Nobody Stepped Up! | Fleetwood 1-1 (5-3) Arsenal

Hi, welcome to AFTV. We've just lost to Fleetwood Town in the League Cup. Knocked out the fourth round outside Highbury Stadium. I was just reading your top after-review. No after-review today, though. We're out. So, something that's not in this game is this. VAR. VAR, which I just want to show off this T-shirt that somebody got me, which is great. Would you have wanted VAR in this game? No, no, no. I don't want VAR in these two games and these games. I don't think VAR should be in the cup competitions at all Just keep for the Premier League and the Champions League And that's that Because I quite enjoyed it When we're speaking about the referee We had the last bloke speaking about the referee That's what football's about But you cannot excuse We came to a League 2 team And two boys have messed up for us today Now this, was it Marlon Salmon? Marley Salmon Marley Salmon He was poor He was poor the other week In the under-21 game Or the under-23 game When he made some mistakes I know he's okay against Unreal against Ipswich Yeah but Unreal Yeah but Maybe Saliba they were calling him When I watched him When I watched him in the previous I watched him in the In the under-23 or under-21 game And he was quite poor in that game He was quite poor today All it was is He was out of muscle That was in Kapier there He's just He's just cleaning it up It was one chance they got Yes but And, yeah, fair enough, he might have done this. No, it's not the highest level, but you're playing at professional level. And that one chance, they scored. But that was after 15 minutes, wasn't it, they scored? Yeah. So it was early. And then you had Max Dalman, who let the team down. Because it's basically a similar thing to what... Max let the team down? He let the team down by doing that. By doing what? by him going up to the line, giving him a knee in the face or a knee in the body. The challenge was outrageous. But you know as well as I do, referees, especially without VAR, they always see the reaction. They might not see the first one, but they see the reaction. And doing that, he's a young lad, he will learn. He's out for three games now. And he might have started in the next three games because with Saka out, that was his chance to shine. Harsh to say he let the team down. there's still like five or ten he got rid of card about the 80th minute but if you get a red card nine times out of ten you're letting the team down there's certain occasions when you're saving a goal in the last minute but most times you're letting the team down but today I'm not going to focus on that today I'm not going to focus on the referee because the last bloke just kept blaming them kept blaming the referee not focusing on their own team now you've got players on there on £250,000 a week you've got Kai Havertz out there, I don't know what he did. I don't know what Kai Havertz did out there. And you let two left-sided midfielders go away. You sold two left-sided players and one who can play striker and you don't replace him. You only replace him with one and unfortunately that one got injured. Now most of these players here, most of these players here got their chance and nobody stepped in and said, I want this role. I want this role. The only people I am excusing from that is the left-sided midfielder Connor is it O'Neill O'Neill I'm excusing him because it's his first game I don't think Marsden and Skelly played well by the way he played he played brilliant for a young 18 year old but I don't think he did I don't think he did much wrong but I don't think Marsden and Skelly did much wrong but apart from that people did not step up I know Jocko scored but there's times I've seen him running with the ball when he's running out of play he's not the answer he's not the answer we put we put we put out quite a strong team we've got a quite strong team now I'm going to finish up by saying did you watch did you watch the Ballon d'Or yep yeah who came 15th er Declan Rice Declan Declan Rice or was it William Saliba William Saliba came 20 he came 20th William Saliba so so I saw an interview I saw an interview on your channel and to a man to a man they wanted Constance Stark over Saliba if he's fit in that form what today no no no the question was asked should you start Saliba if he's fully fit or Konca and to a man everyone said Konca now Saliba's the best centre back in the world I actually said Saliba you said Saliba he's the best in the world because maybe because maybe because you play like Saliba but that's not the point you've got the skills but Konca's all power but he's the best centre back in the world he's going for the Ballon d'Or and people are saying they've watched Konca for a few games and they're saying he should start. He should start. Well, Saliba, Real Madrid are going to come and call him in a year or two time if we don't win the Champions League. So it's what these fans have. They are very fickle. And what I'm going to say, I'm going to finish up by saying I hope this doesn't affect us going forward because several people were left at home. And people talk about this big squad we have. Last season, we were in this competition. I see Saka coming on for 20 minutes. I see Declan Rice coming on you talk about this big squad we're having it's just numbers players are on big wages is it really a big squad because they're not performing at the level when they've got their chance thank you