Arsenal vs Bayern Munich, 7:45, RTE2

keith16

Bayern are awesome. To think they will have Lewandowski next year and god knows who else....

Gbear

This must be utterly miserable for the Arsenal players.

All the money and beautiful women and so on disappears from your head if you're having to trudge through the muck like this.

bad2dabone

if we can get out of this 1 nil down i'll be pleasantly surprised

cson

niallo27 wrote: »

It's just incredible a club the size of arsenal have a player like him up front in their biggest game of the season. It's unforgivable from wenger. A Berbatov or even a Darren bent would be a better option.

I'd agree, but you can't legislate for your senior player in the position going off and having an affair either.

Godge

niallo27 wrote: »

It's just incredible a club the size of arsenal have a player like him up front in their biggest game of the season. It's unforgivable from wenger. A Berbatov or even a Darren bent would be a better option.

It is one of the problems of moving forward in three competitions. If we were just involved in one, we could afford not to rotate. Look at the team we put out with 7 changes on Saturday against Liverpool and beat them even though they couldn't or wouldn't change their team because of the real weaknesses in their squad.

brevity

NiallSparky wrote: »

79 of 82 passes completed for Kroos (nearly half of Bayern's total), a good few long distance ones too. Class act.

Was wondering how he was doing percentage wise, some very impressive passes in the last 20 mins.

Amirani

jive wrote: »

how is kroos underrated

Bayern are supposedly considering selling him.

Most people wouldn't list him in the same class as passer like Pirlo or Xavi, he definitely is.

mosstin

greendom wrote: »

Colins is so slow you'd think he was watching the game on a stream

This is RTE. He's probably on his laptop in Belmullet.

SweepTheLeg

Best to take Ozil off, not the sort of player that can track back and help out. Especially with 10 men, he hasn't got the work rate for it.

greendom

Roddy23 wrote: »

Rosicky on for ozil.

risky - could mean Arsenal end up playing with 9

Marty McFly

keith16 wrote: »

Bayern are awesome. To think they will have Lewandowski next year and god knows who else....

As much as I like Bayern and do think they are and incredible team lets not forget it took a red card and a penalty miss from Ozil before they started to look impressive against Arsenal.

cson

Fans have been immense.

Good god I hate Robben so much.

Vinz Mesrine

Bayern just toying with Arsenal now.

Agueroooo

Wilshire looks goosed.

Utopia Parkway

Marty McFly wrote: »

As much as I like Bayern and do think they are and incredible team lets not forget it took a red card and a penalty miss from Ozil before they started to look impressive against Arsenal.

That feels like a long time ago. I think Bayern would have got on top anyway but they did start slowly no doubt.

Vinz Mesrine

Agueroooo wrote: »

Wilshire looks goosed.

Good for us

Agueroooo

70th minute.

Ozils game is over.

bad2dabone

Agueroooo wrote: »

Wilshire looks goosed.

yeah, very tiring chasing the shadows out there.

as an aside Robben must be a nightmare to defend against. he's quick, clever and topples if touched.

.jacksparrow.

Weird sub

roanoke

I'd love to have a full pitch view of this. I get the impression Bayerns line is about 10 yards into the Arsenal half much of the time.

Vinz Mesrine

That's 2 very strange substitions by Wenger.

cson

That's a bad decision.

Ox was having a good game.

gandalf

WHAT! FFS Wilshire is limping apparently!!! Rosicky should be replacing him. This could be very costly indeed!

greendom

Risky move to bring Rosicky on but his energy will come in very useful

cson

Vinz Mesrine wrote: »

That's 2 very strange substitions by Wenger.

????

He was forced into the first 2.

billymitchell

mosstin wrote: »

This is RTE. He's probably on his laptop in Belmullet.

Sitting at home refreshing page 221 on teletext more like

Chucky the tree

Arsenal look very lucky to have gotten away with that no peno call.

GLaDOS

That's a penalty

Vinz Mesrine

cson wrote: »

????

He was forced into the first 2.

Imo it should have been Ozil off and not Cazorla.

Turtyturd

Got away with that.

citytillidie

Should have been another Pen there

gosplan

Come on Arsenal. Sneak your way to 90 mins and then the set piece goal.

Agueroooo

0-1 wouldn't be a bad result at all for Arsenal considering over 45mins with 10 men

jive

NiallSparky wrote: »

Bayern are supposedly considering selling him.

Most people wouldn't list him in the same class as passer like Pirlo or Xavi, he definitely is.

Apparently and it was also apparently down to money not ability. Pirlo and Xavi are 34, Kroos is 24. Probably something due to the decade extra the other 2 have had performing consistently at the top level as to why people don't class them in the same bracket.

cson

Yep that's a pen for Muller

Marty McFly

Lucky on that one Kos.

Fuhrer

Robben refuses to use his right

Amirani

Terrible tracking (or lack thereof) again from Ozil.

quarryman

Ozil looks like he has no interest being there.

Billy-big-bollocks in his head me thinks.

Moneymaker

Ozil has been utter toilet tonight.

Since the penalty miss his head dropped and that was it.

quarryman

Fuhrer wrote: »

Robben refuses to use his right

His is such a one footed player it's amazing he is so successful at the highest level.

cson

Striker on. Pep trying to put it to bed.

Amirani

jive wrote: »

Apparently and it was also apparently down to money not ability. Pirlo and Xavi are 34, Kroos is 24. Probably something due to the decade extra the other 2 have had performing consistently at the top level as to why people don't class them in the same bracket.

Money isn't that big a deal when you're talking about top players. It's not like Bayern are stuck for it anyway.

Gael85

billymitchell wrote: »

Collins and whelan are awful commentators. Awful

would rather watch the game on mute than listen to Ronnie Whelan voice ,he is painful to listen to.

Fuhrer

quarryman wrote: »

His is such a one footed player it's amazing he is so successful at the highest level.

Hes like a good Valencia

niallo27

cson wrote: »

I'd agree, but you can't legislate for your senior player in the position going off and having an affair either.

You should still be able to do your job though. Give her the credit card for the week she will be alright.

Francie Barrett

Arsenal are a bit lucky that Bayern's finishing has been woeful tonight.

jive

NiallSparky wrote: »

Money isn't that big a deal when you're talking about top players. It's not like Bayern are stuck for it anyway.

Theyre not stuck for top midfielders either

cson

Ozil seems pretty fragile mentally unfortunately. Prodigiously talented but not a leader.

Fuhrer

NiallSparky wrote: »

Money isn't that big a deal when you're talking about top players. It's not like Bayern are stuck for it anyway.

I heard it was lack of playing time