Aston Villa v Arsenal, 13th December, 1.30pm, SS1

[Kano]

Easy win

[Marc Overmars]

A chance to go top of the league.

Villa are shocking, it would be a massive disappointment if this wasn't a straightforward 3 points.

0-2.

[Letters]

Easy win

:lol: Have you ever watched Arsenal before?

[Japan Shaking All Over]

Remi please don't stand in our way

[fakeyank]

1-1

[GP]

0-4

[IBK]

Please let's approach this game like we approached Wednesday instead of expecting an easier ride and allowing our intensity to drop like we tend to do. I'm beginning to believe that Wenger's own intensity is reflected in his team's. We have seen how flat we can be when the manager's team selection shows that he is taking a result for granted, and how fired up and focussed we can be when his obsession with last 16 CL or top 4 EPL is under threat. Wenger don't just tell your team to go out and express themselves against apparently inferior opposition - play EVERY game like it really matters!

[AFC Leveller]

Some rumors that Ozil has been rested are doing the rounds...

Hope its just twatter being twatter.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Makes sense if his hamstrings were tight against Olympiakos.

[Marc Overmars]

Need a big game from Ramsey today.

[Power n Glory]

We have City next up. Win this and we go top. Leicester have Chelsea so they may drop points. Big opportunity today.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sky's programme on now.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWGxRdrWEAA8lYq.jpg

Hope playing Mesut doesn't blow up. :(

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWGxMfdU8AAlBks.jpg

[GP]

Get a couple quick goals then haul him off at the break.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Henry, Moyes and Souness are in the studio.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

We're starting the programme talking about Man Utd. :lol:

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Last time we lost at Villa Park was Sunday 13th December (albeit 1998)

[Munchies]

Strong team

COYG

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ah the game in 1998. Bit of a shocker losing from 0-2.

[Niall_Quinn]

Moyes :haha:

It's the playa fault :-(

[Power n Glory]

Interesting comments from Henry about players being leaders in the dressing room. He said in his last few years as a player he was one of the few that would approach players in the dressing room to say they weren't playing good and he was looked at as a weirdo for doing it. :lol:

[Power n Glory]

Moyes :haha:

It's the playa fault :-(

Funny enough, he's not the only one to say that. Keane was on BT Sports saying something similar. Managers get too much credit for wins and losses in his opinion. But he's a bit biased considering his relationship with Fergie. Trying to rub a bit of the shine off of Fergie's accomplishments and play up his own role as captain. :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

Moyes :haha:

Q: What do you think about Monreal and Bellerin?
A: At Everton we had Coleman and Baines and they were great!

[AFC Leveller]

Lawro on Ozil:

"Jose Mourinho once said to me, when sometimes he would turn his back in training with Real Madrid he could always tell when Ozil struck the ball. It made a different sound."

[McNamara That Ghost...]

And when Lawro says Mourinho told him that, Mourinho said it in an interview, broadcast worldwide.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Jury's out on Özil says Moyes. :haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

Moyes :haha:

Jury is still out on Ozil :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Never mind the Arsenal, here's the Aston Villa. :lol:

[Power n Glory]

Prepare for a barren run from Giroud. Whenever talk of him being a top striker starts he gets nervy. :doh:

Please not today.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Missed the first 7 seconds, good going Sky.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

NQ on commentary. :lol:

:sick:

[Niall_Quinn]

NQ on commentary. :lol:

:sick:

At least nobody can blame me this time.

[Power n Glory]

Walcott on the left, Campbell on the right. Good stuff Wenger.

[Niall_Quinn]

Walcott on the left, Campbell on the right. Good stuff Wenger.

Thanks

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Campbell boots it out of play.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Opened up for Sinclair but the shot is easy for Cech.

[Power n Glory]

Walcott on the left, Campbell on the right. Good stuff Wenger.

Maybe not if Giroud wants the ball crossed into the box.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Backpass. :lol:

[Master Splinter]

Pelanty!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

PELANTY!!!

What an absolute mess.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

GIROUD!!!!!

:bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

What's going on???????????????

[A Gunner]

Penalty

0 - 1 Giroud

[Master Splinter]

BIF!!!!!

[Power n Glory]

Goal!

[Master Splinter]

Friend's day ruined.

[Niall_Quinn]

Bif!!!!!!!!!!!!

My stream is so far behind I still don't know if we've qualified for the last 16 of the CL.

[Master Splinter]

Prepare for a barren run from Giroud. Whenever talk of him being a top striker starts he gets nervy. :doh:



:gp:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bad tackle from Ramsey.

[Globalgunner]

Villa desperate to make every contact a penalty shout now, even when the ball is in the center circle.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

NQ is the worst.

[Master Splinter]

Martin Keown

"This is just an early Christmas gift for Arsenal. It was never a penalty, it's very harsh on Alan Hutton.


Keown :doh:.

[adzzzbatch]

What is NQs problem with us?

[adzzzbatch]

Keown :doh:.

Dick.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Monreal stops Sinclair's run.

Ramsey gives it away. Daft.

[A Gunner]

Despite all the bad words Giroud gets, he's the third fastest Arsenal player to reach 50 league goals...

[Globalgunner]

Keown :doh:.

Either Keown is playing to the gallery or he is still paying his dues as a keelhaul in the box is ok defender.
Ill give him the bye on this one. Love the guy

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bif header towards glances towards goal, cleared away.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kos. :haha:

Terrible shot.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cech knew what he was doing. :unsure:

[adzzzbatch]

Not sure what Cech was doing there

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Okore. :haha:

This is pitiful.

[adzzzbatch]

villa are a little bit shit.

[adzzzbatch]

hutton :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hutton still can't outmuscle Theo. :lol:

[Power n Glory]

We're being lazy. So static.

[Niall_Quinn]

Villa should have had 15 yellows by now for non-stop fouling. They're only in this because they are pulling and shoving and hacking away.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Blatant foul by Sanchez.

[adzzzbatch]

Villa should have had 15 yellows by now for non-stop fouling. They're only in this because they are pulling and shoving and hacking away.

we're 1-0 up so that's never gonna happen It would be to unfair

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kos should have done better.

[Niall_Quinn]

Good FK by Oatsil - Kos should have done better there.

[adzzzbatch]

foul after foul

[adzzzbatch]

villa fans :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

"You're going down with Chelsea". :haha:

[adzzzbatch]

we should've buried this lot by now.

[adzzzbatch]

Away fans :bow:

[adzzzbatch]

FANTASTIC!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

RAMSEY!!!!!

Özil assist. :cloud9:

[Master Splinter]

RAMSEY!!!!

[A Gunner]

0 - 2
Ozil assist, Ramsey goal

[Kano]

Lovely play, so so easy.

[GP]

Great goal.

Top of the league.

[Niall_Quinn]

Beautiful stuff. Controlled. Ruthless and no fucking way was it a foul if all the shit Villa have been doing is not fouling.

[Master Splinter]

Ramsey :bow:.

Theo :bow:.

Ooatsil :bow:.

[Power n Glory]

Great passing. Goal!

[adzzzbatch]

Ozil :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

Jury is out on Ozil but if he keeps playing like this then maybe we can start to say he's a decent player.

[adzzzbatch]

sounds like NQ is crying.

[Kano]

Great chance to stretch open our goal difference in this game. Another couple should be chased at least in the second half.

[adzzzbatch]

Kos :doh:

[GP]

http://i.imgur.com/fvWRuC1.png

Umm...

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hutton defended that nearpost area well.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

http://i.imgur.com/fvWRuC1.png

Umm...

Özil hattrick.

Assists.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Disallowed goal for Rusty Theo.

Villa 0-2 The Arsenal, HT.

Villa are appalling - Derby level bad.

[A Gunner]

0 - 2 HT
Haven't seen such an easy half like this ever.

[LDG]

What a finish that was from walcott. Shame.

[Niall_Quinn]

HT 0-2

We weren't actually that great, but more than good enough for Villa.

Press on and rack up the GD now. Tie Arsene up so he can't bring Gibbs and Chambers on for Ozil and Bif.

[Master Splinter]

We've barely played decently, but Villa are so poor that it's still so comfortable. If Villa were even 5% better, our lack of urgency and halfheartedness could have been exposed. Get a few goals in the second half and then rest some players. Don't let Villa reignite their season by allowing them the greatest comeback of all time through sheer disinterest.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Still not convinced with Özil personally. If he gets 30 assists this season I might be swayed.

[GP]

"Jack who?"

Priceless.

[AFC Leveller]

Ozil is shit compared to the players Moyes managed/bought like Fellaini, Naismith, Mirallas...

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

Still not convinced with Özil personally. If he gets 30 assists this season I might be swayed.

He's living on current glories, coasting by on the fact he's the top playmaker in Europe.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Veretout. :lol:

NQ says it's a start. Blazing it in to the stands.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Gestede helps us out.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sanchez goes for glory, Cech saves.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hutton. :lol:

Wanker.

[Niall_Quinn]

When are we starting the second half?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Giroud whipped out the Bergkamp control.

[Niall_Quinn]

Theo, WTF????

[McNamara That Ghost...]

BFG and Cech clowning around.

[adzzzbatch]

FFS Arsenal

[Niall_Quinn]

Villa can't play so we are playing for them.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sinclair heads it over. :haha:

We've taken the second half off.

[adzzzbatch]

We had to go and dick around didn't we.

[Niall_Quinn]

Our laid back 50% approach is all well and good, until we give away a stupid goal. Why don't we have a foot on this game now and why aren't we pressing for more goals?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Gestede hauled off, Gil on.

[Power n Glory]

What a loser! How did he miss? :lol:

[AFC Leveller]

Come on Arsenal stop being gay.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Campbell ruins Özil's pass.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Veretout belts it out of the ground again.

[Niall_Quinn]

What an infuriating team this is.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bacuna combs it, just over.

[Niall_Quinn]

Matter of time before we concede if we keep playing at half pace.

[Power n Glory]

Decent shot from Bacuna.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Campbell and Theo off, Gibbs and Ox on.

[A Gunner]

Gibbs & Ox on
Campbell & Walcott off

[Niall_Quinn]

Wenger has reacted at least. Ox and Gibbs on, Campbell and Theo off.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

How come in a game we're 0-2 up Wenger brings out the subs on 63 minutes?

I can't work him out.

[AFC Leveller]

Villa to score at 75 minutes and equalise just before the 80th.

[Niall_Quinn]

How come in a game we're 0-2 up Wenger brings out the subs on 63 minutes?

I can't work him out.

Computer glitch probably.

[Niall_Quinn]

Hutton with his 963rd foul.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Gibbs with a couple of tame efforts.

[Niall_Quinn]

Lame by Gibbs

[Niall_Quinn]

Crazy how the opposition get a FK for fuck all and we can't buy a FK even if we present the death certificate.

[Niall_Quinn]

Backwards and square and sloooooooooooooooooooow. Great stuff.

[adzzzbatch]

The commentators seem to think villa have gone up a level, I think it's more of a case that we've gone down about 10.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Four corners in a row. :haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

This is crap. Lazy, complacent shit.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Er did Gibbs go for goal then?

[Niall_Quinn]

Sanchez got brushed on the cheek - he's dead at the moment. Resuscitation and life support teams on the pitch.

[Niall_Quinn]

He's alive and so courageous he's even going to come on again.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good turn from Gil but the shot goes wide.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Gueye off, Grealish on.

[Niall_Quinn]

Glue kid coming on.

[LDG]

Shit up Quinn.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Flamini clears up Kos' mess.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Shit up Quinn.

There is indeed.

[adzzzbatch]

Constantly giving the ball away doesn't seem to be a tactic that's working for us.

[Niall_Quinn]

Tippy tappy :bow:

[LDG]

Glue kid coming on.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWHNahcXIAA6C1f.jpg

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ox deflected shot, Guzan saves.

[AFC Leveller]

"Little bit jaded after we gave everything on Wednesday"

[Niall_Quinn]

Yay - shot on target. Finally.

[adzzzbatch]

greedy ox

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Özil off, Chambers on.

Like-for-like. :cloud9:

[A Gunner]

Ozil off
Chambers on

[Niall_Quinn]

Chambers on for Ozil. We'd had a shot and won a corner so Wenger wants to shut that shit down fast.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sinclair off, Traore on.

Traore is a bit musclebound.

[Power n Glory]

A very poor poor quality game. Should have just watched the highlights. No idea why we can't keep our performance levels to a high standard.

[Niall_Quinn]

Fans have been robbed blind in this second half and whatever Wenger has calculated with his energy and efficiency spreadsheet package, when you let the performance level drop to nothing it's hard to pick it up again. The gypos next week.

[LDG]

Sinclair off, Traore on.

Traore is a bit musclebound.

Armand :bow:

[adzzzbatch]

So much enthusiasm when talking about us.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Four added minutes.

[LDG]

Oatzil

[McNamara That Ghost...]

When did Messi come on?

[adzzzbatch]

We just let him run through there didn't even try.

[Niall_Quinn]

Traore runs straight through our lazy lot. Shocking stuff.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsey. :doh:

[adzzzbatch]

Ramsey :doh:

[Niall_Quinn]

Ramsey :doh:

[adzzzbatch]

:haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Villa 0-2 The Arsenal, FT!

Easy.

Shit.

Top of the league. :scarf:

[adzzzbatch]

Top of the league! :patrice:

[A Gunner]

0 - 2 FT

[Niall_Quinn]

FT 0-2

What a disgraceful second half performance. Ripping the piss out of the fans.

[LDG]

Top! :dance:

[Master Splinter]

Ramsey :doh:.

[AFC Leveller]

Come on draw tomorrow.