Arsenal - (A) - Post Match

[Chazza]

Between Us, Arsenal, Spurs and Utd for 3rd and 4th I reckon.

We will know a lot more come January.

[vonk]

If he's going to stick with this system then no point playing Cissokho and Kelly/Flanagan, they just don't have the tools. It has to be Johnson/Enrique or forget it and go 442. I'd like to see Agger back in for Toure now. Sakho and Skrtel are playing well, and we need Agger back as the man to step up to support midfield.

Coutinho was brilliant when he came on. He was inches away from connecting with Luis on many occasions and needs to be in team.

There is no need for two deep lying mids when you have three CBs. At one point today, when we were 2-0 down, Lucas got the ball from the keeper and then rolled it 5 yards to his left to Gerrard who was basically standing beside him for the game. One of them has to go, and for me it's Lucas. Playing beside Gerrard we need some who can press, and that's Henderson or Allen.

Very disappointed with Henderson, he still seems to lack confidence and a bit of technique when I hoped this would be his year. Too many times when he gets in shooting positions, he is either indecisive or balloons it over the bar. He really had a chance early when they let him in on goal but he was always considering a pass and didn't react when the door opened.

[Sarb]

Utd are not nailed on for Top 3. I dont think any club is nailed on for any of the top 4 positions. Utd, City, spurs, and Chelsea all have weaknesses like we do. So do Arsenal

[Red_Polo]

I'm starting to give up on BR. Sorry for saying it.

What the **** #

We're ****ing third. ffs.

[Red_Polo]

Between Us, Arsenal, Spurs and Utd for 3rd and 4th I reckon.

We will know a lot more come January.

You are a talker of sense Chazman.

[Chazza]

You are a talker of sense Chazman.

I'm smashed!

How was the Norwich folk wedding?

[Red_Polo]

Good stuff. A free bar including Jaegerbombinbs is always a win

[Gibbo]

I'm starting to give up on BR. Sorry for saying it.

[Myo]

Think Gary Neville spoke a lot of sense. Any team can lose when two top teams play each other. You have to look at the reaction when you lose ie. go and win your next game. He is spot on

Sorry but I just cant share in the pessimism. I dont think we were that bad today. I think we were lacking an edge attack wise. That happens to every team. Look at Chelsea today. With £30m players they were bang average. I thought Sturridge and Suarez were off it today. Toure was poor too

But our aim is Top 4. We are in a good position for that. We were never gonna be title winners, so this defeat doesnt really hurt me much. I think Arsenal are Giroud injury away from a bad run. And to say we are 3rd due to an easy run of fixtures are rubbish. Cant just write off our good results as being against poor teams.

I'm happy with our position. Hopefully we can pick up 3 points next week going into an international break

[destinydude]

What the **** #

We're ****ing third. ffs.

Third is just an illusion. We've had 11 pts from our last 7 games since switching to 3-5-2. Any good manager would be able to see that that's where the problem started. We don't have the personnel for it and yet we went there with a botched 3-5-2 to the Emirates and we didn't even make them work for their win. Just played into their hands.

Aw. Hell yes, nigga

[gentingfrmhell]

should have went with 4-3-3. 5-3-2 was never going to work against a strong team like arsenal.

we lacked width on the attack and our wingbacks caught out on the defense.

[SB]

should have went with 4-3-3. 5-3-2 was never going to work against a strong team like arsenal.

we lacked width on the attack and our wingbacks caught out on the defense.

I can't see your logic that 433 offers more width that 532? Please explain.
We had more width when we went to 442 when Coutinho & Moses came on IMO.

[BG1973]

Henderson's killing me in almost every game right now.

He's just a body at the moment. As soon as he has a chance to really make difference he ****s it up. No composure.

Guess he loses his place now coutinho fit.

Welcome IMO.


We were not great, but we were away to the league leaders and still had some very good moments that could have changed the game if they'd gone for us.

So shouldnt be too downbeat after that IMO.

[Leyton388]

Got to say i was expecting so much more from us in this game. TBH i didn't expect a win but i did expect a much much better performance than what we served up. Arsenal are a quality team and anyone going their this season will have a tough time even getting a draw.

Our midfield is what is killing our chances against a team with the players Arsenal have in the middle and we need to address it in January. Yesterdays game showed how slow our midfield is and how easy it is to cut through if you have a little pace in your team.

January is going to be huge for us. If we are still in the fight for 4th come jan then FSG need to open up the chequebook and help us kick on for the rest of the season and get top 4.

I'd love to see us sign a top quality CM and AM.

[Fredo]

Though to be fair and balanced to the team, we did create 2 or 3 clear chances, and had they gone in, the result would maybe have been a different one. And we were denied a valid goal, when Luis' quick free quick should have been allowed to stand.

It was a disappointing result, but we weren't as bad as some people are making out. Arsenal on the whole deserved to win it yes, but could have been a different story very easily.