Match Reaction VS Spuds

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Face it. They were up for it and prepared to do what it took to win, even if some of it was snidey. We used to have Fabregas to do all that shit.

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Yeah i see what you are saying but he is a c*nt regardless of the game. Ugly Mofo too.

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Originally Posted by AFC Leveller

Yeah i see what you are saying but he is a c*nt regardless of the game. Ugly Mofo too.

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And fat

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Originally Posted by Dein-machine

Too many on here last week deciding that we were now the worlds greatest team because we thrashed Villa & that Wenger had turned a corner - we've been through it all before & will do time & time again. We don't have to look at who to blame for Kane's goals, we simply have to realise that if we continue to put players like Merts, Monreal, Ramsey, Giroud in the starting line up alongside the inexperience of Bellerin & Coquelin, then we will lose games. We can beat teams like Villa because they have worse players than us but against the better teams we are still 3/4 players off of being a consistently good side. How much more do we need to see of Giroud to realise he's not that good. In Kane's 1st proper season he's showing the consistency & quality that we have never had with Giroud & never will. It may need us to finish out of the top 4 for the big decisions to be made on clearing out the deadwood & buying the required quality. Until that is done its always 1 step forward, 2 steps back.

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If we swapped players with Spurs having our team and us having Kane and co, we'd still lose. Too simple to day we can only beat poorer teams because we've beaten better and lost to much worse teams.

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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory

If we swapped players with Spurs having our team and us having Kane and co, we'd still lose. Too simple to day we can only beat poorer teams because we've beaten better and lost to much worse teams.

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I agree but this is all down to inconsistency. Guardiola or Maureen couldn't win game after game with this team because 50% of the starting line up simply isn't good enough. Difference being is that those 2 would understand the problems & get rid of the dros & buy the quality required - our manager seems to want to take years to prove he was right to sign so & so, even though so & so is obviously nowhere near good enough. We have quite a few so & so's.
If we look at City, Utd & Chelsea as the main PL rivals, why are we the only ones without a world class keeper. Defensively Utd are no better than us but can it be right that compared to City & Chelsea we only have Kos who woudl be classed as a top defender. Midfield, we have an abundance of small tippy tappy players but not one of them would be classed as currently world class because of the lack of consistency. We have no world class DM's unlike the others.
Sanchez has been brilliant for us & certainly helps to cancel out the likes of Hazard & Silva but we don't have an Ageuro or a Costa to consistently score goals.
You can try to play as much football as you like but if you don't have the quality individuals required then you are wasting your time. Starting a game at the moment with Ramsey & Giroud means our attacking options are badly affected, how much quality attacking football can we play with these 2. If you change Welbeck for Giroud its no better. Neither have a football brain to play the way that Wenger wants to.

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Originally Posted by Dein-machine

I agree but this is all down to inconsistency. Guardiola or Maureen couldn't win game after game with this team because 50% of the starting line up simply isn't good enough. Difference being is that those 2 would understand the problems & get rid of the dros & buy the quality required - our manager seems to want to take years to prove he was right to sign so & so, even though so & so is obviously nowhere near good enough. We have quite a few so & so's.
If we look at City, Utd & Chelsea as the main PL rivals, why are we the only ones without a world class keeper. Defensively Utd are no better than us but can it be right that compared to City & Chelsea we only have Kos who woudl be classed as a top defender. Midfield, we have an abundance of small tippy tappy players but not one of them would be classed as currently world class because of the lack of consistency. We have no world class DM's unlike the others.
Sanchez has been brilliant for us & certainly helps to cancel out the likes of Hazard & Silva but we don't have an Ageuro or a Costa to consistently score goals.
You can try to play as much football as you like but if you don't have the quality individuals required then you are wasting your time. Starting a game at the moment with Ramsey & Giroud means our attacking options are badly affected, how much quality attacking football can we play with these 2. If you change Welbeck for Giroud its no better. Neither have a football brain to play the way that Wenger wants to.

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Even Wenger doesn't have the brains to play football the way Wenger wants.

Mertesacker's really gone downhill for some reason. Perhaps he's lost motivation.

He reached the pinnacle as a footballer by winning the world cup, and maybe he's just lost motivation.

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Originally Posted by She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

Mertesacker's really gone downhill for some reason. Perhaps he's lost motivation.

He reached the pinnacle as a footballer by winning the world cup, and maybe he's just lost motivation.

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I agree with you there. This season, he just seems to be switched off a lot of times.

Didn't see the match, disappointed we lost but hey ho. Had a good run recently with a couple really good wins, including one against a top team for once, sadly all of these never really amount to anything they never really lead to us kicking on or going on a charge for a title, gone are the days when we could string a long run of unbeaten games and challenge for the title.