Arsenal FA Cup SF Post-Match Thread

[CrownPointBlue]

Last nights match endorses this view.

Will Rodri, Len, Garcia, Mahrez, Zin, Jesus, Stones etc step up in the big battle games when the pressure is on to win the six pointers ??

Last night was almost like a training session, 12 games a year are like a war and I’m not completely convinced that we have the warriors !!

 

[TheCentralScrutinizer]

Last nights match endorses this view.

Will Rodri, Len, Garcia, Mahrez, Zin, Jesus, Stones etc step up in the big battle games when the pressure is on to win the six pointers ??

Last night was almost like a training session, 12 games a year are like a war and I’m not completely convinced that we have the warriors !!

Winning the last 14 games on the bounce in a treble winning season tells me different...jesus christ...

 

[hilts]

Winning the last 14 games on the bounce in a treble winning season tells me different...jesus christ...

That’s why a word like stagnation is much better than shit for instance. A creeping sense of stagnation from the players, the style of play and even some supporters. Maybe a few changes and fingers crossed fans in ground may add a bit of impetus.

 

[Brendan110_0]

I just don't get how a team like ours who have won countless trophies approaches such an important game with this mentality. It isn't the first time this season though which is why we have lost nine league games. At times we have meandered through games thinking we are so good we will just win. Football is unforgiving and if you go into a game half baked you will suffer. Pep will know the culprits and root them out at the end of the season.

We need a dressing room leader, DeBruyne isn't it, not sure who is (Dave? but he's leaving). If we didn't have Kompany for that 2019 run in we'd have finished 2nd.

 

[paulchapo]

We need a dressing room leader, DeBruyne isn't it, not sure who is (Dave? but he's leaving). If we didn't have Kompany for that 2019 run in we'd have finished 2nd.

I agree Kompany was our rock on and off the pitch.

 

[Blue Feather]

One of those games where we continually tried the same thing and it didn't work. Pep is magic but he should have changed it, Raz to the right for a spell, double up on the left where Mendy had a lot of space but no support. Foden should have been given a free reign inside to run and probe and generally we should have upped the tempo and at least looked for 'give and go's' to get behind them more. Jesus on his own against a wall of defenders and trying to feed on lobbed crosses that even the Arse defenders could deal with...... I said that we'll have all the possession and they'll just boot it forward and score......oh well, roll on Real Madrid :)

 

[mccity]

That’s why a word like stagnation is much better than shit for instance. A creeping sense of stagnation from the players, the style of play and even some supporters. Maybe a few changes and fingers crossed fans in ground may add a bit of impetus.

Yeah I think a post 16/17 style reinvigoration is what's needed.

 

[salfordbluetrue]

Always like to let the rage die down before i post:) i think this game was a lot like the Bournemouth game wrong team and intellectually slow, but that is not the biggest worry for me, Pep is starting to get an awful record against his mates or people he praises, and with Leeds coming up it is a habit he is going to have to drop.