Match Day Thread Norwich City vs. Arsenal 2015/16 Official Match Thread

That's what you call clinical.

 

Playing really well today. My only complaint is that Flamini keeps drifting out to the left.. leaving nobody in the middle.

Against a top side that would be exploited.

 

Who knows? could be poor treatment and injury accessment. More likely to be training methodology though.

 

what a dirty ****er pushing Sanchez like that, it was so obvious and this ****ing idiot ref does nothing.

 

That ****er Bennett should have seen red for pushing Sanchez into that Camera pit

 

Bennett should see red for that

 

So who is? You saying nobody is responsible? That would be very typical.

 

Why do our players keep pulling something? After it keeps happening, you can no longer make the excuse that oh he pulled something, **** happens, it's happening in game after game.

 

Shocking defending.

 

That was awful from Gabriel

 

Who is responsible because Koscielny fell awkwardly?

 

Soft goal to concede

 

Poor defending

 

Poor play from the medical staff to not stop that goal

 

That should have been 2-1 to them We're at seas since we've conceded.
Fix up.

 

Falling awkwardly does not necessitate an injury, you know how many players fall awkwardly week in week out? That practically comes with the territory.

And why are you ignoring the elephant in the room and the very legitimate point, that this keeps happening week after week, thus negating this argument that oh sometimes these knocks happen because of awkward falls. If this was an exception then you'd have a point, but when it keeps happening every week, then you don't and it's something down to how we are looking after our players.

 

Lucky not to be behind,more clueless defending.

 

We need to shape up defensively in the 2nd half because we could be losing this game at HT. All good going forward, but it's going to count for nothing if we can't defend properly.

 

*sigh*

It just seems like it's not meant to be for us this season. We lost last weekend when we looked so comfortable and again we're somehow drawing despite bossing the game.

If we could keep the odd clean sheet we'd be major title contenders.

 

1-1. HT.

I can't say we've created an abundance of chances, but we've been comfortable and Norwich have provided no threat at all.
So to be level at HT is slightly frustrating, given our domination of the ball and of the opportunities we've had to score (compared to them).

I can't believe how badly positioned and weak Gabriel was for their goal, though.
That is not even Football League standard defending and it's very unlike him. I don't know if he switched off or what, but their equaliser gave them a massive morale boost, and we're actually lucky to not go into the second half 2-1 down.

A more ruthless second half, please.