He was our best player. Would have been mental to take him off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boss
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He was our best player. Would have been mental to take him off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boss
Agree, but we won't be playing Livepool every week who generally have one of the better defences.Quote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
At least they showed a bit of passion today. There are some very worrying things going on at Arsenal but I am more content with today's performance than Wednesday's. You can win without playing well (we did on Wednesday) and you can lose while playing well (we did today IMO).
Exactly, we just had to hope he would be wise but he's only 19 and is still learning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters (TPFKA WWTL@WHL)
it was a hell of a tight rope to walk. i was so impressed by his drive and energy today but we saw during the week that he needs to manage that a little better as when he came on, he fouled (and was booked?) immediately. he took hold of the team and was box-to-box but he also felt out of control at points and the red card was probably called by most fans in the first half. given the circumstances, it was the right thing to take the chance and leave him on. the gutting thing today was the own goal that was complete bad luck and undermined the effort made at the back where miguel really impressed too, apart from his first 5/10 min.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters (TPFKA WWTL@WHL)
You are seriously mental Letters it was an accident waiting to happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters (TPFKA WWTL@WHL)
If you couldnt see it you best book a place on the funny farm with Arsene.
Our 'best player' cost us a point with his recklessness, and it doesn't matter how good he is if he's facing an early bath. He played reasonably well but if he can't control himself on a pitch (which he couldn't) Wenger should have taken him off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters (TPFKA WWTL@WHL)
We're without him for this game as well as the United one, given that Song and Wilshere are already missing that's more problems in CM.
Disappointed with the result but felt much better after this match than the one against Udinese. Frimpong has a fantastic attitude and played incredibly well. He is too young and too inexperienced to be relied on, but he has fantastic promise.
Grow up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
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Originally Posted by GB.
They played well.Quote:
Originally Posted by FakeYank
yeah i think he'll leave if we have a disappointing season. he wont be able to take the pressure.
our squad is bare thin and for the first time, we're actually worse than when this youth project started. so it's been a full circle of nothing.
http://img.izismile.com/img/img2/20090409/gifs_04.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Ach
Frimpong was outstanding.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fats
Indeed he was, after that dreadaful red card.Quote:
Originally Posted by GB.
:good: Overall a good performance - just that first unneccessary booking let him down.Quote:
Originally Posted by GB.
I don't know why I'm bothering to respond, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you listened to the match on the radio with commentary provide by Ralf Little.
He was stupid. Makes a bad challenge in the opening few minutes and instead of holding his hands up and being humble, he got straight in the refs face. When you make that sort of impression, expect no favours from the ref or verbal warnings because you've shown your aggressive and unreasonable. Expect cards.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coney
The Guardian mentioned the same thing with Lansbury's appearance. Stupid kids.
Frimpong was pretty good for a rookie, but hardly outstanding.
nowhere near outstanding. lost the ball a few times early on and was positionally weak at times, hence why he had to foul opposition players to try and get the ball back as he'd put himself in a bad position.
played well. raw and aggressive. exactly what we need.
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
TBF there were 7 pretty darn good performances out there, the keeper, the back 4, Lesbo and Frimpong. RVP was missing and Theo, Arshavin and Ramsay were horrifically bad. You just can't carry 3-4 players in any game let alone when you're playing a team like Liverpool (who in truth were nothing special at all today)
I think my biggest problem though is with this 4-3-3 formation which, let's be honest is not a 4-3-3 formation. We do not have 3 attackers on the field. It's a 4-5-1 formation which we should never be playing, esp at home. It's great to see Jenkinson can cross well but what's the point when we only ever have RVP in the box, hardly an aerial god.
Wenger :rose: and i think we need to call the :police:
It was a decent performance in general and I think a point would have been good for us (even before Frimpong's red). It was nice to see a bit of bite out there and the boos at the end were certainly directed towards Wenger rather than the input of the team IMO.
It was just disheartening to realise that expectations have now dropped quite low, to the point where I actually felt sorry for everyone involved rather than the usual anger after a bad result.
We desperately need some signings to galvanise everyone at the club, roll on the next 2 weeks.
Theo needs to play down the centre or the left. Was totally useless today. I didn't see him switch positions with RVP or Arshavin at all today. He didn't make many mistakes, just totally uninvolved.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seaman's Ponytail
Arshavin was off today. He's not suited on the wing either. Ramsey was lost and once again the middle was open. Wenger has to get his head straight and think about what he's going to do for the game in Italy. We might go all defence for the next game and try to hold a lead. Right now, I can't see where the goals are going to come from. We've carried our slump from last season into this one.
Well what can you say. The club is in a mess right now. No leadership throughout, no discipline. Wenger has neglected the team to such an extent that players want to leave in their prime. Unheard of before. We also see the embarrasment of playing Bendtner, who he has tried all summer to move out, being selected over Chamack. An admission from Wenger that he acknowledges that that the morrocan doesn't have any effect on this side whatsoever. Wenger cuts a sad image, more akin to Basil fawlty than a top football manager, the press are having a field day but you have to say he has brought it on himself.
Wenger has said he has been working day & night on transfers; I'd agree however it's all on departures. The flawed policy of securing young potential like Bendtner, Denilson, Vela and paying them over the odds, has resulted in the problem we now have. They haven't reached that potential and no-one is prepared to take on their excessive salaries. We're stuck with them
The fans of this club pay more per matchday than any other club and Arsenals finances rely heavily on the fan because of it's shoddy commercial failings, So if any teams Fan is entitled to boo or vent it's anger, then it's ours.
what was yesterdays attendence? the real one, thot the shite they like you to believe.
He misplased 1 pass, and was never dissposesed. Make one of our few shots on goal forcing a corner, although he make a crappy clearance after a corner and only played 70 minutes he'd done more than denilson in his last 700.Quote:
Originally Posted by She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Seemed to be full to me, but then the heavens opened and many in the first few rows in the lower tiers deserted their seats.Quote:
Originally Posted by alexander
I was in Row 9 in Block 31 and the droplets from the rook were landing in the row in front - anyone closer than that to the pitch got soaked if they stayed in their seats.
Adzzz got soaked.
Thought it might have been quieter, but seems there will always be enough people to fill that stadium.Quote:
Originally Posted by GB.
I expect it will be quieter for the matches against the likes of Scrote and Boreburn.
We were always going to have a full house against Liverpool.
:lol: Yeah - was heading for the 12 Pins and this drowned rat turned up!Quote:
Originally Posted by GB.
And although he was given a red card he got applauded off the pitch because we had all appreciated someone in the team making a proper effort.Quote:
Originally Posted by AKBapologist