What is up with referees? If he gives that as a penalty then every corner will result in the spot kick!
WTF is Fonte thinking? The ball is going away from goal. No need to pull his shirt when he is not going to score.
It's absolutely a penalty...he was pulling him back the entirety of the time that the ball was in the air. Has to be given.
Stupid from Fonte. Mertesacker was going nowhere. We've given them both their goals and, while I admire Poch's balls for making a big call, he made a mistake taking Lallana off.
Well this Is arsenal at the emirates.. and we are missing Lovren! stop ****ingwinging. they are top for a v. good reason and the only goals they scored were 2 mistakes.. Our players are only human beings. ffs!
Is it good or bad that 2 of our subs are kids who have never played a league game before? Lambert is untouchable; he may play a bit crap half the time but the other half of the time he can be brilliant. He'll be even more frustrated in himself if he gets subbed off as he wants to play, but sometimes there are better options, like Osvaldo.
Fonte - the famous shirt snatcher of London town, is at it again. Keep those hands to yourself, Jose.
Every team loses sometime. This was not unexpected, but, having beaten Liverpool and drawn with United, we were entitled to have hopes. Onwards and upwards.
Wasn't really expecting anything out of this, but a pretty dire performance in attack nonetheless. Arsenal did an excellent job of escaping the press, but our forwards don't appear to have come back from international duty yet.
back later to read : but they and us both looked like 2 tired teams today. They were as bad as us and wasn't that impressed really.
An odd sort of game. Although we lost and the goals we conceded were laughable really, and we barely had a shot in the whole match, there are a few positives to take. Wanyama was excellent, and Ward-Prowse was outstanding, I don't think he made a single mistake even playing out of position. Clyne looked comfortable on the left and Hooiveld didn't really do anything wrong. On the whole, we didn't really compete but we weren't really outplayed either. Things didn't really go for us today. You can't win them all and if you have to lose you might as well lose to the league leaders I suppose.
Wanyama and JRod were massive plusses for me. I thought Lallana was very good until he went off. Perhaps it was fatigue?
Disappointing to lose, of course, but let's keep it in context - we just lost away to the (very good) league leaders after losing 2 of our first choice back 4. It wasn't our greatest display, but we were never dominated. Wanyama was immense today as well. They did a good, professional job on us, but the goals were ultimately 2 errors. Things are still rosy.