Ffs Tennis!!!…… here’s another Tennis analogy….’out’Ps if we won with 6 changes with you guys playing Haaland and Kdb on your patch it would have been a big defeat absolutely. No hypocrisy just logic. To borrow a tennis analogy you are big server on a fast surface, it is only news if you don’t hold serve. So i guess congratulations on not dropping serve
Listening to their fans last night, I thought the "Arse" part in their club name was appropriate, as a lot of their fans are so far stuck up their own.
Can't recall anyone singing"you've got no history" to us before. What did they actually mean when ours goes further back than theirs.
Stop chatting shit Tarquin.There is nothing in that FA Cup game that will indicate how the league matches will go.
We lacked our usual intensity and energy. We will be more electric in the league and more intense with our fast and hard start.
The dynamic will be entirely different.
Your wrong , its teams that play worse away from home , but we aren ot one of them , we have the best away record in the Premier league by a country mile over the last five seasons , and lets face it the Emirates is hardly a frightening place to visit. Your shandy drinking , prawn sandwich eating fans can barely bother to turn up for games , never mind create an atmospehere.You do know like most teams we play a lot better at home. Do you guys play better on the road because first half you were outplayed. Haaland was contained. You created little to nothing but a couple chances. To me those are positives in a loss
This all day long.Stop chatting shit Tarquin.
Almost 8000 of your giddy, entitled fans turned up at our place last night giving it the big one thinking they were going to win.
A 400 mile trip for a night game to watch a match you're "not bothered " about in January for a set of fans who couldn't be bothered turning up for a home league match against us because it was too cold a few years back 3 days after bring dicked by us in a cup final is some turnaround.
Anyone else would be labelled as fickle glory hunters.
If you would have won, you would have been on here saying you've put a marker down/ got into out heads/drawn first blood etc.but you didn't so deal with it.
You deservedly lost so the narrative changes 360 degrees backed up by bullshit from your media shills claiming it was a "second string" team despite the fact our staring 11 was missing as many "first teamers" as your lot based on a perceived "best 11".
Funnily enough your "big guns" came on to face (based on the narrative that our "best 11" started) our "second string" ( who replaced our "strongest 11" based on the narrative set by your shills) and couldn't manage a single shot.
I note you joined late 2022 when your entitled club were top of the league and continue to come on here spouting shit despite bring called out numerous times for spouting factually inaccurate bollocks.
Your lot whinge about lack of squad depth despite outspending us for the last 5 years so if this is the case you've only got yourselves to blame.
Re Haarland - not quite like watching Alex Harley chasing long balls from Matt Gray but not unlike watching Derek Kevan chasing balls from Jimmy Murray. Then with Ortaga making Trautmannesque dives at forwards‘ feet it was quite like days of yore.5 things I'm taking away from tonight.
1. Long balls to Haaland work.
So nearly led to a goal, Rob Holding couldn't cope all night, had tons of help from Paul (Fucking) Tierney and still ended up booked and taken off at half time. This has to be part of our game plan. Haaland seemed to enjoy the battle.
2. Ake is Ace.
Great finish, kept a massively in-form Saka completely anonymous. I like Cancelo for his attacking strength but Ake is the best defensive left back we have by a country mile.
3. Gundogan + De Bruyne + Rodri = Too Slow.
I hate to say it cos I love Gundo, but in difficult games we need pace in midfield and you ain't dropping Rodders or Kev.
4. We need to keep Bernardo Silva.
Please ... whatever it takes ... get him an "ILovePortugal" T-Shirt ... buy his Mrs a dildo the size of Belgium to keep her happy ... do anything to get him to sign a new deal. If the effort and ability that Bernardo put in tonight is him on wind-down then God Help the opposition if he's ever motivated. I love this guy and I think we'll only realise how good he is when we don't have him anymore.
5. Arsenal are the real deal but we can still do this!
That was a fucking hard game. Space was at a premium and it was a constant struggle to get through their press. They have skill and strength and that wasn't even their first eleven. Having said that, their main threat is Saka and he was in Ake's back pocket throughout. In fact Ake got so bored he had to score a goal to Iiven himself up. They also visibly tired on 70 minutes and even with subs + chasing-the-game they were unable to get the ball off us by the end. We will need to be 90-100% perfect to win both league games against them but Pep will have learnt loads from tonight and we definitely gained a psychological advantage. As well as a step closer to another FA Cup :)
Note to Self : Don't start writing lists at 1:30am