Match Thread Arsenal @ home 12:45 Sat.

[lungo]

What. The. Hell. Was. That? FFS....

Besic having thr game of his life LOL. Take of Cleverley and Besic. Bring in Del and Niasse. Even if we loose 5-0 it cant be worse then the first half. The spanish clown at his best. Opening the two sides so that Arse can have a field day . Tell Baines and Coleman to defend !

 

[The Mighty Quint]

Lock the Martinez thread, incoming!!!

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

Besic clearly not fit, and he's been thrown in against the team who should be winning the league, and who have decided they're Barcelona today.

Gutless display from the whole team nonetheless. Even if we win the cup I want him gone, our league form is embarrassing. Hope Moshiri vetoes Bill and gets rid at the end of the year. Why on earth Bill rates him still is beyond me.

 

[oldblue]

Seriously down to the players this. Arsenal bang on form but our play around the box has been terrible.
And those Internet managers saying all we need to do is press high would have us four or five down here. That second illustrates why you can't just do it against a team with pace up front playing with the precision this lot are.

 

[toffeejack]

we'll still win.

 

[TGW89]

That was absolutely horrific. And mo besic hang your head in shame for that gutless, embarassing effort you gave.

New week, same old embarassing rubbish at home. S**** tactics from a piss poor out of his depth coach.

Relax. We don't play at home until April 16th. And there's an international break next week.

 

[JAYTALITY]

But the cup runs lads we are deadly.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

I don't think we are actually playing that badly. Arsenal have had 2 clear cut chances and scored both. Thats it.

They aren't tearing us apart as the BT coverage would have you believe.

They showed the possession stat for the first 15 minutes which was 42/58 to Arsenal... we started controlling the game and possession afterr that, funnily enough that stat criteria didn't show up again.

We are still in this. I like Cleverley but he's no use to us on the left.

 

[Jags..class]

Stones for besic

 

[ART]

No worry a 3-3 draw all day long. This is Everton ffs.

 

[Ring master]

Its just not losing,but its the performance or lack of it we are doing,digrace of a half for me,barkley giving ball away,besic cant be bothered,to slow,etc etc,arsenal way better and want it way more,1 down on 6,could have been 2 on 7,they should have had pen etc if player didnt go down in slow motion,would have been happy to get to ht only 1 down with that performance

To think i actually fancied us today,but we are the team you want to play against when your on a bad run etc,i couldnt have been any more wrong today so far,stones training on pitch during ht,looks like hes comming on 2nd half

 

[rascal]

Is it a motivational problem? The difference between last week and this one is huge. I mean Chelsea have been in better form than Arsenal since Christmas too

 

[paulus]

Besic for some reason letting players run off him.

Hes not fit its clear and Martinez put him on Barry place . plus he wont play two wingers , So he will rather put unfit player

 

[Abraders]

Stones warming up? LOL

 

[fabricsince1985]

people fuming cause we are losing against arsenal.. jeez. Get a grip.

What's wrong with being unhappy about it. This isn't a great Arsenal team. Yet we stroll around when they have possession in our half. Combined with their slick movement it's making a mockery of Martinez.

Conversely, we get the ball on the edge of our box and slowly try to work it forwards, no or little movement. Arsenal press and generally win the ball back already in a position of the pitch that we occassionally labour too.