Match Reaction vs Fulham 10/11/12

[Özim]

so why the fuck are you aruging giroud is a bottle then?

That was suppose to say I do not don't.

[Kano]

My main concern is the clown at the helm, make no mistake.

I also think most of the players he's bought are sh*t.

so let's talk about the man who scored two goals to keep us in the game, rather than the lack of organisation in our defence again. that makes sense.

[Dennis Bendtner]

Something is very wrong with our marking system, and until we address it, we'll continue to prove just how misleading stats can be.

There is nothing wrong with the marking system. It's the players carrying it out. I think today it was Sagna with the error for the first.

[jelgoon]

AN Everton mate of mine just said that Arteta used to take them for EVerton. So there's not much to discuss here then.We wanted to win the game and Arteta persumably has taken more than Giroud. End of discussion

[Özim]

People just couldn't resist finding a way to throw a jab at AW, right?

GW posters

He's a sh*t manager at the end of the day, it's his team with is players. He's been trying to rebuild for 7 years and it's noone else's fault the defenders can't defend, the team has no leaders and no bottle and we are where we are.

[Power n Glory]

hold on, our dodgy defence once again costs us the points and the first and main talking point is about a player that scored two vital goals for us? if all you can see as a fan is complete and utter negativity then there is no point watching. why would you? the issue of him taking a penalty is on the list of concerns but nowhere near the top.

why were we even in that position in the first place, because of giroud? we lose a two nil lead because of our striker? why analyse a game back to front?

Exactly. It was the same last week with the Schalke game. Instead of talking about throwing away a lead, we're talking about Walcott's last chance on goal.

The last minute goals can't disguise the fact that we're terrible at defending and that needs sorting out. That's the main issue we have right now.

[Niall_Quinn]

so let's talk about the man who scored two goals to keep us in the game, rather than the lack of organisation in our defence again. that makes sense.

Do we still even bother debating the shit defence? It's just a given isn't it? Years of watching the same crap and nothing is done about it.

[RomfordPele]

People just couldn't resist finding a way to throw a jab at AW, right?

GW posters

Err, we just shipped three goals at home after wenger said we shouldn't worry about our defence.

Think there are plenty of reasons to jab wenger tbh.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

oh that's alright then. defence is shit, so our target should be to have players that can score 4/5 a game. what are you talking about you madman. if the team (including midfield) hadn't of dropped our two goal lead again, giroud wouldn't even be mentioned apart from his two goals.

but you jump onto a guy who without, we wouldn't even have a point. that's your main concern, seriously?

tbf i can see where he's coming from

dont get me wrong, the defence should be the main concern, but we've just come off a season where we let 49 goals in so the fact we're not getting tonked 3-1 every week makes us automatically assume its improved. its hasnt. we improved at the start of the season im not sure what's going on now.

but maybe defensive resilience comes from confidence in attack? i mean we knew we had van persie to bail us out towards the end of last season even if we went behind in games. so the defence was more comfortable and less edgy. but now we have no-one and we know everytime we let in a goal we're pretty much fucked.

thats the only logical assumption i can make from his post.

[Özim]

so let's talk about the man who scored two goals to keep us in the game, rather than the lack of organisation in our defence again. that makes sense.

So he scored two goals, bout time he made up for his dogshite start to his career missing sitters left right and centre, I'm not about to praise him for one game when he goes around missing matchwinning chances almost every game. He did Ok today, doesn't change the fact he should have had the guts to step forward and take the penalty, noone would have argued as he was on a hattrick.

As for the defence, what is there to say? Zonal marking doesn't work, there's no discipline in the team, players make mistakes regularly, they don't play as a unit....they're sh*te.

Yes this is all down to Wenger, but the problems in the team are everywhere to be honest, not just in defence....the lack of leaders and characters is just as much of an issue.