Arsenal(FA Cup Semi Final) Post Match Thread

[cookster]

Church of Pep!!! Hahaha, not been paying attention then have we? I'm not his biggest fan at all, I think he thinks he's shit hot.

The facts are though, the higher ups have stitched us up by having terrible recruitment policy, or lack of. 4 old fullbacks. 1 good striker, agieng midfield and a crock in the heart of defense...not one bit of that was addressed, and it should have been, knowing that Pep was coming for 3 years.

Nail on head, the problem is deeper than Pep and has been for sometime.

 

[Burtonblue]

not if howard webb gets the job, he was the only one who thought it wasnt a pen on aguero, even the pundits in the studio laughed at him

Webb is the most bent of the lot. Know it for a fact having spoken to the guy...

 

[SilverFox2]

Never thoughts I'd say this but I can't wait for video refs to come into existence.
It's the only way to stop the officials cheating us out of results.
Really f****d off today!

Recently saw France v Spain friendly which had exactly that resulting in a goal originally given for France being disallowed for offside.
No problems and very little delay.
Supposed to be part of the process for use in the forthcoming Russia based International tournament-

 

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

Church of Pep!!! Hahaha, not been paying attention then have we? I'm not his biggest fan at all, I think he thinks he's shit hot.

The facts are though, the higher ups have stitched us up by having terrible recruitment policy, or lack of. 4 old fullbacks. 1 good striker, agieng midfield and a crock in the heart of defense...not one bit of that was addressed, and it should have been, knowing that Pep was coming for 3 years.

You could well be right old chap

 

[SS2dan]

So predictable, same old story. start well, miss chances, a bit of dodgy reffing, take foot off pedal, Yaya slows it down to tippy tappy , we let the opposition in, they score , there was only going to be one winner after that

Completely wrong about yaya

Not long since got home from game. Had enough time to see analysis of penalty decision and our disallowed goal. Couldn't believe how clear cut the pen was, well I could really as even from the other end of the ground it looked a pen. Was in disbelief when they disallowed the goal.

Important decisions at a time we were well on top and maybe if one of them had gone for us, we would have got a two goal lead, which would have seen them capitulate.

Yes, you can pick some holes in City's performance but bloody hell we do not get much good luck. Small amrgins have cost us yet again but can't fault the effort, players were shot by end.

Yaya totally undeserving of being on the wrong side of that result.

 

[Roy Hamilton]

For the winner Yaya chips the player beautifully who then blocks Yaya by falling over and low and behold its an Arsenal free kick.

Play then goes wide where low and behold they get yet another cheap free kick from which they score.

Thats how refs affect games and thats how they cheat.

Today for 120 mins pawson was almost perfect and he got his job done!

Bang on. Maybe we didn't take our chances, maybe we lost the midfield for a large part of the second half, maybe fitness was a surprising issue...and on and on.
But City had 66% possession yet had the same amount of fouls against as Arsenal - 20 each ( plus 5 yellows to their 2 ) That's basically bollocks and has a huge effect on the match.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

We basically still have last season's team plus Sane. Injuries have robbed us of two players who would have improved us over the season in Gundogan and Jesus but by and large we're still relying on Pellegrini and Mancini's players. Pep is trying to play his way when half the squad know they wont be here next season.

This summer is absolutely crucial, a make or break transfer window for Pep and Txiki.

We say that every summer, and no, it isn't. Anyone who thinks we will get more than two of the six (or more) players we supposedly need, let alone are in for, is daft. One of the reasons we are where we are is because we regularly DON'T get the players we want/need. What makes anyone think this summer will be different? Plenty of sides have money, and plenty need help. And neither Txiki nor Pep are in any danger of "breaking." They aren't going anywhere.

 

[Bill]

Yep,when you see how many de gea saves with his feet you can see juliet doesn't have any reflexes

Cech tipped one round today that 100% would gone past bravo.

Nothing will convince me that bravo is good enough for us.

Pep isn't far behind him

Both have very big seasons coming up next year.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Correct what would we have to lose by video refs?

It's going to happen. But it can't just happen over night as it completely changes the nature of the game we love - it needs to be slowly and carefully progress into the games, there will still be many errors and criticism.

 

[ojeme]

It's why I find it laughable that the transfer forum is sign Sanchez, Mbappe, Bonucci - and fuck it lets sign Isco aswell for good measure-perhaps 3 fullbacks , a goalkeeper etc etc.
Doesn't say much for the transfer policy of the last three seasons does it - throw enough shit at the wall and some will stick - trouble is we can't even hit the fucking wall.

Problem is not spending but not identifying targets painstakingly before doling out the sterlings. If we spent over 100 million in the past few seasons on CB and still require a center back, it leaves a lot to be desired. Something has to change with respect to identifying targets for sure. Also the fact that we spend loads in a transfer window only highlights the fact that we didn't quite get it right in the last window. So the issue is not spending but spending right. If we don't spend right we create that need to spend again.