1 lame shot on goal. getting a draw on the road with that pathetic effort is an absolute steal. i'll take it. awful "mental strength"
LOL, that was the most dreadful performance in since last month. Wish I could say a while but I'm used to these shit performances. ps. I cannot wait till Jenks is the full time starter. Sagna was pathetic. Can Gervinho please not come back from Africa?
Glad this game is over so I can go on with my first day of the year in peace. What a dreadful showing.
this midfield stinks the forward line stinks the fullbacks stinks the centerbacks stinks this team stinks
sagna had an obvious horrible match, but he has built up some credits... gibbs just sucks at fullback, absolutely sucks. He needs to either be played upfront, or not at all.
Well, I'm of two minds on this one. It's annoying that we tied a team that we've already walloped 6-1 this season. But in the past 7 weeks, we've played 12 games and had one postponed. In that time period we climbed up to 5th, advanced to the group stages of the CL, and beat Spurs 5-2, Reading by the same, and demolished Newcastle 7-3. We've had some very good games. This team is not deep enough to play that many games and look sterling in all of them. We're going to have a lot of clunkers, and today was one of those. We've made it through the busiest part of our season and we have just 6 games in the next 5 weeks. Given that Spurs are too up and down and Everton can't score (they have an amazing 9 draws already this season), I think we still control our own destiny in the race for 4th... I hate that that is what we're targeting, but it is what it is. Today could have been worse. ////Ends channeling session with Silva 5 ///////
at the end of the day, that is the goal... how ********ing pathetic... we have succumbed to the financial clout of citeh, chelsea, and manyoo. sad.
A shitty performance. Our issue as I see it was a lack of ball control. After every Soton move broke down, we turned and moved well, but always had a misplaced pass. I think we're too reliant on Santi. Without him, we have no creative spark. We need a back-up for him, in addition to another winger. Sell Santos, Gervinho and buy a quality left back.
Sanga had a bad day today & that is all. He is a great player who happen to have a bad game. SO OFFICIALLY WE ARE OUT OF THE TITLE THIS YEAR AGAIN? I don't know when this inconsistency will be stopped...all the upper teams are winning and wining big.....2013 already seems a bad year for gunners....
Cazorla is that good (you don't get consistent call ups to the Spanish NT if you're not), but he is for the most part surrounded by teammates who are not on his same wavelength mentally and technically. Yes there are points where Santi is off his game, but this happens to everyone (even Messi, Xavi, Iniesta). There's plenty of times where Cazorla plays a nice ball into open space with no one there anticipating it, and similar instances of lack of understanding; that and he obviously can't do it all by himself. Arsenal needs another top level player to distribute the creative load, so that the team can't be stifled by opposing squad's shutting down him or Arteta.
I think we would do better in matches like this one today if Jack and Caz were to work the ball up the middle of the pitch together before sending the ball out wide. Shamton were leaving Sagna open all day in the hopes we would give him the ball early and often. The key is the teamwork between Jack and Santi.
Yeah, he did...quite a few times??? IMO Ramsey has improved a lot over the past couple matches. What is the point 0f spreading the ball to our flanks when they are so god-awful? I'm fairly sure Podolski did not have a single forward pass today...and what's worse is that his back passes aren't even safe, they put everyone else under pressure. I fault him for the goal today because even when Sagna had a shocking clearance, he did amazingly even to cut out the ball in the first place. Sagna was amazingly poor, Gibbs was pretty bad, Cazorla was anonymous, and I'm tiring of how much our pace slows whenever the ball gets to Arteta. He's like the CM version of Nasri right now--the counterattack killer. Our attack is not just down to poor players. That's a big reason but it's not everything. Tactically I think we've changed since even a few years ago--we no longer have players committing to runs off the ball in the same frequency they used to or with the same intelligence or efficacy. I don't know if this is a deliberate decision or not, but it could very well be a side effect of attempting to preserve defensive shape.