As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
Soft as shite defending? Check.
Brainless Gervinho? Check.
Giroud an abysmal £13 mil donkey? Check.
Steve Bould curing world hunger? Think not
Arsenal made to look average by a quality side? Check.
Arsenal no chance of winning the league again? Check.
Much vaunted Koscielny playing like a nob? Check.
Wenger making retard subs on 70? Zzzzzz
Arsenal unable to defend set pieces? Check.
Arsenal unable to break down organised team? Snooze.
Wenger screws Arsenal for yet another year? Check.
Too predictable.
Arsenal have taken just 9 points out of 18 in the league.
Outplayed by Chelski. That's just half.
Wenger tactically destroyed by Di Matteo.
Arsenal will win nothing until better players are signed and more importantly, idiot Wenger is gone.
West Brom could be a few points clear of Arsenal tonight.
Hilarious. It'll be 8 years without a pot.
Boooooooring.
Errrmm.....think this may be a repost.
You're right about the booooooring bit though. A bit of self awareness at last. Well done mate, i'm proud of you.
That probing by giroud the other night didnt work
Come on mate, i thought we weren't going to mention that again.
Too predictable tactically. Chelsea may have played attacking players but set up very defensively and gambled on us playing Ramsey and lacking width. To be fair they pressed well in the middle of the park and made it hard for us to play but why did Gervinho stay on for the whole match? That's the third time now Giroud has been put through like that and although he did the right thing today and it wasn't the easiest finish he should definitely have scored, would have been a positive to get a point after playing so poorly.
Fucking hate Chavs so much, full of scumbags and cheats. Cech is a whinging twat, Ivanovic is a dirty bastard, Luiz and Torres dive all the time, Mikel is a mercenary, the less said about Terry and Cole the better and Hazard is an overrated arrogant prick. Fucking annoying because they're not the great side people reckon and they won't be in the hunt for the title come April/May, may have pressed well but even with us being off our game they still created almost nothing and took two terrible defensive set-ups to score, as well as us missing a few very good chances and Cech making a couple of good saves. Fucking luckiest team in living memory.
Sutch wrote:Not even going to bother reading through this, no doubt theres probably the same usual suspects jumping on Ramsey because he misplaced two passes but turning a blind eye to other players doing it.
But fucking hell Mannone
Ramsey has been shite for the last few years though
Sutch wrote:Not even going to bother reading through this, no doubt theres probably the same usual suspects jumping on Ramsey because he misplaced two passes but turning a blind eye to other players doing it.
But fucking hell Mannone
Ramsey was dog shit all game so yeah can see guys jumping all over him
Were we watching the same game? IMO bar the couple of bad passes in the second half he did nothing wrong?
The goalkeeping situation is still outstanding. We only have one "decent" keeper. No number thats two good enough.
Baffling managerial decisions cost us again. ie - no striker and mert dropped.
Sicknote Diaby needs to be moved on. Ramsey really isn't good enough to be first choice. Hopefully when/if Jack returns we'll see less of Rambo
Gervino - while not quite as bad as Arseshavin is quickly becoming my pet hate player at Arsenal. Hes not Arsenal standard and for me hes not PL standard.
Have liked Jenko and still like him. Becoming a decent player and can actually cross a ball.
The OX should start more. Ahead of Gerv.
Giroud does not seem good enough unfortunately.
Seems like Bouldys influence isn't all that after all.
Glitch33 wrote:We played with he handbrake on for most of the game.
The Chavs kept Caz quiet which stifled our creativity.
Chavs didn't really trouble us in open play and we had to help them get all 3 points. Mannone didn't have much to do.
Fullbacks played well. Jenko increasing in confidence but probably going to be dropped in favour of Sagna soon.
Thought the Chavs were pretty boring given they have several flair players, Mata, Oscar, Torres but they did enough.
Looked like the difference between U13's v U15's at times.
Of course he will be dropped, he's playing well
Another note, people saying Mannone had nothing to do. But when he was called upon, although Torres was offside, his shot went straight through him. He's a poor keeper, full stop.
goonersid wrote:What today has proved is that when we are going well, Wenger will fuck it up. Bringing vemalen back ahead of mert and disrupting what looked a solid centre pairing, starting the god awful ramsey albeit for only 10 minutes proves wenger will never learn and simply reaffirms my belief that Wenger simply has to go because we will never win anything as long as his tactical ineptness reigns over the club.
Today was the first time in years that we have gone into a big game that I fully expected to win. What a fool I am.
And as fo Giroud, what a useless fucking piece of shite this guy is. Anyone still doubting Baba's assessment of this fucking donkey?????
Mate. Kos was the reason for their two goals today, not Vermaelen.
TV gave away both free kicks in dangerous areas that lead to the goals.The 2nd he was caught upfield.Lack of discipline
Chelsea dominated the first half we had a good 5 mins before and after half time but they kept us at arms length
What was frightening was how easy Chelsea ran through our midfield
Giroud is crap but so are Forehead Ramsey and super sub Walnutt
And Diaby injured again
We conceded because we were defending ridiculously deep for the free-kicks amongst other things. The first was shit from Koscielny but we should have been higher and that ball would have run harmlessly out. Likewise the second should have been easy for Mannone to get too, but men coming across it made it dangerous. It's just absolutely basic to set up with a man screening the low ball, it wasn't a fantastic free-kick but you just can't make it easy for them to put in a ball like that, makes it very difficult to defend. Vermaelen was poor and stupid to give away the free-kicks, although they weren't in hugely dangerous areas. Mertesacker deserves to be playing (pace or no pace) and I would think very hard about which of the others to drop.
Had Chelsea actually been a great team going forward it would have probably been 4-1, they wasted so much ball in good counter-attackin areas.
Worrying sets a precedent and I wouldn't be surprised to see United and other teams doing the same to us.
As bad a performance as it can get in a big match at home really. What hurt the most was being 1-2 down at home there was no urgency in the last 20 mins, we kept playing at a walking pace. Ramsey and Gervinho, goal aside were again abysmal. Gibbs had a poor game at the back, gave the ball away carelessly in dangerous areas. Kos has a shocker. After his performance against City who have their share of skillful and nimble players, Mert should not have been dropped. 2 of our reliable players Santi and Arteta had average games today, Pod was again peripheral, I like the way he helps out at the back but it seems like it has already taken a toll on him, even Arteta looked tired today. Just not good enough.
Sutch wrote:Not even going to bother reading through this, no doubt theres probably the same usual suspects jumping on Ramsey because he misplaced two passes but turning a blind eye to other players doing it.
But fucking hell Mannone
Ramsey has been shite for the last few years though
Disagree mate, I say this in nearly every post about him. In his first two seasons here he was impressive, then he was out for over a year with that injury. Then last season, when not even fully recovered from that leg break, he had to become the main creative player with the loss of our two main ones before him, and with Wilshere and Diaby injured, Denilson on loan, everyone expected alot of him in his first full season back. Some people expect British players to be world class at age 21 and if they're not then they're labelled as shit
We always seem to blame the players but we were tactically inept today. I am not Jose Moaninho but if you are unable to organise to defend set pieces and you let the oppo neutralise your 2 best midfielders, Santi and Arteta, then you deserve to lose. Fact!
