Like how this has sort of turned into Arsenals match day thread Match could be postponed due to United being unable to field 11 players due to injury
So, a few weeks back you were giving it very large. You must feel like quite the twat at the minute. Your boys came up against a team that had to field two youth team players and various midfielders in defence and yet you still managed to lose. No offence meant to the less hysterical Gooners but this young Wengerite has to be schooled.
I still think we are better than United, today's game certainly didn't prove otherwise, your win was down to luck, not skill, I mean look at your first goal, a ****ed up stupid own goal, and that made us go gung ho and you hit us on the break. With better finishing, we should have had at least 3 goals counting Giroud's. Nobody unless they're really biased will say today showed United as the better team, so I stand by EVERYTHING I said, I still think United are ****, and I still think we will end up above you, you got lucky today, simple as that.
please log in to view this image How I feel right now. I don't even have the energy to banter off the United fans. Was having a really ****ty week to begin with and was hoping a win here would lift up my spirits but instead we end up dominating United but still losing.
Sorry 87 but today you didn`t play United. You played against a third choice centreback, two youth team defenders and a winger playing rightback (seven mins in he was joined by a winger playing leftback). We had a holding midfielder who was playing only his second game in over four months and was carrying a slight groin strain. We can field beter than we did today but today you got lucky
Cheer up, you should expect it. For some reason we have the voodoo over you, you will win most of your games in the remainder of the season and i still think you will finish in a CL SPOT
He has no real claim to be on the pitch at the moment, would rather go with Wilson or an extra (creative) midfielder EDIT () makes more sence with these
We will still manage to get top 4, you can count on that, and then hopefully Wenger ****s off. The only reason you have this good record on us recently is because of an incompetent manager, not because you have been so magnificent, once we get a younger, and hungrier manager with proper tactical awareness, we will be beating you nice and easy.
Erm so could we, our defence is lacking just like you at the moment with Debuchy and Kos out, with those 2 you can bet we wouldn't be as weak defensively, then we also have players like Ozil-Walcott missing, and Giroud just coming back (and we saw what he did in his cameo). Fact is even when you have your full team your defence is still ****, we should be beating you, but we have an incompetent manager who's clueless tactically and who obviously can't motivate the players.
Who would they have replaced today to improve your team/game? Giroud came on against two raw young boys and missed a gift of a header and scored a skewed shot that was meant for the other corner, don`t expect him to have it so easy against Cahill/Terry, Kompany/Deimchalis, Distin/Jags etc. You will come up against much better defencies than you did today.
The fact is you totally outclassed us for the first 30 mins today, your manager got the tactics just right. Don`t blame the manager for the players ineptitude in front of goal, i think it is harsh to blame him for the naivety after you went behind also, the team has been so susceptible to counters for so long now they should know better.
Kos at CB alone adds 50% more defensive cover to our defence line, he compliments Mert, having Monreal at CB is basically like shooting yourself in the foot, stabbing yourself after, and then pouring vinegar over the wound. If you watch Arsenal a lot, you would appreciate this point a lot, Kos is the heart of our defence, and Monreal is just not good enough for that position, it would even be better for Wenger to do what United are doing by playing young CB's from the reserves. As for Giroud, he came on with what, 20 mins? He missed a good header, and scored, that's not bad for 20 minutes, and that's a Giroud far from match fitness, a fully fit Giroud would have been an asset today. Ozil would have been a much much much better option down the middle as the creative spark over Wilshere. And Walcott with his pace could cause trouble if he came on as a sub. Distin-Jags, we put 2 past them from 2-0 down, and it was Giroud I might add who got the equalising goal. As for City, we put 2 past them as well, . Our problem for the most part is we can't defend, even if we aren't clinical enough there's always a goal in this Arsenal team as we saw today, and many other games bar Chelski, but the problem is that our defence is so s**t that because we sometimes lack that clinical finishing, it hurts us. Plus you add an incompetent manager who for the most part is tactically clueless and just tells the players GO PLAY, you're asking for trouble. Bottom line is this, to reach our full potential now, we need Wenger to go, he's standing in the way from us going to the next level, he is standing in the way of the progress he helped build, and is making us become stagnant, he needs to go.
Sorry 87, i missed the Kos bit, i agree he is your best CH and a class one at that, would not be out of place in any team The rest stands
