Arsenal vs Crystal Palace 23.04.2025 - KO 20:00 GMT

[HCZ_Reborn]

You do that by how you treat the game and apply yourself. I remember you not finding it acceptable in any way on us drawing to Everton.

I'm the same here with Palace being the much better side when really we're in no different a situation to them in relative terms.

I think we are talking at cross purposes

I completely get your frustration. I just not sure I agree with the idea that the players consciously chose to play the way they did. I think to have half an eye on a competition we can win is human nature and there’s not a team in the world that doesn’t do it. As I said to NQ you’ve only to look at what shite Liverpool and Chelsea were putting in, in the league prior to their respective champions league finals in 2005, and 2012 and 2021.

Is it acceptable? No I agree with you, I want us to finish 2nd. But ultimately a player will think “do I want to risk injury”. It’s frustrating as fuck…I think we needed to win tonight, I’m sick of draws. But I hate defeats even more, and tonight we should have lost

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I think we are talking at cross purposes

I completely get your frustration. I just not sure I agree with the idea that the players consciously chose to play the way they did. I think to have half an eye on a competition we can win is human nature and there’s not a team in the world that doesn’t do it. As I said to NQ you’ve only to look at what shite Liverpool and Chelsea were putting in, in the league prior to their respective champions league finals in 2005, and 2012 and 2021.

Is it acceptable? No I agree with you, I want us to finish 2nd. But ultimately a player will think “do I want to risk injury”. It’s frustrating as fuck…I think we needed to win tonight, I’m sick of draws. But I hate defeats even more, and tonight we should have lost

I care about what works for us and I have never seen from us it ever work for us just deciding to turn the tap on and off when we perform and when we don't.

You say it's not a choice but how can that be when they play like that tonight and might, well hopefully do play differently against PSG.

It puts in a pin in momentum after two huge results and honestly I'll be amazed if we can get the required levels on Tuesday.

Players are fucking idiots for going in half-arsed.