Match reaction vs Villa (fa cup)

[Niall_Quinn]

how was he robbed? cunt. only bad decision by ref was not to send off dunne.

Theo hand balled it into the goal and then Villa had a penalty for hand ball denied. So he says. Not sure if that's going to stop his team being losers, doubt it.

[Xhaka Can’t]

fair enough, im just comparing the 2 half's and thought the 2nd was much better

I preferred the bit where we scored goals.

[Niall_Quinn]

As much as everyone wants to say Wenger must have lost his rag, I don't think he did this time as much as the ESPN pundits kept on suggesting. Keown knows Wenger and thinks he would have stayed calm as well. Against Liverpool, the players said in the interview that he lost his rag and had never seen him like that. When asked this time, RVP brushed past the question and just said we needed to play better.

I don't think Wenger had a reason to lose his rag either. For once, I agree with his interview, we were unlucky to be two goals down. I thought we looked very sharp from the get go and were creating dangerous chances but Villa were defending well.

Henry and RvP did the half time talk by the look of it. Henry was on the sidelines shouting instructions, Wenger was hiding under his coat. Maybe that was his plan, let the players sort themselves out.

[Syn]

A good performance. An expected win but nice to come back in the manner that we did. Thought the scoreline wasn't representative at all of the first half. Even at HT I thought we could go on and win it and it was great to see the players fight back well in the second. Nice little reminder that a match lasts for 90 minutes, not 45.

[Joker]

Excellent second half performance, that's more like it. We're still far too inconsistent though. Hopefully we get a bit of confidence from this win and can get back on track in the league.

[Power n Glory]

Result could have been anything today. And not because either team played well.

Not sure what game you were watching today. That wasn't a pub team performance. For once we created a lot of chances and dominates possession in the middle. I think Rosicky should be playing more often and Coqulin was good going forwards and that helped Theo a bit.

It was a better all round peformance from the team.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

As much as everyone wants to say Wenger must have lost his rag, I don't think he did this time as much as the ESPN pundits kept on suggesting. Keown knows Wenger and thinks he would have stayed calm as well. Against Liverpool, the players said in the interview that he lost his rag and had never seen him like that. When asked this time, RVP brushed past the question and just said we needed to play better.

I don't think Wenger had a reason to lose his rag either. For once, I agree with his interview, we were unlucky to be two goals down. I thought we looked very sharp from the get go and were creating dangerous chances but Villa were defending well.

True, well who ever said it needs to say it every week lol

[Power n Glory]

A good performance. An expected win but nice to come back in the manner that we did. Thought the scoreline wasn't representative at all of the first half. Even at HT I thought we could go on and win it and it was great to see the players fight back well in the second. Nice little reminder that a match lasts for 90 minutes, not 45.

Yeah u did say at half time we could still win it and we were playing well in the first half. Just sloppy goals. But it never felt like a game where we would struggle to create chances.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

I preferred the bit where we scored goals.

didn't we all

[Alpha]

Let be fair . The team played really well but unlucky to concede :

We dominated the whole game . Coq was solid . The Ox had a good game . Rosicky was very good in the engine room . We kept possession well for a long time and Villa had to chase the shadow .We created some good chances but unlucky not to put them away . Good to see RVP increase his goals tally . But our goals were not that great . We conceded though a lack of concentration and poor marking for the first goal and we were caught in counter-attack and should have closed Bent down after Fabianski has made a save . Nice to see Sagna back on the pitch .
Anyway , after losing 3 games in a row , it was good to win anyhow to boost up our confidence . A win is a win no matter what . Job done . Come on Middleborough or Sunderland .
I reckon it gonna be Middleborough . Bring them on .