Match Reaction - Farmer Giles and the Gang 1-1 Arsenal

[Özim]

Just seen the post match interview, they were really probing Wenger on the injuries and he did his usual, basically mocked the press for suggesting that Sanchez was playing with a tight hamstring and said that all the tests before the game suggested Sanchez was fine.

When they questioned him on his comments regarding Sanchez being close to the "red" zone if he continued playing every game he replied there are many players in Europe who play every game.

They were basically probing him on the obscene amount of injuries we have and he wouldn't have it.

I truly hope their is some inquest going on behind closed doors on the amount of "muscular" injuries we are getting because it has reached a laughable stage now.

The guy never accepts he's wrong. I'm not really sure if he's too stubborn or too thick, I mean he's suppose to be intelligent and yet can't spot any simple things even a man with two brain cells could spot.

[Letters]

The team didn't show any fight tonight, a shame really.

That was really disappointing.
I thought we were pretty good in the first half, the equalizer was a pretty decent goal but there was so little reaction.
We had a load of possession but did so little with it, only once or twice did we break with any real pace.

The one saving grace is no-one else is much good this year either, no-one is really taking the league by the scruff of the neck so we're still in the race. Cannot balls up the next 2 before the City game. Win those and we'd be able to leapfrog City when we play them, possibly to go top.

[Letters]

The guy never accepts he's wrong. I'm not really sure if he's too stubborn or too thick

You two have so much in common

[Power n Glory]

Just seen the post match interview, they were really probing Wenger on the injuries and he did his usual, basically mocked the press for suggesting that Sanchez was playing with a tight hamstring and said that all the tests before the game suggested Sanchez was fine.

When they questioned him on his comments regarding Sanchez being close to the "red" zone if he continued playing every game he replied there are many players in Europe who play every game.

They were basically probing him on the obscene amount of injuries we have and he wouldn't have it.

I truly hope their is some inquest going on behind closed doors on the amount of "muscular" injuries we are getting because it has reached a laughable stage now.

Yeah, I saw that and also read some of his comments.

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/weng...rested-sanchez

"I would have rested Sanchez, but he said to me before the game he was fine to play. He was an important loss, he pushes defenders back and always is incisive with his dribbling."

He needs to take responsibility and stop trying to blame everyone and anyone but himself. The most annoying thing about this is that he doesn't learn from experience. We had the same with Wilshere where he tried to palm the blame onto Wilshere for making himself available to play. It's such a cop out and so cowardly. Why invest in tech that tells us the fatigue level of players or bring in an extra coach to help us prevent injury if it just boils down to asking a player if he wants to play? He'll blame International coaches, the pitch we play on, the opposition, hair loss products...question anything but his own decisions. He needs to go because this just sums him up.

It was predictable we'd lose more players after the international break and Sanchez was another obvious one. He's been playing flat out since joining us. A world cup year he joins us, followed by a Copa America and rushed back to play for us without a proper rest. I hope it's not a bad injury but this is what Wenger does. Beasts players until they break down. It's idiotic and he creates the rod for his own back in these cases. He won't buy but he's not good enough to manage a small squad.

I said it when Theo and Ox were injured. There is no point saying we need to sell the 'injury prone' players because we'll always have this problem under Wenger. It's his regime that's producing the crocks. Young lads like Ox, Gibbs, Wilshere, Ramsey and Theo have spent their whole career under Wenger and Arsenal. Whatever they've learned about fitness, conditioning, diets, stretching...you name it....they've learned it all here at Arsenal. So how comes they're the most injured? Something is wrong with the system.

[Power n Glory]

The guy never accepts he's wrong. I'm not really sure if he's too stubborn or too thick, I mean he's suppose to be intelligent and yet can't spot any simple things even a man with two brain cells could spot.

It's pure stubbornness. He's smart enough to form a heap of arguments and excuses to deflect the attention away from him.

[rodders]

Arguably one of the most disgusting performances from an Arsenal team, tactically outsmarted yet again, this team under this manager is a million miles from winning the Premier League

[fakeyank]

You two have so much in common

Dont know if Zimm is stubborn, but he sure has been right more than any other on here. He had called the dinosaurs decline 6 or 7 years before most on here.

[AFC Leveller]

Apart from Campbell, all 23 Arsenal players have been injured in 2015.

[Seaman's Ponytail]

just saw the highlights

Bet Giroud didn't feature in them. In fact, unusually, in 6 pages of match reaction i don't think he's been mentioned once, suspect not many of you realised he was playing. I've stuck up for him in the past but he was seriously bad today. Unless of course he was trying to impersonate a sack of shit in which case he was exceptional

[AFC Leveller]

Giroud's problem is that he lets the opposition CB dominate him and wind him up. I watched him closely yesterday and every time the ball was there to be won, Bassong won it and Giroud complained to the ref immediately. He is easy to rattle.