Arsenal

[The Fox]

 

[Silent Runner]

They've a draw and a win in their last 4 matches. After tonight it'll be 4 defeats in a row for us.

 

Tavares being sent out to die again.

 

[wev]

And No Goals Eddie up front 

[SeanR]

43 minutes ago, wev said:

And No Goals Eddie up front 

that’s one…

[Silent Runner]

Nothing this team likes more than giving up a cheap goal. So lazy is possession at the back. 

[SeanR]

Goddamn it!

[SeanR]

Hot knife through butter…

[Silent Runner]

That was outrageous - Xhaka and Holding starting the whole move. Class. 

[ilpostino]

Wonderful play and a casual finish. Superb goal.

[SeanR]

That’s two…

[Silent Runner]

Gonna be a long 15 minutes if we just keep kicking the ball back to them. No out ball from the back really.

[SeanR]

16 minutes ago, Silent Runner said:

Gonna be a long 15 minutes if we just keep kicking the ball back to them. No out ball from the back really.

[wev]

29 minutes ago, SeanR said:

That’s two…

I said it on purpose 

[Silent Runner]

What a shift from the whole team. The Hale End lads especially but I thought Elneny had a great game and Tavares looked decent. 

[suzzopher]

Xhaka was immense last night. When he doesn’t have a brain fart, he’s really a very, very good player.

[Gotters]

We're in that young team inconsistent spell where results are a bit of a coin toss

 

76% possession, 23 shots, 6 on target for no goals against Southampton

32% possession, 14 shots, 4 on target for 4 goals against reigning CL holders Chelsea.

 

Nketiah doing a 'Shane Long' and banging in a couple as his contract enters final few months, he looked good last night but I'm not convinced he's the sort of striker our system under Arteta needs, he looks like a striker from a previous age of football who will get a club but probably not in the top half of the table. You can almost see the £150k a week contract for him and inevitable fall out with Arteta and training with U23s coming to save us a new striker fee. 

[hauk]

Crazy result, especially given our recent form. Switch to a back 5 and having Elneny in there alongside Xhaka seemed to do the trick though. Still gave the ball away a lot with some sloppy passes, but it’s back on right?
 

I feel like Nketiah would be a decent backup striker, seems like he wants too much money or regular first team football though, so doubt he’ll stay.

[Silent Runner]

Slightly frustrating half that. We were by far the better team but gave them a half-chance and they're back in it. Saka and Odegaard running the show again. 

[Gotters]

no lead will ever feel comfortable with Soares and Tavares on the pitch.

 

have to attack their soft defence and keep things away from ours.

[Silent Runner]

We need to get a grip here - there's was millimetre in that VAR call. 

[Silent Runner]

Tavares needs to get hooked here - he's fucking death. 

[Gotters]

Can feel the crowd jitters every time Tavares gets near it, second touch is always a tackle now so hook him for his own good.

 

Gabriel boiling up to one of his stupid reds too.

[Gotters]

Stick that in your whining ref berating pipes

 

I look forward to reading in the Utd thread how that Xhaka boom was the refs fault and should be disallowed.

[Silent Runner]

What a hit that was. First goal this season for Xhaka? 

 

Totally undeserved mind. 

[feltmonkey]

9 minutes ago, Gotters said:

Stick that in your whining ref berating pipes

 

I look forward to reading in the Utd thread how that Xhaka boom was the refs fault and should be disallowed.

 

You guys literally have a whole conspiracy theory that all referees are against you.  

 

Come on, you must admit you've been a bit lucky with the decisions today.

[Silent Runner]

The first half handball was probably a penalty but Fernandez should have been sent off for that tackle in the second. Ref hasn't been great all over. 

[Gotters]

Ref been OK, given stuff both ways, lucky he didn't give Fernandes a red.

[Gabzy]

3 minutes ago, Gotters said:

Ref been OK, given stuff both ways, lucky he didn't give Fernandes a red.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[humdrum]

38 minutes ago, Gotters said:

Ref been OK, given stuff both ways, lucky he didn't give Fernandes a red.

 

Also the defender that wasn't sent off for the foul on Saka that led to the penalty. how he stayed on I will never know. 

[humdrum]