If you face c palace it would take something special to bottle it vs them. Watford will be more of a challenge but still ud be absaloute favorites
Whilst anything is possible in a cup final, it would take a special type of bottling to lose to Palace or Watford. Both aren't in good form and are distinctly average teams. United aren't world beaters either, but they have a far better squad, especially attacking prowess, than either of those two sides.
They lose their top scorer in Vardy but like lions, are winning 2-0. This is something we're missing so much, that winning mentality.
Yes, would be unbearable if you won the league, I can live with you finishing above us, but winning the league? oh no helllllllllllll no.
Leicester 3-0 up, game over. This btw was the same Swansea side we lost at home to. And people keep saying be careful for what you wish for in wanting Wenger gone, lol. Good for Leicester.
We're lucky to have AW... There aren't many managers in the world who could spend 9 figures building a team over 12 years and keep Swansea to just beating us by a narrow loss.
Leicester make a joke of Arsenal and all our talk of having mental strength. It's a joke that some aka piskie still support the dinosaur who manages us you would think they need no more proof that the specialist in bottle jobs is not the right man anymore.
I alluded to this in my thread about Arsenal's mental strength. The "team spirit" and "mental strength" that Wenger bleets on about is nothing but the cosy selfie loving homoeroctic nonsense for which our dressing room have become famous in the last 4 or 5 years, nothing to do with winning.
Any team can lose to a team playing poorly ... we lost to Newcastle but it doesn't change the fact we have had an excellent season. I think Arsenal's problem is that you have had way too many of those performances. Leicester have only lost 3 matches all season, and 1 of those was unlucky. They have been the most consistent team and that is why they are going to be crowned champions. Spurs have not lost any game by more than 1 goal all season and have only lost 4 times. Both us and Leicester have played as teams whereas the usual top 4 clubs haven't (imo). Arsenal players need to take a long hard look at themselves. .. the most embarrassing thing about their season was posting a selfie picture of the team on social media after the beat Leicester. I have no idea why they were allowed to do that...you do that when you have achieved something. I am torn between your manager and your players being at fault to be honest. Every Leicester player stepped up today...last Monday every spurs player did the same...very few of your players bothered turning up let alone stepping up v palace, west brom and sunderland (the same can be said so often this season).
Graeme Sounness touched on this after we lost at Old Trafford. Wenger always talks about the importance of mental strength and being resilient, but he talks about it so much that it makes you think we don't have it & he's trying to convince everyone that we do. This rings true because we hear the same rhetoric yet the team never shows any mental strength or focus when it's crunch time.
Of course it's the manager. Our squad has changed quite dramatically over the past decade, yet we're still whinging about the same problems every season. Some of the players may not be good enough, but that's Wenger's fault for persisting with them & barely attempting to upgrade. That being said, it's gotten to a point where I feel like it doesn't matter who he buys because he's incapable of bringing that spark needed to win titles. Whichever way you look at it, there's only one man responsible for the position we are in.
Wenger has used every excuse he can think of so it's obvious he is the problem. This year his bs excuse for previous bottle jobs was that the team was unsettled players already thinking of leaving arsenal.... and then we went and bottled it again even worse than last time. The man is pathetic.
And this is what Riyad Mahrez says after todays victory.... "Now there are three games to go and we are closer but everyone is working for each other and it is a great team spirit. “In this team we don’t need just one player. We are really together with our team spirit and we work for each other. “Sometimes I score, sometimes Vardy scores and sometimes Leo scores but we are a team. “It is always a pleasure to play here. The fans are unbelievable. “We are closer now but there are still three games to go and we have eight points more so it is all in our hands now so we have to stay focused." No ego here and they seem to have unbelievable team spirit. Team spirit can't be built on endless selfies in our dressing rooms, or party political broadcasts by Wenger. Funny how we blamed money and lack of players, but the real problem was the man in charge....
He's had 12 years to build this team. He has signed them. He negotiates with them. He trains them. He instills his ethos on this team. He picks them. He chooses substitutes. He comes up with the tactics (though I hesitate the use the pleural of the word there). He's had countless players play for him with the same deficiencies. At some point you have to think... there's one constant here.
he does seem to be a one trick pony. It's exceptional when it works. Didn't he park the bus against City once and get a good result, but passing teams into submission does seem to be the go to tactic (singular).
