Match Reaction vs Chelsea (League Cup, home)

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wembley we meet again! :bow:

Bizarre performance but that's all we need against Conte who seems to have a real problem playing Wenger.

Mind games. :bow:

Wenget. :bow:

Conte. :lol:

Sanchez. :haha:

Already challenging for trophies in his absence.

Xhaka deserves a :bow: but still somehow a :doh: for some of the things he does.

[Cripps]

He's gonna pull it out the bag isn't he :lol:

2 more years:lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

Wenger OUT!

[LDG]

:scarf:

[Master Splinter]

Wenger :bow:.

Greatest shit manager of all time?

Conte :haha:.

Hazard :haha:

Cisc :haha:.

Big Man :haha:.

Dids :haha:.

Pat Nevin :haha:.

Merse :haha:.

Alan Smith :haha:.

[Cripps]

Agent Rudiger :bow:

Stan to fly over for another final :bow: He's going nowhere:bow:

[Master Splinter]

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--TfKljaQ0--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/a3yuc3nyeno6hxb5uf7q.gif

:haha:

Beautiful.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Dennis Wise. :haha:

Salty and bitter.

[Niall_Quinn]

Sounds like we were really lucky. I can tell because the word LUCK has now been mentioned 50 times in the Sky studio.

There was I, having watched the same game, thinking we'd been shit in the first half but the chavs weren't good enough to take advantage, and then we were much better in the second half and put plenty of pressure on them and scored one and could have scored three - what the fuck was I watching?

Damn, we are soooooooo lucky.

Lucky fucks.

Let's show replays of how lucky we are - over and over.

Ooooooohh, we are lucky. So lucky.

Luck.

Luck.

Lucky.

Luck.

Lucky.

Luck.

These pundits really know their stuff.

[Niall_Quinn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyt4KFyVQQ8

[Letters]

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--TfKljaQ0--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/a3yuc3nyeno6hxb5uf7q.gif

:haha:

Beautiful.
Right off the training ground :cool:

[Cripps]

Right off the training ground :cool:

:faint:

[Niall_Quinn]

Hell of a header to carry through 2 deflections. Was going in anyway.

[Penguin]

I see that diving has become such a habit for Hazard that he trips himself up when through on goal. :haha:

[Penguin]

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--TfKljaQ0--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/a3yuc3nyeno6hxb5uf7q.gif

:haha:

Beautiful.

Where was Caballero going?

[Niall_Quinn]

I see that diving has become such a habit for Hazard that he trips himself up when through on goal. :haha:

Fucking horrible bloke. Brings the game into disrepute the moment he steps on a pitch.

Commentators and pundits can't quite seem to see his never ending stream of playacting though.

[Master Splinter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMCXx5k01Tg

[Master Splinter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SGmxbVkUcU

[Master Splinter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH6TJU0qWoY

[Cripps]

1 loss in 8 against Chelsea.

Drogba era well and truly dead.

Wenger:bow:

[KSE Comedy Club]

Hazard is the diviest, diving cunt since Erik Von Diver put a bowl over his face and went head first in the bath.

Fucking sickening watching him and the refs falling for it :sulk:

[The Emirates Gallactico]

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--TfKljaQ0--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/a3yuc3nyeno6hxb5uf7q.gif

:haha:

Beautiful.


Chelsea target Antonio Rudiger admits "my heart beats for Arsenal" ahead of £36million transfer to Stamford Bridge

“I have been following Arsenal since the days of Henry and Bergkamp,” he said.

“I have always dreamed of the Premier League. I watch videos of Arsenal all the time on YouTube and I often wear the current Alexis Sanchez shirt.

“My heart beats for Arsenal.”


https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/antonio-rudiger-signs-chelsea-arsenal-10741310?service=responsive


Agent Rudiger :bow::bow:


:haha::haha:


Always enjoy beating the Chavs.

Hopefully we can pull this cup out of the bag against City. We've got a good record at Wembley so it's possible.

[LDG]

Where was Caballero going?

He was going after the first deflection.

He didn’t count on there being 8 more on its path to goal.

We meant it though. All planned.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Who is Batshaarawy?

Whoever he is, Wise isn't impressed with him.

Also, I don't like his bollocks from this Kelly Cates person.

[Niall_Quinn]

Who is Batshaarawy?

Whoever he is, Wise isn't impressed with him.

Also, I don't like his bollocks from this Kelly Cates person.

Trannies are everywhere now. Fuck knows where they were all hiding out before.

[Xhaka Can’t]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ThHz9wlBeLU

[Cripps]

Wenger: "Somebody just told me at Arsenal you are never more than five minutes away from a crisis. I said: 'No. Three'."

:lol: Wenger:bow:

[Xhaka Can’t]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W4fKZ2ukdgs

[Niall_Quinn]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ThHz9wlBeLU

Yep. Everywhere.

[Xhaka Can’t]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5NV6Rdv1a3I

[Özim]

Great result tonight, but two lucky goals it has to be said, stars are shining down on Wenger again to keep him in a job.

Chelsea have been awful this season, one man team really, just don't rate Conte, they won the title last season but this season he's been shocking, signing Morata for a start :doh:

Second half much better for sure, probably deserved to win on balance, but definitely tinged with a bit of fortune.

[Niall_Quinn]

http://i.imgur.com/xxZ8NeE.jpg

[Marc Overmars]

Get in!!

Weird game, very cagey from both teams. In fact both legs were quite poor but we got the result so fuck it. Huge slices of luck for our goals tonight but another cup final in the bag. :scarf:

[Letters]

:pal:

[Niall_Quinn]

https://media.makeameme.org/created/well-done-well-444cjn.jpg

[Niall_Quinn]

https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/500x/61866984/looks-like-someone-got-lucky.jpg

[Xhaka Can’t]

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180124/af6bdd307dfaa277a1e2f8842aa69ce8.jpg

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

The first half was truly horrible and we could have easily been handed our arses back to us.......somehow managed to turn it around though. We're somewhat lucky Hazard's own fat arse sent him tumbling when he was beyond our backline yet again.

I'm glad Iwobi is knuckling down but his finishing really is horrible....dear me. Got some work to do to beat City....but it's a one off game and here's to hoping.

[Cripps]

Beating Chelsea without Aubameyang :bow:

When he comes we'll be unstoppable :bow:

[Cripps]

#AFC players weren't in the mood to talk post match. Strange given what a great night it was for them and the club. Gunnersaurus was the only one to show any excitement in the mixed zone.

Gunnersaurus:bow:

[Marc Overmars]

Felt a bit for Lacashite tonight. He’s being forced to do a lot of donkey work particularly in wide areas, his body language is that of a very frustrated bloke. Completely starved of service and feeding off scraps.

It’s essential we get Aubameyang to help stretch play and leave Laca to play through the middle and get a sight of goal.

[Cripps]

They're in meltdown:haha:

https://youtu.be/_gPadWq7TaI

[Niall_Quinn]

I wish we'd stop with the "Glad Alexis has gone", "We're better without Alexis", bullshit. It makes us sound super bitter about the whole thing and it hardly covers up for the fact we have consistently failed to keep our best players. What are we going to say in the summer whenif Ozil goes too? Same shit? Glad he's gone? Better without him?

We're signing replacements right now. At least I hope we are. We're a club that should be signing additions to talent we should have retained. And even if we sign Aubameyang, we'll still have made a profit over the two windows. That's not good enough. It should have been pay Alexis (way back when he asked) AND sign Aubameyang. And we should have already signed Lemar, we should have offered the asking price when he was available and not left it to some crazy bid at the death.

It is NOT a good window if we swap Alexis for Mkhitaryan and sign Aubameyang. It's an acceptable window, at best. Like a resumption of the policy we seemed to have when we signed Ozil and Alexis - with a huge damaging gap in between then and now. Past mistakes that have deprived the club of any sort of momentum for over a decade don't get washed by one transfer window where we are STILL pocketing cash.

What about a defender and a DM? Jonny Evans for 20 odd million? No thanks. Didn't we have Reus "lined up" if Alexis left? What happened to that?

Quarter of a billion in the bank. What's it doing there?

So now they have given Wenger the money and taken that huge risk, go all in. 6 days to go to get the squad sorted, or else we are going into the latter stages of Europe with a seriously dodgy defence and no steel in the middle. Needs to be sorted and we have the funds to do it. So sort it FFS.

And why has it taken so long to sign Auba? What's going on over there? Why are the days drifting and what is it with the stupid underbids? There's still a chance we'll come out of this window with only a swap deal of Mkhitaryan for Alexis and a fat fuck off transfer profit. 50/50 I'd say. I'm still waiting for the Aubameyang Deal Dead headlines, like the ones we usually see when we get in sniffing distance of a proper signing. Would they dare?

[Niall_Quinn]

They're in meltdown:haha:

https://youtu.be/_gPadWq7TaI

Wow :haha:

It's been a whole 8 months since they last won the PL.

Come and check out the grass over here mate - see how green it isn't.

[Marc Overmars]

I wish we'd stop with the "Glad Alexis has gone", "We're better without Alexis", bullshit. It makes us sound super bitter about the whole thing and it hardly covers up for the fact we have consistently failed to keep our best players. What are we going to say in the summer whenif Ozil goes too? Same shit? Glad he's gone? Better without him?

We pulled ourselves together last season to win the cup and that was with Alexis. This is just what we do when on the brink of disaster, we suddenly find some backbone and manage to steer ourselves in the right direction. Nothing to do with Alexis or any one player and everything to do with a lackadaisical mentality that runs through a team that picks and chooses when they want to turn up.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

I'm a little concerned about Lacazette, though fair play to him, he kept going and played his part.

I'm excited about the possibility of signing Aubameyang but I tend to agree that even if we do sign him.....the window has been acceptable. There's just no getting away from the fact we have allowed our best player to go to a major rival in spite of making the best of a grotesque self created situation.

[Master Splinter]

We're much better without Cashlexis Cuntchez.

The manager and board were correct to offload this waning waster.

We've already gone further in this Cup than we ever did with that sub-Arshavin lazy greedy fuck. Prospering without him instantly.

[Cripps]

I'm a little concerned about Lacazette, though fair play to him, he kept going and played his part.

I'm excited about the possibility of signing Aubameyang but I tend to agree that even if we do sign him.....the window has been acceptable. There's just no getting away from the fact we have allowed our best player to go to a major rival in spite of making the best of a grotesque self created situation.

Why did we buy Lacuntzette? He doesn't suit our game at all.

He suited our game during the banter years when we were creating 50 chances a game and playing free flowing, attacking football. But he doesn't suit the modern Arsenal which is more pragmatic, rigid and creates 0.5 chances a game.

[Letters]

I wonder if Ty is still alive or whether he's wanked himself into a Wenger-induced orgasm.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

It looks really disjointed at times and I don't think Xhaka suits our game at all as well as one or two others......but I'm willing to give it time with Lacazette.

Aubameyang is the guy I wanted us to go for in the summer but I was grateful we signed a competent goal savvy player in Lacazette so it's ironic we could end up with the pair of them!

I tend to think whether we like it or not, the best forwards we've had of the Wenger era tend to be able to drop into midfield periodically to make things happen or get the ball as well as the standard running off the shoulder forward player. It was partly that ability that made them so great. Lacazette isn't so great at that but he is good at small combination play in the final third and that has saved him from looking completely out of his depth recently.

[Niall_Quinn]

Xhaka suits our game perfectly. Tip. Tap. Tip. Tap.

Aubameyang does not suit our game in any way. Everything about him is the opposite to what we play. I thought when we dropped 50 mill on Lacazette Wenker would change our (so-called) style to integrate him. Like fuck. Now we want to buy another 50 mill striker. Perhaps Wenker will twig.

[Marc Overmars]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate how much of a boss Nacho Monreal is?

Give him the armband tbf.

[Cripps]

I wonder if Ty is still alive or whether he's wanked himself into a Wenger-induced orgasm.

:faint:

[Özim]

As much as it was a good result yesterday, it wasn't vintage stuff, first half was woeful, 2nd half was much better but both our goals were due to deflections so we got lucky.

Chelsea on the other hand, really look ordinary, had a few injuries yesterday but the reality is their team is not great, Conte isn't do a good job IMO, the strikers are average (always thought Morata was highly overrated) and once they lost Willian they struggled. Man City will be a different kettle of fish as they actually have players who can hurt you all over the pitch.

[Özim]

We pulled ourselves together last season to win the cup and that was with Alexis. This is just what we do when on the brink of disaster, we suddenly find some backbone and manage to steer ourselves in the right direction. Nothing to do with Alexis or any one player and everything to do with a lackadaisical mentality that runs through a team that picks and chooses when they want to turn up.

Yeah this happens every season, nothing new, we've got not staying power, yes we win the odd cup but it doesn't take much resilience to win those, you just need to turn up on the day and get a bit of luck.

[Letters]

:pal:

[KSE Comedy Club]

The chavs looked shit last night, they really were nothing special at all.

That's the worrying thing though as we looked average in the first half. As soon as Jack started making some runs with Ozil we looked much more potent but the attack is shit. Lacazette has no pace (could be a confidence thing) but we kept going out wide every time. It was terrible to watch. The same ideas every single time.

Wenger needs to go as he clearly isn't teaching them anything different.
I must have seen about 12 different attacks that should have resulted in a shot at goal or a goal and every one of them ended the same way - in our own half.

Opta stats will probably show that we had:

Most number of passes in our own half
Most possession in our own half
Most number of passes outside the 18 yard box
Most possession around the 18 yard box.


If we were a top team we could have won 5 or 6 nil as Chavs were THAT average.

I know we won but I am only more concerned, after watching that, going forward.

[Cripps]

We're winning trophies with a dinosaur in charge that hardly applies any tactics and negates our play. Imagine what we could achieve with a modern, tactically efficient manager.

There's so much untapped potential at this club. But that's a debate for a different day.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate how much of a boss Nacho Monreal is?

Give him the armband tbf.

Why do you want him out of our Club?

[GP]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate how much of a boss Nacho Monreal is?

Give him the armband tbf.

Nacho is great. There was someone on here who didn't rate him. Can't remember who but it's weird. He's been our most reliable defender for years.

[KSE Comedy Club]

We're winning trophies with a dinosaur in charge that hardly applies any tactics and negates our play. Imagine what we could achieve with a modern, tactically efficient manager.

There's so much untapped potential at this club. But that's a debate for a different day.

Well tbf, its a debate that's been done to death - we are all on the same page.

I had a great time last night, the fans were awesome and the atmosphere was decent. We won and that's the main thing despite the negatives.

Oh, that reminds me, what a bunch of cunts the chav fans are.

[Power n Glory]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate how much of a boss Nacho Monreal is?

Give him the armband tbf.

:gp:

One of our most consistent players that gives maximum effort and clearly gives a fuck about performances and results.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

I wish we could play an entire back line of Monreals at times....

[AFC Leveller]

We have a few players who have grown to love the club and they show passion for the shirt, the likes of Nacho, Kos, Jack and even Mustafi all play with an aggression that fans appreciate.

[Cripps]

Chelsea just cannot get the better of Arsenal under Antonio Conte... one win in eight is a painful return against a rival they are so used to dominating https://t.co/3WUZjKgSBn https://t.co/hm4dk6Nvzw

Wenger:bow:

[Penguin]

Nacho is great. There was someone on here who didn't rate him. Can't remember who but it's weird. He's been our most reliable defender for years.

He was pretty bad at one point to be fair. But he turned it around and has become one of our most reliable and dependable players.