Boro V Arsenal 17 April live and exclusive on MNF

[AFC Leveller]

Who cares.

Will probably win considering Boro are dire but a draw or a loss is also just as likely considering we are also shit.

2-2.

[GP]

0-4

[Niall_Quinn]

0-3 Ozil short half sprint around the 34th minute.

[dostoy]

Come on Boro, I hope they win 4-0.

I am totally serious, the Arsenal team is full of fairies, except for Alexis.

The only way to get Wenger out is for Arsenal to keep losing heavily, then a new manager can be appointed and the rebuilding can begin.

[GP]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9ohMDXXoAAv14e.jpg

Back 3!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Arsenal: Cech, Gabriel, Koscielny, Holding, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Xhaka, Monreal, Ozil, Alexis, Giroud.

Wow. :wacko:

[GP]

The silly old goat has been playing too much FIFA.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Draw the keeper out and tap it across goal. :cloud9:

[Niall_Quinn]

Is Wenger just taking his contrariness to a whole new level? So what's the message? Is he pretending he's actually prepared for this game in advance? Too little, too late by a decade if so. Giroud up front, Alexis, the guy who was on course to win the golden boot until he was shoved out wide - shoved out wide. There are enough fingerprints here to tell us it's still the old Wenger under the fancy dress.

[Globalgunner]

Wenger using tactics. Egad!!

[Niall_Quinn]

Elneny has been one of the better performers of late, relatively speaking of course. So the bench is inevitable. Ramsey, meanwhile, has been off form all season. Hence the start. Ox has been better in the centre, so he's wide. We won't really play 3 at the back, not with Monreal in the line up. Dropping Bellerin is the ideal response to his recent problems. Should smash the kid psychologically, a Wenger speciality.

[Niall_Quinn]

Wenger using tactics. Egad!!

Or a rebellion by the web site team?

[AFC Leveller]

It's a normal back 4. Gabby will play at RB.

Wenger doesn't do tactics or prepare for the opposition.

[KSE Comedy Club]

This line up just confirms that the senile old goat has gone senile.

[Niall_Quinn]

Who's playing again? Utd? The chavs? Maybe they'll update us on the Boro/ Arsenal game at half time?

[Globalgunner]

Nice to see Holding again. hope no permanent harm has been done to the lad yet.

[Niall_Quinn]

Does Carragher even have a clue? Doesn't he know Wenger is responsible for ditching him as striker? Does he think Alexis demanded to be shoved out wide so he could avoid being the best performing striker in the league?

[Gooner23]

Even by Wenger's standards chucking Sanchez back out wide after he was bossing it up front has been totally bizarre.

[Niall_Quinn]

There aren't enough ads on Sky. They need a lot more.

[Niall_Quinn]

They really are going as a back 3 :haha:

Monreal the wing back :haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

Deliberate foul by Clayton. Should be a yellow - according to the rules. Why is it not given?

[Globalgunner]

How was that a foul by Giroud?

[Niall_Quinn]

Bif gets a talking to for being fouled in the box. Next time that happens, Xhaka gets booked!

[Niall_Quinn]

Ox booked :haha:

Ref sets his rotten fruit stall out early.

[Niall_Quinn]

Farmer Leadbitter injures himself scroting.

[AFC Leveller]

How come leadbitter wasn't booked for that two footed challenge on Ozil but ox was for a late foul?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cech boots it out of play.

[Niall_Quinn]

How come leadbitter wasn't booked for that two footed challenge on Ozil but ox was for a late foul?

He was booked. Not even Taylor could ignore that one.

[Niall_Quinn]

10 minutes of pure pub play.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Negredo goes for goal of the decade, doesn't work.

[Niall_Quinn]

Always playing with our backs to goal.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Head injury for Fabio without injuring his head.

[Niall_Quinn]

Boro kick off the time wasting with a fake head injury for Fabio.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fabio off injured, FRIEND! on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Gabriel runs it out of play, good corner routine.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ayala wrestles Bif to the ground. :wacko:

[Niall_Quinn]

:haha:

Certain penalty for the blatant foul on Bif. Even Sky noticed it. Not the officials though.

Let's see what happens if Kos does that.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ozil winning a tackle. :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

So if that's not a penalty then what are the new rules? Anyone know?

[Niall_Quinn]

We nick the ball aaaaaannnnddddd...

play it backwards :clap:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Disallowed goal for De Roon.

[AFC Leveller]

Even though we haven't really got going yet it is refreshing to see a different formation out there and no sideways passing.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Leadbitter pubs it over.

[RomfordPele]

Have we had a shot yet?

[Niall_Quinn]

70% possession :bow:

Soon we may get an attempt on goal.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsey with a relatively sensible effort, scuffed of course.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Alexis on the volley, scuffed in to the ground.

[RomfordPele]

Stupid foul by xhaka

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ridiculous last ditch defending from Boro.

[Niall_Quinn]

First time we have strung a few useful passes together.

[Gooner23]

Ox is looking sharp

[Niall_Quinn]

Must admit, I'm glad Bif didn't do a Townsend there, even though cheats prosper in this league.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsey should be off.

[AFC Leveller]

Xhaka is very one dimensional, slow on the turn and uncomfortable in possession.

[Niall_Quinn]

Stupid challenge by Ramsey. Surely he knows what refs are like by now? Very lucky not to be booked there.

[Niall_Quinn]

Xhaka is very one dimensional, slow on the turn and uncomfortable in possession.

Loves to slow it all down and then play it backwards.

[AFC Leveller]

De roon clatters into Ox, no yellow.

[Niall_Quinn]

No yellow for De Roon? Really?

[AFC Leveller]

Clayton with a definite yellow there, ref ignores.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

ALEXIS!!!!!

[AFC Leveller]

Wow what a goal Alexis

[Niall_Quinn]

Erm... No yellow for Clayton? That's two yellows he should have now. He must be the designated hitter for the night I guess.

[GP]

Cracking goal

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Gabriel booked.

Clayton wasn't booked I believe. :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

Alexis!

Sell him, he must be worth plenty!

[AFC Leveller]

Taylor is a fucking cheat. Two fouls by arsenal players two yellows already.

Boro have been fouling all game, one yellow.

[GP]

This referee is a lunatic.

[Niall_Quinn]

Gabriel booked for going for the ball.

Taylor is so fucking corruptclueless

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsey. :haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

That's sooooooo poor from Bif. Simple pass and he can't do it.

[AFC Leveller]

Ox is doing a great job as a wing back, really impressed with his crossing today.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-1 HT.

[Niall_Quinn]

Holding is marking and tackling. Doesn't he know anything about defending?

[Niall_Quinn]

HT 0-1

Absolute dog shit partially rescued by a strong performance by Ox and one moment of brilliance from Alexis.

Have we paid him yet? Or don't we have any money?

[AFC Leveller]

HT 0-1

Absolute dog shit partially rescued by a strong performance by Ox and one moment of brilliance from Alexis.

Have we paid him yet? Or don't we have any money?

Wenger said we have to respect the wage structure.

Wenger is on 8.3 million a year, the third best paid manager on Europe.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Lincoln carried more attacking threat in the final third than Middlesborough

It's kind of ok for us to misplace passes even in our half because Boro don't seem to know how to score

Lovely goal by Sanchez to belie what's been an absolute snore fest of a game

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Ox is doing a great job as a wing back, really impressed with his crossing today.

Yeah pity he will be off the summer

[Niall_Quinn]

I think what Sky means to say is GREAT FREE KICK!

On the other hand, poor keeper, poor wall, lucky bobble, mishit, didn't mean it,..

[Globalgunner]

Yeah pity he will be off the summer

We dont need his sort around here. Alexis can piss off too. earn more than the manager. No way.

[dostoy]

Come on Boro.

Two goals and these Arsenal softies will give up.

Wenger out............please.

[Niall_Quinn]

Wenger's genius formation has totally nullified Boro's prodigious strike force. For me, this is enough to warrant a new contract.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

20:56 Middlesbrough 0-1 Arsenal

The pundits on TV are scathing about the wall that Middlesbrough set up for the goal. They had seven men in it and one just off to the side.

Surely four or five is all you need? Brad Guzan could not see the ball at all and 'all' Alexis Sanvhez had to do was get the ball up and down.

Sanvhez. :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

Come on Boro.

Two goals and these Arsenal softies will give up.

Wenger out............please.

Here you go:
https://www.oneboro.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=8554

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Boro.

Two goals and these Arsenal softies will give up.

Wenger out............please.

The decision has already been made I reckon.

[RomfordPele]

Feels like this game has a red card in it...

[AFC Leveller]

Boro are dire

[McNamara That Ghost...]

No booking for De Roon? He has only taken out Ox and Alexis now.

[AFC Leveller]

De roon with another blatant foul right on front of the ref, no yellow.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

That was poor from Alexis.

1-1 Negredo.

[AFC Leveller]

1-1

[Niall_Quinn]

Great defending again lads.

[RomfordPele]

Fuck me, we are going to get properly bayerned by city and Spurs the way we are defending.

[Niall_Quinn]

Kos and Gabriel absolutely hopeless.

[dostoy]

One more for Boro and its all over.

Do we want Wenger out or not ?

I am not a Boro fan usually, only tonight.

[Niall_Quinn]

Let's drop our heads now and give up. Then we can focus on the next game.

[Globalgunner]

TBF. The Boro kit has shades of Bayern about it. Our boys could be suffering from PTSD.

[Munchies]

I celebrated that Negredo goal

:getcoat:

[Munchies]

One more for Boro and its all over.

Do we want Wenger out or not ?

I am not a Boro fan usually, only tonight.

Yeah I want Boro to win lol

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Downing clear it for us.

[Niall_Quinn]

Somebody needs to engrave some invitations. Dear Olivier and Mesut. You are cordially invited to a football bash in Middlesborough this Monday. RSVP.

[AFC Leveller]

Ramsay tries not one but two flicks when a simple pass would do. He lost the ball and boro almost scored as a result.

[RomfordPele]

Why is Gabriel in an arsenal shirt? Seriously. He seems a nice bloke but he shouldn't be anywhere near the first team.

[Globalgunner]

We are hopeless.

[RomfordPele]

Why is Gabriel in an arsenal shirt? Seriously. He seems a nice bloke but he shouldn't be anywhere near the first team.

And where the fuck is captain mertesacker?

[Niall_Quinn]

And where the fuck is captain mertesacker?

Collecting cash for Wenger.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Clayton not booked? :lol:

[AFC Leveller]

Somebody needs to engrave some invitations. Dear Olivier and Mesut. You are cordially invited to a football bash in Middlesborough this Monday. RSVP.

We carry passengers every fucking game, it's an embarrassment.

[Niall_Quinn]

Clayton not booked? :lol:

No, he's got the immunity card tonight. He's due to be booked in the 92nd minute so Taylor can cover his arse.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cech saves it on the line.

[RomfordPele]

We are so, so poor. Relegation fodder at the moment. Appalling.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ozil helping out the defenders there at least. Off the line.

Seriously though, Alexis can't hang around here. It's ridiculous. He's a stadium player doing pub gigs. No amount of cash could compensate him for being involved in this shit show.

[Niall_Quinn]

Three offside there tbf. Linesman too busy looking in his envelope to spot it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Guzan denies Mesut.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ox defending now too :bow:

Not sure where the actual defenders were.

Meanwhile Bif doing a great job at the back for Boro.

[Niall_Quinn]

Gabriel backheels that clearance :haha:

WTF? That could so easily have been picked off.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Let's drop our heads now and give up. Then we can focus on the next game.

The next game is the most important.

[Niall_Quinn]

We need to squeeze more players into the centre. If we can just get everyone into the same square inch in front of the Boro back 10.

[dostoy]

Who on here wants Arsenal to win and who wants them to lose ?

I want a heavy defeat tonight and in every game this season then Wenger cannot, he just cannot, stay.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ozil blasts it, out the ground.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Who on here wants Arsenal to win and who wants them to lose ?

I want a heavy defeat tonight and in every game this season then Wenger cannot, he just cannot, stay.

Yeah we know how you feel, you really don't need to keep going on about it.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ozil blasts it, out the ground.

At least we can't concede from that.

[Niall_Quinn]

Surely Wenger needs to react to that sub? Is he really going to leave a stretched three and a slow coach to defend against Traore's pace?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

OZIL!!!!

[Xhaka Can’t]

Who on here wants Arsenal to win and who wants them to lose ?

I want a heavy defeat tonight and in every game this season then Wenger cannot, he just cannot, stay.

I'm past caring.

Whatever happens Wenger will spin it with his putrid bullshit.

I can see him looking at what he sees as an opportunity to concentrate on the league next season with no European distractions.

It will happen.

He will fail miserably.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ozil!

Sell him!

[Xhaka Can’t]

OZIL!!!!

Hoo-fuckin-ray. :coffee:

[Niall_Quinn]

For once Ramsey takes the easy and sane option.

[Niall_Quinn]

Honestly, our forwards are better defenders than our defenders.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good pass Bif. :wacko:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hoo-fuckin-ray. :coffee:

I agree.

[Niall_Quinn]

Xhaka's a fucking pain in the hole.

Time to pick a pass there and all he wants to do is play it sideways.

[Niall_Quinn]

Bif waaaaaayyyy too slow.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

De Roon off, Gestede on.

[Globalgunner]

we are a way better team than Boro. The reason that we are huffing and puffing against them is our resident equalizer

[AFC Leveller]

De roon off but not sent of as he should have been.

[Niall_Quinn]

Friend :haha:

Professional footballer :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bif clears it.

[Niall_Quinn]

Pathetic by Bif. He's a joke.

[Globalgunner]

Giroud showing why he should never start a game for us. Been a shambles all game

[AFC Leveller]

Xhaka has been terrible today, so slow on the ball off the ball, he needs a slap.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wenger isn't doing subs today. :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

Xhaka has been terrible today, so slow on the ball off the ball, he needs a slap.

He does what Wenger wants. Boring, conservative, comatose, tippety tap.

[Niall_Quinn]

Wenger isn't doing subs today. :lol:

He's proving that things have changed. It's a whole new Arsenal.

[RomfordPele]

Sanchez has been fucking awful too, free kick aside.

[Niall_Quinn]

Get Gibbs on!

[Niall_Quinn]

Sanchez has been fucking awful too, free kick aside.

Plenty of energy, but he's been trying to pass through solid matter today and it hasn't come off for him.

[AFC Leveller]

Wenger isn't doing subs today. :lol:

He only "experimented" with this system with ten outfield players

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Alexis clearly fouled, it goes against us for handball. :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cech smothers the ball.

[Niall_Quinn]

FK to Boro for the foul on Alexis.

[RomfordPele]

We are doing our best to give them an equaliser.

[Niall_Quinn]

Our defence could still rescue this for Boro.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bellerin and Coquelin coming on. :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

LOL, blatant foul on Alexis. Play on!

[Niall_Quinn]

Bellerin and Coquelin coming on. :lol:

:haha:

Wenger has to be the biggest tool in world football.

[Globalgunner]

Bellerin and Coquelin coming on. :lol:

Back 6?

[Niall_Quinn]

Alexis and Ozil off for the last 3 mins :haha:

How utterly fucking pointless.

[AFC Leveller]

Coq showing he can replace Alexis as our wide forward

[Niall_Quinn]

Xhaka and Coquelin chasing up the pitch :haha:

Bif nowhere to be seen.

4 extra minutes.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ox really does my head in at times.

[Globalgunner]

Alexis and Ozil off for the last 3 mins :haha:

How utterly fucking pointless.

Wenger cant believe he is winning. Must not lose

[AFC Leveller]

Giroud has been boros best defender

[McNamara That Ghost...]

QED.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ox goes on his own because Bif wouldn't know a good position if he had the Kamasutra stapled to his forehead.

[AFC Leveller]

Ox is quality, just needs the right manager to play him regularly.

[Niall_Quinn]

Unlucky Ox. MOTM though.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-2 FT. We're back!

[Globalgunner]

Steve Bould looks even older than wenger. Must be the stress.

[Niall_Quinn]

FT 1-2

Scrappy win but that's what champions do. And we do it too.

Sometimes.

When we aren't losing.

[Niall_Quinn]

Over the last few weeks Ox has shown he has bottle. But that's not always a bad thing.

[Niall_Quinn]

Wonder who gets in first with the match reaction thread? And will it be merged if 3 people start one simultaneously?

[Xhaka Can’t]

And it's Arsenal!

Arsenal FC!

We're by far the greatest team the world has ever seen!

[Niall_Quinn]

Arsene Wenger’s Magic!
He wears a magic hat.
And when he saw the Champions League,
He said, we lacked little bit sharpness!

[RomfordPele]

Arsene Wenger’s Magic!
He wears a magic hat.
And when he saw the Champions League,
He said, we lacked little bit sharpness!

:d

[Niall_Quinn]

Arsene, any news about your personal situation for the fans and the players and to dispel this uncertainty that has killed the season and reduced the whole club to a shambles?

No (grin)

Yeah, it's hilarious.

[Globalgunner]

Lovely picture on the BBC site of Sanchez making a kids day by giving him his shirt. Makes my heart sore.

[Niall_Quinn]

Sky confirm that Alexis' FK was shit. Not as good as those Ronaldo FKs that never go in.

[Niall_Quinn]

How long are they going to spend trying to call the FK a Boro error?

Neville says they can't just call it a good goal because they need to analyse what went wrong defensively.

So I can't wait for Shrek's next goal, if that ever happens. I'm sure they'll apply the same standard.

They're on to Boro's goal. Real quality, apparently.

[Letters]

Lovely picture on the BBC site of Sanchez making a kids day by giving him his shirt. Makes my heart sore.

Mine too.


Well, it could be the cakes and sausages doing that.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Sky confirm that Alexis' FK was shit. Not as good as those Ronaldo FKs that never go in.

It's all in the posturing.

[Marc Overmars]

6th place cup is on!

[Niall_Quinn]

Turns out Boro won. Carra and Gazza analysing their superb victory now.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Turns out Boro won. Carra and Gazza analysing their superb victory now.

Wenger out!

[Niall_Quinn]

Everyone is talking about 3 at the back. Wenger is a clever bastard, in all the wrong ways.

[Marc Overmars]

Everyone is talking about 3 at the back. Wenger is a clever bastard, in all the wrong ways.

He's changed! Give him 2 more years!

[Letters]

6th place cup is on!
Don't knock it, Wenger's never won that one.