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Terrible stuff.
Arteta awful.
Giroud awful.
Sagna awful.
Fraudthora awful.
Arsenal defending all together awful.
Swansea dominate. We got lucky. Should be the end for a few of our players. Giroud, Arteta, Ramsey and Kos are finished.
We got a replay but Swansea have already destroyed us once there
Swansea dominate. We got lucky. Should be the end for a few of our players. Giroud, Arteta, Ramsey and Kos are finished.
We got a replay but Swansea have already destroyed us once there
the whole back 4 got carved so easily, all this discussion of signing midfielders and strikers, a new centre back wouldn't go a miss. Cheeky loan bid for Song?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gervinho's Forehead
Don't forget Mertesacker awful.
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Originally Posted by cricketsi
Sorry yes he was awful too.
Always good to get results against teams with more resources than us.
his height is his best asset and he always gets out jumped. its ridiculous.Quote:
Originally Posted by cricketsi
we can't compete with Swansea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Entertaining second half though.
We were dreadful for the first half, then after falling behind had a really good period to go 2-1 up, but then predictably panicked and conceded the equaliser, after which we were a nervous wreck and could have lost the match.
Walcott and Giroud were poor up front, and IMO Ramsey was the best of the original front 3 who started the match.
Arteta was abysmal, I don't know how many times he gave the ball away or dawdled on the ball and was almost dispossessed.
The two centre halves were terrible, Mertesacker for the first goal was embarrassing.
All in all a decent result considering we were close to being knocked out if Tiendale scored at the end, even though the performance was schizophrenic.
The whole team is pub average and declining in quality year on year. Ramsey is pure crap.He gets into the box and makes stevie wonder look like a marksman. Anyway you look at it. We cannot defend, it doesnt matter what the personnel are Wenger would crap them up with his pure incompetence. If Wenger built a defence made od bricks. It would end up looking like Swiss cheese. Who is going to save this club from this man`s pure ridiculousness?
Ian Wright didn't know that FA Cup games only get one replay these days. :haha:
On the game, thought we attacked quite well in the second half, shame the Nervous Kittens made an appearance but a draw is ok.
Merts strength has never been his aerial ability, he has no spring in his step because he's so languid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dicks and chicks
but he's still like 6043 ft heigh, there are no excuses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Another small, tippy tappy front man? I don't think so. We should have grabbed Ba who will probably end up being the chavs new Drogba. Or better yet, we shouldn't have sold the worlds best (by a mile) striker. Especially for pennies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dicks and chicks
Not saying there are, but it's naive to think his height automatically means a strong aerial presence. I bet I could out-jump him tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dicks and chicks
apparently giroud is better though. But yeah who would've though selling the worlds best striker to a team that used to be our rivals would have had such an impact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Noel_Quinn
Giroud wasn't great but he did get an assist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gervinho's Forehead
Arteta isn't what we need, pisses me off that hes vice captain as we need a mobile deep lying midfielder that will engage the opposition...what was he doing for grahams goal?? Hes a fucking pussy, doesn't look for the ball, weak in the tackle, slow....no one can tell me Song is not a huge miss when we have players like Arteta as the DM.
Ramsey....what can i say?? He comes off and it's a different side attack wise.
Defence barring Gibbs were shocking. Jenkinson over Sagna for me everytime now, he's not interested and we should move him on, always complaining and id rather see the corporal developing.
Kos and Mertz are a nightmare. Mertz is too slow for the premiership. You cannot get around his lack of pace and acceleration.
Kos needs to strengthen up. He's to frail but i do think he'll improve with more games. Was at fault for the michu goal.
Podolski and Gibbs were our best players.
Cazorla needs to be benched now. Wenger is running him into the ground.
On to Southampton.
Giroud better than Ba? Wtf? Who said that? Should be laughed at for the rest of timeQuote:
Originally Posted by Gervinho's Forehead
Just a select few on here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cripps
Better looking, tbf.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cripps
Was pretty pleased with 2nd half performance. First half was forgettable all round.
Just some really sloppy defending again spoilt it for their equaliser.
Kos and Gibbs our stand out players. Merts, walcott, cazorla and sagna, not so much.
Giroud is an ugly fucker tbh, not that Ba is much of a looker eitherQuote:
Originally Posted by cricketsi
Giroud is an ugly fucker tbh, not that Ba is much of a looker eitherQuote:
Originally Posted by cricketsi
I don't think Giroud is a bad player, but ultimately he's not the sort of player you can rely on to deliver when it really matters and can help a club win a trophy. He'll get a decent number of goals and assists, and may well help us get a top 4 spot, but I don't think he's capable of any "wow" moments.
Any links to the goals?
http://www.101greatgoals.com/goals/e...sea-v-arsenal/
Don't know why Arteta didn't close Graham down for their equaliser.
arterta doesn't do much.
Has wenger given his interview yet? :lol:
I think it's time for Arteta to be benched IMO. He's contributing very little to our midfield, either offensively or defensively.
Bringing Rosicky in was a big factor in our revival last year, WUMger needs to do it again.
I wouldn't go as far as describing which player was good or not . But as a team , our performance was 50:50 . The game was there for the taking but as expected we couldn't take advantage of it .
We were victims of overplaying in the final third . One pass too many when we should have pulled the trigger . For some reasons , our attacking players in the Swansea box were " starved " . You can't expect any striker to score no matter how descent they are if they don't get good passes in the box .
Our defending was just a deja vu : Michu goal was a result of panic-attack in our defenders but it was a poor goal to concede and was avoidable . But their equalizer was an alarming sign to the manager how Awful and clueless his defenders are . How could they leave someone free , unchallenged in front of their goal keeper ? It doesn't take a world class defender to sport someone in the dangerous area .
We have played teams such as Bolton , Blackburn who are not great teams but have succeeded to close our attackers in their box . It is unbelievable we can't do the same .
really a pointless player.... was better though when he was at EvertonQuote:
Originally Posted by Cripps
Wenger :bow:
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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Rosicky was nothing short of magnificent for us last season. Consumate professional, made a telling contribution, and really took on the mantle after Jack's absence to injury.
It's quite ironic really because by benching Tomas, AW's doing the very thing he can't bear to do- 'kill' players.
He was a very good player at Everton and I remember games at the Emirates where he really helped them control the game (this was a time when we regularly dominated teams at home). Since coming here he's been disappointing for the most part, and he doesn't seem to be stamping his authority on the game the way he used to at Everton.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoshGooner
guess he's just doing as the Romans do whilst in Rome.... in our case, do fuck all and pick up a massive check each week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joker
He's playing out if position. A Spanish technician being used as a DM. Silly stuff but surely he knew he would be played ina strange position when he signed?Quote:
Originally Posted by Joker
Wenget has tried to turn him into a Busquets type player but he's not good enough to play that role.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joker