Match Reaction: Arsenal v Man City

[Joker]

No disrespect intended, but your posts do have a certain tone to them.

What tone is that then?

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

If we manage 4th this season I'll be shocked. Chelsea next week...we'll lose that, then fat Sam's West Ham...we could lose that...followed by Liverpool...we could lose that also.

We could be 8th or 9th by Feb.

This side just don't work hard enough without the ball, until we sort this out we will struggle.

A horrific 0-0 draw where you are terrible in the first half, and we are terrible in the second.

I'm personally hoping for another one like last (?) April. Two goals in 12 minutes of stoppage time. Us equalising obviously.

[Dennis Bendtner]

Arteta's out for three weeks.

[Ollie the Optimist]

It's not an ideal way to tackle, but still I can understand why they'd feel hard done by. It's not really a lunge, and he doesn't really make contact with Wilshere.

watch the replay from about 17 seconds, you will clearly see both feet are off the ground pointing in jacks direction. tahts not allowed. thats a two footed challenge. thats a red card.


any reason though as to why you are saying city wasnt a red yet arsenals was?

[Niall_Quinn]

It's not an ideal way to tackle, but still I can understand why they'd feel hard done by. It's not really a lunge, and he doesn't really make contact with Wilshere.

True, I don't think there was any need for Dean to apply the written rules in that situation. It was unfair on the super blues. Even though lunging in with both feet off the ground in an uncontrolled manner is an automatic red card there should still be leeway for the ref to make up the rules as he goes. Mancini's blue and white army still got the result, which was a fair outcome if I put aside being a fan for the time being and instead become a neutral, but Dean's bias against the champions (champions, champio-nes, we are, we are, we) was a little bit obvious.

[Boss]

Match reaction... early sending off distorts the game, can't really conclude anything about our long term ambitions from this game.

- Wilshere is class and will only get better.

- We missed Arteta badly today, Diaby was a noshow throughout the game.

- Walcott was shocking, hopefully this ends any talk about him playing as a central striker.

- Chesney is top notch, if not for him the score would be at least double.

- Sagna needs a break, Giroud needs to improve his heading ability.

[Niall_Quinn]

Arteta's out for three weeks.

FFS, two weeks = the whole season so wtf does 3 weeks mean?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Arteta is a GHEL at heart, he'll be back on schedule.

Maybe WUMger could bless us with playing players that actually make up the 'two in evey position' he mentioned? Probably not though.

[Joker]

any reason though as to why you are saying city wasnt a red yet arsenals was?

Because that's my opinion? I'm not just going to do what some people on this board do and say everything Arsenal do is correct and everything the opposition do is wrong. It's simply my opinion, if you disagree fine. IMO the second foot is not really going into the tackle, which is why I don't think it's a red.

[Niall_Quinn]

Arteta is a GHEL at heart, he'll be back on schedule.

Maybe WUMger could bless us with playing players that actually make up the 'two in evey position' he mentioned? Probably not though.

As long as Gibbs doesn't get injured for more than 5 minutes. He's probably our most important player now, the only thing standing between Arsenal and Santos.