Match Reaction v Sunderland

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Originally Posted by Joker

Sunderland weren't that thuggish. They have a fair number of cloggers yes, but there was only one bad tackle which was by Larrson, and IMO close to a red. Wilshere will be fouled, his style of play will invite challenges and we can't expect opposition to just back off and let us run through them.

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yeah apart from teh elbow by cattermole on cazorla, the two footed late lunge on ramsey in the first minute, the rugby tackles and shirt pulling whenever we were about to break, the dives, the climbing all over our defence

yeah apart from that, not thuggish at all.

That ref was absolutely atrocious. What a ****.

Haven't seen the game yet, will catch up with it on Footie First tonight.

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Originally Posted by Master Splinter

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Wenger on the defence: I told you we had two players in every position. With Sagna and Ramsey coming into the defence, maybe we have now have three in every position!

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That's the best one. He will probably say that.

Also, Sagna :bow: Szczesny :bow: - absolutely brilliant.

Midfield created about 700 chances. We should keep this selection of Cazorla playing on the left, Wilshere no.10 and Ramsey and Arteta at CM. They were all very good.

Walcott and Giroud have to do a lot better in front of goal. Missed far too many chances today. I still can't work out why Podolski's on the bench. I can understand wanting to keep Walcott on the right - he's always a threat but Podolski is probably the in-form player and any of the chances that Walcott and Giroud had fall to him and he's more likely to stick them away. It's the second game in a row Podolski was benched. Hope he starts the main games against Blackburn and Bayern.

https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/3...987456/photo/1

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Originally Posted by Joker

Sunderland weren't that thuggish. They have a fair number of cloggers yes, but there was only one bad tackle which was by Larrson, and IMO close to a red. Wilshere will be fouled, his style of play will invite challenges and we can't expect opposition to just back off and let us run through them.

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But you should expect a ref to deal with that.

Wheelchair must be the most fouled player in the league. He's so nippy and always manages to nick the ball away in time before he gets tackled, but that usually ends up in him being clattered because of his ability. Players like him need protecting.

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Originally Posted by Master Splinter

https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/3...987456/photo/1

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I'll marry him. :coffee:

http://www.arsenal.com/assets/_files...and_v_1816.jpg

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Originally Posted by Master Splinter

https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/3...987456/photo/1

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Virtual kicking ftw
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd3...t#.URa2V2tYCSM

You'd think people were being maimed on the a regular basis the way people go on about the way other teams play, 20 years ago players use to get up dust themselves off and get on with it, nowadays it's a cardinal sin to tackle and give the opposition players a hard time apparently.

I'd personally prefer if we showed our teeth a bit more and put in a few crunching tackles, we use to and it worked very well and teams feared us a lot more than they do now where our players roll around and fall over at the mere sight of a tackle.

Football is a physical sport.