Arsenal (A) Match Thread

[HankMarvin]

1 minute ago, itude said:

Arteta seems to have bought well, and blended them in also. As others have said, they look a class above us at the moment, Seems we have done nothing apart from getting ourselves a free third choice keeper. Some refresh eh ?

You can lose a game and still

come out of it with some credit and positives moving forward.

It doesn’t seem many players are too disgruntled at the score, I would like to see some desire and crunching tackles at the very least.

it’s far too passive.

Looks like they just going through the motions, it would be nice to see some Leicester chances.

 

[sishades]

Relegation 6 pointer against the saints next week.

[DanDare]

Highlight of the 2nd half will be seeing how many Danny Ward can single handedly keep it down to. 

Plus having a chuckle at Rodgers no subs excuses. No hang on, we've already heard them 

[turtmcfly]

An unlikely goal and they could be doing our panicky "we should be out of sight" stuff from last week. 

 

Ah, no changes. Wotanuttacock. 

[Guest itude]

2 minutes ago, Beechey said:

Mate who’s at the game told me Leicester fans are fighting each other in the away end

Rodgers ins v Rodgers outs ?

[jerakin]

I'm going to stick to Stamford AFC, better setup.

[weller54]

2 minutes ago, The Guvnor said:

Let's see what the Gaffer conjures up this half.

Bring David Copperfield and Paul Daniels off the bench!!

[Cadno'r Cymoedd]

Have we had 'at least we're above Everton' post yet? 

[Sly]

Just now, weller54 said:

Bring David Copperfield and Paul Daniels off the bench!!

More life in them than our midfield. 

[FosseSpark]

It's Rodgers out now I'm afraid. 

[foxes_rule1978]

At least we aren’t as bad as Everton 

[SpacedX]

Just now, funkyrobot said:

They are playing a team who have spunked a fortune on Silva and Zinchenko. We’ve not been able to strengthen and we’ve lost our only winger after losing his back up permanently. Arse are at home and are playing a team who have been forced to play a formation that we aren’t great at. A bit of balance in the commentary would help. The penalty would not have been overturned last year. We have now entered the Mike Dean show so expect more decisions like that going against non big 6 teams. Arsenal are massively hyped. Still expect them to crumble over the season. 

They may indeed 'crumble', but aside from your emotional response and for all your protestations, we have seen no evidence of that today, rather fluid and pressing well drilled football that we too played for the first 50 minutes against Brentford last weekend. Why shouldn't Matt Upson compliment Arsenal's performance as he did us in the same position last week - and precisely what 'balance' do you expect in a game that has been so blatantly one sided?

 

Regarding Dean - no fan here, but his decision was the correct one. 

[Gamble92]

I'd love to meet some of you for a scrap

[Merging Cultures]

Looks like our GK distribution from kicking isn't going to improve.

 

At least he did command his box though 

[fox_favourite]

Just now, Cadno'r Cymoedd said:

Have we had 'at least we're above Everton' post yet? 

We have now

[Tommy Fresh]

9 minutes ago, Line-X said:

And how I've missed those flat back fives at home to Stoke and Hull City. 

I do actually miss being in games and having a feeling we might actually come from behind in games. Also that was our first season in the league not really comparable.

[Molson Canadian]

my stream died 

 

[taupe]

On the plus side, this Arsenal side are in no need of Tielemans.

[jonny_wright]

3 minutes ago, The Guvnor said:

Let's see what the Gaffer conjures up this half.

1 pointless sub on 70th min is my bet 

[FosseSpark]

1 sub in 135 mins of football in 30 degree heat. 

[cropstonfox]

4 minutes ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Anyone miss the days of us not knowing exactly how a game was going to go. 

Miss playing on the front .

[don_danbury]

Just now, Molson Canadian said:

my stream died 

 

lucky sod

[RoboFox]

Just now, Molson Canadian said:

my stream died 

 

Mine too. Not sure I can be arsed to find another one.

[Cadno'r Cymoedd]

Just now, taupe said:

On the plus side, this Arsenal side are in no need of Tielemans.

Is that a positive nowadays? 

[LestaAl]

My commentator just praised Kasper’s world class distribution…wonder how many matches he saw😏