The same people were also saying it was too early for anything to be decided the year before when we lead the table for 128 days. Regardless of how the season plays out, it IS too early for anything to be decided. You whinging like a child isn't going to make that any less true.
At the risk of sounding like a WUM, I have said it many times, you won't compete for the title with Wenger in charge. Its far too early to write this season of though 87, Chels and Arse looking terrible so far, but both of us will finish in the top 4 for sure. City look to be pulling ahead early on, but a 3-4 point advantage at this stage means little. For my money, City should do it, because they have the best squad overall. United need a new defence, they haven't conceded much, but that papers over the cracks, they cannot play attacking football because their defence is so ****e, hence why they aren't scoring. If United fans believe its because their forwards are bad, when they have talent like Mata, Rooney, Depay etc then they are deluded. But compensating for that ****ty defence is going to be their downfall. Arsenal need a world class Centre forward, thats been the case since you lost RvP, he was never replaced, and the lack of a 20+ goal a season striker, combined with all the injuries you WILL get this season (That still blows my mind) will stop you challenging, Plus odd moves like leaving Oxo on the bench from Wenger!! Chelsea need a new CB and a new CM. If we get Stones and Pogba then we will give City an awesome run, if not then 2nd is the best we can hope for. JT and Ivan are looking worse for wear (gotta be JT's last season for sure) and Matic cannot do it all on his own. We will have no problems going forward, but our defence is not very good right now, which is odd for a Mourinho team. For me, the top 4 will be the same as last year, except City and Chelsea swapping places. Everyone has known where Arsenal have needed to improve for 3 seasons, but Wenger, for reasons no one can fathom, is repeatedly refusing to address these issues, before it could be put down to a lack of cash, but now that isn't the case, what the **** is he playing at? Weren't you in for Lewandowski? Whats happened there?
It's the difference between saying it was a fair result based on the game and being an acceptable result. I think you and others are saying the former, but A87 is taking it as the latter.
Are Scousers accusing us of riding our luck when they're two dodgy refereeing decisions away from losing to us and drawing at home to Bournemouth?! Good lord. Thought we were pretty awful across the board, Cech aside, with particular shout outs to Bellerin, Chambers and Gabriel (first half) for special incompetence. I can't remember the amount of times they gave the ball away, even when under no particular pressure. The less said about the need to over-complicate things in midfield the better. Only positives for me were Cech's performance, which has to be a real confidence boost, a clean sheet when we lost both starting CBs prior to kick-off and the fact we had a perfectly decent goal disallowed.
Agreed, the major positive was the Cech performance, which should hopefully take away some of the mental cobwebs. However, I'm starting to get a touch of deja vu with our early performances, I don't want to write our chances off, but it is certainly worrying that we are struggling so much at home. Wenger is making some odd decision also like benching OXO and not playing Debuchy/Monreal as one of our CBs. Always a risk playing two new CBs together that lack experience.
Yes 87 and the other camp seem to be confusing what the other is saying. Pro Wengerites are saying, in the context of that match, that performance, a draw was a fair result, which is right 87 is saying that in the context of a title challenge, you need to be beating the other teams in the top 7 at home in order to realistically challenge, which is right.
Yes that's exactly what i got from 87. It was certainly a misunderstanding. But both sides are right in what they are saying. It was a fair result based on the game, but was not an acceptable result/performance for Arsenal, if they want to challenge.
Unfortunately this is what happens when you use outdated, antiquated systems that disallow perfectly good goals. Alas this will continue to happen until we move into the modern era.
It is pretty daft. Cricket, rugby and tennis use technology to make referee calls all the time. Why football is refusing to move into the 21st century on this is beyond me. If a goal is scored and the linesman believes it may have been offside, what is wrong with stopping the game for literally 10 seconds, and show the replay with the line going across the screen (they do it almost instantly on Sky, and on BBC, after the call has been made) and having the 4th official look at it and either say "yup, offside" or "Nope, good goal". Would take seconds.
We've had this discussion before and it truly begs belief why they are so resistant to change. The problem is the old fogies want to keep the old ways in place. I'm sure these oldies would want to go back to playing with pig skin footballs and reintroduce the back pass rule....
I think football should be played with a pigs bladder and instead of teams of 11v11, it should be the whole village versus the neighbouring village. 150 a-side
Good game - thought you might take it in the end and we would go away rueing our chances in the first half. We were better than I expected and looking at your guys you still have to address a few areas as per usual to contend for the title. Think we might mix it up for 4th.
Our own goal scoring skills are not up to par yet. Scored one last week but was unable to make an impact tonight.
