Watch the media now paint us as lucky because of the disallowed goal (which tbf ref fucked up big time) despite fact we are better team and they were only level because they dived
Watch the media now paint us as lucky because of the disallowed goal (which tbf ref fucked up big time) despite fact we are better team and they were only level because they dived
Happy that we won, but this was a classic example of a game we were controlling somehow suddenly getting away from us.
I thought we were extremely vulnerable on counter attack again today (as against villa: another very average side).
Wenger needs to sort this as we could very easily have thrown points away - Sunderland had 4 or 5 decent openings in the second half, not to mention the ref's intervention at 2-1.
So yeah, bloody happy we're top of the league, but plenty to improve on if we want to stay there. (Giving theo a massive boot up the arse wouldn't be a bad start.)
Weren't completely at the races but still had enough quality to see of Sunderland. The signs are very promising though.
Honestly should have been lights out at the first half, complete domination and Theo guilty of missing some great chances. He's usually very composed in his finishing so we can let him of for a game. Still though, with Ozil feeding him he should be on to get 20 goals this season.
Kos needs to shape up, there was no need to dive in like that at all. Johnson was angling away from goal and Gibbs was also covering, it would have taken a wonder strike to beat him at that angle. It's the second time he's done that this season.
Lucked out with the ref decision but we were well worth the win overall. Made up for the bad performance we received against Villa. With Carzola, Merts, Podolski and Ox coming in we should have a squad capable of challenging at least.
Ozil .... what can I say.Makes the game look so easy which is the sign of any top class player. He's going to be massive for us.
Hopefully Giroud isn't serious. Bring on Marseille.
We were lucky though. We should have killed the game off in the first half and got very, very lucky in with the disallowed goal. As for the penalty, Kos was asking for it but diving in nowhere near the ball like that. Sloppy defending all round by us, as usual. We've seen it so many times where we dominate and concede a silly goal on the counter. We can't afford to keep switching off like that...Originally Posted by ollie the optimist
We got the 3points but me made it much harder work than we needed to.
I don't think it's fair to say we got lucky for that disallowed goal as such - lucky that Sagna wasn't sent off I would concede but the rest of it was just like Giuly's 'goal' in the CL final against us ie, that part of it was refereed correctly.
But surely the ref has to play advantage in a situation like that?
He probably should. He didn't. They whistled for the foul. That's the end of it.
Cazorla out for a month until mid-October -Wenger
Ffs
I'm not sure it happens too often that the whistle has blown but then ignores it and carries on - the whistle being blown is in theory a signal that the play is dead.
Great quote from Di Canio on the beeb.
Sunderland boss Paolo Di Canio on being sent off:
"He came to me and said if you keep going with your manner I sent you up to the stand. I said to him 'if you want to complete a perfect job, you send me off.' And that is what he did. I will never invite the referee to send me off again."
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