Arsenal v Olympiakos, 20:00 GMT (27/02, BT Sport 3).

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Finish the job on these pubbers Arsenal. :bow:

I'd imagine we might see our strongest XI given it's Portsmouth in the Cup next.

[Mac76]

Finish the job on these pubbers Arsenal. :bow:

I'd imagine we might see our strongest XI given it's Portsmouth in the Cup next.

i'm not so sure, i think he will still play Mustafi and Xhaka ;)

[GP]

i'm not so sure, i think he will still play Mustafi and Xhaka ;)

Both are the best we have in those positions.

It is what it is.

[Marc Overmars]

They’ve both been pretty decent recently it has to be said.

[Özim]

i'm not so sure, i think he will still play Mustafi and Xhaka ;)

Agree they are utter rubbish, Xhaka played someone on against Everton and we were lucky to get away without conceding, the sooner we get him out of the team the better. Midfield should be Torreira and Ceballos.

When are our 2 crock loan signings back, can't believe we've signed two players we'll get barely any use out of on loan, reminds me of Kallstrom.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Agree they are utter rubbish, Xhaka played someone on against Everton and we were lucky to get away without conceding, the sooner we get him out of the team the better. Midfield should be Torreira and Ceballos.

When are our 2 crock loan signings back, can't believe we've signed two players we'll get barely any use out of on loan, reminds me of Kallstrom.
Wasn't that Kolasinac.....:unsure:

Xhaka has been very consistent, to the point I'd happily keep him in the summer if he keeps it up. Mustafi I would look to sell almost no matter what he does from here on.

Arteta has absolutely no intention of selling at least Xhaka....

The weather is crap this week, so hope we win even more!

[Mac76]

They’ve both been pretty decent recently it has to be said.

yes they have both improved (although for Mustafi in particular that's really not saying anything at all, given how shite he was) but for me they both are and always will be banter players who we need to ship out if we really want to progress to top-four regulars and ultiimately for the title

There's something i don't like about how they're allegedly popular with the team, despite fuhking up so badly so often, and Mustafi in particular also has a habit of blaming everyone else for his own mistakes - i'm amazed people like Leno even talk to him tbh given how he behaves....

he absolutely needs to go and so does Xhaka IMO - if we finish the season really strongly, and in particular if we win the EL, i think we can attract better than him.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

At this rate Arteta is more likely to get rid of Torreira than he is Xhaka.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Arsenal: Leno, Bellerin, David Luiz, Mustafi, Saka, Xhaka, Ceballos, Ozil, Aubameyang, Lacazette, Pepe.
Subs: Martinez, Sokratis, Maitlaind-Niles, Torreira, Willock, Guendouzi, Martinelli.

Olympiakos: Jose Sa, Elabdellaoui, Cisse, Ba, Tsimikas, Bouchalakis, Guilherme, Camara, Randjelovic, El Arabi, Valbuena.
Subs: Karargyris, Masouras, Lovera, Papadopoulos, Torosidis, Bullari, Gaspar.

[GP]

3-0

[dazthegooner]

Do you know any other score? ;)

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

[dazthegooner]

Straight away we got a corner it's played short... NOTHING why do we persist?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Crap ball in from Ozil.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ridiculous pass back to Leno by Xhaka. :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good pass from Bellerin to Ozil, equally matched by his pass to the keeper.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Xhaka. :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Xhaka and Mustafi are on a yellow for the next match.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Well done Mustafi.

Bellerin got done.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Freekick to us, edge of the area.

Blatant foul, no red?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pepe combs it over.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Scooped pass by Xhaka to Ozil.

Why? He was five yards away!

[Master Splinter]

Ozil has been absolute pub so far.

[Niall_Quinn]

Forgot about the Eurotrash cup. How are we doing? First thing I see is Pepe running towards the goal, so that's new.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Too much on the cross from Pepe.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Jesus Bellerin.

[Niall_Quinn]

Certain pen wasn't it :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ceballos at it now. :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

In the few minutes I've been watching, Xhaka has given the ball away 800 times. Impressive.

[Master Splinter]

Will Pepe ever go past a full-back again?

[Niall_Quinn]

Ozil looks like he's got the hump for being disturbed on a Thursday night.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mustafi has been our best player, by some distance.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Even though Mustafi just belted it out of play, my statement is still correct.

[Niall_Quinn]

Lucky their Camera bloke is shite. So much space left in the middle there.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Camara. :haha:

All that space because Bellerin shat the bed again and he can't do anything with it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Disallowed goal for Lacazette.

Xhaka finally made a pass at least to go to Saka.

[Niall_Quinn]

Saka to Laca - GOAL!

But the picky linesman rules it out.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Piss poor from Ceballos.

Weak shot from El Arabi.

[Marc Overmars]

When did Bellerin get so shit?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-0 HT.

No time added on. :haha:

That was rancid.

Both clubs deserve to be in the third tier competition based on that.

[dazthegooner]

Third tier? Are we that good? :unsure:

[Niall_Quinn]

Just seen the red card challenge. And VAR doesn't even look at it?

What's the chance we'll end up with a red instead?

[Penguin]

Arteta's as good as the previous two managers at boring me to death. At least we're a bit better defensively.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Second half on.

Needs Martinelli.

[Niall_Quinn]

Louise just boots it out of play.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lovely skill from Pepe, shocking pass.

[Niall_Quinn]

Pepe's final ball always guarantees a laugh.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cisse whacks Laczazette on the mush.

[Niall_Quinn]

Sissy tries to hit Laca in the face, misses, so tries again and gets him. Another red.

[Thierrymon]

0-1 fucks sake.

We really need a proper right back, Bellerin is terrible.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-1 Cisse scores.

Oh dear.

[Niall_Quinn]

Guy who should have been sent off scores. 1-1.

We were begging for that. Now we just need to collapse and job done.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

He walked in to the position to score. :haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

Fuck, we're on course for an extra 30 mins of this if the score stays the same. :doh:

[Niall_Quinn]

He probably wasn't marked because the ref encourages him to punch people in the face.

[Thierrymon]

Bellerin again with a weak tackle,letting the player stroll past him and get a shot away.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Leno has to stretch to save it.

Awful from us.

[Niall_Quinn]

Leno saves us again after Bellerin and one of their bods combine to run right through our defence.

[dazthegooner]

Going a goal down might do us a favour might actually start playing.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Camara booked.

No Xhaka rule today.

[Marc Overmars]

Dreadful goal to concede, that fucker just strolled into the header.

Sort it out you shit kickers.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Xhaka scuffs it wide.

[Niall_Quinn]

Xhaka rolls the ball towards the goal. 300 miles wide.

[Niall_Quinn]

How is that not another yellow for that Ba-stard? Just because you get the ball doesn't mean you can hack through the back of people.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pepe Iwobis it.

[Niall_Quinn]

Bellerin is having a shocker. Again.

[AFC Leveller]

Bellerin is not the same player anymore. Looks like he’s lost that explosive pace and directness in his play. He had a torrid time the other week against Maxim from Newcastle and today he’s being roasted at every opportunity.

[Niall_Quinn]

Torreira coming on. That should change things dramatically.

[Marc Overmars]

Torreira coming on. That should change things dramatically.

Yep, we’ll be able to pass sideways and backwards with more intensity.

[Niall_Quinn]

Tapping it around at 1mph must be scaring the shit out of the opposition.

[Penguin]

Why isn't Martinelli on yet?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Whose toys will come out of the pram?

Despite all the sewage works they've put out there tonight.

[Marc Overmars]

What does Ceballos do?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ceballos off, Torreira on.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ceballos, probably the best of a bad bunch, subbed for the Argentine Nicky Butt.

[Niall_Quinn]

What does Ceballos do?

One of his plus points is he passes to players on our team. You take what ever little you can get.

[Niall_Quinn]

Why isn't Martinelli on yet?

His backpass to pass ratio is horrifically low. He doesn't really fit into our system.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

WTF Pepe? :haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

Okay, that's amazing and ridiculous from Pepe. Literally beats the defender 4 times but fails to put it into the danger zone.

[Marc Overmars]

Pepe. :doh:

Have a shot you muppet.

[Penguin]

Brilliant from Pepe to bamboozle the defender. Then he ends up bamboozling himself :unsure:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pepe shot denied.

Lacazette can't put it in from a few yards out. :rolleyes:

[Niall_Quinn]

Laca clears it after the keeper saves from Pepe.

[Marc Overmars]

Lacashite is back

Much better overall though, at least.

[Penguin]

Why did Lacazette try to head that in? It would have been much easier to hit it with his foot :doh:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Xhaka. :doh:

Why?

[Niall_Quinn]

Why did Lacazette try to head that in? It would have been much easier to hit it with his foot :doh:

It was easier to score than miss it. Took a bit of skill to head that wide from right in front of goal.

[Penguin]

When was the last time Xhaka actually scored one of those long range shots? Or even got one on target?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lacazette lashes it from a ridiculous angle.

[Marc Overmars]

Lacashite. :haha:

Useless.

[Niall_Quinn]

Willock coming on next. I can definitely see him scoring a few. As long as we keep Martinelli off the pitch we'll be fine.

Meanwhile, that Greek lad they have is fucking great in defence - Lacazette, I think he's called.

[Letters]

Laca :doh:

[Master Splinter]

Lacazette, Pepe, Ozil.

Too much shit on the pitch at once.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Torreira shot on target.

More than most have done in this game.

[Niall_Quinn]

Torreira with a half decent effort. Easy enough for the keeper though.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ozil suddenly remembers he has some talent.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bellerin hauled off, Willock on.

[Letters]

Decent hit by Torriera

[Niall_Quinn]

If Pepe wasn't playing for us we'd be killing ourselves laughing at his antics. 72mill - somebody got robbed.

Bellerin off for Willock. Xhaka to the back then.

[Thierrymon]

We're losing this arent we?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Xhaka with a pub overhead kick.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

We're losing this arent we?

Yes. 0-1.

[Letters]

Xhaka thought he was Ronaldo.
Wasn’t

[Penguin]

Yes. 0-1.

:lol:

[Letters]

What happens if it stays like this?
Extra time and pels?

[Niall_Quinn]

That's a good cross by Ozil. Why don't we have strikers in on that? How can they score when they are 10 yards off the play?

[Thierrymon]

Yes. 0-1.

I asked for that I guess :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

Corner to us. But ref, he say no. What a wanker.

[Marc Overmars]

Watching 90 mins of a EL game is bad enough. They should spare us the extra 30 mins.

[Niall_Quinn]

I asked for that I guess :lol:

So did our pubbers on the pitch.

[Penguin]

Willock is always so slow getting back when we lose the ball, even when it's his fault.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Did Martinelli kick sand in Arteta's face over in Dubai or something?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mustafi is dead.

[Niall_Quinn]

Mustafi saves our arse there.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ref playing extra extra time. Maybe he'll kick it in for them?

[Niall_Quinn]

FT 0-1

30 more mins of this to come.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-1 FT.

On to extra time.

It's what these useless turds deserve.

[RomfordPele]

Torreira marking the 6 foot 6 Cisse in the last minute. The most Arsenal thing ever.

[Letters]

Bonus 30 minutes of “entertainment” :bow:

[Gooner23]

Torreira marking the 6 foot 6 Cisse in the last minute. The most Arsenal thing ever.

What was that about. Madness.

Such a sloppy performance tonight, only got ourselves to blame if we bomb out of this.

[Marc Overmars]

Shite but if you keep reminding yourself this is very much our level now, then it’s not so bad.

[Penguin]

Torreira was matched up against someone twice his size on that corner :lol:

Makes no sense to have him in the box on set pieces.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Our £180 million front three. :cloud9:

[LDG]

Bonus 30 minutes of “entertainment” :bow:

Think I may just fuck off to bed

[Master Splinter]

It's not neceassarily his fault today, but whenever Laca has been the main striker recently, we've been completely blunt.

Every game Nketiah has started, we've won and created a lot of chances.

How does Arteta not see this?

And only having Martinelli as the attacking option on the bench when Nketiah just scored on the weekend.

It's all so strange.

[Niall_Quinn]

Christ, 50 passes with no end product. Side to side, left, right, left, right. Over and over again.

[Letters]

We move the ball so slowly :(

[Niall_Quinn]

Excellent cross by Pepe. But our two never look like they'll be first to the ball.

[Master Splinter]

Christ, 50 passes with no end product. Side to side, left, right, left, right. Over and over again.

Then Pepe has all the time and space in the world and dribbles into himself.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ref looking right at that foul on Pepe and just waves play on. Bent for sure.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

He intentionally moved his arm towards it though didn't he? :wacko:

[Niall_Quinn]

Let's hope that same standard applies next time the ball bounces off one of our player's arms.

[Master Splinter]

It's sad seeing Lacazette like this.

Arteta seems to be enjoying the horror show though.

[Niall_Quinn]

Who was that lazy twat next to Saka on that break? He was jogging instead of running on to make himself available. Pathetic.

Mustafi limping. Is it one of his fake injuries, or real? If it's real it means we've blown our last sub.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mustafi really is dead this time.

Sokratis coming on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Gaspar felt Lacazette's technique is the way to go.

[Niall_Quinn]

Nope. Mustafi off, Sokratis on. Day off for Martinelli. Not surprising he didn't get on given the huge goal threat we've posed.

Lucky the Greeks are shite or we'd be well beaten here. Their Theo Walcott lashes it over when he had plenty of time.

[Niall_Quinn]

Oh we can have 4 subs? Intertoto Cup rules :bow:

Let's get AMN on to shore up the defence.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-1 HT in ET.

What a waste of time.

[Niall_Quinn]

HT in ET - a finely poised, enthralling encounter.

[Letters]

*sigh*

[RomfordPele]

This lot could play all night and not score.

Bring. Martinelli. On.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

On the pitch team talk.

Phil Brown. :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

This lot could play all night and not score.

Bring. Martinelli. On.

He's coming on - Laca off.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lacazette finally hauled off, Martipele on. :bow:

[Penguin]

Martinelli finally on for Laca.

[Niall_Quinn]

Marti to score. Put a tenner on it for me and I'll split the winnings.

[Marc Overmars]

Ozil is going to need a month off to recover from playing a full 120 mins.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pepe chests it for some reason.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

They hit the bar. Geez.

[Niall_Quinn]

Statistically, Pepe is almost certain to deliver a decent final ball within the next few minutes.

Meanwhile the Greeks blast it over the bar again. They like doing that.

[dazthegooner]

Martinelli finally on for Laca.

And lets never hear from him again...

[Niall_Quinn]

Great cross by Saka - where our our strikers???? FFS!

[Marc Overmars]

The sad thing is, we don’t even deserve to go through.

[Letters]

Well left, Leno

:sick:

[Penguin]

We need someone in midfield to drive forward with the ball and pull someone out of position. Olympiakos are parking the bus ffs, what's the point of standing on the spot and passing sideways to each other?

Would have been braver to get Guendouzi on to do that instead of playing safe with Torreira.

[Niall_Quinn]

LOL, the cunts only put the flag up for offside once we come out with the ball :haha:

This ref.

[LDG]

YEEEEEESSASSSSSS!!!!!

[Niall_Quinn]

AUBA!!!!!!!!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

AUBAMEYANG!!!! OUR HERO!!!!!

[Penguin]

AUBA!

[Marc Overmars]

What a goal, what a player :bow:

[Letters]

AUBA!!!!

[Niall_Quinn]

Just calm the fuck down now - because if they score, we're out!

We must not let this slip...

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Martinelli with the intended assist. :bow:

[GP]

What a fuicking goal!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lovera on to fuck us.

[Niall_Quinn]

Stunning technique on that goal.

WTF would we do without this guy? He's been pretty shite all night, but he can still deliver in one moment when it matters.

[Niall_Quinn]

The legendary home fans have woken up.

[Marc Overmars]

We’d be in the gutter without Auba for sure.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Karen Carney is hot for Martinelli.

[Niall_Quinn]

Okay, I'm saying it. Pepe is shit.

Shoot you fucker! What the fuck?

[LDG]

Karen Carney is hot for Martinelli.

Same

[Marc Overmars]

Pepe is definitely the worst 72m player of all time.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Martinelli does something.

Back on the bench for Pompey.

[Marc Overmars]

It’s almost like Martinelli’s energy has made a difference.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ref brings it back for an offside when we have the ball. Idiot.

[Niall_Quinn]

We've decided to play it around at the back. Good stuff!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bloody hell Leno.

[LDG]

:haha:

Bollocks

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-2. Ah jesus.

[Marc Overmars]

1-2 :haha:

Oh dear.

[Niall_Quinn]

Is that real?

[Penguin]

:haha:

[Letters]

Oh.
You.
Cunts

[Niall_Quinn]

It's a mile offside. How can you have a player standing on the fucking pen spot and he's not offside?

[Niall_Quinn]

Fucking ref has an excuse to play -1 min of extra time now.

[RomfordPele]

What a bunch of fucking dopes. Idiots to a man.

Not a lot emery or arterta can do with this lot. Tear it up and start again.

[Niall_Quinn]

Luiz is such an epic cunt. We need a goal so he gives it to their keeper.

[Marc Overmars]

How the fuck has Auba missed that?

[Penguin]

Auba :(

[Niall_Quinn]

Auba misses an open goal.

That sums it up really. I was celebrating the certainty of a goal there. But he misses it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-2 FT.

We're out.

Knocked out by Olympiakos. :doh:

[Marc Overmars]

Are we allowed to say anything about Arteta yet?

[Niall_Quinn]

That's it then.

We're out of the Intertoto Freight Rover Milk Cup Rumbelows Championship.

Going to be difficult negotiations keeping any decent players here now. We're not even good enough to compete in this shit competition.

[Mac76]

Wow what a shitshow, i had a cold and didn't go in the end, glad about that but feel sorry for anyone freezing their nuts off for two hours just to see us humiliated.

I guess we just need to make fifth now - easy really ... :rolleyes:

[Niall_Quinn]

Are we allowed to say anything about Arteta yet?

When he gets his first grey hair. Which will be some time tonight.

[dazthegooner]

Well we we not going to win it anyway but it's no excuse we can try and improve on our league position though if we were to qualify for the champions league we would get slaughtered with this bunch.

[RomfordPele]

Are we allowed to say anything about Arteta yet?

Jury’s out for me. Think he’s got these useless cunts playing a bit better, but he hasn’t managed to solve the problem that they are useless cunts. Let’s judge him after he has had a summer to sort out the complete no-hopers from the dullards.

[selassie]

Are we allowed to say anything about Arteta yet?

Yes he has taken on an impossible job.

How he is expected to do anything when we have a team full of wasters? They can’t even pass the ball properly!

[Niall_Quinn]

At least we can focus all our energies into passing sideways in the league now.

[selassie]

Well we we not going to win it anyway but it's no excuse we can try and improve on our league position though if we were to qualify for the champions league we would get slaughtered with this bunch.

Yep and we aren’t anywhere good enough for CL right now, we would struggle to make it out of the group.

The rebuild is massive, we literally have to start again.

[Mac76]

At least we can focus all our energies into passing sideways in the league now.

You forget we still have to face being done by portsmouth on Monday

[RomfordPele]

Are we allowed to say anything about Arteta yet?

... that said, why he didn’t put martinelli on after about 60 mins is beyond me.

Putting him on at 105 mins was a dick move straight out of the Emery-Wenger playbook.

[dazthegooner]

Well Celtic went out as well maybe we can have an Anglo-Scottish useless in Europe match up...

[Niall_Quinn]

You forget we still have to face being done by portsmouth on Monday

Don't ruin the weekend for me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0

[Özim]

Are we allowed to say anything about Arteta yet?

He's a pretty poor manager, poor lineup, poor tactics, boring slow football and poor subs.

Seems to love Xhaka and plays him over the vastly superior Torreira, no Martinelli today honestly awful.

Knocked out in the last 32 against a poor team, that makes for sorry reading.

Personally I'd cut my losses and replace him in the summer with someone decent, since he's come in the changes have been minimal at best.

[Letters]

Knee jerking :bow:

[dazthegooner]

Knee jerking :bow:

Agreed Arteta is doing the best he can with a bad bunch he can't go around slagging players off atm as they're are all he's got he probably wasn't able to sign anyone in January he wanted. Ok we got a couple of loanies (both injured) but isn't that down to the so called experts upstairs who haven't a clue and probably listen to that their agent friends who also represent half our squad as it is.