Great win after being outplayed for the first 50 odd mins.
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Great win after being outplayed for the first 50 odd mins.
Qualified. Nothing else matters. Play the kids in the last group game to give them a runout.
Very happy with that. Can enjoy Matchday 6 whatever happens. :d
yep don't mind if we loose rather the greeks get through the other 2 anywayQuote:
Originally Posted by Coney
Send 18 GWers to Greece.
Me in midfield.
A very solid, mature and professional performance (apart from Djourou and Song right at the end trying to play on-twos at our corner flag Vermaelen and Szczesny were going mental at them. :lol: )
A fantastic team effort. Song bossed the game. A very good supporting role played by Ramsey. Santos was very good (in defence as well today). Szczesny with an important stop in the second half. I think pretty much everyone played their part. Gerv hasn’t had the best week but with the effort he puts in, he’ll start getting some good luck.
The quality of the game was high - it was a match between two very good teams. They just couldn’t get past Mertesacker - haven’t been his greatest fan (though I think he has done ok this season), today he played very well.
Arsenal :bow:.
Good, professional performance. Apart from the last minute :doh:.
Koscielny, Vermaelen, Santos, Mertesacker, Song all awesome :bow:.
Arteta also very solid defensively.
RVP :bow: :bow: :bow:.
Song is a genius :bow: :bow: :bow:.
A workmanlike performance but we got the result in the end. It's extremely important we've finished top as well, meaning we'll avoid having to face someone like Barca in the next round. Would still like our midfield to step it up in terms of creativity though. Song's having to do a lot of work, not only covering defensively but providing offensively as well. Arteta needs to do more.
Didn't know we've guaranteed top place. That's very handy. We might as well send a shit side out in Greece. No need for Van Persie, Song, Vermaelen to even travel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joker
Song bossed it. Great performance.
Special mention to Santos. That guy was class. Offers more than Clichy on attack and was better on defence today.
RVP class as usual. Theo was good too.
Ruud is right. That first goal flipped the game.
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Originally Posted by GB.
Another cracking win, against a pretty decent team, winning the toughest group of all the English clubs. Chelsea :haha:
We look like a team now. Balanced, getting goals the way proper teams get goals. Get it wide, het it in the box and clinical finishing.
RVP is superb. Not at his technical best, but he knows where to be when it matters. He also worked his arse off.
They had to run around all night. We would mever have survived the firt hal without conceding prior to the transfer window strengthening. Credit to arsene and the boys for going back to basics, and still keeping that bit of finese needed to make the difference.
Brilliant win. Well chuffed!
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The play by Song to set up the first, the Steve Bould style flick on by TV from the corner and the work rate! I'm falling back in love with this team.
Glen Hoddle talking sense. We need to go for a more counter attacking style I we can't play our usual possession game and look to get Walcott playing off the shoulder of defenders and closer to the centre.
Yep if you said to me in september this would happen, we'd have all laughed. like you say we look like a team now, defending well attacking well, even finishing well, except for some.Quote:
Originally Posted by LDG
lets hope in continues tbh.
Bring in Fulham and City tbh
:pal: You say het when you meant get.Quote:
Get it wide, het it in the box
Robin Van Persie brought for a measly 2.75 Million
JESUS CHRIST
Alex Song the man with the assist for 1 million
HOLY GUNNERSAURUS !!!!!
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Yep. Glen has managed to describe exactly what we've been doing for two months. Well done Glen. Twat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
With one notable, distinguished and surprisingly handsome exception. Namely myself, I pretty much predicted this down to the goal count.Quote:
Yep if you said to me in september this would happen, we'd have all laughed.
:bow: NQ
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by LDG
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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Song is brilliant :bow:
RVP :bow:
The more he score, the more the thought of losing him scares the shit outta me!
You must have missed the first half of the game. Her break faster now, but our approach is still to dominate possession.Quote:
Originally Posted by LDG
Sadly Glen missed the last two months.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
with the way we are playing don't reallt fear any team in the comp tbh now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Roger Federar getting in on the after game atmosphere, the bastard!
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Megamind has a really strange alienesque head, I wonder what goes on in there sometimes.
...apart from that, great win. efficiency, urgency, desire and application. Fantastic if unspectacular win. Fuck Cesc, Nasri, Denilson, Bendtner, Vela, Arshavin, Chamakh oh..!
Anyway good win boys, well done.
We were alwfully poor in the first half and Dortmund were dominant. However unlike previous times, this team seems to have grown some balls. They stayed in the game, quality from Song turned the game and after that we were comfortable.
The dumbass moment we expect from Arsenal happened too late for it to effect us fortunately.
Really happy with this win.
What a pervert.Quote:
Originally Posted by WengerISaLizard
:bow: rogerQuote:
Originally Posted by WengerISaLizard
Gervinho wudda missed that 2nd Van Persie goal, no doubt
But he's talking about what we need to do against teams that will press hard and make it difficult for us to keep the ball. He's talking specifically about the Champs league where the opposition are smarter and tougher.Quote:
Originally Posted by LDG
We tried to play the ball through the middle with our slow passing down from the back in the first 45 but we were messing up. Dortmund had 6 shots on goal and we only had one in the first half. We were making a lot of mistakes when in possession of the ball and it could have been costly.
It's not the same as being set up to sit back and make sure the other team don't have a sniff on goal then breaking on them. Our goals didn't even come from counter attacks tonight.
Don't worry AW did not see it eitherQuote:
Originally Posted by Globalgunner
how fucking good was our defence tonight? kos, merts, the verminator and santos were fucking outstanding. dealt with everything thrown at them. bar the fuck up at the end but kos had gone and jd is shit. song was on fire and well rvp is just him isnt he. if dennis is god, theirry jesus, what hte fuck is robin?
oh and are you watching manchester
I only saw the last minute.Quote:
Originally Posted by ollie the optimist