Diame is very hit and miss. I think he's much better suited to the premier league. He went missing most of last season for us - he finished the season well though...
Mr told you so is here , can you bang on about the greedy McCormack please and start a thread about telling us so too ?
Mitrovic is the best of what we have. He wouldn't have been anonymous like Gayle there, just being marked out of the game. That said, I agree, we need another striker and a senior/proven one. Armstrong will almost certainly be sent out on loan in the next couple of weeks.
You'll be fine when Mitrovic is available. Shelvey should have started alongside Colback. Just lacked firepower, firepower that Mitrovic will provide.
It's not easy been right this often. Well played tonight by the way. Big Matt was always a goal threat for us.
I wouldn't worry too much lads. This reminds me of our second season in League 1; started as one of the biggest favourites in the divisions history n lost at home to Plymouth on the opening day! Still expect you to be promoted comfortably and for what it's worth that year we went up n Argyle went down. Wouldn't be suprised to see the same result come seasons end....
All part of Rafa's master plan- lose the first game, get Ashley to sign Paul Pogba and then win the league.
Don't be mean there was a dad and two sons and more often than not one of them could not go. So I saw a lot of Arsenal's home games that season.. The longer the unbeaten run went on the atmosphere in the ground was amazing
Shelvey should be given a chance in the division I feel. Im hoping Diame will do much better in midfield in terms of putting a stamp on the game, if not him, Tiote if he's still around. Our midfield was just bossed yesterday, big time. I guess they had a man over too so maybe Rafa needs to take the blame for that. He probably felt we had the quality to play 2 vs 3, wasn't the case. Kinda sick of seeing Colback time and time again, I know he tries but physically..he's just lacking. He's small and he doesn't make up for it with pace nor energy. Anita the same really, they're okay in a 3 man midfield, Anita being the superior player to Colback and they should never start together again. Not to worried about losing to Fulham, we always do. There were 2 clear cut pens for us we didn't get. But Fulham deserved to win, they played the much better football. There was no real conviction in our front 4 yesterday.
