Arsenal vs Monaco, 7:45, RTE2.

Alfred Borden

Arsenal start their run to Berlin 2015 and lifting the trophy here at home to Monaco. Big night for this guy too facing his old club.




Probable teams:

Arsenal Ospina; Bellerin, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Monreal; Coquelin; Walcott, Sanchez, Ozil, Cazorla; Giroud.

Monaco Subasic; Toure, Wallace, Abdennour, Kurzawa; Fabinho, Kondogbia; Silva, Moutinho, Ferreira-Carrasco; Berbatov.

Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Germany).

Rayne Wooney

Are Monaco any use? Haven't watched them this season and they're 4th in the league

Kirby

They have a very good midfield, that's for sure.

greendom

They tend not to concede, but then again they don't score much either

gosplan

Come on Arsenal!!!

Who the hell knows with this Jeckell and Hyde team. We could as easily lose as put the tie to bed tonight IMO.

Given their defensive prowess, all I ask for is a goal in the first half.

Underpaid Mike

Monaco missing a lot of players through injury, have lost 2 and drawn one of their last 3 games. If Arsenal play like they can, which there is no reason to suggest they wont at home, then it should be a comfortable enough home win I would think.
Monaco are not a good team by any manner of means

bad2dabone

Going for a two nil win this evening, courtesy of giroud and ozil.

Roddy23

Ah ffs not fookin Ray "hindsight" Houghton.

On the other hand COYG!!;

DVDM93

Bold by Konscienly, very bold!

Quazzie

Arsenal started the better so far. We must be aware of any counter attacks threats.

Turtyturd

Monaco haven't kicked off yet.

Paully D

"Monaco are like mannequins at the minute" - Gary Neville.

:pac:

wandatowell

Santi pulling the strings

wandatowell

Looked like a handball in the replay.

Quazzie

Definite handball there, but impossible for the ref to see.


Yet again the assistant behind the goal being useless.

wandatowell

Does the Monaco keeper have a stud in his lip? Either that or its a snot.

jacool

If Giroud just gives Abdennour a spare jersey at half time, will he stop hanging off him at every corner?
This ref and those impotent guys behind the goal are spineless.

Johner

Pretty poor stuff so far.

Rayne Wooney

Welbz needs to stay wide more

Sugarlumps

Yowzer!

Mars Bar

Did that take a deflection?

Johner

Great strike.

edit, deflection

LuckyGent88

Well that should liven things up a bit

Quazzie

Fuuuuck!


Ospina not great there. Caught very flat footed.

Turtyturd

Nice....ah deflection.

Mars Bar

Ah it did take a deflection. You don't get if you don't try!

Roddy23

Fooks sake. Disaster

wandatowell

Sh*t.

G1032

Quazzie wrote: »

Fuuuuck!


Ospina not great there. Caught very flat footed.

Nothing he could do about that I think

Rayne Wooney

Not much the keeper could have done there

Gringo180

Quazzie wrote: »

Fuuuuck!


Ospina not great there. Caught very flat footed.

No keeper in world football is getting near that.

AdamD

RTE commentators are unbearable

Quazzie

G1032 wrote: »

Nothing he could do about that I think

If he wasn't so rooted he had some hope. It was well within his reach. Big deflection was the obvious reason it went in, but he didn't do himself any favours with how he was standing. The number one thing any goalkeeper is told, is stay on your toes.

csallmighty

Classic Arsenal

Maximus Alexander

Keeper had committed himself to the ball's original trajectory, nothing he could have done at that point.

Skylinehead

Need to stop walking it into Monaco players ffs

Hank Scorpio

Walcott on for Welbeck in the second half please

MythicalMadMan

AdamD wrote: »

RTE commentators are unbearable

Good defensice team in not giving up many chances shocker

citytillidie

Welbeck is at his best opening his legs out, my my G Neville lol

Quazzie

Wenger needs to give a few of the players a kick in the bollix to wake them up.

AdamD

Gives 1 minute of stoppage time, spends 30 seconds of it talking to Giroud about **** all, still blows up after 59 seconds, professional referees ladies and gentlemen.

Nolars

From hearing Arsenal are in good form lately that first half was dreadful, same old.

shano_88

Very poor stuff. so slow.

Crowd are very quiet as well. Things need to liven up.

Looper007

Well so much for a easy game, we have been shocking. you can see them just defending that lead now. We will need 3 goals for me to go to their ground in a somewhat comfortable position imo. We haven't even had a strike at goal.

tayto lover

AdamD wrote: »

RTE commentators are unbearable

Sky is no better I can assure you. Have turned the sound off.

Gringo180

shano_88 wrote: »

Very poor stuff. so slow.

Crowd are very quiet as well. Things need to liven up.

Was just saying that myself. For such a big game the atmosphere is atrocious.

Turtyturd

Would have been harsh to give a peno for that, O'zil was grabbing his arm.

MD1990

Gary Neville is very annoying on commentary. Ozil hasn't played great but is being made a scapegoat by Neville. He does this always with foreign players but never with an Englsh player like for instance Welbeck missing a tackle in the build up to the goal.

K4t

Arsenal players realised they are the better team after 5 minutes of excellent attacking high tempo play and reverted back to trying to play perfect one twos through the middle.

K4t

MD1990 wrote: »

Gary Neville is very annoying on commentary. Ozil hasn't played great but is being made a scapegoat by Neville. He does this always with foreign players but never with an Englsh player like for instance Welbeck missing a tackle in the build up to the goal.

But he did say Welbeck should have won that tackle.

Ozil has consistently given the ball away and done little to retrieve it when he does. Neville is calling it as it is.

Turtyturd

Poor miss.