Match reaction vs Villa (fa cup)

[Power n Glory]

Its too be expected though.

Some posters will never give a player credit no matter what.

Ive had experience in dealing with these posters though with Zimm and Ade.

All we can do is and

So here goes

NQ

The comment on Theo is off but the whole post is off. Song was right to curb his attacking runs eapecially when Kos, Verm and Coqulin are bombing forwards. It wasn't necessary for him to push up.

Totally wrong on Rosicky. One of the reasons why our play was so fluid and in general, I don't remember seeing too much sloppy play from anyone today. Just a bad assessment of the match in general. There was a huge difference in that performance compared to how we played in our last three games. Huge.

[bignev]

Its too be expected though.

Some posters will never give a player credit no matter what.

Ive had experience in dealing with these posters though with Zimm and Ade.

All we can do is and

So here goes

NQ

But Walcott was terrible. Again. Like he always is.

[Cripps_orig]

But Walcott was terrible. Again. Like he always is.

Well no he wasnt and the reception he got when he was taken off pretty much proved that. Only on GW do people have ridiculous expectations of Theo. He had a good game today and was excellent in the 2nd half.

[Cripps_orig]

The comment on Theo is off but the whole post is off. Song was right to curb his attacking runs eapecially when Kos, Verm and Coqulin are bombing forwards. It wasn't necessary for him to push up.

Totally wrong on Rosicky. One of the reasons why our play was so fluid and in general, I don't remember seeing too much sloppy play from anyone today. Just a bad assessment of the match in general. There was a huge difference in that performance compared to how we played in our last three games. Huge.

Tbf, after the Theo comment, i didnt read the rest cos i was pretty sure it was up to NQs usual standard of WUMmery which is fine when there is an element of truth about it. However with him there isnt. With him, youre either the best player in the world or the shittest

[Xhaka Can’t]

Well no he wasnt and the reception he got when he was taken off pretty much proved that. Only on GW do people have ridiculous expectations of Theo. He had a good game today and was excellent in the 2nd half.

It isn't ridiculous to not expect him to regularly run in to brick walls or look up before crossing a ball.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Well no he wasnt and the reception he got when he was taken off pretty much proved that. Only on GW do people have ridiculous expectations of Theo. He had a good game today and was excellent in the 2nd half.

No it proved the fans were happy for him to be off, well thats what i got from it, theo was poor but i feel he might be uselful to us in the cl his pace will scare milan tbh.

[Power n Glory]

He does produce stuff - it was pointed out to you in the match thread with an example but you focus on someone else fucking up. Unless it ends in an Arsenal goal, the contribution doesn't exist for you. And you know what? I'd take players who get stuck in and sprint for 95 minutes over lazy, talented fuckers like Arshavin. Because I can live with trying and failing over not trying and failing. That's what I think being a fan is about. As long as the 11 players on the pitch are working hard, they deserve our support. Any failures are the fault of the manager alone.



There was absolutely nothing lucky about the performance or the result. We deserved to win and we did. We fought back very well from a position that didn't really reflect the balance of play. If I was a betting man, I'd bet that you can't bring yourself to say you called it wrong with the overreaction and bedwetting at HT and are looking to say we fluked it. I'm not saying we put in a brilliant performance. I'm saying we didn't need a brilliant performance to beat this Villa side. We played reasonably well. There were some obvious flaws. There were also some obvious encouraging points. Decent win.

I was left scratching my head at the end of the first half. Couldn't believe we were two goals down and I thought we were playing very well. Rosicky was doing the simple things and it wasn't as if he was getting caught in possession. If a through ball in the final third gets blocked off or one of our players fails to control the ball...that isn't sloppy play. Sometimes it boils down to good defending.

Thought it was a fluid performance from the players. There wasn't many bad misses or cock ups like we usually see. Bad defending apart, but a better performance. In our last fee games our possession play has been poor and teams have out fought us. Outplayed us. Didn't happen today and we showed some character to fight back to win that game. Heads could have easily sunk, especially after getting booed off at half time.

[Cripps_orig]

No it proved the fans were happy for him to be off, well thats what i got from it, theo was poor but i feel he might be uselful to us in the cl his pace will scare milan tbh.

I was there and that wasnt the case at all

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

Only on GW do people have ridiculous expectations of Theo..

Yeah, I mean expecting a professional footballer with the speed and acceleration theo has to take on a player instead of running straight into him is very high expectations

[Niall_Quinn]

He does produce stuff - it was pointed out to you in the match thread with an example but you focus on someone else fucking up. Unless it ends in an Arsenal goal, the contribution doesn't exist for you. And you know what? I'd take players who get stuck in and sprint for 95 minutes over lazy, talented fuckers like Arshavin. Because I can live with trying and failing over not trying and failing. That's what I think being a fan is about. As long as the 11 players on the pitch are working hard, they deserve our support. Any failures are the fault of the manager alone.



There was absolutely nothing lucky about the performance or the result. We deserved to win and we did. We fought back very well from a position that didn't really reflect the balance of play. If I was a betting man, I'd bet that you can't bring yourself to say you called it wrong with the overreaction and bedwetting at HT and are looking to say we fluked it. I'm not saying we put in a brilliant performance. I'm saying we didn't need a brilliant performance to beat this Villa side. We played reasonably well. There were some obvious flaws. There were also some obvious encouraging points. Decent win.

You'd lose your money. I'm pissed because we needed players in this window to stand a chance of rescuing this season. Today showed us why. I'll be deluded again come Feb 1 but for now I'm calling it without the tinted specs. I've already talked about the encouraging points. RvP and Ox are the real deal. The rest? Some of them are real triers, can't take that away from them. But this is big boy football and the fate of this team is as inevitable as it is depressing.