VILLA AWAY

[GranadaJoe]

That second half reminded me of the glory days when Song pissed away possession ten times a game. If you're going to try and control the game in the second half don't do anything fucking stupid. Half the team passed straight to a Villa player and then, when we got a one on one on the edge of their area we turned back. Tactically poor and endless individual mistakes. Really annoying, but in the morning I'll concentrate on the three points.

[clockender1]

Phew. Hope lessons were learnt tonight. Never ever ever ever should Cazorla and Ozil both start a game away from home again.

nope. and to make matters worse - he then subbed in rosicky - leaving us with 3/4 midfielders as tippy tappy bollockers.

you should know by now, Arsene Learns Nothing. TM.

Any decent manager would take our team at halftime at 2-0 up and say - "they're on the ropes, first 10 - muller them, high balls into the box, long shots, shoot whenever you can, one goal and they're fucked"....

instead we get "weel, show patience and qualitee and we'll get a goal our football deserves"

a better team than Villa will and has come back to take points off us too many times.

[MM99]

You lot on here are barking. Spend each and every game tip tapping away on here moaning throughout.
Why don't you put the laptop/phone/tablet down for two hours and watch the game having a beer. You might enjoy yourself.

Never understood how people can be on here and watch a game at the same time. I don't want to be missing a second of the game let alone be typing away on the computer during games like tonights.

[armchair]

Still dont fukin know where Akansas is fs...........

[MM99]

Also why the fuck did we not go into the corner everytime we had possession in the last minutes?

[GranadaJoe]

Phew. Hope lessons were learnt tonight. Never ever ever ever should Cazorla and Ozil both start a game away from home again.

nope. and to make matters worse - he then subbed in rosicky - leaving us with 3/4 midfielders as tippy tappy bollockers.

you should know by now, Arsene Learns Nothing. TM.

Any decent manager would take our team at halftime at 2-0 up and say - "they're on the ropes, first 10 - muller them, high balls into the box, long shots, shoot whenever you can, one goal and they're fucked"....

instead we get "weel, show patience and qualitee and we'll get a goal our football deserves"

a better team than Villa will and has come back to take points off us too many times.

I agree. I've said it before, Santi out wide away from home is a liability.

[rodders999]

You lot on here are barking. Spend each and every game tip tapping away on here moaning throughout.
Why don't you put the laptop/phone/tablet down for two hours and watch the game having a beer. You might enjoy yourself.

I haven't enjoyed a game of football in about 15 years. I'm only here for the tit threads

[Rosicky's Right Boot]

Also why the fuck did we not go into the corner everytime we had possession in the last minutes?

Giroud is incapable of wasting time. It happens in every single tight game where we're leading with minutes to go. Instead of taking it to the corner he goes for glory from about 35 yards or tries to beat 3 defenders and inevitably fails, handing them one last attacking chance. It hasn't cost us though. Not yet, anyway. But it's something that needs to be drilled into the players.

You get teams like Stoke coming to the Emirates and wasting time right from kick off, so it's about time we started doing it when it really is acceptable to do so.

[Chippy]

Father Ted is not coming back. For at least 24 hours anyway!

[SteveO 35]

Didn't hear a single chorus of There's Only One.....most disappointing now we're back top

[Henry Norris 1913]

Still dont fukin know where Akansas is fs...........

sounds like someone made a spelling error

[clockender1]

You lot on here are barking. Spend each and every game tip tapping away on here moaning throughout.
Why don't you put the laptop/phone/tablet down for two hours and watch the game having a beer. You might enjoy yourself.

some of us are working pal.

i'll watch the full game at home later or tomorrow.

[augie]

Also why the fuck did we not go into the corner everytime we had possession in the last minutes?

Giroud is incapable of wasting time. It happens in every single tight game where we're leading with minutes to go. Instead of taking it to the corner he goes for glory from about 35 yards or tries to beat 3 defenders and inevitably fails, handing them one last attacking chance. It hasn't cost us though. Not yet, anyway. But it's something that needs to be drilled into the players.

You get teams like Stoke coming to the Emirates and wasting time right from kick off, so it's about time we started doing it when it really is acceptable to do so.

I thought that giroud was very poor for the most part tonight - for a start I hate the concept of our (lone) striker out hugging the touchline like an old fashioned winger but secondly, and more importantly, his use of possession tonight was fcuking woeful I lost count of how many times moves broke down around him and as the lone striker, that cannot happen

All that being said, nobody was as poor tonight as ozil and cazorla - for all his injuries, rosicky will always be a popular player amogst the Arsenal fans because he plays every game with non stop energy and somebody should point that out to ozil and cazorla cos tonight they were slow and lazy both in thought and in movement

[Dan_85]

Phew. Hope lessons were learnt tonight. Never ever ever ever should Cazorla and Ozil both start a game away from home again.

nope. and to make matters worse - he then subbed in rosicky - leaving us with 3/4 midfielders as tippy tappy bollockers.

you should know by now, Arsene Learns Nothing. TM.

Any decent manager would take our team at halftime at 2-0 up and say - "they're on the ropes, first 10 - muller them, high balls into the box, long shots, shoot whenever you can, one goal and they're fucked"....

instead we get "weel, show patience and qualitee and we'll get a goal our football deserves"

a better team than Villa will and has come back to take points off us too many times.

Exactly this. Gotta work on that killer instinct, need to be putting games like that to bed much earlier instead of hanging on for dear life in the last 15.

[donaldo]

Yes we were poor yes we were sloppy but make no mistake this result was never in doubt.Villa were fucking shite

4th here we come