Uefa Champions Lge Group B- Montpellier V Arsenal

tayto lover

Gervinho has been brilliant tonight in fairness. All over the field and covering miles.

Mickeroo

Wouldn't have taken Giroud off myself.

gandalf

That's a pity would have liked to see Giroud get a full game!

greendom

poor 2nd half from Arsenal - not able to keep possession at all. Thankfully the defence is keeping reasonably organised.

Mickeroo

**** that was lucky.

gandalf

Get out of jail card for us there. They should have buried that!

gandalf

This is going to be a long final 10 minutes!

Jesus Giroud wouldve put that one away
Mannone did well though, composed.

tayto lover

We look very tired. Where is our midfield gone?

Frisbee

We've been shocking in the second half, can't hold onto the ball at all.

Cazorla shunted out to the wing now too?

Giroud looks really unhappy on the bench, hope he doesn't carry on with that, could hurt him even more.
Wenger said he's only under pressure from himself.

Marty McFly

Come on one more goal .

Frisbee

This is embarrassing, we're making a mediocre Champions League debutant team look great.

gandalf

Ekkk Diaby got away with that!

Frisbee

Frisbee wrote: »

This is embarrassing, we're making a mediocre Champions League debutant team look great.

Steady on.
There are no easy games in the Champions League, the occasion itself can make mediocre teams play above their ability.
We aren't firing at all secondhalf, but it's not embarrassing, that's being disrespectful to the opponents, who are decent.

Game over, job done.

Mickeroo

I'll take that!

emergingstar

Frisbee wrote: »

This is embarrassing, we're making a mediocre Champions League debutant team look great.

Give over

bad2dabone

they were really up for it tonight, Montpellier were very high energy, high tempo. I'd have liked us to have done better but that was a tough game and the points are in the bag.

gandalf

We were lucky in a game that we should have sewn up with a third goal. Montpellier were unlucky not to equalise in the 2nd half there. We will have to play alot better on Sunday to take the points from City.

The positive is 3 points from the first Champions League game

Frisbee

The second half was embarrassing. We showed in the first half we could control the game if we were bothered.

But then in the second half we never get out of first gear and they walk all over us. No disrespect to Montpellier, but there's absolutely no way we should be allowing them the lion share of possession under any circumstances.

We got the result which is the main thing, but that second half was poison from an Arsenal perspective.

greendom

Difficult away fixture and we've come away with 3 points. Good test tonight for Mannone and the defence and they acquited themselves pretty well.

I didn't see anything bad from Mannone, maybe could've done better with the Leno but hey oh, he's becoming reliable at least.
Arteta did a job like a robot as usual, Diaby looked tired, although the 20sec yellow didn't help.
Jenkinson is a fine replacement for Sagna.

tayto lover

A win is a win and it's great to get a good start in the CL.
Mertzacker and Gervinho were very good throughout.
We have a few lazy players who when they lose the ball don't try to get it back. I hope Wenger copped that from the stands and gives them a good rollicking before we go to a wounded City on Sunday.

emergingstar

Frisbee wrote: »

The second half was embarrassing. We showed in the first half we could control the game if we were bothered.

But then in the second half we never get out of first gear and they walk all over us. No disrespect to Montpellier, but there's absolutely no way we should be allowing them the lion share of possession under any circumstances.

We got the result which is the main thing, but that second half was poison from an Arsenal perspective.

I seen better arsenal teams than this play a lot worse away in Europe

Good 3 points the performance will be forgotten tomorrow

Frisbee

Frisbee wrote: »

The second half was embarrassing. We showed in the first half we could control the game if we were bothered.

But then in the second half we never get out of first gear and they walk all over us. No disrespect to Montpellier, but there's absolutely no way we should be allowing them the lion share of possession under any circumstances.

We got the result which is the main thing, but that second half was poison from an Arsenal perspective.

It sounds like you watch too much Fifa.
funny that you can say it was embarrassing to win 2-1 away from home in a champions League game, just because we ran out of ideas and looked abut nervous in the second half, we are trying a new style of holding onto a lead, and it's worked so far.
Nothing embarrassing at all.

greendom

Frisbee wrote: »

The second half was embarrassing. We showed in the first half we could control the game if we were bothered.

But then in the second half we never get out of first gear and they walk all over us. No disrespect to Montpellier, but there's absolutely no way we should be allowing them the lion share of possession under any circumstances.

We got the result which is the main thing, but that second half was poison from an Arsenal perspective.

Montpellier gave it their best shot - they played well and made it difficult for us - i'm sure we would have crumbled under that sort of pressure previously

Frisbee

As I said the result is the main thing. The first half we were great.

And it was nothing about running out of ideas. Our ideas were keeping us a mile on top for 30 minutes in the first half. The problem was that we retreated into a shell for the entire second half and never looked interested in going forward, one Diaby run aside. We can't afford to do that. If we were to do that against Chelsea at the weekend they will tear us apart. Look how good we made Montpellier look in the second half. Imagine what Chelsea will look like if we do that against them.

Frisbee

Bam Bam Mickey wrote: »

It sounds like you watch too much Fifa.
funny that you can say it was embarrassing to win 2-1 away from home in a champions League game, just because we ran out of ideas and looked abut nervous in the second half, we are trying a new style of holding onto a lead, and it's worked so far.
Nothing embarrassing at all.

Don't put words in my mouth. I never said it was embarrassing to win 2-1 away from home.

I said the performance in the second half was embarrassing.

Quazzie

Frisbee wrote: »

If we were to do that against Chelsea at the weekend they will tear us apart. Look how good we made Montpellier look in the second half. Imagine what Chelsea will look like if we do that against them.

Lets get City out of the way first.

Good result from a mediocre last hour. Podolski really impressed me tonight, as did Mertesacker, who despite being as slow as a London bus still manages to be in the right place at the right time.

Frisbee

Frisbee wrote: »

As I said the result is the main thing. The first half we were great.

And it was nothing about running out of ideas. Our ideas were keeping us a mile on top for 30 minutes in the first half. The problem was that we retreated into a shell for the entire second half and never looked interested in going forward, one Diaby run aside. We can't afford to do that. If we were to do that against Chelsea at the weekend they will tear us apart. Look how good we made Montpellier look in the second half. Imagine what Chelsea will look like if we do that against them.

Imagine, simagine.
One game at at time!!
we haven't looked embarrassing at all this season, yet people want to ring alarm bells because we aren't dominating games.
We were out of the title race this stage last season, so be realistic, not hyperbolic.

Frisbee

Quazzie wrote: »

Lets get City out of the way first.

Ha, whoops

Frisbee

Frisbee wrote: »

Don't put words in my mouth. I never said it was embarrassing to win 2-1 away from home.

I said the performance in the second half was embarrassing.

I'm sure Arsene Wenger would disagree with you

tony1kenobi

Bam Bam Mickey wrote: »

Frisbee wrote: »

Don't put words in my mouth. I never said it was embarrassing to win 2-1 away from home.

I said the performance in the second half was embarrassing.

I'm sure Arsene Wenger would disagree with you

I'm not sure he would.Vermaelan said we were poor in the second half.

We were.But if you can win playing poorly....

greendom

What did Adams say ?

emergingstar

greendom wrote: »

What did Adams say ?

Read his interview in the paper, wish he would shut up and stay a legend instead of a bellend

AdamD

A lot of what he was saying on Sky was correct. People getting carried away about our defense etc. its too early to judge and we've played fairly crap teams so far.