Quite needlessly let 2 points slip...but at least we haven't been overhauled. Yet...
Very annoying and Wenger was suprisingly okayish...about it.
Quite needlessly let 2 points slip...but at least we haven't been overhauled. Yet...
Very annoying and Wenger was suprisingly okayish...about it.
Its frustrating that we keep referencing how poor the other teams are this season to justify when we drop points. The title is there for the taking this season, and we're blowing the chance to build up a good lead because if its neck and neck with a few games to go I don't have much faith. 3 points needed at Stoke.
Still feels like a loss this morning.
I don't even know what we were trying to achieve with those substitutions. Were we trying to defend that lead? If so, why bring on Ox. The guy is a possession turnover machine with only one setting - the wrong one.
That loss of two points - because that is clearly what it is, could prove to be that moment where we blew it.
Very disappointing to drop points right at the death, esp when you look at the chances we effed up when clean through. The title is anyone's this season and everyone keeps dropping points but i just dont think we wil win it mainly because our defending (not defenders as i think we have very good defenders) is poor. We have already conceded 21 goals this season.
Last edited by AFC Leveller; 14-01-2016 at 08:37 AM.
Luckily for us the corrupt cheating officials ensured City couldn't gain on us last night.
Thought it was a good game and overall a draw probably fair result considering. Although when I saw the Liverpool line up how they scored 3 is remarkable.
However as each game goes by I am more convinced we will win it this season. I really don't think City have the team ethic and with a change of manager hanging over them plus a favourable draw in the CL, these things will get in the way of going on one of those 10 wins in the row runs.
Leicester is the interesting one, 20 games in and we are joint top with them. People say they will fall down at some point but they got a very good result last night and who knows. I do think the extra depth in our squad will eventually count but if they finish 2nd I wouldn't be grudge them that.
Agreed, exact same feeling like last season when Skrtel scored.Originally Posted by Bob Loblaw
Apparently El Neny will play against Stoke. Probably come off the bench though
The subs were silly. No idea what Wenger is thinking. In games where it's a comfortable lead and the other team hasn't a chance he wouldn't make those subs. But in a major game where we'vs already conceded 2 he takes off our best players and shifts the momentum in their favour. It's funny because the commentator I was listening to thought Liverpool had lost their attacking threat when Benteke came on and were more predictable. He was right. But we somehow managed to make things work in their favour.
I was thinking when we were leading yesterday that had we won it would have massively increased belief (I certainly would have been more convinced about our chances), we would have opened a nice gap over Man City and actually won one of those harder games that can really give a team belief (just like the vistories against Man U in the past).
As far as I'm concerned all this will do is put doubts in the players minds, just as a victory would have done the opposite, leading 3-2 until the end and dropping points will feel like a loss the substitutions during the match by Wenger were shockers, I wasn't surprised to see us concede, we've got a history of doing this and yet he brings off our best players who could help finish the match off or at least keep the pressure on Liverpool.
Big games like this at this stage of the season make all the difference in terms of belief IMO, as has been proved in the past.
Yeah terrible management IMO, some of his decisions are baffling, he cost us the game IMO.
I really don't think it was down to the subs that we lost. We had been struggling to clear the ball and keep hold of it for the previous twenty minutes and had gone the entire game without a central midfield. God knows where Flamini was for most of it. Campbell was absolutely shot and Walcott had been useless for the whole game so I get those subs. Arteta coming on for Ozil was a last roll to try and get some ball retention back. Ozil had effectively been out of the game for the previous 15. The momentum had mostly been with Liverpool throughout the game - as seen in their posseession and amount of shots on our goal and as the home side I expected them to be pushing as they did for the last quarter. If we actually had a midfield pair then I'm sure we wouldn't have been put under so much pressure last night. I don't think the subs had a things to do with that.
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