Match Thread | Arsenal vs Man City League Cup (22/12/20)

[jrb]

Are we watching Arsenal TV.

 

[PragueBlue]

The story of the last few months. Dominate the game but not create that many chances but miss most of the ones we do create and then concede to their first shot on target.

Started well and we looked so much better getting the ball behind them as we did for our goal but then we just stopped doing that and started the side to side possession game. Our midfield passing just isn't a patch on what it used to be.

Need to get Bernardo and Foden more into the game as they're the ones most likely to create (despite neither being great that half). Jesus is playing well both centrally and at times on the right. Mahrez is such a frustrating player and at times it feels like we are a forward player short when he's on the pitch.

I'd be tempted to take Mahrez off, put Torres on the left, Bernardo on the right and move Foden into central midfield. Or move Jesus to the left and put Aguero up top.

 

[Horlocksleftpeg]

Atrocious commentary, shoot me I mean them...

“Are we going to see a yellow card for the deliberate hand ball from Fernandinho?” Fuck off you shandy drinking ****

 

[mccity]

Rodri and Fernandinho especially both have by their standards low pass completion tonight. I think Arsenal have set up to stifle the two of them.

 

[citytill1die84]

Fuck me that’s the worst first half of football I’ve seen in ages

No it's really not.

 

[Platt Lane veteran]

As someone else has noted, the difference in the quantity of posts after they scored, compared to after we scored, is comical. Some are just waiting for a chance to wade in on us. Have a look at the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling....

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

I didn’t expect to see that on a match thread!

 

[jimharri]

You're at it now ;-)

Not exactly calling for public lynchings, or naming individuals. But I get your point!

 

[Revolver]

I can only think that this boring possession tactic is to make us more competitive in Europe.

 

[oddfellows]

Gundo for Rodri 1st change

 

[FantasyIreland]

Yes, but at least Bernie is trying and shows commitment, Mahrez is just a fucking pansy.

This is it in a nutshell,Mahrez just shits out of everything,always wants a second touch and does fuck all to support the midfield in defence.

Bernardo is 8 stone wet through yet and,while he isnt particularly good at it,he willl fight till the death.He cares.