taleofbluehalves
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We got what I expected. Nothing. Can't keep a clean sheet.
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Arsenal post match thread
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Don't know if its just me, but I think you have some neck coming on here and posting the way you do. Happy to see other fans on here but there is something about your posting style/content that just doesn't sit right with me.
I don't post here to only wax lyrical when you are doing well, its a bloody football discussio forum, where opinions count...i want the club to be the stronger side of the top 4, end of. If any of that doesn't sit well with you then feel free to chew your bottom lip mate, because frankly speaking, who the hell are you i should give a shit?
City were crap the other night, arsenal were the better team, if that is an opinion not shared...then i respect your wrong opinion. Hope that sits right.
Happy Christmas.
City have won the league twice in the last 4 years, they rightly start as favourites for the title every season. Their squad is worth hundreds of millions.
We haven't seriously challenged for the title since 2005.
Its a big scalp alright, city have these title favourites clashes every season for the last 5, this is our first for a decade. I like our team, but we have a long way to go before we can see city as just another 3 points. That was a huge game for us against on paper a better team. Look at their bench, Sterling Navas Bony. We had Gibbs Ox iwobi and Maitland. They have the most talented squad in the country and player for player are they that far behind Bayern, I'm not sure. They can still operate in a transfer market that we can't reach so it's not in any way disparaging to our team to say they are better than us.
Not disputing those things as stand alone facts. My point was your almost purposely trying to make us sound like some plucky small team when comparing to city. For example 'look at their bench sterling navas bony'. Really??? That bench is hardly a show of strength. Also, our bench is poor due to the number of injuries we have. City had 3 first team players out kompany and nasri and i think one otherr? We had sanchez wilshere coquelin cazorla rosicky welbeck out.
Regarding squad worth, yes theirs is worth 100's of millions, but so is ours? remember worth isn't what you paid for a player, its what that player would sell for now which. Therefore our squad is also worth 100's of millions, so that is no excuse for whatever point you're trying to make.
Are they that far behind bayern? Yes they are, almost all over the pitch. That is no disgrace either, every team on the planet apart from barca are. The only team you could say are maybe not far behind is madrid. Certainly not city or arsenal or anyone else.
Transfer marker? Again i don't agree. As proved recently, we can more then easily splash the cash when needed. We offered £50m for suarez in the end. City's most expensive player is KDB, who did not cost that much more then our most expensive player. Im sure with the exception of a few players, we could afford pretty much any player we want, if we really wanted him.
Possible, and by no means were you hammered or anything (however you could have been as we really should have scored from those 2 other chances), however i think the thing id be most disappointed with if i was a city fan is the lack of passion/desire/work rate from almost all the city players. Again, I'm not sitting on my high horse, I've seen the same from arsenal many times however this season and most of last season we seem to have got rid of that bad attitude.
I respect your view, but it's rather rose-tinted. yes you could have scored a couple more, but equally if deBruyne buries that shot just before you scored, then it's a completely different game and you are under major pressure. 63-37% possession and 20 shots to 8 does suggest one team dominated the game - but it wasn't you. Anyway, at the end of the day you won and well done and you are rightly title favourites. But we are not even halfway through and you still need to come to the Etihad, so it's still very open.
Not disputing those things as stand alone facts. My point was your almost purposely trying to make us sound like some plucky small team when comparing to city. For example 'look at their bench sterling navas bony'. Really??? That bench is hardly a show of strength. Also, our bench is poor due to the number of injuries we have. City had 3 first team players out kompany and nasri and i think one otherr? We had sanchez wilshere coquelin cazorla rosicky welbeck out.
Regarding squad worth, yes theirs is worth 100's of millions, but so is ours? remember worth isn't what you paid for a player, its what that player would sell for now which. Therefore our squad is also worth 100's of millions, so that is no excuse for whatever point you're trying to make.
Are they that far behind bayern? Yes they are, almost all over the pitch. That is no disgrace either, every team on the planet apart from barca are. The only team you could say are maybe not far behind is madrid. Certainly not city or arsenal or anyone else.
Transfer marker? Again i don't agree. As proved recently, we can more then easily splash the cash when needed. We offered £50m for suarez in the end. City's most expensive player is KDB, who did not cost that much more then our most expensive player. Im sure with the exception of a few players, we could afford pretty much any player we want, if we really wanted him.
Zabaleta has been out all season which is a major miss and Aguero and Silva have just recovered from injury, and are trying to discover some form. So injury wise, both teams were depleted.
Prestwich_Blue
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Interesting analysis of the game on the Zonal Marking site:
http://www.zonalmarking.net/2015/12...ster-city-ozil-assists-put-arsenal-in-charge/
http://www.zonalmarking.net/2015/12...ster-city-ozil-assists-put-arsenal-in-charge/
I respect your view, but it's rather rose-tinted. yes you could have scored a couple more, but equally if deBruyne buries that shot just before you scored, then it's a completely different game and you are under major pressure. 63-37% possession and 20 shots to 8 does suggest one team dominated the game - but it wasn't you. Anyway, at the end of the day you won and well done and you are rightly title favourites. But we are not even halfway through and you still need to come to the Etihad, so it's still very open.
You had very few clear cut chances, i think on target shots was quite even at around 5/6 each. Out of those, apart from navas the rest weren't really easy or clear cut chances whereas we had at least 2 very clear cut chances. I think apart from the last 10 mins when you put us under real pressure, which is to be expected, i wouldn't have said you dominated, neither team did. But yes certainly not getting carried away, its way too early, however this is not our usual blip of good form like it may have been in the past. We have been by far the most consistent team in 2015, and won the most amount of points by a margin. We also have some major players to come back after dec.
The slaughtered lamb
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Don't know if its just me, but I think you have some neck coming on here and posting the way you do. Happy to see other fans on here but there is something about your posting style/content that just doesn't sit right with me.
Spot on blue.
Last couple of pages I've counted a Stoke fan, a Bayern fan, a couple of Gooners (they do like a gloat) and no doubt the odd rag or two thrown in for good measure. Don't know what they get from spending so much time posting thinly veiled bile on rival forums.
kaz7
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I have taken a warning for the idiot stoke fan,he is on every match thread teling us what we should be doing,does my nut inSpot on blue.
Last couple of pages I've counted a Stoke fan, a Bayern fan, a couple of Gooners (they do like a gloat) and no doubt the odd rag or two thrown in for good measure. Don't know what they get from spending so much time posting thinly veiled bile on rival forums.
If you think Arse were the better side please explain why their support were shitting it almost all the match - they knew something you don't and that is arse were not the better side.I don't post here to only wax lyrical when you are doing well, its a bloody football discussio forum, where opinions count...i want the club to be the stronger side of the top 4, end of. If any of that doesn't sit well with you then feel free to chew your bottom lip mate, because frankly speaking, who the hell are you i should give a shit?
City were crap the other night, arsenal were the better team, if that is an opinion not shared...then i respect your wrong opinion. Hope that sits right.
Happy Christmas.
We dominated the game - take a look at the stats
we missed two golden opportunities ( one in each half) to score and a penalty not given-it is true if you don' take the chances you don't win and win we should have.
it was plainly obvious who was the stronger side to all who watched so ffs give your head a wobble - the league is never won at Christmas whatever the shitehawks who call themselves 'experts' might have you believe.
COME ON CITY SILENCE THOSE DOUBTERS
and a merry christmas to all my readers!