Arsenal post match thread

nickafc said:
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
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Non taken, he is a massive donkey. And to think some of our fans thought Boeteng, Savic and Nastasic were shit.
 
nickafc said:
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
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Haha! Well said on tonight's performance.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:

I've taken an interest in this over the last season and a half and I think we are not getting a fair crack when it comes to free kicks and cards. We seem to kop for every challenge that goes in and refs seem to look upon it as a foul, and we get the straight yellow where I've seen some opposition players time and again get the talking to!
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So true! Only 5 fouls committed by them when we had 63% of possession is a joke, Marriner was absolutely wank.
 
VOOMER said:
WTF? we should have been 2-0 before they scored. We have a bang average manager. We should have started with Sterling instead of Sergio and possibly Navas than KDB. This could get a whole lot worse.
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What part was wrong?

Yes it could have been 2-0 but we didn't take those two chances and capitulated again. The only time we look interested after that to test Cech was 75 minutes onwards. No urgency whatsoever. Hart made 3 good stops at 2-0 and they put two sitters over the bar.
 
blue b4 the moon said:
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.
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Look I'm not trying to make excuses but it was not an 'easy' pass to Silva.
Had KDB scored the game changes on it's head.
The margin between winning and losing can hinge on one moment and that was Mangala, Arsenal were not that brilliant and we could easily have got a draw.
 
Proy said:
We will not be winning the title this year. Too many of our better players injured and a mixture of other things will see to that.

I think we are looking now at not losing again this season to have any chance and as we stand now, I think I'd have more chance of me crossing the M60 blindfolded and making it to the other side in one piece.

Very disappointed right now. This team has so much talent but for a multitude of reasons it's just not happening ATM
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Do not do it
 
nickafc said:
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
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No offence taken , Mangala isnt very good , and unfortunately never will be , thought your defenders did well, and coped with all the pressure , it was a good game of football , not sure if that was Arsenal at their best , if it was , i dont think you will win the title , but hard to say with Sancez absent , he will make a massive difference.
 
blue b4 the moon said:
Give over man.
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Pep is "The" man. He will have 100% backing. Unlike Mancini, his word will be final. Unlike Pellegrini he won't be a gate keeper. The world's very best will want to play for him. How will he deal with a club captain who choses a meaningless friendly against the advice of the club who pays him, or a keeper who regularly skips training?
 
nickafc said:
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
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You're absolutely spot on..... We didn't deserve to lose

Don't get too excited, your boys will do what they always do and bottle it when it comes to the crunch
 
BlueTG said:
What part was wrong?

Yes it could have been 2-0 but we didn't take those two chances and capitulated again. The only time we look interested after that to test Cech was 75 minutes onwards. No urgency whatsoever. Hart made 3 good stops at 2-0 and they put two sitters over the bar.
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Yes but we also had some good chances in that second half.
OK the Navas one WTF?
I'm normally critical after a defeat but in this case I think we were mainly undone by missing a good chance on 30 mins, a wonder strike straight afterwards by Walcott and then the Mangala party piece.
 
You are still favs for the title and if kompany had been playing instead of mangala you would have got minimum a draw. We didn't really play well either.. Anyway I am going to depart and wish you all the best for the season... Your still the best team in the league so chin up and have a good Christmas
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Thought we played ok and deserved a point.
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We did I agree, and no doubt that everyone is blaming the defence for losing, but we used 6 attacking players tonight, and there wasn't a decent one amongst them, and they are the ones to blame for not getting at least a point. We used two fresh players second half who contributed f*ck all, and one who should have scored but is scared to shoot when through on goal.

The after match stats (which count for f*ck all if you can't score) had us better on virtually every one, and even Walcott said they were pretty much dead on their feet at the end, suffering from cramps etc, so basiclly they worked harder than we did, because I didn't see any of ours running on empty in the last 15 minutes.

MP saying we fought to the end is all fine and well, but we need to start fighting long before the last 20 minutes, and we didn't play badly overall, but we simply don't work hard enough as a team, had we done that tonight, we'd have at worst drawn the game, and with better finishing, won it.

PG won't stand for some of these players under performing, defence or attack.
 
BlueTG said:
What part was wrong?

Yes it could have been 2-0 but we didn't take those two chances and capitulated again. The only time we look interested after that to test Cech was 75 minutes onwards. No urgency whatsoever. Hart made 3 good stops at 2-0 and they put two sitters over the bar.
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You didn't I was exasperated as you!
 
How did we lose that? The defence were magnificent! Especially Mangala. What a unfortunate turn of events: them attacking us like that. I think twice in the whole of the first half and we concede two goals. Magnificent defence. Just too much of a gap between the magnificent Mangala and illustrious other one with the beard. They looked great tonight. Not defending wise but I liked the tram line effect in the other ones hair style. Really something to behold that.
 
cleavers said:
We did I agree, and no doubt that everyone is blaming the defence for losing, but we used 6 attacking players tonight, and there wasn't a decent one amongst them, and they are the ones to blame for not getting at least a point. We used two fresh players second half who contributed f*ck all, and one who should have scored but is scared to shoot when through on goal.

The after match stats (which count for f*ck all if you can't score) had us better on virtually every one, and even Walcott said they were pretty much dead on their feet at the end, suffering from cramps etc, so basiclly they worked harder than we did, because I didn't see any of ours running on empty in the last 15 minutes.

MP saying we fought to the end is all fine and well, but we need to start fighting long before the last 20 minutes, and we didn't play badly overall, but we simply don't work hard enough as a team, had we done that tonight, we'd have at worst drawn the game, and with better finishing, won it.

PG won't stand for some of these players under performing, defence or attack.
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The paucity of our attacking play. The lack of quality from our so called top players is getting seriously over looked !
 
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