Match Reaction v Chelsea

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Chelsea don't have a world class striker and they're top of the league.

Every team will lose games, how we react to this will tell us a lot about this team.

This is my point, The diffrence is they they had quality players in at least every place yesterday we did not.

Yesterday showed me Giroud is going to take long to settle, Poldi may not score goals then 15 this season. Should have gone for a llorente type striker if were not going to put Theo up top.

I agree how we react will tell us about this team, id still back us to get top 4.

[Joker]

Who negatively repped this post of mine?

Very poor performance, deserved nothing from this game.

Wenger's team selection and substitutions were baffling as well. Mertesacker should have stayed in the team, and persisting with Ramsey on the right was a terrible decision as well. He tried that last season and he was ineffective and negatively affected our performances. Why does he persist with playing players out of position? How long did it take before he realised Eboue on the right of midfield, Diaby on the left, Bendtner as wing forward etc etc didn't work? Wenger's so stubborn sometimes, that he'll keep a flawed strategy/team selection going for a long time just to be proved right.

Subbing Podolski was a bad idea as well. We saw with that header how dangerous he can potentially be, and yet Gervinho was spared again, despite being extremely erratic throughout the game despite his goal.

I thought Wenger had learned a few lessons from last season, but he still keeps making basic tactical mistakes that you'd expect someone of his experience not to make.

Don't think it was such a bad post that it deserved negative repping. If you disagree fine (others have said Ramsey did better on the right compared to in central midfield, which is fair enough) but at least respond rather than anonymously criticise the post.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Yeah, I don't completely agree with that post, but even if I disagreed with it, there is nothing there to negatively rep it.

But I did anyway.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Im sure we will all get Negative repped is that not what the system is there for. If were going to complain then we'd be better off doing away with the whole thing.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

You know your CF is pretty poor if Gervinho is your top scorer. We really should have considered Llorente as a serious option. If Ba is available in January, even he would be worth a look. Wasn't convinced by Giroud when we signed him, still not convinced now.

Problem with Ba he may be off to the Acon for a month in jan, so not sure it would make sense to get him.

[Xhaka Can’t]

I watched the match last night and I don't believe the performance merits a great deal of doom and gloom - we had the chances to win this match, but if we are going to continue to defend freekicks like we did yesterday then we are going to get many more adverse results, and quite frankly, if we defend innocuous freekicks in such a fashion, we deserve to lose.

This is an aspect of our game I hope Bould can get sorted pronto. I suspect it will be high on his agenda.

[V-Pig]

Im sure we will all get Negative repped is that not what the system is there for. If were going to complain then we'd be better off doing away with the whole thing.

Easy for you to say, number 1!

[Joker]

Yeah, I don't completely agree with that post, but even if I disagreed with it, there is nothing there to negatively rep it.

But I did anyway.

[LDG]

Sloppy as fuck. Only way i can describe that match. A game we could easily have won with better application.

Well pissed off.

[Maestro]

City were there for the taking and so were Chelsea yesterday, what happens????.....well you guessed it

I have definately come round to NQ & Zimm's school of thought ...fuck them, fuck the lot of them

right, a beer and a spliff ..good to go