Big Lesson For Max Dowman (Marty) | Fleetwood 1-1 (5-3 Pens) Arsenal

Hi everybody, welcome back to AFTV. I am here with my guy Marty. Now Marty, me and you have sat through many watch-alongs mate, but that has to be one of the worst experiences on a watch-along. Arsenal out of the Carabao Cup. Embarrassing, humiliating. Put out the Carabao Cup by Fleetwood. And I just want to say before we get started, shout out to Fleetwood. Thoroughly deserved their win. Over to you Marty. Yeah, listen, well done to Fleetwood. They got a job done. They're 18th in League Two. Hello. Hello. Six places above going out of the Football League. So, did you do your umas on the And Arsenal are currently joint top of the Premier League. fall? Yes, I really enjoyed it. I'm glad I came back. And they wanted it more. I do. I had a great time. We were poor. You're cute. You're beautiful. We weren't at the races. You're great. Bye. We just failed to deliver. Bye. Bye, bye. And that first goal was sloppy. We haven't spoken in over a year because we have I don't want to dig out a young lad in Marley Salmon. reached that point in time. I think that there's a lot of things that you can do. But the attacker gets the better of him, turns him easily. No, there isn't. I think I know for real there is the fact that in most of the And then you've got to give him credit. years that we are talking I get he puts the touch. about an issue, the issue is Salmon puts the tackle in, he rides it, and he finishes it that the nature of the region that we are talking about is and puts it straight through Melia's legs. Fleetwood have one nil up. And listen, we've got the goal back. And, you know, with Jokeres, we're literally bundling it into the net. And the whole performance just wasn't good enough, if I'm honest with you. With the quality that you've got on the pitch, there are no excuses. It's as simple as that. There's, you know, you're not talking about even a championship side. And listen, there's no disrespect to Fleetwood, you know, complete respect to them for turning Arsenal over and getting results. And as soon as it went to penalties, I knew that it was going to go to penalties. Max Daumann, you know, it's a big lesson for him to learn. You can't react like that. Was the challenge strong? Yeah, it was a very strong challenge, which could have snapped his ankle. That's pretty cool. And so I understand the reaction through the strength of the challenge. But if you react like that, you are putting yourself at risk of getting sent off, which is exactly what happened. And you know... You know, throughout how that game goes as a professional footballer. You know that the decisions the ref gave against us, and I'm not blaming it on the ref, but the referee was giving them what they needed to get throughout the game. So, you know, that's going to be an obvious sending off. And that's it. Do you think that the referee, you're calling out the ref, I'm assuming that you think that he had a bad game? Listen, they got the decisions, but that's not an excuse. We were not good enough. You need to be beating teams like Fleetwood. convincingly. It's as simple as that. You're top of the Premier League, And you're playing a team that are close to going out of the Football League. There is a division in, you know, complete golf in positions in the league. And a result like that, especially in a competition which I wanted to win. We were finalists last year. That second string side and those players should have had the quality to beat them. Whether the conditions were bad or whatever, they were bad for both teams. Why do you think that was then? Were we complacent? Did the manager get the team selection? Wrong. What was the reason? I mean, it's very rare that you see an Arsenal team where you're struggling to name even one or two players that had a good game. Why were we so poor tonight? We were poor. No one was at it. I see it. Yeah, I know that. Why? You lost the players, mate. I wasn't on the pitch. I wasn't there. You could see they weren't at it. They couldn't break Fleetwood down. Fleetwood wanted it more. Do you think that they were overconfident, complacent? Completely, I was. I thought we were going to beat them 6-1. I gave a prediction at the beginning of the, you know, and I'm, you know, I'm going to say, I'm not going to turn around and say I didn't. I thought, you know, it should be a walk in the park, but it goes to show in football, anything can happen. And we weren't at it today. We were just, is it unacceptable or, you know, this isn't just football. It's a funny old game and it goes like this. Well, a chastening loss, it has to be said. Somewhat embarrassing, but, you know, at the end of the day, life does go on. How do you think the loss tonight, let's be honest, the loss? Well, listen, you've got to put it to bed and at the end of the day, what's done is done. We're out of competition and it's as simple as that. You can't do anything about it. You can't go, you know, you replay the game and see where we lost the game, but they weren't up for it. Now, what Mikel Arteta has to do, he has to find a way to regroup the players, give them a good going over, because I believe that they need a good going over when you consider... The amount of money that you need to earn your money, you know, and tonight they didn't earn their money and they didn't stick it down and they didn't do Arsenal proud and they need to go again. Anfield on Sunday is a tough place to go. We know this because of what's happened in previous seasons. It always is a tough place for us. So they need to regroup and they need to go and get a result. Albeit said, you go and get a result at Anfield on Sunday or we'll be forgotten. And it's as simple as that. So listen, it's a disappointing night. It's not, it wasn't great, it was poor habits, Mr. A multitude of sitters. Listen, I'm not going to dig out any one particular player because they were all poor. And, you know, we saw this against Brighton. They didn't turn up. And tonight we didn't turn up against Fleetwood, but no credit taken away from Fleetwood. That was their night tonight and they should enjoy it. They've just beaten the Premier League champions and knocked them out of the cup. They should enjoy it and they should be proud of what they've done. And they deserved it. They wanted it more and fair play to them. Okay, Marty, thanks very much.