Match Reaction vs Fulham 10/11/12

[Niall_Quinn]

Exactly. It was the same last week with the Schalke game. Instead of talking about throwing away a lead, we're talking about Walcott's last chance on goal.

The last minute goals can't disguise the fact that we're terrible at defending and that needs sorting out. That's the main issue we have right now.

That was another huge moment blown, like Bendtner's miss against Barca. These are the moments that make the difference in what is otherwise tight competition. Right there Walcott could have banged that in the net and said fucking pay me! But instead he says pay me and then shows precisely why he's not worth it. We have big name players who are small time in reality. Whether that's the manager's fault, the players' faults or a mix of both all I know is we are small time.

[Kano]

Do we still even bother debating the shit defence? It's just a given isn't it? Years of watching the same crap and nothing is done about it.

there is no debate, it was shit today. sure, it's been shit for years but why would a first reaction on leaving a game like that be 'where was giroud'? if i was walking out at full time i'd be fuming at our back 6 and at arteta for not putting away the chance. if the aim is to score 4/5 a game and then have a go at strikers not doing so, then people really are losing the plot.

[Özim]

Do we still even bother debating the shit defence? It's just a given isn't it? Years of watching the same crap and nothing is done about it.

Pretty much, we're never going to defend well...Wenger doesn't know the meaning of defence. At least in the past he had a competent attack to bail him out.

[Kano]

So he scored two goals, bout time he made up for his dogshite start to his career missing sitters left right and centre, I'm not about to praise him for one game when he goes around missing matchwinning chances almost every game. He did Ok today, doesn't change the fact he should have had the guts to step forward and take the penalty, noone would have argued as he was on a hattrick.

wow ok. you're nuts.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

Do we still even bother debating the shit defence? It's just a given isn't it? Years of watching the same crap and nothing is done about it.

this

its pointless. we could go 10 games without letting in a goal but we'd still have a goal difference of -89 at the end of the season.

[Ollie the Optimist]

right wenger has confirmed we have a list of penalty takers, arteta is number 1, cazorla is number 2. so that puts that argument to bed

[Özim]

That was another huge moment blown, like Bendtner's miss against Barca. These are the moments that make the difference in what is otherwise tight competition. Right there Walcott could have banged that in the net and said fucking pay me! But instead he says pay me and then shows precisely why he's not worth it. We have big name players who are small time in reality. Whether that's the manager's fault, the players' faults or a mix of both all I know is we are small time.

Totally agree, I'm not absolving the defence of blame, far from it as their dogshite and awful....but at the same time when you get a chance to win a game it's shocking that we don't have players who will stand up and be counted and that is a problem in itself.

He could have bailed out his teammates and been the hero, instead he took the cowards way out and passed the buck. You'll never achieve anything if players won't take the responsiblity that should fall upon them.

[Marc Overmars]

We shouldn't need 4 goals to win at home and against Fulham. They're a #decent side but there are no excuses for letting a 2 goal lead slip. This game should have been formality once Podolski scored but we just fell into that familar lull, pretending to be in control because we're completing several sideways passes, when the reality is that we can't be bothered to go for kill.

[Özim]

Bar a handful of players this squad is sh*t it really is. We need a massive clearout from top to bottom.

[Power n Glory]

That was another huge moment blown, like Bendtner's miss against Barca. These are the moments that make the difference in what is otherwise tight competition. Right there Walcott could have banged that in the net and said fucking pay me! But instead he says pay me and then shows precisely why he's not worth it. We have big name players who are small time in reality. Whether that's the manager's fault, the players' faults or a mix of both all I know is we are small time.

These aren't tight games. They shouldn't be anyway. It's bad defending that's costing us. When you go two goals up you should be able to hold the lead.