Match Thread Arsenal 5-1 Everton

[marmor]

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You think these rats we have playing for us would actually be trying under a diffrent manager or would they be crap and completly disinterested like they have been under the last four managers! Total bells the lot of them.

Can’t disagree that they are rats or bells.
But ffs why go 3 at the back when we can’t play it, with a new centre half who probably has had one training session, and put Schneiderlin in front to ‘protect’ them. The whole line up stinks and everyone in this forum knew what was coming when it was announced.
Why can’t the manager see this.

 

[Walsall Blue]

You need to seek help if youre still watching this.

Please please someone come and help me

 

[ilikecheese]

Wow...how easy was that?

 

[Huyton Layne]

How hard is it for a top flight pro to cross a ball ? I'm absolute bobbins and can put it around 8-10 yds out given eons

 

[Ring master]

scared to bloody watch,bad enough panicking when we lead thinking the worst,every shot feels like it will be a goal v us when we dont defend

 

[daza_1973]

what's the old saying - never change a winning side...

Amen

 

[technojoe]

This is worst squad ever. My word total ballbags.

 

[John_Smith]

I knew this statement would come back to bite us in the ass lol

Allardyce is confident his team will be able to exploit their opponent’s ailing backline.

"I always felt defensively Arsenal are weak," Allardyce said.

So I'll play 5 defenders and 2 defensive midfielders

 

[Saint Domingo]

Embarrassingly Arsenal look poor at the back but we can’t even put a move together.

 

[LiamG]

Grinding my teeth at Bolasie here? What even is he?

I’d say he’s finished but he never started.

The injury looks to have finished him. He was decent before.

 

[Telford-Feb-85]

Poor Walcott hoping for a hole to swallow him up.

 

[fareastblue]

Never realized bolasie is so slow for a winger

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

As bad as some of them have been, I do not blame the players for this so much as the last two managers.

Take Williams for example. Largely jarg for most of last season, totally jarg for most of this except when Holgate played alongside him and he wasn't getting burned so often for pace. Five or six games in a row, defensively we looked a lot better. Then one bad game and Holgate gets binned, and we have been largely terrible since. Or take Davies - great last season, less good this but in every game he has played he has been better than Schneiderlin has been... yet its Davies who keeps getting dropped.

At some point players and staff have to lose confidence when the leader is making stupid mistakes like this without any indication that they will turn things around.

At some point we have to stop blaming the manager. We all know Big Sam is clueless but him being clueless doesn't mean the player should stop trying. They don't care, they never make any effort. They stopped trying because it's easier to do them keep fighting.

 

[Big_nev]

One through ball just took out our ENTIRE team.

IN A DEFENSIVE LINE UP TO BOOT!!!!!

 

[diggerdestroyer]

Done with this match. Fully committed blue but cant be arsed for this one. Big sam set up wrong today. Can see the counter attacking plan but 2 defensive midfielders and 3 center backs. And cuco martina lol. Feel real sorry for those who have travelled. Any what is it with professionals turning their backs on shots and failing to mark. Laughable.