PLAYER RATINGS! (Lee & Robbie) | Slavia Prague 1-2 Arsenal

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The way we're going away from home at the moment and just completely controlling games shows your team is very confident. Fair? Yeah, one day. Is it different from last year? Cheers. Yeah, it was literally the same time last year we played it. Oh, we won 3-0 last time, so there's a difference. I know it was 3-0, there was a difference to that, but I thought that was... a stupid question this one is like i thought like one day i think we was here on the fourth yeah i know i'm saying in in the whole of champions league does it feel like we asked or better or or it was better last season we won three nil all right of course but would you would you i'll flip that and i'll say that probably like because they've won the league last season they're a little bit better themselves oh there you go let's go into player ratings Coming in the lead, David Raya. Well, he was a bit busier than he was on Sunday. Oh, I shouldn't have made that cut to that. What can I say? I'm going to give him 8 out of 10 because I've seen a couple of saves he made when it was put on us. He was there, he made a couple of good saves. I thought he was very, very good tonight. Yeah, 8 out of 10, he had hardly anything. He had absolutely nothing to do in the first half. I don't think he had a shot on target. In the second half. To be fair to them, they really had a go. And that save he made when he hit the post, pushed it onto the post. That was a brilliant save. I said it in my interview. I think he's the best goalkeeper in Europe right now. Currently, you know what I mean? So, yeah, 8 out of 10. Sure and Timber. Ben White. Ben White. That was the netting, mate. All right. Yeah, Ben White in the first half was good. Solid, you know what I mean? Yeah, good performance. Seven out of ten. Seven out of ten. Yeah, seven out of ten. I thought we'd done okay. Okay. I don't know really why he came off, but I thought we defended well. I'll tell you what I was saying. He'd done well, though, to be fair. I said in the first half, and our full-backs never got done once. It was very, very solid. Solid, but... Yeah, seven out of ten. It's very aggressive, Ben White, as well. You know, they were trying to fight, and he was just like, come on, eh? No, you know, that guy was on, yeah. He put him to the ground. Oh, yeah. He looked at him like, you feel the chill? He goes, oh, he should apologize. You're supposed to be hard, man. No, no, I just... I do like that about Ben White. I thought we might apologise, and he just went past him. Game's gone, mate. Game's gone. It's gone, it's gone, it's gone. Let's go to not Saliba, Ezri Konsa. 7 out of 10. I don't think nothing special. It didn't have to be in that first half. He actually came off when we were in control and then obviously we weren't. So, 7 out of 10. Yeah, he got booked, didn't he? That's what I think when they took him off. Yeah, 7 out of 10. Absolutely solid. Solid. It's a big problem for the manager now, man, because he's been brilliant and you get Saliba coming back. He was fantastic again today. Yeah, let's go to Gabriel Magalhães, Robbie. Same. Seven out of ten. Solid as a rock. You know what I mean? Flawless today really, second goal, sorry their goal, we were kind of missing in them centre back positions a bit, but listen overall very good performance, 7 out of 10. Yeah 7 out of 10, I thought it was Timber probably should have done better on the goal if I'll be honest. But, yeah... Yeah, yeah, listen, that first half, everybody was really, really good, so you have to take that into account going into the second, and it looked like we were going to see it out to the end there, I think we can see it in the 89th minute, so, listen, it's 7 out of 10. In Capio? Yeah, 7 as well. Solid. Like Lee said, none of us didn't get run past once in that first half and he's only just kind of coming back. He'll do well. Yeah, good solid performance from him. I thought he defended really, really well. As I said, he wasn't exposed at any time. I don't think he got beat all night. They were full, like you said, full backs were brilliant. Silly yellow card, but Declan Rice. I'm going to give Declan 7 out of 10. I thought his first half was outstanding. He's unbelievable. Unbelievable in the first half. There was one thing when he intercepted the ball, played it round and we just said, he's just so good, he's just so good. But I felt he faded in the second half a little bit, you know, maybe because of, you know, seven out of ten is still a good score. I'm not going to give him eight and nines every week. You've got to earn them, Dick. You think? I think he wasn't eight. The guy's just like... Yeah, he got booked and he managed it. You know what I mean? That's why he's the sort of player, even if he gets booked, you don't have to worry about it. He's so good, man. He just, you know, the way he's... You can just leave him back on his own sometimes. That's what I was going to say. The striker was running in once. I just saw deck, I said, yeah. If anyone's up against him in half the time, you don't even worry, man. He's so good, man. Eight out of ten. I will say... He made an unbelievable run and he didn't fit. Otherwise, he's a definite eight. He was running forward, I was like, oh, he looks like he's gassed it up. It opened all up for him. Shoot! Choo-choo! There he is. I think eight's fair. You've got a seven, you've got an eight. Listen, I'm going to... Okay, the mask. The mask. The mask. Zorro done well today. I thought he played okay in there, like, you know. He done well. Batman! He got clumped in the first seconds with that bloody mask on. I thought, I want to get rid of this mask. He didn't play well today. I thought he played 7 out of 10. Yeah, 7. He had a solid performance. Yeah, the Mendy was good. In that... Mick Helmond? Mino, probably a six, a quiet-ish game. He had a shot in the first half that, you know, Kepa made a good save from. But he wasn't bad. I mean, it was just a decent game from six. No, seven for me. I thought we'd done okay. I thought in that first half, some of the football we played in that first half was fantastic. You know, through the lines and everything like that. And that's his best game, I think, in the sort of... In that role, you know, and then what's the manager going to do? Stick him up front. So, yeah, seven for me. Playing really well in that position. Now we're going to move up. You know what I mean? I've got to get Kai back in here. I've got to make sure that... He's versatile, isn't he? That's the good thing about him. Very versatile. He's super, super, you know, his technical ability is unreal. Noni Madueke. I thought he was excellent today. Eight out of ten. Took his goal brilliantly. You know what I mean? I mean... Always a threat in that first half, the way he just kept beating his man. This guy right now is playing very, very well. You wouldn't want to face him right now as a defender. You know what I mean? And I love what he's doing at the moment. You know what I mean? We are not missing Saka at the moment. That's the biggest compliment. And you can see he's learning as well, because defensively he's doing really well as well, getting back and doing the covering. I thought he was superb again tonight. I really do like some of the stuff that he's done. He took his goal very, very well. Well, um... And I felt that he was a constant threat again. And that's what you want. And, and, and, show me. There was one time he chopped inside. I went the wrong way. It was unbelievable. You know what I'm saying? Listen, he's called their defender today, left back. And I'll tell you what, credit to them, they didn't double up on him, they went one-on-one with him and he had a torrid time, so 8 out of 10 for me, yeah. VG, Viktor Gyökeres. 8 out of 10, and my man of the match today, I felt that the first goal was always very, very important, it was fantastic, an assist, he held it up, lovely ball through, fantastic ball by the way, through the line, to get the goal scoring opportunity, and then he's finished for the goal, he's sublime, I'll tell you that now, we've seen it, it's very, very good. And I thought that, you know, he's playing really, really well. The game's about to open up, you know, time for Victor to shine. And up comes the ball. Shocking. But I thought we played very well. What's wrong with, you know what I mean? What's wrong with taking him off? Well, because he's hardly played, Robbie. Does he need to be rested? I think he's had a great game. Someone else could have come off before Victor. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, but listen, to me... He could have stayed on. Yeah, but manage these players, man. We've got a big game coming up. He just, you know, he did come on on Saturday, Sunday. Got a big game coming up on the weekend. Who's going to start that game? Let's see. Let's see. It probably will be... It probably will be Albert, but... Probably it will be. And he had a real demanding ten minutes at Anfield. Yeah, but to me, there's no problem with him coming off. I thought he had an excellent game today. That assist for the first goal was unbelievable, right? Go back and watch it. It's sublime. And then his finish is unbelievable. He curls that in. People like Jack who say, what's Yorke's going to do? He can't finish. I've seen these guys forget when this guy was at Sporting, even last year, he scored some great goals. Remember the goals he scored at Tottenham? He can finish. Give him a chance. And I thought today, he was excellent. He's a man in a match. I don't know, maybe I should give him a nine really because everything he did, his hold-up play was good. Everything, right throughout the game, what did he do bad? No, I saw, yeah. Yeah, so he... Maybe he could have stayed on, stayed on, never know, but like... Saw what? There was one time he tried to hold up the ball, got it, got it, got it. No, no, no, I'm not taking it down, I'm not taking down his rating. No one ever says one time when it comes to other players. I was doing well one time, I'll hold him one time. Any negative with Victor today or so, he done... I saw one time, you know what I mean? No, the guy's scored a great goal. He's had a fantastic assist. His overall play was excellent today. You know what I mean? Nine out of ten, man, in a match. I'm going to give him his flowers today. Really good performance. Eberechi Eze I thought he was good as well today. He was good. Seven out of ten, you know what I mean? He was a constant threat. 8 out of 10, I thought he was brilliant today, wasn't he? I thought he was really good. Every time he took on his man, he beat him, he was dangerous, he looked very, very good, and then he came off. He was very tidy. I would have liked to have seen a few more shots from him. Maybe he came off because, remember, the manager was saying it was a miracle that he even made Liverpool win. So we don't know if there's a little niggle or something. So I just like, listen, I don't mind seeing players getting their minutes managed at the moment, right? Because what do we... Especially this guy who's moaned a lot about, you know what I mean, managing minutes. That's what he's doing. There is an international break coming up though, to be fair, but they were probably played. He's managed Yokoreshi's minutes, Eze didn't play at the weekend and all that. And the one person he should have taken home, he didn't. That's all I'm saying. I've said, right, to me, maybe he was thinking of taking him off, but they started sticking it on us. So you had to keep him on. That's fair, we've got like Miles Lewis-Skelly that can't do that. I'm sticking on a Liverpool and he came on and stirred it up. Now you go 2-2, first person. He'll be moaning. Let's go to South. You know him already. I know, I know. But there are some points in what you're saying. Let that game go to 2-2. You know it. Yeah, he'll be going mad. But... That's the way. He needs a sort of guy going, what's Royce even doing here? That's why I said that to him. I said that to him. I am shocked that he's played... I'm quite shocked. I am as well. I am shocked. No, I am. I thought Bruno was going to, I thought Bruno would come on for him. All miles, all miles, yeah. Last week at Fleetwood, he said it sent out the wrong message for him not even to be. That's true, that's true. Yeah, I told him off. You did say that. You did say that. I did say that about the players. And I'm right because they didn't win, did they? What's the name of them flip-flops you wear? Avalos. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Avalos judges. Sponsor player. Right, subs, quickly. Martin Odegaard. Standard five. Five, yeah. He was winning 2-0 up when he came on, you know, to get the third goal and we end up conceding. I think every sub's just a standard five. I don't even know if he's easy to run. Yeah, I don't know. Max was, yeah, five. He's only got two minutes. So listen to me. I don't think Timber graced himself in any glory today. Four. Oh. Nah, not a four. Five. Two fives, two fives. Everyone was happy. I thought he was all right. Like, you know, seven out ten, didn't really think he'd done anything wrong. He let a lot go, yeah he did. More than you normally see in the Champions League. Yeah, he was more like a sort of Premier League type man, he was a lot of physicality in the game. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. Everyone was happy. They were very physical, man, so yeah, referee's cool, seven. You said seven or what? Seven, yeah, I'm happy with that, yeah. Manager today? Six. Six, I think, like, I'm sorry, like, I mean, like, you know, I mean, like, we're 2-0 up, cruising that game, and then he got involved with his substitutions and all that, we lost a little bit of... It felt like the foot came off the pedal. Yeah, it had come off the pedal, I get that, and all things like that, but I don't think he was, he covered himself in glory with the rotation side of it today, like, I don't think he gets that right, if I'll be honest, he didn't get it right at Fleetwood, he didn't get it right today. But he got it right on Sunday, and I'll give him his flowers for that. But today, after that first half, I'm a little bit disappointed why we played in the second, if I'm being really honest about it. Second half? I thought first half we was really good. We actually came off, we was walking down the room and I said, we're a good side. Gone around with all the confidence and all that. But he's probably said that at half-time. He's probably gone into the changing room and said, you lot are in substitutions. Made that more, what's the name? More lax, more chill. Yeah, made it look like we're happy with what we've got, which ain't a bad thing. Yeah. It ain't a glorious night for Mikel tonight. Very defensive substitution, didn't it, Martin Odegaard? That worked, didn't it? Can you tell me why you brought him on? We won the game. The rest were defensive. Listen, right, eight out of ten, right, we're third in the Champions League standing right now. That's not because it's tonight though, Rob, is it? We've come away from home, won the game, what, another game away from home. We just had to go to Wembley at the weekend, tough, tough game, play that, then come away here again and play this. Guys have got to manage the minutes of players, we've got a game coming up at the weekend. We've won the game. We're third in that league. You know what I mean? They're playing... Listen, we're expected to win this game, but you can't take these things for granted, as we saw last week with Fleetwood. They drew Fenerbahce, like I said, right? Away from home, a place where Liverpool lost tonight. So he's got the job done, right? He's rotated the team, which is fine. I mean, eight out of ten. Leeds was a little scare at the end, but it was a comfortable night indeed. Let's be real. Eight out of ten, right? I just want to know, right? Christmas is getting close. There might be something in the post from Mikkel. Listen, let me ask you this, Cecil. Go on. Don't you think, apart from the last ten minutes, it's more or less a comfortable night? Yeah, they put us in the last. Yeah, I'm disappointed we didn't see it. No, it was more than that, Rob. Come on, that. No, it was like, when they went to post, was that in 10 minutes go from then? What minute did they score in? In the 90th minute. The 90th minute. What about the Raya saves they hit the post? That were not 10 minutes ago. That was halfway through the game. They come out in the first half. The first thing that happened in that second half was Raya making a save. He hadn't made a save for 45 minutes. Right? And then we go, right, hold on a minute, yeah, go on, hold on a minute, he comes out from his team talk, right, and the first thing that he has to do, Ray has to say, he turns around and says, oh, at least they've had a shot not like Liverpool, right, you know what I mean? That was in the first minute of the second half, not in the last ten minutes! Yeah, but it was a comfortable save, wasn't it? And I'm saying, I'm saying, let's be real, right, until they scored his... It's been a comfortable night, right? We look like we're scoring ourselves, that's what I'm saying. But when the subs come on as well... We had a few chances in that second half that we could have scored from. We had a few chances. Listen, you're the only one. Come on, just, you, it's... I'm sure everybody who's come on here tonight, it's more or less been a comfortable night. It's been a comfortable night, apart from they scored right at the end. And obviously, if you're playing away from home, there's a little excitement for a couple of minutes. We manage that out, we go away with the three points. It's, we're third. What are you worried about? What's your problem, man? There's no problem. If I said there's a problem, I had not said there's a problem. He's giving the manager six. He's in the middle there. Seven's fair. No, he ain't. I didn't think he was great. I can't work him out. You know what I mean? Last week at Fleetwood, he's saying he sends out the wrong message to leave Declan Rice out. Then there'll be another week. Another week, he'll be like, what's Declan Rice doing here? He should be at home with his feet up. You can't work him out. Every time, it's something else. Well, well, well, I'll tell you. Where was the chances in the second half, then? There was chances in the second half. Mad Awakey, I tell you, Mad Awakey when he hit the chest. There was a couple of chances in the second half. It's a comfortable night. He took them all to four, wasn't he? It's a comfortable night. Were the subs wrong? Yeah, it was a comfortable night. It was comfortable. You're saying the subs... It was a comfortable night. I'm not, no one said, have I said it yet? No, I know, I know, I'm trying to, I'm trying to, I'm trying to defend you. So what was the problem with the substitutions then? I didn't think that they were the... That's fair, that's fair opinion. We lost fluency, we bring Odegaard on at 2-0 and we concede. Yeah, because we could have brought on Bruno, couldn't we? But you're rotating, you've got a game at the weekend, you've got a game at the weekend. Well, I'll get that, we'll take Rice off then. There's my beef, that is my beef. It's one of them players come up with a little hamstring or something. He'd be the first one. He's took off Izzy, right? He's took off Izzy, right? Who didn't play at the weekend, right? He took off Yocarez that won't play at the weekend. He kept Declan Rice on. Who will play at the weekend? To be fair, if we took him off and we conceded, it would have been mad. But I think the subs were. I think he could have bought. Yeah, Bruno, the miles could have got on. One of them two could have come on for Declan. Anyway. Anyway. Right, just quickly. But it was a comfortable night. No, the reason why he skipped Declan, I reckon he probably would have took Declan off. The last ten minutes of sticking it on us, he's just like, right, let me just secure this, leave him on, and we secured it. My argument is that Bruno has spent 70 odd million pounds for a player and he can't secure it. You heard that first and exclusive, Robbie Lyle, Bruno, he's not good enough to secure it. You've never heard me say that. You just said it, you just said it, you just said it, you couldn't trust him, you couldn't trust him. You've got your best midfielder right, he's on there, he's played the whole game, he's up to the pace of the game, they're sticking it on us. I'm freezing by the way. It's 10 minutes ago. Declan, just see it out for me, man. Let's just see it out. Can we go home? All right. To finish. You think on your feet. Bruno, stop talking! Right. Quickly, the fans. And just quickly, I want to say, the team, we were loud today. We weren't so loud. But I think we were in such control. I want the team to understand that we are very happy with how we're playing so far. I know sometimes we're not singing every second. But just know, from a fan's perspective, we're very happy. Again, the game was kind of done, wasn't it, from the first half? I thought the fans were a little bit quiet today and I have to say like a lot of empty seats in there today as well like I don't know why that was um listen Prague's a good place to come, the beer's cheap, you know what I mean, so maybe a few beers were consumed, I don't know, but also we were so comfortable, you know what I mean, until the last ten minutes, maybe that was good enough. Everybody was comfortable around here apart from you. What does that tell us about this guy? Right, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for watching the player ratings. We'll see you again soon. Take care. We're off back to the UK. Peace. Big, big news. 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