Arsenal (A) - Post-Match Thread

I went to Arsenal for the midweek game a few years ago during the Beast from the East cold spell we had. The empty seats were embarrassing. There could only have been 25000 there that night.
 
ManCityGR! said:
Howdy from Greece, a ManCity fan since 2006(16 years old then) and continuous follower of bluemoon. Decided to get an account just for yesterday's commentary!

My observations for yesterday's game is first of all:
I was astonished(well not that much since i got used to it) by the biased commentary on BT. It was like playing an English side against a foreign one. In the old days I was praising English football commentators compared to ours here, for knowing football and being fair, but now City is demolishing competition this has drastically changed.
City's owners have to do something for this as it has become too annoying these days.

As for the match, City did not reach its usual very very high standards and was in fact too far away from them, but overall it did not play that bad as people say. :)
Let's not forget City has played in 5.5 days 3 matches while Arsenal had whole week to rest. Apart from that we definitely show in the last 3 games some signs of fatigue and this has to be expected. These 2 weeks now will hopefully correct that.

As for the officiating of yesterday's game, let me be the 8500th one here to point the obvious, that the penalty on Silva was valid for 2 offenses also so VAR was correct, the penalty they ask was hard to decide but after all the replays one can see that Ederson went from the ball with a normal tackle and he got the ball first so VAR was correct, Rodri slipped and got only the ball in that corner, the 2 yellows on Gabriel were utter obvious.

I can understand the whining of some fans saying VAR gave every decision to City but it was correct to do so!! So what's the point? If one has to complain i would say it's City as after the red card, referee played for some 5-10 minutes, 80-20 in favor of Arsenal in some fouls and small decisions.

We are in the era where Salah dives after a short pull/touch of his shirt by Dias and they say "pull, so a definite penalty" and now after Xhak@ tripped AND pulled with x3 the power and duration of Dias the shirt of Silva, they spend 1 million hours analyzing why it might not be a penalty.
This is the City era! :)
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That’s an excellent first post mate.
 
Not seen any mention of Ramsdale also scuffing the penalty spot before Mahrez took the penalty
Very fucking sneaky
He even had the gall to complain about consistency in var in his post match interview
The interviewer should have asked him to explain his actions rather than side with the cheating little bastard!
Retrospective bans should be bought in to stop unsportsmanlike behaviour like that.
 
Dribble said:
Hate to say this, but I've noticed Bernardo seems nowhere near as effective when KDB plays. Add Gundog into the mix, have we got a Gerrard/Lampard/Scholes scenario at City where 3 doesn't got into two?
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We lose a bit of control without Gundo, he's quietly become our most important player. Him, Rodri and Bernie in midfield are my preferred option. But the good news is that I think Kev is our best false 9, and him and Bernie can play really well together swapping in and out of the false 9 position as they did at Old Trafford.
 
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