Morning all…
Wolfsburg prodigy Maximilian Arnold who is a 19 year old attacking midfielder is being scouted by both us and Juventus and Everton’s right back Seamus Coleman is reported to be the player Arsene Wenger wants to replace Bacary Sagna. According to a few morning newspapers that is…
Arnold is available for around £8 million, while Coleman will no doubt be valued at more than double that amount but if we as a club are going to be serious in the summer transfer window, get in their first and make both clubs an offer they can’t refuse. Especially when it comes to Seamus Coleman as he’s having a great season with Everton and it’s well documented that they aren’t the most wealthy of clubs and a proper offer might be too hard to resist.
The Metro report that we have already opened talks with Tenerife for their 20 year old striker Ayoze Perez who has scored 10 goals in 21 appearances this season. Hmmmm……
Back to the here and now….
Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Wilshere, Arteta, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Ozil, Giroud, Fabianski, Jenkinson, Gibbs, Rosicky, Gnabry, Podolski and Sanogo.
That’s our squad for tonights fixture.
They are the players who need to restore some faith after the weekends ‘accident’. Accident my Arsenal, it was a horrid and disgraceful showing by most, if not all, including the manager! It’s easy for him to say ‘let’s not forget we had a good run’ before the 5-1 drubbing isn’t it, as we all know, you are only as good as your last game and our last was awful.
Well tonight they all have a chance to restore some respect in themselves, the club and give something good to the fans.
Manchester United are all over the place right now and having seen them beaten on many occasions already this season, this is our chance to finally get that long sought after victory over them.
Arsene Wenger and his players have one of two options tonight, either turn up as they did on Saturday and let all the doubters say ‘I told you so’, or grow a pair, stand up and be counted, and put a 95 minute shift of hard work, commitment, passion and 100% effort and get our club right back on track…
Will soon see what this squad are about and we’ll also see if Arsene Wenger has been watching how those sides who have got one over Moyes or not and is prepared to make the kind of changes/tweaks that will earn us all three points.
And I mean earn!
Results won’t go our way unless the manager and every single player who is called upon tonight put’s in 100% for start to finish and that goes for the rest of the season too.
We all know what happened last night and now it’s back to us to put the pressure on.
Let’s see what you are made of Arsenal…..
COYRRG’s
Morning rico, good post. We need little Rosicky bubbling around making quick passes through the static ManU midfield and defence. TEMPO please Arsenal.
Morning Ah, thank you…
Rosicky has to start surely…
Must win game, an absolute must win game….
I say hypnotise the players and tell them it’s a NLD, then we’d see a bit of passion… 😉
yes, TR must play today. He also defends. if we win today we are in the top of tje Legue again. It’s crucial for Arsenal and for the players mentallity
Too bad we have to hypnotise the players before they show passion rico 😉
We should be absolutely fired up for this one!
Its about time we beat those tossers….
I for one, will be watching the game on Danish TV
Morning all… I believe we will see a reaction today from the boys. If we can keep things tight, we’ll definitely score against that championship defence. I say put Gnabry on Evra to prevent him bombing forward. I’ll reckon he is united’s biggest threat. Whoever starts on the left hand side must track runners all night long. We need to stop those crosses from coming in. Will go for a midfield five of Gnabry(ox), Carzola, Arteta, Rosicky and Ozil.
🙂 Adk,it was just a thought…
If the boys can’t be up to face the Mancs, then they deserve nothing but I think we’ll see a very different side from the weekend…
Joywed, I liked Wath’s idea of sticking Jenks in front of Sagna…
Agree with Andrew it’s all about tempo and our games have lacked it for a while… when we play with tempo we’re a different animal otherwise it’s pippy tappy sideways n backwards rubbish and if there no tempo can’t see us winning… If we play with hunger and tempo then good chance we can smash em…!
We simply have to get the job done.
Morning all.
Wath, if we start without that hunger and speed and don’t score within half an hour, their big three will make us pay, can just see it.
And the fans Ah, they’ll go quiet and we’ll be in a tricky place again..
Play the Mancs the way we played Napoli, if we can and do, we’ll could easily rip them to shreds…
Rico… That would be fantastic as it would render Januzaj/whoever and Evra redundant plus we will also have two good crossers of the ball in case we need a plan A(lol)
I echo TR07 starting and Serge too…
Personally I will drop SC19 and start Monreal and Gibbs together and introduce SC19 or Poldi after the break because we are very unlikely to lose these kind of matches in the 2nd half…
My preferred 11:
Scez
Sagna BFG Kos Gibbs
Arteta
TR07 Monreal
Ozil
Serge
OG12
In a 4-1-3-1-1 set-up
first 10 will be vital for many reasons – get in at them from the off. Move the ball quickly, work hard and 3-1 easy. End of United head trips 🙂
Joy, and Gibbs/Monreal to do the same on the left…
Morning Rico and all. I, as you know, am not a great fan of Jenkinson and hope that the club have serious plans for a ‘finished article’ RB at the end of the season.
The fans are the lifeblood of the club and they are caught between the screaming desire to actually win something and the increasing realisation, or should I say suspicion, that the sporting ambitions of the club are a distant second to the finances. Quite how they made the decision to increase ST prices is beyond me but I guess they thought that the team’s success this year means it’s a good time to turn the screw.
Morning Adam, I also agree Cj25 is not quite ready…
I will settle for Coleman i.e Neville Mk II for me…
But it’s always difficult to sign players in World Cup year Rico. 🙂
Ts, I can’t see AW dropping Santi, nor can I see him starting with Gnabry, that would require making a decision 😉
I’d like to punch evra….
Lee. That would be a service to humanity.
How have they attempted to justify the rise in ST prices, given the recent announcement of a massive kit sponsorship?
and piers morgan….
lets hope we talking team success in May Adam – Long way to go with plenty of potential pit falls to face yet mate – I think the fan base or a large majority of it is still very nervous. They reacted last season big time and those memories are lying under the surface no doubt.
Scott. I don’t believe they have tried- yet, but I imagine they will use the ‘increasing costs of football’ as the stock phrase. It’s nothing new but this year will be extra painful, especially if we don’t win anything.
🙂 Very true Rico… AW likes Santi who is a very honest and good player but he is not athletic so no matter how he tries I am not convinced these are the kind of games for him especially with our current crop.
SC19 will shine in a Fergie team with 9 hard workers and 2 luxury players…
We have minus Ramsey and Flamini 3 hard workers, 2 snails, 1 lethargic player and 4 luxury players imo… 5 honest guys can’t carry the load for the rest…
Actually a bit excited about Sanogo. He had a reasonable Pre season. Lets hope he can contribute this season
Oz. I hope you are right. Ozil was their message that they mean business. Wenger sails on regardless though, hovering above it all in his own little world.
Agree Oz.
Morning Adam. I wouldn’t want to see Jenks at Rb but in front of Sagna he can give us more protection and he does whip a good cross in….
I quite like him so I’m fighting his corner 😉
Only in the January before in a WC year …. lol
Ridiculous timing, Adam, and even moreso under the cicrumstances.
Adam, we have fed off his arrival for a while, now the questions about him are starting, he needs an attitude shift I think but the team around him does not suit his style IMO – We should have brought a Walcott style option in the window but we loan someone useless to the team effort in the short term instead.
Sorry Rico but I can’t see that one. Jenks has extremely limited powers of concentration for me. He’s willing though. As for whipping crosses in I ask why? If Wenger wanted crosses whipped in he could always buy a winger. He’s has enough time and opportunity.
Oz. True. He has got worse, albeit at a linear rate, since he arrived.
Agree with you on Jenks i prey we don’t hear Wenger talking backup RB’s next season only – he’s not there at present.
Against Chelsea and maybe BM I will play CJ25 infront of Sagna but not this current Yanited team… I think this match will be like Naploi first game… holding possesion and having players who can work hard and keep the shape is more crucial than stopping a non-existing onslaught imho…
We know from recent history, it will either be a dive by Wooney or a corner kick or a defensive error that will gift Yanited a goal…
If I was Aw, my aim will be to play the game in their half for majority of their half without having JW or Ox to dwell on the ball in dangerous areas who may concede possesion in dangerous that may lead to a counter attack with us caught 3 v 3 at the back…
And RvP…
Who is the ref tonight?
Don’t say Dean, please….
Re. Ozil non-performance, I think it is more to do with SC19’s/JW starting position when we have the ball that is the issue…
SC19, Ox, JW all like to come deep for the ball whilst when TR07 and AR16 are playing they form a triangle high up in the opposition area and allow Ozil to come for the ball in a deeper position.
Ozil palyed a lot of good games initially without Theo before Theo came back from injury before christmas…
You can’t play a midfield 3 or 5 with all the palyers in a linear formation imho… it makes opposition job very easy.
Players must be able to form triangles… i.e tactical aware of what is around them…
Adk, I think it’s only you and I re Sanogo 😉
I only Sanogo once Rico. I believe he came on for a bit at the end of a game several months ago.
Jenkinson isn’t good enough imo…
Mark Clattenburg is the ref tonight- Rico
That’s right Adam and feature in our pre-season.
I know it’s wrong and a club like ours shouldn’t be in such a situation but I hope the guy stays fit and starts scoring goals…
Thanks Tsgh.. Phew.
Bould must see something in Jenkinson surely, otherwise he wouldn’t have been given a new contract…
The cynical ones among us might say that he was cheap Rico.
Not me though. 🙂
That’s not cynical Adam, it’s fact, Jenks was cheap, very cheap..
I like him though, not quite there yet but….
My own little thought is he’ll end up at CB…
Very, very windy in London today. Might mess up Giroud’s quiff.
I think your all miserable bastards………..
Poor Jenks, nothing wrong with the lad..! Needs to play to improve..! I remember Razor being called brainless and a headless chicken and not good enough…!
Or blow Clattenberg’s syrup off.
Razor Ruddock?
He is one fat geezer….
Ruddock as you point out Adam was and always will be a turd of the highest order…!
🙂 Adam, hope SK isn’t in town…
Errmmmm, not all Wath! 😉
http://talksport.com/football/shocking-video-gooner-wears-tottenham-badge-arsenal-shirt-14021279475
Have our team got it in them to beat a poor Utd and get back to the top of the league?!
Has to be three points, anything less not good enough.
Rico. 🙂
I admire a man who has taken care of himself like Ruddock.
I’m not miserable Wath, just hesitant and doubtful as where the team/club is heading. And a little sad as well.
Not saying Jenks is better than sagna
But Jenks is better going forward than sagna,
his reading of the game is behind for this level at the moment,
for the U/21’s he looks a class above any of the players in that squad.
What he has is a passion for The Arsenal.
and that you can’t buy.
Play the team tonight not fergies old dominance and we’ll be good to go top of the league. They have nothing, as they are constantly proving. It’s surely only our poor history against them that has us concerned. OK and Wengers tactics maybe 🙂
That’s why I’d play him in front of Sagna Fred, to bomb forward and with his energy he gets back to support Sagna as well. Just a thought.
Adam you been sad since King Syrup rode into town….!
W.A.T.H. giving them to much respect. Get out there, move the ball and rip into them – Rosicky, Caz and Pod for me
Wath. True. I cannot deny it. Unrequited love always hurts. 🙂
Get the blue product out Adam…that’ll cheer you up!
Brudder Lee. 🙂
Agree Fred… you can’t beat passion for the club…
Sometimes it is not about quality only…
A typical example will be Eboue/Maicon vs Gary
Gary admits himself he was a very limited player but he had passion and could read the game…
Eboue had all the skills to be voted into the UCL team of 2006 but we know he did not have the brains as a defender at least not in this league…
Maicon has teh engine and skills but I won’t apy for him to play as a defender in my sunday league team… lol
We need to reach the level we had for the Napoli,liverpool(home),spuds games.
We have 3 games at home now,we have to get back to our best to win these games.
Made a statement yesterday about the backbone of foreign players at away grounds.
Chelsea left out Terry.Cole and fat frank last night and hung on for a draw in the end.
Oz use Jenks to get into them… Poldi to slow…! I’d go 442… I’d also play Gibbs in front of Monreal to get down the wings and get at em as you say, Jenks isn’t my choice to show them respect it’s to get at em… Evra is a yard dog get at him…! Then bring on Gnabry or Ox to play wide and proper give it to them for the whole game…!
Lee, Valium not blue……..???
Afternoon all…
Massive game today. I don’t think I’d be dropping Santi today, he’s been on good form at home in recent weeks. Indeed I believe he is nominated for player of the month, so he’s in my team.
If anyone needs a rest it’s Ozil. I’d be tempted to go with Santi, Rosicky and Gnabry/Poldi behind Giroud tonight.
Ozil can come on a bit fresher if we need him in the second half. Especially if we are winning. At the moment he needs to learn the pace of the English game. Everytime he gets the ball he slows the game down – even when were on a counter attack.
That might work in Spain where it’s really slow for 90% of the game, but not here where it’s really fast for 90% of the game.
They better had Lewis…
Spot on re the passion Jenks has fred…
A proper offer for Coleman would be 20m+, we’re skint but we never sell cheap.. Fellaini, Lescott, Rodwell etc. Suppose Arteta at 10m was a better deal for you than us though haha.
He’d be in mine too Woody, but then they all would 😉
Our lights keep going up and down so if I disappear, you know why.
It’s fairly quiet today considering…
Woody tehe calm before the storm…
Ha ha Nice if true…
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Give it a couple of hours Woody and we’ll be up to fever pitch. lol
Balotelli??
Surely he’d unsettle or dressing room….
Just to pass on a bit of info regarding season tickets and silver memberships.
We jacked our season tickets/silvers in last season,
and to be honest after the Villa game felt pleased with our-selfs.
But wenger then broke the habit of a life-time and spent more money on one player than anybody could have imagined.
So far its working..Great.
So me and the lads were a bit pissed off.
8 years not really competeing for the League,we now seem to be cracking on.
We took a chance and called the ticket membership office.
Call it what you like No waiting list or loyalty…….we got the season tickets back (diff seats) and the silvers back for this season.
What are you saying fred, not all the ST’s have sold this season or am I missing something obvious? lol
Hi Rico,
re: 11.24
Can’t ever see Jenks as a centre-back to be honest. He’s one of the worst headers of a ball I’ve ever seen. Think he’s done ok when he’s had a run of games to get up to speed at full-back though.
EFCS, I agree re Coleman, hence my comment in the post about him. He’s a top player and they don’t come cheap..
Hi Bj, Maybe I’m thinking too much like Arsene Wenger. lol I do think the more he plays the more confidence he gets and his performances improve….
Good Afternoon Rico and All.
“Well tonight they all have a chance to restore some respect in themselves, the club and give something good to the fans.” My gut feeling tells me they will, Rico.
Woody, I agreed with you re:Ozil. Let him stay in the bench and see how it done. Taking two to three players at a time knowing that they are going to crowd you when you have the ball, and when you fall it take ages for you to get up and help to defend, is another thing.
Three points for us tonight; anything less would be uncivilize.
Just read the Daily Mirror in a cafe and surprised to read a good and very fair article on Arsenal. The fact the Emirates could be like a Volcano simmering but waiting to explode is not because Arsenal fans are fickle. But years of frustration then under spending even now the cash is there has left its toll. On the other hand, a win tonight against our main rival, and all will be well…… for now.
The Under Spending could drive any fan banana. Fans are fickle when it comes to players joining Arsenal. But, the message is loud and clear, ‘if the money is there and the team is in need of players, what the use of keeping the money in the bank then humiliated in the pitch for the whole world to see, it doesn’t make sense.
What the use of going to Chelsea at almost the end of the TW for BA and fail and then didn’t addressed the issue the next TW when the problem still exist? You become complacence when you think you have a job for life. Because when you not sure of your position you try to do everything possible within your power to secure your position. Especially, when the means are there.
If the club are saying..We have a waiting list and are charging the fans to join the queue…It must be loyalty rico…
then again who knows.
Afternoon all,
Ng, I sure hope they do…..
Ah, lose tonight and sadly, I think The Ems won’t be a very happy place…
It sure won’t, but given Uniteds recent record this should be the weakest United team we’ve faced in a long time.
They are come what of a bogey team of ours though, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they got something.
I have to say, I wasn’t too worried about the fact that we lost to Liverpool, the manner of the defeat yes, but not the loss.
Really all big team should expect to win their home games, if we manage a draw and a win at home then 4 points off a rival compared to their 1 is good.
The manner in which we lost does make you think that we are still vunerable, even after having so many good defensive games this season. You just don’t see other tops teams do that.
On a positive note, this is the second time this season that pundits have said that we will know more about Arsenal after these few games – win tonight and we go top.
If that’s the case we would have been questioned twice and both times still been top of the league at the end of it, so even after losing at Liverpool it’s not the end of the world.
We said that when we went to OT Woody..
Darn illness hampered us…
Yeah but we never really do that well at OT – I know we look back on 0-0 draws like wins, but there aren’t that many wins really.
98, 02, 06 – missed any?
I think that’s it for Wengers reign.
We won at OT in 98 though 😉
Fergie was one of the managers that worked Wenger out , when we had a team of better players things were tactically harder for him but subsequently as the standard of Wenger’s players diminished he found it easier to pick Wenger’s teams off.Tonight we play a different United , we need a different approach to get a different outcome.
Arsenal team to play Man United: Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Arteta, Wilshere, Rosicky, Ozil, Cazorla, Giroud
Predictable team…
A tactical selection
United XI: De Gea, Rafael, Smalling, Vidic, Evra; Valencia, Cleverley, Carrick, Mata; Rooney, van Persie
Hoping for a 2-1 win; but will settle for 1-1
JW and Ozil
Manchester City’s V Sunderland has been called off because conditions are deemed ‘unsafe’…
Typical….So Aguero and Fernandinho can be fit to help $hitty win…
Conspiracy!
Looks like we are not going to get one Potter…
Evening folks
Just hope Rosicky works his magic….
Doesn’t does it, just have to hope the players have a different attitude.
evening Rico, Potter
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Evening Goonerdom Worshipers.
Madam how are the water levels in your neighborhood? Hope all is well and any damage limited to a minimum.
yanited starting with 3 attack minded players… 4 if you count Valencia…
we are starting with 6…
hiya Dg,kel
Giroud: “Liverpool game was not normal. We didn’t honour the badge. We shamed the shirt.
We can but hope Potter.
Evening Ginge.
Hope for a thumping tonight. To the good guys.
Evening Ts/Dg
I am very lucky where I am Dg, many roads are flooded and travel is difficult and our fencing has been battered and knocked over but that’s nothing compared to what others are suffering. It’s horrid….
Hello everyone!
come on Arsenal!
Sanogo on the bench….
H/T folks…
4-1-3-1-1
Oops Mikel!!!!
Wake up
Shew, that was lucky
to the good guys indeed Dg..
too much space between OG12 and the midfield…
come on jack… nice play
Well played Jack, unlucky..
Well done Ches earlier too…
How did Giroud miss that chance ???
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There is the problem, Giroud win the ball in the air, get’s a knock on but no-one ahead of him…
very good shape today.. I must say
COME On YOU REDS.. We need 3pts badly.
Lets stay united as Gooners…
Cheers
AndrewH
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5 attackers on the pitch and no clear cut chance created… 😡
Let me know if it works.
Shut the f*** up Owen!!
Angers me too Ts…
So so limp in the final third…
Arteta getting caught build up too slow
Ah…
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Just shoot Tomas, stop the passing, just bloody shoot!!
Owen is the biggest numpty… Rico
Agree potter…
He talks such poppycock Ts, how BT employ him or even why, i will never understand…
I miss Ramsey..
This game is calling for Serge and Poldi imo
😀 Rico.
Friends in high places me think…
Where are Dev and Scott btw…?
The BFG is not taking responsibility today at all…
Fine play… TR07 and Ozil..
Fine tackle Mikel…
Owen is just a name and not a very big one
🙂 Potter…
His voice is so boring too…
Great lay by Ozil, who looked up expecting Giroud to make a run…. Nothing!
Very high places Ts….
potter, he’s not big full stop, apart from his mouth…
no player even bothering to go goal side apart from og12
One goal would kill them off…
Wake up Arsenal…
COYRRG’s
Moyes you horrid man, head injury???!!! DOH!!
sp1 are you counting? lol
So easy to defend against a one pace team
Rafael is a dirty player..
he reminds me of denis Wise…
Bollox to Rafael, what about the way he went in on Giroud??
Good now hold for the first 15 minutes and smash the lazy badgers…
Ox, Gnabry or pod need to come on and we sure need to start taking a few shots at goal..
And for goodness sake, drive at their shabby defence, it will crumble…
We’re so average
Too slow through the middle , maybe we will get 10 minutes of Sanogo.
Gibbs , Rosicky and Ozil have all have had to check back before putting over the final pass . Need more pace than Giroud.
Are we better team though?
Moyes must have come down here with his Everton head on… lol
He didn’t come to lose that is for sure…
Given up trying to get a stream, will go down and suffer Collymore on Talksport!
This performance is the halmark of a nervous team…
Both teams are extremely nervous…
I wonder Potter, at least he has some pace….
Ah, better organised at the back, but up front, we offered little. Actually, make that nothing….
Arteta has been caught on the ball a few times though, he’s not the player he was….
Ramsey and Theo would have made such a huge difference tonight…
Two massive players missed big time imho
more of the same!
the same mistakes….
my points at the end of the game
Oh, and Diaby would be having a field day in midfield… 😉
So the players we need then are Flam, Ramsey, Walcott, Gnabry, Pod!!! Anyone whos not playing. Even Sanago, LOL
JM, why not write all of your thoughts on the game and email me them 🙂
Just Ramsey and Theo for me Ah… lol
Arteta has fulfilled his time with us as far as I am concerned . Captain of the Capital and F.A teams. We need more pace throughout.
Does Wilshere look before he passes.
Totally agree potter…
We need a youngr, fitter, stronger and proper HM/DM/box to box player in his place…
We have nothing up front..
Changes Arsene????
Merts has hurt his groin, well I think it was his groin he was rubbing 😉
This game is extremely boring. Both sides with the handbrake on.
Good subtle tactical change…
Ramsey and Jack have swapped places…
I’d get Giroud off, he’s having a mare…
I think we’re hoping to bore them into submission.
Why is it that Wenger can’t see that it’s too tight.
We have a inferiority complex, Utd are shit but we’re scared to beat them.
You know the answer potter…
Even Fletcher is struggling to keep his eyes open
How was that not a foul on Santi??
Clattenburg is the new brown envelope ref…
So am I brad…
That’s a penalty!!
Michael Owen… 😀 😀
You have to laugh… at least he does not hide who he is backing…
Rosicky is having a poor game too Rico.
Good Scez
So right Wilshere never looks where he passes
He is Brad, his passing is really off…
Blatant handball? Why was that not a yellow?
COYRRG’s!!!!!
Because it’s the Mancs Brad!!
A few weeks ago we allegedly had the best midfield… phew???
I thought Giroud was supposed to be good in the air?!
6 mins till a change
TR07… I expected more from him…
The officials are dreadful…
🙂 Lewis, not tonight… So far..
Fine challenge Mikel…
We need to make a change…
That was super by Ozil, poor movement by Giroud..
Oil breaks 6 United players defend against Giroud on his own.
Ozil
Must be lower league opposition, when in doubt, hoof it out
Hmm, we are exposed defensively with that sub now…
Come on OC, get at them…
Has 2 b said why is Wenger so gutless in making substitutions to beat a really shit manc side…. pathetic…!
He’s a blind runner like Wilshere
You surprised by that Wath, same old same old…..
What a chance gone begging….
OG12 be the hero…
Great save Ches…
How many times has JW given the ball away?
What a save…!
Great save
Somehow I doubt it Ts….
Too many re Jack…
Give Sanogo 10 mins
nice santi and ozil
Great move, great save by De Gea..
so is Ox better than Poldi?
Pod should be on Ts. We need a shot…
Santi has impressed me today… he deserved his start…
Dear oh Jw…
Sp1 are you counting? lol
Not good enough , don’t deserve anything.
What a load of rubbish that was….!!
Serge and TR07 need to start against the dippers…
chuck in Poldi too…
That just sums up why we won’t win anything….
Why so gutless in out ambition to actually win a game against a really shit manc side… As i said earlier pathetic…!
Boring boring United too
2 games this season no goal scored against Yanited… shocking!
Anyone happy with that result is in cuckoo land….!
Mancs set up to defend and we were not good enough to break them down…! No width no speed up front nothing in front of the midfielders to pass to.
thumping dished out 5-1 now drawing with bottom. Unpredictable league this one.
Hey WATH… I thought we won? 😛
It was a shocking performance… we both teams were scared to attack…
True Brad… and where is the world class SaS?
Wath. We were shocking, Wenger was gutless with his lack of changes. Giroud was having a mare, get him off and get Pod on…
Five mins to go, throw Sanogo on as he has pace..
Wenger has lost all that he once had imho….
Wath, we knew all that in January (with Walcott out), only AW didn’t realise!
what a load of shit….cant believe i ditched my friends to watch that shower of shit….seriously is this the championship winning team??? i doubt it. afternoon folks#seething
Perhaps it was an accident….
Damn it Rieter
Ches looks really pissed off….
Hiya goonie…
we still in it…
we will beat $hitty band draw Chelsea…
BM beating Hamburg 5-0…
Johann shocking!
I’m off for the day, cant believe we let that shower of s***e get a point…
Thanks Arsene!!
Night all…
How are the dippers winning..
Another penalty for Gerrard
Night rico!
That makes us 3 points ahead of Liverpool. How far is Totenham behind? Any of the top 5 can be champs or not even cl next season
Ts, thing is they shit… we looking to win the league… We showed zero ambition from the management to win the league sorry but his gutless streak always shows when it really matters…!
We can all moan about Giroud but to be fair he put himself about yet has no real support…! We have midfielders who all try and do the same thing yet we have no players who get in behind a defence and when the bus is parked we useless… nothing much changes in 8 years eh…!
Even Stoke beat the mancs….
Night Rico.
If the money is there (in the bank) why is AW afraid to spend it?
Where is Walcott when we need him?
Evening all,
A point against United, better than i thought. I think we can kiss goodbye to winning a game in the league against the top teams we haven’t the fire power, but if we keep winning the smaller games the league may still be a possibility. We have no teeth up front against the better sides and although i wouldn’t put United in that catagory just yet, they have the edge in our minds. Still just a point behind Chelsea but still up there. We haven’t many options up front but it is quite obvious that Girouds pace is not going to help us a lot in this type of game, so we either have Nick or Sanogo take your pick. But were still trying.
Night rico and all
tell me about it WATH….arsene should be ashamed of himself. 8 million a year for this dross? christ in heaven.
Wenger should have taken Wilshere off. He was awful. Should have left Rosicky. Missing Ramsey badly.
When we don’t have the money we try to “turn tractors to ferraris”, now that we have the money “there are no world class players”.
Exactly, why Rosicky?
was hoping for a better performance than Liverpool so I can’t complain……..what has poldi done to Wenger?++??
sp – You are right. 2/3 head chances and a poke and still couldn’t score.
Mourinho is to laugh … The teams have already figured out how to play against Arsenal : give us the initiative to close the game and well outside the penalty area . How Arsenal plays based on short diagonals and small tables , playing in front of the Arsenal and expect the error to lnçar the counterattack . against Liverpool with fast players was the debacle ; against Chelsea can be ; against MU can also be , as Valencia , Dani , were with speed …
Well, the Arsenal team . Explain to me (who segunte ) the following :
a) The right side does not work because Sagna plays alone. If the model implemented in Arsenal ‘s Sagna – TW have the right and it works, it’s not natural to missing TW , Sagna is Gnaby – even if not the same ? No change in game model that has been successful ?
b ) The same is true on the left side . Attacking the flanks without having a defense and an average / advanced to attack and defend and complement , makes no sense. And is not attack from both sides the same . Is taking turns .
c ) In my opinion and I have said , we have the most players to do the same thing, which is to lead the game . This implies that overlap in space and imagination of each. JW SC Ozil and TR 4 can not play simultaneously. The whole team is unbalanced and none excels in performance….
A team must be balanced, even though theoretically the best players do not play (personal opinion).
e) Performance: Giroud tired, glare, missed a table. Solution: Bendtner, JW How is it possible to have the game to the end: Ozil does not move to come back to get the ball to Organizr game, Gibbs was the best Arsenal?. Szesc has given us points. If we had a few years ago, had already been champions.
Mata also defends bit. Obviously that does not fit the scheme of Mourinho, who preferred to lose a great player to make way for a large gap in the team, allowing you to balance the team and earn points and games.
Giroud is not the only player coming up short, Giroud holds the ball well but we have no runners which we need if Giroud is to be our CF, He has the touch but not the speed so he needs runners on either side to lay the ball off but no one runs, his only option is to either pass back or wait for the foul.
You have a valid point WATH
Only 1 point Ts lol
Sp1 I am still awaiting your count on how many times Jw went to the ground?lol
Our fb’s were very good today.
What hurts me is that we have a young German who can do what Ramsy does and bobby use to do…but AW does not fancy him.
Not talking about Gideon or Serge btw…
Lol.WATH…
I think we can beat shitty…
Manuel always buckles from March so…
U think we can beat shitty Ts… by that time we could be 5th…..!
Eisfeld don’t even make the bench Ts… wonder who he has pissed off…!
Evening Ginge, were not pretty i admit, but were still second.
And probably not for much longer SP. The club has hit a crossroads . We are now financially sound and must decide how to go forward .Currently we are always about to be the best of the rest but never best of the best
bad game tonight, but after shipping 5 against liverpool, not conceding tonight will help build the confidence again, anyone who thought we would beat utd by 3/4 etc was getting a bit carried away imo, both teams were nervous and canceled each other out, personally i think if Ramsey and Theo were playing we would have won, but without them we are toothless in attack and it aint gonna change anytime soon so imo we just have to soldier on and make sure we stay in the top 4 now, next 3 league games…
H sunderland A stoke, H swansea…
so we’ve gone from having accidents to being nervous – not getting this run in right at all are you Arsene – instead of focussing on what’s in front you might need to watch behind you my son –
in fairness oz getting destroyed 5-1 four days ago, and then your up against utd with rooney and vp two players who really seem to enjoy scoring against us, nerves inevitability kick inn, it’s just the way it goes, it’s a fight for 3rd/4th now imo, the team is flat, with zero pace and has little penetration, and that imo is due to wengers pathetic performance in the transfer windows.
agree Kel – “he’s one of best finishers i have ever seen” Wenger on Pod – uummm ok then, it’s 0-0 we’re offering little and we’re at home against a team struggling to put points on the board – make sense?
the only thing i can think of oz is he wants hm v liverpool, but it still doesn’t make sense as you say, even with 15 mins to go get him on fs giroud could still be playing and nowhere nearer scoring, i like the guy good work rate and all that, but after 60 mins of missing everything, why not try podolski!!
and there you have the Wenger story of the last 8 years my friend, I expect this season to end no differently than usual to be honest. Giroud is a good off the bench and cup player and nothing more in my opinion. We’ll finish the season with his supporters (Wenger) declaring he’s only one of two transfers off a real deal team… how old is this line getting 🙂
it’s frustrating oz, and that’s how i see it to, we done well and have punched above are weight imo but the last few performances have been really average right back to the villa game a few wks ago, a few shrewd moves in the transfer window in jan, would have worked wonders imo, may not have won us the league, but might have kept the momentum going as well as the feel good factor, personally i think we have lost both ie the Ramsey/Theo injuries have had a serious impact, then no activity in the TW.. finished with a heavy defeat imo has left us looking flat/tired imo.
on that note im off for the night oz, i’ll catch up with ya over the next few days im sure.
see you later mate – take care
So is the replay worth watching 🙂
Morning all.
Massive no to the replay Scott. One of the worst games I’ve seen in a long while.
Liverpool a better bet for the title than us.
Liverpool….never.
They will hit a slump as all sides do.
Morning Lewis….the replay is on late here, so see how i go 🙂
I missed it live due to work…who invented that, anyway?
We need to win our next 3 prem games in a row and others need to slip up.
Bradster, they already are mate.
Morning Scott. Our next 4 league games should be maximum points! Add in an FA Cup win and a result against Bayern and we’re laughing. Not too much to ask is it?!
Lewis now you’re talking…
Morning Rico and all. Horrible game last night.
Adam – very typical mate lets be honest
Morning Oz. Yep. It’s been heading south for a while now. Frustrating stuff and some big games coming along very soon too.
Morning guys.
Lewis, i will take 10 points and Cup win.
CL….i couldn’t give a rats, to be honest 🙂
Giroud needs to stop worrying about his Barnet and also stop pulling ridiculous faces when he misses…..
I must say, that hand shake when he is injured annoys the shit out of me!
Lee. Wenger reckons he’s at the same level as Suarez.
Morning Adam, Lee, Scott, Lewis, Oz, Bradster and all…
Watching that last night was painfully boring….
So does Cazorla Adam…
I don’t ……..
They’re all on crack…….
Or maybe should be….
New post up now….
Morning all,
Many supporters this morning saying the game was crap last night, I felt it was a vast improvement than against Liverpool the weekend. We are talking about a team that have been champions for years and who are still the reigning champions, I feel a draw against them was a good result. I expected a loss but am happy with the draw. We seem to have a hangup with Wenger and the transfer windows. Were in second place and the hatred for our manager seems odd to me. Why he hasn’t brought players mystifies me but i dont believe that we are rolling in cash as has been portraid. Buying a centre forward in the TW i feel wouldn’t have won our game last night, we would need more than that as our flanks are empty. Midfielders coming out of our arses but no wingers in sight. When you look at our players on paper they look very good but off paper none of them like breaking forward. i counted nine United players in their box last night and one of ours, its all about players going forwards, Wenger can tell them to go forward but its a bit like taking a horse to water you can’t make it drink.