Match Reaction vs United

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Originally Posted by IBK

Well - we can't say we haven't had most of the game to consider this.

In reality all this showed was that we are not really ahead of a vulnerable Premiership.

3 big matches in a week was too much for us. Let's forget this game and move on.

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2 out of 3 ain't bad.

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Originally Posted by Özim

True but that doesn't excuse shoddy passing and lazy tracking back. If we're struggling now by the end of the season we'll be losing every other week, This isn't just another match it was a chance to set a marker and have the players really believe they can do something special. This defeat will put doubts in their minds now, it's knocked my belief we can win something that's for sure, I expected a decent display at least.

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I think the display reflected the tired legs and minds. For me this is what happens when you gamble with squad size rather than something to beat the players with.

Really negative tactics by wenger, who was banking on another Dortmund smash and grab.

We are better than united this year and should have gone there with a line up that would take the game to them from the first minute onwards.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

Poor team selection?....hardly like he had much choice really with the team he picked.

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Everyone would say we lack pace but why we didn't use Gnabry? We could have use him out wide instead of Ramsey.:coffee:

So the fact that our whole squad woke up during the night complaining of nausea and this kept two players out of the starting line up is not in any way significant. Stomach viruses makes people dehydrated especially if they have had diarrhea or vomitting.....your not going to be at your best if you have lost vital fluids. Yes we have played a lot of games in a week, but i don't think it's a coincidence that both Ozil and Cazorla looked totally lethargic out there and couldn't string a pass together.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

So frustrating that we dominated against this side despite being awful, every one of our attacking midfielders played badly with the exception of Wilshere.....yet the media will laud Man United and the tactical masterclass......they sat back deeper than I have ever seen them do at Old Trafford and yet we still didn't have the presence to trouble. Lost a game we never deserved to against one of the most feeble United sides there has ever been.
Yet the media will go on about their shite like Phil Jones and how he kept us at bay, if the players hadn't been spending half the night on the toilet seat he'd have been dead on his arse....We created nothing yet they had to really struggle to keep us at bay....so annoyed!

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Yeah,spot on. We're miles ahead of Moyes' randomness but at this level if you don't play at 100% you can be caught out. Result ad nothing to do with an ordinary ad very Moyes like Utd, everything to do with our ack of a performance. This is like losing to Crystal Palace, a slip up but we won't do it too many times.

I must admit I do wish we had signed Rooney. That **** does such a brilliant job for the team.

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Originally Posted by milla

Everyone would say we lack pace but why we didn't use Gnabry? We could have use him out wide instead of Ramsey.:coffee:

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He should have brought him on much sooner granted, but to be fair why take the risk of starting with an 18 year old in a game like this......for me no doubt at all that Rosicky and Mertesacker would have started if they were fit and they were the big misses today without doubt.

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Originally Posted by milla

Poor team selection from Wenger again. I wonder what will he do when most of our midfielders come back from the international duties next week? How on earth he justified moving Ramsey to the wing for Arteta and Flamini?

Poor and very timid first half, this lot is scare playing at OT. :coffee:

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Old criticisms are sad after we have all been proved 100% wrong. We were superior in every department and yet we were really below par. So an ordinary team grabbed a surprise result. Happens.

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Originally Posted by LDG

Shame we didn't have mertesacker, rosicky, podolski, AOC, walcott available.

Sometimes you just get done by an inferior team, just hate that it was their gaff.

Yeah, we didn't perform, but it is soooo fucking annoying to see those cunts in the crowd singing like they're something special.

We'll finish above them regardless this year, or that I'm confident.

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Their midfield is absolute poo. It's all about conviction and belief. Wilshere, Gnabry and Sagna were the only ones to show it in the attacking third my view. When you get in those positions you have to go 100% for the kill, whether that be a pass or a shot. The rest just didn't do it.

Despite the goal - a good, decisive header from the **** - Merts' absence was not an issue today, as the pre-match concerns might have suggested.