West Ham v Arsenal. 1st May. 16:30

[Marc Overmars]

Big game, need another big result.

So close now to the 4th place cup.

Come on you Gunners!

[Letters]

We’ll lose and lose well.

[selassie]

Got a bad feeling about today. Spuds 2-0 up too.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

West Ham: Fabianski, Coufal, Zouma, Cresswell, Fredericks, Noble, Rice, Fornals, Bowen, Benrahma, Lanzini.
Subs: Areola, Yarmolenko, Antonio, Vlasic, Diop, Masuaku, Soucek, Kral, Alese

Arsenal: Ramsdale, Tomiyasu, Holding, Gabriel, Tavares, Elneny, Xhaka, Odegaard, Martinelli, Saka, Nketiah.
Subs: Leno, Lacazette, Smith Rowe, Cedric, Pepe, Lokonga, Kirk, Salah-Eddine, Swanson.

[Mac76]

3-0 Lanzini hatter

[Mac76]

i see we have Kirk on the bench - he's captain presumably :rimshot:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

[Marc Overmars]

Come on you Gunners! :pray:

[Marc Overmars]

Bit shit so far.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Well done Holding.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Straight at Ramsdale from Rice.

[Marc Overmars]

HOLDING!!!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Nketiah should be burying it I think.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

HOLDING!!! :bow:

[GP]

Holdini :bow:

[Marc Overmars]

Good save from Ramsdale

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What a save from Ramsdale. :blink:

[Marc Overmars]

We’ve given it away far too much in the middle.

[Marc Overmars]

1-1 Bowen

Just been awful on the ball generally. Not surprising.

[Marc Overmars]

HT 1-1

Mostly shit. Need a lot more in the second half.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ah fuck.

[selassie]

We need to step up second half, we haven't played too badly, but we look toothless going forward. Tavares has had a mare too, giving the ball away constantly and way out of position for their equaliser.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Got a bad feeling about today. Spuds 2-0 up too.

JF isn’t gonna like this post.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good effort Saka.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

GABRIEL!!!

[GP]

GET IN!

[Letters]

We need to step up second half, we haven't played too badly, but we look toothless going forward.
Isn’t that our whole thing?

[Marc Overmars]

Eddie combs it just wide. So close.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Oh Eddie.

[Marc Overmars]

Get ESR on. Martinelli hasn’t been great today.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Noble off, Soucek on.

[Marc Overmars]

Eddie not doing himself any favours here not putting it to bed.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Nketiah is determined to score a low 25 yarder.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Well done Arsenal. :bow:

Total pub but that's all we need right now.

[GP]

Big win, that.

[Letters]

2-1 FT.

Grinding out results :bow:

[Mac76]

Yes!

Defenders :bow:

The march goes on... :scarf:

[LDG]

Get in you cunts!

Well deserved

Eddie came of age :bow:

Enleeeeeeeny :bow:

And what a save that was in the first half from Chips

[selassie]

That was a huge win, probably our most important of the season. If we can avoid defeats against the Spuds and Newcastle away and beat Leeds & Everton at home then I think we'll finish 4th.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Massive win.

Looking ahead to catching Chelsea and much as those behind us now.

Hopefully Chelsea buckle under pressure.

[LDG]

That was proper professional.

Love Eddie tonight. He was a pain in the arse and wound that ponce Rice right up

[I am invisible]

Liverpool at Anfield next for the spuffs - Leeds at home for us. Big chance to put some daylight between us before we have to go to the bowl.

[Letters]

We actually move the forward really well at times.
But our finishing :lol:
Get a proper striker in and we could be a pretty good side.

[Marc Overmars]

Massive win!

Next weekend could be pivotal. Can’t afford to take Leeds lightly but with Spurs at Anfield you have to say we’re big favourites now to get the job done.

[LDG]

We actually move the forward really well at times.
But our finishing :lol:
Get a proper striker in and we could be a pretty good side.

We are a good side (statistically)

[Letters]

We are a good side (statistically)

Tut. Fine. After the top 2 - who are in their own little world - we are about as good as anyone. Only Chelsea have an edge over us. But a top striker is an obvious gap which stops us pushing on.

[LDG]

Tut. Fine. After the top 2 - who are in their own little world - we are about as good as anyone. Only Chelsea have an edge over us. But a top striker is an obvious gap which stops us pushing on.

We are a work in progress. What we needed after wenger was some stability, a direction and an identity. Half of that cocktail
Requires fan buy in. So you need to grow the club within and get the backing of your fans, because we all want The Arsenal way.

Funny how solidarity breeds success. Arteta is a catalyst of that. Seems capble
of directing younger players. His problem is older established stars…which is why he shipped them all out.

If we want to push on, it’s about Arteta’s ability to get buy in from bigger more temperamental stars, who may not share that idealist vision.

This is better than I’ve seen for 20 years tbf

[selassie]

That was proper professional.

Love Eddie tonight. He was a pain in the arse and wound that ponce Rice right up

I am starting to really warm to Eddie TBH. He is a very good backup/squad player. I think we should keep him. Same can be said of Elneny too. They are both fairly reliable. We'll need them both for squad depth next season regardless of whether we are in CL or Europa.

[Mac76]

The last six results have been totally unreal :lol:

[Letters]

The last six results have been totally unreal :lol:

Aye. It’s all been very strange.
Before Palace we were all “we need to win the next 3 before the nightmare run after that”.
Then we lost those 3, had a collective hissy fit and then won the 3 we all thought we’d struggle in.
:lol:
:doh:

[GP]

Real shame we didn't win the "easy" ones

[Master Splinter]

Real shame we didn't win the "easy" ones

We did beat Man United, tbf.

[Master Splinter]

Holding and Gabriel were really good today and you need to be against serial crossers/set-piece specialists like them.

Elneny and Xhaka, like most of the team, were lacking little bit sharpness and sloppy in the first half, but really stepped up and shut them down for most of the second.

Tomayisu was obviously not fully match fit, but he's so good defensively. I think I've seen one player go past him this season. Hope he's not a new Wolfcheer/Rosicky/Diaby.

[Marc Overmars]

Eddie probably isn’t the answer long term but can’t tell you how refreshing it is to actually have a striker running the channels and being a proper outlet for us. Makes a complete mockery of that statue Lacazette. Please let’s never be blinded by “hold up play” again.

[IBK]

We are a work in progress. What we needed after wenger was some stability, a direction and an identity. Half of that cocktail
Requires fan buy in. So you need to grow the club within and get the backing of your fans, because we all want The Arsenal way.

Funny how solidarity breeds success. Arteta is a catalyst of that. Seems capble
of directing younger players. His problem is older established stars…which is why he shipped them all out.

If we want to push on, it’s about Arteta’s ability to get buy in from bigger more temperamental stars, who may not share that idealist vision.

This is better than I’ve seen for 20 years tbf

Very :gp:

[Mac76]

Eddie probably isn’t the answer long term but can’t tell you how refreshing it is to actually have a striker running the channels and being a proper outlet for us. Makes a complete mockery of that statue Lacazette. Please let’s never be blinded by “hold up play” again.

only saw the highlights on MOTD but loved the way he ran at defenders and created chances. This is a guy who's decided to take things into his own hands and get noticed, good for him