Philippe Auclair
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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This time, if you look at, if you watch the game against PSG,
When Lewis Kelly, who was absolutely magnificent, and Declan Rice had the ball in the pivot position, you could try and look at the availability of passes and players to them to progress the ball through the lines.
There were none.
It's just like PSG are absolutely amazing at blocking all the possible paths for the ball to be progressing from one line to the next.
So the ball went back because there was no opportunity to do anything else.
So, which for me shows the difference there is about the way you approach a game.
Against Liverpool, what we saw, and defeat at the end, was a negative approach at the game.
and which was punished, and rightly so, and infuriated me.
What you saw against PSG was something which was imposed by the context, but also by an opponent that we tend to forget is, as Steyer said, actually, and Iker said, the best team in the world at the moment, and could be the best team in the world for quite a while if it carries on like that.
I think that's one of the reasons, one of the main reasons why so many people have showing a dislike of Arsenal, or actually much more than a dislike of Arsenal, especially on X and even on Blue Sky, where I was on the receiving end of some absolutely astonishing comments on the night of the final.
It was amazing.
I've never blocked as many people on that platform.
It was like, block, block, block, block, block.
One of the reasons...
One of the reasons why so many people don't like Arsenal is what we saw during the parade yesterday, which was magnificent, almost a million people.
I think there are people who are really pissed off by the fact that Arsenal has a community of fans, which is as diverse as it is, culturally, socially, economically, it really pisses them off.
They hate us because we represent the type of society they hate as well.
And I think that's part.
If you talk to any Arsenal fan, there's a very big part of our fandom because we don't forget that we've got Emirates on our shirts or Visit Rwanda shirts.
on our sleeves, that our owner has given money to Donald Trump in the past.