Match Day Thread Arsenal v Southampton, 5th October, 3pm

And yet here we are at 0-0.

 

I wonder what Tall Paul has actually done wrong? Fingered Lucy? Eaten a delicious kebab in front of Russ? What does he actually need to do to get on? The most like for like replacement available and he brings in Archer. No wonder the players are confused with the tactics.

HT though. Thank ****

 

What were the odds of us not conceding in the first half? That’s actually pretty good, considering how **** we are at everything.

 

A mixture of good defending, keeping our shape and luck.

 

We have also learned when the right time to take a yellow is.

 

When under the cosh for the first 10m I thought “get on with it and thrash us”, having held out for 45m I’m actually slightly hopeful that we can get a draw.

We haven’t got out of our own half though, aside from a run by Dibling. I think we’ve had no touches in their box.

 

Yeah fair play. Actually defended really well.

It just annoys me that we are so **** when we win it back. Why don’t we break with any pace? We are absolutely atrocious when we in it back.

There is absolutely zero chance we keep a clean sheet here but at least we defended well for one half I guess

 

And Arsenal not making any real openings.

 

Well it's still 0 - 0 and the Arsenal players appear to be getting frustrated? RM bringing on CA is complete nonsense after Sicknote got injured ( again ). Even a blind man and his dog can see that we need someone able to hold the ball up in the middle but apparently not the Pound-shop Pep RM!

 

It’s the hope…

 

Because we have so little of the ball we can't make suicidal passes . Credit to the unit defending together though.

 

Lallana please.

 

It’s almost like we’re accepting that we have less possession, and because of that we’re not 3 down.

 

Playing two LBs the manager's a genius.

 

Wolves getting pumped, there is that too.

 

Agreed. Our offensive play is sooooo slow it is embarrassing. It’s as tho we have no idea what to do.

 

Once they get one they will get more, just depends when they get that one

 

Starts and restarts have long been a weakness for us. First 10 mins of second half are key.

 

Stewart on the field and we play it short. Archer on the field and we start hitting lofted balls with nobody to challenge for them. No idea what the reason is for that. Co-commentator on Peacock is a knobhead. Calafiore runs straight into Manning, who just stands his ground, and he calls it a body check. Moron. How long before Lallana comes on and maybe gives us a little composure when we have the ball?

 

But they have scored a couple of goals. If only we could do the same!!!!