RodneyCisse Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Games like today are why we will finish 8th at best. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLvOR Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Not ambitious enough today. Not enough of a goal threat till they scored and too happy to contain. This was a game that was there to be won. 2 defensive midfielders at home man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmymag Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 A loss from a shitty little set piece goal. Arsenal were there for the taking from the off and we've wasted a good opportunity. Neither team deserved to win it, mind. Rubbish match. Cowardly Pardew again. Arse were there for the taking but the manager didn't have the bottle to go for it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Think it was Santon whop let his man run for their goal, shocking defending. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyeyzzon Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 The Hatem sub changed us for the wrong reasons. Looked unsettled since he came on, and he could be selfish as f*** at times. More like the Shola sub tbh. We started smashing it to him every time we got the ball instead of trying to play football. Hatem only got the ball a few times and created 3-4 attacks. Shola helped win a lot of balls up top tbf. Wasn't a fan of Sissoko on the left just to accomodate Hatem. Yes, he did create but again, tried to win it on his own. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 That is EXACTLY why HBA should not start every game. I coach kids with more awareness of what's going on around them... Aye, righto. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stottie Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Could have gone either way. Looked a penalty on an idiotic push by Flamini. Anita was also bundled over (Sky said Sissoko, but I think it was the red boots) about 10 seconds before the Tiote foul they scored from. Obviously we cocked up on the marking, but no more than Chesney did on his clearance. So unlucky on the whole. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OoOGazOoO Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Ben Arfa creates things. I dont blame him going for goal with that shot, no one else was available and no one had gambled on any crosses we had put in for the prior 80 minutes. The shot he took at the end, their keeper was off their line and again I can see why he went for it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 they are shit and they won't win the league at all What nonsense. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Well after watching that, I'm hoping Man City win the title. Arsenal players are utter wankers, every last one of them. Same here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 we are better than arsenal , they don't play football, I fought they did, and i love them for it but hey come out here to defend <a href="http://reactiongifs.com/?p=17725"><img src="http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/minion-wha.gif"></a> Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillClinton Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Shit. The ref sucked. We weren't good enough going forward. A draw would have been fair. Sky are trying to say that Arsenal turned in a champions performance here but I thought they were pretty average. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 People having a go at Ben Arfa. Created something every time he had the ball, tbh. Decision-making very sloppy. Aye, he was trying to hard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 That is EXACTLY why HBA should not start every game. I coach kids with more awareness of what's going on around them... Jesus Glad you noted that because i was just.......argh..... Guy created more than anyone else in half the time. Granted he was a bit greedy but if he wasn't greedy he wouldn't be Hatem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Deserved at least a point today on the balance of play. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 That is EXACTLY why HBA should not start every game. I coach kids with more awareness of what's going on around them... I must have missed all those chances we created in the first half Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Tough to take, because it was a good performance. Arsenal used all their "experience" to good effect, which is the way the game is these days. We didn't do much wrong, restricted their chances really well whilst occupying some great positions in their half. The goal was a shoddy one to give away, Williamson caught the wrong side of Giroud. Lacked a real goalthreat ourselves though, and when we finally did get two strikers on - Shola had the requisite aggression but no ability to back it up, whilst Remy had all the ability but not the aggression to get on the end of anything. Tiote was a beast. Sissoko faded a bit. Cabaye was a bit disappointing for me, but not awful - just a little overly-ambitious at times. HBA had his heart in the right place (which is a weird thing to say for a footballing cameo ) and you could see it was desperate to get us a goal, but his zeal probably got the better of him on or two occasions, when a calmer head may have yielded better results. Thought he was right to take on the shot at the end, as only Shola was in there (and well marked), but just took it too quickly. Disappointed with the outcome, but a performance the team can be proud of - hopefully it didn't take too much out of then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Never thought we looked like scoring all day. Soft as shite in the box, and there's never enough black and white stripes in there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 The Hatem sub changed us for the wrong reasons. Looked unsettled since he came on, and he could be selfish as f*** at times. More like the Shola sub tbh. We started smashing it to him every time we got the ball instead of trying to play football. Hatem only got the ball a few times and created 3-4 attacks. Shola helped win a lot of balls up top tbf. Wasn't a fan of Sissoko on the left just to accomodate Hatem. Yes, he did create but again, tried to win it on his own. Win a lot of balls? Did he fuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andybiotics Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 s***. The ref sucked. We weren't good enough going forward. A draw would have been fair. Sky are trying to say that Arsenal turned in a champions performance here but I thought they were pretty average. Nothing suggests to me that they will win the league, tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Criticising Hatem for shooting once He made something every time he had the ball ffs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 we are better than arsenal , they don't play football, I fought they did, and i love them for it but hey come out here to defend <a href="http://reactiongifs.com/?p=17725"><img src="http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/minion-wha.gif"></a> Think when he says Arsenal he mean Newcastle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHoob Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 We deserved a point. Arsenal are a very very well organised side so it was always going to be hard to break them down. Remy and Gouffran could have done more and Shola was pap. Can't grumble too much after that though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayson Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 They never looked like scoring from open play, and it comes from a free kick that shouldn't have been. Could've opened up earlier, but this tactic has worked three times now, so no complaints about how we set up. Agree. Theres always an assumption when we lose that there MUST have been a better way to play the game. We may have scored if we'd been more attacking, we may have been opened up by them far more easily also. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Front 4 looked tired I thought. Gouff & Siss just not at it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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