Match Reaction vs Aston Villa (home).

Villa are gash but we did what we had to. Brilliant assists and brilliant goals, ....and another clean sheet. Big shout out to Carzola again, Coq, Ramsey did some really good work in the middle of the park. Ozil and Giroud complemented their efforts with guile, guile work rate and astute movement and clinical finishing.

There will be tougher tests but really happy we have Sanchez, Chambo and Welbz on the way back.

I like Ospina and Bellerin, have settled into the team and are picking up form and consistency. Play well and win against the spuds and this will be a very positive spell this season.

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Originally Posted by The Emirates Gallactico

Ok sign me up to the Coquelin fanclub. Another game he completely bossed today and he was especially great in the first half when we were virtually camped out in their half and Aston Villa tried to break on a few occasions. Usually we'd get caught out but Coq was there doing his best Gandalf, "you shall not pass" impression. Still don't think we can risk not getting in a world class DM (especially considering Arteta's age) but I'm not sure he'd be able to displace Coq. He's probably been the best DM in the league for the past month.

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I can vouch for that. He was brilliant.

What he does well is cover for others when they bomb forward or are caught out of possession. A number of times he covered for Bellerin/helped him out when Villa were attacking down the right.

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Originally Posted by Maestro

Villa are gash but we did what we had to. Brilliant assists and brilliant goals, ....and another clean sheet. Big shout out to Carzola again, Coq, Ramsey did some really good work in the middle of the park. Ozil and Giroud complemented their efforts with guile, guile work rate and astute movement and clinical finishing.

There will be tougher tests but really happy we have Sanchez, Chambo and Welbz on the way back.

I like Ospina and Bellerin, have settled into the team and are picking up form and consistency. Play well and win against the spuds and this will be a very positive spell this season.

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Yep. We have a plethora of different options in attack which is a lovely problem to have.

Finally have quality depth across the team.

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Originally Posted by She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

Yep. We have a plethora of different options in attack which is a lovely problem to have.

Finally have quality depth across the team.

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...Wenger out? :unsure:

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Originally Posted by Letters

...Wenger out? :unsure:

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:lol: Still WUMming I see.

If you want to wind up posters and stir arguments, why are you in a position of responsibility? Perhaps you should step down and let someone else do the job on GW? You're not setting a good example.

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Originally Posted by She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

:lol: Still WUMming I see.

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Nope. I was asking a question. :good:

Football managers are judged on results. Our results of late have been outstanding, we finally seem to have a squad with some depth. Does any of that change your opinion on things? If not, why not?

In your own time :coffee:

Things are going great at the moment but we're still 11 points off the top and very unlikely to make that up (would love to be wrong). This is the best squad we've had for a long time but I remain unconvinced if Wenger can get the best out of it on a consistent basis. Personally I still think we won't win the league again under Wenger and I think a change is needed, not that I'd want him to be sacked (won't happen anyway).

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Originally Posted by Gooner23

Things are going great at the moment but we're still 11 points off the top and very unlikely to make that up (would love to be wrong). This is the best squad we've had for a long time but I remain unconvinced if Wenger can get the best out of it on a consistent basis. Personally I still think we won't win the league again under Wenger and I think a change is needed, not that I'd want him to be sacked (won't happen anyway).

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Someone on here pointed out we have two kinds of seasons:
Type 1 where we go off like a train, look like we might have a genuine title shot and then fall apart (but not so badly that we fall out of the top 4)
Type 2 where we're awful for the first part of the season, get it together for the run in but too late for a title charge but do enough to get into the top 4.

Last year was Type 1 although we did win the FA Cup which took the sting out of it. This seems like it's Type 2. Type 2 is quite seductive because it gives you hope for the future, makes you think that if we do the right things in the summer (:lol:) then we might just have a proper title challenge the next year. I dunno. The whole thing makes my head hurt. I don't think we'll win a title under Wenger again but with City and Chelsea around it's hard to see how we could anyway.

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Originally Posted by Letters

Nope. I was asking a question. :good:

Football managers are judged on results. Our results of late have been outstanding, we finally seem to have a squad with some depth. Does any of that change your opinion on things? If not, why not?

In your own time :coffee:

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Does 15 games wipe out 9 seasons? No.

Going on a good 15 game run when we're out of the title race and there's less pressure means nothing, because the league is ultimately done and dusted between the top 2 clubs now. It's no good going on this sort of run now we're out the title race. For me to change my mind we would need to go on a run like this at the crucial point of a title race i.e. when we're still in for a shout. Now you could say 'well we could still win the title', which is technically true, but do you deep down in your heart think we will? Or even put up a fight for it? No.

Another thing that would weaken my stance would be beating a team managed by Mourinho, because that's something we haven't done before.

Having said that, top 4 and the FA cup would be a good season and it would lessen my anger towards him too, because football's all about winning trophies and 2 in 2 seasons would be great. That would mean I give him another season to see how things unfold next season.

Fair enough, and :gp:
See? We can be civil to one another :hug: