Match Reaction VS Spuds

[Niall_Quinn]

Kos should be the focus on that goal. He wasn't marking tight enough and missed the header. Also, I have no idea why we always fall asleep when it's a throw in. We let them cross the ball into our box unchallenged.

Yes of course Kos should be a focus, that's obvious. But just after the moment of impact what is the rest of the defence doing? This is a freeze frame of our shitty zonal system in action. Merts is marking empty space. Monreal is a yard behind the play, also isolated. The spuds have two men attacking the ball, overloading our one man in the zone. Spuds are on the front foot, look at us.

[selassie]

Aside from losing to that lot which is always hard to take, it was the manner in defeat that really got me. We were really poor on Saturday, I almost felt like we were undoing all the good work of the past few weeks with that horrible display on Saturday. I said it after the game and I'll say it again, we were 2nd best to everything on Saturday and that for me was a major concern. I don't know whether it was mentally/application or whether it was just one of those days but pretty much everybody was off. If I hadn't seen an abject display like this in a big game before than I would just write it off as "one of those days" but unfortunately we've seen plenty of performances like this before, especially in the big games. Make no mistake this was a big game, of course they are our local rivals, but they are also geniune rivals for top 4 too.

It feels like back to the drawing board and we must now go on a good solid winning run to really stake a claim for a top 3/4 finish.

Not that I thought we'd totally turned he corner but I still don't trust this team and harbour doubts about whether they really have what it takes. I also don't trust Wenger and his team selections, I think there are a few players in our squad that MUST start the big/pressure games, the likes of Theo, Rosicky and Sanchez would always start in these games for me.

[Niall_Quinn]

Avoiding the media in general but I can't resist Redknapp because he's always so hilarious. Kane is his man of the year. In February. Which means "Sanchez" is no longer his man of the year for January and Costa (or shall we call him Smith?) is no longer his "for me he's simply the best", man of the year for whenever. I think Gerrard was his man of the year for a couple of hours too.

I know this is how the world works. All I'm saying is, it's broken.

[Power n Glory]

Yes of course Kos should be a focus, that's obvious. But just after the moment of impact what is the rest of the defence doing? This is a freeze frame of our shitty zonal system in action. Merts is marking empty space. Monreal is a yard behind the play, also isolated. The spuds have two men attacking the ball, overloading our one man in the zone. Spuds are on the front foot, look at us.

I don't know if it's the system or the players because we've looked solid over the past few weeks up until this game.

[Niall_Quinn]

I don't know if it's the system or the players because we've looked solid over the past few weeks up until this game.

We looked solid until we came up against a powerful striker who was getting a supply. I know that sometimes the striker is going to win. But you have to set up depending on who you are up against. There should have been somebody tasked to their best and only effective striker. I don't necessarily mean somebody to beat him in the air either. Just somebody to get in his way, block his run, obstruct his leap. That's how the chavs do it. It's all well and good Wenger complaining about Kos being beaten in the air, but how did he set us up to make that less likely? In fact how did he set us up at all? Not related to the goal, but Bellerin was getting crucified all match. We managed to make Danny Rose look competent FFS. The players ahead of Bellerin were doing nothing to assist. How does Wenger sit there for 90 minutes and watch that happen over and over again? Everyone else was screaming about it. Then he makes his subs and again ignores the problem. Fuck sake. 8 million quid.

[Power n Glory]

We looked solid until we came up against a powerful striker who was getting a supply. I know that sometimes the striker is going to win. But you have to set up depending on who you are up against. There should have been somebody tasked to their best and only effective striker. I don't necessarily mean somebody to beat him in the air either. Just somebody to get in his way, block his run, obstruct his leap. That's how the chavs do it. It's all well and good Wenger complaining about Kos being beaten in the air, but how did he set us up to make that less likely? In fact how did he set us up at all? Not related to the goal, but Bellerin was getting crucified all match. We managed to make Danny Rose look competent FFS. The players ahead of Bellerin were doing nothing to assist. How does Wenger sit there for 90 minutes and watch that happen over and over again? Everyone else was screaming about it. Then he makes his subs and again ignores the problem. Fuck sake. 8 million quid.

I agree with a lot of that but I'm not sure what Monreal done much wrong. He tracked his man on the back post and I don't recall seeing many fullbacks successfully abandoning the back post run to go try and win a header that their CB should be all over. But that cross should never have happened in the first place. We stood off them. That was probably the biggest fault.

It's worth taking a caption of their first goal. Kane was left unmarked in the box and Ramsey just left him to it. Criminal.

[Dein-machine]

Too many on here last week deciding that we were now the worlds greatest team because we thrashed Villa & that Wenger had turned a corner - we've been through it all before & will do time & time again. We don't have to look at who to blame for Kane's goals, we simply have to realise that if we continue to put players like Merts, Monreal, Ramsey, Giroud in the starting line up alongside the inexperience of Bellerin & Coquelin, then we will lose games. We can beat teams like Villa because they have worse players than us but against the better teams we are still 3/4 players off of being a consistently good side. How much more do we need to see of Giroud to realise he's not that good. In Kane's 1st proper season he's showing the consistency & quality that we have never had with Giroud & never will. It may need us to finish out of the top 4 for the big decisions to be made on clearing out the deadwood & buying the required quality. Until that is done its always 1 step forward, 2 steps back.

[Niall_Quinn]

I agree with a lot of that but I'm not sure what Monreal done much wrong. He tracked his man on the back post and I don't recall seeing many fullbacks successfully abandoning the back post run to go try and win a header that their CB should be all over. But that cross should never have happened in the first place. We stood off them. That was probably the biggest fault.

It's worth taking a caption of their first goal. Kane was left unmarked in the box and Ramsey just left him to it. Criminal.

Well okay, fair enough. If the system is flawed then players can be exposed or left in impossible situations. But I still hate his body shape in that situation, it's startled chicken instead of vulture.

I suppose none of it matters because Wenger won't change it. It's claimed he watches every game over and over. Why, I wonder?

[AFC Leveller]

Danny Rose is such stupid little prick. He should have been sent off for his tackle on Giroud and kicking the ball at Welbz as well as for being an ugly lil c*nt.

[Niall_Quinn]

Danny Rose is such stupid little prick. He should have been sent off for his tackle on Giroud and kicking the ball at Welbz as well as for being an ugly lil c*nt.

Face it. They were up for it and prepared to do what it took to win, even if some of it was snidey. We used to have Fabregas to do all that shit.