Match reaction vs Schalke

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Cos we probably should have beaten them at home

Schalke are a decent side but no higher than 3rd tier in European football imo.

Them beating us was an upset. We should have rectified that mistake at their place and didnt and the way we didnt makes it worse. Losing a 2 goal lead just showed up all of our mental weakness

1 point in 2 games v Schalke, a team we should be getting 4+ from is shocking

Who really cares as long as we qualify thats the name of the game.

End of the day our team is shite and its stupid to expect to go there and get 3 points cause they beat us at home it does not work like that.

They beat Dortmund in the game before they played us, so id hadly say they are a bad side.

Its about getting out the group, if we don't then that result you could say cost us, right now i don't see the problem with it.

[Cripps_orig]

Neither are we tbh.

A fair point but we as Wenger so often likes to point out have been in the CL 47 million years in a row so we should be beating cannon fodder like this.

Fact is we arent. Its not only in the league we are a bit shit. Its also in the CL and we havent moved on at all to the next level in the CL level.

The fact every team in pot 2, 3 and 4 wanted Arsenal from Pot 1 speaks volumes of how we are seen in Europe

[Cripps_orig]

Who really cares as long as we qualify thats the name of the game.

End of the day our team is shite and its stupid to expect to go there and get 3 points cause they beat us at home it does not work like that.

Its about getting out the group, if we don't then that result you could say cost us, right now i don;t see the problem with it.

Arsenal fans i imagine

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Arsenal fans i imagine

Yeah and if we Qualify, they'd not give a shit about those 2 games.

[Cripps_orig]

Yeah and if we Qualify, they'd not give a shit about those 2 games.

If we finish 2nd and we get one of the big guns meaning certain elimination then yes they will.

Its a piss easy group.

Any other team who has been in the CL as long as us would expect a comfortable 6 wins out of 6

We have Wenger

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Before the game I'm sure you thought we'd lose.
We don't and you dismiss it.
We should have won but a point is a pretty good result against a side who looked a lot better than us at our place. If they look better than us when they're away then how the hell is it not a good result to get a better result away from home?

Pretty much.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

If we finish 2nd and we get one of the big guns meaning certain elimination then yes they will.

Its a piss easy group.

Any other team who has been in the CL as long as us would expect a comfortable 6 wins out of 6

We have Wenger

Thats a if, or who we draw, don't really see no big teams on top of the groups right now, so we may be better off to finish 2nd.

And if you draw the big teams you draw the big team. you have to play them at some point.

[Özim]

Thats a if, or who we draw, don't really see no big teams on top of the groups right now, so we may be better off to finish 2nd.

And if you draw the big teams you draw the big team. you have to play them at some point.

True but we'd rather lose later rather than in the next round which we will if we play a decent side.

[Özim]

Before the game I'm sure you thought we'd lose.
We don't and you dismiss it.
We should have won but a point is a pretty good result against a side who looked a lot better than us at our place. If they look better than us when they're away then how the hell is it not a good result to get a better result away from home?

That's the problem though isn't it, you accept mediocrity I don't and haven't for years. We're a big club and as Cripps says these guys should be cannon fodder for us, having lost at home we should have made up for it away. Over two games we got one point out of 6...awful result!

[Özim]

Neither are we tbh.

Thing is though in terms of financial muscle we're top tier pretty much, it's just we have a 3rd tier manager dragging us down with schoolboy tactics, ridiculous policies and an inability to learn and stubborn streak never seen in the history of football.