Offical match day thread

Ugh that was an absolute sitter!

 

Auba of ****ing course!! 1-0

 

**** Yes! 2-0
Playing totally differently this half.

 

2 goals in quick succession! Pepe assist for Auba and then a goal!

Ceballos has been excellent all game. Much improved second-half from Saka as well, with a cheeky nutmeg and lovely ball for Pepe to double our advantage.

 

4-0 Well that was some second half.
Not sure what Arteta said at half time but - hell of a job!
We closed down quickly, showed a variety of passes, kept possession and worked our socks off.

Almost perfect, 4 goals, Lacazette broke his goal draught, Pepe scored, Ceballos had a great game and we kept a clean sheet.

Best 45 mins of tootball from us this Season.

 

Superb ending to the game. Complete transformation in the second half.

Aubameyang with a goal.
Pepe with a goal and 2 assists.
Ozil pulling the strings in midfield and capping off a great display with a goal.
Ceballos with a Cazorla-lite display.
Lacazette breaking his goal drought and got an assist.
4 goals in a game.
Clean sheet.
Positive goal difference.

This is what I like to see!

I'm so happy that some of our most heavily criticised players stepped up today in a game which was must win.

 

Laca, Auba and Martinelli all in the same front line - if our delivery/creativity is any good today I’d say we can expect goals!

 

Leno
Mustafi
S Papastathopoulos
Luiz
Saka
Guendouzi
G Xhaka
Martinelli
J Willock
P Aubameyang (c)
A Lacazette

Substitutes
D Ceballos
A Maitland-Niles
R Holding
N Pepe
E Martinez
E Nketiah
S Kolasinac

 

Sokratis at Right back just boggles the mind.

This Olympiakos side are decent - look every bit the Champions League side.

 

Ugh Xhaka is pissing me off today.
He's repeatedly slowing the game down.

The pitch seems like a weird greasy surface Auba and Laca slipping all over the place.

 

Ceballos needs to come on IMO.

 

Anyone got a link please? Am in Crete.

 

http://redditstreams.club/Live/ch-3.php

 

Thanks bear good link

 

Soo much better this second half.

Should be more than 1-0 up IMO.

 

Good result.

Leno made some good saves, Saka got his ninth assist of the Season Laca back on the score sheet - wasnt the best performance but we did enough.

 

Should have buried at least one more of those chances to put the game to bed but I’ll take a 1-0 win.

Clean sheet and win away from home against a CL team.

Olympiakos aren’t an easy team to beat when they’re at home.

I’m expecting us to win again in the home leg, think this was the difficult bit. But would have been great to score another. We tried to keep our shape for most of the game and were quite conservative and then came alive in the last 20mins.

Laca with a couple of fluffed chances but good on for him getting his second goal in two games, should do his confidence a world of good.

Saka was a boss. Thought martinelli was good when he was on the pitch and Ceballos is looking really good, think he’ll start the next game. And Leno was brilliant.

Oh and Luiz was defensively solid.

 

RVP talking up Arteta on BT while Keown goes on about Arteta being new and not getting results yet.

RVP making good points about the way Arteta talks, what he’s trying to do and how the players are believing in him.

 

Classic Mustafi is back.

 

At least we have 10points above the relegation places.. You have Martinelli goal threat, the manager leaves him out of the team.. He needs to get off his high horse Arteta!