Arsenal Post Match Thread.

[swblue64]

Summer requirements,

1 x Keeper, 2 x full backs, 2 x right backs, 2 x centre backs, 1 x holding midfielder.
Players out = Bravo, Cliche, Kolorov, Ota, Sagna, Zabba = (sadlly), Navas, Fernando.

 

[Blue Llama]

I don't understand how an otherwise brilliant manager can be so awful when making substitutions.

He probably expected Yaya to show some interest in playing.

 

[nellyonthewing]

The ball was in the air for ages and he moved his arm out to knock it away, it couldn't be any more stonewall. As for the rest of that, it is utterly irrelevant to whether we should actually get refereeing decisions. You don't have to batter every team to beat them, you just have to score more than them and we should have done that if the referee gives us that penalty. Our chances also would have been a lot better had he sent off Walcott for going over the ball in the first half with a leg breaker, or if Xhaka had got a second yellow for lunging in like a lunatic on Yaya, or if Coquelin had got his second yellow for the blatant cynical stop on De Bruyne.

... and if my auntie had balls she'd be my uncle

 

[ballinio]

Well it was a pretty good game. Thought Stones was very good, brilliant finishes Agüero and Sané and what an assist from my motm KDB. Defence again not the best on either goal. We started amazingly and in comparison it was quite flat in the 2nd half. But we created towards the end and we should've had a penalty so we did all we could.

Nice try

 

[super_city_si]

I hope Pep sits de bruyne down and gives him a fucking proper bollocking. None of this arm round the shoulder shit. Not being in form can't really be helped, but being half arsed can. His ball for sane was sublime. Very few players can pull that off. His application from that moment on was shocking. He is responsible for their second goal. Needs a big fucking boot up the arse.

 

[MeatHunterrr]

The manager has to take some blame for the attitude. He's already written off any challenge and
it's the system and the way we play, that seems more important than actual results.
He keeps saying that he's so so happy with his players, surely he can't be THAT happy.
Saying that, there's not a lot he can do until the transfer window opens.

Well he is not going to say "my players are not good enough and will be shipped out in the summer" when we have top 4 place at stake. Guardiola requested 10 new players when he met Khaldoon in June. So he knows what is required.

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

Run into the ground probably. He was poor again. Not sure anyone played well. Maybe Stones.

How bad were Arsenal on a day when City were rubbish we still dominated the game?

I'd have taken a point before the game but now it feels like a defeat

Would have taken the point before start but it was apparent Arse were there for the taking once game started

 

[Josh_D]

I don't understand how an otherwise brilliant manager can be so awful when making substitutions.

Looking at the bench, who realistically can change a game for City? That's the question. Players will be shipped probably. Hopefully. As players with winning mentality needed.

 

[hgblue]

Couldn't defend a packet of rolos from a 3 year old. Fucking sick of it now. We're wasteful in front of goal and keep handing goals to the opposition. Clichy at left back, Otamendi at centre back and Navas at right back is a damning indictment of our DOF. This must be sorted in the summer so we can start to defend like a professional football team again.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Don't do enough in these games to win it.
Not enough belief desire or application.
Poor result