Match Thread | Man City vs. Arsenal (22/09/24)

[wolviedinho]

He's getting older, suggesting he retires isn't turning on him

Well it didn’t sound like a compliment mate.

Walker has been immense. Players get older and players make mistakes in every game.

 

[half & half derby scarf]

It's martineli who needs blocking off from getting near edersdon on corners they play it deep and block off the keeper so he can't back peddle

Happens at every corner, they use 2 men to block the keeper. Doesn't excuse the free header though.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

We were playing fine without him, the Rodri injury ruined our momentum

Unfortunately we are far far too reliant on the guy

 

[Paladin]

i dont care, cant touch nor obstruct the keeper in the 6 yard box

Where does it say this in the laws of the game?

 

[Keeper!]

But if we had two people close in on Gabriel with no attempt to get the ball, he'd go down and it'd be a penalty. They do corners like American football and get away with it every time. Someone was saying they were just 'holding their ground.' They weren't. They were deliberately running into Ederson to prevent him from moving towards the ball.

shit , weak defending

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

Fuck off Merson

 

[kaz7]

COME ON BLUEBOYS

 

[madloaf]

Lets listen to the coked up fucking gibberish of an ex-arsenal player for an impartial balanced view.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

I would have Stones on for Walker, move Akanji across and Stones would help us defend corners as well.

I’d also have Foden on for Bernardo, and go at them from the off.

I’d prob bring Foden on for Gunfo and then look at Doku for Jack.

 

[Cambo]

Said before the match watch the cornets.

And the first one was the warning. The screening on Ederson and the run from Gabriel. We didn’t learn.

 

[Blu1]

Shocked no foden

 

[wolviedinho]

Any Rodri news?

 

[SWP's back]

Hope everyone who was up for the "lack of control" without Jack, in the pre-match thread, is happy.

Jack offers no more control but with the added benefit of no threat.

Also their two goals were a left back from 25 yards and a corner. How would Grealish have stopped either of those you moron?

 

[Frank the Yank]

Our corners are wank! It wouldn’t make a jot of of difference.

That’s the spirit!! Don’t disagree but let’s try it anyways..

 

[Halloween Jack]

Odds on there was gonna be a sending off. Just suprised it was an Arsenal player.

 

[SebastianBlue]

rat and that **** on tv thinks it’s eddies fault

I love that take.

What is he meant to do, fling them out of the way or charge through them, shoulder lowered?

He’d give away a fucking penalty.

And that is exactly why Arse employ those corner tactics.

Sometimes they will be given as a foul, sometimes they won’t (there is absolutely no consistency, even within matches themselves, from officials), but it always heavily advantages the attacking team.

So when it isn’t called, you increase your chances of scoring substantially.

That is not to say we defended those two corners well—we didn’t.

But allowing the opposition to surround the keeper, with absolutely no recourse to do anything about it, is making a farce of the laws of the game.

 

[Wellsblue21]

Well who did? He didn't just go down without contact

It wasn’t deliberate was jostling for space

 

[Brewster's millions]

Hopefully we don’t have to wait half an hour before we see Foden.

 

[01cravend]

Get another striker on after 70mins if still the same....ohh wait!! Lol

 

[Mancini’s Pastilles]

Im ready for pelters here. But i dont rate Doku. Certainley not as a starter anyway