Arsenal (H) | Post Match Thread

[SkyBlueCanuck]

I never get the feeling from this Arsenal side that they are, or even can be, the foil to us that Klopp's teams were.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Just goes to show the level of detail we play with. When you watch Stones’ goal, it looks like Ben White has had a mare with him being deeper than the rest of Arsenal’s defensive line, but then you have Stones here revealing that they’d worked in training on Bernardo running over the ball and then Akanji disrupting their defensive line to push a player back, creating space for the others in the centre to be free and onside. It looks on the face of it like we’d just profited from a lapse in concentration and that Stones should have read the line better and not gone too soon, but it’s actually all planned and executed to perfection. Stones intentionally stepped deeper than the line, trusting that Akanji would ruffle some feathers behind him. And he did.

 

[goalmole]

He doesn’t get the ball he gets then man, penalty all day long even all the pundits said it and they give us fuck all.

He clearly wasn't going for the ball.
He was trying to impede the player.
Clear penalty.

 

[stonerblue]

I still haven’t got over the fact we played 442 Tony Pulis long ball football and spanked them with it :) He was ahead of his time.

HOOF IT..

 

[iwasthere1968]

Partey put himself between the ball and DeBruyne.

You could be describing a trip there ie a foul

 

[TheThirdDeano]

It was obviously a penalty for fuck sake

 

[cyan]

Just goes to show the level of detail we play with. When you watch Stones’ goal, it looks like Ben White has had a mare with him being deeper than the rest of Arsenal’s defensive line, but then you have Stones here revealing that they’d worked in training on Bernardo running over the ball and then Akanji disrupting their defensive line to push a player back, creating space for the others in the centre to be free and onside. It looks on the face of it like we’d just profited from a lapse in concentration and that Stones should have read the line better and not gone too soon, but it’s actually all planned and executed to perfection. Stones intentionally stepped deeper than the line, trusting that Akanji would ruffle some feathers behind him. And he did.

It is interesting isn't it - caused me to go back and have another look. Actually Ben White does have a mare with it, as presumably he should have kept his nerve like the rest of Arsenal's defence did and let Akanji run past him - had he done so Stones was well offside, but City have gambled that at least one defender will drop with Akanji and create the opportunity. It's all about holding your nerve and trusting one another - White doesn't and that is the result.

 

[bluevengence]

The foody blue....

Can`t beat a bit of mutton

 

[SebastianBlue]

It was obviously a penalty for fuck sake

100%

That happens anywhere on the pitch and it is a foul every single time. I have been sent off in a U20 game for putting in a similar challenge (as last man in stoppage when we were drawing 2-2 in a tournament; we went on to win on penalties but lose the next game I couldn’t play in). If you are playing the man not the ball, as Partey obvious is, with only Kev actually playing the ball, it is always a foul and usually a yellow, as well.

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

110% a penalty. Partey clearly not playing the ball and taking KdB out.