1. Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!

Match Day Thread Southampton vs. Arsenal 2015/16 Official Match Thread

Discussion in 'Arsenal' started by TheOXOCube:5pur2, Dec 21, 2015.

  1. Saintsfan08

    Saintsfan08 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 22, 2015
    Messages:
    2,294
    Likes Received:
    1,190
    ref keeping arsenal in it
     
    #41
  2. Smirnoffpriest

    Smirnoffpriest Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Oct 17, 2012
    Messages:
    4,913
    Likes Received:
    1,083
    Nice run from walcott

    our full backs are all over the place. Tho their goal was a worldie!
     
    #42
  3. BrunelGooner

    BrunelGooner Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 6, 2015
    Messages:
    4,405
    Likes Received:
    2,752
    We've not had many clear cut chances in this match, but our best chances so far have come from set-pieces and crosses. They're looking vulnerable in the air.

    Overall though, Southampton have executed their game-plan perfectly. Totally dominated us in midfield, and transition to attack so easily. Mane and Long stretching our defence with ease. We're lucky to only be a goal down.
     
    #43
  4. Arsenal87

    Arsenal87 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 15, 2012
    Messages:
    12,303
    Likes Received:
    968
    I swear I hate when we give one of these performances. We look like clueless idiots, our defending is ****, our attacking play is ****, our passing is ****. We're lucky we aren't 2-0 down. Wenger needs to get into the players and tell them to actually turn and wake the **** up, there's a bloody game on with a chance to go top of the league, which you'd never think after watching that gutless performance.
     
    #44
  5. lazarus20000

    lazarus20000 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jul 8, 2011
    Messages:
    9,338
    Likes Received:
    1,641
    Time to change our strategy and go long. We have plenty of pace up front and looks like our best chance.
     
    #45
  6. PINKIE

    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2011
    Messages:
    123,809
    Likes Received:
    71,936
    Frustrating half. Credit to Southampton, they've pressed us high up the pitch and forced us into giving the ball away. We've not really been able to build up any passage of play and have been limited to half chances.

    Great strike from Soton, nothing Cech could do about that. I don't think the conditions are helping us much, but we might get a bit of advantage playing with the wind behind us in the 2nd half. I'm not sure that Southampton will be able to keep up that level of pressure in the 2nd half, so we should get into the game a bit more. Patience for the first 20 mins though, then if we're still behind we can push up the field a but more and try to force the play.
     
    #46

  7. Krome

    Krome Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 6, 2012
    Messages:
    5,788
    Likes Received:
    314
    We put in these same performances every time we go here, Goodison, The Brittania...
     
    #47
  8. Smirnoffpriest

    Smirnoffpriest Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Oct 17, 2012
    Messages:
    4,913
    Likes Received:
    1,083
    We need Gabriel on so we've got energy and commitment in the back 4 (instead of very tired players). We also need to start passing and moving more, or as a fallback start lumping it up to Giroud or into the channels for Campbell/Theo to run on to - it'll stretch Southampton and negate their pressing strategy.
     
    #48
  9. Arsenal87

    Arsenal87 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 15, 2012
    Messages:
    12,303
    Likes Received:
    968
    If we want more pace, bring on the OX for Campbell
     
    #49
  10. BrunelGooner

    BrunelGooner Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 6, 2015
    Messages:
    4,405
    Likes Received:
    2,752
    HT. 1-0.

    Although we conceded to a spectacular goal from 30 yards, we're fortunate that it's the only goal we did let in. But this is a poor display so far. We can't handle the intensity of their pressing game and they keep winning the ball off us too easily. They're dominating us in midfield, with Mane and Long keeping our defence on their toes. This doesn't look like a side that has the desire to win the title, I have to say.

    We've struggled to get Ozil, Campbell, Walcott and Giroud into the game, but Ramsey and Flamini have been totally bossed by Wanyama.

    This was a game that I thought we would struggle in based on how Southampton press and how energetic their players are because we don't do well against teams that employ those sort of tactics.

    We need to hope they drop off in the second half because if they continue like that throughout, this game is a write off.
     
    #50
  11. PINKIE

    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2011
    Messages:
    123,809
    Likes Received:
    71,936
    Right here we go 2nd half, Come on Arsenal step it up !
     
    #51
  12. Sign Da Ting

    Sign Da Ting Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 9, 2012
    Messages:
    4,061
    Likes Received:
    619
    We are approaching our mid-season collapse earlier than expected tonight.
     
    #52
  13. Smirnoffpriest

    Smirnoffpriest Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Oct 17, 2012
    Messages:
    4,913
    Likes Received:
    1,083
    What an awful start to the half
     
    #53
  14. Krome

    Krome Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 6, 2012
    Messages:
    5,788
    Likes Received:
    314
    Pathetic dive by ward prowse
     
    #54
  15. Krome

    Krome Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 6, 2012
    Messages:
    5,788
    Likes Received:
    314
    game over. Got what we deserve today
     
    #55
  16. Smirnoffpriest

    Smirnoffpriest Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Oct 17, 2012
    Messages:
    4,913
    Likes Received:
    1,083
    Ohh my ****ing God!!)
     
    #56
  17. Sign Da Ting

    Sign Da Ting Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 9, 2012
    Messages:
    4,061
    Likes Received:
    619
    We are such a joke.
     
    #57
  18. PINKIE

    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2011
    Messages:
    123,809
    Likes Received:
    71,936
    ****ing **** decision from the ref. Blatant foul on Koscielny before finding himself unmarked in the box
     
    #58
  19. Smirnoffpriest

    Smirnoffpriest Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Oct 17, 2012
    Messages:
    4,913
    Likes Received:
    1,083
    That was a trip on kos but we've got all we deserved for such shocking defending , while saints have got all they deserve for their positive play.

    ****
     
    #59
  20. mk_gunner

    mk_gunner Member

    Joined:
    Dec 25, 2012
    Messages:
    92
    Likes Received:
    5
    reffffffffff
     
    #60

Share This Page