There were signs before that goal. They should have scored when clean through but their player fucked it up.A decent first half in which we controlled the play but only Doku was capable of keeping a shot down, Cherki and Semenyo should have done better with their attempts. The rest of the time we appeared to be trying to walk the ball in the net or just walk through 8 or 9 of their players. It was all a bit slow and laboured and we didn't home our advantage after Doku scored.
The second half followed on in a similar fashion until Guehi's farcically under hit back pass. After that for some unfathomable reason we capitulated and lost our heads completely and there was very little leadership on the pitch. Our second and third goals goals came from a decent bit of play, nice to know we can move forward quickly and get up the pitch without a dozen passes to the side and a dozen more back.
Doku's third was stunning, perhaps he can teach the rest how to shoot and curl a shot in from distance rather than endless passes across the box. It was even more impressive when you consider he was lucky not to have a broken ankle too. That 'tackle' was a red and if it had been done on a player wearing a red shirt at one of their grounds that is the colour that would have been shown.
Anyway, well done City for pulling it back to get a point but it's a disappointing result especially after the first half and having dragged ourselves into a title race.
I don’t get why you all think all London clubs hate each other.
As someone who lives reasonably close by and knows a lot of fans of London clubs believe me when I said palace couldn’t not care less about Arsenal (palace aren’t even based in London).
I kept reading about Fulham being a derby for Arsenal. Again that wasn’t a derby.
Arsenals derby is Tottenham and they have a rivalry with Chelsea. The other London sides don’t really have any sort of rivalry with Arsenal tbh
As long as it’s not a Marmoush/Savinho type team.Bang.on. I'll take the Carabao Cup and the FA Cup all day long - fuck me we should beat Chelsea......
Me neither. I used to put aluminium Rugby studs (longer) in my boots.I never played with blade boots they weren’t around back then, just put boots with studs on and stop slipping and sliding about.
Offside should stop the game, how can you have another phase of play after the game should have been stopped? Not one Everton player complained when the flag went up so nobody expected it to be given, that alone should tell you something.Guehi's action created another phase of play.
How many dozens of times have we seen the flag not go up when it appears clearly offsides? Because the linesmen have been instructed as such.
Sure - I guess the really limp takeaway could be "waaah if the flag had gone up immediately we wouldn't have made the error there that resulted in the 100% within the rules of the game goal."
Kinda soft innit?
Really hard to argue against someone who has their mind made up and can't admit if this exact call on the other foot us scoring the goal --- there wouldn't be a single question.The point is he was offside BEFORE that phase of play. I'll say it again, we see goals disallowed by the dozen every single week for the same thing, because a player was offside "earlier in the move".
We were loose with the ball tonight. However, to say Arsenal centre backs don't do shit like that is a bit disingenuous. Their centre backs literally messed up at the Emirates three weeks ago, losing to Bournemouth 1-2 by constantly passing back to Raya (38 times) and eventually gifting the ball to Alex Scott who scored the winning goal for Bournemouth. Shit happens - it doesn't only happen to our team.So many mistakes. Players looked like they were playing on ice. Passes straight out of touch, miss controls, mix up at the back leading to them missing a sitter.
It was inevitable that these misstakes would eventualy bite us on the ass. That back pass wad one of the worst Ive ever seen, and it got worse from there. Hate to say it, but Arse centre backs dont do shit like that.
I stuck my oar in because I don’t like to see people being personally attacked on a forum for giving their opinion. I don’t agree with some of their takes but that doesn’t give me the right to insult him.Not sure you needed to stick your oar in, and I prefer to call the miserable bastards out, thank you.
If Arsenal draw with West Ham and we win our game in hand, and we match each other's results in the last 2 matches, the only reason it's in their hands is goal difference.But you said NOTHING HAS CHANGED!?!
Funny how all the bookies and all the exchanges (and all the adults) disagree with you.
I'll put it another way then - so you only have to count to 6, not 9 - if Arsenal draw with West Ham, it won't now be in our hands. Had we won tonight, it could have been, were we to beat Brentford.
And you call me a tit? Jeez, it's hardly quantum physics.
Unfortunately Nunes '24 vintage tonight. A few rickets spread throughout the 90.Looking at their third goal again what dozy twat just stood and watched Barry tap it in when they could have stopped it?
Fuck off Yaya.If he doesn’t make a mistake you’d be gutted to make at 5 a side tonight, we don’t collapse.
These things don’t happen in a vacuum.
Guehi cost us the title. He’s been good, true.
But tonight with his failure to complete a 6 yard pass to the keeper, he cost us the title.
Well said mate.Lots of spoilt cunts, sadly.
Turn on the players ridiculously quickly.
there’s a very good chance we come away with at least 2nd, and two domestic cups in the bag, during our 2nd rebuild season.
Let’s have a bit of perspective, this will be a celebrated season in future when people look back. We’ve won something!
Give overAs long as it’s not a Marmoush/Savinho type team.
It’s not a fair well to the fans. They will be playing the biggest game of their season 4 days later.It’s at home. It’s the farewell to the fans. No team likes bowing out for the season on a defeat and having to watch a team lift the league title. They are professional athletes ffs.
Mate, read the laws of the game. He wasn’t offside.Offside should stop the game, how can you have another phase of play after the game should have been stopped? Not one Everton player complained when the flag went up so nobody expected it to be given, that alone should tell you something.
And didn't they change the rules a week later? If we gain an advantage it gets changed, if we get screwed they'll double down on the rules to highlight how right they were. Raheem Sterling's push at Stoke never to be seen again comes to mind.Yes. The defender was Tyrone Mings. I thought it was unfair on him at the time
He doesn't need to see him, he's looking at the player who is clearly offside, just do nothing and there's no goal, I know instinct says "do something", but he was clearly ahead of Guehi and he could see that.And how can Guehi have seen the linesman?