CSKA Moscow v Arsenal, 20:05 BT Sport 2 (12/04)

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

10:05 pm start in Moscow, what could possibly go wrong?

[KSE Comedy Club]

With all these 2nd leg comebacks we have every chance of crashing out :upset:

[Penguin]

I wouldn't put it past us. We're more capable of capitulating than most teams.

[Letters]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:
:gp:

Can we not stop whining for 5 minutes and get behind them?

Come on you reds! :scarf:

[GP]

I hope we win.

[Niall_Quinn]

Letters, the bloke who hardly watches the team anymore, advising long suffering and Wenger jaded fans how to support the team.

[Niall_Quinn]

I hope we win.

Of course we'll win. We're 4-1 up against a pub outfit. Not even Wenger can blow that. Even if he picks Welbeck and benches Laca, or does something bonkers like play Elneny and Xhaka on the same pitch, even if he personally coaches the defence - we'll still win.

[Letters]

Letters, the bloke who hardly watches the team anymore, advising long suffering and Wenger jaded fans how to support the team.

Well, you're right. I don't watch them much but it's a Cup Quarter final in Europe.
If you can't support them in that competition then I suggest you fuck right off.
:tiphat:

[Niall_Quinn]

Well, you're right. I don't watch them much but it's a Cup Quarter final in Europe.
If you can't support them in that competition then I suggest you fuck right off.
:tiphat:

Damn right! Don't let some cunt like me, who ploughed through every fucking match until that cunt stole his latest contract, put you down for turning up for the big stuff.

[Letters]

I won't :good:

[GP]

Of course we'll win. We're 4-1 up against a pub outfit. Not even Wenger can blow that. Even if he picks Welbeck and benches Laca, or does something bonkers like play Elneny and Xhaka on the same pitch, even if he personally coaches the defence - we'll still win.

Don't be ridiculous.

Xhaka hasn't travelled.

[Niall_Quinn]

Don't be ridiculous.

Xhaka hasn't travelled.

What difference does that make? He could still be picked and he'd be just as effective as usual.

[selassie]

A couple of fresh pairs of underpants will be needed tonight because you just know we will make heavy weather of this 2nd leg!

Given what has happened in CL this week...I wouldn't put it past us to make a real hash of this game tonight....it's the Arsenal way!

[Niall_Quinn]

A couple of fresh pairs of underpants will be needed tonight because you just know we will make heavy weather of this 2nd leg!

Given what has happened in CL this week...I wouldn't put it past us to make a real hash of this game tonight....it's the Arsenal way!

If Wenger tries his comedy routine to shut down the game and ends up handing the initiative to CSKA then maybe. But all we have to do is turn up and play a moderately competent game. It'll probably be 0-0.

[KSE Comedy Club]

:gp:

Can we not stop whining for 5 minutes and get behind them?

Come on you reds! :scarf:

Who is whining exactly? :blink:

[The Emirates Gallactico]

If we concede an early goal I'm going to be bricking it.

Stupid thing is that this game really should have been out of sight. We had a hatful of chances to score more goals in the second half last Thursday but we were far too casual & complacent, like some of our players didn't realise that it wasn't a two legged tie.

[Özim]

If we lose this we have worse problems than anyone thought, CSKA are a pub side with no real decent players, granted Roma aren'tthat good but at least they have a few players capable of scoring goals and delivering top performances, this pub outfit have got noone.

Having said that we did our best to mess up against Ostersunds and they're a different level of pub outfit so :unsure:

[Goonermerree]

Come on Arsenal, I wanna win the EL

[The Emirates Gallactico]

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[Mac76]

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well said...

[McNamara That Ghost...]

CSKA Moscow: Akinfee; Kuchaev, A.Berezutski, Ignashevich, V.Berezutski, Nababkin; Bistrovich, Dzagoev, Golovin; Musa, Chalov.

Subs: Pomazun, Milanov, Vitinho, Shchennikov, Matcho, Zhamaletdinov, Khosonov.

[Xhaka Can’t]

I hope we win.

Haters gonna hate

[KSE Comedy Club]

I’m fairly confident we will win

[Goonermerree]

Come on Arsenal, get the first goal.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Would have played Iwobi over Jack tbh.


I’m fairly confident we will win

That's us jinxed. :rose:

[KSE Comedy Club]

Let’s twat these twats

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Europa League theme. :bow:

[KSE Comedy Club]

German ref, I’m sure Sven has had a word :)

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Hope it's just Italian teams vs Spanish team when it comes to comebacks :pray::pray:

[KSE Comedy Club]

I want to be positive, but why do we keep fucking about with the ball in midfield?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wheelchair. :rose:

[Letters]

You wouldn't think he'd have much feeling in his head.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Elneny you berk. Gives away a FK in a dangerous position.

[Letters]

Let’s twat these twats

:gp:

[KSE Comedy Club]

We just need to be decisive and get a goal or two, then sit back and pass the ball around.

Instead we are doing exactly what I was worried we were going to do.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Struggling to keep possession here.

[Letters]

We just need to be decisive and get a goal or two, then sit back and pass the ball around.

Instead we are doing exactly what I was worried we were going to do.

Dunno. It's a balance. You don't want to concede an early goal and make things jittery so we want to contain them a bit.
A goal would definitely help but the longer in stays 0-0 the better really.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Welbz could've played Lacazette in.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

FFS Wilshere still got his head back in England.

[Letters]

Mustafi :lol :doh:

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Wilshere always releases the ball too late. Lucky to get the foul there.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Putin pops one from 30 yards. Well wide.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

The space is there for us to score a few goals. Got to take advantage of that to end this tie.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Lacazette over!

Well blocked!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lacazette shoots, blocked and loops behind.

[KSE Comedy Club]

Dunno. It's a balance. You don't want to concede an early goal and make things jittery so we want to contain them a bit.
A goal would definitely help but the longer in stays 0-0 the better really.

Agreed, however, I can’t stand the dithering. It puts me on edge and looking at CSKA seems uneccessary.

If you get a quick goal it should kill the game off

[Letters]

Good break. Decent shot from Laca, well blocked.

[GP]

Haters gonna hate


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM

:bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Dzagoev is dead. :rose:

[KSE Comedy Club]

What a waste of a FK :blink:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ozil the CB linchpin. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mesut. :cloud9:

[KSE Comedy Club]

Ffs ramsey

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsey. :haha:

WTF?

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Just hope we don't overcommit.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Monreal header wide.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Putin off. Putin coming on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Dzagoev off, Vitinho on.

[KSE Comedy Club]

Fuckin hell!!

Stop pissing about you retards

[Thierrymon]

1-0 gud job arsenal :doh:

[Master Splinter]

Just the final ball/finish missing at the moment.

Ozil playing well but his set-pieces have been dreadful.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Bollocks!!!


FUCK ME!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-0 CSKA. :doh:

[Master Splinter]

Cech FFS. :doh:

[Letters]

Oh crap...

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Fucking knew we shouldn't have laughed the past two days at the comebacks. :doh:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fucking knew we shouldn't have laughed the past two days at the comebacks. :doh:

Nah.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Monreal needed to be more powerful. Hard to blame Cech tbh .... it was a hard save to make in the first place.

[KSE Comedy Club]

It would be fine if we stopped dithering and overplaying everything, oh and stop fucking about in front of goal

[Niall_Quinn]

Mustafi is a shocking defender.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsey has died again.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

It would be fine if we stopped dithering and overplaying everything, oh and stop fucking about in front of goal

This. The goals are there for us in this game.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Mustafi is a shocking defender.

Eighth most expensive defender ever :haha::haha:

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Fuck me, nearly 2 - 0

[Goonermerree]

1-0 is not in itself bad, but it's the bigger picture that is worrying. Still think we'll win this.

[Goonermerree]

One goal from us and they're done.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

1-0 is not in itself bad, but it's the bigger picture that is worrying. Still think we'll win this.

Problem is that unless we score they're going to get pumped up. We need to kill the crowd and the game by scoring.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Fuck off Wilshere! Stupid no look pass that goes out of play? Why not keep the ball?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

How many times can Darke say the same thing?

[Letters]

Ramsey's alive again!

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Wilshere is dead now. Hopefully that explains his performance so far.

[Goonermerree]

Come on! A semi-final is at stake here

[Goonermerree]

Problem is that unless we score they're going to get pumped up. We need to kill the crowd and the game by scoring.

I agree.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-0 HT. Ian Darke, STFU about danger and just commentate.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Half Time.

Jesus Christ .... this club will be the death of me. Why can't we ever do things easy?

[selassie]

We have been pretty shite so far. We should definitely score against this lot though because they look shakey as hell at the back.

[Niall_Quinn]

A very predictable 45 minutes from Wenger.

Coward.

Under this manager our football is just about unwatchable. It's pointless. It's lifeless. A complete waste of time and energy.

But he'll be happy enough with that half I suspect. We'll have to wait to see the possession stats to find out just how happy.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Jack continues to be fucking shit.

I know Wenger's got a soft spot for him because of his longevity but this is ridiculous. He's actually risking our results due to sentimentality. Didn't he learn after the Ox fiasco?

[Letters]

Oh piss off, claiming that's a penalty on Ramsey. No way at that speed he could have reacted to that.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

ok second half about to start.

Please don't fuck this up lads.

[KSE Comedy Club]

Our build up play reminds me of gaming on the spectrum in the 80’s.

You wait patiently for an hour and half to load the game only to realise that it’s crashed and been stuck on the loading screen for 45 mins...... :unsure:

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Wumger keeps Jack on. :doh:

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Fucking hell what the fuck are we doing? WHy are we sitting off them and letting them come to us?

[Letters]

Our build up play reminds me of gaming on the spectrum in the 80’s.

You wait patiently for an hour and half to load the game only to realise that it’s crashed and been stuck on the loading screen for 45 mins...... :unsure:

:haha:

Booooooooooo-ekk!
Booooooooooo-ekkxkxkxkxkxkxkx.... :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-0 :lol:

[The Emirates Gallactico]

2 - 0

FUCK!!!

[The Emirates Gallactico]

CECH you dummy!


OH MY GOD!! CRAP

[Master Splinter]

Get Macey on. Cech is beyond finished.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Fuck this. We're still playing like cunts ..... letting them onto us!

Useless fuckers!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cech actually saves it and gets away from danger this time.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Fucking hell nearly 0 - 3

Cech saves the FK1

[Marc Overmars]

What the fuck are we doing? Christ this team has no redeeming features.

[Letters]

Oh piss off...

[The Emirates Gallactico]

From being casual enough to almost deliberately fluff chances in the second half on the first game to now being one goal away from going out.


This team is fucking unprofessional as hell.

[Goonermerree]

Arsenal doing what Arsenal do best. This tie could have been over, but Wenger subs in the first leg and the threat dissipates. So instead of walloping 'em, we left a sliver of light through the door.

[Munchies]

:haha:

1 more goal for Wenker to leave

[Thierrymon]

Elneny scores but is offside.

[Goonermerree]

:haha:

1 more goal for Wenker to leave

Don't be ridiculous.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Disallowed goal for Elneny.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

How difficult was it for Elneny to stay onside there?

[selassie]

Our build up play reminds me of gaming on the spectrum in the 80’s.

You wait patiently for an hour and half to load the game only to realise that it’s crashed and been stuck on the loading screen for 45 mins...... :unsure:

:haha:

[The Emirates Gallactico]

We're getting outpassed by Russian farmers :doh:

[Goonermerree]

If they score another, if they score another...

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Mustafi is shit. Why does he go to ground so easily?

[Goonermerree]

Mustafi is shit. Why does he go to ground so easily?

He's a millionaire baby.

[Globalgunner]

Were playing against a defence that adds up to when Queen Victoria was alive and no shot on target

[KSE Comedy Club]

As usual the clown is bringing on a defender

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Lacazette tryng to pull a Zlatan.

Chambers coming on for someone soon.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wheelchair hauled off, Chambers on.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Chambers on for Jack.


Jack has been shit but why bring on a defender? WTF?

[Globalgunner]

As usual the clown is bringing on a defender

Tactics by Wenger......10m a year

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kos. :doh:

[The Emirates Gallactico]

FML nearly a screamer to make it 3 - 0

[Master Splinter]

Rasputin just wide.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bistrovic off, Natcho on.

[Goonermerree]

Chambers on for Jack.


Jack has been shit but why bring on a defender? WTF?
Defending a one goal lead, it's Wenger's bread and butter...

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Imagine this team against Atletico :haha::haha:

[Goonermerree]

Imagine this team against Atletico :haha::haha:

Doesn't bear thinking about.

[Thierrymon]

Welshit scores. Game over man.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

WELBECK!!!!!

[The Emirates Gallactico]

WELBECK!!!

[Master Splinter]

WELBZ!!!!

[Globalgunner]

Welbeck was brilliant there.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lacazette off, Iwobi on.

[Master Splinter]

Imagine this team against Atletico :haha::haha:

They're not really impressing themselves.

This Europa League seems to be a battle of who's the least shit.

[Goonermerree]

Welbeck was brilliant there.

So was El Neny's pass to him. Game over now. Welbz is officially the best thing since sliced bread.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Don't fuck this up now!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

So was El Neny's pass to him. Game over now. Welbz is officially the best thing since sliced bread.

Bacon is the best thing since sliced bread tbf.

[Master Splinter]

Welbz has been the best player by far today. He created a couple of chances earlier and has carried the ball well while everyone else has meandered around.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Fucking love Welbeck.


Sure he's dogshite at times but one thing you can't deny is that he never gives up or goes hiding. Always steps up. Same with Rambo. With competent management they'd be league winners.

[Goonermerree]

Bacon is the best thing since sliced bread tbf.

Bacon came before sliced bread, Welbz came after, don't you know hour history?

[Letters]

Fucking love Welbeck.


Sure he's dogshite at times but one thing you can't deny is that he never gives up or goes hiding. Always steps up. Same with Rambo. With competent management they'd be league winners.

Agree. I actually think he's a really good player.
I don't think he's a really good striker but some of his play is really nice.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bacon came before sliced bread, Welbz came after, don't you know hour history?

Nope but it's definitely bacon, as it goes on sliced bread.

[Letters]

Bacon is the best thing since sliced bread tbf.

It's also the best thing IN sliced bread.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Agree. I actually think he's a really good player.
I don't think he's a really good striker but some of his play is really nice.

He's never going to be world class or first choice but he's good enough to be a really good squad/backup player for a league challenging team with better coaching.

[Goonermerree]

Agree. I actually think he's a really good player.
I don't think he's a really good striker but some of his play is really nice.

I don't think he's world class, but he gives 100%

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Harsh as this may be but I really hope to never see Jack again in an Arsenal shirt.

[Letters]

He's not World Class, but he's nowhere near as bad as some on here make out.



bit like Wenger...
:ninja:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Elneny is the best Egyptian player I know.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Elneny is the best Egyptian player I know.

He did more in that one pass than Jack has done in the past five games.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Iwobi. :haha:

Horrendous.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Iwobi you berk!!!

Should be 2 - 2

[Master Splinter]

Iwobi :haha:.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

3 mins ET

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Welbz denied!

[Thierrymon]

2-2 Ramsey!

[Letters]

Iwobi you berk!!!

Should be 2 - 2

Oh bloody hell :doh:

My stream is MILES behind! Only just seen this.

[Master Splinter]

RAMSEY!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

RAMSEY!!!!

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Putin :haha:


Stick to meddling in elections and deploying chemical weapons

[AFC Leveller]

It’s coming home tbh

[Letters]

2-2 Ramsey!

No spoilers :sulk:


Stupid stream <_<

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Another Elneny assist :bow:

[Gooner23]

Ramsey has been really good recently

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-2 FT! Through to the semi-finals. :bow:

[Master Splinter]

Elneny again :bow:.

Comfortable day at the office.

Wenger dominating Europe.

[Goonermerree]

We're in a semi, we're an semi - another one!!!!

[Goonermerree]

Wenger in???!!!!:blink::yippee::o:cheer::trophy::trophy:: trophy::trophy:

[The Emirates Gallactico]

tbf to Wenger he made the right tactical changes in withdrawing Wilshere & moving us to five at the back.


Also we score two goals after Jack goes off. No doubt about it, he's hurting the team.

[GP]

Easy