Olympiacos v Arsenal Tuesday 6th December 19.45 SS4

oh dear! that was absolutely horrible first half.

Mannone, Benyanoon and Arshavin off.

Ach, Maccy and Charlie on.

No real surprise tbh. Our squad is nowhere near good enough, there are far too many shit players who are not able to do a job when called upon. Sure, we played well against Man City but that was a red herring, and conclusions about the quality of our squad based on that match are inaccurate. The reality is that we have a very small percentage of quality players in our squad, and if at least a couple of them are out, performances will drop alarmingly.

No surprise to see Squillaci and Djourou defending like twats again. You can't have backup defenders of this quality and expect to succeed.

Harsh on Squillaci.

He got to the ball and had Djourou stayed in position, there'd be no problem but he didnt, the ball cannoned off him to some Greek pub teamer who scored

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Originally Posted by Joker

Sure, we played well against Man City but that was a red herring.

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:lol:

Nice one

Squillaci, Mannone, Chamack and Arshavin need to go. No one helping ox, its 3 on 1

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Originally Posted by Joker

No real surprise tbh. Our squad is nowhere near good enough, there are far too many shit players who are not able to do a job when called upon. Sure, we played well against Man City but that was a red herring, and conclusions about the quality of our squad based on that match are inaccurate. The reality is that we have a very small percentage of quality players in our squad, and if at least a couple of them are out, performances will drop alarmingly.

No surprise to see Squillaci and Djourou defending like twats again. You can't have backup defenders of this quality and expect to succeed.

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its not just a red herring though. coq, jd, frimpong etc have all come into first team and played well. this game means nothing, the greeks were bound to be more up for it because they can qualify. we are through so lets give the lads a break. if we took a full first team. it would be different

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Originally Posted by Ach

I dont actually blame Fabianski for the first goal. That was the defence.

2nd was all Mannone though

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Wait, hang on, this is Mannone in goal? Our 3rd choice 'keeper? :lol:
Behave yourself, Fabianski was fine last year and we have Chesney. That's 2 pretty decent 'keepers. Unless you're Man City you're not going to have a top quality 3rd choice.

I actually do care about our performance and I don't think it's "meaningless" at all. This is our B-side and if one of your 1st team players gets injured (which is 100% going to happen) we'll have to stick to those players we're seeing on the pitch tonight. And I don't like what I see right now!

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Originally Posted by Letters (TPFKA WWTL@WHL)

Wait, hang on, this is Mannone in goal? Our 3rd choice 'keeper? :lol:
Behave yourself, Fabianski was fine last year and we have Chesney. That's 2 pretty decent 'keepers. Unless you're Man City you're not going to have a top quality 3rd choice.

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Fabianski for the first goal

Mannone for the 2nd

Almunia for the 3rd?

None of the 3 above are good enough to come in for Sjsadhgaskjny should anything happen.