If the referee has to book that Greek bloke who has just come on for Reus, it should waste about 5 minutes just writing his name.
Well done to our pan European brothers. The constant soulless atmosphere at this passionless stadium is an embarrassment to British football.
You can live in hope but the only way that that will happen is if Palace sack Holloway and bring in Pullis. Palace won't beat the goons by playing football but they could probably kick six bales of **** out of them.
That's the first real test the goons have had since playing us, and they were lucky then. They've got a very difficult run after Palace, we should get an idea of where they really are about mid November.
There's alot of talk about Ozil, carzola and Ramsey playing in the same team and I admit it sounds a fairly awesome prospect yet Ramsey may lose his place in the centre and may get shifted out wide which could effect his form. Their strength so far has been lack of options , now they will be rich in options which means there is a chance of causing problems and players being played out of position which definitely could be an issue in the big games.
How? Other than that I agree, but let's be fair Dortmund are (by a long way) better than any Premier League side Arsenal will face. The back-to-back games against Liverpool and United will tell us whether Arsenal are just a top four team or whether they are title challengers. Worrying thing for Arsenal is inability to keep clean sheets. They'll beat Palace blindfolded on Saturday though.
Yep. Comfortable win. Controlled football with clever counter attacking play and players working hard with/without the ball. Typical Mourinho performance. Not sure where you got the time wasting from. There was none from other side and the game was played in good spirit.
As if he'd play under Moyes. City/Chelsea/Arsenal are more likely destinations if there's any truth in him having second thoughts about Bayern.
I'm backing Palace to beat Arsenal. One of those total surprises that the PL throws up every now and then. Arsenal will be over-confident IMO and Holloway will get Palace fired up and they'll get a lucky goal.
A more realistic outcome is Liverpool beating or at least drawing with a Arsenal on Nov 2nd and United beating them at OT. There's no chance of Palace beating Arsenal, they simply aren't capable. The bottom teams are far worse than in strong PL eras.
...do we now expect Arsenal's traditional Xmas bottle-job. Give the strength of the Prem over the German league, I'd put Dortmund on the same level, relatively speaking, as Everton. Now, bearing in mind that Arsenal has had the easiest set of opening fixtures in the history of world football, I would expect Whinger's men to start falling away. I suppose that Gooners can, at the very least, look back on the first 8 matches and remember fondly what it used to be like when AFC was a force to be reckoned with. They certainly should not be sad that it will all end. They have had a good run, even if their position has been a false one (due to their easy opening fixture list).
