Match Reaction vs Man City (away).

[AKBapologist]

Step one - Fail to buy a striker in summer
Step two - Raise ticket prices for aboslutely no reason right before a big game
Step three - Leave Gibbs at home
Step four - Leave Arteta on the bench
Step five - take off our only remaining CDM when we're being dominated via the middle
Step six - have a bunch of blind rejects for officials



All in all, a good game, can't really blame the players too much for that, we SHOULD HAVE SCORED 7 - we don't have a big enough squad and the subs we did make were pretty poor. Hopefully we limp on until the transfer window and wenger pulls something out of the bag on jan 1st.

[Niall_Quinn]

Thought Rosicky was worth a place today, but maybe he doesn't have the energy for it any more. Even so, Wenger's subs looked more desperate than calculated.

[Marc Overmars]

Jack was awful today. Really off the pace.

I do hope he's doing a Ramsey.

Giroud played so well as a link man today, but had two chances to get us in the game.

Whats frustrating is that we're so nearly there...just lacking that extra yard, extra bit of pace, extra bit of luck.

If we spend in january, we'll win the fucker. No doubt in my mind.

You can't knock Bifs link up play and work ethic, but he's not a natural goalscorer. New option in January would be most welcome.

[milla]

Jack wasn't too bad for me, he still set up Giroud with that chance which he fluffed, and did his best to drive forward.

Got shit towards the end, but thats expected when everyone else has given up

Jack was poor, a blind man could see it.

[Özim]

Didn't anyone actually expect us to get anything at City? Can't say I did, it's still disappointing but expected. Condeding 6 goals though is disappointing, you don't concede that many unless your being ripped open like a can of tuna.

[Bumble]

Not then end of the world. we are still top. No point blaming the officials as we get decisions going for us and against us.

We lost and deserved to. We need to work out a way of chasing a game without being too open.

Chelsea next, they aren't strong defensively and they don't have the strikers city have. so fancy we can get away with a bit more at the back.

[Dein-machine]

Happier today then I was on Wednesday when we decided to go to Italy & not play at all. Today just simply proves the difference in quality & strength in the two teams which could do us a favour long term. Hopefully today shows Wumger that we have to buy to improve the quality in Jan.
What could we achieve with the quality of a Zabeleta, control of a Kompany, Strength of a Toure & finishing of Aguero/Negrada.
Toure & Fernandinio bossed the midfield today - they made Flamini look like the free signing he was & Jack like an under 15 schoolboy.
Giroud is quite simply very average, so much so that i doubt whether Bendtner would have been any worse in the last 6/7 games.
But at least we showed a bit of bollocks going forward today against this years Champions - BUY, BUY, BUY Wumger

[Master Splinter]

That was actually dodgier than the 4-4 with Dowd and the 1-3 with Taylor. Will the blatant and constant cheating by officials be mentioned anywhere? It's just farcical.

Crazy game in every respect.

Gibbs badly missed. The defence needs to get focused again for the Christmas fixtures.

Wilshere atrocious. Every bad habit exhibited and exploited.

Giroud's misses unforgivable.

Ramsey very good again. Excellent from Theo.

There's nothing to read from that in terms of the bigger picture other than both teams can score with ease, but one has superior strikers. City are supremely confident and powerful at home, as they have been for the last few years, but that match could have ended 8-7 or 5-7. And that's before you count two goals scandalously ruled out and two positions of promise cancelled out by a linesman's cheating flag.

As long as we regroup and forget this match and we have even a 5% more trustworthy ref, we should be ok for the Chelsea game. With everyone rested and Theo in that form, I can see us putting on a good performance to make up for the last few disappointing results.

[Özim]

Thought Rosicky was worth a place today, but maybe he doesn't have the energy for it any more. Even so, Wenger's subs looked more desperate than calculated.

Always think Rosicky works really hard and gives the midfield more direction. He's a creative player with a tough streak which I kinda like about him, just a shame he has such an appalling injury record.

[Marc Overmars]

Didn't anyone actually expect us to get anything at City? Can't say I did, it's still disappointing but expected. Condeding 6 goals though is disappointing, you don't concede that many unless your being ripped open like a can of tuna.

Half expected a defeat but yeah always disappointing to get smashed, especially when we could have had a few more ourselves.