Match Reaction vs QPR

[Globalgunner]

These are the classic games that make many of us believe we can never win anything again under Wenger. A game like this against a team full of grafters managed by known clunkhead. Wenger never gets his tactics right whenever confronted by brute force. He seems to tell his boys to just get out there and play your game. QPR were hustling all over the pitch and whenever they did lose the ball they would simply dive and the shithead ref would give them the free. In this situation you need to show that you wont be bullied and get your tactics spot on for the first 45 at least, dont let them score.... . However our lightweight midfield of Song rosicky and Arteta are never up for a fight, and Vermaelen chose today to have another mindless match.

You need to prepare the team for the specific challenge they will face in each match. but it seems like we never do. I recall a few seasons ago, away to Stoke, the very first Delap throw in the very first minute......goal. Wenger wont win shit because he never buys the right sort of players and never imbues the ones he has with the right mentality. He will see us in 3-4 maybe 5-6 for the next decade but we stll wont have any silverware to show for it.

Problem is...if we dont look like we are improving, the new players that will make the quantum leap for us will never want to come and the few we need to keep will insist on leaving.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

These are the classic games that make many of us believe we can never win anything again under Wenger. A game like this against a team full of grafters managed by known clunkhead. Wenger never gets his tactics right whenever confronted by brute force. He seems to tell his boys to just get out there and play your game. QPR were hustling all over the pitch and whenever they did lose the ball they would simply dive and the shithead ref would give them the free. In this situation you need to show that you wont be bullied and get your tactics spot on for the first 45 at least, dont let them score.... . However our lightweight midfield of Song rosicky and Arteta are never up for a fight, and Vermaelen chose today to have another mindless match.

You need to prepare the team for the specific challenge they will face in each match. but it seems like we never do. I recall a few seasons ago, away to Stoke, the very first Delap throw in the very first minute......goal. Wenger wont win shit because he never buys the right sort of players and never imbues the ones he has with the right mentality. He will see us in 3-4 maybe 5-6 for the next decade but we stll wont have any silverware to show for it.Problem is...if we dont look like we are improving, the new players that will make the quantum leap for us will never want to come and the few we need to keep will insist on leaving.

What ?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What ?

Global means league positions.

[Power n Glory]

I knew Wenger would start fucking it up once he had players available for selection. I put our recent good run of form down to Rosicky being played in the centre and Ox playing on the left. It's the right balance. Ramsey shouldn't be playing and as soon as he was made available for selection, I knew Wenger would start him again. I don't rate Wenger as a manager these days because this is the sort of shit he does when he has the options. By chance, he stumbled upon Rosicky and even though he was off today as I've heard, he's a natural central player and it took injuries and Wenger having no other central option to discover that. After all these years!

Ramsey on the left? Come on man! It doesn't take a genius to see that he'd flop at that sort of role. Our resurgence was down to the players feeling stung by the Milan result and it hurt their pride. Had nothing to do with any team talk or tactics, it was just down pride and the bad press written about their performance in Milan. But as soon as people starts waxing lyrical about our new found confidence, these muthafukaz start smelling themselves and believing their on BS. It happens all the time. QPR! How low can we sink? The team were on a high and full of confidence yet we can still pull off shock results like this. There is no new found grit or steel in this team. We saw this earlier this season and as warned, you can't judge this team off the back of a good run. Same story and we will continue to throw away results when we're expected to win. Back against the wall and then maybe they'll turn up. Losers.

[fakeyank]

Letters I wish u started ur poll now rather than before... :LOL:

[Cripps_orig]

Didnt watch the game, didnt listen to it either.

Havent seen the goals its unlikely i will watch MOTD

All i have to say on this is 2 things

Welcome back Arsenal

And

Wenger Out

The pressure is on and we cant win. Story of Wengers existence

[Cripps_orig]

Also how typical is it of us to concede 2 goals to two players who havent scored all season and in one case, hasnt scored for QPR at all

[Cripps_orig]

on the performance…
It is very frustrating because they left us the ball and waited for our mistakes. We took the ball, did not do a lot with it and made the mistakes. At the end of the day that made the result.

Our performance was not good enough to win this kind of game, especially in the duels. They had a little bit of extra special commitment that took advantage of us in some specific positions defensively. Overall we can only congratulate QPR for their attitude and be unhappy with our own performance

on the surprise nature of the defeat…
Any bad performance you can see coming. Each football game is a new start. It is not what you have made before that decides the game, it is what you produce on the day. And what we produced on the day was not good enough.

on the pitch…
The pitch is not smaller than any other pitch. The pitch was bad but it does not explain our performance. We did not create enough to win a football game.

on errors at the back…
I do not want to single anyone out but of course we made defensive mistakes. It is a good shock to come back to what has made our strength recently. Subconsciously something was missing today. In the Premier League, if you miss something on the commitment front you are beaten. That is what happened today.

on possible complacency…
It is difficult to single out one reason but why not? We played against a team who play for survival. We prepared properly but we missed something today and you could see that. Their keeper made a good save.

on the conceded goals…
We lost a game when our keeper had nothing to do. It is the first time this season, we were too open when we had the ball.

on the response…
We know how to respond, we have been exposed to this situation this season. We have a good opportunity on Sunday but it will be needed after giving away the points today.

Wengers comments

[Master Splinter]

Also how typical is it of us to concede 2 goals to two players who havent scored all season and in one case, hasnt scored for QPR at all

Clichy will score a fifty-yarder next week.

He will also put in a decent cross.

[Cripps_orig]

Hasnt Clichy already scored for them?

We'll lose that game but i as always will look on the brightside and it will be good to see Clichy, Toure and especially Nasri come home

How they are missed