Brentford (H) | Post-Match Thread

[BlueCityfan]

I don't have that feeling that this team is capable of going on a long winning run. This is a 85-90 point team at most. Let's see if that's going to be enough.

 

[Jack Hackett]

pep must have put a few million on arsenal winning the league

Well he did give us Zinchenko and Jesus…thanks, Pep!

 

[frankMX]

This but then i question the professionalism of the players to be so inadequate if they have one eye on the world cup

Kdb was a disgrace at the end

I think most of players who go to World Cup didn't put 100% effect consciously or unconsciously especially after the head injury on Laporte. But the opposition didn't loose up. The lost is kinda deserved. That's just my opinion though.

 

[TheAlgerianMagician]

Why did Pep not put in Mahrez, he has no World Cup to play... i just don't understand him sometimes.

 

[super_city_si]

Think Grealish running at the defence is what we missed today. The long balls and crosses did not work.

There was nowhere to run. He would have just passed to cancelo 100x. Not a slight on him, just how were set up. We have been coached to slow everything down to a crawl.

 

[come-on-barney]

The players need to take a look at themselves after that shit show. Cheated the fans today, all because of their World Cup. Everyone knows Stones can’t play full back. We looked completely devoid of any ideas. The tactics, haven’t a clue what what we trying to achieve. The purchase of Gomez isn’t what we needed, and Akanji not a patch on Dias. Too much rotation in defence. When Haaland is marked out of the game we don’t have another game plan. Alvarez and Jack should have started. Interesting stats when Jack starts. Just look at mr their away record as well. As I say that performance cheated the fans today, all their focus was on the World Cup. Nobody wanted to put in a tackle.

 

[Don Karleone]

Is it just me that gets more confident of winning the league when we get giddy opposition fans on here giving it the big un? Even after that shite today, we'll come good.

 

[Franknorgrovesnephew]

We lost we move on

 

[SWPISHOME]

Less and less frequently but the typical City tag still rears it’s ugly head. The early kick off disaster class against 10 man Leeds springs to mind

I was thinking the exact same thing today whilst the game was on, It had the Leeds feel of it.

 

[bluemc1]

Weekend ruined ffs

I know we’ve got injuries there but we could really do with a solid settled back 4

Against top teams we need Walker Dias Stones Ake
Arsenals wide pace will cause us problems

 

[Goldust]

For me the teams lacks balance in both the fullback and wide positions.

 

[Spanishbob]

Our players were on the plane to Qatar before the game was played.

 

[eyalluvitt]

Oh bollocks. For some reason I had it in my mind that today was a 15:00 kick-off so I just sat down ready to watch !! Ha ha. Came on here to see the post match thread already up and felt shit that I missed it, and to see we lost to Brentford at the Etihad was even worse. Fuck me. Sounds like I missed a shit game.

Wow, what the hell is with us lately ? Sounds like we should have out the midweek team back out and they could have done better. Brentford !! Wow. Wasn't expecting that. A team that only won 3 games all season before today. Fuck. Oh well, looks like I didn't miss much.

You’ve had a right touch

 

[stonerblue]

Kevs making that tackle if no world cup to go to

 

[Bluemoonie92]

Got what we deserved, we were wank. Could see it from the first 5 mins yet he changed nothing. The speed of our play is far too slow. Ran out of ideas and turned into Stoke at times. Players seem to find a bit of form then find themselves on the bench. Bernardo needs to be in the middle, there was no need for rodri and gundogan today.

 

[cucumberman]

How many Arse players are going to Qatar? Be interesting to see how they do tonight but I think they’ll be desperate for a 5 point gap

They won’t play like us today. If I were Arteta, I would have referred to our game in pre-match talk and say ‘that’s not how I want to end the league run before the world cup ‘.

the timing of the world cup and us being the first and early game made us a template on how not to approach the game this weekend.

 

[DMA's]

Well he did give us Zinchenko and Jesus…thanks, Pep!

Quite funny how giddy you arsenal fans are getting. It’s november

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

The “all on Pep” posts have to be the most moronic, ill thought out posts ever on here.

Usually. But not today.

At no point today did we play well. We were disorganised, sloppy and couldn't break Brentford down. And his lack of subs was tantamount to self-harm.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Is it just me that gets more confident of winning the league when we get giddy opposition fans on here giving it the big un? Even after that shite today, we'll come good.

I’d still feel confident if we were further behind. We were poor today and haven’t been at our very best consistently all season. But let Arsenal get excited, it will keep us on our toes.

 

[Tolmie scores]

To properly review that performance properly you have to factor in fatigue which has been massive the past month with the fixture pile up. Our performances have indicated that. We're tired, and that's before the World Cup starts has been obvious for a month now. At some point Pep has to make use of the 5 subs rule.

Brentford had a plan today, and executed it perfectly. We played into their hands by only using one substitute over basically 100 minutes but they warranted their win. Hats off to them.

But after 60 minutes you could see Kev and Gundo were shattered and had nothing left. Bernardo as well. On the bench there were tactical moves to make by bringing Grealish and Gomez on to create width and get service to Erling but Pep didn't make it for whatever reason. I don't understand it and don't want to take away from Brentford who deserved their win.

But second half of the season post WC Pep has to utilise the squad properly. This is a season like no other and there's no point having a deep squad if we only use 11 plus 1 or 2 garbage time substitutes.

Agreed pep was a big 5 sub advocate ..and now we have it!!