Alberto2005 Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 1 minute ago, Ronaldo said: Arsenal aren’t anywhere near as good as we’ve made them look there. Poor performance. It happens. Isak and Wilson together is never a plan A, mind. Baffling decision first time against that opposition. We’ve had a great campaign and might still get 4th but if we’re looking to be critical, we had £45m to spend in January on a player to consolidate the phenomenal first half of the season and apparently we’ve spent it on a player behind Jacob effing Murphy in the pecking order. Leeds now a must win. What was he supposed to play with Longstaff out? Would have been Gordon on the left anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronson333 Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 Got to say Isak’s dribbling and touch are world class, thought he had another good game just annoying we couldn’t score. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pubteam Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 22 minutes ago, Krabbe2 said: Burn always looks like he's completely done. Even after 5 min. He also goes into full scale panic when he has the ball and no players to lay it off too. We need a new centre half and a left back with pace. That's not just a reaction to this game it's been evident in every game when we have faced teams with pace. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledGeordie Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 4 minutes ago, Kanji said: we won 8 of 9 and lost 2-0 to the team trying to win the title fucking chill people. Exactly it’s fine margins. Murphy hits the post, Willock should probably score. We’re a great side but we need upgrades to win these type of games Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 Just now, Gawalls said: They’ve come here and been only the second ten to beat us this season and kept us to a clean sheet. You have to give them some credit, fact is - they’re at where we want to be next season. Like I said, as much as we were poor, on the balance of it was draw then no one could have any complaints. We had chances, they did. As it happens neither team scored form their chances, as I said a speculative effort that goes in once every so often, and an own goal won them the game with the referee assisting them. We went to their place when they were on fire and got a draw. They are nothing special, today could have went either way. They are weak mentally, you may say they were good mentally today, but a month ago these had the title won, they fucked up and handed the title back to City, saying they are mentally strong after they have already shot themselves in both feet is nothing. There is no pressure on them now, everyone expects them to lose the title. Next year when the teams I mentioned come back, and when ourselves come back will be a different story. If we get into the Champions League, we’ll be expected to be in some sort of title battle next season, even if we are the outsider. These are going to fall away when the other teams build, they will be battling it with those wanting to upset the ‘top 7’ for the last European slot. They don’t have it in them. The players fucked the title chance over, a title chance they will never see again, a title chance where they should have won it. Even in the Europa League, they were expected to go on and win it, they had the advantage at home, and then handed it over to Sporting Lisbon. Look at their fans man, you think next season when they are looking at a battle for the top 4 their fans won’t turn on Arteta? Just like Man Utd, they’ll probably never win a title for 10-20 years. Their players are too weak, and their fan base are too weak to give a manager any time to build something. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapo Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 Booking my ticket to Latvia for the Conference Cup Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomson Mouse Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 2 minutes ago, Dr Jinx said: That was a disaster today. I’m annoyed, not necessarily at losing but more how we fell for their time wasting and antics. Any time we got some momentum they had an “injury” - by far the worst I’ve seen all season including some of our less sporting moments. We had chances but were so wasteful. Not going to name some underperformers but we had a few notable ones today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfcastle Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 There's always been a response to such games, which is encouraging, we'll be at it at Leeds, not saying which way it goes, but we'll be at it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 Ahead on all the stats. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 (edited) Football is a game of tiny things and a lot of luck deciding games, then everyone post-rationalising it to fit a narrative. Got to love it I suppose Edited May 7, 2023 by AyeDubbleYoo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 Not going to criticise anyone for that today, thought the team was correct, tactics were spot on and but for a highly dubious pen overturned it could have been a different day. Game reminded me of the Cup final, up against a team with a strong mentality and a know how to get through tough games like today. They've fantastic in possession and they cut through our press a little too easily at times, one or 2 passes and they took out our entire front 6 and have 4 v 4 too often. They also took their chance, bit lucky with both goals I thought, good strike from Odegard but it trundled into the net. Nothing you can do about the og either, it just didn't fall for us today. We just need to use today as an extra motivation and learn from this game and how Arsenal saw it out. 4 games left and 7 points to go, still very confident we'll do it. Onwards and upward gentlemen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holloway Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 People expecting Arsenal to crumble haven't been paying attention, they are a fucking unit this season. We huffed and puffed a bit, there was some fine margins but we were in lack yeying to overcome them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 Christ, we edged everything except the scoreline. It didn't feel that way tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pubteam Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 6 minutes ago, Andy said: Thought today highlighted yet again how important Longstaff is to the midfield btw. Joelinton doesn't suit that role at all and doesn't understand the position well enough against quality midfielders, he needs to be out wide interchanging with Willock. Longstaff is the driving force behind our press. Our press looks poorly organised without him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledGeordie Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 1 minute ago, midds said: Not going to criticise anyone for that today, thought the team was correct, tactics were spot on and but for a highly dubious pen overturned it could have been a different day. Game reminded me of the Cup final, up against a team with a strong mentality and a know how to get through tough games like today. They've fantastic in possession and they cut through our press a little too easily at times, one or 2 passes and they took out our entire front 6 and have 4 v 4 too often. They also took their chance, bit lucky with both goals I thought, good strike from Odegard but it trundled into the net. Nothing you can do about the og either, it just didn't fall for us today. We just need to use today as an extra motivation and learn from this game and how Arsenal saw it out. 4 games left and 7 points to go, still very confident we'll do it. Onwards and upward gentlemen Spot on Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oregon_Geordie Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 8 minutes ago, Andy said: Thought today highlighted yet again how important Longstaff is to the midfield btw. Joelinton doesn't suit that role at all and doesn't understand the position well enough against quality midfielders, he needs to be out wide interchanging with Willock. but he's not premier league quality according to a fair few on here. Miss him big time! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
St1pe Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 6 minutes ago, KetsbaiaIsBald said: Hope they miss the title by two points so we can still claim it was us. yes I’m bitter. ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holloway Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 4 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said: This wasn’t a cruncher though, it was an incredibly hard game against the second best team. Which we hopefully don’t need to win. If we needed to win every game to finish 4th, it was never happening. Aye,it isn't a cruncher but it is Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt1892 Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 Sky just said we had more possession, more touches in the final third, more touches in the box and a higher expected goals. We were not that bad, Arsenal scored at the right time and their game management was excellent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 FWIW I can’t ever remember VAR being used to rule out a pen like that. Guy leans into the ball with his arm out, not a pen because it happens to skim his thigh first? Mega odd. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloGeordio Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 Shite result. Woodwork the difference. Stats bare that out. Bring on Leeds. Onwards and upwards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memphis Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 Just a bit worried about our mentality now. Troubling that we have underperformed in two of our biggest games. We lack a bit of composure and we could absolutely do with an experienced pro in the #6 position to calm us. Jorginho and Casemiro have run the shop against us in those huge games. We need someone similar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
et tu brute Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 Game was lost in the first couple of minutes in the second half. We score with the Isak/Schar headers (Schar has to score that man) then it's a different game. We have been scoring goals for fun recently, but we were back to our post World Cup wasteful best today. The one worrying thing for me going forward is that the defence looks vulnerable and open the last couple of months. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
timeEd32 Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 3 minutes ago, ExiledGeordie said: Exactly it’s fine margins. Murphy hits the post, Willock should probably score. We’re a great side but we need upgrades to win these type of games The general reaction by pundits is they just watched a great game of football between two very good teams and, on the whole the right team probably won today, but it could have gone either way. Somehow some on here think the sky is falling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloGeordio Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 Just now, Matt1892 said: Sky just said we had more possession, more touches in the final third, more touches in the box and a higher expected goals. We were not that bad, Arsenal scored at the right time and their game management was excellent. Stats show that! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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