Arsenal Thread | 2024/25

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Amazing all this praise for the so called defensive masterclass from those twats yesterday.Wrighty should focus on the 10 cowards in Red on the pitch.

Not long after the take over, Mancini took City to the Arse and got a draw with a real defensive masterclass and got called out for not attacking with his 'expensive' team.

Shithouse press in the UK.
 
Just prior to the move which led to us winning the final corner. Havertz tried to do Ederson with studs into his midriff. Obviously intent on injuring him and further running down the clock.
Dirty horrible side. Some of their antics, including set pieces, come straight out of the Wimbledon of old play book.
 
Metal Biker said:
* D O I N K *

Wow, never realised what whiners Arsenal fans could be. "He threw a ball at one of our players, waah, then he bulldozed another one of our players, waah. Then he squared up to one of our other players, waah!"

Note you don't mention a thing about the disgusting Havertz forearm on Rodri or the shove in the back from Trossard on Bernie. Make a sentence from these words; houses, glass, people, in, living, stones, throw, shouldn't.
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“He could’ve killed him”.
 
Phil1 said:
You’re a cuntstain who like every opposition fan does their best to pretend they aren’t being a prick. But you are. Your team is shit, your manger is a **** and when you win fuck all again and pretend you’re relevant i’ll say to myself, I wonder whatever happened to that @bridgeno1 ****. Then I’ll open a nice cold beer by my pool and think, wow, City are the greatest team in history..
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Pics of the pool mate?
 
M23 Citizen said:
Sitting on the floor pretending to be injured hugely highlights their inferiority complex and will never make us scared of them.

All their sitting down, time wasting, taking 1 minute 20 seconds over every dead ball, moving ten yards forward at every throw-in and free kick, kicking the ball away, manager outside his technical area all the time, manager being overly involved with mard-arsing with the referee and fourth official, manager trying to put off players on the pitch running at them from the side line, manager telling his players warming up to tell players on the pitch to sit down and pretend to be injured so he can have a forced timeout on the sidelines… all it does is simply tells us they don’t think they can play football to beat us.

It shows their naïvity as well, because all the constant stop-start of the game does is break up their concentration levels. Their concentration levels will be up-and-down like a yo-yo, and that’s why we ended up getting the equaliser at the end.

And it’s not like they did all that because they were down to ten man against City, they do this shit from minute one against bottom half sides at home. They’re the most boring ‘football’ team I’ve ever seen and the least likeable ‘football’ team I’ve ever experienced.

You can barely call Arsenal a football team. They barely play any football against us. At least with our title rivalry with Liverpool, going back to United a decade ago, even our rivalry with Spurs, it’s about football. Spurs have given us some great games and got good results against us over the years and can be commended for it. United and especially Klopp’s Liverpool went toe-to-toe with us, they were a great football team.

And even if a team doesn’t think it can go toe-to-toe with us, there’s nothing at all wrong with defending deep, sitting back and keeping it tight with little space, nowt wrong with defensive football, with counter attacking football, long balls down the channels, hoofing it up to a big man up front, bypassing the midfield, running the ball into the corner, legitimately winning free kicks, playing down the sides to keep winning throwins… even with XI men, never mind with ten. They’re just different tactics, just different ways to play football.

But there is absolutely nothing commendable about the way Arsenal ‘play’. I cannot offer a serious positive about the way they ‘play’ (or more precisely, don’t play!).
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The games v Liverpool were insane, they always came to win and had a right good fucking go.

With these mard cunts it’s like playing a bottom 3 side desperately battling for a point.
 
Blue Tooth said:
Amazing all this praise for the so called defensive masterclass from those twats yesterday.Wrighty should focus on the 10 cowards in Red on the pitch.

Not long after the take over, Mancini took City to the Arse and got a draw with a real defensive masterclass and got called out for not attacking with his 'expensive' team.

Shithouse press in the UK.
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I’ll give them some praise,still defended very well that second half,and if it was us I’d be well proud of the players,surely nobody was expecting them to come out and play as if they still had 11 on the pitch as we would have definitely won,but what makes me angry is the deliberate fake injuries,wasting time ( yes all teams do it ) but they took it to another level and the general breaking of our momentum by any means it’s actually become a theme in their game now even when they have 11 on the pitch.It only gets you so far and the thought of every game getting a result by this means and ending up as champions would for me leave a sour taste in the mouth,yes it’s getting the job done but does anyone really want to win anything like that,bordering on anti football for me what we seen from Arsenal yesterday but each to their own ..
 
Gray said:
Wrighty sticking his oar in about Haaland bouncing the ball off Gabriel’s head, he would be better off employed calling out Arsenal’s cheating.

I am also surprised that the shear force of the throw didn’t lead to him collapsing in a heap as his training would require him to do.
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Here's a clip of ITV2 personified Ben White kicking a ball at Odegaards head with the same amount of force after they scored - apparently this is banter tho



The lot of them need to get over themselves - coming across as emotionally disregulated
 
super_city_si said:
Was disappointed in our prep. We knew what was coming. On their first corner we had Doku marking Gabriel. WTF? Our set piece coach is clearly a moron
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Even more bizarrely, was Doku actually went to mark him for the goal, and Walker swapped with him at the last minute, almost in desperation.

Poor from us to not have looked to double up on Gabriel with Haaland and Dias/Akanji, as they don't really have a huge threat elsewhere.
 
deano ou812 said:
I’ll give them some praise,still defended very well that second half,and if it was us I’d be well proud of the players,surely nobody was expecting them to come out and play as if they still had 11 on the pitch as we would have definitely won,but what makes me angry is the deliberate fake injuries,wasting time ( yes all teams do it ) but they took it to another level and the general breaking of our momentum by any means it’s actually become a theme in their game now even when they have 11 on the pitch.It only gets you so far and the thought of every game getting a result by this means and ending up as champions would for me leave a sour taste in the mouth,yes it’s getting the job done but does anyone really want to win anything like that,bordering on anti football for me what we seen from Arsenal yesterday but each to their own ..
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My point was not that a good defensive display does not warrant praise but to illustrate how differently it was reported when we did it. Our performance under Mancini was pure grit and determination ( and no orchestrated injury breaks) but we got slagged off for it.
 
chris85mcfc said:
Even more bizarrely, was Doku actually went to mark him for the goal, and Walker swapped with him at the last minute, almost in desperation.

Poor from us to not have looked to double up on Gabriel with Haaland and Dias/Akanji, as they don't really have a huge threat elsewhere.
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Wonder if Rodri was the guy meant to mark Gabriel. It’d make sense that we weren’t as prepared as we normally are.
 
deano ou812 said:
I’ll give them some praise,still defended very well that second half,and if it was us I’d be well proud of the players,surely nobody was expecting them to come out and play as if they still had 11 on the pitch as we would have definitely won,but what makes me angry is the deliberate fake injuries,wasting time ( yes all teams do it ) but they took it to another level and the general breaking of our momentum by any means it’s actually become a theme in their game now even when they have 11 on the pitch.It only gets you so far and the thought of every game getting a result by this means and ending up as champions would for me leave a sour taste in the mouth,yes it’s getting the job done but does anyone really want to win anything like that,bordering on anti football for me what we seen from Arsenal yesterday but each to their own ..
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Agree with this a lot. They were always going to go defensive after going down to 10 men and it’s up to us to break them down. I said as much while watching it in a bar on the Algarve as the 2nd half drew to a close - that Arsenal had defended really well. However, on reflection I think they were too negative in that 2nd half. They never really had an outlet to relieve the pressure, and if they’d kept just one player further forward most of the time then it would’ve given our defenders something to think about. Funnily enough, after we equalised and the game ended I got speaking to a Leeds fan in there. I brought up the home game against Leeds in 2020-21 when they went down to 10 men at around the same point in the game as Arsenal did yesterday. Leeds proceeded to weather a storm in the second half but Bielsa being Bielsa he didn’t always play a back 10 and as such they were able to break on us at the end as we were pushing forward and grabbed an unlikely but canny winning goal. Arsenal could’ve done something similar yesterday and if they had they may even have come away with a 3-1 win rather than a 2-2 draw but in the end they got exactly what they deserved due to being so negative throughout the 2nd half.
 
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