Match Reaction - Arsenal 0-2 West Ham

[fakeyank]

Wenger out already ffs

To quote FakeYank

Wenger, the only manager who gets paid £8m a year to sit on his fuckin arse

FY

Should be manager of Arsenal tbf..

[Munchies]

FY

Should be manager of Arsenal tbf..

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same shit, different season

[fakeyank]

Oooohhh look at the width on that team..

Wenger

[Japan Shaking All Over]

What an absolute waste.......why are we on almost every occasion not able to take advantage of another team dropping points.....we do it every time!!! It's like we feel sorry for the cu&ts.......why are we never ever mentally up for it......it's drives me fuc£ing crazy

[Letters]

I doubt we will show 'bouncebacability'. I do however expect that we will at some point put a decent run in, look great at times doing it and finish in the lower end of the CL places.

I think we'll challenge for the title. I'm not going to overreact after one game, that's the media's job.

By all accounts (on here at least) Chelsea were pretty rubbish and could have lost, they got lucky with a deflected goal. Utd were rubbish too and only won because of an own goal. We were actually pretty decent, we had 'one of those days' in front of goal (and, of course, their 'keeper was excellent - how often does that happen against us?) and West Ham only had 2 shots on target all day and scored both (again, how often does that happen against us?)

We can't afford too many days like that but playing like we did yesterday we're not going to lose many games. We're one game in, let's see where we are by Christmas. We have to properly challenge this year, we're good enough to.

[adzzzbatch]

Another thing that keeps happening is poor performances in the early kick offs 12:45, 13:30. The team never seems prepared. I think we will be in for a struggle next Sunday when we go to Palace, always a tough place to go.

[Marc Overmars]

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same shit, different season

Giroud has his flaws but this type of thing is where I'll cut him some slack, he's obviously a striker who thrives off service but when there's no width he ends up dropping deep to join in, when he should really be pushing on waiting for the ball.

We'll instantly improve when Alexis is sharp but Theo should also be starting to maximise how direct we can play. Trouble is WUMger has a fetish for grouping together the tippy tappy brigade.

[Bumble]

I think we'll challenge for the title. I'm not going to overreact after one game, that's the media's job.

By all accounts (on here at least) Chelsea were pretty rubbish and could have lost, they got lucky with a deflected goal. Utd were rubbish too and only won because of an own goal. We were actually pretty decent, we had 'one of those days' in front of goal (and, of course, their 'keeper was excellent - how often does that happen against us?) and West Ham only had 2 shots on target all day and scored both (again, how often does that happen against us?)

We can't afford too many days like that but playing like we did yesterday we're not going to lose many games. We're one game in, let's see where we are by Christmas. We have to properly challenge this year, we're good enough to.

I wouldn't say there keeper was excellent, he did what a keeper is meant to do. I don't recall a single world class top drawer save he had to make. He even fumbled the ball a couple of times and no one was around to capitalise.

It is a results game. However I think if we do play like that more often than not we are going to struggle. We had possession but Chelsea had possession against us last weekend and lost. We didn't really look like scoring or creating a lot of chances. Not having Bellerin depressingly probably made a big difference. The way we play we need pacey full backs. So maybe even Gibbs and Bellerin for home games.

It is only one game in but dreams of an unbeaten season are already gone after the feel good pre-season and community shield.

Palace (a) then Liverpool (h) Newcastle (a) Stoke (h) and Chelsea (a) that's not going to be easy particularly the away games. But knowing us we will win the next four then lose to Chelsea and have to start again.

[Letters]

I never had dreams of an unbeaten season
We did lack little bit sharpness up front but it wasn't a terrible performance.
The league doesn't take shape for a bit - back in the day they didn't bother publishing tables at least for a few games. Now the do of course so the media can pore over them and over-analyse.

Let's see where we are by Christmas, but we cannot afford to start this season like we did last.

[Power n Glory]

Giroud has his flaws but this type of thing is where I'll him some slack, he's obviously a striker who thrives off service but when there's no width he ends up dropping deep to join in, when he should really be pushing on waiting for the ball.

We'll instantly improve when Alexis is sharp but Theo should also be starting to maximise how direct we can play. Trouble is WUMger has a fetish for grouping together the tippy tappy brigade.

I wouldn't. He's like a statue up front and doesn't help himself with his lack of movement. He spends way too much time wrestling with defenders, back to goal pushing them back trying to get an inch of space just so he can attempt a useless flick which usually results in us turning over possession and it's way too dependent on one of our midfield players making a good run. When crosses in for the back post he's too slow to get there. 5 attempts on goal. 2 on target. One I think was a weak header and the other was that shot that looked like it was going well wide but got deflected and keeper ended up making a save. In games like that were clear cut chances aren't that easy to come by, he's really not good enough and just misses the target.