Arsenal (H) - Post Game Thread

[Gray]

We are no where near as good as last season, but:

• 3rd in the Premier League
• In the FA Cup semi-final
• In the last 16 of the Chumps

So hardly a failure.

We just seem to have lost the art of scoring goals against packed defences and injuries/loss of form have badly effected us.

 

[ysmsa]

The drop off this season is alarming, so it’s not “nonsense” is it.

And there you have it.

This so called drop of hasn't allowed Dips or Arse to have a commanding lead, they aren't all that.

We've a 100% record in CL and FA cup, what's that another 12 wins or something we've had this season.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

We are no where near as good as last season, but:

• 3rd in the Premier League
• In the FA Cup semi-final
• In the last 16 of the Chumps

So hardly a failure.

We just seem to have lost the art of scoring goals against packed defences and injuries/loss of form have badly effected us.

True but dips and arse aren’t brilliant. At our peak we’d be wiping the floor with the league this season.

 

[Semper aggressus]

The drop off this season is alarming, so it’s not “nonsense” is it.

I agree, I think we’ve been disappointing by our recent standards this season. Injuries and a poor transfer window probably just too much to overcome after the efforts of winning everything last season. If we’d managed to sign Bellingham or Rice I think we’d be three or four points clear at the top now, but that’s just conjecture.

However, we are still in with a shout, just, if we don’t drop any more points, and if a couple of teams can do us the favour of actually taking points of the scouse twats.

Plenty of points to play for, but someone has to beat the scouse rats.

 

[South Stand Balti]

I'm also surprised at the media reaction, and the Arsenal reaction, to this massive point they gained yesterday. I'd prefer them to win it than the dippers, but all I watched yesterday was a team who showed why they have no chance of winning the league.....Arsenal are gutless.

 

[blue whippet]

Yeah. If we can't do it then Arsenal all the BLEEDING WAY

Yes, for me too. I have no love or arsenal at all, I don't like the antics off Arteta, I don't like their players as as they are constantly, constantly throwing their arms up appealing, endless moaning and I don't like their self righteous club. The thought of them winning anything is not appealing but it is infinitely preferable to liverpool winning anything.

 

[Semper aggressus]

Fucking Shearer did my head in last night describing Arsenals tactics and defending as brilliant.
Erm any fucker who parks the bus and constantly has eleven men behind the ball can thwart even the best of teams.
However he did say that he still believes that City will go on and win the PL.

Why do so few teams thwart Liverpool with that tactic? We seem easier to stop for some reason.

 

[blueparrot]

And there you have it.

This so called drop of hasn't allowed Dips or Arse to have a commanding lead, they aren't all that.

We've a 100% record in CL and FA cup, what's that another 12 wins or something we've had this season.

I don't think the drop off is as great as that, liverpool and especially arsenal are 2 very good teams that have improved from last season, even though a lot on here are reluctant to give other teams credit were it's due.
If I was to put i crudely we may have dropped off 5-10%, they have improved 5-10%, yet are still matching them and my win more than both of them. If we don't then we don't.

 

[KS55]

We are no where near as good as last season, but:

• 3rd in the Premier League
• In the FA Cup semi-final
• In the last 16 of the Chumps

So hardly a failure.

We just seem to have lost the art of scoring goals against packed defences and injuries/loss of form have badly effected us.

Yes. Perspective is always needed. Unfortunately the Arse are still in the CL, otherwise we would walk it.
We were always going to suffer Gundog’s loss and we have not really adequately replaced him and the others that left. They will try to put that right in the summer. I would like to see a winger with the pace and the courage to attack down the line and cross to Haaland. Judging by Pep’s gestures to Jack at the end, maybe those were the instructions. I have always felt that you must try to outflank a packed defence, thus turning them.

 

[OB1]

The way people overreact to any difficulties City have is painful to behold.

However, no one can deny that the team is not achieving the levels of last season or that the club did not help themselves with the transfer window last summer. This is a constant frustration for me in that we have frequently failed to go out after a successful season and have a transfer window that puts us even further ahead of the oppostion.

We’ve made some great buys in recent years, Grealish and Haaland being prime examples but neither resulted in major leaps forward. Mind you, bettering what we had last year is very difficult.

We lost some very good older players (Gundo / Riyad) in the summer and brought in some players of great potential (Gvardiol / Doku) but those younger players need time.

Last season’s exertions have I am sure taken a lot out of the players and injuries have made things harder. From here to the end of the season, it will very much about how much the players have left in the tank in the face of a daunting schedule. We could pay a price for chasing the three big ones into the business end of the season and trying to achieve the impossible.