Match Reaction: Watford 1 Arsenal 3

[Xhaka Can’t]

I was by the pool and only noticed the bar was showing the game once the second half started.

Me

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Will Holding be dropped now Mustafi is here? I would leave him in the team, Mustafi should earn his place.

Wenger ain't paying 35 mill for a bench warmer. He'll be in eventually even if Holding merits staying in.

[Chippy]

Wenger ain't paying 35 mill for a bench warmer. He'll be in eventually even if Holding merits staying in.

Guess you are right. However, at the moment, Holding looks like a real good buy for 2m.

[Niall_Quinn]

DT showing what a bell end he is, he doesn't seem to think that you can be happy with the result and performance whilst still not being pleased with the manager and the club. Why go to every game, if you just want to wallow in misery.

I saw that and to some extent I agree. I have the same problem. I can see all the glaring issues at the club and know that 3 points against Watford means nothing in the grand scheme of things. I can see the horrible hole in the defence that never get corrected. I can see where the play breaks down and who it breaks down around. I have to sit through Wenger's one man mission to stamp out enjoyment wherever he finds it. And it's fucking irritating, because when you saw in glimpses what this team might be able to do you it just reinforces the self inflicted disadvantage we impose on ourselves by having Wenger at the helm.

Then I think, well hell, what does it matter? This guy masquerading as a football manager, thee players, the club. They are so detached from my reality that it's pretty damn stupid to be getting wound up about anything they say or do. Utterly pointless.

So in between I settle on hoping for entertainment when I watch the games. And there was some of that yesterday, so that's good. There could have been more, but Wenger annihilated it as he always does. The temptation to then get angry flares up again, followed by the who cares routine...

[Niall_Quinn]

Will Holding be dropped now Mustafi is here? I would leave him in the team, Mustafi should earn his place.

That would mean dropping Kos, or leaving a 35mill defender on the bench.

[Kano]

DT showing what a bell end he is, he doesn't seem to think that you can be happy with the result and performance whilst still not being pleased with the manager and the club. Why go to every game, if you just want to wallow in misery.

Because he's an attention seeking cunt.

[Maestro]

Good result yesterday and some good play. Really hoping Sanchez or Perez up front can somehow work for us, so we never get to see Giroud as our no1 striker.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Will Holding be dropped now Mustafi is here? I would leave him in the team, Mustafi should earn his place.

Our GK options in goal are as strong as they have been in years.

Our defensive options in defence are as strong as they have been in years.

Our Midfield options in midfield as strong as they have been in years.

I am actually feeling much more positive. The manager is fatally flawed but at least we don't have to have quite so much incessant naval gazing and pondering about signing several players we desperately need.

I think in spite of all our options Cazorla should definitely play most guys and I absolutely loved his inch perfect sliding tackle in the first half.

[Özim]

Expected a victory here so no real surprise, Watford aren't much kop. Bigger tests to come.

[Letters]

It is a game we should be winning but it's nice to see things clicking in the first half and us not pub-teaming a win.
But yes, bigger tests to come.