Arsenal Post Match Thread.

franksinatra said:
I agree with there goal, hence I popped in the caveat, not every failing.

The shape does look better with a back four, but you are right there is still an issue.
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We dealt with it better in the 2nd half, stopping the pass getting through the middle, but still occasionally allowed people like Sanchez too much time in that position.

But at least we attacked the ball & put in a challenge to try & stop the situation occuring, unlike the first goal & the leicester goal, where we just stood & watched it unfold.
 
don't know if its been said but the last two times we have beaten le arse at home in dec, we have gone on to win the league

just saying like
 
Neville Kneville said:
We dealt with it better in the 2nd half, stopping the pass getting through the middle, but still occasionally allowed people like Sanchez too much time in that position.

But at least we attacked the ball & put in a challenge to try & stop the situation occuring, unlike the first goal & the leicester goal, where we just stood & watched it unfold.
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The press was much better in the second half, higher up the field and allowed us to dictate the game more second half.

For the goal, Fernando, instead of filling that space in front of the centre halfs seemed to be the wrong side of the play offering little protection.

To balance that out Arsenal do have some very intelligent players and like us try to exploit space in between so I suppose its natural we will get caught occasionally.
 
DT King of all Geordies said:
Disappointed no Motd as am off work and could stay up! Highlights on the site though. I thought we played well in the first half but stepped it up a bit in the second half. Sane settling in and seems to get the nod for the big games. Lovely bit at the end with Wenger shouting at his keeper on the highlights.
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It's on tonight after the Scouse stew.
 
Sky with all their technology could not agree on whether the goals were offside. I watched the highlights on Sky Sports 1 and was assured by the commentators both goals were not offside and they showed reruns to prove their case. When the highlights finished I switched over to Sky Sports News to see an item saying both goals were offside.
 
tonea2003 said:
don't know if its been said but the last two times we have beaten le arse at home in dec, we have gone on to win the league

just saying like
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I hope you're right, but also the last 4 times Chelsea have been top at Christmas they've gone on to win the league
 
Chippy_boy said:
First of all, can I say how delighted I am with the win, although I was extremely confident going into the game and expected us to win for some reason.

But regards the 1st offside, I didn't think it was, so in an idle moment, I took a screen cap, hoping to be able to show that it was on side. But, I have failed.

Try as I might to adjust the angle of the white line below, I cannot make any adjustment that shows Sane to be on. In fact I have been quite "generous" in positioning it as below - arguably the line should lean backwards a bit more and it would be even more clear. He was offside, however marginally, but off he was. Do I care? No.

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Interestingly I didn't think it was offside at the game. But images seem to indicate that if the linesman could properly react in 1/32nd of a second it could have been given offside. to Be exact you would need a better camera angles to show when there was daylight between Silva's boot and the ball - the above only doesn't show it.
As to the second goal I thought it was offside. But by the letter of the law it wasn't. -Cech's sight lines to save the ball were not blocked and Silva didn't really try to go for the ball so by current Refereeing interpretation it was on-side.
 
Chippy_boy said:
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Makes complaining about the Sane decision pretty pathetic, doesn't it.
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This is what Wenger had to say after this goal

"I have not seen the replay of our goal and I did not see from the bench it go in,” Wenger told Sky Sports

Yet he could clearly see that Sane was 2mm offside whilst running at full pelt

I'm beginning to understand now why the rags have derided this old has-been for all these years
 
franksinatra said:
I presume it must be a club policy but since Mancini the club, has in general, kept a dignified silence instead of criticising the refs post match like Arsenal, Chelsea, United managers so often do. It is actually something I think we should be proud off.
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Me too. Hughes used to be embarrassing, week after week. Some managers oversee umpteen stupid mistakes by their own players during a game, then go ballistic about the one mistake the ref made. The next week, when the boot is on the other foot, they "didn't see it".
 
Chippy_boy said:
The 2nd one yes. The 1st one, no, he's off.

Incidentally and off-topic perhaps, but I am far from convinced that Leicester's 4th goal actually crossed the line, goal line technology or no goal line technology. The BT Sport "animation" was basically a made up cartoon that proved nothing. Clearly the ref got the signal, but how accurate is the system. I looked at it again and again and am not at all sure it was completely over the line. But since that was 4-0 at the time, seemed somewhat irrelevant.
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Not true that image used by BT and Sky is provided by the Hawke-eye equipment..
 
Bentheblue said:
Sky with all their technology could not agree on whether the goals were offside. I watched the highlights on Sky Sports 1 and was assured by the commentators both goals were not offside and they showed reruns to prove their case. When the highlights finished I switched over to Sky Sports News to see an item saying both goals were offside.
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Keith Hackett in the telegraph is saying that both goals were onside.

Not sure if this is how to post a link, but for what it's worth:-

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...wrong-neither-manchester-citys-goals-against/

Also, I couldn't care less, we're due a bit of luck.
 
Bentheblue said:
Sky with all their technology could not agree on whether the goals were offside. I watched the highlights on Sky Sports 1 and was assured by the commentators both goals were not offside and they showed reruns to prove their case. When the highlights finished I switched over to Sky Sports News to see an item saying both goals were offside.
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They were both offside. City haven't scored a legitimate goal since 2008 according to the media
 
Marvin said:
In the 1st half we were poor, but a team playing for the title having scored the opener should have gone for the jugular. City took advantage and grew into the game, but Arsenal were terrible. I am not trying to do city down, I was just shocked by how complacent they were. And once the game was slipping beyond them, they just carried on playing in the same vein in what was a really big game for them.

Against Chelsea and leicester we got well beat, but our standard of performance never sunk to the level we saw from Arsenal. Only sanchez played well. After the goal, where was Walcott? Where was Ozil?

I looked at the Arsenal team warming up and I looked at our team, and I couldn't see us winning, and yet in the end we thoroughly deserved to win, but for me I was as shocked with Arsenal's ineptitude as I was pleased with the win
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We were not well beaten by Chelsea
Had the game had a referee we would have been out of sight by half time
 
sir baconface said:
Me too. Hughes used to be embarrassing, week after week. Some managers oversee umpteen stupid mistakes by their own players during a game, then go ballistic about the one mistake the ref made. The next week, when the boot is on the other foot, they "didn't see it".
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You could see in his attitude where he had played the majority of his career.

Some players suit certain clubs, like John Terry suits Chelsea. Hughes never suited us in the slightest.
 
In the mail it shows cechs line of vision for sterlings goal, silva is nowhere near therefore the goal was not offside. Martin Samuel said you would need the Hubble telescope to detect sane was offside, so wenger can go fuck himself :-)
 
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