 Welcome to ToffeeTV, it is the player ratings for Neil Arsenal Neil, a game that I can barely remember and that wasn't just because of the Christmas party after the game and utterly forgettable Premier League game between two teams with new managers in the stands and it showed why really. I think forever and I think obviously after the four games that Duncan Veig's in the talk this was sort of the first game where I think there was just a weird mix wasn't it? Players coming into the team, some players tired, players unfit and it was just a weird mix where really the team on the pitch is probably not really what Duncan would have wanted and probably for the first time in well not not for the first time because obviously every game he's had we struggled but I think it was just a it was just a bad mix and that led to a game where really you could see we had no legs and you know once a woby had gone off having that those extra legs in my field we became such a slow team and the option he had on the bench really didn't help with that either so we've become an incredibly slow team very very quickly and I think that completely hampered us but the opposition we were playing probably the worst Arsenal team I've I can ever remember playing against and and the mad thing is they got two world-class strikers or at least one world-class striker I think and Abamian and Lacazette who's pretty good as well so yeah Jordan Pickford I've given him a six and he's kicking he made one really good save from Abamian I think it was in the second half but some of his decision making that's letting him down he's kicking was poor I thought he's coming he's staying on his line all the time now it's something I've noticed keeping to his game and I don't know whether that's confidence and the people playing in front of him or his own self-confidence but he I don't know what it is but he needs something and whether the change of the goalkeeper coach going forward or whatever I think there needs to be something just to get more out of him more trust that man as I said that might be the centre back partnership in front of him changing all the time but I honestly feel like he needs to start having a higher line because the amount of times we seem to get or he seems to be caught in that space and especially when it's from a place of longboard you've got Michael Keane chasing the ball and it does leave us very susceptible and honestly don't know why he started doing that so I've given him a six. Gilles Sadibi I've given him a seven I thought it was a good return not a perfect return but a good return and defend them wise brains on the one-on-ones going forward not as good as this week but you know after missing you know a couple of games through illness that's always going to be the case and yeah so seven I've given on the other side Luka Dean I've given him a six I mean he got through the 90 minutes so that's a bonus wasn't particularly great going forward the set pieces were absolutely dreadful absolutely dreadful football has come to evidence suddenly laying that they can't beat the first man on set pieces defensively was okay so I've given him a six Mason Holgate I've given him a seven and a half defensively thought he was he did pretty much okay and then but when he went into midfield I thought he was brilliant I thought he gave us the energy and it's I honestly think he could craft out a position there I genuinely do I think he's got a lot about him that could do well in that position I think he likes to stay in the game I think he likes to be part of the game I actually think he gets sometimes maybe gets bored playing centre back and it was it's just that I think that's probably one of the issues you before the game I mean the energy you provide in central field I really think that could have helped us win the game but then you know Michael Keane comes in at centre back and let's be honest recently he's been very very poor and confidence is this season has been absolutely on the floor and he's second and we'll get into his performance in a minute but might you know Mason Holgate thought he was excellent so I've given him a seven and a half and it'd be very very interesting to see if we can bring a centre back in to play alongside yeti Mina where the Mason Holgate could go midfield because I really think at the moment he could be the future in that position for us I really do I'd have him ahead of a lot of other well most other players that's let's be let's say but we need another centre back yeti Mina I've given him a seven pretty pretty straightforward game for him I thought yeah defended pretty well and a few little moments I mean a few maybe one or two maybe little moments but I honestly don't think he's fit and he went down and he went down and I think that that shows you where we are at the moment it's all hands to the pump so I don't think he's fit and I think he's playing through the pain body so fair play to him but pretty much you know as I said a couple of little moments but apart from that I thought he was pretty consistent so I've given him a seven Tom Davis I've given him a five he was stuck out there on the right hand side and strange one for me that him playing there really really was a strange one but with having Delph back and having Sigarton back maybe Duncan thought that would said to be playing behind him and no one else really to play there other than maybe Bernard maybe Duncan had looked at it tactically but I don't know they had they didn't they didn't have their first or second choice left back and I thought that's somewhere we could have really hurt them and I think having Tom there just and I can understand what he was thinking maybe coming in off the right but Tom just didn't have the legs for it he really didn't he looked like he was running in treacle again so not not not totally down to him that he's got that score but you know he's running looks to me like he's running on a little bit looks on on running on empty but so I've given him a five and give he said this and I've given three of those he was terrible absolute not even terrible just like wait where are you where are you playing or are you not playing he was allowed to this another game where he's allowed to disappear and again listen for he might be fit either he might be fit you know he might have been rushed back for the sake of just having bodies but to me just he looked lost and he looked he looked somewhere to know where in this game and I think that's what that's the worst thing that can happen to Guilfysig it's in his games where he can just go missing and you can't quite pinpoint what he's supposed to be doing and I don't know whether Duncan had maybe looked at you play like a diamond or something I don't know but it just never quite worked for Guilfysig and he just went missing again so I've given him a three Femian Delph I've given a seven I thought I thought for his comeback game I thought he played pretty well loves that arching ball doesn't he back get himself an angle and arch as your back loves that he absolutely loves that I think there's a player in there if we can keep on and obviously there is a player in there we can keep him fit but they're keeping them fit part of it that's the worry and I think he is someone that could just play in front of the back four and actually with him in midfield with someone like Mason Hallgate I think you've got a little bit of everything in there if we depending on how we set up going forward the fact that he hasn't played for what I don't know what's he not well I can't remember where his last game was but I think he did okay and obviously went off but I think he just went out of legs so I've given give him a seven Alex a woby obviously went off injured hadn't really done anything really but disappointing for him to go off with that injury and it's disappointing to pick up another injury with so many games in a short space of time and I've given him a four because he really didn't do anything so yeah hopefully it's not too serious but those type of injuries do take a couple of weeks and at this time year a couple of weeks is well four games five games nearly so hopefully he'll be he'll be back sooner rather than later with Charleston I've given him a six lots of work lots of endeavour very little end product and I could say the same for Dominic Avalune I've also given a six lots of hard work but no real end result no shots on target very very little attack on wise out of them just hard-working graft and you need a little bit more in games like this didn't really play to either of their strengths really we never really went long that much but we never went over the top for them to run on to and we never went sure for them either so very very set staying set as air circumstances and would you know with Charleston going out wide as well and it just it just it was just the whole game was just a strange strange setup really for me so neither of them benefited from anything for me. Towson came on and went off I've given him a three I thought he was garbage absolutely garbage I thought he was genuinely and honestly if he's kicking off about being subbed then honestly he was terrible I've no idea where he was actually playing he was terrible he was honestly so so bad and I think it was I don't know if it was a strange decision to bring him on I think maybe what Duncan had looked at was who in those forward areas could last the game or maybe not last the game and he probably thought you know what if I bring Mines Keenan and I have to take him off later on how's that going to look no doing it once to one player to a player is bad but doing it twice in a week that's that's where people tongues do start wagging and he asked there you know listen it didn't bother me doesn't bother me that he took him off at man United doesn't bother me that he took Towson off it really doesn't but if you do twice then you at my start effect and not only not only for the player and even though there's a new manager but how people how people look at you and he just might have thought that Towson was the right man to bring on I just shows you that the bench was just very very limited in terms of what you know that that kind of injury and I mean he could have brought Bernard on I appreciate that but obviously he obviously must think there's a issue with Bernard in terms of what he wants from Bernard whether it be fitness and injuries or just general stature I'm not sure so I've give Towson a three Michael Keen I've give a four and I actually thought this was the right sub I thought it was the right sub and I actually called it while I was sitting there told that was the right to make bringing Keenan and pushing Hallgate into my field I did think he gave us those extra legs we needed in there and it got us a bit more of the ball and so I thought it was the right sub but he was poor wasn't he I've given my four because I just thought he was poor again balls bouncing bouncing off and kicking it into touch never really seems to be in control never feels looks he never looks comfortable he doesn't look like you look at yet he may not and yet he may not always you always look at him thinking he knows what he what he wants to do what he's trying to do Keen you don't get that same impression you really don't so I've given my four and Moise Keen I've give a six again I've given six because it's probably like with Charleston and Dominic Carvin, Calvin Carvin living, work rate and endeavour no end product and that's it ultimately that's that's ultimately it so there you go these have been my play of ratings let me know if you agree or you disagree yeah it's it wasn't it was a it was a terrible game it was a terrible game of football and you get a lot of that at this time of year because squads are stretched and there's a lot of games there's a lot of injuries there's a lot of tiredness there's a lot of illness um hopefully boxing day it picks up against barely because we really do need three points on that one so let me know your thoughts in the comments you agree do you disagree with what I've said if you haven't subscribed please do click the bell for a later you know exactly when a video is coming out and if you want more great videos join us over on page and thanks for watching see you later