Match Reaction v Udinese

[Joker]

What an awful performance by what looked like a very average team, nothing to be proud of here....it's rather embarrassing that we have fallen to this level to be honest.

Udinese were the better side, just lucky for us they sold their best players in the summer too.

After that if we don't spend some money there's some wrong, also no surprise Gibbs doesn't complete a game again, the guy can't play one match without getting injured and yet Wenger expects him to be our regular full back....what a deluded c*ck.

We just seem to be getting worse and worse....

It's okay, we have Traore as back up who'll be like a new signing, and van Persie can play there as well you know, being left footed and all :*******:

[Olivier's xmas twist]

I think today was also evidence that our midfield has been the biggest contributor to our defensive frailty, not the quality of our centre-backs.

Song, Fabregas, Diaby, Denilson, Ramsey and others have all over the years either been lazy or inept at providing protection when a team effort is needed.

[Cripps_orig]

Watching the highlights now.

Didnt realise Udinese hit the bar and one of their players just ran past all of our players and fortunately shot straight at Chesney

[Joker]

I'm surprised and happy we won with the (lack of) squad we had. See Zimm, Joker and a few others for the glass half empty approach.

I'm happy (and relieved) we've won, and understand we were never going to see a Rolls Royce performance with so many players missing, but even with those injuries, the team we had out was experienced, and the number of basic mistakes was shocking. Moreover, our midfield seemed clueless when it came to providing defensive cover, while at the same time lacking any creativity to link with the forwards in the final third.

We're going to have times in the season when these players will need to step up to the plate due to injuries, and tonight's evidence suggests they are not good enough.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

What an awful performance by what looked like a very average team, nothing to be proud of here....it's rather embarrassing that we have fallen to this level to be honest.

Udinese were the better side, just lucky for us they sold their best players in the summer too.

After that if we don't spend some money there's some wrong, also no surprise Gibbs doesn't complete a game again, the guy can't play one match without getting injured and yet Wenger expects him to be our regular full back....what a deluded c*ck.

We just seem to be getting worse and worse....

Not sure how you came to that conclusion we played 2 games this season. Anyway did you think we would batter them with the team put out and players missing.

If thiswas UTD who did this you be having an organasm ovr them.

chill out, yeah it was not the best perfomance, but not the worst.

[Xhaka Can’t]

He didnt but when you consider the alternative ie Bendtner, we should thank our lucky stars we have Chamakh instead of the worst striker in our history

Here we go again.

I suppose you managed a couple of months.

For that reason, we should thank our lucky stars.

[AKBapologist]

Sorry mate, this is the Arsenal v Udinese match reaction thread.

WTF were you watching?

Was about to ask Syn the same question.

Feel free to give your interpretation of events.

[Niall_Quinn]

I'm surprised and happy we won with the (lack of) squad we had. See Zimm, Joker and a few others for the glass half empty approach.

You've just adjusted to supporting a second rate and boring pile of shite quicker than many of the rest of us, alarmingly quickly in fact. We just got use to the amazing football we use to watch and this new jarring horror story is a little hard to adjust to. Don't worry, we'll all get there in the end.

[AKBapologist]

You've just adjusted to supporting a second rate and boring pile of shite quicker than many of the rest of us, alarmingly quickly in fact. We just got use to the amazing football we use to watch and this new jarring horror story is a little hard to adjust to. Don't worry, we'll all get there in the end.

Apparently we haven't played amazing football since Wenger arrived. Apparently, great defending and clean sheets is proper footy. Apparently, we've had a shit squad for 3 years.


Seriously though, I'm honestly not sure why people were shocked how poor we were. The last preseason game give us a good preview of how "not ready" this youth side is, so I'm totally thrilled by the result and the effort.

[Joker]

I don't have any sense of entitlement that we should be winning trophies season after season, and that we should be playing champagne football week in week out. I know this is impossible for any football team, and I understand football is more than just about trophies, and we're lucky to have seen so much silverware in the last 15 years.

The anger and frustration is due to the almost criminal manner that Wenger dismantled an experienced squad of players who had won trophies from 2005-2007, and failed to recreate a sufficiently strong squad of experienced, quality players, instead relying on young players to step up, even though most of them were simply mediocre players. Tonight I saw the result of incredible negligence that Wenger has shown when it comes to developing a robust squad of players who can cope with injuries, rather than hoping to get lucky whenever a few first team players are out.

We didn't need to spend £100M to make sure our squad was of the required standard, all it needed was a bit of care and attention, but Wenger, being blinded by dogma, failed to see the obvious, which has cost us dearly.