Match Thread | Arsenal vs Man City (15/12/19)

[jimharri]

Well played Mendy. Kept Pepe quiet and got forward more in the second half.

Pepe is all flicks and tricks, with negligible end product. I'd back Mangala to keep him quiet. And that's not a dig at Benjy, by the way.

 

[Blueknows]

Well this has been nice. It’s been an absolute piece of piss.

been like a training session for the last 30 minutes

 

[TFC]

Am I the only one to actually rate Otamendi quite highly?

Bar the occasional brain fart, he's a very solid performer.

Absolutely. Lucky for us the matchday thread bellends don't pick the team.

 

[Ban-jani]

Kev and Zinchenko look alike. One game commentary ban upcoming.

I’ve never got that as an accusation of racism.

I know you’re kidding but if a black guy looks like another famous black guy, what’s the issue?

Anyway, up the fucking blues.

 

[cjn]

Fern missed the last league cup game doing the same thing so no it didn’t

"Any player earning five bookings from his side's first 19 Premier League matches will have to serve a one-match ban in the same competition. Yellow cards are not carried over to the League Cup."

https://www.premierleague.com/news/1517900

 

[mccity]

Otamendi still has those errors in him, like every game that always give me worry. But Stones has those too and Otamendi is better in other aspects.

Personally Otamendi minus the errors is a legit world class CB. He's a defensive monster statistically. That's why he always ranked at the top on those CIES reports.

 

[stan bowles]

No, you threw a strop and chose to focus on a negative when the actual point was he flits between the brilliant and the frustrating too easily.

Bit like Sterling ?

 

[Rammy Blue]

Mahrez is a fucking disgrace

 

[super_city_si]

Mahrez doing him self no favours.

 

[WallyA]

Am I the only one to actually rate Otamendi quite highly?

Bar the occasional brain fart, he's a very solid performer.

I rate him but what you said is exactly what’s worrying. He has a brain fart basically every game, everything else about him is fantastic.

You saw it in the beginning of this half, he thinks he has way more time on the ball than he actually does and puts himself under pressure for no reason... and he did it twice from 45-50 mins.