Skirge Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Oh their fans... shocking pitiful excuse for football fans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Aye they were shit, particularly considering they're top of the league and brought the full allocation (I think). It's not like it was even that loud from us lot today until the end. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Very worrying case of players getting the crowd going at the moment, as opposed to the other way around. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Thought the home atmosphere was awful today Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 more often than not takes a 'wrong' decision from an official to get us to make some noise. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Atmosphere was terrible against Stoke as well. Always seems to be deathly quiet these days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattoon Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Oh their fans... shocking pitiful excuse for football fans But it's very uncouth to be yobbish whilst one is watching the Gooners play squire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Yeah the atmosphere was flat again, no one wants to get to excited its all about self preservation with Ashley as owner. Unless there is a real injustice during the game or we get off to a flyer things are very quiet. Their fans are a disgrace they have nothing to worry about no reason at all not be in party mode evey second they are watching their team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingscotsman Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Oh their fans... shocking pitiful excuse for football fans But it's very uncouth to be yobbish whilst one is watching the Gooners play squire Brilliant hahahah Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Oh their fans... shocking pitiful excuse for football fans But it's very uncouth to be yobbish whilst one is watching the Gooners play squire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 We deserved a draw for our efforts, but their players are far superior on the ball and that's the difference between the sides. It was a great free kick for the goal, but Colo's lack of ability and leadership at set pieces was exposed again. Neither he nor Santon took any responsibility for Giroud and it was left to Willo to try and clean up the mess. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 We deserved a draw for our efforts, but their players are far superior on the ball and that's the difference between the sides. It was a great free kick for the goal, but Colo's lack of ability and leadership at set pieces was exposed again. Neither he nor Santon took any responsibility for Giroud and it was left to Willo to try and clean up the mess. We showed them way to much respect, we compact the midfield and pushed Cabaye forward where imo he is not as effective but also Tiote seems to work better the more space he has around him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 I'm very critical of Pardew but i didn't see us being too defensive or showing them too much respect. I just thought we played like we usually do but they were one step up from the usual teams. For all the focus on Arsenal's play, they are actually a good defensive team when it's needed. Throw in our usual hope to nick one, well it really didn't look like happening against them. But at no stage did i think we had gone defensive, the last 20 minutes pissed me off as it was the usual, hoof to Shola that doesn't ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever work. Funnily enough the very reason we very rarely come from behind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 I have no idea what we were trying to do for the last 20 minutes! Absolute mess! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 We allowed them to push very high made easier by the fact Remy was all alone but most of the time he dropped deep or was out wide, put a shift in but added no pressure to their back four. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 I have no idea what we were trying to do for the last 20 minutes! Absolute mess! 4 forwards. Cabaye dropped right back to almost a sweeper, and launched the ball to the forwards/ Ameobi. bypassing the midfield. I think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 I have no idea what we were trying to do for the last 20 minutes! Absolute mess! Played direct, pretty much it really. Lump it up and hope for the best. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 There was a point in the first half where we had the ball and all of our outfield players were in their half. How often does that happen? I don't think we were too negative today, at all really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 We allowed them to push very high made easier by the fact Remy was all alone but most of the time he dropped deep or was out wide, put a shift in but added no pressure to their back four. Isn't that what we tend to do quite a bit in home games though, Stoke before the sendings off. Chelsea first half. Numerous others. We do play ok sometimes but we seem despite a decent home record, to let the opposition no matter their level have too much room. Tbf we then tend to nick a lead, but i really wish we play a bit like we did at Palace at home, possession football at least. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Btw with 15mins to go and looking to go gung-ho at a top opponent I didn't have a particular problem with us going more direct and trying to cause some mayhem in and around the box, especially when playing a team that is notorious for struggling with a bit of roughing-up. The problem was that the only player we had at our disposal for this was Shola Ameobi, bless him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirLes9 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Oh their fans... shocking pitiful excuse for football fans But it's very uncouth to be yobbish whilst one is watching the Gooners play squire Decent performance from us probably deserved a point but we were lacking in the final third of the pitch. As for their fans town was swamped with the flash mugs last night giving it the big'un. Hope they are trophyless again come the end of May. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 We deserved a draw for our efforts, but their players are far superior on the ball and that's the difference between the sides. It was a great free kick for the goal, but Colo's lack of ability and leadership at set pieces was exposed again. Neither he nor Santon took any responsibility for Giroud and it was left to Willo to try and clean up the mess. Colo was brilliant all afternoon against them tbf. He was a big reason why they had so little joy before that set piece. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 We allowed them to push very high made easier by the fact Remy was all alone but most of the time he dropped deep or was out wide, put a shift in but added no pressure to their back four. Isn't that what we tend to do quite a bit in home games though, Stoke before the sendings off. Chelsea first half. Numerous others. We do play ok sometimes but we seem despite a decent home record, to let the opposition no matter their level have too much room. Tbf we then tend to nick a lead, but i really wish we play a bit like we did at Palace at home, possession football at least. Not as much as we did today, at times we had no front man and a six man midfield. Their defenders had so much space and time in their own half (well the half way line) we just ended up compacted, Tiote needs space to work so he can turn away and look for the pass. Today he turned and had Anita, Cabaye, Moussa and at times Remy so close to him. Made it very easy for them to apply pressure and win back the ball. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley17 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 We played ok, probably didn't do enough to win it but harsh to lose. Very similar to the Chelsea game really except Arsenal scored from a soft set piece rather than conceding. Other than the 4-4, this fixture is practically the same every year. 0-0 or 1-0 either way in a tight affair. Same old. Arsenal are the same every year aswell, you think they're great to watch, which is true in patches, the rest of the time they are a bunch of play acting cunts. They win every second ball and their shape makes them very difficult to break down - the wingers come infield a lot so the full backs can provide the width. They end up dominating the centre of the park and even if we win it back, there's nowhere to go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 We were far too static moving up the pitch - often a good pass would release Sissoko, Debuchy or Remy down the channels and there wouldn't be anyone else further forwards than the centre circle by the time they looked for a pass. I didn't think we were 'negative' per se, and we kept the ball in patches quite nicely, but we were a bit too stiff and rigid. Personally, I think Gouffran looked knackared, Sissoko looked knackared, Remy looked pap and Anita overawed - and this is what got us edged out, despite Debuchy, Colo, Williamson and Tiote all playing really well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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