Match Reaction: Arsenal 3 Stoke City 1

[Kano]

That Ox pass for the second was excellent.

[Niall_Quinn]

Didn't watch the game

Was it a pen?

Heard that the goal Ozil scored very similar to Van Persie against Spain in the World Cup

No, never a pen in a million years.

No, nothing like RvCs goal. Ball looped up and over the back line, Ozil in space, heads it up and over the keeper on forst touch. Good finish, but nothing like RvCs effort.

[Niall_Quinn]

So far it's

P15 W10 D4 L1 in the league. For comparison, The Invincibles were P15 W10 D5 L0 at this stage so we've only one fewer point.

Marathon not a sprint and all that, but so far so good.

OMFG

[Master Splinter]

I'm convinced it will come down to our home form. Away from home we're one of, if not absolute, best over the past year. A good string of home wins will put is in a really strong position, along with a solid away performance.

I was most worried about dropping points against Bournemouth, West Brom and Palace in this period. We always beat Stoke at home. Everton and Citeh away are probably the easiest games for us.

[Niall_Quinn]

Decent performance. Good win. Classy goals.

I'd just like to highlight Coquelin's contribution as it often goes unnoticed because he's not silky and didn't cost £55 million. He's so good at intercepting and winning balls high up the pitch. It sets up so many of our attacks. He and Xhaka make for a great tackling duo as well.

Oh, and: Mason .

He's also fat.

Coq also gives the ball away quite a lot. He used to do the simple things and he needs to get back to that.

Good win against a bunch of rotten pubbers who only Tony Gale could love.

Half a decent performance that switched between direct and forward play, and that awful tippy tappy dross. All 3 goals very good finishes. Iwobi's impersonation of TH

Mason is fat (and I'm not just saying that, he really is)

[Kano]

I was most worried about dropping points against Bournemouth, West Brom and Palace in this period. We always beat Stoke at home. Everton and Citeh away are probably the easiest games for us.

There surely has to be a defeat looming soon in the league. For the past decade at least, the PL winners have the best home record. If we can kill off those teams at home, then dropping points away is to be expected occasionally.

[Marc Overmars]

Good stuff.

Definite banana skin next at Everton, if our performances against Koeman's Southampton are anything to go by.

[Gooner23]

Lee Mason is one of the refs you dread getting, he's awful.

[LDG]

Super stuff boys.

Bit crap first half, with that utter cunt of a ref doing what he usually does to us. Fat bald wanker.

Really good second half.

[LDG]

Lee Mason is one of the refs you dread getting, he's awful.

First thing I said to the bloke next to me. "Lee Mason? Fuck, that's one nil to them already".

And so it proved.

Utter crooked cunt.