Match Reaction v Fulham

[Ashburton2006]

Pathetic second half performance, and shows how weak our squad really is. And yet the Pro-Wenger brigade have been trying to convince anyone who'd listen that Arsene knows. Well, it's pretty clear that at the moment he knows sweet FA.

Not sure how long Wenger and the board can carry on after yet another shit performance like this! The clueless French cunt has to go and die. We are being taken the piss out of! Where is the 50m pound mr Gazidis? Wankers, the whole lot of them.

[tigerthesmurf85]

Ramsey has been awful for some time now. He needs to GTFO of the first team.

Arteta is pointless

Yet again... completely disagree

[BOBN]

Walcott and Gervinho were having shit games, but the bigger problem was our lack of options on the bench. Why the fuck was Oxlade not on the bench? Then, we could have done a like for like substitution, taking Theo/Gervinho off and bringing another pacey winger on.

spot on

[Power n Glory]

The problem was taking Walcott and Gervinho off - thereby terminally slowing our play down.

Yep and Rosicky was free to roam which was crazy when we have Djourou as rightback and on a yellow.

The game flipped as soon as those subs were made. The midfield three aren't good enough. Fulham took over and we couldn't hold possession. Ramsey and Arteta aren't good enough in the middle IMO.

[tigerthesmurf85]

Not sure how long Wenger and the board can carry on after yet another shit performance like this! The clueless French cunt has to go and die. We are being taken the piss out of! Where is the 50m pound mr Gazidis? Wankers, the whole lot of them.

Lol. What a joke...

[Arsenal Fan]

arsenal deserve their lack of success...

proven yet again

[hymppi]

oh and the bench! where the hell is oxo? why can't park get a game? is miyachi dead?
for the love of god why do we still have squid in our squad?

[Niall_Quinn]

all went down the shitter when we took off the pacey widemen. lost all attacking momentum, outlet and threat, allowng fulham to pile forward.

thatll teach the clueless moaners for next time,

To be fair and if you check back, all the clueless comments were coming from you - including that gem about Bergkamp. You have decent wingers rather than the shite we saw out there today and we're talking 2 or 3 nil and 3 points. But the pair are the worst in the league at producing anything in the final third. Running up and down fast doesn't win games, losing the ball, fucking up crosses, playing the wrong ball. We had plenty of chances to seal the game but the two players some are claiming should have stayed on were so shite it's hardly a surprise they were subbed. Of course the fact we had nothing to bring on to replace them is another problem. But let's not glorify Laurel and Hardy because of that.

[gunnerrrrr]

Lol. What a joke...

Not really as a tactical football manager Wenger is fucking useless....great coach bare in mind

[Syn]

We had little chance of holding on after the red. And it was Mertesacker that caused the red by being weak and giving the ball away.

We tired in the second as expected. I don't agree with those who say we needed to keep Gerv and Theo on. They were garbage. The game had turned even with them on the pitch. Ruiz and Hangeland missed near-sitters and we were incredibly lucky to still be 0-1 up when they were taken off. We were tiring and struggling to inject any pace in attacks. But at that stage, a manager can do two things. He can bring on defensive reinforcements: Rosicky and Benayoun. Or he can bring on attacking reinforcements: Chamakh and Arshavin (Or a mix of both). Looking at those options, Wenger probably felt more comfortable going with Rosicky and Benayoun. But if we had something new in attack (Oxlade and Park) we might've had a better chance of nicking that second goal.

Mertesacker and Song were very poor in the second half. They were making mistakes you just don't expect from experienced players.