Arsenal (A) - PL Post Match Thread

Eccles Blue said:
The people who were at the match or watched on TV please.
How did John Stones play? I appreciate he would be rusty but did he look ok and did he walk off the pitch without a limp or anything??

Thank you. :-) :-)
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Played in midfield looked good in the close spaces & showed good vision to try and link to attackers with some clever forward passes.However he did give the ball away once which in understandable given he has missed the last 10+ games. Rolls Royce player shame he wasn’t considered fit to start in my view as we have looked much improved.
Am hugely disappointed he will be expected to join up with England now & presumably play
 
brazilians hurt said:
Played in midfield looked good in the close spaces & showed good vision to try and link to attackers with some clever forward passes.However he did give the ball away once which in understandable given he has missed the last 10+ games. Rolls Royce player shame he wasn’t considered fit to start in my view as we have looked much improved.
Am hugely disappointed he will be expected to join up with England now & presumably play
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I thought he looked cautious when he came on which its understandable. Hope waistcoat treats him with kid gloves and uses that carthorse Maguire instead.
 
citymad said:
I thought he looked cautious when he came on which its understandable. Hope waistcoat treats him with kid gloves and uses that carthorse Maguire instead.
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I hope so - as one of Englands game is just a friendly. No reason to play him. Or Walker for that matter. I don’t think the rest of the back line (Ake, Akanji, Gvardiol, Dias) will get any rest over the break.
 
The Lightbowne Cowboy said:
We were lucky to get nil. Let the Goons celebrate winning the Premier league in October and then we'll come back in a few weeks and dismantle Brighton. These games happen, we were slow and lethargic and we all know Rodders was a huge miss. We are the only team capable of putting 10-12 game winning run together and that is what we will do before the seasons out.


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Also, everybody else is capable of beating each other and Now we have Newcastle in the top 6 things are going to get very tight in trying to put a big run of wins together,

The best thing is the challenge, Pep loves nothing more than taking them all on, it sort of keeps him hungry and he will never let the players slip and let them feel safe, Pep demands greatness and a work rate in training 2nd to none.

For me, the new season started and City was not ready because of a load of things like the Winter World Cup, the late end of last season because of the Champions League final, then 2 international games, and No pre-season. Manchester City had the most players at the World Cup and at the international games after the Champions League final.

Pep said he likes a small squad. But the new demands on players with the amount of football we have to play this season may need looking at in the winter transfer window.
 
brazilians hurt said:
Played in midfield looked good in the close spaces & showed good vision to try and link to attackers with some clever forward passes.However he did give the ball away once which in understandable given he has missed the last 10+ games. Rolls Royce player shame he wasn’t considered fit to start in my view as we have looked much improved.
Am hugely disappointed he will be expected to join up with England now & presumably play
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Thank you for that reassurance @brazilians hurt. I just needed to know that he was getting his old form back and I wasn’t over optimistic voting for him. Cheers. :-)
 
ken tali said:
5 of our next 6 league games are really tough ones.
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Exactly! And, in there are the Home and Away Young Boys games butted up against Chelsea and United and another Intl Break!

We need to win both the Young Boys games to win the Group and rotate the CL squad for the two remaining games, otherwise we are having to play full strength repeatedly every 3 days!

[INTL BREAK]*
Brighton (H)
Young Boys (A)
United (A)
[Bournemouth (H)]
Young Boys (H)
Chelsea (A)
[INTL BREAK]*
Liverpool (H)
Leipzig (H)
Spurs (H)
Villa (A)

* Virtually the entire squad will be away and playing another 180 mins within a few days, plus intl travel

That’s the fixtures for the next 60 days!

With the exception of Arsenal, whom we’ve just played and to whom we have lost, there is a case to be made that we are embarking on a run of games where we will face the Top 8 and play two, if not three, crucial CL games!
 
I thought this was a tense game and, well as Bernado played in an unaccustomed position, City clearly suffer when Rodri doesn't play. A lot of rubbish has been talked nevertheless. Shearer thinks it is good for Arsenal and good for the PL that City lost. Well, Alan, life is tight at the top every season. Last season we did the double over Arsenal but they were the only top four team we beat away from the Etihad. The season before we won at Chelsea, drew at Liverpool but lost at Spurs. In 2020-1 we performed very creditably t our top four "rivals" but the real exception is the Centurions season but that was exceptional in so many ways. The theme common to all these seasons is that City ended the season as champions. I'm not sure how much of a boost the PL can take from our loss at Arsenal! And Danny Murphy's praise for Arsenal "stopping City from playing" and reducing us to one shot on target rings a little Hollow as Arsenal manage only two on target ... at home. This was a game heading fo a goalless draw, and it was not decided by Arteta's masterful substitutions as Danny suggested. All four did touch the ball in the build up but the decisive intervention was made unwittingly by the very unfortunate Ake.

This season will be decided, as always, by the team which performs best over 38 games and we have proved rather good at that. Winning four on the trot is not easy and is unprecedented but the unpreceented hasn't been a problem for us either. I can't say we'll win the league again this season but I think we have the best squad to try.
 
NikT said:
Shit game but not unexpected. Our best backup for Rodri is Stones and with both being back after international break it should help. Everyone knows we're missing creativity but we can't buy everyone in one window and noone expected KDB to be out for the first half of the season. I was surprised Grealish didn't play yesterday as his ball retention and ability to get us up the pitch is crucial in big matches which he was very effective for us last season. Let's use this international break to reset and go again as we have tough fixtures coming up.
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Said towards the end of last season that we need at least 2 of Dias, Stones and Rodri fit always. Still feels the case now.
 
The wankfest isn’t improving my mood.
I’ve seen things like
“masterclass”
“Arteta 10/10”
“Title favourites”
It was a deflective goal ffs.
 
Some people need to wobble thier heads.Please do not become entitled we cant win the league every year we will not be far off at the end but not sure its ours this year we are intergrating new players Kdb and Stones big misses 1 serious injury to Rodders we are goosed.The scum did not win it every year im sure Pisscan used ti say to the board listen we have shipped a few out and it will take time to gel we might nick a cup.
Pep is a genius with plenty of credit in the bank god knows what some people would be like if we went 2 yrs without a trophy or god forbid 35 yrs.Us old timers would still be here.I cant stand the must win everything attitude.Love winning but love meeting my blue mates and drinking reminiscing about times and people gone by.
 
lancs blue said:
That isn't saying much, I barely reacted when they scored, which isn't like me at all but I was so bored I'd almost given up caring. Shocking game that had 0-0 written all over it until the lucky deflection.
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Exactly, the risk you take trying to see out a 0-0
 
bondsman said:
Not if them shots are hitting the corner flag or row Z. Ederson didn’t have a save to make. The two best chances from open play were both ours. Ake should score and Alvarez unlucky when he closed Raya down. They didn’t have a chance as good as either of those. At home. We were comfortable throughout and but for sheer fluke would be celebrating a very good away performance without key players and others just returning from injury. Most frustrating thing for me was why we didn’t just head that long punt away that led to the goal.
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Good away performance, take the blue tints off.
Arsenal were there for the taking, we slumbered through trying to hold out for a draw and got punished.
 
BlueMoonz1977 said:
Issue for me, and as great as Rodri is, him being out for 3 games should not have such a dramatic effect on the players selected.
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Exactly this, the drop off has been immense.
A club with our scouting network and budget should be in this position.
 
Singing champions again ole constantly before a goals been scored = knew what was going to happen after that - smugness never pays off.
 
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