Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2013

Frisbee

Stoke have made it very hard fro us. The fact the ref is letting them away with tripping and pulling back Walcott and Wilshere every time they get the ball isn't helping though.

Better be a better second half. That was fairly boring.

Frisbee

Seriously need to take our chances this half.

gnfnrhead

Don't we have a habit of not really playing until the second half? Wouldnt worry too much until we get to around the 70 minute mark.

Frisbee

Time for Podolski and Cazorla soon hopefully...

This is like watching a converted VHS on a 25 year old TV smeared with vaseline.

lertsnim

Walcott is brushed in the face and stays down for a minute while arsenal are on the attack

Mickeroo

Heh, Crouch tries to put ball out of play because Walcott is down, Monreal intercepts, bombs down the wing and knocks a cross in

Cazorla & Poldi on, Oxo & Diaby off.

Frisbee

Our crossing today has been abysmal

Mr Blobby

This has draw written all over it.

I hope I'm wrong.

AdamD

Imagine having to watch these play every week..would love it if they went down.

Frisbee

Do NOT let Theo take this!

Mickeroo

POLDI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lertsnim

Podolski you hero 1-0

Mr Blobby

Few.......

Frisbee

Did the linesman seriously try to disallow that for Theo being offside a million miles form the ball?

lertsnim

Must do better Cazorla

Oranage2

So Monteal- wasn't tested really though solid enough debut, makes an improvement on Santos who would be most likely passing the ball to the opposition or playing just behind the striker although assigned to lb.

He's not that type of player.

lertsnim

I really do despise Shawcross. Pure filth from him always

Frisbee

Ouch, right in the nads.

What I want to say about Shawcross would get me banned, so I'll say it in as gentlemanly way as possible.

What a rotter.

cson

Hate Shawcross but that ball was there to be won tbh. Two committed players, Kosc came off worse.

Frisbee

Walcott is killing us, he gives the ball away every time he gets in and we're trying to keep possession.

cson

cson wrote: »

Hate Shawcross but that ball was there to be won tbh. Two committed players, Kosc came off worse.

Same old ****e from him to be honest, if he's so slow as to miss tackles by the amount he does than how does he ever make any successfully?

Oranage2

eXpect boos, a kid nearly gets his career ended and they'll boo. Horrible team, horrible fans horrible everything!

Almost a perfect set of results there.

AdamD

'One nil, to the football team, one nil, to the football team.'

Mr Blobby

Nice one

Pepe LeFrits

cson wrote: »

Hate Shawcross but that ball was there to be won tbh. Two committed players, Kosc came off worse.

Because Kos went across Shawcross, while as usual Shawcross deliberately plowed straight into the opponent.

Noo

Most good

Mickeroo

Good stuff. Solid enough performance, we should have taken more of our chances but Stoke neer looked like scoring. Good results elsewhere for us today too, lets hope West Brom can do us a favour tomorrow now too.

Promising debut from our new lad too, put in a few good crosses and looked solid enough at the back too.

dvemail

Results today going our way. Good win as they are a tough nut to crack are Stoke.

cson

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

Because Kos went across Shawcross, while as usual Shawcross deliberately plowed straight into the opponent.

We'll agree to disagree. I didn't think there was anything wrong with it tbh.

Good win, needed that. We've a cracking record against them at home, think thats 11 on the bounce.

Good start for Monreal too, looks quality.

Alfred Borden

Monreal was solid today but does anyone agree Sagna looked solid today? Back to his best hopefully! Walcott was poor, Ox was wasteful, the teams shape looks alot better with Arteta back!

Are we back to doing what we did at the start of the season and judging our defenders on how they play against bloody Stoke?

dvemail

Raf32 wrote: »

Monreal was solid today but does anyone agree Sagna looked solid today? Back to his best hopefully! Walcott was poor, Ox was wasteful, the teams shape looks alot better with Arteta back!

Sagna looked very good today, as was Monreal but Stoke made our defence look good as they has nothing in attack really. Chambo could and probably should have scored at least one today but we got the win in the end. Stoke don't concede many so a 1-0 is good for us.

wandatowell

3 points whooo hooo!
Beat Stoke whooo hooo!
Chelsea lost whooo hooo!

Pierce_1991

If you offered me two clean sheets and four points against Stoke every season I'd take it. Great set of results for us today. Hopefully spurs drop points tomorrow.

Only caught the second half but we seemed much better when Podolski came on.
Shawcross's attempt to castrate Koscielny was disgraceful but unsurprising.

So we're all supporting west brom tomorrow then? :pac:

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Are we back to doing what we did at the start of the season and judging our defenders on how they play against bloody Stoke?

+1

You couldnt really judge Monreal's defensive abilities based on today because Stoke played a 10-0-0 formation.

That said he did get forward quite alot and looked composed and sharp on the ball. Linked very well with the flanker in front of him. I think he will prove a good signing and it is no coincidence that he played a vital role in Malaga qualifying for the Champions league tournament for the first time and subsequently coming out of the group as winners.

Wenger has said that we shouldnt expect Nacho Monreal to solve our defensive problems so at long last should we expect him to bolster our defence and splash out on new defenders in the summer now that he seems to have recognised our deficiency?

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

So we're all supporting west brom tomorrow then? :pac:

Ill even shout for that W@nker Odemwingie if he was to play on though that is considerably unlikely unless WBA are very short of strikers

Raf32

Raf32 wrote: »

Monreal was solid today but does anyone agree Sagna looked solid today? Back to his best hopefully! Walcott was poor, Ox was wasteful, the teams shape looks alot better with Arteta back!

Arteta can be too cagey and negative. Inclined to play at too slow a tempo and pass the ball back far too often. For teams like Stoke we need to get the ball in the box as quick as possible but we are giving them too much time to get back and crowd their box

dvemail

It's always good when this thread goes quiet, means we've won. Nothing to complain about.

jonneymendoza

dvemail wrote: »

It's always good when this thread goes quiet, means we've won. Nothing to complain about.

indeed lol

keano_afc

What a great day, Ireland beat one rugby team and Arsenal beat another. Delighted with the 3 points, and I won't talk about Stoke too much coz I don't wanna get banned. Mon the Gunners.

wonga77

Just looking at the table, we're on 41 points, 5 behind Chelsea on 46. Against Chelsea Giroud missed a great chance to put us one up and im convinced that if he had scored then we would have won that game. Hypothetically we could very easily be one point ahead of Chelsea, and all this despite having a desperate run of results. Is everyone around us equally as bad or are we just very harsh judging the team?

bad2dabone

wonga77 wrote: »

Is everyone around us equally as bad or are we just very harsh judging the team?

a) yes

and

b) nope!

Mickeroo

You can look at it two ways. Either the league has gotten more competitive or the quality has gone downhill. Even the top 2 teams can't keep a clean sheet to save their lives this season.