Match Reaction v Scrotes

[Olivier's xmas twist]

On the other side of the coin, we've sold RVP (our main goal threat) and have no cutting edge.

With the two strikers failing to score again the pressure will grow on them and it will become more and more of a burden. It's always good for new strikers to score a goal early confidence wise as it's a real weight off their shoulders. So far they've not looked sharp at all and have appeared on the wing in midfield too much.

Right now there will be real doubts as to whether the loss of RVP is as big a problem as everyone thinks, this was the big talking point for us over the summer.

Well Giroud has already Said don't expect him to be RVP or fill his shoes. Im sure these guys will scoore it may take time but they will not worried about that.

Ollie has a point though we must say the positvies and that is our defence looked good and it may have been not against top 4 teams but we were solid were as last season we'd have maid silly mistakes that cost us which was the the reason we did so badly cause we conceeded to many last season.

If the players can bulid confidence from their defending them im happy even merts looked class.

[Özim]

tbh being thrown in against stoke away second game is a huge ask. these strikers will score, they are too good not too esp as with each game their links with cazorla will get stronger and stronger. they look good to me, the finishing will come.

also with rvp, we drew at stoke with him last year, didnt score in our first two games with him either, and all we know how the third turned out

Stoke came 14th in the league last season, I think people are overstating how good they are to be honest.....we should be able to beat them especially at this stage of the season when we're fresh. We dominated possession so with that in mind the defence wouldn't have had a huge amount of work to do. Delap wasn't playing either and a lot of their goals come from his throws.

We'll have to wait and see how they do, but seeing as we were so reliant on RVP and he scored so many goals they have quite a lot to live up to.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Amazed we are hopeful enough to get a fee, there are freebie players at best in terms of the transfer because the useless fuckers will all demand big wages regardless. Doubt this is just about the money or else it would have been cheaper to pay somebody to take them. This is probably about insanely greedy players and their shit on your shoe agents.

Stans gotta make money somehow.

[Ollie the Optimist]

i think at the moment we have to focus on the posistives and not the negatives. the defence hasnt changed this summer and has made massive improvements since last season thanks to bould, however with the attack, its pretty much a new one so needs time to settle, each game will be better but two games into season let them off, focus on the good not hte bad, if still like this in two/three games time then yes lets moan but not now

[Özim]

Well Giroud has already Said don't expect him to be RVP or fill his shoes. Im sure these guys will scoore it may take time but they will not worried about that.

Ollie has a point though we must say the positvies and that is our defence looked good and it may have been not against top 4 teams but we were solid were as last season we'd have maid silly mistakes that cost us which was the the reason we did so badly cause we conceeded to many last season.

If the players can bulid confidence from their defending them im happy even merts looked class.

It's early days but so far they've not had their shooting boots on. Giroud has a lot to prove, he's not really a proven player and he won't get an easier chance than he did in the 1st game.

Podolski is good but he was visibly frustrated today, I saw him shouting at his teammates a number of times.

We had so much possession the defence didn't have to do a huge amount, in addition with no Delap 80% of their goal threat was not there.

Based on what I've seen of this team so far, I'm both disappointed and worried. Disappointed that we still look so ordinary and worried we're going to find it even tougher than last season.

[Ollie the Optimist]

It's early days but so far they've not had their shooting boots on. Giroud has a lot to prove, he's not really a proven player and he won't get an easier chance than he did in the 1st game.

Podolski is good but he was visibly frustrated today, I saw him shouting at his teammates a number of times.

We had so much possession the defence didn't have to do a huge amount, in addition with no Delap 80% of their goal threat was not there.

actually their goal threat was there, last year they didnt score a single goal from delap throw ins, they scored via crouch etc and we kept htem quiet

[Olivier's xmas twist]

i think at the moment we have to focus on the posistives and not the negatives. the defence hasnt changed this summer and has made massive improvements since last season thanks to bould, however with the attack, its pretty much a new one so needs time to settle, each game will be better but two games into season let them off, focus on the good not hte bad, if still like this in two/three games time then yes lets moan but not now

Too see Gibbs Defending like he did today was amazing, Id still say we need a deputy LB for him ans i don't rate Santos back there. Jenkison was amazing.

Our Captain led from the back and Arteta how amazing was he breaking up play etc, though he was good at DM tbh.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

It's early days but so far they've not had their shooting boots on. Giroud has a lot to prove, he's not really a proven player and he won't get an easier chance than he did in the 1st game.

Podolski is good but he was visibly frustrated today, I saw him shouting at his teammates a number of times.

We had so much possession the defence didn't have to do a huge amount, in addition with no Delap 80% of their goal threat was not there.

Based on what I've seen of this team so far, I'm both disappointed and worried. Disappointed that we still look so ordinary and worried we're going to find it even tougher than last season.

And your right to be.

[Özim]

actually their goal threat was there, last year they didnt score a single goal from delap throw ins, they scored via crouch etc and we kept htem quiet

They had 7 shots and only 4 on target. Hardly peppering our goal.

We had 16 and only 6 on target, also pretty poor (in terms of hitting the target).

[jelgoon]

I hope you're right. But we have only played two games, so its very premature to start talking about massive improvements in our defence. The problem with our defence traditionally (which is down to Wenger) is that they lose confidence after making a mistake. Lets see how good they are when the top teams are bearing down on them

i think at the moment we have to focus on the posistives and not the negatives. the defence hasnt changed this summer and has made massive improvements since last season thanks to bould, however with the attack, its pretty much a new one so needs time to settle, each game will be better but two games into season let them off, focus on the good not hte bad, if still like this in two/three games time then yes lets moan but not now