Match Reaction VS Milan

[Cripps_orig]

You wern't saying that after the pool game.

Thats cos we were still in the CL

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Half time cost us the match

What we needed was for our players to stay away from Wenger and half time denied us that.

His team talk has done its work well

Also RVP

Just blast it you ****. The arrogance is pathetic. Youre not that good.Said in the match thread to keep it 2-0 at half time and then show some urgency in the 2nd half. However we got the 3rd before half time, the urgency was gone and it turned out to be a damp squib.

[Coney]

Can't believe people are raging after a 3-0 win against the Italian champions

Calm down, we played well and were unlucky not to qualify.

Yeah - we played a poor first leg, but taking Milan close to ET after 4-0 down is respectable.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Thats cos we were still in the CL

and we had no chance of going through even at 4-0 we'd have no chance if milan scored 1.

The damage was done before this game, and seeeing the subs before this game it was never going to go our way.

[Marc Overmars]

Said in the match thread to keep it 2-0 at half time and then show some urgency in the 2nd half. However we got the 3rd before half time, the urgency was gone and it turned out to be a damp squib.

Yeah, in a perverse way I think it might have been better mentality at 2-0, in that we still would have had some chasing to do. 3-0 all but levelled the game out and that probably explains the drop in intensity. A shame we couldn't go up a gear again, but there you go.

All the problems were created ourselves 3 weeks ago anyway, tonight was about restoring pride and we have done that.

[Globalgunner]

Nah Wenger got it right today, not his fault Ox and Theo went off when they did or the fact we missed Benny, Ramsey and Mikel tbh. We were just unlucky today.

I promise you Charlie. This time next year, we`ll be singing the exact same song. just like last, and the year before, ........you get my drift.

[Joker]

oh shut up little boy.

out of all competitions, let's celebrate

Let's not lose sight of the fact that this season is going to be another failure. Out of the UCL in the 2nd round against an average Milan team, out in the FA Cup in the 5th round against a mid table Sunderland team, failure in the Carling Cup and the only thing we have to "look forward" to is 4th place AGAIN. Wenger said two seasons ago, "judge me at the end of the season" and he felt the squad he had created were capable of winning trophies. That didn't materialise, he loaned out a lot of the deadwood at the start of the season, and what's happened is that we've regressed as a club from that time.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

So RVP had a Bendtner moment, I think he can probably be afforded a little bit of latitude. He could've ballsed up the pelanty but he didn't, let alone thinking about the rest of the season and what he has contributed.

[Coney]

only good thing that has come from this is we are out of all competitions.

Are we bollocks. We are still leading in the 4th place trophy league.

[Gubby Allen]

Can't complain too much, we were between poor and woeful in three of four halves. Milan won't go much further though.

They may as well write '3' on the 2nd half injury time boards. You get no minutes or twelve, it still says three. Walcott was down for over a minute - only 3:00 exactly was played so had he not gone down, would the board have said '1'?

Bollocks would it. It'd still said three. Ibrahimovic's arse cheeks could've fell off and he bled to death on the pitch over the next four days & it will have still have said '3' when jobsworth brought the board out.

Don't matter though, we were gone by an hour and with our subs & Song's passing there were no more goals in us.