Arsenal post match thread

[blueincy]

Love Yaya but the space in front of the back 4 is a big reason for our struggles.....and add that to the fact that Mangala is STILL making errors......we just making life too easy for these teams....We have no leaders and no fight, no hunger......this is really poor. Yaya just cant play a full 90 minutes anymore and Arsenal attacking players were just going past him as if he wasnt there for most of this game....and then when Mangala has no protection in front of him and is put under pressure, thats when the mistakes happen........Everyone knows Arsenal are quick in midfield and becuase of this, I feel Pelle got it wrong again......Playing Delph out wide on the left was not the right move for this game...We need quicker players with lots of energy in the middle and no matter how much we love Yaya, he just cant offer that anymore......another poor display which is becoming the norm this season.....

I Just read that and all got was Yaya bla bla bla bla Yaya bla bla bla Yaya Yaya bla bla!!Yeah right you love him..
So he's the reason we lost tonight? FFS when he's out injured everyone wants him back the poor fucker can't win. By the way Delph was shit tonight giving the ball away and losing it to many times give a fuck were he was played he was worse than Yaya yet you make excuses for him who do you really love...

 

[Marvin]

Not stale, but he's second guessed himself too much this season. Too many half and half team selections. Should've played KDB/Silva/Navas behind Raheem with Toure and Dinho in a midfield two.

It's all gonna be moot come the summer, but it's disappointing that he's going out trying to compromise for the sake of results.

I am not sure we have the team to attack them. There's no forward for a start. Bony is good if you play to his strengths, we don't.

 

[Cityfan]

We have certainly played poorly at times this season but I didn't think tonight was one of those times. We weren't at our best but against a good team at home playing about as well as they can we were a bit unlucky not to get a draw.

 

[stablemcfc]

I watch every city game to begin with, and the first 30 minutes were the best city have played for many a game yes. Other than this it was piss poor througout. Yaya scored from literally a punt at a half chance...same could be said of walcott but the 2nd? no.

It was men against boys in that they knew exactly what they needed to do, got 2 gaols, then sat back and defended with relative ease. They went with a clear plan, implemented it and watched city do next to nothing for the rest of the game. 20 chances on goal and how many were really good chances? I would only agree you were unlucky had the DeBruyne chance been more clear cut before they scored their first, but it ended up only a half chance as they covered the angles well on the backfoot.

If you think that game was unlucky then good for you lad, but anyone who watched without the handycap of bias will tell you otherwise. I like city, but honestly that was poor overall. At least Pellegrini, or hopefully Ancelotti in a temporary role, can work with what they did the first 30 minutes.

Training clearly needs to be overhauled...But manuel may aswell be in a faulty towers remake for his next role.

You clearly keep misreading what I'm putting. I'm not saying the result was because of bad luck, in fact I quite literally stated that our manager was at fault for the loss IMO, maybe you missed that? Don't feel the need to repeat which aspects I called "unlucky" or what I meant by putting quotation marks, I've already done that & it's there for you to read.

Piss poor throughout after first 30 minutes? Last 20 Yaya ran riot, not sure what the first 70 was about. Defended with relative ease? We almost nicked a point 2-3 times at the end, they were poor at closing up shop.

Don't get me wrong I'm not saying we look like world beaters, but if you think we were shite and Arsenal were great then I feel we watched different matches, tactically we were set up wrong and were clearly losers in those stakes, but as for performance on the pitch, it was 10 fold better than what I expected after watching recent matches and far from dismal when you compare that performance to Stoke, Liverpool or Swansea. As for Arsenal, I expected way more, they could & should have done more damage against a horribly out of form & shambolic defence - they got the result so they'll be happy, but they didn't play well. Men against boys is nonsense when you're using it to say they were tactically better than us, unless you're saying Wenger vs Pellegrini was men against boys - in which case I'd be closer to your opinion.

I won't accept the bias comment though, if we're shite I say we're shite, if people blame the refs or say there's an agenda I say bullshit, when there are threads saying everyone is against us I call them out & point out that we get our own share of luck too. I absolutely have no problem calling us out or giving praise to opposition, I just don't think that was the case at all today.

 

[RichardDunneOwnGoal]

Delph should cop just as much blame as Mangala for their second goal.

All he had to do was play the easy parallel pass to Fernandinho who was open in acres of space, play it to his feet, or just in front of him, and he's carrying the ball through the heart of midfield and we're hitting Arsenal on the break.

Instead, he takes a shit first touch, panics from a bit of Arsenal pressure and plays it back to an under pressure Mangala, who then tries to pick out the pass Delph should've but from a much tighter angle, and executes it shockingly.

Just fucking dogshit from the pair of them.

Stupid fucking errors cost us the game.

Delph doesn't belong at this level at all. Covered ground well, and that was it. All he's good for. Not good enough.

And fucking hell, Mangala, really losing patience now. Has shown his ability in patches, but doesn't look at all like improving and becoming a reliable performer each week. Total liability at present.

 

[oneclubfrommanchester]

Why do we imediattley blame MP when we lose a match. What bollox. The players put out tonight were well capable of at least a draw and also a win. City were unlucky tonight not to get a point. We need to wake up and realise that no team will dominate the PL this season. City have never had a run with their 1st choice players but still remain up there without their best team out. City can win a title against all the odds as they have proved. Ffs we have half the season to go........Can Leicester remain at the top for that long - NO way can they fuck. Arsenal will fall away they were nothing special tonight against an average City team. Its in our own hands. If we can get our strongest side out for a good period of time we will rock this and do it the City way.

 

[BillyShears]

Can we recall Denayer? Is he playing as bad as Mangala?

The combination play of sending Denayer out on loan and signing Mangala/keeping MDM this summer is such a big black mark against Txiki's name. If he didn't have Pep in the bag I'd consider slagging him off! ;)

 

[Barcon]

We have certainly played poorly at times this season but I didn't think tonight was one of those times. We weren't at our best but against a good team at home playing about as well as they can we were a bit unlucky not to get a draw.

I think you and I watched a different game mate.

 

[Danamy]

Energy....energy....energy, where has it gone?

 

[abellwillring]

Thought we were unlucky to not get a penalty decision. Marriner kept his cards in his pocket for the most part which benefited City but I also thought he let Arsenal off on a lot of fouls. The penalties weren't necessarily clear decisions, but there were fouls outside the box I was shocked he didn't give.

Just saw the stats and Arsenal were only called for 5 fouls which really underpins this point.