By 1970s Gooner
Even Karl Hein was worried. Raya was having such an awful game against Chelsea that poor boy, Karl I mean, was beginning to contemplate that Arteta would do what he bizarrely threatened he was capable of doing. And that is to substitute the goalkeeper midway through a match!
Honestly Arteta is loosing the plot if he thinks that Raya is a better goalkeeper than Ramsdale or even if he is better at passing the ball with his feet.
He is not.
He conceded Chelsea's second goal by his wrong positioning. This was a goal that gave Chelsea renewed belief and sunk the Arsenal players confidence.
Yet if you remember Raya committed just the same mistake against Spurs. He was out of position for a high ball from the side which luckily hit the bar. And from the same phase a great chance was created by spurs which he did well to save ( his blushes).
Take the Lens CL game. His ill advised long diagonal pass to Tomiyasu was easily intercepted and resulted in their equaliser during a period which we were gaining control of the game having gone ahead.
And what about the Man City game. He was a bunch of nerves full of anxiety and got his passing all wrong. We were very lucky we didn't concede in those crucial early stages of the game.
Surely Ramsdale comes in goal for the Seville game and deserves a run in the team.
SURELY
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Completely agree. Ramsdale is better than Raya in virtually every area of goalkeeping. Raya also made a similar mistake against Spurs in the lead up to their first goal as he was out of position for a cross, and ended up flapping the ball straight to Spurs for them to score. If Ramsdale had been in goal we would have beaten Spurs, Lens and now Chelsea. Giving away cheap goals at this level will be the difference between winning trophies or not. Let's be honest, Raya is not a league winning goalkeeper. I can only think that the goalkeeper coach had fond memories of working with him at Brentford, he's certainly not in the team on merit.
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