Ingredients Required...

GhostOfDixie · January 28, 2009

Desire - Check
Belief - Check
Ambition - Check
Ability - Check
Composure - ???
Concentration - ???

Those are the key ingredients that our players lack, simple as that.

You can't fault the effort, I think everyone fancied the win tonight, but yet again - like Villa, we have sacrificed the win or at least the point in the last seconds.

Pienaar going down the wing, instead of thinking lets go for another goal, he should be thinking of killing the game off. Having some composure and just pass it around, make Arsenal chase the ball, instead of us chasing the ball down a blind alley.

Still making progress, but what if eh? what if?

steevie · January 28, 2009

GhostOfDixie said:
Desire - Check
Belief - Check
Ambition - Check
Ability - Check
Composure - ???
Concentration - ???

Those are the key ingredients that our players lack, simple as that.

You can't fault the effort, I think everyone fancied the win tonight, but yet again - like Villa, we have sacrificed the win or at least the point in the last seconds.

Pienaar going down the wing, instead of thinking lets go for another goal, he should be thinking of killing the game off. Having some composure and just pass it around, make Arsenal chase the ball, instead of us chasing the ball down a blind alley.

Still making progress, but what if eh? what if?

Good Points. Can't understand why we seem to switch off all of a sudden and it happens all too often for my liking.

Barlows Boots · January 28, 2009

steevie said:
Good Points. Can't understand why we seem to switch off all of a sudden and it happens all too often for my liking.

Key points we've lost are the Newcastle game, Villa and now this...

Neiler · January 28, 2009

Cant fault that performence.

Van Persies was a quality goal.

GhostOfDixie · January 28, 2009

Barlows Boots said:
Key points we've lost are the Newcastle game, Villa and now this...

Its those two key areas, and if I was the manager, or at least had some input, those are the elements I would be drumming into the team right now.

They have the squad good enough to compete, even with the injuries, were still up there. We were 60 seconds away from being 2 points behind Arsenal. We're so close. Imagine if we had cash? We would ******* rule.

Pound for pound the best team in the league.

steevie · January 28, 2009

Neiler said:
Cant fault that performence.

Van Persies was a quality goal.

You have to play to the whistle though and at times, we dont see the games out. Why look to make it 2-0 when 1-0 would have been quite sufficient???

Rook · January 28, 2009

One of my complaints about the team is that I think we try to sit on 1-0 leads too much and it kills us time and time again. This isn't 2004, the majority of our players are small, attack minded and we have to place trust in our back line, the strength of our team.

That being said CHRIST PEANUT ITS THE 91ST MINUTE WTF YOU TRYING TO BE A HERO FOR!!!!!!

Andriy.EFC · January 28, 2009

GhostOfDixie said:
Its those two key areas, and if I was the manager, or at least had some input, those are the elements I would be drumming into the team right now.

They have the squad good enough to compete, even with the injuries, were still up there. We were 60 seconds away from being 2 points behind Arsenal. We're so close. Imagine if we had cash? We would ******* rule.

Pound for pound the best team in the league.

Arsenal have spent less than us net over the past 5 years. Van Persie cost about 2m.

steevie · January 28, 2009

Rook said:
One of my complaints about the team is that I think we try to sit on 1-0 leads too much and it kills us time and time again. This isn't 2004, the majority of our players are small, attack minded and we have to place trust in our back line, the strength of our team.

That being said CHRIST PEANUT ITS THE 91ST MINUTE WTF YOU TRYING TO BE A HERO FOR!!!!!!

I thought we did'nt sit on the lead late on, i felt we where too adventerous and got caught cold at the back.

Neiler · January 28, 2009

Your all mad, we out classed Arsenal tonight, i.e. not only by grit and determination but also quality we plated far superior football to them.

We were beaten by a quality goal. Moan we sit back, and moan when we go for the juglar. Rithtly we were all disapointed but if we had one, everyon would be on here looking for half our team to be knighted.

That performence was immense, compleately unfair result.

Rook · January 28, 2009

Andriy.EFC said:
Arsenal have spent less than us net over the past 5 years. Van Persie cost about 2m.

That's true but they also have the money to pay Henry 140K/week and Adebayor 95k/week. It they need/want to

steevie · January 28, 2009

Neiler said:
Your all mad, we out classed Arsenal tonight, i.e. not only by grit and determination but also quality we plated far superior football to them.

We were beaten by a quality goal.

That performence was immense, compleately unfair result.

We did play great but it is obvious, we did'nt play to the whistle.

GhostOfDixie · January 28, 2009

Andriy.EFC said:
Arsenal have spent less than us net over the past 5 years. Van Persie cost about 2m.

Can you prove that for us? Just for arguments sake.

Neiler · January 28, 2009

steevie said:
We did play great but it is obvious, we did'nt play to the whistle.

How can you say that with the run we have been on, ntohing to do with any whistle, it was a quality goal end of.

Bad luck.

GhostOfDixie · January 28, 2009

Neiler said:
How can you say that with the run we have been on, ntohing to do with any whistle, it was a quality goal end of.

Bad luck.

But was the goal a direct cause of Pienaar giving the ball away? Was it in his own area? Did it happen via three or four events down the line.

I only heard, but it sounded like he was pushing for a second.