Match Reaction v Scrotes

[Ollie the Optimist]

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).

im not saying its not poor, it is, however our attack are gelling and soon that stat will be 3 goals at the end.

also with stokes shot etc, does that not show an improvement in defence? they couldnt pepper our goal because we wouldnt let them?

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

i didn't see where a goal was coming from today, even before the match to be honest. I think the premiership is a bit too quick for Giroud and Podolski at the moment, and we are overrelying on Santi Cazorla to even provide them with anything (who without a doubt has been our best player over the first two games). There are definite positives, i think Mertesacker has shown that whilst he has a problem with pace that he is very adept from defending set pieces.....i think we dealt well with the physicality of Stoke....i think any other time when we were misfiring so badly a team like Stoke would have punished us more for it, but we gave them hardly any possession and they had to near assault our players to win the ball back.
I think we need one of two players, we need to either buy an outright striker, or buy a winger regardless of whether Theo stays or not and move Theo up front....because playing Gervinho is just such a frustrating player, he has Walcottitis....something fascinating on his shoes stops him from looking up when on the ball....i don't see how much more patience we can have with him

[Niall_Quinn]

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

Well said. So on a positive note, the last bunch of ****s put nothing in and banked £500mill. Amazing. Not quite so positive for Stan because he wasn't first on the scene, but if he can continue fucking the fans over for another 4 years I believe he'll clear a positive £200mill when he sells. It's all good.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

finished the game with 5 british players on the pitch.

new future

[Cripps_orig]

finished the game with 5 british players on the pitch.

new future

Gibbs, Ramsey, Ox, Theo and.....

[Master Splinter]

Gibbs, Ramsey, Ox, Theo and.....

........Gervais Lombe Yao Kouassi.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

jenkinson.

dont care if he chose finnish nationality. british name, tattoo's and cockney accent

doing britain proud

[GP]

GHELkers

[Gooner23]

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.

That was one of the best games ive seen Gibbs play for us. Didnt give Pennant a sniff, won more than his fair share of headers and comfortable on the ball going forwards.

Must be some sort of record, with Gibbs and Diaby both playing two 90 mins in a row. Awaiting this weeks injury update though, no doubt one of them will have a little groin or something..

[Cripps_orig]

........Gervais Lombe Yao Kouassi.

Gervinho