Arsenal at home Sunday 31st August 430pm

[Corndog]

There's an abundance of evidence to suggest that refs in conjunction with VAR are making absolute awful decisions that are directly impact results of games

Couple of examples from the weekend
The Fulham 'foul' that saw a perfectly good goal ruled out for Fulham.
Several contentious decisions in the Man U Vs Burnley game

Yes VAR has not resulted in perfect decision making during games.

There are never any blow ups about when VAR gets it right though and there never seems to be anyone claiming it is destroying the soul of the game when it goes in their teams favour.

It’s definitely one that needs to be settled objectively with data.

[DerKrampus]

Shows how far refereeing standards have fallen that people need to comment when a ref has a decent game and doesn't make any ****ups.

The criticism is justified when the game is slowed down (VAR) or it's really obvious but for most things there's not much to go on.

Referees maybe used to look better because they allowed people to be kneecapped and only needed to blow up for offsides or fistycuffs!

[DerKrampus]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MVbw0vsxQds

[Norbs]

Glad the Arsenal lovefest is coming to an end, Arteta's ego won't let him change though.

[RedReet]

I personally thought from the start of the second half to the goal we were starting to go through the gears. First half was appalling from both teams. But that period before the goal there were real signs of the players clicking - particularly from when Jones came on. I’d say that’s why we deserved the win.

What surprised me was that all Arsenal had were set pieces they seem so focussed on corners. They didn’t really trouble us much in open play - I genuinely expected more from them.

Agree on Gomez, he was excellent when he came on.

Aye, I wasn't bothered at all by the first half, was happy to see it like a tough away game, just stay in it and don't do anything stupid. Always expected that we'd be better 2nd half, that we'd have the winning mentality and that we had more players capable of individual brilliance.

I didn't want to scud us, but I was delighted when I seen Martinelli (crap), Gyokeres (donkey) and Madueke (no end product) up front. Especially when he play 7 defenders behind them.

Was a tight game, but even if Arsenal took the lead, I always expected us to get at least one back. They din't really deserve to score though.

[Buzzo]

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[Kenneth]

Even the knee slide was perfect.

[RedReet]

Kerkes loving it.

We do love a mad LB at this club, don't we?

[Buzzo]

I still can’t believe he smashed it in top bins. Zero deception. Nobody else around the ball. Just Dom and the ball. I don’t think anyone expected him to score, even when you look on the Kop there is not exactly expectation. My main thoughts were waaaaay too far out (but with a faint recollection of some Szoboslai Hungary FK goals). In terms of distance it reminded me of the Gaza FK (against Arsenal at Wembley). In terms of being probably the perfect way to win a game like yesterdays it was perfect on every level!

[RedReet]

I wanted Virg to hit it.

[BG1973]

I still can’t believe he smashed it in top bins. Zero deception. Nobody else around the ball. Just Dom and the ball. I don’t think anyone expected him to score, even when you look on the Kop there is not exactly expectation. My main thoughts were waaaaay too far out (but with a faint recollection of some Szoboslai Hungary FK goals). In terms of distance it reminded me of the Gaza FK (against Arsenal at Wembley). In terms of being probably the perfect way to win a game like yesterdays it was perfect on every level!

Wait for some pedantic arsehole to pipe up and tell you it wasn't top bins, that the ball dipped so much it went in just over halfway up the goal post. I can guarantee it.

[Exiled_red]

What was Raya doing, with his positioning? not expecting him to save it or signing any blame, or taking anything away from Szoboszlai, but just noticed he positions himself well off to the other side before moving to the middle of the goal when Szoboszlai starts his run up, seems a bit odd but you could also see it as a tempter to see if you could hit that side of the goal quicker than he can get across

[Sus]

What was Raya doing, with his positioning? not expecting him to save it or signing any blame, or taking anything away from Szoboszlai, but just noticed he positions himself well off to the other side before moving to the middle of the goal when Szoboszlai starts his run up, seems a bit odd but you could also see it as a tempter to see if you could hit that side of the goal quicker than he can get across

The Athletic had an interesting point on this, and the role that Wirtz and Gakpo played in blocking Raya's view, and then Wirtz kept moving across to block his view for as long as possible

[RedReet]

Wait for some pedantic arsehole to pipe up and tell you it wasn't top bins, that the ball dipped so much it went in just over halfway up the goal post. I can guarantee it.

Erm, like you just have?

[BG1973]

Erm, like you just have?

Well yes but that was the multi layered hilarity of it. Imo