Match Day Thread Huddersfield Town vs Arsenal - Matchday Thread

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Venue: John Smith's Stadium
Date: Saturday 9th February
KO time: 15:00


Head to Head Record:
All: 77
Won: 36
Drawn: 25
Lost: 16

Last six meetings:

Arsenal 1-0 Huddersfield Town
Huddersfield Town 0-1 Arsenal
Arsenal 5-0 Huddersfield Town
Arsenal 2-1 Huddersfield Town (FA Cup)
Arsenal 1-1 Huddersfield Town (League Cup)
Huddersfield Town 0-5 Arsenal (League Cup)

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Team News:

Huddersfield winger Isaac Mbenza could be out for up to six weeks after tearing a calf muscle.

Chris Lowe should be fit after illness, while Jonathan Hogg and Erik Durm are back in full training after injuries.

Arsenal's Henrikh Mkhitaryan, out since December with a foot injury, could return, with Granit Xhaka and Ainsley Maitland-Niles also back in training.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Laurent Koscielny are expected to have recovered from sickness.



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Hate to be negative but really not understanding Emerys selection again..

No Aubamayeng (I assume he's sick!!?)
No Ozil
No Xhaka
No Ramsey

When was the last time we played the same lineup/formation for two or more games in a row? Has that even happned this Season?!
Still should be strong enough to beat Huddersfield but its getting ridiculous.

 

Aubameyang and Ozil sick, Xhaka has a groin problem still and Ramsey has a slight knee injury.

I'd wager most of those players will start in midweek, though.

 

Behind Lacazette, that three is embarrassing.

However, Hudd are absolutely ****e.

 

any live streams?? my usual reddit/soccerstreams has closed down!

 

Iwobi and Mkhi have been our best players soo far.

 

Nice second goal - typical clinical finish from Lacazette

 

http://unitedtreble.blogspot.com/p/chelsea-1.html

 

Yup, thought Mkhitaryan messed that up as it was 2 v 1, but he recovered well to square it to AMN who put in a delicious cross for Laca to tap in.

To be honest, I think we've played quite averagely. We've got into a lot of promising positions, but our passing accuracy has been off, defensively we've looked a bit suspect and Guendouzi/Torreira were struggling to take control of midfield at certain points. Although, even though they've looked threatening, Huddersfield haven't had any proper chances.

Speaks volume about how poor Huddersfield are that we can perform like that and go into HT 2-0 up.

 

Yes. Against Huddersfield, **** can shine.

 

Positive as always Cini.

 

But yeah we havnt played well.

Our centrebacks have been terrible. (no big surprise) There's been alot of misplaced passes and the games been played at a pretty slow tempo.

Hopefully an away win will help us go on another decent run.

 

LOL Lacazette was denied a goal there by Elneny.

 

I dont get why we are playing 5 at the back against Hud

 

We are playing terrible football

 

we managed to concede against even huddersfield...

 

Second half was even worse. Passing was really poor.

Mustafi and Koscielny are alway on the floors - complaining about being hurt.
Can you imagine Tony Adams or Sol Campbell behaving like that?! Such lightweights.

Mkhi was our best player today (and he made alot of erratic passes).

• Only Fulham have less clean sheets than us this Season.
• We dont have a single clean sheet away from home.

 

My opponent had Kolasinac in his FF team. Can't tell you how happy that own goal made me after his assist and clean sheet up to that point. ****s him right up. And Arsenal still win. Bonza!

 

ive often said it, but Kolasinac for me epitomizes almost every full back weve signed in the last 15 years - very good going foward, nowhere near good enough defensively. He is essentially Andre Santos mk II.

 

I said even when we were 2-0 up that we were playing absolutely ****.
So many players underperformed. Loose touches, stray passes, getting outmuscled off the ball, horrific decision-making in the final third.

That second half was just relentless Huddersfield attack from minute 45 to minute 75. We weathered the storm ok, but that chance we conceded right at the end was absolutely PATHETIC.

Huddersfield are a shocking side. 11 points. 5 goals at home prior to this game. 13 all season. Yet they were causing us lots of issues.
I don't care if we've won, this team is not not getting top 4.

Emery playing 3 at the back was a big mistake too. We were getting overrun in midfield and he did nothing to stop it. Thank the lucky stars Huddersfield are truly awful because we'd have lost to any of the other 18 teams in the league with a display like that.

Oh and can we please never play Mustafi ever again? Even against the worst team in the league, he stood out as one of our worst players (along with AMN). That takes some doing.

****ing ****e all round.

Only positive is the 3 points. Nothing else.