Match Reaction vs Galatasaray (away).

Please , before anyone else decides to post that we looked good tonight - just watch highlights of this & the home game - Galatasary are the worst team we've come across in the C.L for a very long time.
The fact we couldn't punish a non-league strength defence more than we did is embarrassing.
Leicester or Burnley would have put 5 or 6 past this lot.

Galatasaray literally lose all their games by 5 or 6.

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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory

That goal from Ramsey was absolutely crazy. Wonder strike!

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Only ever seen those go in on FIFA tbh.

Ridiculous strike.

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Originally Posted by Bob Loblaw

Galatasaray literally lose all their games by 5 or 6.

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Not in the Turkish league, equivalent of our Rymans

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Originally Posted by Dein-machine

Not in the Turkish league, equivalent of our Rymans

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Exactly.

They literally lose all their European games by 5 or 6.

Check it out if you don't believe me.

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Originally Posted by Chippy

I would start Podolski on Saturday! No brainer! I actually thought we played well tonight! Makes a nice fucking change! :)

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Podolski starting meaningful games. :lol:

He's probably been fined a weeks wages for daring to score.

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Originally Posted by Dein-machine

Please , before anyone else decides to post that we looked good tonight - just watch highlights of this & the home game - Galatasary are the worst team we've come across in the C.L for a very long time.
The fact we couldn't punish a non-league strength defence more than we did is embarrassing.
Leicester or Burnley would have put 5 or 6 past this lot.

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Great post.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

You can make people happy by picking a sqaud to do the job and playing players in their proper positions. You can make people happy by not bringing on a 17 year old kid and playing him out of position. You can make people happy by going for first instead of settling for second. It's not the 4-1 result that's the problem, it's the manager's attitude. When was the last time the team played well in both halves of a match? It's hard to recall. 4-1 in isolation is a decent result. 4-1 in the context of what we needed to do tonight is a consolation result. 4-1 in terms of the performance over 90 minutes and in relation to this season and the nine that went before is just an uptick before the shattering next crash. Nothing is moving forward at this club, there's not a hint of progression. Hell, we even have fans arguing over whether we are stagnating or regressing! The optimistic ones argue we are stagnating.

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No one denied that mistakes have been made and a change is needed .But not recognising the great job which has been done throughout is taking things for granted .
I admit that is humain nature . Not only in football . In every walk of life when people have inherited some privileges due to hard work of their predecessors , they tend to take it for granted .
Coming back to today result , the kids deserves all credits . Garatassaray is a " big team" not a great but when playing at home with their noisy fans , the atmosphere is quite intimidating . Many big team have left that ground with their tails between their legs . You can count Liverpool , Juventus , and Manchester United among Garatassaray victims .

You can only beat what's put in front of you and the team did that.

Shame the manager wasn't a bit more ambitious. Starting to calm down a bit now. There were plenty of positives. Podolski taking his chance. Ramsey showing he has it in him to be one of Europe's best midfielders. Ox kicking the shit out of their "enforcer". Even Merts not fucking up completely and totally. The players did okay tonight.

And I suppose, grudgingly, on balance the chance of us overhauling Dortmund was slim enough to make it acceptable to prioritise the Newcastle game. I guess it's 10 years of watching us "nearly" do stuff that triggers the overwhelming frustration.

Was reading Red Cafe. I swear those guys like our club more than we do. It's a bit embarrassing really.

Anyway, this is one of the best goals of all time. No shitting. This is a magnificent goal.

https://vine.co/v/OrxHAvEaZQn/embed

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

I moaning because we actually could have won that 6-0, but when the opportunity presented itself we had to pass it up because Wenger had already written the game off. You can see by his squad selection he had no intention of chasing Dortmund and had already settled for second. It's that mentality I'm moaning about. We won 4-1 having only played for 45 mins and with Sanogo on the pitch. Why not play for 90 and see what happens? He never does. He always does the barest minimum.

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Defeatist mentality. Wenger is a loser now.