The Arsenal v Brighton [PL]-1 Oct 2017-Match Thread

Smash these south coast 2nd division upstarts...

 

Repped

 

Brighton's rags-to-riches story is a good one. OK maybe near-riches. <20 years ago, they were minutes away from being jettisoned from the football league.

And Chris Hughton is someone I have a lot of compassion for: a very decent guy and essentially the only black manager who's clawed his way to the pinnacle of English football. Because of that, I'm generally rooting for him.

Except on Sunday, when I'd very much like it if we whipped their butts.

 

As per https://www.arsenal.com/news/team-news-ozil-koscielny-iwobi-and-welbeck...

Ozil is out
Kos is iffy
Iwobi may be back

 

Arsenal XI - 3-4-2-1: Cech; Holding, Mustafi, Monreal; Bellerin, Ramsey, Xhaka, Kolasinac; Iwobi, Alexis; Lacazette

Bench: Ospina, BFG, ElNeny, Maitland-Niles, Jack, Walcott, Giroud

 

At 1' Laca leaves his calling card?

 

IWOBI needs to play like he’s been the final third before and not crap his pants when he shoote which is generally Straight af the keeper

 

Ping pong goal !

 

That goal reminded me of one of TFC's vs Red Bulls last night.

I can only hope that we will have the same result today that Toronto had last night.

 

10 men behind the wall no pressure allow us to probe and probe

Stupid foul by Tank

 

Should be tied whew

 

They’re starting to get into the game looking more dangerous out wide

 

Great run by Iwobi and shoots right at The keeper WTF

 

Shoulda been 2-0 by Laca there!

 

Laca should have scored but shoots right at the Keeper

 

At 38' Sanchez has been a non-factor so far. Let's hope that changes soon.

 

Sanchez getting fouled incessantly

 

Great breakaway Ramsey should have scored

 

Giroud for Sanchez would put this game to bed.

I have to give Brighton props for that free kick routine too, but that seems to be all they have prepared for this game.

 

just woke up. From literally sleeping through first 10 mins of 2nd half. Heard "Sanchez Iwobi Goal!"

 

Have we found our level? We can comfortably beat Brighton at home?

 

professional job. Looked generally comfortable. Need to do better with chances in the box— act like we’ve been there before and not crap our pants , despite the great back healed by Sanchez A better team would’ve punished us on our giveaways. Not as impressive as the Manchester teams who are just leveling opponents. Obviously we’re fighting for our fourth-place trophy again. I guess that’s better than nothing

 

I'll gladly take a comfortable 2-0 win at home against anyone.

 

It wasn't THAT comfortable. B&H should have scored two goals in the first half and pretty much had the best of play the last 20 minutes.