Wazza runs around a lot, that's for sure. Metatarsal injury can't be far away.
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Wazza runs around a lot, that's for sure. Metatarsal injury can't be far away.
Lets not wet ourselves, we beat Liverpool and Dortmund this week and lost as the best team 1-0 at OT.
Fuck it, we're still top, United wont be bothering us any furth this season, they're shite.
Next?
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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
To be fair would be far less annoyed and frustrated if we had lost to a Palace instead of United today. I hate feeling like i am trotting out excuses for this performance but it's in such a contrast to last saturday and wednesday that for me it cannot simply be put down to bottling it or fatigue.....why would we bottle it against United and not against a technically superior side like Borussia Dortmund. Annoys the hell out of me.....fortunately we have six days before Southampton so we have time to rest before we need to give a response.
Only 6 points separate the Top 8 now and SIX of them are playing each other next
Arsenal v Saints, Everton v Liverpool & Man City v Spurs.
we need to beat the saints to have little big of breathing space.
It was just a poor game all round, I certainly didn't think United got on top of us at any point.
So annoying to lose out to a set piece and to not even look like scoring.
Gah. Hate losing before an international break as well.
Next five games: Southampton (h) Marseille (h) Cardiff (a) Hull (h) Everton (h)
All winnable. COYG.
Walcott, Pods hopefully back by then. Pods upfront when needed instead of Bendtner
I thought Southampton is where we would slip up. So we need to make sure that doesn't happen. I don't measure a football tach at OT to be a Arkwright. Lots of stuff can and does go on there. But the Sputhampton match is Abigail marker. Must win that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
Squad size (strikers aside) is not a problem. Injuries are. Even if we had a squad of 50, 38 would be injured. Or ill, which is the new thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by IBK
We missed Walcott again today. He will make ozil come alive after the international break.
Starting to like the look of gnabry too having been hugely sceptical. So there's still an awful lot to be positive about.
Need to beat an in form Southampton though and get back on track.
Southampton are awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
When people said tougher tests to come, they were talking about them tbf.
We did look like scoring, several times, many more than a very boring Utd. But Giroud was abit off the pace today, as was Ozil. Shame. Blip.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
We have had a real run of tough fixtures,at home,away in Europe and now this. For once, I welcome an international break.
Bitterly disappointing not to come away with at least a point. Would've been a statement to win but we're closer to the chasing pack now. The big test we normally failed in the past was responding to a bitter setback. Four winnable games coming up in the league and I'd back us for 12 points out of 12. Let's see how the table looks then.
Bendtner's arrival really was depressing though :ilt: rather have seen Monreal with Gibbs further forward
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Originally Posted by Steve French
You welcome key injuries from boring and meaningless FIFA pocket stuffing non-entity who cares who cares natonal gravy train non football let me die instead of watching this fixtures?
Ozil needs to step his game up big time. The combination in the middle wasn't right, Flam and Arteta can't play to together. That's confirmed. Ramsey can't play on the wing...but regardless of that, I'm expecting Ozil to step his game up. Yet to have a game where he's been unplayable and I hope he snaps out of it soon.
Still top of the league at least.
Whenever that oaf is ready to come on I think we can all sense the simultaneous groans of millions of Gooners.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dennis Bendtner
I couldn't have put it better myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Why can't he get injured?Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Gives the likes of podolski, Walcott and AOC some time to get fit though, plus a bit of a rest for Arteta, Flamini, Gibbs etc.
And there's always the chance bendtner could pick up a knock for Denmark...
He just comes on for a brisk walk, probably.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve French
Brisk?Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Walk?Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve French
Not sure what I was thinking.
Let's just move on from this game. Poor selection from Wenger, arteta and flamini in the middle with Ramsey out on the left didn't work before and hasn't worked today. As soon as we changed that it was a better look to the team, Ramsey back where he belongs ect.
The silver lining is that we're still top of the league, but we shouldn't have list today IMO.
Need Theo back asap now and we really need to buy in the Jan window cause a striker is needed.
It was a little concerning how many potential headed goals we let pass by the wayside.......
I thought that if Wenger had to play Flamini and Arteta, that he should have at least thought better of then also pushing Ramsey wide. He is our top scorer after all. It's coming naturally at the moment without the need for him to lick a toad or drink some special elixir to make him score. May as well make the most of it for now.
Mertesacker's absence could not have come at a worse time.
Manure were far from great and we were not much better if at all......
It was obviously annoying to watch but Jones was very good for them. I thought he read the play superbly if I am being honest. Rooney and RvP usually get far more clear cut chances between them and they probably had 1 each was testimony to our efforts defensively. Unfortunately the one goal off Chocolateleg Van Jazz Hands' shoulder was all they needed. I thought we should have made them pay in spite of who was there and who was not and that would have been a lovely message to send to them.
As long as they don't dwell on the defeat and let the results following spiral out of control, the fans won't stay hung up about this. As someone has already pointed out, a few of our rivals go up against each other in the next round of games. Instant, almost guaranteed pain relief. Especially from the City vs Spurs game.
We really need to make that fat ginger prick eat his words and his bendy elbowed mate by the end of the season..... Let's not leave it to chance neither. Get the Dud Viking out the club and buy a proper forward. I was sick of the sight of him before the CoCup exit never mind today. My heart almost dropped out of my anus when he came on. :doh:
Balls.
Balls, balls, balls.
Horrible performance in the 1st half. Better in the 2nd but just not good enough.
Utd really aren't that good, they were there for the taking today and we just didn't step up and give a performance.
Very disappointing. Could be a turning point in the season for us and Utd :(
Because we don't know where he lives.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve French
Our plan B isn't pace, it isn't swift counter attacking movement, it isn't fouling or playing dirty. It is the yet to be exploited ability to score from set-pieces. We can't defend them but, frustratingly, we don't seem to want to score from them either (case in point today, just how many corners did we have and how many of them were nonsensically played short?)
It was à dire game. We could have capitalised on slip-ups by Chelsea, spurs and man city but didn't. Many have touched upon the frustrations of watching this Arsenal side. Could Man Utd have gone to Dortmund midweek and won? Never in a month of Sundays. Makes today's result all the more galling.
We must win our next home game and not give way to mental fragility. Ironically, after we'd been robbed of our unbeaten record at Old Twatford a few years back, our next fixture was à home game against Southampton. We stuttered to a draw, rescued only by a last minute equaliser from the c*nt.
A win's important because I honestly believe that if we keep winning the games we're expected to win, we'll win the league. (Until our next banker away loss at the Etihad in early December)
Mesut Özil...
Discuss.
shit performance. they looked tired, which given a week where we played liverpool home, dortmund away and then united. perhaps was just one big game too many in a week.
united weren't great, nor were we but the league won't be decided on these big four games. they will be decided on the others. look at city. thrashed united, lost to cardiff, villa and now sunderland. 2 points clear, get to xmas without losing and we'll win the league. still confident of that, but no more performances like today
a superb player but needs width to be at his best. his best games were when we had theo or gnabry on the wing. when its all midfielders he struggles. he got more involved when Gnarby was on today and look threatening.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Özil is always lethargic...Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
Can't jump to head the ball else it'll mess up his haircut.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
one more point. after villa game, if you told me that our next loss in the league would be united away in november and we'd be 2 points clear at the top of the league, id have called the men in white coats. shit game, shit result, but lets hope we bounce back like after villa. onwards and upwards
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Originally Posted by Letters
just really pisses me off that we have shamelessly turned losing to these fucks, into a finely distilled art form. no one does it better.
He needs to get involved more regardless of whose playing. That's what makes a world class player. A couple of bad games now and yet to really show what he can do. Just glimpses so far. The best was Napoli. We'll have to give him more time to adjust but it's very disappointing to already be thinking we need player x, y and x for him to really flourish.Quote:
Originally Posted by ollie the optimist
Best player in the PL by such a distance it's a bit embarrassing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Does this mean he'll win every game on his own? Does it mean he won't have any off-performances? Hardly. Football is still about narrow margins. But the effect his signing has had on the club is self evident. He's the cheapest player we've ever signed, in terms of the impact he's delivered.
Extremely sad comment. Just goes to show, there are some fans that could never, ever be satisfied.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniele
On a positive note, how fucking brilliant was Gnabry when he came on? Made a huge difference, we were much better following his introduction because if the pace and width he offered us, which in turn allowed Sagna to put those balls into the box that we very nearly grabbed 2 goals from.
Wenger wore the coat of doom. It's no coincidence.