PORTO - OFFICIAL THREAD

Lethal · Post by **Lethal** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:47 pm

what did wenger say in his interview anyone ?

the usual shite i presume

the jaybo · Post by **the jaybo** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:49 pm

it's better to play the away leg second imo, playing away first means you have to score atleast 2 to have a good chance of going through

selsdon · Post by **selsdon** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:49 pm

great desire by the boys, i have every faith in this squad to reach the carling cup 1/4s again next year

no. 1 is Perry Groves.... · Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:49 pm

its not been on yet - surely he cannot say anything other than "we were shite"

Perryashburtongroves · Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:52 pm

He'll trot out some shit about it being a learning curve and all that crap. Whatever blind excuses he makes should be after an apology to the 1,500 fans that went out there tonight.

Eboue-Why? · Post by **Eboue-Why?** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:54 pm

See the look on Gallas's face as he left the field? The face was screaming....'You made me look a fool, I'm off in January, we lost tonite but I couldn't really give a shit.'
This was only a half weakened side and they couldn't show any passion for the fight.

Wenger has just said that we will give anyone a good game in the last 16!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

no. 1 is Perry Groves.... · Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:55 pm

wenger says:

"comfortable in the first half, until they scored"

"we were too weak when we went 2 nil down"

nothing about desire, spirit etc etc - which is right as there wasn't any.

i suppose a sorry to all the suffering arsenal would have been nice but other than that fair enough from le boss

Rosie_titters · Post by **Rosie_titters** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:56 pm

he will talk about mental strength, and that the players were lacking in self belief and the ref was to much on there side and bollocks, and more bollocks

Ted B · Post by **Ted B** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:58 pm

aw wrote: 2-0

congratulations, you were spot on.

Calo · Post by **Calo** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:58 pm

from bad to worse

the kids are getting ebouetousis

the end is neigh remember i did warn us

Calo · Post by **Calo** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:59 pm

nelly the elephant up front is useless

selsdon · Post by **selsdon** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:00 pm

'comfortable in the 1st half'

sums up where we're at currently

four years ago we'd have gone out there tried to secure top spot our ambitions stretched to winning the title and champs league, now it's just to qualify for the latter

aw · Post by aw » Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:06 pm

Poor performance from our Reserve team.

Apart from crap defending from Eboue and Silvestre, they never actually crossed the half way line or put a cross in, so absolutely no attacking action from these players. Why didn't Gibbs play LB.
Diaby and Song were very poor tonight.

Bendtner will never make it at this level. Although he didn't have much service.

Djourou was our best player. Ramsey and Vela did ok. Vela was very light weight and got pushed of the ball a lot tonight. Hopefully he can spend some time in the gym.

No comment on Almunia or Gallas.
I'm not sure what Ramsey's best position is?

I think we need Traore back to give us some attacking option on the wing.

Calo · Post by **Calo** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:08 pm

aw wrote:Poor performance from our Reserve team.

Apart from crap defending from Eboue and Silvestre, they never actually crossed the half way line or put a cross in, so absolutely no attacking action from these players. Why didn't Gibbs play LB.
Diaby and Song were very poor tonight.

Bendtner will never make it at this level. Although he didn't have much service.

Djourou was our best player. Ramsey and Vela did ok. Vela was very light weight and got pushed of the ball a lot tonight. Hopefully he can spend some time in the gym.

No comment on Almunia or Gallas.
I'm not sure what Ramsey's best position is?

I think we need Traore back to give us some attacking option on the wing.

yes Dourjou was very good

King_Kolo · Post by **King_Kolo** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:12 pm

Fucks sake people let's have some perspective shall we. I guarantee if we'd put out a strong team tonight and lost Cesc or Clichy to injury, everyone would be whingeing about Wenger not resting players, and we could just as easily have lost. The fact is we qualified with a game to go which in our current sitiation is more than acceptable in my book. Plus some of our bright young stars got an invaluable experience on a big Eurpoean stage instead of the pointless Carling Cup. It doesn't matter anymore whether you finish first or second, I personally think we play better against big sides anyway so I'd rather get a Barcelona or a Juve. We know some of the players out tonight aren't good enough but they are squad players, you can't compare them with te first team of 4 years ago, it doesn't make any sense. Don't forget we also had the likes of Luzhny, Cygan, Stepanovs etc. Lets just be grateful we're in the draw.