Madueke Is A Defenders NIGHTMARE! (Ex Arsenal Player JET) | Arsenal 1-0 Hull

Big, big news. AFTV are coming to America for the Champions Tour, where we celebrate Arsenal winning the league and do some mega watch parties. We're coming to LA, we're coming to Las Vegas, to Dallas, to New York, and also to Toronto. You've got to check this out. This is going to be huge. Click the link in the description or scan the QR code on the screen to get more information. Cannot wait. AFTV we've got Jay Emmanuel Thomas who used to play for Arsenal right so we we'll get great opinions from you um that was a hard-fought win. When you play, did you get a lot of games like this where a team's really resilient, really hard to break down, and what do you have to do in these type of games? You just have to stay patient. Obviously, I was involved in a decent amount of games where teams set up like this, knowing the way Arsenal play football and possession based and having great quality. But today, it seems like breaking them down earlier on was going to be the task. Obviously, they were still 100% stamina fit, their legs wasn't getting heavy. But as the game obviously went on, you see it gets a bit stretched. People start picking up positions in pockets and in the end, managing to get a goal might have been a bit scruffy, but by any means a goal is a goal to open the game up. And now they have to go on the front foot, which obviously made the game a bit more open. And I think they should have probably got another goal or two. But at the end of the day, the three points is the main thing. And obviously keeping a clean sheet is what... They seem to do at the moment. A lot of cheering going on here, which means, which means because Forest are playing City, so that sounds like a City, that sounds like a Forest goal, so which would be big for, that's why it's important to win a game like this, because currently we're six points clear. Especially before they play, it kind of puts an amount of pressure that you don't really recognise as a player, knowing that the team that's ahead of you has won early, and now you're playing the later game. And you need to get them three points. It makes a big difference. And obviously now even a goal behind. Obviously we know we're not being silly. City have capabilities to obviously get the game back. But being 1-0 down, it does play on the mind. Yeah. Now listen, another thing that can play on your mind as a player is when you're at a club, right, and you've joined that club. And at first the fans weren't really having you because they, you know, because at the time they were thinking, oh, another Chelsea player, stuff like that. So you've got to overcome that. But talk to me about Noni Madueke, because this season he's really playing well. I mean, today, again, really, really good in the game. He's been playing good during the week, good against Liverpool, won us a game against Forest. I mean, he's really, really won over the fans here. Is that such an important thing to do? I had this conversation with numerous people when he left Chelsea and signed for Arsenal. And I told them, as a winger, he is a left-back's or right-back's worst nightmare. He can dribble both ways. He's electrically flying, he's quick. And he's unpredictable. And that's a defender's worst nightmare. So, giving him time to... Just find his feet being in the Arsenal down. Remember, Arsenal and Chelsea play very different styles of football. They've got very different players, different managers. But if you give him the ball in a 1v1 situation as early and as quick as possible, he will cause big problems. Yeah, Saka might be more of an IQ-based winger. He plays a lot of one-twos and smart runs in behind. But as a full-back... The hardest part of the game is defending a winger one-versus-one, especially when they're as quick as Nani. And I think over time, people would take more and more to him if he keeps pulling out the performances he's been doing of recent. Yeah, and I know you used to play as a striker. Right before you go here, right, who would you start? We've got two at the moment. The managers are going to have a conundrum every week. During the week, Yoker has scored, but then Havertz scored the big one against Liverpool. Havertz didn't have a great game today. I mean, as I was saying this earlier, right, if you're a striker, do you need a run of games? Do you need like, should it be a thing like, give me six games and let me see what I can do? Because if you're just in-out, in-out, you can't really build up a head of steam, can you? You can't, but as a striker playing for a club like Arsenal, you get chances. So you don't need a run of games to put the ball in the back of the net, personally. I feel like if you're playing in a 90-minute period, you will have the opportunity from across or... In other words, I don't think it's not the striker. I feel like they're not strikers that can do stuff off their own back. They're not going to get the ball, beat two players and score a goal. Obviously, they need their teammates to provide their service, crosses, through balls. And I feel like a lot of teams playing the low block... kills Joao Felix's game a bit because there's no space for him to run into so he ends up having to play to feet a lot which wouldn't be his strongest attribute which by the way you can see he's working at it he's getting used to the hustle and bustle of the Premier League and obviously Havertz is like a seasoned Premier League player probably IQ wise picks up the better positions and scores them goals where maybe Joao Felix might not have been on another day but the consistency of them both is what's lacking they're not Both putting in performances on a weekly basis, which is what you need from your number nine. And I think that's where the problem is. So you play one, he doesn't play well. You switch it and the other one don't play well. You're stuck. So now you're picking now based on who you think is going to have the biggest effect on the team that you're playing against. So I think it becomes complicated. So I'm putting you on the spot. Which one? Which one for the next game? Next game? Oh. Me personally, on the next game, I would go with Havertz. Nice one.