Match Reaction v Fulham

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

Didn't djouruo who had practically been baby sitted by theo the entire match only get his yellows after walcott came off? I think Riise didn't go back into his own half either as he was more than able to keep up with the subs.

Not saying Theo wasn't shocking offensively and that we should have had world class opens on the bench, but we lost that match the moment theo and gervinho came off.

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And that's what people are missing. The shape of the squad was disrupted.

Rosicky had a free role when he came on and was drifting all over the place. It left our wingbacks exposed and they're not natural wingbacks. Both Yossi and Rosicky are slow as well.

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

Didn't djouruo who had practically been baby sitted by theo the entire match only get his yellows after walcott came off? I think Riise didn't go back into his own half either as he was more than able to keep up with the subs.

Not saying Theo wasn't shocking offensively and that we should have had world class opens on the bench, but we lost that match the moment theo and gervinho came off.

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If that theory is true then we're in very serious trouble as a club. It means we need the pace of our wingers for defensive purposes even though they offer zero threat up front and even against mid table teams. Which means we genuinely have constructed a team where we rely on a single player to score all the goals. If that's the case it's only a matter of time before we plunge down the league because RvP can't keep up this scoring rate.

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Originally Posted by She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

gotta agree with the people saying if we had decent wingers we would have won this game. and perhaps thats the biggest problem at the moment, the fact we rely heavily on rvp for goals and when he's not on form we dont win.

imagine if we had goetze and mata on either wing. tbf you dont even need both just either would do. someone who can put a fucking decent cross in instead of a hopeless one. jesus christ.

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But we were winning the game. 1-0 to the Arsenal was coming back in style.

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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory

And that's what people are missing. The shape of the squad was disrupted.

Rosicky had a free role when he came on and was drifting all over the place. It left our wingbacks exposed and they're not natural wingbacks. Both Yossi and Rosicky are slow as well.

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The free role for Rosicky was strange, but it's not like Fulham didn't have several good chances which they should have scored before Theo went off. It was a bad performance today. A better team than Fulham would have had it wrapped up much earlier because with RvP turning in an average performance we weren't getting goals from anywhere else and our defence is bare bones now.

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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory

But we were winning the game. 1-0 to the Arsenal was coming back in style.

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Nah, no team can carry 200 million injuries in defence.

Absolute bollocks that the taking Theo and gerv off cost us the game. Remember the hangeland and Dempsey chances that shouldve been put away moments before? We were getting battered even with them on the pitch. We definitely needed an outlet but they weren't it.

Imagine the mods are the board, and GW is the Emirates Stadium!

Sellout crowd, today is payday.

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Originally Posted by Maestro

Imagine the mods are the board, and GW is the Emirates Stadium!

Sellout crowd, today is payday.

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Sack the board and I want to move back to the old stadium!

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

If that theory is true then we're in very serious trouble as a club. It means we need the pace of our wingers for defensive purposes even though they offer zero threat up front and even against mid table teams. Which means we genuinely have constructed a team where we rely on a single player to score all the goals. If that's the case it's only a matter of time before we plunge down the league because RvP can't keep up this scoring rate.

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Attack has always been our best form of defence and whenever a team get on top of us like that we always end up conceding. This is nothing. It has happened many times before. Wenger did it for that 4-4 spurs game. Took off our attackers and the rest was history.

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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory

Attack has always been our best form of defence and whenever a team get on top of us like that we always end up conceding. This is nothing. It has happened many times before. Wenger did it for that 4-4 spurs game. Took off our attackers and the rest was history.

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So if Theo had stayed on an wasted a few more crossing opportunities and run headlong into a few more defenders we would have held out for a win?