Stoke v Arsenal Match Reaction

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Originally Posted by The Emirates Gallactico

On a normal season you'd take a point away at Stoke and Liverpool but when you want to win the league you have to win here at places like this - at least occasionally.

The worry is that we've still got to go to Man City, Everton, Utd and West Ham and we can't keep settling on a point in those otherwise we'll fade away.

It puts a tremendous amount of pressure for our next game against Chelsea, who despite their drop this season, remain a tough proposition. I just hope the likes of Alexis and Ozil are ready to go for them.

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Good news is we have two home games more to play than City and are the most consistent team home and away in the league so far. Second most points earned for both.

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Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...

I'll always take a point here given our record. Even more so it keeps us top.

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We shouldn't have such a bad record here, it's more to do with our inadequacies than anything else, again today they matched us or even edged it.

We should be winning games likes this, regardless of our record if we're the real deal.

Wenger pleased with the spirit, what a surprise :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Özim

We shouldn't have such a bad record here, it's more to do with our inadequacies than anything else, again today they matched us or even edged it.

We should be winning games likes this, regardless of our record if we're the real deal.

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Well we do, so I'll take the point.

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Originally Posted by RomfordPele

Am convinced both were fit enough to play today. Ozil's minor knock is a fig leaf for wenger resting him, thinking the team he put out would be good enough. He also said alexis was 95% fit. Why wasn't he on the bench then?

No chance of the league while wenger is manager. We will be in a dogfight for fourth by march as per usual.

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Nah, Wenget loves Mesut. No way would he not play him in the league if he is fine. Did he also instruct Ozil to reference his injury on Twitter?

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Originally Posted by Kano

Good news is we have two home games more to play than City and are the most consistent team home and away in the league so far. Second most points earned for both.

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Along with Leicester we are, but that doesn't mean lot, much more pressure in the 2nd part of the season, anyhow City have been pretty poor and you can only see them getting better, that 4-0 win will certainly help.

Man City haven't won consecutive games for ages. If they do that, then I might think they are back.

Plus they have West Ham away next which shouldn't be an easy one.

Seen on its own it was a hard game and glad we got a point. without Ozil and Alexis, we need a new way to play. Ox did very well I think. He held his own against the caterpillar dozers and tried to make thinks happen. We need to manage him as he has bags of potential IMO. Pray we dont we play like crap against Chelsea then. 3 draws in a row will not be the stuff of champions

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Originally Posted by Özim

Along with Leicester we are, but that doesn't mean lot, much more pressure in the 2nd part of the season, anyhow City have been pretty poor and you can only see them getting better, that 4-0 win will certainly help.

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Consistency home and away means a lot for a successful campaign. City coming back are what people thought when they spanked Newcastle. It's getting as cliched as hearing that Chelsea are about to turn things around and storm the league for fourth place. The level of play in this league is shit - but you don't watch much football as you told me last week so you wouldn't know that - so I don't know why people expect us to be immune from it.

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Originally Posted by Globalgunner

Seen on its own it was a hard game and glad we got a point. without Ozil and Alexis, we need a new way to play. Ox did very well I think. He held his own against the caterpillar dozers and tried to make thinks happen. We need to manage him as he has bags of potential IMO. Pray we dont we play like crap against Chelsea then. 3 draws in a row will not be the stuff of champions

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Ox did very well - what game were you watching. He can't pass for toffee & has no brain whatsoever. It's this lack of quality in key areas that need addressing & turds like Ox need to be moved on.