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    Match Reaction - Reading 1-2 Arsenal. 18th April. FA Cup Semi-Final

    WUMger is a loon. No excuses for him today.
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    Thank fuck for Giroud and Alexis

    Crazy changes to the side. He's a liability that senile old man.
    It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

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    He left 2 players on for 120mins on their first game back.

    That's prime time bonkers.

    He took Coquelin off

    Straitjacket job.

    Yet again, individual players have pulled WUMger's arse out of the fire after he fucked up yet again with the team selection and tactics.

    He's worse than an idiot. Even an idiot could figure out if you win 8 on the bounce leave fucking well alone!

    Trouble with Wenget is he thinks he knows what he's doing.

    He's dangerous.
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    A little harsh.

    Glad we got the win in the end though. Amazing that he thought there was any situation under the sun to bring walcott on for.... wonders will never cease. Up the Arse!

    Hopefully we get Villa.

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    Fucking shit! But we won!!!!!

    The BBC are gutted too so it's all good now!

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    The only luck we had is that Pogrevneyak is shit and the Yak is big shit. also lucky was that Sanchez forgot to pass and shot at the keeper instead. Lucky also the Schneezy decided 1 fuck-up was enough for today.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dein-machine View Post
    What "pressure" - we were playing Reading.
    Pressure of the occasion. We lost to Birmingham in a League Cup final once. Drew one of the weaker teams in the CL and we buckled. It's just one of those things we never quite get a handle on.

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    I don't think it was pressure this time.

    I think we were too relaxed if anything. We didn't prepare for Reading dominating the 50/50 balls. It's obvious to you and I, but if it's an FA Cup Semi-Final, whoever you are playing, you should expect them to be 100mph. We should have been the same....

    Debuchy starting was a horrendous choice. I can understand Gibbs, and to a degree, Chesney. But when we should have been looking to smash them with pace, the team selection was poor....

    ...but for me, not respecting Reading, and assuming we'd walk it is the worst thing.
    It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LDG View Post
    I don't think it was pressure this time.

    I think we were too relaxed if anything. We didn't prepare for Reading dominating the 50/50 balls. It's obvious to you and I, but if it's an FA Cup Semi-Final, whoever you are playing, you should expect them to be 100mph. We should have been the same....

    Debuchy starting was a horrendous choice. I can understand Gibbs, and to a degree, Chesney. But when we should have been looking to smash them with pace, the team selection was poor....

    ...but for me, not respecting Reading, and assuming we'd walk it is the worst thing.
    I’ll have to watch the game but with this team it’s hard to suss the problem when we play like this. Pressure vs being blasé about the opponent – it’s hard to differentiate. If we pull out the same performance against Chelsea next week, I can imagine some saying we choked on the big stage and it was the pressure. But against a team like Reading we assume they’re not focused and overconfident, which seems out of character for this particular team. Same performance but a different assessment based on the opposition. But you’re right about our preparation. Maybe it was just the wrong tactics and we didn’t know they’d be physical. That’s something Wenger and the coaching staff need to look into.

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    I don't actually think there's much pressure on the Chelsea game. They're going to be champions. Clearly. We might give them a bloody nose but we needed them to drop points against QPR and/or Utd and they didn't. If we were 5 points behind or fewer and a win would put real pressure on them or even see us overtake them then yes, that is a pressure situation. As it is I don't think either team are under huge amounts of pressure. The only pressure on us I guess is trying to maintain 2nd position but that's a pressure in every game.

    On Saturday...these games are almost never thumpings. The underdogs always play above themselves. We maybe took them a bit too lightly, we did seem to be playing within ourselves.

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