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This game is dire, we are dire and if we don't up the f**king tempo and string 2 f**king passes together we will be hanging on to a 1-0 led against a not very impressive Marseille.
Ozil off his game today, not judging just by lame penalty, he's just not that Ozil. Maybe Wenger's training already started to affect him?
Put Santi on.
It should be over and out by half time. 3 or 4:0 any peacefully waiting for napoli to score with a keg of beer closeby.
This game sums up everything that I detest about this fucking boring Group stage
Marseille already out.....the game already as good as over.....and they still have one meaningless game (for them) left after this.
Please can we go back to a straight knock out format.
Marseille have been utterly disgraceful in this. This is supposedly the elite competition in European football and they have picked a side and an approach that I would be shocked to see in a League Cup game
Its up for grabs now wrote:why didnt giroud take it?
My thoughts exactly
I don't think Giroud should take pens. Vastly vastly improved this year but still not a finisher and I'm not convinced he's particularly composed from that sort of range.
Was a piss-poor penalty mind. Ozil is effortlessly comfortable and shifts the ball around with absolute ease. But that's all he is at the moment: comfortable. He's not going to sweat his bollocks off chasing balls all around the pitch and diving into tackles (and nor would I want him to) but his body language still isn't that encouraging. Doesn't seem to be particularly enjoying his football.
Has been a fairly lazy performance but I'm not worried - they're piss-poor and I no longer feel like we're always on the verge of capitulating when we're only a goal ahead