Arsenal post match thread

I think we tend to rely on individuals to come up with the individual magic. Sergio, KdB, Silva, Sterling can all pull out the sort of stuff that Walcott did tonight, but the Arse, like other teams, don't rely on individuals. It's a team game and we don't operate as a unit, and haven't done for some time. When yer see a starting eleven grinding out results against good teams then yer know they're pulling together.

I think Walcotts deciding goal was an individual effort , that won them the game , but agree reference the team ,we are desperately short of a leader like zabs or vinny .
 
What saddened me, in a strange sort of way, was when Navas was through. I actually knew he wouldn't shoot, couldn't quite believe in that split second, I tempted fate, but fuck me a guy on circa £100k per week, an international, playing on the wing for a top side is FUCKING FRIGHTENED of having a shot.

Unbelievable.
 
Is it Mancini all over again on that cup final day?

The players know Pelligrini us going.

Or is that a very, very , poor excuse by me?

Well their going to have a shock. If Pep comes I reckon that he will be looking at replacing Vinnie, Hart and Ser
What can you say?

Mangala, awful again poor passing, dreadful marking and the longball where it bounced over him, Sunday league stuff.

Navas, shits himself and tries to pass when he had a reasonably easy shot on goal available.

Yaya, plays for 10 mins, no matter what his stats show he makes Dunny look fast even now.

KDB, a simple pass to Silva and we're 1-0 up instead he trys to do it all himself and they score a minute later (shades of the Stoke game)

Silva & Kun not in the game but very little service and have some brownie points in the bank.

Sterling continues to play on his heels rather that the balls of his feet.

Overall, we perhaps were worth a 3-2 defeat, Arse not anything special and the ref yet again can only see one team and gives them everything. Did us out of about 90 seconds for the rolling around and timewasting but we shouldn't need that to get a result.

Do the players look like they're playing for Pelli/Pep? I guess even with half a season to go the biggest game is now Leicester, if we don't turn up we're fucked and with the emphasis of CL games we'll not catch up.


We deserved a win never mind a draw.
 
ONE problem lost us the game, Sagna/Otamendi/Fernandinho not having enough protection on that side of defence. As soon as they had 2 or more players in that area, Sagna was split with no support and we'd lost. Yaya should have been there but was miles away strolling around. Pellers won't replace him because he doesn't trust anyone else to get the ball from the defence and move it forwards. I can't say I disagree with that, we don't have an Alonso or Xavi, but he's a complete liability defensively and has been for a couple of seasons now, and without Kompany it is exposed even more.
 
Man city didn't deserve to lose over 90 mins, but we had a few clear cut chances and could have got four. Its your defence that shocked me the most I knew mangala was crap but not that crap... No offence meant
 
No point moaning. On to the next game. We will turn it around

Pellegrini said post match it was important that Aguero got some football, and we did at least fight back even if it was too late.
 
What saddened me, in a strange sort of way, was when Navas was through. I actually knew he wouldn't shoot, couldn't quite believe in that split second, I tempted fate, but fuck me a guy on circa £100k per week, an international, playing on the wing for a top side is FUCKING FRIGHTENED of having a shot.

Unbelievable.
Baffling how he even had anything in his mind other than scoring
 

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