Arsenal 2-0 Basel - Match Reaction

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Great performance and 10 - 0 wouldn't have done us justice, such was the relentlessness of our attacking performance. God knows how it was only 2 - 0. Hopefully Alexis and the others have got their bad misses out of their system for the season in this game.

I do worry about Alexis though, not about the missed chances, but just the sheer energy he puts into every game. Always chasing, harrying, putting in 110% effort into the game ........ just hope he doesn't get burned out before the end of the season. I know he's a player that wants to play every game but we have to manage him carefully. At the moment he's playing like a 70 million striker and we can't afford to lose that for a large chunk of the season.


By the way, did anyone check out ArsenalFanTV after the game? The big Gorilla DT got into some fight with some AKB supporter who called him out, essentially saying it should be "DT out and not Wenger out".



AKB guy who called him out (can only link one video per post): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4XbC32XFe8


Mr Bludfam also got into the action in a later video.

Fucking idiots. We put in the performance of the seasons and those morans are fighting among themselves with their silly AKB vs WOB shit.

[Niall_Quinn]

Haven't watched AFTV for 2 weeks, probably because the football was worth watching.

However, here's this cock that caused the problems. Tbf, if you met this cock it'd be hard not to punch the cunt's lights out.



The challenge is to be competing on all fronts come May. If we are doing that then the debate is over - although it still doesn't excuse Wenger for such a mediocre tenure over the last 12 years. But that can be corrected by doing the business this season. We've been here before though and it is way too early to start celebrating. Based on past history there's far more chance of us collapsing than pressing on and getting back to the sort of football we expect at this club. YES - we expect it because of Wenger, that's true. He's created the standard, but it also falls to him to maintain the standard and he has not done that. His failures can't be excused by his past successes, not after such an extended period. So these cocks coming out and pretending all is well again are jumping the gun. We wait and we see. We've been here many, many times before. Right now we are playing well enough to suggest that maybe, maybe things can be different this season. But even then, how many times have we said that.

Cautious optimism, not premature gloating. That's what's required now. Actually extremely cautious optimism. Two games needs to become ten games and then a season. Let's see. And hopefully mega tossers like the one in the video above will shut the fuck up with their garbage about who is allowed to be a fan and what opinions people are allowed to have. First time I have seen this prick on AFTV. Let's look out for him at the next away game, him being such a big fan and all.

[Niall_Quinn]

Why are so many fans saying Alexis had a bad game? WTF? He was MOTM by a mile. Are they judging everything on whether he sticks the ball in the net? What about all the other stuff? The passing. The relentless energy? The blistering pace and directness? The way he hustles and harried all night long up top? It was a great performance and the goals would have been icing. They didn't come, but it's crazy to say that means he had a bad game.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Great performance and 10 - 0 wouldn't have done us justice, such was the relentlessness of our attacking performance. God knows how it was only 2 - 0. Hopefully Alexis and the others have got their bad misses out of their system for the season in this game.

I do worry about Alexis though, not about the missed chances, but just the sheer energy he puts into every game. Always chasing, harrying, putting in 110% effort into the game ........ just hope he doesn't get burned out before the end of the season. I know he's a player that wants to play every game but we have to manage him carefully. At the moment he's playing like a 70 million striker and we can't afford to lose that for a large chunk of the season.


By the way, did anyone check out ArsenalFanTV after the game? The big Gorilla DT got into some fight with some AKB supporter who called him out, essentially saying it should be "DT out and not Wenger out".



AKB guy who called him out (can only link one video per post): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4XbC32XFe8


Mr Bludfam also got into the action in a later video.

Fucking idiots. We put in the performance of the seasons and those morans are fighting among themselves with their silly AKB vs WOB shit.

Even though I think DT is a dickhead, I can't disagree with what he said here

You can want Wenger out and enjoy it when we play good football and get good results under Wenger.

[AFC Leveller]

Why are so many fans saying Alexis had a bad game? WTF? He was MOTM by a mile. Are they judging everything on whether he sticks the ball in the net? What about all the other stuff? The passing. The relentless energy? The blistering pace and directness? The way he hustles and harried all night long up top? It was a great performance and the goals would have been icing. They didn't come, but it's crazy to say that means he had a bad game.

Agree. He is not a goal scorer only, he is an all round world class player and does so much more than scoring. He is the type of player to have a great game even w/out the goals. He set up two goals, went close a coupe of times and ran them raged all night.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Even though I think DT is a dickhead, I can't disagree with what he said here

You can want Wenger out and enjoy it when we play good football and get good results under Wenger.

Oh I agree with that and generally I don't have a problem with his views, though his "holier than thou attitude" and his aggressiveness are annoying.

That being said he's a complete hypocrite. Talking about how people should have respect for the views of others, yet I'm certain I've seen video of him after a bad defeat ridiculing Wenger supporters and saying their deluded and what not.

[fakeyank]

Lets not get carried away, we've had good runs of form before and seen it all peter out in familiar fashion.

I agree there are some good signs though. I certainly think its our strongest squad for some time, and with Theo and Iwobi performing well on the wings it allows Sanchez the freedom to play up front.

Let's not get carried away. We almost always put some sort of unbeaten run every season to raise everybody's hopes and then the wheels come off after one or two bad performances. November, December and Feb are few of the months where the wheels usually come off our season. Based on our past, I am finding it hard to be optimistic. However having said that, we did look unplayable in the last 2 games.

Please let this continue!

[selassie]

I really like what I'm seeing at the moment, we are playing at a really high level and there seems to be genuine chemistry both technically and tactically between the first XI.

We've been here before but things are looking good for us at the moment.

[Kano]

Great performance and 10 - 0 wouldn't have done us justice, such was the relentlessness of our attacking performance. God knows how it was only 2 - 0. Hopefully Alexis and the others have got their bad misses out of their system for the season in this game.

I do worry about Alexis though, not about the missed chances, but just the sheer energy he puts into every game. Always chasing, harrying, putting in 110% effort into the game ........ just hope he doesn't get burned out before the end of the season. I know he's a player that wants to play every game but we have to manage him carefully. At the moment he's playing like a 70 million striker and we can't afford to lose that for a large chunk of the season.


By the way, did anyone check out ArsenalFanTV after the game? The big Gorilla DT got into some fight with some AKB supporter who called him out, essentially saying it should be "DT out and not Wenger out".



AKB guy who called him out (can only link one video per post): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4XbC32XFe8


Mr Bludfam also got into the action in a later video.

Fucking idiots. We put in the performance of the seasons and those morans are fighting among themselves with their silly AKB vs WOB shit.

Just attention seeking dickheads, the lot of em. Their opinion has to be heard on camera and overpower everyone else's. Anyone that goes on there is an absolute bellend.

[Power n Glory]

Rob's trying to heal the rift. It's bad situation. It's embarrassing. Heck of a performance and just an all round entertaining game to watch but they can't walk back to the station and just enjoy it. It's not even the sort of game where we played shit but got the 3 points. It was an enjoyable game to watch and that was purely down to our performance. Basel were shut out for the majority of the game.