Tiresias

Fulham are such an odd team, I never know if they're really rather good, or just boring shit...shame they couldn't beat the mackems though, that's pretty poor of them.

As ever got it right, glad not whining over penalties, even if second one was a bit soft, always not sure what it achieves anyway

Exactly, wonder if the international break stripped some of Raylor's confidence. We didn't put away our chances though, and City are going to put away theirs, right attitude for the team right now is to shrug and more on, and will be for this tough patch, we could lose the next 2 as well (though I very much think we shouldn't necessarily at all) and we need to be able to take that mental hit.

Similar strategy as against Stoke for me, recognise that most their threat comes down the wings, so try and clog them up as much as possible. Their central midfield is not up to too much and we should go right for their defence without showing too much respect.

Can't see Wenger spending that amount of cash on a single player like. Even though he would be great for them. Nee chance will he spend £30m on anyone. Doubt it too, but theoretically can afford it even if loathe to, and would be a pretty strong replacement for Fabergas. Wonder if there's been a bit of an attitude change at Arsenal that they haven't got the talent to train up and if they want to compete for title going to have to spend a bit now before fair play comes in. Doubt they'll get him though, they'll put in a very good bid then Barca or United will jump in and snap him up

Hopefully that's our bad defending out our system.

I do like Nasri a lot as a player but he seems to want to drop deep and be a playmaker sort of player which he's not up to, always convinced me more as a goal scoring inside winger.

Tactics were fine, can't really predict when Raylor will fail, even though it was an inevitability at some point. Weren't overly defensive, were positive at times. Not sure what he could have done

Very generous, thought he was lacking defensively massively personally. Maybe fair, dunno how much he was more exposed due to Raylor having a woeful game / quality of opposition

Nasri was totally invisible all match, or was that just me being blind? Arfa looked class on the ball, and should have scored. He'll get a goal if he plays like that again sooner rather than later

Raylor definately deserved, horror game. Jonas did his usual thing defensively but ran into a lot of blind alleys and was pretty unimpressive to be honest, not his finest hour, however has to be said covering for Raylor made extra difficult

I'm watching, reasonably entertaining but lacking in shots really, just seem to run at each other really fast, it breaks down and then they run at the other. Not a regular watcher of the Bundesliga, is this usual? Seems very fast but also from a time before possession footy

Knock Knock Who's there?

Tiote in for Guthrie and Santon in for Raylor, otherwise unchanged for me. Think we have a good chance too, better than against Man City, we should be able to boss the midfield to be honest.

I think he'd work better off best, but very hard to say Ba doesn't deserve to start, and probably would have to give him preference, ultimately may just be dependant on the game jiggle which 2 are playing

Gah frustrating to be beaten by mistakes rather than outplayed, which we often were, but then a lot of the second half we were very strong. Ben Arfa perhaps should have scored but unlucky to just hit post, and then great save to cut out the guthrie cross. Ba forgot his lucky gloves or something. Can't help thinking with Tiote may have got something from the game. Oh well, onwards, in no way a blow to the campaign as noone will have counted on points there. Krul 6 Simpson 5 Taylor 7 Collocini 7 Raylor 1 Sammy 4 Guthrie 6 Cabaye 6 Jonas 4 Ba 4 Ben Arfa 7 Loven 1 Perch 5 Gosling 7

Need some Subs now, we're getting tired.

Oh well, just as we were looking good is the frustrating part. Still plenty of positives

:'(

Did everything right, Hart was great there

bad luck Ben Arfa!

Just deleted a post thought maybe a bit harsh on Sammy, think he's been quiet but probably not his fault. Cabaye's looked good, Ben Arfa finally looking good and not just potentially good now

Absolutely, I thought he was going to shoot but then did lovely pass to Ba, in retrospect should have shot since Ba failed, but imo was a fair decision since the set up for Ba was absolutely inch perfect

So heroic comeback? Pardew does a good half time talk

2-0's harsh, 1-0 is fair, but you know City will take their chances.