U2

This is so Arsenal. Does Wenger do any defensive positioning work, ever? They look so naive.

Arsenal are bobbins.

Insert Loftus Cheek and push Shelvey further back I guess. U2: Care to elaborate? Just don't agree with half your picks. Townsend for example shouldn't be ahead of Ritchie. I take Dummett ahead of PvA every time. Cabaye is finished. Just loads I disagree with. Nothing malicious here, I just disagree.

Yeah, I disagree.

Rafa mentioned post match that Merino had "little issues" coming back from international duty. Now that could be anything from a niggle to tactical issues and with Rafa, I can't call it. Explains why he came on from the bench and perhaps why he wasn't at his usual standard. Although, I do think that it was a torrid game to be in our midfield. The way the game was ebbing, made it so difficult to get into a rhythm.

Contact with Jesse in the box was as much a pen as the Man City incident.

seems legit

Palace failed to land a single effort on target

For some reason th entire tone of this post reads like a backhanded compliment. Find a lot of football fans find it difficult to change their opinion of a footballer. Reticent to give due credit. Nah. I love the guy. That's why I bumped the thread with two positive points

That has me howling with laughter

Sorry

What a goal by Lemina

No idea why he doesn't play more often, he looks class everytime I see him. Shit in defence. Really unreliable.

Burnley, Bournemouth, Man Utd, Watford our next 4 games. I'd take 4 points, 6 would be nice.

It's very much a History of rather than an analysis. It's far far too dry as well, I was immensely bored by it and I'm obsessed with football, so I'm not sure who the book's really for. You couldn't read it and really learn anything massively insightful. Proper toilet book for me. Just pop it open to a random page and read the odd paragraph. Find something interesting now and then.

Inverting the Pyramid is shit. Waffles on too much and there isn't anywhere near enough tactics talk with sufficient depth for a book based on tactics.

Why limit ourselves to the Europa League?

EUROPEOMETER

Which he is. Remember playing the likes of Paul Huntington and David Edgar at full back. Exactly this. He plays with a lot of nerves imo. He looks like he has all the attributes to be a decent player, but I reckon he's overthinking things or panicking constantly.

Don't remember him putting a foot wrong today. Seemed alright on the ball too.

Like Yedlin, another Rafa signing who is integral to our game at the moment. Top bloke.

Love this guy. Such an important player.