Shit performance 1st half
better 2nd half on to the next round we go
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Shit performance 1st half
better 2nd half on to the next round we go
Sack Wenger :coffee:
Important win and big relief.
Time to hit the winning trail in the league again this week at Bolton.
First half was rubbish. Second half arguably our best of the season.
Win, Good.
Ach:bow::bow:
Mad 15 minutes. Something like that looked possible though, as Villa were open in the first half. Good to be through.
If i was Theo i would have never celebrated a goal like that, i would been embarrassed but at least it helped us win
We got what we deserved and we played well in both halves. We were just punished for sloppy defending. When was the last time you've seen us look so comfortable on the ball in the middle of the park and create so many dangerous opportunities?
We turned what should have been a comfortable victory into a 3-2 thriller.
Value for money again :bow:.
Two pels and one disgusting deflected special. We really are a proper pub team now. Awesome.
Good to have Sagna and Arteta back for Bolton.
Oxlade-Chamberlain showed a composed all-round game to go with his attacking threat today as well. Surely he has to start every game now without question.
Nah it really wasn't. We didn't deserve to be behind but there you go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
Good to hear the players say they want to win the fa cup tbh
Totally agree. We dominated that game and the only game where i was baffled at the score.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm
Man its so good to see the big guns come back, Arteta and Sagna, i want the team that went on that run to come back again :( the team that beat chelsea and all the other difficult games!
He's probably too bland to even get into the Old Boys Club on MOTD in a few years.Quote:
Manchester United striker Michael Owen on Twitter: "What a comeback that was. Wenger must have hit the right notes in his HT team talk!"
If Owen was an ice cream flavour he'd be pralines and dick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Splinter
Yep and if wenger adds quality in the next few days there is no reason we can't win this cup tbh heck even the clQuote:
Originally Posted by GunnerFan4Life
fair enough, im just comparing the 2 half's and thought the 2nd was much betterQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm
You really jump from one extreme to the other don't you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
Or was your cousin typing during the match?
Pub performance, random result. RvP and Ox get some credit, the rest were very ordinary. Failed to do anything with possession in the first half, defence awful. Lucked out in a mad 15 minutes and then did the usual sitting back routine. Didn't get punished for a change. All the usual problems very evident. Wenger dodges a bullet.
I don't think Wenger said all that much at half time. I have a feeling RVP and Henry said something. RVP and Theo weren't really talking about Wenger and just focusssed on the team effort. Robin kept saying he was proud of the team and Theo was saying it was great team effort and working hard. Also mentioned Robin's half time talk reminding everyone that we haven't one anything in ages. Seems like a real good captain.
Predictable that Ach would be a poor shot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
They said the staff which includes the manager, stop wenger bashing for the sake of it
That was a totally different performance compared to our last three games, especially the performances against Fulham and Swansea where we were passed off the park points. That is an unfair assessment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Seems like we'd be fighting in the relegation zone if we didn't have RvP.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
Not really, said it was a dissapointing 1st half which it was, but a better 2nd half where the lads showed the passion we were asking for. All i was saying with our players back it would be a boost add a bit more quality and who knows.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Splinter
Result could have been anything today. And not because either team played well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
McLeish reckons they were robbed. He's taking it on the chin apparently. Normally he swallows.
twatQuote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
As much as everyone wants to say Wenger must have lost his rag, I don't think he did this time as much as the ESPN pundits kept on suggesting. Keown knows Wenger and thinks he would have stayed calm as well. Against Liverpool, the players said in the interview that he lost his rag and had never seen him like that. When asked this time, RVP brushed past the question and just said we needed to play better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
I don't think Wenger had a reason to lose his rag either. For once, I agree with his interview, we were unlucky to be two goals down. I thought we looked very sharp from the get go and were creating dangerous chances but Villa were defending well.
how was he robbed? cunt. only bad decision by ref was not to send off dunne.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Theo hand balled it into the goal and then Villa had a penalty for hand ball denied. So he says. Not sure if that's going to stop his team being losers, doubt it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ollie the optimist
I preferred the bit where we scored goals.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
Henry and RvP did the half time talk by the look of it. Henry was on the sidelines shouting instructions, Wenger was hiding under his coat. Maybe that was his plan, let the players sort themselves out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
A good performance. An expected win but nice to come back in the manner that we did. Thought the scoreline wasn't representative at all of the first half. Even at HT I thought we could go on and win it and it was great to see the players fight back well in the second. Nice little reminder that a match lasts for 90 minutes, not 45.
Excellent second half performance, that's more like it. We're still far too inconsistent though. Hopefully we get a bit of confidence from this win and can get back on track in the league.
Not sure what game you were watching today. That wasn't a pub team performance. For once we created a lot of chances and dominates possession in the middle. I think Rosicky should be playing more often and Coqulin was good going forwards and that helped Theo a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
It was a better all round peformance from the team.
True, well who ever said it needs to say it every week lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
Yeah u did say at half time we could still win it and we were playing well in the first half. Just sloppy goals. But it never felt like a game where we would struggle to create chances.Quote:
Originally Posted by Syn
didn't we allQuote:
Originally Posted by GB.
Let be fair . The team played really well but unlucky to concede :
We dominated the whole game . Coq was solid . The Ox had a good game . Rosicky was very good in the engine room . We kept possession well for a long time and Villa had to chase the shadow .We created some good chances but unlucky not to put them away . Good to see RVP increase his goals tally . But our goals were not that great . We conceded though a lack of concentration and poor marking for the first goal and we were caught in counter-attack and should have closed Bent down after Fabianski has made a save . Nice to see Sagna back on the pitch .
Anyway , after losing 3 games in a row , it was good to win anyhow to boost up our confidence . A win is a win no matter what . Job done . Come on Middleborough or Sunderland .
I reckon it gonna be Middleborough . Bring them on .