Match Reaction. WBA2-1 Arsenal 21/11/15

[Letters]

What excuses will we hear from our resident optimists? Highest points in 2015, Ozil and Sanchez purchase, 2 FA Cups, beating Bayern, beating City and Utd.. anything else?

We're 2 points off the top you silly sod
And, let's face it, Leiceter ain't finishing above us.
It's hardly worth a suicide pact.

Bad result today though, we can't afford too many of those. It's the first big slip up in the league for a while though, it's a bit early to be throwing in the towel just yet.

[Chippy]

To say Wenger is yesterdays man would be wrong in fact the day before yesterday would be more appropriate.

Klopp did ok today! Maybe we should have got him before he went to the bin dippers!

[Chippy]

We're 2 points off the top you silly sod
And, let's face it, Leiceter ain't finishing above us.
It's hardly worth a suicide pact.

Bad result today though, we can't afford too many of those. It's the first big slip up in the league for a while though, it's a bit early to be throwing in the towel just yet.

That's the point, we should be top! We bottled it again.

[Niall_Quinn]

Is tht because of today or have you been saying that all season? IMO we will finsih above chelsea and i think 2nd is more realistic for us.

Not just because of today. The signals have been there since August. This team still doesn't have a winning mentality and that's because the manager doesn't have one. His decisions will cost us again. Refusing to do what was required in the transfer window, chucking games because he doesn't have the confidence to compete across the board. He's bred a second rate environment and made failure excusable.

[Niall_Quinn]

We're 2 points off the top you silly sod
And, let's face it, Leiceter ain't finishing above us.
It's hardly worth a suicide pact.

Bad result today though, we can't afford too many of those. It's the first big slip up in the league for a while though, it's a bit early to be throwing in the towel just yet.

Wenger doesn't get the momentum and continuity thing either. "In the league", "In the calendar year". But the reality is we're on a run of extremely poor form. Look at our recent set of results, without leaving matches out. Nothing special at all and in fact shameful in places.

[IBK]

Not just because of today. The signals have been there since August. This team still doesn't have a winning mentality and that's because the manager doesn't have one. His decisions will cost us again. Refusing to do what was required in the transfer window, chucking games because he doesn't have the confidence to compete across the board. He's bred a second rate environment and made failure excusable.

I think this is what I feel disillusioned about. I was feeling that Wenger had made progress in his approach, and that this could see us find consistent match winning form after our disappointing start. But it seems as though it's one step forward, two steps back yet again. The CL has been a complete balls up so far - despite the familiar one off performance against a top team. The league cup was depressing in that it exposed a worrying lack of depth in the squad. So we looked to the league - and saw real green shoots. But again hope has been tempered by injury; lack of proper options in key positions and the old Arsenal tendency to shoot ourselves in the foot. We can look at other club's deficiencies all we like, but given the past month's performances and what we have seen season after season it would be irrational to suppose that we are more likely to see out the league than to endure our familiar and disappointing journey to 3rd or 4th. For whatever reason, we have no proper solidity or consistency in our performances, and it's missing the point, IMO to look at other teams' results and ignore Arsenal's very typical shortcomings.

[Kano]

And this is exactly why if we go into the Europa, we have to go for it.

This 'league challenge only' nonsense is far too narrow.

[IBK]

We're 2 points off the top you silly sod

And, let's face it, Leiceter ain't finishing above us.
It's hardly worth a suicide pact.

Bad result today though, we can't afford too many of those. It's the first big slip up in the league for a while though, it's a bit early to be throwing in the towel just yet.

You could have made this, or a similar statement to that highlighted at some stage in most of the past half dozen seasons. In each and every one of these seasons, however, the issues that have come to the fore in the past month have seen us finish well behind the eventual league winners. As I say, what depresses me is that there is no real sign of this team's familiar frailties being addressed this season.

[Marc Overmars]

Coq to have a scan tomorrow, some talk that he could miss a month or 2 but we'll see.

What a stupid but sadly avoidable situation we've allowed ourselves to fall into again. Our next few fixtures are very winnable at least, but then again, so was today's.

[Niall_Quinn]

Coq to have a scan tomorrow, some talk that he could miss a month or 2 but we'll see.

What a stupid but sadly avoidable situation we've allowed ourselves to fall into again. Our next few fixtures are very winnable at least, but then again, so was today's.

There were no quality players anywhere in the world that could have been brought in, at least none that were better than Arteta or Flamini. Just a sad fact. No decent strikers either. All we were asking Coquelin to do is play every game in every competition and not get injured or suspended all season, and he couldn't even do that. He's let the manager down.