Chavs (H) in the thingy cup

[LDB]

Think Wenger was right not to field a team any weaker then he did, no point sending out the kids to get shat on by chelsea's "second string" harlem globetrotter XI. What was most depressing last night was the crushing sense of deja vu in terms of the tactics and the way the match played out. Chavs more or less let us have the ball, sit deep and close the space and then wait for the opportunity to nick a goal or two through a mistake or a counter attack. Someone else on this thread put it brilliantly, Mourinho has been away for 6 years and he comes back and not a single thing has changed

The only way to approach this game is the way the fat spanish waiter at liverpool used to play the chavs - go down to their level. Sit back as well and worst comes to the worst you're good for a point. It's depressing for the viewing public watching two highly paid expensively assembled professional football teams not wanting the ball but it's the only way, we're simply not good enough to pick our way through them. 50 quid says we see a carbon copy of this game in the two league fixtures

[Steve_I]

Think Wenger was right not to field a team any weaker then he did, no point sending out the kids to get shat on by chelsea's "second string" harlem globetrotter XI. What was most depressing last night was the crushing sense of deja vu in terms of the tactics and the way the match played out. Chavs more or less let us have the ball, sit deep and close the space and then wait for the opportunity to nick a goal or two through a mistake or a counter attack. Someone else on this thread put it brilliantly, Mourinho has been away for 6 years and he comes back and not a single thing has changed

The only way to approach this game is the way the fat spanish waiter at liverpool used to play the chavs - go down to their level. Sit back as well and worst comes to the worst you're good for a point. It's depressing for the viewing public watching two highly paid expensively assembled professional football teams not wanting the ball but it's the only way, we're simply not good enough to pick our way through them. 50 quid says we see a carbon copy of this game in the two league fixtures

Happy to take that bet. You saying result wise too? (obviously not specifically 2-0 but a loss?)

[Supagoon]

[quote="LDB"]Think Wenger was right not to field a team any weaker then he did, no point sending out the kids to get shat on by chelsea's "second string" harlem globetrotter XI. What was most depressing last night was the crushing sense of deja vu in terms of the tactics and the way the match played out. Chavs more or less let us have the ball, sit deep and close the space and then wait for the opportunity to nick a goal or two through a mistake or a counter attack. Someone else on this thread put it brilliantly, Mourinho has been away for 6 years and he comes back and not a single thing has changed

The only way to approach this game is the way the fat spanish waiter at liverpool used to play the chavs - go down to their level. Sit back as well and worst comes to the worst you're good for a point. It's depressing for the viewing public watching two highly paid expensively assembled professional football teams not wanting the ball but it's the only way, we're simply not good enough to pick our way through them. 50 quid says we see a carbon copy of this game in the two league fixtures [/quote]


truthhhhh!!

The real reason jose hates rafa is because he knows how to frustrate jose's teams! sir alex's utd were the same.

Sadly we just don't have the defensive platform to keep games with the likes of Chelsea and utd tight; keep it 0-0 even to 50mins, and then score a late goal.

It seems the standard pattern is:
duke it out for 40mins, lose concentration, concede before half time, come out chasing the game, opposition soak pressure and score on counter. Heads drop, defeat in the bag.

We have improved defensively from the days or implicit care free defending, but we can still concede goals, still struggle to keep clean sheets, and our attack is in no condition to totally compensate for this.

[SteveO 35]

It was pretty grim last night ; 9,000 Chavs lording it over us as their team were so superior on the pitch. I yearn for the days when we were the undisputed Kings of London and they hadn't won a pot for 25 years. The roles used to be reversed and we used to go to the Bridge and show them who's boss.

I know it was only the League Cup, but still feeling depressed right now ; just treated myself to a Twix AND a Topic from the work vending machine to try and cheer myself up.

Nice to know I'm not alone in feeling the pain of losing to them in a cup we could win - exactly how I feel

[mcdowell42]

Scum are losing at home to hull 2-1 in the thingy cup

2-2 now

[afcforever]

Alan smith is such a wanker, never has a good word about the Arsenal.


He never has a good word to say about the Arsenal, not just last night.

[/quote]

What other farm yard animal noises do you do? Moo moo, oink oink?

[TurnipMasher]

Scum are losing at home to hull 2-1 in the thingy cup

2-2 now

Lamella looks a steal at £30 mill.... He's useless

[Glitch33]

just treated myself to a Twix AND a Topic from the work vending machine to try and cheer myself up.

Isn't this slightly off-topic?

Cue loud snickers

[Henry Norris 1913]

All our rival fans want Wenger to stay. How fucking embarrassing is that

much more embarrassing when you realise our own fans do too. fucking sheep

[g88ner]

All our rival fans want Wenger to stay. How fucking embarrassing is that

much more embarrassing when you realise our own fans do too. fucking sheep

why are they sheep if they want Wenger to stay? - there's a large enough contingent of people who moan about Wenger for them to quite easily change ship if they wanted.

[DB10GOONER]

All our rival fans want Wenger to stay. How fucking embarrassing is that

much more embarrassing when you realise our own fans do too. fucking sheep

why are they sheep if they want Wenger to stay? - there's a large enough contingent of people who moan about Wenger for them to quite easily change ship if they wanted.

BAAAAA motherfucker BAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

[beck]

Would love to see us knock the chavs out but I cannot see it happening even if we played our best 11 We were the first club to really devalue this competition and it has got to the stage that I dont give a fcuk about it anymore Years ago we had bigger targets and prizes in our sights so the micky mouse cup counted for fcuk all except to develop our younger players - nowadays we are to believe that it is a competition that wenker and the club do take seriously and we are meant to believe that it isnt that they want to get rid of the "x number of years without a trophy" crap ?

Due to much club propaganda, I no longer know what the aims of our club is but I know that my ambition to see wenker sacked this season is probably fcuked either way

league cup 96/97
manchester united v swindon
van der goun
casper
phil neville
poborsky
appleton
mc clair
scholes
thornley
davies
arsenal v stoke
seaman
dixon
winterburn
keown
bould
adams
platt
wright
merson
bergkamp
vieira

[beck]

Our best XI vs. their second choice..

not totally true

well yeah, sagna and scez missing.

But we could have Mata instead of Miyaichi

walcott
podolski
chamberlaine
mertesacker?

[beck]

Mourinho always had the wood over Wenger because he saw him for the tactically naive and rigid manager that he is.

When was the last time we won at Stamford Bridge, Etipop or Old Trafford ?

i just cannot wait for the excuse tonight - more niaivety Arsene ? the same as Dortmund beating us at home AGAIN.

and btw a second string united side won 4-0 at home to Norwich tonight.

11/12
chelsea 3 arsenal 5
koscielny was immence
ramsey very good, set up equaliser and made fine runs into the box
walcott got the better of cole created chances and scored a fine 4th
jenkinson made us much more solid when he came on
10/11
man city 0 arsenal 3
fabianski great reflexes on 3 occasions
sagna dominant
rosicky lively when he came on
bendtner lovely dinked finish over hart
06/07
man utd 0 arsenal 1
djourou and rosicky very good

[SteveO 35]

Mourinho always had the wood over Wenger because he saw him for the tactically naive and rigid manager that he is.

When was the last time we won at Stamford Bridge, Etipop or Old Trafford ?

i just cannot wait for the excuse tonight - more niaivety Arsene ? the same as Dortmund beating us at home AGAIN.

and btw a second string united side won 4-0 at home to Norwich tonight.

11/12
chelsea 3 arsenal 5
koscielny was immence
ramsey very good, set up equaliser and made fine runs into the box
walcott got the better of cole created chances and scored a fine 4th
jenkinson made us much more solid when he came on
10/11
man city 0 arsenal 3
fabianski great reflexes on 3 occasions
sagna dominant
rosicky lively when he came on
bendtner lovely dinked finish over hart
06/07
man utd 0 arsenal 1
djourou and rosicky very good

Think you might find Van Persie's hat-trick at Stamford Bridge was the defining contribution, City were down to 10 men after 9 minutes and all the way back to 2006 for a win at OT (since when we've been pathetic there almost every time)