the league unless we did x (buy strong backups in every position possible incase of injury, beat city at home) we did neither, and while I wont argue we absolutely collapsed against west ham and southhampton, (liverpool i was expecting a draw because regardless of form anfield is always a tough place for us to go to) i didnt think we could go all the way with city breathing down our necks at every moment, we suffered from injuries in key areas and we did not have the squad depth to play at our best every single game, as well as players being burnt out near the end of the season (saka is great but he spent the last 8 games dropping poor performances, and almost every single time he was kept on while players who were performing better were subbed off.) At the end of the day im still incredibly happy we've done so well, I dont think we will challenge for the title like this again but I hope this is the end of our banter era, the players build from this experience and arteta builds the team into a consistently formidable force that can challenge for the top spots again, but this was probably our best chance as every other team bar newcastle and city, are either going through rebuilds, went through constant manager changes or just struggled to find form for a majority of the season.

Lack of squad depth is the stat reason for the crumble, but they don't have a manager who has won it all as a player, nor players who have won it all. That's why mourinho won so much,he always had at porto and inter and chelsea, those players that dragged the inexperienced ones over the line. Honestly ,they should sign busquets ,not for a starter role but as a captain figure ,someone who has won every major trophy and can pass that leadership onwards

Im an Arsenal fan and I have to admit it is a bottling masterclass. Just look at the results the past 7 games compared to rest of the season, it's relegation form!!

Yes, they were over-achieving but that doesn't mean that can't bottle the league still. That last run of games they really just crumbled in games where they really really shouldn't have. Like absolute shocker games.

Before the season started and the players we brought on, in the back of my mind I knew top 4 was achievable but I wanted to take it slow and only worry about the next game that’s Infront of us. Game by game, beat what’s in front of you. My expectations were top 4 and one domestic trophy. Top 4 was well and running until we overachieved when the opportunity to win the league was in our hands. It was a massive bottle job. But the season is something to be proud of from where Mikel and Edu started with deadwood players. Now is the time to invest in the main targets this summer. There’s no more excuses for Arteta now. I want arsenal to try to win every trophy possible because that’s the goal for a football club: Win a trophy. No more of this “bigger fish to cry” nonsense. Banter era of football has disrespected trophies for far too long now. Arsenal have a massive summer job to do!

I think they did bottled it. That being said, it was an amazing team. Hopefully, they will be able to add more depth and quality, and not get lost in the sause of the Champions League, and the cup competition. Eventhough I personally like Chelsea, soo much more; this is the best Arsenal team I have seen in my lifetime. Whenever, I saw arsenal games growing up there would be 1 or 2 great players and a bunch of logs floating along. I look back at Arsenal having "star players" like Gervinho, and this guys look like 2007 AC Milan 😂.

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Reminder that with all that performance, Arsenal haven't won a single trophy this season. Freaking Man U went and won the Carabao cup, what's their excuse?

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Expectations change throughout the season.

6:50 Arsenal fans learning in the flesh why it aint a good ideia to rile up Anfield

I always thought the 8 points clear thing is a kinda shady claim since Man City always had 1 game in hand until their second to last league match of the season.

Expectations before the season is irrelevant , they were 8 points ahead and they gave it away.Hopefully Arteta would have learnt some lessons,,Saliba getting injured and still playing Zinchenko at left back was unforgivable.Not rotating players , choosing Ben White at right back and not as a reserve centre half, thereby loaning out Soares and Nelson depleted the squad

The fact that Arsenal were even in a position to blow it is a huge success for this year... But they still blew it.

I don’t understand how people claimed Arsenal were the best team in the prem but then when it comes down to it they can’t win when they need to the most

“Bigger fish to fry”

The reason everybody is saying arsenal bottled the league is because of the fans through out the season everybody was telling this arsenal fans they will crumble they refused we said they are too young and inexperienced to win the league they said the have winners like zinchenko and jesus, celebrating every match victory like they've already won the thing so when it came to crunch time there was too much pressure on the young team. I personally believe arsenal made progress this year but it's funny that your best season since 2003 you went trophless

thanks for the vid as a real madrid fan this makes me sad🙁

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They didn’t choke they got blasted. Some may say the cannon has backfired.

For me I dont care that people say we bottled it. Its the fact that its like only thing people talk about when it comes to arsenal

the depth is what i see the biggest difference.. injuries.. fatigue.. they did bottle the biggest chance they have... newcastle, city would be pushing... liverpool, united, chelsea still looming in if they get their acts right.. the team is promising but this was supposed to be the season.

We bottled the fucking league. We were perfect, we were back to invencible Arsenal. Then came the Everton game, and we started losing a bit. After our lost to Man City, we came back, winning most games. Then in preparation for the Man City game, we drew and lost against mid or bottom table teams. We lose to Man City 4-1, we lose to Brighton and we fuck over any chances of winning. I had joy for being an Arsenal fan this season, with all the mockery from last seasons, and I still do, but it isn't the same knowing we fucked up badly. Arteta and the whole of Arsenal had a great season, even if their last games were unnacceptable. I hope this young squad can come back and win the league after years of misery. Even though all these bad things happened, I'm glad Arsenal isn't below top 4, and that we're in the Champions League.

1) Offence wins you matches but defense wins you titles. Arsenal's defense was poor even with Saliba playing, they conceded far too many goals, for eg: 5 goals against Man United in 2 games, 2 goals against Villa at the game at Villa Park, that Bournemouth game, Liverpool game at the Emirates. So Arsenal's main problem is the defence. Arsenal could still score goals even when Jesus was injured. So Arteta have to make the defense better next season. 2) City is a team who may not start the season well but they always end the season well. It seems that they excel under pressure situations and rarely lose a match after the month of February. Yes they have a great squad depth and that's one of the main reasons why they can compete in multiple competitions at a time, but as pressure arrives each and every City player steps up and that's the main reason why City is winning the league titles in the recent seasons. But whenever Arsenal stumble under pressure. Same thing happened last season when Arsenal had to win their last few games in order to get top 4. But still Arsenal had a very good season. They managed to get 80+ points in the league and showed everyone that they have the ability to play good football. But next season I think they need to start competing in the other domestic competitions as well and possibly win the FA cup or Carabao Cup because I think if they are not able to compete in the domestic competitions then there is no way they can compete in the Champions League.

The thumbnail 🤣🤣 damn you did Arsenal fans dirty

History repeats itself, I’m not being biased because Arsenal haven’t had a recent history of winning anything, their 3 time relegated keeper was always bright in the beginning but then would fade out towards the end of the campaign’s and not help the relegation battle

If they right in the summer, they might win 30 games next season

It is bottoling but that dosent mean its a failure

I’m an Arsenal fan and I don’t need to say how much it hurts for you to understand. We performed above expectations before the season started but the way it happened. Just hurt.