Match Thread | Arsenal vs Manchester City (21/12/15)

[dubblue]

Awful. No reaction to Arsenals first goal. No fight,passion or desire yet again. It cant continue like this until May...

 

[inbetween]

Half decent on the ball, utter shite off it.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

We can't defend like this and avoid another trophyless season. It's not possible.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Fucking garbage defending once again.

Mangala isn't worth £4m let alone £40m

 

[Benarbia]

We are such a shambles defending this season it's heartbreaking

 

[razman]

Played well till 30 minutes.. 1 worldie.. One stupid pass by mangala

 

[MCFC1993]

Shite, our team doesn't know the words, pressure, energy or defending.
Sick of it now, same old shite, not the right personnel in the squad combined with Pellegrini inept defensive instructions doesn't fair well.

 

[quiet_riot]

SHITE

 

[lust overlord]

Played solid for half an hour,typical City to fuck it up.

 

[city saint]

weve had better defences pre takeover everything ok until they attack cant blame the midfield cover for shocking passes

 

[Theengelbert]

It's so infuriating. We haven't been anything special but neither have they. We don't deserve to be ahead but they don't either. We've just been hit by a wonder strike and a defensive error. It's juventus at home all over again. Seems to happen a lot these days

 

[Blueband Brother]

That is the thing with dozy predictable tactical matches and approach- you can wake up and find yourself ahead or behind. In this case we find ourselves behind. A gamble so to speak and perhaps it is always better to go for what you want from the start. We played intelligent football, moving it about but not necessarily having the pace and direct threat to really threaten Arsenal. All the good situations we got was from a counter attack and that De Bruyne's miss was obviously the key moment in the half. Walcott took his goal well and that is football I suppose, where you miss a chance at one end and opponent goes up the other end and scores. The second goal just before half time was disappointing and may be the decider.

But we have no choice now but to wake up from the tactical, nuisance trance football, put Sterling in there for a bit of honest direct threatening football and play with more urgency and pace. We have to go for it now, it is 2-0 so there is nothing else to do. Bony and Sterling in there, De Bryune, Delph off and fight for something in this match.