Match Reaction vs. Sunderland

[Syn]

Pyscho fan

"You better not leave us son!"

"You're better than Bale. ADMIT IT!"

[Özil's Panoramic View]

Yes we did, but we missed our chances. It doesn't matter if you have 95% of the possession and 50 chances if you miss them all and the opposition get 1 chance and score you still lose.

We deserved to win, but your point about how much we dominated is invalid as we didn't take those chances we created.

How can pointing out our dominance in a game where folks are calling us lucky be invalid?

[Ollie the Optimist]

I suppose if Walcott could finish we wouldn't be talking about the penalty or luck as we would have been 4-0 up. He's been poor this season so far. Needs to up his game

[Özil's Panoramic View]

Kos and Merts are proper CB's, they're amongst the best in the league. They're not without their faults though, Kos in particularly is a magnet for trouble because of his style of defending, however I'd say the good certainly outweighs the bad.

Koscielny's fault is way too costly. He gives away too many silly penalties for me to be comfortable with him. He doesn't seem to learn that you cannot dive in with those rash challenges in the box. Perfect opportunity he's providing opponents with to go down easily on the slightest contact. And yes, there was contact on that challenge yesterday.

Ffs that's two pels already and the season's just begun.

[Özim]

How can pointing out our dominance in a game where folks are calling us lucky be invalid?

The point about us being dominant and having a lot of chances is kinda invalid, we didn't take them and thus the score was still 2-1 when they got their chance. Had the ref got it right it would have been 2-2 or Sagna would have been off, in that sense we got lucky because at 2-2 or down to 10 anything could have happened.

As I said we deserved to win, but we made hard work of it in the end due to our wayward finishing and got the rub of the green in the 2nd half. I don't think people think we were lucky to win because overall we were good value for it, but I think people think we were lucky because after a great 1st half, we gave Sunderland too many chances in the 2nd half and if not for a poor decision could have found ourselves on the wrong end of a defeat or have just got a draw.

[Ollie the Optimist]

Referee should have done one of two things.

1 - let play continue which meant they'd have a goal and back to 2-2

Or

2 - send Sagna off once the whistle was blown leaving us with 10 men away from home and knowing our mentality, we'd have crumbled .

We got lucky. Atkinson saved us. Best referee out there.

Just like we did at Sunderland last year with ten men.

Oh

[Özim]

I suppose if Walcott could finish we wouldn't be talking about the penalty or luck as we would have been 4-0 up. He's been poor this season so far. Needs to up his game

If we'd taken our chances we'd have been out of sight as we were great in the 1st half, but football is about taking your chances and if you don't it's quite feasible you can end up dropping points in a game you should and deserved to win.

[Kryptonite]

We got lucky because the ref gave us a 50:50 decision that really benefitted us and affected the result. Even wenger admits it. No point bringing theo up he has been carrying the team for a year! maybe if others could score 20 goals a season we wouldnt rely on him when he has an off day.

[Özim]

Koscielny's fault is way too costly. He gives away too many silly penalties for me to be comfortable with him. He doesn't seem to learn that you cannot dive in with those rash challenges in the box. Perfect opportunity he's providing opponents with to go down easily on the slightest contact. And yes, there was contact on that challenge yesterday.

Ffs that's two pels already and the season's just begun.

It's a problem with his game, he can be very good but you always fear he's going to do something rash just like he did yesterday, needs to eradicate this from his game because these mistakes could be very costly for us.

[Özim]

We got lucky because the ref gave us a 50:50 decision that really benefitted us and affected the result. Even wenger admits it. No point bringing theo up he has been carrying the team for a year! maybe if others could score 20 goals a season we wouldnt rely on him when he has an off day.

Players have off days, it happens, I think that after a great 1st half we eased off in the 2nd and that encouraged Sunderland, in the end it worked out but that decision could have been key, we'll never know know which is good because we ended up with the 3 points.