What a player he is. He looks like a little fat mole but what a player. Receives a ball and is already looking up and "forward". Fantastic display. Jake Livermore is **** scared of been near a goal or facing forward. He's happier without the ball. Deservedly taken off. I've not watched the game back yet but when Quinny/Brady pulled one back to the edge of the box he seemed to deliberatley run in and missed it to avoid having to take it on. Will watch it again tomorrow. Hudd **** me he could have gone forwards before giving it away for their third. It was ****ing harder to go backwards yet he still wanted to. What is wrong with these players. The thought of going for goal ****s them up. Felt a little sorry for Aluko having to jump with Mertesacker for his only passes but were was the extra effort to chase and harry. Quinny ran by him to close people down. Macca was a lucky boy letting the ball bounce like that. Should have been punished. I thought we should have gone 4-4-2 and pressed them in midfield more. Too easy for them. Robbo was an unnecessary sub for me. Brady was fine it messed his game up. Meyler did well when he came on, clattered a few. N'Doye worked hard but was too isolated. Bring Jelavic on and then stick N'Doye out wide!! Strange. Some piss poor crosses went in in the last ten minutes when we had Jelly on, didnt beat the first man about 5 times!! WTF Gave em too much respect. Like a training match for them. Luckily they took the foot off the gas. Did Dawson get booked first half? Cos he got away without a booking for that challenge on the edge of the box when Meyler was injured.
If you sucked about 5 stones of fat out of Huddlestone and gave him a brain then you might have a Cazorla on your hands, instead you have what you see, a player asleep when you need him the most to do his job and not give the ball to the best passing team in England
Cazola cost Arsenal £15 million. Do you think Wenger would take Hernandez plus £3 million for him? Seems fair to me.
Possibly but he does have a real lack of talent when it comes to attacking. He literally ****s himself and that results in miscontrolling the ball and snapping at shots. He would be a really good player if he improved that side of his game.
Huddlestone was really poor last night. His fault for giving away the ball for the free kick for goal one and just generally **** for goal three. We need a huge improvement from him on Saturday. That performance was nowhere near good enough.
Bruce confirmed Livermore did his ankle early on and was part of the reason he was taken off. The boys had an off day, but they were brilliant against Palace and Liverpool. What a difference a game makes, hey? And for the record I thought Huddlestone's ball control 75% of the time was brilliant, but when it wasn't, it really hurt.
He was, he came over to the bench mid way through the first half for a pain killer and pointed at his ankle as the area that was giving him jip.
Dawson didn't get booked for the challenge. The referee bottled it after playing on with Meyler's head injury. The wall didn't look 10 yards either. Last night showed how good a manager Wenger is. He more or less nullified our strength down both wings and exploited our weakness by pressing Huddlestone and giving him no time to think. It is easy to see why they are pressing for second spot. Given the way they set up and their talent I didn't think we did too badly. At times a bit more composure on the ball and we would have created better chances. Play like that against Burnley and we should be ok. Chazz, when you watch it back can you try and see how Livermore crocked his ankle. Given it was Arsenal I wouldn't put it past them to have done it deliberately.
Wont blame Livermore on his own for his reluctance to shoot, it appears all of the team suffers from it, it did appear strange that we kept playing high ball's against one of the biggest defender's in the PL. The best team won last night without a doubt they were in a different class helped by city not turning up till the second half. Last point from last night was the referee Lee Mason, that has to be one of the worst display's of refereeing and only goes to prove that the smaller club suffer at the hands of these star struck idiots, Arsenal player goes down with " head injury" game stopped straight away, Meyler goes down with head injury which even to be fair some Arsenal player's are saying stop the game, he let's play go on till Arsenal got the free kick on the edge of our box, Arsenal player appears to stamp on Quinn in the 2nd half just get a talking too , find it strange that the only booking last night were to city player's. yet some off the Arsenal foul play was just as bad as city's for which they pick up no booking's.
Arsenal were different gravy. We were well beaten by a side that pass you to death and just run around youand attack at will. A bad result in the scheme of things but not fatal.
We got a lesson in football last night, hardly a surprise, they're not second in the league for nothing.
