Match Reaction vs United

Premier League

Arsenal V Southampton
Sat 23 Nov 15:00
Champions League - Group F

Arsenal V Marseille
Tue 26 Nov 19:45
Premier League

Cardiff V Arsenal
Sat 30 Nov 15:00
December 2013
Premier League

Arsenal V Hull
Wed 4 Dec 19:45
Premier League

Arsenal V Everton
Sun 8 Dec 16:00
Champions League - Group F

Napoli V Arsenal
Wed 11 Dec 19:45

All winnable games, we play Shitty away on the 14th after Napoli though, so 2 days rest for that :wacko: . Hopefully the group is wrapped up somehow by then so we can field a reserve side.

City will pose a different problem for us, they have so many good forward players and will attack us so i think it would suit us. Its Man u and Chelsea who know how to beat us and have proved it over the years.

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Originally Posted by AFC Leveller

City will pose a different problem for us, they have so many good forward players and will attack us so i think it would suit us. Its Man u and Chelsea who know how to beat us and have proved it over the years.

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Yeah, I agree - it feels very much like a horses-for-courses problem with us vs Man U / Chelsea at the moment, rather than a huge gulf in class. It's getting tighter between us - 1-0 at OT is certainly better than it has been in the recent past - but they still just annoyingly know how to beat us, every time, and that's got to change.

To be honest, I think that's my overall feeling this morning: annoyance, rather than raw anger or despondence. It's still a loss, but not a particulalrly embarrassing or worrying loss, as far as they go, so the result doesn't bother me that much in itself - I'm just irritated beyond belief that it's always f--king Man f--king United and Robin f--king van C--t who do it! And I'm sick of having to watch their preening, tosser "fans" lauding it over us. AAAARRRGH!!!!

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On the plus side, we're still clear at the top of the Prem and leading the the group of death in the CL (both by points rather than GD), and we have half a team of players to return from injury and sickness (hopefully imminently), which should give us a timely boost. So not all doom and gloom.

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Originally Posted by I am invisible

Yeah, I agree - it feels very much like a horses-for-courses problem with us vs Man U / Chelsea at the moment, rather than a huge gulf in class. It's getting tighter between us - 1-0 at OT is certainly better than it has been in the recent past - but they still just annoyingly know how to beat us, every time, and that's got to change.

To be honest, I think that's my overall feeling this morning: annoyance, rather than raw anger or despondence. It's still a loss, but not a particulalrly embarrassing or worrying loss, as far as they go, so the result doesn't bother me that much in itself - I'm just irritated beyond belief that it's always f--king Man f--king United and Robin f--king van C--t who do it! And I'm sick of having to watch their preening, tosser "fans" lauding it over us. AAAARRRGH!!!!

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AAAARRRRRRGGGGHH!!!!

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You have summed up my feelings entirely.

I haven't psyched myself up for a game that much for ages. Usually, I'll keep reserved about the outcome. But I believed we would stuff 'em for a change.

SOOOO FUCKIN FRUSTRATING.

"Our National team meets in Munich! And Jogi comes with bad news: Ozil and Mertesacker stay in London due to flu" @BILD_Sport

Good news, hopefully they miss one of the games

I still can't believe the club doesn't give players flu jabs, damn you flu virus for costing us the game :threaten:

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Originally Posted by LDG

You have summed up my feelings entirely.

I haven't psyched myself up for a game that much for ages. Usually, I'll keep reserved about the outcome. But I believed we would stuff 'em for a change.

SOOOO FUCKIN FRUSTRATING.

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I don't know if I ever entirely believed we'd stuff them - I just wanted it, more than I've wanted any result for a long time! I just can't stand their bloody fans, and that dutch a-hole.

Oh well, c'est la vie, and all that - we get another crack at them later in the year at our place, so I guess we'll just have to focus on that. We still need to break that hoodoo that playing at Old Trafford seems to have on us, but that'll have to wait until next season now - if we can beat them at our place then it'll still be progress...

Well that explains Ozil's lethargy. I wondered a few times if we had players out there that were in the early stages of the bug.

I do think that yesterday was mainly down to shit luck for a change.

This team has played well enough, consistently enough, to be given the benefit of the doubt.

I love supporting this team, and I have not felt so positive about that for a long while.

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Originally Posted by BOBN

He just HAD to buy a striker, had to. How the fook do you bring on Bendtner? Who relies on Bendtner to change a game? He failed. Bar the shittest 5 teams they can all bringing on a more formidable forward to change a match.

Btw the Premier League is shit. Anybody can beat anybody because everybody's shit. Like 2 top players in the whole thing. Joke league.

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Wenger may have missed the trick with a striker but he sure as hell deserves the season to give it a go for the title.

With Cripps gone I've probably been his biggest critic alongside Zimm on this forum, but what I do know is that the problems do not lie with Arsene Wenger anymore.

What I do know is that the win against Liverpool, but more importantly the win away to Dortmund, opened my eyes to a new Arsenal. In fact, this week has been pretty big in terms of softening my attitude towards Wenger because I fully expected us to drop points against Liverpool then draw/lose to Dortmund, followed by a spanking at Old Trafford, just like what we have been seeing over the years. But we got 6 points. We were organised, disciplined and resilient, and instead of being embarrassed, I was proud to be an Arsenal fan. That tells me calamity Arsenal has gone.

We asked Wenger to stop being a control freak. He has let Bould train the defence this season.
We asked him to sign a world class player. He delivered Ozil.
We asked him to stop making bizarre subs. So far this season his subs have been pretty much spot on.
We asked him to apply some tactics. Our high defensive line and team organisation proves that we are working on the finer details in training.

In other words, Wenger is delivering. All we ever wanted was for a manager to do the basics and apply some common sense. He is now doing that.

The result yesterday was linked to fatigue, not the manager. That gives me hope because we can strengthen in January and give ourselves a real shot at the title. It's no longer the nutty manager holding us back, it's fatigue. We can deal with that.

I'm interested to see what he does in January but for now, I guess you could say I'm kind of in the Wenger in camp. We went to Old Trafford as title challengers and left Old Trafford 2 points clear going into the 2nd international break. Who would have thought we could say that after the Aston Villa loss?