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.
Swifty wrote:Until Theo's goal I thought we were totally outplayed. Thought Campbell was atrocious as was Gibbs when he came on. A lucky but welcome 3 points. We were pushed off the ball so many times and lost so many 50-50s it was embarrassing. I think City lost it rather than we won it but a win is a win. Ozil was excellent, Theo played well as did the back 4.
We will be top by next week.
Some truths a some half truths there.
We should have been long out of sight before City managed to muster a proper chance in that second half. All their bit of possession counted for fuck all, as they never really threatened, till Wenger decided to really give them a shot at a come back by taking off the best player on the pitch and thus allowing the 2nd best player, Yaya, to come to life.
Also, they were utter brutes from the get go and should have had every single one of their outfield players booked for practicing kung fu on us.
Swifty wrote:Until Theo's goal I thought we were totally outplayed. Thought Campbell was atrocious as was Gibbs when he came on. A lucky but welcome 3 points. We were pushed off the ball so many times and lost so many 50-50s it was embarrassing. I think City lost it rather than we won it but a win is a win. Ozil was excellent, Theo played well as did the back 4.
We will be top by next week.
they were utter brutes from the get go and should have had every single one of their outfield players booked for practicing kung fu on us.
Can't agree with this one - the number of times our blokes were pulling out of 50-50s was sending me spare! That's all about attitude. Also I thought De Bruyn was almost unstoppable in the first half and should have both scored and provided an assist and Navas should also have scored. Theo's goal was a massive change in momentum - as was Toure's. De Bruyn passes to Silva in the first half instead of shooting and it's an enitely different game.
Don't get me wrong, I'm stoked with the result and some of the play - but we rode our luck and squandered chances so I'm not getting carried away.
Nos89 wrote:Thanks to injuries we've finally stumbled across a well balanced team. Campbell works hard like Freddie and Parlour did that helped balance previous championship winning teams. Listened to it on 5live and we got a bit shaky without self combusting like we did last season when we shoulve won. Still a concern at how many opportunities we are allowing the opposition to create, but it sounded like a hard worked victory. Well done The Arsenal, second to only Leicester 4 points ahead of city. Some breathing space.
Correct except for Campbell.The injuries have made the Clueless One play Rambo in his right position.I know he missed a couple of great chances but he is the one midfielder who looks provides a goal threat.
The only thing i would say is we have been in the same position in 2008.10,11 and 13 and blown it when the pressure was on.Still believe we need to buy a striker in Jan
Nos89 wrote:Thanks to injuries we've finally stumbled across a well balanced team. Campbell works hard like Freddie and Parlour did that helped balance previous championship winning teams. Listened to it on 5live and we got a bit shaky without self combusting like we did last season when we shoulve won. Still a concern at how many opportunities we are allowing the opposition to create, but it sounded like a hard worked victory. Well done The Arsenal, second to only Leicester 4 points ahead of city. Some breathing space.
Correct except for Campbell.The injuries have made the Clueless One play Rambo in his right position.I know he missed a couple of great chances but he is the one midfielder who looks provides a goal threat.
The only thing i would say is we have been in the same position in 2008.10,11 and 13 and blown it when the pressure was on.Still believe we need to buy a striker in Jan
The midfield looks so much more balanced. Cazorla and Ozil might look nice with tippy-tappy passes but it just doesn't work.
It was no coincidence that we counter-attacked as well as we have in years without Cazorla in the side and with Ramsey playing box-to-box and Ozil playing further up.
Nos89 wrote:Thanks to injuries we've finally stumbled across a well balanced team. Campbell works hard like Freddie and Parlour did that helped balance previous championship winning teams. Listened to it on 5live and we got a bit shaky without self combusting like we did last season when we shoulve won. Still a concern at how many opportunities we are allowing the opposition to create, but it sounded like a hard worked victory. Well done The Arsenal, second to only Leicester 4 points ahead of city. Some breathing space.
Correct except for Campbell.The injuries have made the Clueless One play Rambo in his right position.I know he missed a couple of great chances but he is the one midfielder who looks provides a goal threat.
The only thing i would say is we have been in the same position in 2008.10,11 and 13 and blown it when the pressure was on.Still believe we need to buy a striker in Jan
Campbell played ok last night, he had a shaky start but grew into the game and made a couple of strong surging runs especially in the second half. Really don't get peoples beef with Campbell, he has bags of potential and you can see his confidence building with every game. He was given a good reception when subbed last night because we knew he put in a shift.
Campbell is competing with the ox for his position in the side. The Ox should have made this his own by now despite injuries but you feel Campbell at this moment has more to offer.
Swifty wrote:Until Theo's goal I thought we were totally outplayed. Thought Campbell was atrocious as was Gibbs when he came on. A lucky but welcome 3 points. We were pushed off the ball so many times and lost so many 50-50s it was embarrassing. I think City lost it rather than we won it but a win is a win. Ozil was excellent, Theo played well as did the back 4.
We will be top by next week.
Some truths a some half truths there.
We should have been long out of sight before City managed to muster a proper chance in that second half. All their bit of possession counted for fuck all, as they never really threatened, till Wenger decided to really give them a shot at a come back by taking off the best player on the pitch and thus allowing the 2nd best player, Yaya, to come to life.
Also, they were utter brutes from the get go and should have had every single one of their outfield players booked for practicing kung fu on us.
Ok so we where outplayed for the first half, but we didn't lose. Isn't that a reflection on City's inability to capitalise on their domination of a large part of the game?
Always good to see negative spin from Gooners, it's almost habitual.
Remember City are our main rivals for the title this season, forget Leicester who will fade. Given this we really have it in our own hands to actually cross the line 1st this season. If we fuck this up fine have a moan, have a pop at Wenger but ffs don't fucking whinge after we just turned over another PL contender.
Man City who have now lost 5 times this season are still really our own main contenders for the title.
Ok Leicester City are still top but they have to go to Liverpool and Spurs in the next month as well as facing Man City at home.
I will be disappointed if we are not clear at the top by the time we go to Anfield next month - and a refreshed Sanchez will be back by then too
Swifty wrote:Until Theo's goal I thought we were totally outplayed. Thought Campbell was atrocious as was Gibbs when he came on. A lucky but welcome 3 points. We were pushed off the ball so many times and lost so many 50-50s it was embarrassing. I think City lost it rather than we won it but a win is a win. Ozil was excellent, Theo played well as did the back 4.
We will be top by next week.
Some truths a some half truths there.
We should have been long out of sight before City managed to muster a proper chance in that second half. All their bit of possession counted for fuck all, as they never really threatened, till Wenger decided to really give them a shot at a come back by taking off the best player on the pitch and thus allowing the 2nd best player, Yaya, to come to life.
Also, they were utter brutes from the get go and should have had every single one of their outfield players booked for practicing kung fu on us.
don't care how badly we played in the first half, we took our chances and hey presto. We could have easily been 3 or 4 up as well before they got the equalizer
I thought we looked quite solid throughout. City didn't get going properly until Toure did just 10 minutes from the end. He bossed that period and we did well to keep them at bay with some resolute defending.
I'm hugely impressed with Bellerin.
Thought Feo took his goal well too. When he initially intercepted the pass that was going out to Ozil I thought "you dick". 5 seconds later it was nestling nicely in the back.
