Match Reaction v Chelsea

[Ralpheroo72]

No one had a good game, Gibbs showed promise. Our team is like Jesus, afraid of crosses.

[hobson's choice]

This is the problem with not playing a more defensively minded player in the centre of midfield. Arteta's just quite well so far, but it would be better if we had a more aggressive player who'd close down the opposition when on the ball. Like mentioned before, Mikel had too much time to pick out forward passes. That's not the mention the space that Chelsea had on the counter attack, and if they were less sloppy they probably would have scored more on the break. This is where a conventional defensive midfielder would have come in handy, to prevent them turning defence into attack so effortlessly.

What are you talking about, Mikel barely got the ball, and he certainly wasn't spraying passes around, both teams were craps, especially there's and our midfield

[Olivier's xmas twist]

the two teams you mentioned...saints and liverpool

So yet we should not get happy because we beat them or it was promising. We were always going to end up like this when we did not buy quality in the summer.

[hobson's choice]

It's very simple, our attacking players while okay, simply aren't great, so yeah we'll beat up on the likes of Southampton, but we all know, we are gonna struggle for goals, against decent opposition this season.

[Marc Overmars]

There wasn't really much between the sides. We just reverted to our fucked up style of defending and that was the difference.

Should have taken a point but unfortunatley the chance fell to the last player right now you'd want on the end of it.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

how on earth the team couldnt get up for a london derby against one of our biggest rivals is shocking.

walked onto the pitch as if we were playing charlton.

[RomfordPele]

There wasn't really much between the sides. We just reverted to our fucked up style of defending and that was the difference.

Should have taken a point but unfortunatley the chance fell to the last player right now you'd want on the end of it.

To be fair, I'd have no confidence in any of our current strikers finishing a chance like that when it really matters. No bottle.

[hobson's choice]

how on earth the team couldnt get up for a london derby against one of our biggest rivals is shocking.

walked onto the pitch as if we were playing charlton.

This game wasn't about effort or fight, they fought, it just wasn't their day. And talent on the pitch simply isn't good enough to beat a Chelsea side that played pretty well defensively

[Ollie the Optimist]

mannone needs extra training, the second goal especially, he just stood there. it barely touched kos, not enough to deviate massively of its path yet he shoudl have saved it.

[Cripps_orig]

mannone needs extra training, the second goal especially, he just stood there. it barely touched kos, not enough to deviate massively of its path yet he shoudl have saved it.

Oh dear