Match Reaction vs Man Utd (home).

My only slight gripe, having now seen the highlights, is that we didn't really humiliate them. It wasn't going to be 8-2 but it could have been 5 or 6.
But that's splitting hairs. Overall it was a fantastic performance and result. This is the sort of performance I always thought we were capable of but we haven't seen enough of this season. We're not going to do that every game but we've shown we can pub team results too, I think we can properly challenge this year.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Tbf I thought Ramsey was excellent, apart from his composure in front of goal. He was very disciplined and did his midfield defensive duties well (freeing up Ozil to dominate the game), linked well with Theo and cut out the Hollywood stuff (in the main). Merts was okay too, apart from that dreadful moment where he was tossed around like a rag doll by Martial (who is half his size). For whatever reason, van Genius thought it was a good idea to put Martial up against Gabriel rather than Merts. I thought that was a good idea too, as I suppose did most Arsenal fans.

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Yeah, I think Ramsey was ok beside the two missed opportunities, one moment where he was caught sleeping in possession near our box and he another one of those blind back passes that could have ended in disaster. But he worked his socks off. Played a great pass into Theo for one of the goals. He just needs to start finding the goal.

Merts was the same. Kept Martial quiet for most of the game and Splinter is right. Another fast defender kept quiet. A couple of wobbles but in general, a solid performance.

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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory

We’ve all been waiting a long time for that sort of performance. A fantastic result. Totally outclassed them and they barely had a sniff on goal. That’s the sort of reaction I had hoped for.

Ozil – What a bloody performance. Been calling for a big performance from this guy and he delivered. There is so much more to his game and he showed what he’s capable of. He looked ready for this one. He was directing the players, looked sharp on the ball, even showed a few tricks with the ball at his feet. Wonderful.

Sanchez – Has to be one of Wenger’s best signings.

Theo – Really proving himself up front. Didn’t score but got two assists and really helped stretch their defence. As Arseblog said, he’s serving up humble pie for the doubters. He’s learning and playing with intelligence. Solid.

Coquelin – Beast of a player. Really deserves more credit for the defensive shit he puts in and his cool ball distribution under pressure.

Monreal – Another unsung hero. Solid.

Cech – He didn’t have much to do but when he did…what a save.

Bellerin – The overlapping runs down the right. An extra weapon and doesn’t give us the jitters on defence.

Mr Wenger – That’s the response we want to see from the team. Prepared them well. Locked up shop and kept our discipline and concentration in the 2nd half. Made the right subs and didn’t unbalance the team. In fact, Ox was unlucky not to score and Bif should have.

This is a result to remember.

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We expect to see this from Theo week in, week out now. He's shown what he can do, now time to start doing it consistently. He must have run twice the yardage he'd normally run so that's the new standard. Tackling too please, keep that up.

Of course they'll all probably come back dead from those shitty, shitty Internationals. Alexis is a particular worry, even if it's only a slight problem he has to play two games for Chile and we know he won't back off. It would be shit to lose players in meaningless matches so fingers crossed and hope for the best.

Ozil gliding about the place pointing to where he wanted the ball and ushering team mates into the space. More of that too please.

Wenger doing his homework and calling in-game tactics, yes we'll have that too.

False dawns? No thanks, bored of those, let's have a genuine turning point instead.

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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory

We’ve all been waiting a long time for that sort of performance. A fantastic result. Totally outclassed them and they barely had a sniff on goal. That’s the sort of reaction I had hoped for.

Ozil – What a bloody performance. Been calling for a big performance from this guy and he delivered. There is so much more to his game and he showed what he’s capable of. He looked ready for this one. He was directing the players, looked sharp on the ball, even showed a few tricks with the ball at his feet. Wonderful.

Sanchez – Has to be one of Wenger’s best signings.

Theo – Really proving himself up front. Didn’t score but got two assists and really helped stretch their defence. As Arseblog said, he’s serving up humble pie for the doubters. He’s learning and playing with intelligence. Solid.

Coquelin – Beast of a player. Really deserves more credit for the defensive shit he puts in and his cool ball distribution under pressure.

Monreal – Another unsung hero. Solid.

Cech – He didn’t have much to do but when he did…what a save.

Bellerin – The overlapping runs down the right. An extra weapon and doesn’t give us the jitters on defence.

Mr Wenger – That’s the response we want to see from the team. Prepared them well. Locked up shop and kept our discipline and concentration in the 2nd half. Made the right subs and didn’t unbalance the team. In fact, Ox was unlucky not to score and Bif should have.

This is a result to remember.

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Thought we defended fairly well too aside from one or two hairy moments. It really was close to a perfect performance as you can get, very disciplined and when going forward we were top drawer, especially in that first half. I honestly didn't think this team had a performance like that in them in a big game.

We need to take belief from yesterday's game because we will be in a very strong position if we can maintain that level of performance.

Still :cloud9:

I really hope we look within and understand that if you give it the effort, both before and during the game, you get the results.

We should be blitzing teams like that all of the time, not just in some games. If you want to win the league, then 75-80% of your matches have to be played like that. You will always get off days and bad patches, but they should be the exception, not the norm.

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Originally Posted by LDG

Still :cloud9:

I really hope we look within and understand that if you give it the effort, both before and during the game, you get the results.

We should be blitzing teams like that all of the time, not just in some games. If you want to win the league, then 75-80% of your matches have to be played like that. You will always get off days and bad patches, but they should be the exception, not the norm.

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Low possession for us again but a clinical use of the possession we had. The exact reverse of tippy-tappy. Tippy-tappy needs to die forever.

We really need to see this level of performance week in week out regardless of opposition. They have it in them. They've shown that.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Low possession for us again but a clinical use of the possession we had. The exact reverse of tippy-tappy. Tippy-tappy needs to die forever.

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thought we were excellent and because of the fast start we didn't need possession. It often happens in reverse in big games where we go behind. have lots of the ball but create very little so the stats look misleading.

Thought the Cech save just before half time was immense. Had they scored the 2nd half could have been very different with our fragile confidence.

Does the game really prove anything or make any real difference over the season. No, just nice to beat United for once. Now we have to do it to Chelsea.

Great performance by the team, although I didn't think we had anything to fear from Utd, I thought the manner we went about the task was immense......obviously we won in that initial blitz but we are who we are and it never surprises me to see us let teams back into games.....but we didn't and defensively I thought we did a job to see out the game, should have had more and Ramsey needs to get his scoring mojo back. It cannot be underestimated what Cech brings to us.....the team is a completely different machine when he is in goal and I loved the reaction he gave at the end. I reckon he is a man on a mission and is pulling the team along with him.
Ozil is a player who frustrates with his apparent disinterest but when he is switched on, his lethargic way is sublime and I see him ticking when Sanchez is on fire......we are second and within touching distance, indifferent games against WHU and Pool, mugged against Chelsea but apart from those doing just as well as anyone else so not really our usual rubbish start to affairs

I think the game proves a lot. Most importantly it proves some of our players have been under-performing. It also proves our manager can get the job done when he makes just a few compromises. Proves some of the plastic fans the club has attracted need to be booted out the door for good if they are that keen to leave their seats.