Match Reaction vs West Ham

[Alpha]

That was just beautiful to watch.. I forgot I was in 2012! For a moment, it was 2004 for me..

Still 2012 ? Not 2013 for you . Happy New Year when you celebrate it

[Japan Shaking All Over]

Good performance. Wilshere, Podolski, Giroud were sublime, Cazorla to a little lesser extent. Rest of our attacking players were decent.

Need to be able to step it up like that whenever needed, West Ham couldn't deal with us. Defense was surprisingly solid apart from their goal.

I hope this result doesn't see us back off in the transfer market because we still need one or two but everyone can be quite happy about today.

I have to the game to watch tonight and am looking forward to it after the last couple of razor jobs. . .
I agree, I hope we dont take this win as a sign all things are rosy with the state of the squad. . . I also get your argument yesterday about the need for a true talent rather than mere squad players but I sometimes worry about the appeal of the place.

Also I have been thinking, correct me if I am wrong that it is not necessarily RvPs goals we are missing (well at least not the quantity of them.......) we seem to be sharing the goals across the team more than in the past (Feo 15, Pods 10, Giroud 9, Santi 7 all comps)- I know we are a massive amount of points adrift, and worse of in terms of points than at any time during Wengers era but the amount of goals we have scored compares favourably to those teams above us.....more than Everton and Spuds, one less than Chelsea and more than Citeh, what we miss is the match winner, someone to score a goal out of no-where a la RvP - I think this adds a little weight to the argument of bringing in Villa - if we can swallow his wages.

I know that the counter to this argument is that we need to stop letting in......but before you shoot me down, I am not saying that we don't need to help with the defence - but our goal difference is better than those apart from the top three! as Boss was saying yesterday we need class and a player that can win us games with a flash of brilliance is definitely order of the day -

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

that podolski assist for walcott was beaut. perfectly weighted and perfectly timed #orgasm

see what happens when you give giroud a bit of service? he actually scores.

ramsey had a good game tonight. can we talk about this a little bit more please? it'll be another 2.5 years before we can say it again.

RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HA............

see what happens when you play a player in his favoured position? who would have thought it eh?!

much better overall.

on to the next. come on you gunners.

[fakeyank]

Still 2012 ? Not 2013 for you . Happy New Year when you celebrate it

I follow the Ugandan calendar..







Wonder if there is anything like an Ugandan calendar

[Japan Shaking All Over]

I follow the Ugandan calendar..







Wonder if there is anything like an Ugandan calendar

By the looks of it, there is.....or maybe was!

[Niall_Quinn]

Just caught the highlights from which it was impossible to get an idea of the overall game as most of the show was then ten minutes of old style football followed by the injury. The first half seemed unremarkable apart from the fact that bloke Collison should have been red carded for deliberately trying to break Jack's ankle - and then went on to score of course. Plus a cracker from Podolski who was in most of the highlights until he was subbed. Great power, pace and precision from him in the bits I saw.

Nice to see some counterattacking football again. And some energy. Can't pick out a poor performance from the highlights, everyone seemed to chip in. Nice to see Giroud finally net. Strange game that was brilliant one minute and then just faded out. 37 points from 23 games though. Dire. 6 more needed from the next two home games. Not getting excited about one performance. It was fun to watch in parts but they've caught me with the sucker punch of a terrible follow-on performance too many times.

[Power n Glory]

Pace, precision and purpose. That's what comes to mind from what I saw from the highlights. Very rare to see us play like that but that's the level we need to see week in week out.

[Dennis Bendtner]

[Power n Glory]

Ramsey looked good from what I saw. But it looked like the whole team was pumped up. But would like to see him play in that role again. He might be more cut out for seeing things from further back and trying to keep it simple. He's no good playing in the final third or further up field.

[Marc Overmars]

We weren't messing around pretending to play like Barca for a change, it was instinctive and quick and I think the most important thing was that we made use of the wide areas. The lack of width at times is horrible in this team but Gibbs and Podolski in particular really managed to nail down the left side.