Match Reaction vs Man City (away).

[Özil's Panoramic View]

Watched the game till about the 75th minute, after which I had to take care of some stuff. What struck me......again, is just how weak we are defensively on that left flank. Both options we have at LFB are a bit of a joke when it comes on to awareness and closing down players making runs. Doesn't help either that we don't have a proper left midfielder offering much in that defensive role either.

At the other end, a top striker is a must if we're ever serious about winning this league. Yes, Giroud is awesome at link up play and holding up the ball, but that should be more of an added attribute to a lethal striker. Our inaction and outright failure to address such a glaring weakness over the summer has well and truly bitten us in the arse. Shitty scored a ton, but they were very open at the back and were there for the taking. We should have reached4 goals before they did in that 2nd half.

A very depressing and embarrassing result, one which could rob us of every bit of confidence we had a only a few weeks back. Really hoping the boys can bounce back against the chavs next game. Win that, and we'll probably get our good run of form back on track.

#COYG

[Power n Glory]

Lets not make City better than they are, they've already lost to some pretty bad teams. We've lost 3 times, 2 of those times against a corrupt ref and 1 time on Old Trafford, wouldn't really call that the end of the world.

Everton was a tougher game in my opinion but we lost 6-3 to City so what does that say? I never expected that sort of margin.

[Dein-machine]

Everton was a tougher game in my opinion but we lost 6-3 to City so what does that say? I never expected that sort of margin.

Everton had no cutting edge - City look like they could score every they went forward. Remember they did this without Aguero for the 2nd half.

[Dein-machine]

Watched the game till about the 75th minute, after which I had to take care of some stuff. What struck me......again, is just how weak we are defensively on that left flank. Both options we have at LFB are a bit of a joke when it comes on to awareness and closing down players making runs. Doesn't help either that we don't have a proper left midfielder offering much in that defensive role either.

At the other end, a top striker is a must if we're ever serious about winning this league. Yes, Giroud is awesome at link up play and holding up the ball, but that should be more of an added attribute to a lethal striker. Our inaction and outright failure to address such a glaring weakness over the summer has well and truly bitten us in the arse. Shitty scored a ton, but they were very open at the back and were there for the taking. We should have reached4 goals before they did in that 2nd half.

A very depressing and embarrassing result, one which could rob us of every bit of confidence we had a only a few weeks back. Really hoping the boys can bounce back against the chavs next game. Win that, and we'll probably get our good run of form back on track.

#COYG

Agree about the left hand side - especially at LB but I'm not getting this thing about Giroud linking play well, he loses the ball 80% of the time, passing is woeful.

[Power n Glory]

Everton had no cutting edge - City look like they could score every they went forward. Remember they did this without Aguero for the 2nd half.

It's true. We gifted City too many goals. It was clinical but it's not as if they bossed us off the park and then shut up shop. It was a really bad performance from our boys. Messing up simple passes and getting the basics so wrong. Wenger will have to have a word with his players.

[fakeyank]

4th place trophy still in sight. What u lot complaining about??

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[Grebbo]

Lost to a better team, mustn't dwell on it. This squad has over-performed so far, we're at least two world class players short for a title challenge.

City have an abundance of riches. If they sort out their defence then they'll comfortably be champions.

[Munchies]

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Not as big of a deal as it was made out to be, but good on him.

[Özim]

He's a winner and was upset by the defeat (winners are bad losers), some of the others aren't hence the reason they probably weren't too upset.

[IBK]

We bottled that game. 6-3 isn't a respectable score when you're top of the league. If it wasn't for Walcott, the score would have looked far worse. We gifted them so many goals. Unbelievable! You expect a better performance from league leaders. The team has a soft belly. City were clinical but we made them look a lot better with the poor defending and passing.

Yes. Honesty FTW.