Match Reaction v Udinese

Gervinho made some promising runs.

Theo was OK

Chesney looks sharp, and we haven't conceded.

We need signings.

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Originally Posted by Joker

Blah blah blah i'm a boring cunt

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This is the match reaction thread, I even have my own thread where I highlight the fact we're 8 SENIOR PLAYERS SHORT in the 25 permitted by the FA. Don't see why you can't separate that from the fact we got a result. But whatever.
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Can any new signings play in the 2nd leg?

We need 4 players minimum.

CB, LB, CM and a CF

Give Everton £30m for Jagielka and Baines, get Parker in asap and some quality CF

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

This is the match reaction thread, I even have my own thread where I highlight the fact we're 8 SENIOR PLAYERS SHORT in the 25 aloud by the FA. Don't see why you can't separate that from the fact we got a result. But whatever.
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Originally Posted by Ach

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A rare slip by me, enjoy it. :coffee:

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Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner

Not sure how you came to that conclusion we played 2 games this season. Anyway did you think we would batter them with the team put out and players missing.

If thiswas UTD who did this you be having an organasm ovr them.

chill out, yeah it was not the best perfomance, but not the worst.

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Because once again just like last season we're awful.

I'm not having the players missing BS to be honest, we should have done our business by now, the fact we haven't and are incompetent is not an excuse and shouldn't be used as one

It was borderline embarrassing and unless we spend some money nothing will change mark my words.

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

This is the match reaction thread, I even have my own thread where I highlight the fact we're 8 SENIOR PLAYERS SHORT in the 25 permitted by the FA. Don't see why you can't separate that from the fact we got a result. But whatever.
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I made the point about the lack of quality in the squad because today's match laid those weaknesses out in the open. Wenger actually said the squad is too big, ignoring not just the lack of quality but even the fact we have 8 unused slots in first team squad as you say. This tells me the guy's lost the plot and his delusions are costing us big time.

PS: I'm neither boring nor a cunt.

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist
This is the match reaction thread, I even have my own thread where I highlight the fact we're 8 SENIOR PLAYERS SHORT in the 25 aloud by the FA. Don't see why you can't separate that from the fact we got a result. But whatev

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Originally Posted by Ach

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Is that like Girls Allowed?

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Originally Posted by Joker

I don't have any sense of entitlement that we should be winning trophies season after season, and that we should be playing champagne football week in week out. I know this is impossible for any football team, and I understand football is more than just about trophies, and we're lucky to have seen so much silverware in the last 15 years.

The anger and frustration is due to the almost criminal manner that Wenger dismantled an experienced squad of players who had won trophies from 2005-2007, and failed to recreate a sufficiently strong squad of experienced, quality players, instead relying on young players to step up, even though most of them were simply mediocre players. Tonight I saw the result of incredible negligence that Wenger has shown when it comes to developing a robust squad of players who can cope with injuries, rather than hoping to get lucky whenever a few first team players are out.

We didn't need to spend £100M to make sure our squad was of the required standard, all it needed was a bit of care and attention, but Wenger, being blinded by dogma, failed to see the obvious, which has cost us dearly.

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Yep Letting Diara go was Wengers biggest mistake in the last 5 years and he'd do no harm getting him back, because song is useless in that posistion. We deffo need a LB Not sure where we will get one of those unless we move TV 5 there. Problem today was getting the balls to thje strikers today the service was poor.

Should have played Arshavin today, was he injured or what. should have played bendtner too tbh.

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

Apparently we haven't played amazing football since Wenger arrived. Apparently, great defending and clean sheets is proper footy. Apparently, we've had a shit squad for 3 years.


Seriously though, I'm honestly not sure why people were shocked how poor we were. The last preseason game give us a good preview of how "not ready" this youth side is, so I'm totally thrilled by the result and the effort.

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Wow, we played the best football this country has ever seen, under Wenger. That's why the shit we are seeing now is so hard to take. If we'd been playing like Stoke all these years people would be chuffed we were 1-0 in the qualifying rounds of the CL. But just a few years ago we were in the damn final and now a qualifying game is big time for us. The decline has been so rapid a lot of the fans are still catching up. And all the while a signing here, an addition there, just a few more quid to tighten up the defence has been desperately needed and the fact this hasn't happened has added to the frustration. It's like a great club is deliberately being wound down.

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Originally Posted by Joker

I made the point about the lack of quality in the squad because today's match laid those weaknesses out in the open. Wenger actually said the squad is too big, ignoring not just the lack of quality but even the fact we have 8 unused slots in first team squad as you say. This tells me the guy's lost the plot and his delusions are costing us big time.

PS: I'm neither boring nor a cunt.

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Point being, it was bloody obvious that we'd fucking struggle. A 5 year old could predict that, and Wenger 100% deserves criticism for totally fucking up the summer. But holy shit don't your posts lack any insight or perspective.

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Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner

Yep Letting Diara go was Wengers biggest mistake in the last 5 years and he'd do no harm getting him back

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Nah, Diarra is a dick and we are well shot of him.

Whats O'Leary doing these days?

Next manager for us tbh

Fuck that shit, he just called Diaby a good player

so thats two clean sheets in a row

Chesney :bow:

De gea :haha:

a shocker from ach :pal:

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

Point being, it was bloody obvious that we'd fucking struggle. A 5 year old could predict that, and Wenger 100% deserves criticism for totally fucking up the summer. But holy shit don't your posts lack any insight or perspective.

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But that's like saying, mate calm down and get real, I smashed your motor up, obviously it won't drive that well any more.

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Originally Posted by ollie the optimist

so thats two clean sheets in a row

Chesney :bow:

De gea :haha:

a shocker from ach :pal:

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:goodpost:

The team is crying out for a hero. Someone needs to step up because everything is so flat.

This is the worst shape Wenger has ever left the squad in. Absolutely praying we will buy 1,2 maybe even 3 before the month is out.

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

Point being, it was bloody obvious that we'd fucking struggle. A 5 year old could predict that, and Wenger 100% deserves criticism for totally fucking up the summer. But holy shit don't your posts lack any insight or perspective.

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My insight is that Wenger is guilty of criminal negligence when it comes to maintaining a squad that is capable of enduring a 38 game league season with cup games included. As a manager, he failed to plan sufficiently for the eventuality of injuries that happen to every team in every season, which makes his excuse that "injuries killed us" all the more pathetic. My insight is that these sorts of mistakes would have seen any other manager sacked at any other club, and the fact that he's still here will see us declining in status as a club until the profits start decreasing (due to reduced gate receipts as the corporates stop going) when the parasitic board will finally wake up and smell the coffee.

As far as perspective is concerned, I haven't lost a sense of perspective, my views are in line with many Arsenal fans on this board and ones I talk to. We're being sold down a river by a manager who's blinded by dogma and a board who don't have our interests at heart.

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Originally Posted by ItsMe

Because once again just like last season we're awful.

I'm not having the players missing BS to be honest, we should have done our business by now, the fact we haven't and are incompetent is not an excuse and shouldn't be used as one

It was borderline embarrassing and unless we spend some money nothing will change mark my words.

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So your saying if we had our missing players the game would have been the same.

The players were not going to out there and give us a fab show today never going to happen, they just losr their captain, their new captain never plaed. Star player Nasri never played never did AA.

Forget about what should have been done, its toatally irrlevent to my point.

We've played to games and your crying like we have gone the season relegated ffs.

on a posistive note from today, i thought everyone fought for their lives out on that pitch. they put the effort in and played for the shirt. finally

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

The team is crying out for a hero. Someone needs to step up because everything is so flat.

This is the worst shape Wenger has ever left the squad in. Absolutely praying we will buy 1,2 maybe even 3 before the month is out.

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well it was missing its captain and Nasri and AA and Wilshere but i agree we do need to buy some creativity, someone to lift the fans and players alike.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

But that's like saying, mate calm down and get real, I smashed your motor up, obviously it won't drive that well any more.

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What happened to the Niall Quinn that was going to support the club because the season had started?

And no, it's like saying... dude, I can't believe it your motor works after my dad filled up the tank with water... as didn't we just finish the first leg a goal up with a clean fucking sheet, despite losing 2 defenders during the game. :lol:

I'm gunna enjoy it.

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Originally Posted by ollie the optimist

so thats two clean sheets in a row

Chesney :bow:

De gea :haha:

a shocker from ach :pal:

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Um what?

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Originally Posted by Ach

Um what?

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You clearly missed uniteds game on sunday didn't you? :lol:

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

What happened to the Niall Quinn that was going to support the club because the season had started?

And no, it's like saying... dude, I can't believe it your motor works after my dad filled up the tank with water... as didn't we just finish the first leg a goal up with a clean fucking sheet, despite losing 2 defenders during the game. :lol:

I'm gunna enjoy it.

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So if he lies his ass off, and states the exact opposite of what he sees, that will be deemed supporting his Club?

on a serious note though, what the fuck do the fifth officals do? surely he saw that it was a corner not a goal kick and yet didnt do anything

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

What happened to the Niall Quinn that was going to support the club because the season had started? And no, it's like saying... dude, I can't believe it your motor works after my dad filled up the tank with water... as didn't we just finish the first leg a goal up with a clean fucking sheet, despite losing 2 defenders during the game. :lol:

I'm gunna enjoy it.

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TBF he's allowed his Opinion, don't mean he's not supporting Arsenal. Just because Fakeyank says he wants us out the CL i don't think he'd be too sad if we stayed in.

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

What happened to the Niall Quinn that was going to support the club because the season had started?

And no, it's like saying... dude, I can't believe it your motor works after my dad filled up the tank with water... as didn't we just finish the first leg a goal up with a clean fucking sheet, despite losing 2 defenders during the game. :lol:

I'm gunna enjoy it.

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Supporting the club does not mean watching a shite performance like that and cooing with joy. I'll enjoy it if we come away with the win over two legs, this game is only half way through and in the balance.

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

You clearly missed uniteds game on sunday didn't you? :lol:

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I dont support them. I watched the Chelsea game and that bored the fuck out of me so couldnt be arsed sitting through another 90 minutes of football

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Originally Posted by GB.

So if he lies his ass off, and states the exact opposite of what he sees, that will be deemed supporting his Club?

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So you thought we were a lazy, one paced, tippy tappy bunch of lazy mercenaries today... After clearly losing the game 0-5?

We were poor today, no doubt, but holy shit, are you saying the we got that result by accident?

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Originally Posted by ollie the optimist

on a serious note though, what the fuck do the fifth officals do? surely he saw that it was a corner not a goal kick and yet didnt do anything

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Probably the same as the 4th umpire and the match referee in cricket.

F all

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

So you thought we where a lazy, one paced, tippy tappy bunch of lazy mercenaries today... After clearly losing the game 0-5?

We where poor today, no doubt, but holy shit, are you saying the we got that result by accident?

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Another rare slip? Can i enjoy this too?

There was certainly some laziness amongst the midfielders, the way they failed to track runners, allowed their midfielders to have time on the ball, and left huge gaps for them to exploit. Moreover, the way one of their players run through our defence in the first half to go one-on-one showed a lack of concern for protecting the lead.

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Originally Posted by Joker

There was certainly some laziness amongst the midfielders, the way they failed to track runners, allowed their midfielders to have time on the ball, and left huge gaps for them to exploit. Moreover, the way one of their players run through our defence in the first half to go one-on-one showed a lack of concern for protecting the lead.

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NO!

There were huge games in midfield because both teams had back lines that sat deep, Midfield tracked back but the ball in these situations will always move faster. Song was pretty good at times acting as a CB when one of the others was caught though got caught high up at times, needs to mature but on his way.

And no NQ, i'm just baffled by the phoney outrage. Our squad is shit, yes, absolutely, we played poorly, but my reaction to the match is "thank fuck for that".

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

So you thought we where a lazy, one paced, tippy tappy bunch of lazy mercenaries today... After clearly losing the game 0-5?

We where poor today, no doubt, but holy shit, are you saying the we got that result by accident?

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Yeah, that is exactly what I said.

Well done.

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Originally Posted by GB.

Yeah, that is exactly what I said.

Well done.

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To be fair, you haven't said much of substance in the entire thread.

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

NO!

There were huge games in midfield because both teams had back lines that sat deep, Midfield tracked back and song was pretty good at times acting as a CB when one of the others was caught.

And no NQ, i'm just baffled by the phoney outrage. Our squad is shit, yes, absolutely, we played poorly, but my reaction to the match is "thank fuck for that".

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You need to be patient, we are in the waiting period in-between moving from a title winning team that played great football to a mid table outfit that provides little to no entertainment. As I said, we'll all adjust in time but only a few of us will be saying thank fuck for that.

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

To be fair, you haven't said much of substance in the entire thread.

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Seems a fair response to a match of little substance.

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

To be fair, you haven't said much of substance in the entire thread.

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No, you spot on got what I said.

I gave my view on what was promising, which wasn't much. And what I saw simply has not enthused me to expand further.

All this match does is illustrate what has been said all close-season and in terms of the result being something to celebrate, it is not. This is just half-time.

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

And no NQ, i'm just baffled by the phoney outrage. Our squad is shit, yes, absolutely, we played poorly, but my reaction to the match is "thank fuck for that".

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Maybe the outrage is because the level of shitness exceeded expectations?