Personally I couldn't give a flying **** if we won ugly. I don't care how we win, just as long as we do. In fact, I take some pride out of the fact that we won a difficult away game, in difficult conditions in a classic 0-1 to the Arsenal. It's a game that we would have lost in the past.
I wouldn't have, I was content with no subs coming on, i thought we were doing fine and looked like we had another goal in us. The subs killed all of our forward play and put us on the backfoot, very bad tactical decision by Wenger that could've costed us, and would've costed us against a better side. I would've only expected a sub maybe in the last 5-10 minutes, Coqualan for Podolski as Podolski was anonymous again. But why OXO? He was the player making things happen on the right, then Wenger took him off, that made zero sense.
Yeah, alright Gandhi. The rest of us will just celebrate the fact we have won three league games in a row and have moved to third place.
But, like I said. If he'd kept them on and we'd conceded then people would be slating him for NOT bringing on defensive players. Santi was tiring and Ox wasn't really offering much going forward, so I thought it was right to replace them both with more defensive players. It was obviously going to limit our attacks, but it was the right thing to do, which was confirmed by us winning
Lol, I think kyle's taken my place for being the most negative! Anyways, I'm happy we won, just pissed off about the tactical decisions at the end.
The fact that he says "i'm taking the moral high-ground" without a hint of sarcasm tells you all you need to know about him as a person. Kenwyne Jones missed a great chance.
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way - Oh what fun it is to see the Arsenal win away . . . oooohh
And Stuart Robson continues to prove he's a class A **** by saying Walcott went down for the penalty.
Had to pick someone up from the airport at lunchtime today so missed most of the game - tuned in for the last 10 minutes with Podolski already off the pitch and had a little bite of the nails while we saw out the game! How was Walcott through the middle? I'm glad we got the result even if we didn't seem to be playing very well when i turned on the tv!
Missed 2 great chances, wrong decision (to not pass) on another 2 great chances, and was anonymous for the rest of the game. He was Walcott against a non-****, non-sparse defense basically. Shows (AGAIN) he is pretty useless without acres of space.
Walcott got us the penalty, and had one good chance in the second half. Overall, though, I'd say he has to do much more if he wants to justify his CF position. He won us the penalty from a wing position too.
So he didn't tear it up then! Well it's still early days with him playing down the middle, still think he will come good. Gonne watch the highlights now - love having sky and the red button!
Seen the highlights - great work to win the penalty by Walcott (a couple of nice passes between him and Cazorla leading up to it as well) and unlucky with his shot from the oxocube pull-back. Other than that though the highlights didn't show any other Walcott chances - will have to watch match of the day!
