Arsenal FA Cup SF Post-Match Thread

[balotelli's back pocket]

What a time for every single one of our players to drop a stinker.

Defenders all made bad errors, walker for the first, mendy for the second. Aymeric and Ederson made even worse clangers in the first half too, they were just lucky not to be punished.

Never looked like scoring. Midfield and attack lacked energy, imagination, and most importantly quality. De Bruyne had one moment of magic but aside from that played terribly. Sterling looked the most dangerous but lacked any quality in the final third, although I think he should have had a pen.

Arteta set his team up perfectly but let's be honest, if just one or two of our attacking options turned up today they wouldn't have been able to deal with us.

What a shame.

 

[Shaelumstash]

Garbage. No pace, no intensity.

The fact we’ve essentially replaced Sané with fucking Mahrez is a fucking disgrace.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Rags would have wiped the floor with us so may be a blessing in disguise.
I don't care about champions league so onto next season.

 

[kdbrise]

Staying up till 2am for that shite.

 

[Kokonut1307]

Poor performance from all the players bar Sterling and Garcia. Laporte and Kevin absent from the pitch. David is past it. Mahrez still hasn’t shown up for big games. Walker decided to forget he is supposed to cover Aubameyang. Mendy had a decent game with delivering good balls for someone absolutely useless and clueless...Gaby is just not good enough.

 

[come-on-barney]

Pep's face at the end said it all.

Yeah that was a poor team selection

 

[ID70]

Only having 2 strikers has finally caught up with us this season

 

[BlueRockape]

We went out there arrogant and got our areses handed to us.
Worst game I have seen for a while....
Hate arogance

 

[gorton guvnor]

Wasteful upfront no legs in midfield and can’t defend to save our lives. Rinse and repeat story of this season

 

[Ban-jani]

Awful by Pep.

We need a huge clear out.

Sterling and KDB were horrific.

Jesus, what’s the point in him?

Mendy played well.

Midfield none existent.

Why won’t he play Foden in CAM?

 

[Segga]

Not was fucking shite

We’ve been sussed...keep a narrow shape and let us have it out wide and whip in crosses for our 5 foot 7 forwards all game

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

We all know any decent team in Europe can easily see the template to beat us from that and other defeats this season.

All seem to be carbon copies.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

16 shots to 4
1 on target to 4

 

[City & Blue Brazil]

As bad a performance as you will see.

Onto the CL.

No chance in CL with our day dreaming full backs

 

[Semper aggressus]

I'm so fucking angry. Such a winnable game, we fucking beat these 3-0 twice this season. A good chance of a trophy fucking thrown away by a shit performance.

We need more energy, more drive. And a proper centre back partner for Laporte. And a better midfielder than Gundogan.

Really fucked off tonight. Fucking shit.

 

[ShaunMCFC]

We need a new striker as well as defenders, as without Aguero in big games we're fucked.

That's a major concern, over reliance on certain players and Aguero is one. When he's gone for good I'm gonna miss him so much, he can make something happen out of nothing

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

After all our defeats this season we need to admit that a few of our players just aren't good enough for the level the club strives for.

A huge transfer window coming up.

 

[baggy]

Imagine ploughing out of wembley and making it home after watching that shite. Every cloud...

 

[Saddleworth2]

That was our best team and we were wank and outplayed. Some senior players need to have a look at themselves in the mirror. So does Pep. A great deal of thinking needs to happen before Madrid.

 

[Gordyola]

Pep got it wrong again playing the slow slow slow option that hasn’t worked so many times Kev wasn’t good until his mate Phil came on and injected energy Don’t take this wrong but anyone suggesting that David should stay another year are dum luckily David himself know the truth. With regards to Arsenal standard tactics when playing a team far superior to your own back the box low block and hope your striker does his job with a couple of chances well drilled yep but that’s not difficult

 

[Beanhead]

Best thing can could have happened.

We need a big big summer.

Totally.. the spine of our successful past decade is now done and we have lost one of the best wingers in the world. We need to have our biggest summer ever in terms of recruitment.