How was that not a foul on Pepe?
How was that not a foul on Pepe?
Laca booked for a trip. Different standard of reffing depending on the team.
Davies booked, run at him!
Both the Spuds full backs on a yellow.
Laca gets booked for being fouled
1-1 HT.
Good going Kolasinac you bellend.
He is so dumb.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
you're forgetting Laca can't runQuote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Kolasinac has no idea what he's doing. He's not a CB ffs Arteta!
Our front players should own a dart board with the faces of our back 4
HT Arsenal 1 Arsenal -1
Desperately dull and unimaginative from both teams. But the spuds don't have a midfield and we've failed to exploit it because we can't pass.
Michael Oliver is a twat. Pity. When he first started I had a lot of hope for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Amazingly Luiz didn’t compound it by going through the back of Son in the area and getting himself sent off
He offers nothing at CB or LB. Totally useless playerQuote:
Originally Posted by Penguin
Pepe is just does everything wrong unless he has a shooting opportunity in and around the right side of the box.
Saka and Holding would calm things down. Maybe Willock and Torreira a bit later.
We don't know how to use Auba any more. He's just drifting around aimlessly trying to make things happen by himself. All that pace, his ability to beat a player, wasted. Why's he stuck out there in no-man's land when he should be a knife straight through the middle?
it's what happens when you're doing favours to players who lick your arse rather than those who are the best players in their positionsQuote:
Originally Posted by Penguin
all Arteta's 'non-negotiable' stuff is just BS, he's falling for the same teachers pet trick from Xhaka, Mustafi, Kola etc as Emery did
They're asking what Kola should do in that situation? Don't fucking even think of playing backwards! Just fucking stop it you cowardly bastard. Even Redknapp can figure it out.
Torreira yes, but Willock does very little, but i'm sure he'll get his usual 15-20 minutesQuote:
Originally Posted by Master Splinter
tbf, Xhaka seems to the the only stabilising influence in this team. At least when he gets the ball he doesn't immediately look to get rid of it and tries to use it. Too much of it is sideways and backwards, but he's not a headless chicken like so many others in this team. I'd rather have a top talent in there, but when you look at who we actually have available Xhaka seems the best option to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
Kola is just so poor in this position, passing is dreadful and defensive positioning non existent. With Luiz in there as well it's such an easy area for the oppo to attack.
Exactly. I hope Arteta realises that it's his head that will roll unless he's ruthless with these twats.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
Arteta will never sub Xhaka even if he dropped his pants and followed it with a turd in the middle of the pitch
Replay showed that Kola wasn't even looking when he played that ball. Instead of passing it to Luiz's left he placed it between him and SonQuote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Ceballos has been very good in brighter news though, again.
His only instinct is to pass back. When he first arrived he wanted to get forward, probably too much. I guess that was whipped out of him by successive managers who like their pitter-patter ball.Quote:
Originally Posted by Globalgunner
Christ! Auba makes the run - we ignore it and play it backwards. FFS!
Mustafi could not work out whether to dive in or stay back, got it right in the end though.
Why no yellow for Winks?
No booking for Winks. I see.
No yellow for Winks for such an obvious foul. Right in front of Oliver
Wow, Bellerin. Charges up the pitch with the ball. Stops. Turns. Passes it all the way back.
wanks should've been booked then
Hit it first time Bellerin!
Awful by Bellerin. You hit that. Instead he dithers.
Mustafi overhead on target. :bow:
Ceballos. :cloud9:
Nice play by Xhaka
The boy has stagnated badly in the last 4 yearsQuote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Pepe had time there. He looked up. Picked out the defender and delivered it perfectly.
He's been really good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xhaka Can’t
Auba hits the woodwork!