Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014/15

DenMan

Andre Marriner refs tonight! Let's hope he eyesight has improved since the last time he referred in one of our games!

UnknownSpecies

Here we go, match thread.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=93297458#post93297458

fulmer1984

Cant help but watch Flamini so far, twice im after seeing him on the right wing!!

tayto lover

Does any team in the EPL pass the ball back to their keeper as much as we do?

Pierce_1991

Aaron....Aaron

K4t

tayto lover wrote: »

Does any team in the EPL pass the ball back to their keeper as much as we do?

Can't blame Mert for doing it, if he takes even half a chance and gets caught he will get done for pace by 99% of players in the league. He'd be world class if he had pace.

Soups123

tayto lover wrote: »

Does any team in the EPL pass the ball back to their keeper as much as we do?

It's because too many players are pedestrian and like many games this year when teams press us we go backwards

DenMan

Sanchez you beauty! 1-0

Mr Blobby

Good win against a very tough team.

Thought we defended very well but were very lackluster upfront. When Giroud came on we really went up a level. I'd like us to play maybe 2 up front with Danny and Giroud.

farna_boy

Can we never drop Giroud again for the rest of the season?

flyingoutside

I'd say the BT sports crowd would have jizzed themselves if southampton drew by the sounds of their commentators

Ken Shamrock

Great result, another clean sheet, delighted. Poor performance tho, lucky to snatch it in the end with them down to 10 some more terrible subs from Arsene, i have to wonder why Rosicky even bothers going to matches anymore. I'm happy for Martinez to keep Szcz out when he returns until we see what he's all about.

wonga77

Important 3 points, made hard work of it though. Forster was excellent tbf, Giroud and even pod improved things when introduced.
Ramsey - whats going on there?

emmetlego

We looked solid at the back.

Forster kept them in it. I was preparing to write a "shut up lads, we played well, these are a good team, this is a good point", but Giroud gave us great impetus, and Alexis pops up, right man in the right place.

Ramsey even improved after Giroud came on...

Delighted with that. Time for a glass of red!

emergingstar

I'm starting too like the look of marteniz dominated the box tonight

efb

I was right about Giroud

Gringo180

Vital vital 3 points there for us especially with everybody around us winning the last few days. Very impressed with Martinez in goal, 3 clean sheets in a row now for the young lad, there can be a case made for him keeping the number 1 spot.

tayto lover

emergingstar wrote: »

I'm starting too like the look of marteniz dominated the box tonight

Looks very confident and assured.
Better than Chez from what we've seen so far from him.

emergingstar

tayto lover wrote: »

Looks very confident and assured.
Better than Chez from what we've seen so far from him.

I won't go that far yet but he does look good and will offer proper competition

Pierce_1991

I really would love to see Podolski start a game or two. He came on and just gave us that bit of drive forward we needed. Should have had an assist but for a wonderful save and could have had a goal or two.

byrneg28

tayto lover wrote: »

Looks very confident and assured.
Better than Chez from what we've seen so far from him.

Yes hope he keeps his spot, really liking Martinez

yipeeeee

Great win were grinding the results out, now for a few key players to return.

emmetlego

emergingstar wrote: »

I won't go that far yet but he does look good and will offer proper competition

Imagine how poor Ospina feels right now… 3 decent GK's now in the club… Strength in depth…

Now to the defence!

emergingstar

This could be. Massive massive result

We're starting to get on a bit of a run and we have players starting to return

Mickeroo

Flamini has improved a lot the last few games, seems to have calmed down his game a bit and just sticks to his job.

Great result considering the overall performance was pretty limp.

bad2dabone

emergingstar wrote: »

This could be. Massive massive result

We're starting to get on a bit of a run and we have players starting to return

They're a decent team Southampton

Soups123

Poor performance but atleast we've turned two of them into wins.

Great to have Giroud back

tayto lover

emergingstar wrote: »

This could be. Massive massive result

We're starting to get on a bit of a run and we have players starting to return

Great result. Poor enough performance.
We were 2 minutes away from another poor result and a lot of grief.
I have rarely seen a worse and lackadaisical first half.

Great to get further up the table at the expense of a higher placed team.
We should kick on from here.

emergingstar

tayto lover wrote: »

Great result. Poor enough performance.
We were 2 minutes away from another poor result and a lot of grief.
I have rarely seen a worse and lackadaisical first half.

Great to get further up the table at the expense of a higher placed team.
We should kick on from here.

It was a weird game we were poor but there keeper pulled off 3 world class saves we could have won easy too Ys get me

3 tough games in 7 days I would send the reserve team too gala in midweek

Roddy23

Its great to have Koscielney back, coupled with Martinez in goal and flamini in a much more defensive position we look a lot more solid.

Next on the agenda is getting our injured players back, getting Ramsey back playing, and keep racking up the wins.

Irish Aris

bad2dabone wrote: »

They're a decent team Southampton

yeah, very impressed with them, very solid team, I wouldn't be surprised if they manage to finish near the top 6.

Important 3 points, keep us on track for now.
I agree with Mr Blobby about the two up front, it could work against some defences.

We also need to find a game that Alexis will rest.

greendom

How bad is Walcott set-back. Anyone know when he's likely to play again.

emergingstar

We're all raving about marteniz

A few are mentioning flamini playing better And how were defending better

The common denominater here is Kos he is truly world class

emergingstar

greendom wrote: »

How bad is Walcott set-back. Anyone know when he's likely to play again.

I wouldn't rely too much on walcott this season

Just play him here and there cause he is going to pick up them little niggly injuries

greendom

emergingstar wrote: »

We're all racing about marteniz

A few are mentioning flamini playing better And how were defending better

The common denominater here is Kos he is truly world class

A little rusty on Saturday where he played the last man onside on a couple of a occasions, and 1 occasion today where Pelle turned him very easily. Apart from that though he's been superb and we are now beginning to see the Metersacker of last season after a very poor start to this one.

Roddy23

emergingstar wrote: »

We're all raving about marteniz

A few are mentioning flamini playing better And how were defending better

The common denominater here is Kos he is truly world class

Yeah that block from the Pelle volley would have been a certain goal and we'd have been behind with the crowd on our backs. When the game comes down to the most crucial of margins it just shows you how good Laurent is for us.

emergingstar

greendom wrote: »

A little rusty on Saturday where he played the last man onside on a couple of a occasions, and 1 occasion today where Pelle turned him very easily. Apart from that though he's been superb and we are now beginning to see the Metersacker of last season after a very poor start to this one.

I think just him been there makes everyone and the system better, even when his individual performance is not thAt good

tayto lover

Was delighted to see our two CB's staying back and not going up to the half-way line. They would have been caught out with a high ball over the top and Long's pace.
Our defence is now playing well with Kos back steadying the ship.
Debuchy back in two weeks too.

Its Only Ray Parlour

tayto lover wrote: »

Debuchy back in two weeks too.

General question for every Gooner here: who do we play at right-back: Chambers or Debuchy?

Pierce_1991

Its Only Ray Parlour wrote: »

General question for every Gooner here: who do we play at right-back: Chambers or Debuchy?

Debuchy

greendom

Its Only Ray Parlour wrote: »

General question for every Gooner here: who do we play at right-back: Chambers or Debuchy?

Be great to have that choice. Has to be Debuchy for me as well as Chambers has done. Much more experienced, and we need Chambers for centre-back cover.

Ken Shamrock

Its Only Ray Parlour wrote: »

General question for every Gooner here: who do we play at right-back: Chambers or Debuchy?

Debuchy, with Chambers and Kosc in the middle.

Bellerin and jenks for cover, monreal and gibbs for LB

Sell Mertesacker and buy 2 good CB's thats just my dream.

byrneg28

Bob.Carcass wrote: »

Debuchy, with Chambers and Kosc in the middle.

Bellering and jenks for cover, monreal and gibbs for LB

RIP Mertesacker

emergingstar

We might see a bit chambers in the middle now with debuchy back

jonneymendoza

Some massive arsenal fan posted this lol


...........

Poor performance in general helped massively by an incompetent ref, we got freekick after freekick of which most weren't anything. We finally got a winning goal against a 10 man and clearly frustrated/knackered team and even then it was relatively fluky.

Not sure if they'd have held up for the draw if they didn't go down to 10, not sure we'd have won if their most important player wasn't injured in the previous game. We looked toothless and pointless once again for the best part of what 70 minutes. Welbeck still looks a complete donkey, Giroud looks improved.... I'm not sure how much of that is his sudden willingness to shoot with more power and even run at the defence and how much is just because we get to compare him to Welbeck

Ox/Caz shouldn't be starting games, both entirely useless. Second game in a row, going into a busy period with worse weather when players often get injured that Wenger again used only two subs after naming pretty much the same starting line up.

Someone important will get injured, it will be due to no rotation and no resting and it will be entirely Wenger's fault. Monreal got a knock in the last game, he seemed to hurt himself within the first two minutes and continued to play the whole game even though he's apparently our only CB cover. Not only did he not give Bellarin a chance, he didn't bring him, or Rosicky on. He's asking for injury trouble, he refuses to sensibly rotate and ends up being an injury crisis every damn year and he's walking right into the same problem again.

Realistically we should have rested players for the last game and had a fresher first team to play in this game. Instead watch us name almost the same line up for a tough away game at Stoke.

emmetlego

I'd keep Mert, a great leader, and a good solid CH, especially beside Kosc (legend)!!!

I'd like to see Chambers in the Flam/Arteta role in the fizzy cup. JUST FOR KICKS

emmetlego

jonneymendoza wrote: »

Some massive arsenal fan posted this lol


...........

Poor performance in general helped massively by an incompetent ref, we got freekick after freekick of which most weren't anything. We finally got a winning goal against a 10 man and clearly frustrated/knackered team and even then it was relatively fluky.

Not sure if they'd have held up for the draw if they didn't go down to 10, not sure we'd have won if their most important player wasn't injured in the previous game. We looked toothless and pointless once again for the best part of what 70 minutes. Welbeck still looks a complete donkey, Giroud looks improved.... I'm not sure how much of that is his sudden willingness to shoot with more power and even run at the defence and how much is just because we get to compare him to Welbeck

Ox/Caz shouldn't be starting games, both entirely useless. Second game in a row, going into a busy period with worse weather when players often get injured that Wenger again used only two subs after naming pretty much the same starting line up.

Someone important will get injured, it will be due to no rotation and no resting and it will be entirely Wenger's fault. Monreal got a knock in the last game, he seemed to hurt himself within the first two minutes and continued to play the whole game even though he's apparently our only CB cover. Not only did he not give Bellarin a chance, he didn't bring him, or Rosicky on. He's asking for injury trouble, he refuses to sensibly rotate and ends up being an injury crisis every damn year and he's walking right into the same problem again.

Realistically we should have rested players for the last game and had a fresher first team to play in this game. Instead watch us name almost the same line up for a tough away game at Stoke.

Way too many holes in that to start picking. I'm off to bed as it gets darker for me here in my hometown (for 1 night) and i shudve been asleep hours ago!!

COYG

extra gravy

What the fcuk is this?!!

Soups123

extra gravy wrote: »

What the fcuk is this?!!

This is a team on the up having a huge season so far, to be admired........

greendom

jonneymendoza wrote: »

Some massive arsenal fan posted this lol


...........

Poor performance in general helped massively by an incompetent ref, we got freekick after freekick of which most weren't anything. We finally got a winning goal against a 10 man and clearly frustrated/knackered team and even then it was relatively fluky.

Not sure if they'd have held up for the draw if they didn't go down to 10, not sure we'd have won if their most important player wasn't injured in the previous game. We looked toothless and pointless once again for the best part of what 70 minutes. Welbeck still looks a complete donkey, Giroud looks improved.... I'm not sure how much of that is his sudden willingness to shoot with more power and even run at the defence and how much is just because we get to compare him to Welbeck

Ox/Caz shouldn't be starting games, both entirely useless. Second game in a row, going into a busy period with worse weather when players often get injured that Wenger again used only two subs after naming pretty much the same starting line up.

Someone important will get injured, it will be due to no rotation and no resting and it will be entirely Wenger's fault. Monreal got a knock in the last game, he seemed to hurt himself within the first two minutes and continued to play the whole game even though he's apparently our only CB cover. Not only did he not give Bellarin a chance, he didn't bring him, or Rosicky on. He's asking for injury trouble, he refuses to sensibly rotate and ends up being an injury crisis every damn year and he's walking right into the same problem again.

Realistically we should have rested players for the last game and had a fresher first team to play in this game. Instead watch us name almost the same line up for a tough away game at Stoke.

If you're going to do misery at least make it your own work!