Marseille v Arsenal - Wednesday 19 October - 19:45

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Originally Posted by RomfordPele

Hmm, poor match against two pretty average teams. Kos and Jenkinson have done well. Everyone else, less so.

As an aside, good to hear ITV rooting for Arsenal every bit as much as they did Spurs last year, isn't it? :arry:

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We have English players in the Arsenal squad and on the pitch, so they have to kiss a bit of ass. :good:

Walcott is really, really poor. Not in the financial sense, because we pay him a fortune. In a footballing sense, his passing, control, decision making, concentration, application, he's just so incredibly poor.

Some nice stuff from Kos, Merts and MOTM (so far) Jenkinson. Song seems to always be on the verge of doing something incredibly pointless and stupid.

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Originally Posted by Coney

We have English players in the Arsenal squad and on the pitch, so they have to kiss a bit of ass. :good:

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We only have Theo tbh

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Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm

Jenkinson is awesome.

Kos too.

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I think Kos may have had his ass kicked some advice from Pat Rice about his defending since the Sunderland game.

At least Jenkinson has looked good, which is encouraging given that he'll be playing regularly until Sagna gets back.

Walcott is having another shocker though. Wenger must be running out of patience with him and will be looking to bring Oxlade in the near future.

Sorry Maccy, but Santos has been an absolute disaster in terms of defending since he's been here.

Gibbs might be poor sometimes, but he's still about 540 times better.

Our defence has been composed apart from him.

Arshavin and Theo awful.

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Originally Posted by Ach

We only have Theo tbh

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On the pitch. Which is why I said 'in the squad'. :good:

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Originally Posted by Coney

On the pitch. Which is why I said 'in the squad'. :good:

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Who else do we have thats English in the squad today?

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Originally Posted by Master Splinter

Sorry Maccy, but Santos has been an absolute disaster in terms of defending since he's been here.

Gibbs might be poor sometimes, but he's still about 540 times better.

Our defence has been composed apart from him.

Arshavin and Theo awful.

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I can think of twice Santos coud've been beaten like what had happened on our right side but he got his big frame in the way and stopped them dead in their tracks. I suspect the same will be borne out in the second half but he will, in fairness give the ball away.

Jenko doing well considering he's got no support in front of him. Santos ain't coming off so well....basically 'cos I don't think Arshavin is actually playing at all.

Whereas we used to play everything through the middle, we're now playing everything out wide and not moving the ball quick enough.

We need to stretch them more. Defending ok, with Kos and Merts doing fairly well.

Second half on the way.

Come on gunners!!!!!!!! :scarf: