Us for 75 minutes. :bow:
Us for the remainder. :haha:
Lamela. :haha:
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Us for 75 minutes. :bow:
Us for the remainder. :haha:
Lamela. :haha:
Deserved win, well played lads!
Did our best to throw it away as usual but held on.
Mourinho. :lol:
i actually couldn't watch the last 2-3 minutes of that it was unbearable
but...
Arsenal :bow:
spuds :haha:
Maureen :haha:
Well deserved 3 points, despite the wobbles in last 10 mins. Fuck Maureen and the spuds.
Anthony Lacazette according to Dave SkyBot. :lol:
Next time an opposition player gets sent off we should lobby the ref to rescind it. WTF was that last 20 mins?
Dawson whining. :haha:
Mourinho can gargle my dillsack (the nutte sac)
Tbf, the last 20 could have just been the flight from Greece catching up with us - wouldn’t mind betting their whole “game plan” was to keep it tight and try to outrun us late on...
ESR coming off made a big difference, epsecially with the replacement being WIllianQuote:
Originally Posted by Globalgunner
good performances from Pepe, Gabriel, Tierney, Odegaard, ESR, Saka (until taken out by spuds), and Cedric
got to say i like Cedric he's got a really good attitude and not a bad player at all
Chucked fortunes down the drain on Pepe and Partey. They may have their moments, but the rest of it is dire. The lad from Real is a good player though. And Tierney and ESR are proper players. Only saw it from 70 mins but Laca looked decent enough in the bit I saw. But Partey and Pepe are real liabilities. You just know the play is gojng to break down when they get the ball. They're not terrible players, neither is Xhaka, they are just so ordinary and unremarkable. Amazing to think they are playing at this level when they can't even pass a ball 5 yards, under no pressure, without giving it away.
Mourinho. :pal:
Smith Rowe and Tierney were brilliant today, dominated that side of the pitch. Odegaard is also starting to look the business. Nice to see Gabriel getting his early season form back as well.
Son can play well without Kane. kane without Son is a Reliant Robin. Basically only good for 1 thing: Moving in a straight line
Xhaka only made about 5 mistakes which for him is bordering on being brilliant. Smart managers just need to rile him up and we will soon be down to an actual 10 players, except when Willian is already on , when we are down to 9Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Agree on this one. I'll give Partey the benefit of the doubt in that I think he can get better and that it's a confidence thing. Pepe I'm hoping will all of a sudden have a transition and become the trickiest and most lethal finisher in Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
We look a couple of poor passes and the odd mistake away from an embarrassing defeat or a good hiding from a quality team. Still not getting Arteta as to who or what his puzzling tactics are at times. Taking off players looking good and replacing them with players who on the face of it are determined to lose the game doesn't help. Arsene when he had it in him would have set us up to hit them on the counter. Christ knows what he told our subs to do. It's a win against Spurs for the first time in a good while but I'm not feeling anything anymore.
Hes also quite good at getting away with snidey foulsQuote:
Originally Posted by Globalgunner
Partey just hasn’t got the pace of the game yet, and I think he looks a little short of fitness.
He’s doing some good things, I think there’s a decent player there.
Pepe is frustrating. Proved he has the pace over that piece of shit left back, so why not knock it past him. He has decent feet, and the guy was on a yellow.
I just don't get how a professional footballer (and let's face it, if they were in the back yard doing keepie-uppies they'd look like worldies) can have time, space, a view of what's around him - and still give the ball away. Surely that's the most basic of absolute basic skills? Then 2 minutes later they play a 50 yarder to feet. It's some sort of sloppiness in their character.Quote:
Originally Posted by Globalgunner
At least Pepe is trying to go forward now, I suppose, instead of playing with his back to goal and just laying it off. One day he may even beat his man. He never pushes it and tries to use his pace. He always waits until the defender is set up, instead of on the back foot. Surely Arteta can see that? Just tell him to push it on and run. Even Theo knew how to do that.
Exactly. The game's begging for him to do that. Then the defence is in panic mode and other players can take advantage. I mean, like football used to be played. What is this new stuff where you play 503 passes to get into the opposition box then turn you back and hit a long ball back to the keeper? What's that all about?Quote:
Originally Posted by LDG
Great win:satan::dancingman::jumpnana:
Arsenal have now developed the ability to win games and still completely enrage me.
We completely dominated the first half and then went behind from their first shot :doh:
We were great for 75 minutes and Spurs were awful. Got our noses and front but didn’t kill them off.
Then when Lamela got sent off we completely shat ourselves. We did everything in our power to gift them a point.
All that said...
Mourinho :pal: :haha:
Spurs :haha: :pal:
Oh. And I’m with Arteta on Auba. Fuck him if he’s late for a NLD. Can you imagine captains like Vieira or Adam’s doing that?
Yeah no issue really with Auba being dropped. I’m big on timekeeping personally, unless something is unforeseen there really isn’t any excuse for being late.
Germaine Genius throwing his toys out of the pram on MOTD about the pel :haha:
Mourinho crying about it too :pal:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56393306
Grumpy wumpy
Lots of scrutiny about that. I thought it was fair enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
Yes, the ball had gone but is that relevant?
The ball was in play, Laca might well have gone after it but couldn’t because he was fouled.
Anywhere else on the pitch that’s a free kick, so why not a pel?
Out of all the former spuds players this was the least critical the rest are using every excuse in the book, if we had taken advantage of the possession we had it wouldn't have been a problem but again we didn't.
Ian Wright, Wright, Wright! :d
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...31&ref=m_notif
Its an odd one as there is a weird unwritten rule that in the penalty box these don't often get given, but as you say anywhere else on the pitch and its 100% a foul.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
I thought we got a bit of luck as was expecting VAR to overturn it, but we've been due something like that to go our way. We fully deserved the win, dominated for 80 minutes. Jenus can cry all he wants.
Just watching MOTD now, absolutely loving it. Keown on the windup is masterful :tiphat:
Perhaps the penalty was a bit harsh on spurs (but then again, we should have several this year and there were turned down so we deserve some luck!) but Sanchez was no where near the ball and collided with Lacazette. It’s reckless.
Jenas on MOTD is completely wrong on Lamela though, especially with the first booking being harsh. Yes he gets teh ball but in every repay, you clearly him see him sweep his back leg along to take out Partey. Taht was why he was booked.
His second yellow is not even debatable (unless the debate is whether it is a straight red) but he should have been sent off a few minutes earlier for a shocking lunge on Xhaka. Jenas goes on about how it is his first red card, he is correct of course but he is one of those players like Costa. Dirty, snide & reckless but never gets a red card
You know, given that we are basking in a NLD win this morning, I'm going with you on this - particularly their game plan. Sometimes going down to 10 men isn't as much of an issue as it seems on paper, and in a sense that twat going off with 14 minutes to go was not the issue for Spurs that it might have been if it had happened earlier. It motivated them with a sense of grievance - and produced energy that had been lacking up till then in the knowledge that they could sustain the extra effort. As you say - their game plan was probably to attack late anyway, and - again with the timing - it had a psychological effect on us that it would be easier to preserve the game state - and our performance and concentration levels dropped.Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
Not ideal from us - but as you say we had a trip to Greece on Thursday and lost a day's training, and Spurs played at home. We are fine tuned to look for mistakes given our recent performances, but I'm not sure that our missteps in this game were anything out of the ordinary for most teams.
Did I mention that I fucking hate Harry Kane?
Arteta’ s attitude to team discipline continues to baffle me.
He drops Auba for being a bit late to the squad meet up. Understandable.
However, Willian went to dubai in November against Covid regulations and nothing. Carried on playing.
He seems to pick & choose when to enforce discipline and its a struggle to work out
:gp:Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Agreed, but in fairness we don't know what really happened between Willian and the manager over the Dubai thing...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ollie the Optimist
it's the same with the way he was so harsh on Pepe for getting sent off, yet basically let Xhaka off when he tried to strangle a Burnley playerQuote:
Originally Posted by Ollie the Optimist
total inconsistency and that's not good for team morale or discipline, if that's what the Auba thing is supposed to be about
Well he wasnt dropped.Quote:
Originally Posted by IBK
Yes there may have been a fine etc but which one is the worst offence? Breaking Covid regulations to go to Dubai (potentially risking being quarantined for two weeks on return if rules changed during trip) or being a few minutes late to meet up?
This feeds into the other thread about Arteta having favourites.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ollie the Optimist
But he was spot on yesterday about Auba IMO. I like him, he's a great striker but he's not captain material and showing up late to a NLD shows you don't really "get" what being an Arsenal player, let alone a captain, is about.