Well done Giroud and Iwobi.
Alexis ran around like a maniac but pubbed it up in front of goal mostly.
Bellerin and Monreal were great going forward.
Palace were absolute piss.
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Well done Giroud and Iwobi.
Alexis ran around like a maniac but pubbed it up in front of goal mostly.
Bellerin and Monreal were great going forward.
Palace were absolute piss.
Great 3 points puts us back into third and, citeh drop out of the top 4. My only gripe, we should be scoring more against struggling teams like this.
Yeah bit of a missed opportunity to get our goal difference up as Palace are woeful. But crucial win the most important thing.
World class goal from Giroud. However I still prefer our shape with Alexis up front.
Bellerin's accent is amazing. Somehow he sounds like he is from China.
Put a link up for it if you can, I didn't hear it.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Should have been 8-0. But it's Palace, so we can't score more than two against them.
Fat Sam gets one over Wenger again.
Bellerin is a sensational player. Fuck off Barcelona.
Probably Koscielny and Gabriel's easiest game of the year, despite that crazy succession of corners and Cech wanting to be employed.
Very comfortable as expected. Should have been more than 2.
Giroud. :bow:
On we go to Bournemouth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9zM...ature=youtu.beQuote:
Originally Posted by Goonermerree
Happy we won but it was a very lucky goal from Giroud and not world class.
Agree we should score more but its been that way for over 10 years now.
I think it was an instinctive goal, but he also started the move with a neat flick out from defence and ran to get into position to receive the cross.
It was a phenomenal goal, not many players will even try to attempt it.Quote:
Originally Posted by dostoy
It might not always happen for Giroud, but he's always had the audacity to try something ridiculous.
One of the best goals I've ever seen in my life live or otherwise. Souness and Carragher were desperate not to explicitly praise it oddly.
I remember having this argument years ago when the internet was a mere toddler over the "Nayim from the half way line" goal.
I think the conclusion was it was a mixture of luck and skill.
Giroud could do that 100 times and score one, I'd do it a million times and never score, or I wouldn't even think to try it in the first place.
Good win and important one. Were Chelsea not going mental we'd be closer to the top than we are.
How was Gabriel's performance today and was he really tested by Benteke?
Chelsea are doing well but don't forget we bottled it against Everton and Man City. That is also why we are so far behind. We will fuck up in the next tricky match, nothing will change.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters to Santa
I'd have thought to do it as the little git Sanchez did put it behind him.....but like you I don't conceive of how it would have actually gone in in a million attempts, especially off the cross bar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters to Santa
Gabs was barely noticeable in a good way and I actually think he was really good against Everton and good against City.
But we didn't 'bottle it' today or Boxing Day when everyone else had won. Had we dropped points today I'm sure people would be saying we bottled it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chippy
The Everton and City games are where we fell behind and that's not good enough but Chelsea are close to equalling our record run of 14 wins in a row and no-one is keeping up with them right now.
I think when I try and decide whether it was luck or skill, two overwhelming factors favour skill for me.
Firstly, the sheer audacity to be able to do that on a football pitch, with the full knowledge that your team mates and the fans could be on your back if you don't pull it off (even if it is the 20th minute and you're at 0-0), shows that Giroud had the confidence to want to score from there, from that angle.
Furthermore, the slow motion camera shows Girouds eyes, Bergkamp like (against Newcastle), turn and face the goal as soon as he'd made contact. He knew what he wanted to do the second the ball left Alexis foot.
And the fact that his little flick pass started the run forward and then had to run himself to get into the box and be steady enough after his run to score.
Fair comment, but victories over WBA and Palace does not give me cause to get over excited.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters to Santa
:lol: Yep, he sure showed us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Splinter
Well no, nor should it. These games we should be winning but at least we did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chippy
And it's games like Everton and City that will probably make the difference between us being champions and not, but when Chelsea go winning 13 games in a row it's hard to live with. They surely have to start dropping points soon but I'm not sure we're the most likely to benefit if so. Hard to look past them right now.
If I'm allowed just to have a rant about this Chelsea winning run, if I may
We won 13 on the bounce on our way to actually winning the league (and 14, of course, if we include our first game of the 2002/03 season- I know we drew the 15th to West Ham in a great comeback game at their ground)
En route to winning the league, we were fighting on three fronts. During the 13 game run we were in Europe (OK, we went out in the second group stage, but we still had the wherewithal to come back from adversity in the league) and we were in the FA Cup.
This run of Chelsea's which the media seem to love is admirable but only because they've done it under the radar. For the umpteenth season in a row, they're not being televised (for the purpose of keeping the viewing population awake) and therefore aren't under the pressure of playing last in a weekend where the pressure is on because most of your competitors have won.
Probably for another thread this, but COYS on Wednesday. Well, come on the draw. Nil Nil with plenty of suspensions
Whilst I haven't supported the recent anti Ozil bandwagon that's occurred, our play did go up a level in terms of fluidity and speed with Iwobi as the number 10 today. And this was with Giroud up front as well.
Mind you as has been said, Palace are a pile of shite right now. Thank god we got them out of the way before Fat Sam really turns them around.
Frankly some of the other games Ozil has not featured in for us has yielded diabolical performances (yes granted we have put those on with him in the team).
I still prefer to have Ozil in the side but I think Ill or not he should have been dropped anyway.
Wenger is still struggling to find his best side so he can beast it to death.
I don't think it really matters when you play. You either have the drive required to win the league or you don't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ernesto
It was instinct. The ball was played behind him and like most players would, he tried to get as much contact on the ball even though it was a bad cross. Most players would have attempted to get contact on the ball but often fail. You see it all the time when someone flicks a leg out. It was the right height and Giroud had the desire to get something on the ball. Luck, instinct, skill, desire... great goal.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
I think the Giroud and Ozil partnership doesn't work. Not a huge fan of either player and as a combo with Ozil as the 10, it has it's problems. Too easy to nullify. They work best when Ozil is wide crossing the ball in. We don't need to play Ozil as a number 10. Always thought Giroud was the main problem but seeing how things are with Sanchez up front and Ozil behind, Ozil still isn't that influential.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Emirates Gallactico
Iwobi can play as number 10 and I think Sanchez could play there as well. Ozil should play wide left in that support role Iwobi often plays.
Watched the second half and there was some encouraging play early on. Then we got the second and Wenker shut it down. Palace really don't have a clue. Typical flat track bully performance that we've become used to. Tells us nothing we don't already know, especially about the manager who remains clueless about the need to put opponents to the sword when the opportunity is there.
Iwobi is a very good player.
Our unbeaten run continues and most likely will continue till the end of this month. We might even cut down the points difference with Chelsea and then balls it up against Chelsea next month. You heard it here first.
He's literally the worst manager in football history :sulk:
Xaka is quality.
And he also makes stupid and dangerous mistakes. Strange player. Shows flashes of brilliance and then fucks up a 2 yard pass.Quote:
Originally Posted by AFC Leveller
Wenger trolling RVC by saying "ive had so many good goals scorers since iv been here... Wright, Henry, Begkamp, Giroud...
LOL
He can work on that though, still looks nervous at times and i guess that will improve with time. He is a quality passer and is always well positioned to receive the ball.Quote:
Originally Posted by Noel_Quinn
* For managers considered to be top football managers in world footballQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Fixed it for you.
Nah.
Yep, every game is must win at the moment, it's as much must win for us staying in the top 4 than it is about any fantasy idea of us challenging for the title.We're under serious pressure from United and the Spuds now.Quote:
Originally Posted by fakeyank