You didn't sit deep at all at the start of the game, there was massive space inbetween your midfield and your backline which is why we found it so easy to cut through you. Terrible defensive shape. We couldn't have created more if we tried. Great chances we missed and if we score any of them you lose the game. You got lucky. And you only had chances on the counter after getting the lucky goal. So yes, after we had royally ****ed up by missing countless chances and then giving you a lucky deflected goal, after we threw caution to the wind to try and get back into the game, then your counter attacking plan was able to work. It's great that lvg is such a genius that he can see into the future and knows that his team will get battered for half a game with no response but the other team will be off form infront of goal and miss the beautiful chances they had that on any other day would have been scored. It's even better that his master plan included a lucky deflected goal... You got lucky, accept it.
We battered you for much longer than twenty minutes rofl. The vast majority of that game was arsenal terrorising utd.
Arsene spent a fair bit of money on Chambers and Monreal. Clearly you don't rate them. As well as McNair and Blackett did yesterday the fact is they are both raw talents and have been promoted to the first team much sooner than expected. Blackett in particular looked shaky in the first half hour but he settled after that. I would still prefer to see Jones, Evans or Rojo alongside Smalling as experience counts for a lot. It would also give me more confidence to see Rafael and Shaw at full back (I know Shaw started but he lasted 16 minutes) rather than two wingers in Valencia and Young as neither can defend really. So basically in our back 5 yesterday we had one player who would be in the manager's preferred line up. The other four were made up of youth team players and midfielders. Understand fella? All in all, given the options available LVG and the team did well to stay in the game and then win it.
Monreal was brought in as a back-up LB. He is not a CB by any stretch of the imagination. No-one rates him in that position. I doubt even wenger does! But we are very short on defensive options. And Chambers I rate very highly but he is a raw talent and needs eerie nice to grow as a player. He is still a youth. Nothing to do with how much I rate them, think it's pretty clear that our defense wasn't up to full strength lol I'd have liked to see ozil, Walcott, debuchy and koscielny start the game but injuries happen. We get no leeway when every single season we have the worst injury record in the league. When we get beat people tell us it's a squad game and the others should be able to step in etc.... There's no excuses for it, you were just shot yesterday, really bad. The only thing worse than that utd team was the finishing on display from the arsenal players! Understand fella?
Im sure i said we sussed you after twenty minutes. So thebearly space was just while we settled. Again, our senior defender was playing mon league a few years ago. Those firsr twenty were brutal. After that...
Stop with this twenty minute nonsense. Did you watch the game? The entire first half bar a few minutes at the end was arsenal all over utd. The ref made a couple of bad calls to give you a few corners in a row which you did nothing from. Other than that the entire first half was arsenal bullying utd. Not some imaginary twenty minutes, the whole half bar a few minutes. In the second half we dominated you for the majority of it as well, you managed to get a few crap opportunities and then the lucky goal changed the whole thing. You didn't suss ****. Right up until the end of the game we bombarded your goal. You got lucky. That's it.
After twenty mins it calmed down. We had a few touches ad knocked a few passes about. The first twenty was one way traffic.
To be fair you've been gracious in victory and accepted that it was a scraped lucky win rather than some master class. I get you being happy at the win, I'm over the moon even when we scrape a win against some relegation team lol. It's uir that grates with his constant deluded insistence that it was an LVG master plan perfectly executed, rather than a flukey goal changing the game and being lucky not to be losing well before then. Not entirely sure what response he expects to those sort of comments on the arsenal board lol
The first 37 minutes was one way traffic. You hadn't had control of the ball in our half until that point. Your deluded mate, go and watch the game again lol
Twenty minutes. You should watch it again. Ive watched it twice and thats why i saw the game plan. He put di maria up front ffs. It was clear as day what the plan was. So simple yet so effective. Only one who couldn't see it was wenger. Arsenals gung ho performance (you were not good at all, wasteful and incredibly naive.) played right into our hands.
Omg, your such an idiot lol 37 minutes. That is the point utd woke up and realised they were playing a football game. None of this twenty minute crap. I picked up on this in the game thread, read back and find it if you like. And then at half time the pundit and commentary team picked the exact same number I'd already gone for, 37 minutes, before utd did a thing other than get bullied. Also we were not gung-ho at all in the first half, we always left back sufficient cover which is why you did **** all in the first half other than look like school kids against a real team. We only threw the kitchen sink at you when we had gone a goal down. Of course that was going to give you chances on the break. That isn't some masterful tactics, that's you getting a lucky goal and hanging on and hoping for a chance on the counter. Literally every single team in the world out in the same position would have the same opportunities... No idea how you think that was some brilliant lvg tactical master class. You were **** and lucky lol
Anyway, my opinion is that utd were really bad. They got a lucky goal after being totally dominated and Arsenals finishing cost them the game. I'm confident about meeting you later in the season and I'm confident we will finish above you. I'm off out, have fun
You wont finish above us. Some distance behind. Too naive and not smart enough to finish about us this season. We dont have a clown in chanrge who doesnt know what hes doing. We have a guy who despite having no fit defenders the past 4 games has conceded less than a goal a game.
So what are your views of the Wilshere headbutt on Fellaini? I noticed you have decided to ignore this
When I commented on the officials performance I listed not sending wilshere off as one of there mistakes. So no, I haven't ignored it, you just haven't read through the whole conversation
Hope the Arsenal men are watching the women's football today. They could learn a lot about shooting from the Women's No 7 who plays for Arsenal. Wenger should get her onto the coaching team
To be fair the only clear cut chance Arenal created in that game was Wilshere one on one from a mistake by United and the Sanchez header the rest were just long shot and United had almost a whole reserve team playing.
