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Arsenal vs Manchester City (KO 12:45 13/09)

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  • #352
    blueser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,725 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    Omeceron wrote: »
    What good is hitting the woodwork? You have to hit the target to score.

    Hitting the woodwork 3 times in a game wont win you anything.
    It gives an indication as to the pressure being exerted by one side or the other in any given game. Clear enough for you?


  • #353
    Godge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,727 ✭✭✭✭Godge


    blueser wrote: »
    No bull****.Three times hitting the woodwork today, and Arsenal hanging on at the end. Even the Arsenal fans on here were saying so (check a few pages back if you don't believe me).

    You are as bad as Pellegrini complaining about the ref.

    This game was a draw. City spent the first twenty minutes hanging on, could have been three down, ball hitting the post and Arsenal missing chances. Then they scored a goal against the run of play caused by bad defending. Arsenal scored two outstanding goals, could have had a couple more. Debuchy gets a nasty injury, goes off. City score from a setpiece immediately afterwards with poor defending from the reorganised Arsenal defence. After that, City had the better chances but either team could have won it.

    Arsenal shaded it over the full game and were the better team, creating their own chances and not relying on opposition mistakes, but possibly didn't deserve the win because their defensive mistakes let City back in to it. I would be more worried if a City fan because they didn't create much themselves until the last ten minutes and extra time, will suffer against well-organised teams e.g. Stoke.


  • #354
    x43r0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,278 ✭✭✭x43r0


    Wilshere won't have silenced any critics today. He needs to produce this type of performance consistently to do that


  • #355
    Gbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    x43r0 wrote: »
    Wilshere won't have silenced any critics today. He needs to produce this type of performance consistently to do that

    It was OTT in the first place.

    He's only 22 ffs. Some of the criticism has been hysterical.


  • #356
    .jacksparrow.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,428 ✭✭✭.jacksparrow.


    x43r0 wrote: »
    Wilshere won't have silenced any critics today. He needs to produce this type of performance consistently to do that

    What score a goal and an assist each game?


  • #357
    PropJoe10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,340 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    Gbear wrote: »
    It was OTT in the first place.

    He's only 22 ffs. Some of the criticism has been hysterical.

    Its what the English press do, put a young player up on a pedestal as being the "new legend" and then shoot them down without mercy.


  • #358
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    peabutler wrote: »
    Monreal has been good so far, goal wasn't his fault whatsoever, stop using the easy scapegoats.

    Seriously? He was well out of position, caught way too far forward, city pounced and scored from it. How wasn't he at fault?


  • #359
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    x43r0 wrote: »
    Wilshere won't have silenced any critics today. He needs to produce this type of performance consistently to do that

    Fairly impossible task imo


  • #360
    astonaidan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭astonaidan


    .jacksparrow. wrote: »
    What score a goal and an assist each game?
    Yup, other than that hes a failure, might as well retire


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  • #361
    Godge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,727 ✭✭✭✭Godge


    astonaidan wrote: »
    Yup, other than that hes a failure, might as well retire

    Seems to be the way all right.

    Problem is, if Wilshere does move up to a goal and assist a game, the critics will be able to turn on Walcott, Ramsey, Ozil, Sanchez or Welbeck unless we are winning every match 6-0. Cazorla, Podolski and Giroud will need a goal each from the subs bench every time. As for the poor Sanogo, unless he wins us the Carling Cup with 17 goals in 6 matches, he will be a failure too.


  • #362
    astonaidan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭astonaidan


    Godge wrote: »
    Seems to be the way all right.

    Problem is, if Wilshere does move up to a goal and assist a game, the critics will be able to turn on Walcott, Ramsey, Ozil, Sanchez or Welbeck unless we are winning every match 6-0. Cazorla, Podolski and Giroud will need a goal each from the subs bench every time. As for the poor Sanogo, unless he wins us the Carling Cup with 17 goals in 6 matches, he will be a failure too.
    Pretty much how it is, you kinda want all your midfielders getting 20 a year 40 from strikers


  • #363
    Godge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,727 ✭✭✭✭Godge


    astonaidan wrote: »
    Pretty much how it is, you kinda want all your midfielders getting 20 a year 40 from strikers

    Walcott, Sanchez, Welbeck, Giroud and Podolski, 40 each.
    Wilshere, Ramsey, Ozil, Cazorla and the Ox, 20 each.

    That is 300 goals without a header from a setpiece from a defender, or Sanogo breaking his duck.

    The thing is, there are people who will criticise players if we fall short of that ridiculous target.


  • #364
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    Augmerson wrote: »
    2-2 all draw.

    WAHEY!


  • #365
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    blueser wrote: »
    Should have won that game. 2 points dropped. The likes of Chelsea and Liverpool will go there and turn over Arsenal fairly comfortably. Just as we should have done today. Disappointed.

    Liverpool? Ok mate. If they couldn't do it on two attempts with the best striker on the planet, they're just going to roll up without him and win comfortably?


  • #366
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,408 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    blueser wrote: »
    Should have won that game. 2 points dropped. The likes of Chelsea and Liverpool will go there and turn over Arsenal fairly comfortably. Just as we should have done today. Disappointed.

    I'd say the bookies love you :pac:


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  • #367
    blueser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,725 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    tayto lover wrote: »
    I'd say the bookies love you :pac:
    Never been in a bookies. If there were two flies going up a wall, I'd back the wrong one.


  • #368
    Godge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,727 ✭✭✭✭Godge


    blueser wrote: »
    Never been in a bookies. If there were two flies going up a wall, I'd back the wrong one.


    Very funny, well if the above is right, then the below is wrong.
    blueser wrote: »
    Should have won that game. 2 points dropped. The likes of Chelsea and Liverpool will go there and turn over Arsenal fairly comfortably. Just as we should have done today. Disappointed.


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