Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2018

FixitFelix

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

You've seen the way Arsenal have defended recently?

Obviously I have and that's a worry but still think going forward we've enough to see any of the other 3 teams off. Plus Welbeck can unlock any defence

We'd actually won 6 in a row before last night :L

We've kept 5 clean sheets this calendar year out of 21 matches.

FixitFelix

Bring Athletico on !!

Worst draw possible.

Ardennes1944

Bring them on

greendom

Season defining couple of matches ahead. If we could only cut out the slow, ponderous starts and the shocking sloppiness in defence we might have a chance

Skylinehead

It's something new at least!

Well, other than Diego Costa...

greendom

Skylinehead wrote: »

It's something new at least!

Well, other than Diego Costa...

he got injured last night, not sure how serious yet....

KaiserGunner

Worst possible draw, but sure anything can happen. If we were to win it, we were going to have to beat Atletico Madrid imo. So bring it on.

physioman

KaiserGunner wrote: »

Worst possible draw, but sure anything can happen. If we were to win it, we were going to have to beat Atletico Madrid imo. So bring it on.

Brutal draw. That's arsenal season over

greendom

physioman wrote: »

Brutal draw. That's arsenal season over

Same was said when we got City in the cup semi last year. It's the toughest possible draw and we will have to improve hugely on last night's performance but we can do this.

UnknownSpecies

Arsenal draw a tougher opponent in the Europa than Liverpool drew in the Champions league. I love being an Arsenal fan :rolleyes:

UnknownSpecies

FWIW I think we have enough to beat Athletico, but it's the 2 legs that concern me. Would much rather be taking them on in a neutral venue in a once off.

Arghus

I'd have given Arsenal a chance against Athletico in a one off in a neutral venue, but they'll probably be too strong over a two legged tie.

Could always do the heroic semi final followed by capitulation in the final when favorites. :P

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Ah Shur losing in the semis is the same as losing in the final. You still have no trophy.

wandatowell

UnknownSpecies wrote: »

I think we have enough to beat Athletico, but it's the 2 legs that concern me.

My thoughts exactly.

wandatowell

Apologies for the poor formatting but the goals for and goals against for both teams in the league this season is a cause for concern.

They have only conceded more than one goal in a game twice in La Liga. Couple that with the fact that Arsenal generally perform very poorly against the better organized teams means we are up against it.

We have almost let in one goal more per game than they do :eek:

Another way to look at it is for every goal they conceded we let in almost 3 :eek::eek:

Athletic Madrid|P 31|GF 51|GA 15
Arsenal|P 32|GF 61 |GA 43

Arghus

Hunky Monster wrote: »

Ah Shur losing in the semis is the same as losing in the final. You still have no trophy.

Yeah but we get strung along, giving a crap about the season, for another few weeks.

Half of following a team is thinking about what could happen.

wandatowell

wandatowell wrote: »

Apologies for the poor formatting but the goals for and goals against for both teams in the league this season is a cause for concern.

They have only conceded more than one goal in a game twice in La Liga. Couple that with the fact that Arsenal generally perform very poorly against the better organized teams means we are up against it.

We have almost let in one goal more per game than they do :eek:

Another way to look at it is for every goal they conceded we let in almost 3 :eek::eek:

Athletic Madrid|P 31|GF 51|GA 15
Arsenal|P 32|GF 61 |GA 43

I almost believe you. :P
Seville, Villareal and Girona make 3 times they've conceded 2. :P

wandatowell

Deleted User wrote: »

I almost believe you. :P
Seville, Villareal and Girona make 3 times they've conceded 2. :P

I was soooo close

brianregan09

https://soundcloud.com/brian-oregan-932825069/bp-zone-episode-24

Here is this weeks podcast lads give it a listen , Thinking of doing a skype phone in next week would anyone be interested in taking part ?

Also I'm pretty happy we got Madrid to be honest I think over 2 games we have a better chance against them , they weren't exactly massivley convincing against a very poor Sporting Lisbon side

wonga77

ara **** it, sure dont we want to be playing the best teams. Im looking forward to it anyway.

greendom

Costa a serious doubt for the first leg according to reports in Spain

emmetlego

I'd feel a lot happier if we had Mkyhitarian for these games.

Ol' Donie

greendom wrote: »

Costa a serious doubt for the first leg according to reports in Spain

Didn't Mustafi & Koscielny destroy him in our gaf last year?

Anyway, they might have conceded fewer goals than us over the past few years, but they've never had to face a fully armed and operational Danny Welbeck.

JenovaProject

golfball37

UnknownSpecies wrote: »

Arsenal draw a tougher opponent in the Europa than Liverpool drew in the Champions league. I love being an Arsenal fan :rolleyes:

Really? Roma won their CL group guess who came 3rd behind them?

UnknownSpecies

golfball37 wrote: »

Really? Roma won their CL group guess who came 3rd behind them?

Yes spurs fan, in my opinion really. Can't say Roma are automatically better because they finished ahead of them in the group, especially considering they drew the first game h2h and Atletico beat them 2-0 in the second game. Silly point but nice try.

UnknownSpecies

UnknownSpecies wrote: »

Yes spurs fan, in my opinion really. Can't say Roma are automatically better because they finished ahead of them in the group, especially considering they drew the first game h2h and Atletico beat them 2-0 in the second game. Silly point but nice try.

I would say Arsenal are better than Spurs since we've won the two games this season 2-1 on aggregate.
Silly point but nice try.

greendom

Deleted User wrote: »

UnknownSpecies wrote: »

Yes spurs fan, in my opinion really. Can't say Roma are automatically better because they finished ahead of them in the group, especially considering they drew the first game h2h and Atletico beat them 2-0 in the second game. Silly point but nice try.

I would say Arsenal are better than Spurs since we've won the two games this season 2-1 on aggregate.
Silly point but nice try.

Atketico have improved hugely in the second half of the season. They started very slowly and paid the price with Champions League elimination. Back to their best now unfortunately.

greendom

greendom wrote: »

Atketico have improved hugely in the second half of the season. They started very slowly and paid the price with Champions League elimination. Back to their best now unfortunately.

Oh aye, I was being facetious, they should beat us like.

emmetlego

5th is up for grabs here.

Ol' Donie

emmetlego wrote: »

5th is up for grabs here.

It's not quite shooting for the stars, but not finishing bottom of the big 6 would be great.

Well, good.

emmetlego

Forget it, Giroud just smashed home 2 to put them 3-2 up! Me and my big mouth!!!

Quazzie

emmetlego wrote: »

5th is up for grabs here.

Not with Wenger selling them strikers to keep them up there

Ol' Donie

Quazzie wrote: »

Not with Wenger selling them strikers to keep them up there

He had to to get Auba.

You know that for f*ck sake.

Royale with Cheese

Arsenal rumoured to be playing Liverpool in Dublin in August:

https://news.arseblog.com/2018/04/rumour-arsenal-to-face-liverpool-in-dublin-on-august-1st/

Fann Linn

Le10Sport hinting that Martial may be coming to Arsenal from Utd in the summer. He's not happy at OT behind Sanchez and Rashford.

Skylinehead

https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/985480350259392513

Strange team.

Fann Linn

Skylinehead wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/985480350259392513

Strange team.

Anything is possible nowadays.

Hyzepher

nice goal

wandatowell

wow

wandatowell

Ball over the top

Skylinehead

Lovely goal!

wandatowell

Surely a penalty for handball

wandatowell

great goal to be fair to the toon

wandatowell

Got a warning about Shelvey's passing a few minutes ago.

Skylinehead

wandatowell wrote: »

great goal to be fair to the toon

It's Mustafi getting caught out yet again though.

Soups123

Mustafi all over the shop, Cech shouldn't be getting beat there, he's just no mobile enough time has caught him this season he's finished as a no1