PALACE V ARSENAL - Aug 16th 1.30pm K/O

[AFC Leveller]

Ramsey doesnt do anything of note, he tries these stupid flicks that dont come off, his shots are hardly on target or dangerous, his passing is average but i bet his stats are amazing, aye Arsene.

[Power n Glory]

Ramsey. Sanchez has spent more time on the right than he has. But Wenger doesn't reign him in, so he just joins in the kick-about in the middle of pitch flicking round corners onto the oncoming legs of Palace defenders.

It's very selfish as it takes Bellerin out of the game and even stifles Ozil and Cazorla.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Some pubber off for Palace, Mutch on.

[Munchies]

Munchies is a poor man's Cripps.

Cripps :bow:

[Power n Glory]

He's trying to do too much by himself. He doesn't have a partner in the middle because the players who could be helping him out are anywhere except where they need to be. Ramsey and Cazorla have thrown him under a bus. They are both too busy sitting on Ozil.

Cazorla has been disciplined in the middle. Coquelin hasn't on this occasion. Too rash.

[Niall_Quinn]

It's very selfish as it takes Bellerin out of the game and even stifles Ozil and Cazorla.

If Wenger saw anything wrong with it he has the power to change it. But he has zips and arm folding and facial expressions to manage so he doesn't have time to deal with it I suppose.

[Kano]

What do you think, bring Theo on after 72mins and the start bunging crosses into the box?

Theo wants to play striker now, so he hasn't got time to stumble past defenders and toe poke from out wide. Chamberlain steams around with the best intentions making costly mistakes. Ozil off on 66 for Ospina. Wenger hasn't tried that one before.

[Slacker]

Fucking up again against another shower of shite team. Sanchez clearly needs to get an eye in. The way he's playing, he's not even making the bench. Arsenal just can't finish. Ramsey may as well not even bother going for goal ever again, Coquelin should have been sent off. Cazorla and Ozil have shown some great play but are still in pre-season.

Coquelin needs to be off, he's a liability who suddenly thinks he's a worldie. Bring Ox on and Theo for Sanchez. Get some pace going.

[adzzzbatch]

FUCKIGN HELL!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Puncheon. :haha:

Wickham hit the post somehow.

[adzzzbatch]

We have no defence.

[adzzzbatch]

oooooooooooo

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Great play from Cazorla and Alexis.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Özil. :cloud9:

[adzzzbatch]

Ozil :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Giroud with a turn but no control, Alexis could not pub it in either.

[adzzzbatch]

Mason :haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

Is Mason ill? FK to us for kicking Wickham in the face :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsey winds it up, blocked.

[Niall_Quinn]

Glory hunting Ramsey's shot blocked.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

ALEXIS!!!!!

[adzzzbatch]

YYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

[Thierrymon]

Wooooooohoooooooooooooooo!

OG or Sanchez?

[A Gunner]

2 - 1 Alexis or OG

[adzzzbatch]

GET IN!!!

[Master Splinter]

DELANEY!!!!!

[Niall_Quinn]

Don't know who headed it but great header!

[Penguin]

Sanchez!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

That was on target I think.

[Slacker]

Delaney!!!

[Power n Glory]

Yes!!

[Marc Overmars]

Get in!!!

[Niall_Quinn]

OG, but still super effort by Alexis. He'll be the difference for us again this season. 5x more desire than the rest of them combined.

[Niall_Quinn]

That was on target I think.

Agreed, it was spinning in towards the post. Still probably won't get it though. Costa will get it.

[adzzzbatch]

Ozil fouled nothing given

[Globalgunner]

We need to take Coq off at 60 mins and put Ox on

[McNamara That Ghost...]

That's a horrible finish from Puncheon.

[Niall_Quinn]

Fortunately it was Puncheon.

[adzzzbatch]

How about Walcott now there chasing the game?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Unlucky Ramsey.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good pass from Mason.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wenger giving his nose a good pick. :bow:

[Slacker]

Agreed, it was spinning in towards the post. Still probably won't get it though. Costa will get it.

Lucky Delaney stuck it away. Our boys are fixed on hitting the keeper or row z.

[Niall_Quinn]

We've slowed it down again. Has to be an iron clad instruction from the manager because not every player could be too dumb to figure out that this never works for us.

[Niall_Quinn]

Wenger giving his nose a good pick. :bow:

Finally he does something.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Get Coquelin off!

[Thierrymon]

Get Coq off before he is sent off.

[adzzzbatch]

He needs to sub him now!

[Marc Overmars]

Coq. :lol:

What a scrote.

[Niall_Quinn]

Mason is being very lenient here. I mean he's right because the Palace lot are diving all over the place. But usually that's a booking for us every day. Palace crowd singing he doesn't know what he's doing, but for once it appears he does. Cheating is not being rewarded today. I hope it's a new trend.

[Thierrymon]

Ox getting ready. Would be strange sub if its for Coq.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Coquelin off, Oxocube on. :bow:

[Marc Overmars]

Coq. :wave:

Off you pop.

[Master Splinter]

Positive WUMger sub? :faint:

[Slacker]

Should have subbed him at HT.

[Niall_Quinn]

As for the commentators and their totting-up bullshit, let's hear you next time Mikel, Ramires and Ivanovich are playing.

Coquelin subbed. Wenger gets very, very, very, very lucky there. Pure incompetence from him.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Terrible cross from Ox.

[Niall_Quinn]

Poor cross from Ox but Bif is a statue in there. He offers nothing for the wide man.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

Like the move of Ramsey going back in the mid and Ox out wide

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cazorla with the defending. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsey smashes it, not on target.

Özil. :bow:

Awesome.

[Niall_Quinn]

Much better move. Using the wide players, injecting a bit of pace. We could do that all game long if we chose to.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Koscielny has finally remembered to be aggressive in coming out for the ball, just nearly two games late.

[adzzzbatch]

Walcott for Giroud would make sense now.

[Thierrymon]

Bring on Theo for Bif.

[Slacker]

Making a sub before 68 mins will be very confusing for Wenger. Hopefully he'll remember there are still gamechangers on the bench.

[Niall_Quinn]

Making a sub before 68 mins will be very confusing for Wenger. Hopefully he'll remember there are still gamechangers on the bench.

That was 2 seasons ago. Now it's 72 mins.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ox shot, blocked.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Verdasco getting ready.

[Thierrymon]

Arteta warming up. Coming on for Alexis.

[Niall_Quinn]

Arteta coming on :haha:

The man is an idiot.

[Globalgunner]

Arteta coming on to fuck us up

[AFC Leveller]

Sanchez about to come off for Arteta

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cech did well under pressure there.

[Niall_Quinn]

Oh well, maybe after 498 failures giving the opposition the impetus for the final part of the game will work a treat.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wickham skews it wide.

[Slacker]

Monreal pulled up for kicking the ball. Luckily nothing came of it.

[adzzzbatch]

Wenger is insane!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Alexis off, Arteta on as anticipated.

His first game back starting so that's fair enough, Arteta coming on though, not so sure.

[Slacker]

Cech did well under pressure there.

Cech is starting to look like his old self thankfully...

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Palace don't know what number their player is. :doh:

[AFC Leveller]

Alexis looks confused, so he should be.

[Globalgunner]

Lets start counting how many free kicks we give away outside our box

[Niall_Quinn]

So does that mean Ramsey switches again? :haha:

We have good players, but we'd need Messi, Ronaldo and Barklay to overcome this manager ad get any sort of consistency. Wenger is just too much of a weight to carry through a whole season.

[adzzzbatch]

Ozil :doh:

[Niall_Quinn]

Bif shamefully offside again. But when you are immune I guess you don't have to try.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Corner to Palace.

[A Gunner]

You guys watching in UK, does it have the time? Because I don't have a clue what minutes we are in, all I've got is a bar that say Second Half.

[Niall_Quinn]

You guys watching in UK, does it have the time? Because I don't have a clue what minutes we are in.

I'm on 79mins

[McNamara That Ghost...]

McArthur off, Bamford on.

[adzzzbatch]

"Classic centre forward"

nope it's just a foul alan.

[A Gunner]

I'm on 79mins

Thanks!

[Niall_Quinn]

You guys watching in UK, does it have the time? Because I don't have a clue what minutes we are in, all I've got is a bar that say Second Half.

You'll know when time is up because Wenger will bring Theo on.

[adzzzbatch]

Monreal did well there

[A Gunner]

You'll know when time is up because Wenger will bring Theo on.

But the whole Coq thing, messed it up.

[Thierrymon]

Wenger bringing on Gibbs for Ozil.

[adzzzbatch]

Theo :wave:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Özil off, Gibbs on.

Wenger the master of Catenaccio.

[A Gunner]

Gibbs on
Ozil off
No Walcott

[AFC Leveller]

Ozil off, Gibbs on.

hmmm

[Master Splinter]

Still time for Theo to leave this month.

[Slacker]

You guys watching in UK, does it have the time? Because I don't have a clue what minutes we are in, all I've got is a bar that say Second Half.

I make it 89 and they equalised about 5 mins ago...

[Marc Overmars]

Negative subs.

[Niall_Quinn]

Gibbs on for Ozil

:haha:

It's comedy gold.

[Niall_Quinn]

But the whole Coq thing, messed it up.

That's Bouldy, lucky he carries a gun or Arsene never would have defied the computer.

[adzzzbatch]

that's a shove nothing given

[Slacker]

Gibbs on for Ozil

:haha:

It's comedy gold.

I was hoping he wouldn't get THAT confused...

[Thierrymon]

You just know an equalizer is coming.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Obvious goal kick. Let's give a corner.

[Munchies]

COYG ffs

[Niall_Quinn]

Wenger up and shouting now. 86 minutes, penned back due to crazy subs, now is the time to start blaming the players in case the inevitable happens.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

He didn't know Mutch about that.

[Slacker]

Obvious goal kick. Let's give a corner.

Surprised he didn't give them another...

[adzzzbatch]

Cech :doh:

[Thierrymon]

I am more worried about crosses with Cech in goal than I am with Chez.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Why didn't Ox change to running in to the middle?

[Globalgunner]

we cant do defending. i dont know why we try. we need to play offensive to avoid concedeing

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lee bottled it.

[adzzzbatch]

Hanging on now

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cech saves from Goal Machine Ward.

[Niall_Quinn]

Hanging on now

Of course. That's how it happens every time Wenger sabotages the team.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

If you take off your best attackers, you don't attack as well.

I'll note that down somewhere.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

McCarthy saves from Santi.

[Thierrymon]

Santi comes close on counter.

[Marc Overmars]

We are allergic to third goals in these situations.

[Globalgunner]

Arteta bails us out. wow!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Three added minutes.

[Niall_Quinn]

Unlucky Santi. Good effort. Almost scuppered Wenger with that.

[Slacker]

We are allergic to third goals in these situations.

Sadly not to equalisers.

[Thierrymon]

Ramsey looks knackered.

[AFC Leveller]

who the fuck is this nobody GK? he has saved every fucking shot, apart from the two goals that is.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cazorla MotM.

Özil lazy.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Nice rack, Alexis.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Palace 1-2 Arsenal, FT. Pub victory it is!

:bow:

[Marc Overmars]

Vintage!

[A Gunner]

1 - 2 FT

[Thierrymon]

Fulltime, first win of season. Good 3 points.

[Master Splinter]

Should be 1-4 at least.

[Globalgunner]

Phew!

[Master Splinter]

Pubtastic.

[AFC Leveller]

Seriously, jow annoying was that GK? he seemed to stop everything.

[Niall_Quinn]

Alexis pulls Le Bumbling Idiot's arse out of the fire yet again. So much wrong with that performance it's not worth listing, because it's the same as what has been wrong with many, many other performances just like it.

Vital 3 points though. Back in the hunt for a CL spot.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

1 - 2 FT

Bread and Butter scoreline away from home, in many ways frustrating because you just think why do we make it so difficult for ourselves....apparently title winning teams win when they aren't playing well....we are a team that plays well and yet contrives to almost not win.

[Slacker]

The hunt for 4th place trophy is back on!

[Kano]

who the fuck is this nobody GK? he has saved every fucking shot, apart from the two goals that is.

He wasn't exactly clawing them out of the top corner putting on a super-show. Our finishing was very average, he just did his job and stopped most of what was fired directly at him. Our fault we didn't put away more goals. Seven on target is not good enough with that much possession and attempts.

[rodders]

We have the players so it must be the tactics. We could of easily lost this game by typical Arsenal flaw being ineffective in the box.

[Letters]

Yes, we should abandon that tactic of hitting the player standing on the line rather than shooting either side of him.

[Dein-machine]

Yes, we should abandon that tactic of hitting the player standing on the line rather than shooting either side of him.

you don't tend to have to worry about it if you've got a proven finisher upfront.

[Letters]

Well, I agree. But we only scored 2 fewer than Chelsea last year and we should have plenty of goals in this side.
I'd feel happier with a properly good striker in the squad, but we have plenty of players who can score goals.