Arsenal Post Match Thread.

Stretford Born Blue said:
Same old errors and inability to put games to bed, and or defend a winning position.
6 or 7 of this team won't get a sniff next season, they don't have the ability, legs or football brain to apply Peps magic. It fuckin frustrates the shice out of me to watch a simple game get fucked up by idiots who can't make a simple pass and move, make space for themselves, and cross a ball with some accuracy and intent.
Second half was abysmal, Arsenal were there for the taking, and we don't take the game to them.
Chelsea won't lose two on the trot ffs, at least I doubt they will, unless the entertaining, exciting, energetic and ruthless City turn up.
Got to finish in the top 4 this season, have a clear out and rebuild where necessary over the summer, and get to it next August.
It's been a steep learning curve for Pep in the Premiership, and the team to be honest, but he plays a simple game, keep the ball, pass and move, attack, score more than the opposition, and win the ball back sharpish like. Problem is, the players can't do it consistently throughout a game, let alone from match to match.
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A pressing game with players who can't or won't press was never going to work and it so it has proved.
 
I'm not buying all this negativity about the performance today. It's incredibly small margins at this level, and the Arse on their game could have destroyed us. We limited them to a few chances, and had more than a few chances ourselves, and could have easily beaten them by 3.

I also think the notion that bad decisions by the match officials even themselves out over the course of the season is (in our case this season) absolute bollocks. The likelihood is that if the various penalties, sending's off, bookings, offside goals (for and against) and other crap decisions had gone our way we would be a lot closer to the top of the table, if not top.

I really don't know what people expect of Pep; he's not the Messiah. He's a very good manager who basically inherited Pelegrini's team, and along with a few of additions of his own, 2 of which are long term injured has had a good first season (hopefully finishing in the top 4 with an FA Cup win) in an incredibly difficult league. With Gundogan and Jesus in the same team as Silva and Aguero, and a solid back 3 or 4 we would be absolutely unplayable. With the lack of a fixed unit at the back with a real leader (Kompany), we have been leaking goals.

Next season though...........

Now back to the Gin.
 
@Metalartin The list goes on decisions decisions decisions pens offsides week in week out:(


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Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
With our defence there are no assumptions that can be made.
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True but I don't see us losing it, might not have been 3 points agreed, it was going like the West Ham game though I felt(if I remember right it was the game before we trounced them 5-0 but it took a while for our possession to show before the floodgates opened after the first goal went in) the chances weren't going in and we collapsed mentally in that second half there's no better way to describe that IMO.
 
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Arsenal were shit and there for the taking, we were shit and couldn't do it, game was awful.

Pleading for red cards and penalties just papers over the cracks.

Roll on the summer this season has been just as bad as the last one, but at least we managed a trophy then.

Never win a thing when you have the record we have against the top six, no leaders, no fight, no bottle.
 
chaddblue said:
Our track record of signing defenders with Pep as manager ain't bad though... hopefully will continue
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We have only signed Stones so far and whereas he has been nothing like as bad as some critics would have you believe, he is still very much a work in progress.
 
Can we all agree that Clichy is past it and has cost us time and time again this season?
 
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