Arsenal Banter Archive April 16 2018

16 Apr 2018 20:43:41
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16 Apr 2018 10:38:43
RG61 I guess you are overreacting mate. In the league there is not much left to play for and it will be extremely hard for Wenger to motivate the players. Against Atletico it will be a different ball game altogether. Not many gave us a chance against Milan but look where we are now. I believe with our current squad and coach both as poor as they are Atletico is very beatable. I am putting my cash on us going through to the final. I agree it's time for Wenger to step. He did his best and I am forever grateful for what he did. Time for a change is now. Hope Arsene sees the way.

16 Apr 2018 11:14:37
Just wondering why it was so difficult for Arsene to motivate the players last August too ;-)
We conceded 3 times to Leicester on opening night was it 4 or 5 against Liverpool and of course our customary defeat at Stoke with an impressive only 1 goal conceded.
August or April spot the difference with our defence and the man responsible for recruiting training organising and motivating them, there isn't any and neither will there be next season if Arsene is allowed to continue.

16 Apr 2018 12:20:32
For me the whole arsene debate is done and dusted out of every arsenal fan I know there’s only one of my group of friends who still can’t get over it. I agre leics there’s not much to play for in the league and yesterday we had inexperience and a lack of quality in midfield and defence. Can you imagine the uproar if ozil played and got injured. May as well use the league to have a look at the squad we are three games away from a remarkable salvage and all efforts should be going towards that! I really wouldn’t be getting too concerned about the league.

16 Apr 2018 13:03:49
The league isn't important but the lack of defence and defensive midfield is important if we are to achieve what we have left that is worth playing for.
Will the defence suddenly become all right on the night against Athletico? They might not be the most free scoring team in Europe or even Spain but they aren't second in their league by drawing each game 0 0 either.
It would be silly to rely on Athletico's lack of a goal scoring excess else where as a safety net to pin all our hopes on, personally I'd be doing all I could to help ourselfs before relying Cavani type generosity to save us again, our defence is rubbish but that doesn't mean we can't somehow making 1% less rubbish between now and the two semi final games.

16 Apr 2018 13:50:36
Yesterday wasn't a shock. Even this season we can see that we have a good enough team to beat most premiership teams at home, even if playing the likes of Elneny and Chambers in the starting XI. However, against either the best, home and away, or away to any team, anywhere in the league, but showing a bit of recent form, we get done. We have absolutely no backbone, or change of style to get the job done. Same reason we do no better when we play against 10 men, we stay exactly the same, play slowly across the pitch, giving the other team plenty of time to drift defend, subsequently over commit, and get hit on the break. If this was a record, it wouldn't have been changed a long time ago, it would have been smashed to absolute pieces.

16 Apr 2018 13:53:19
Gunner I’m afraid our friend Mr Wenger will change nothing in relation to us defensively.

It will simply be a case of us being inspired as we were against Chelsea in the final.

It will be nothing short of miraculous if we win but let’s just sit back chill and see how it goes. 😁.

16 Apr 2018 14:40:41
That’s it stoner it’s all a little hysterical. We battered the best team in England last year in the fa cup final. Our defence held up then and it has done on numerous occasions throughout the year . Who knows which arsenal will turn up against atleti. One thing is for sure is we can’t sign anyone else and Wenger will be in charge for those games. There’s really no point in whining about the same things week in week out. We have two potentially 3 games where arsenal need to turn up.

16 Apr 2018 16:40:25
Does 6th matter?

16 Apr 2018 17:18:11
I don’t know steve. What’s Europa places? 7th.

16 Apr 2018 18:28:24
No top 6 sano as far as i understand. May be wrong.

16 Apr 2018 18:45:26
It's 7th if a club that already qualifies for Europe wins the fa Cup, so if Southampton win, they get a spot and it's top 6 I think.

16 Apr 2018 19:12:10
E sounds right to me.

16 Apr 2018 19:36:15
I'm sure your right Stoner mate, I don't expect anything new or positive from Arsene but still can't quite get the hang of accepting the madness and total bewilderment that is Arsenal football club without having an opinion on it.
But I have a cunning plan to resolve that problem for myself once all hope of Arsene going this summer is gone :-)

16 Apr 2018 20:09:32
whats the cunning plan? follow stoners lead?

16 Apr 2018 21:25:43
Yes I’m intrigued gunner, let us in on the story? 😁.

16 Apr 2018 23:58:04
If 7th qualifies, it means extra qualifier games and earlier games for that team.

16 Apr 2018 06:49:14
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