Arsenal (H) - Post Game Thread

[ayia napa blues]

Arteta isn't a top level manager yet, but he is improving every season. Pretty sure he'll take the race to the wire against Liverpool this season.

He might well.take.the race to the wire but he's never getting over the line . Zero percent chance

 

[gabby69]

Poor today
We lacked idea's very predicable

 

[ninjamonkey]

Not good enough that. Having 4 of our starting back 4 and keeper out for three quarters of the game had me fearing the worst but the defence was the only good part of our performance.

Can't win games if you don't score and we can't score if we don't shoot. Created nothing from open play. Foden and kdb were anonymous. Grealish I forgot came on until I saw him slip in our box, doku running down blind alleys was the best it got from an attacking perspective.

Ref was a disgrace, 20 fouls arsenal committed today and not a single booking, that's got to be a record surely? Might not be any glaring mistakes but handing out the appropriate yellows to the many that deserved them, changes the game.

Realistically that's probably the title gone now, 3 points behind the dippers and inferior goal difference, even if we are perfect from now which I doubt, ypu just can't see the dippers slipping up twice.

With only Villa at home left to play. We've still failed to beat any of the top 4 this season. Hard to say we deserve the title when thats the case, its only the dippers and arsenal not being that good enough themselves that's kept us in the running.

 

[DallasMCBlue]

Selling Gundogan and Mahrez and not replacing them well has really hurt us when playing against the top side, zero wins against the top 5 says it all, we've gotten away with it against most of the other sides but it's a big issue.

This. We missed the production and leadership of these two and got nothing to replace them. Looking like letting Palmer go was another mistake.

 

[domalino]

If Arsenal fans are happy with that performance then they should rightly not care a jot what opposition fans think.

But in my opinion that was a very ordinary if disciplined performance against a team that is running out of steam. To not try and win the game is a bit pathetic after talking themselves up.

Nothing about Arsenal today suggested they are potential champions. But they could still win it.

Arsenal fans are happy because they’re closer to the title now than they were this morning.

Just like any fanbase would be.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

That’s massively harsh. Arsenal came to kill the game and did it successfully. It was totally on them that it was a bore fest

Reality is our team and bench looks massively weaker than last season.

Can't get ball to Haaland so we need players who can score by themselves. There's no Mahrez but I really don't understand why Bobb wasn't trusted to maybe get a goal here.

 

[discopop]

Maybe so, he scores a lot of goals, but imo we were a far better football team before he arrived. We've changed our game for the worse to accommodate him, and he plays like a stat padding donkey.
He'll be gone before long so we have to build around Rodri rather than Haaland.

Seriously you should have a look back at your post history one of these days and maybe just ask yourself why you are such a negative twat of a poster. It’s fucking unrelenting.

 

[TheBlueCat]

Not a bad point considering we’re miles off our best this season.
We certainly missed Eddie today, with that high press he’d have found space in behind.
We looked nervy playing out from the back.
We also need to play to Haaland’s strengths more.
Get crosses into the box and when we do the need to be better quality.
Play through balls for him to run onto.
David Silva would get so many assists with Haaland.
It’s either a treble falloff or because of the large change in important personnel, maybe both, but we ain’t at it this season.
I’m just glad we’re still in the running considering how poor we’ve been defensively this season compared to our usual high standards.
We’ll evolve again, we always do.
So I’m not too frustrated as we’re still there.

Great post

 

[BolinCell]

Very lack lustre performance today.

 

[BringBackSwales]

I'm not celebrating a point at all, I think we really needed the win. But like I say you were so good you pressed off the pitch.

As for yellows come on mate, this is English football, do you want every 50-50 to end up in a yellow? Your lot could of got a couple of yellows they didn't too.

I think allot of the frustration your angry about is because we defended really well, which we did. And City didn't create a good chance outside of that early corner, which on another day may have gone in

I said you defended well. But I am not talking about 50 50’s, you dodged 7 or 8 clear yellows. We dodged one clear one, Bernardo. And why the **** only allowed 2 and 5 mins injury time. For you at your place that was 5 and 11