Arsenal Banter Archive October 21 2015

21 Oct 2015 21:55:54
What a week for Derby, champions league football doesn't get more satisfying than this!
Oh and Arsenal beat Bayern Munich too :-)

22 Oct 2015 10:13:33
What more can I say about De bruyne. I took a lot of stick for backing him.

Sometimes on here if you rate a player who doesn't play at the emirates it doesn't go down well but football is a global game :)

22 Oct 2015 11:16:40
Players who don't play at The Emirates?
That's blasphemy in my book Derby :-)

22 Oct 2015 12:14:23
Never heard of him dags is he any good?

22 Oct 2015 14:27:36
Derby,

You actually don't get it do you fella, there are literally dozens of players I'd love to see in an Arsenal shirt.

Lewandowski, Bale, Fekir, Pogba, Aguero, Silva, Muller, Messi, Saurez, Carvalho to name but a few but would rather talk about the quality here than cream my pants on a daily basis about other teams players.

Bless you fella and congrats on the come back against Sevilla :-)

22 Oct 2015 17:11:26
I do get I just find it funny. People were waiting for him to flop and they didn't want him here. He will only get better.

As I posted above I'd ov taken krychowiak from sevilla all day long. Perfect for us mate. He was realisitic for sure.

22 Oct 2015 18:01:16
Derby,

I wasn't waiting for De Bruyne to flop, he's a cracking player, the same as Krychowiak who I wouldn't have said no too either, even though it was his missed tackle, lunging in, that let De Bruyne in for cities winner. Lol. :-)

22 Oct 2015 19:46:00
Love you stoner.

21 Oct 2015 16:57:56
Chelsea? Why even bother entertaining the champions league if that's all they can do, embarrassment to us serious contenders them even being in the competition :-)

{Ed025's Note - love it G62..

21 Oct 2015 17:50:52
Why even bother calling yourself a football club when you don't play any football?

21 Oct 2015 15:18:32
Great result last night that a few of us could see coming. don't uunderestimate the importance of the emergence of walcott or at least his menace. We were able to sit back, or forced back, and because of their pressing game exploit with pace from walcott sancez and bellarin the space they left. don't get me wrong with all their talent and they have some in abundance ( no firing 100% last night) we were a bit fortunate, but they have that weakness if you can manage to get the ball offthem without them stuffing you they press so high up the pitch, they are like sitting ducks with pace to counter at. We can get a result a bayern i'm sure, we can get the two more wins required. But as per arsenal, through varying reasons ( not all in anyway the ospina thing) we are playing catch up and that is arsenal. Could be top of the league after this weekend.

21 Oct 2015 15:47:44
Who are you and what have you done with Steve? Haha.

Totally agree, our pace definitely hurt them, particularly Bellerin's run for the final goal. I don't think we were entirely forced back, I think some of it was us being wise and deciding to keep our shape as opposed to pressing. Walcott was good once again and could have had a goal if it weren't for a world class save.

It does make it all the more annoying when you see a performance like that yet we are the ones who are bottom of the table - completely our own doing (no disrespect to Olympiakos and Zagreb) .

21 Oct 2015 16:52:04
Good post Frankensteve.

21 Oct 2015 17:04:55
Im still hear and i can see what is happening, we are in a vein of form and we have struck onto somethin, i have aways said i say what i see and at the moment i'm enjoying it, i can see we are progressing, but i can also see we are fallable and i'm a realist. I still think we have been left short by this club and i'm hoping that it doesn't bite us in the bum, at the moment we have to and are doing build momentum. We will in the future need more than momentum when the chips are down. don't worry buddy, if needed, i'm still hear. I know what i think and i know this is arsenal. Not the time for soapbox stuff at the moment, let's hope i'm wrong in my opinion and its not needed.

21 Oct 2015 17:05:47
Dont agree that they were not firing, they had 74% possession and could do what they wanted, great credit to us for keeping our shape and defending as a team superbly well. I don't see the result as fortunate.

Agree that offensively we had the pace to cause them problems which we did.

It was almost akin to a team parking the bus against us but normally those teams don't possess the attacking talent and pace we have. Thus you wouldn't call a team that played that way against us fortunate or that we weren't 100%, would you?

21 Oct 2015 17:27:04
Red dog believe me they weren't firing at 100%. Their possession was in areas that didn't hurt 99% of the time, tika taka, bit like we are guilty of sometimes. Muller, levendoski, costa, vidal, tiago could kill us or anyone and they didn't, they fluffed their lines. I hope they do over there, but we will see soon enough. One of the reasons their possession was high as well because we kept giving it back to them and in another game that would be punished. The possession stats last night meant zip in some respects because the way they played exposed their weakness and we exploited it.

21 Oct 2015 17:46:39
The majority of that is my point Steve, you would be saying Wenger had been outsmarted by another manager of a lesser club because we had a mass of possession and with all our talent couldn't score.

You can't have it both ways mate, we played the game to beat them and nullified their obvious talent.

It's been done to us we did it to them. You make other valid points but you are being kind to them and harsh on us.

You win nothing in October, injuries already playing a part but we genuinely look like a bloody good team and won that game on merit. No other player Wenger may have brought in the summer would of made much difference to the outcome of that game bar the one purchase he did make who was stood between the posts. :-)

21 Oct 2015 18:07:36
Red dog you are talking about one game ( last night) last night we beat bayern a month ago we lost to kiev. We aren't worse than kiev and we aren't better than bayern. But we are consistent in our inconsistency.

21 Oct 2015 18:16:05
Welcome back Steve.

21 Oct 2015 13:46:05
Owen Hargreaves - "Jerome Boateng is the best centre back in the world right now".
Discuss. Once you've stopped laughing.

21 Oct 2015 14:04:20
Owen Hargreaves is a TWIT, he was talking so much crap last night its untrue.

21 Oct 2015 14:46:51
Had to put it on mute eventually Ban. I couldn't cope with the words.

21 Oct 2015 18:59:46
It drove me mad how BT thing he is a good investment god knows.

21 Oct 2015 20:19:53
Hargreaves and owen are the worst two commentators in football, they droll on and on and their analysis is crap. Mark wright used to do the same to me, we don't hear from him now so there is hope.

21 Oct 2015 20:20:38
Sorry bright, can't even remember his name.

21 Oct 2015 11:21:40
Anyone noticed this, Owen Hargreves yesterday was repeating that Arsenal should press more and not allow time for Xabi Alonso, but Wenger later in the interview said pressing up high gave Arsenal the possession back a lot of times, but in the next phase if we lost the ball in the middle of the park we have conceded a lot of goals, that's why the players were instructed to maintain shape and press when the ball was in our half. worked yesterday.

21 Oct 2015 11:44:56
I posted yesterday, at first I thought we should be taking the game to BM, but we seemed to sit back and counter them on the break, once they lost possession to us.
We seemed to be playing the perfect 'away' game, even though we were the home side.
If we pushed higher, Alonso would have dictated the game and Costa would have slaughtered us, not to mention Muller and Lewandowski.
It's a results business, we won 2-0 so the tactic's were proved to be spot on.

21 Oct 2015 11:52:37
One minute Hargreaves said we should press high and that Ramsey ozil and Sanchez needed to stay up field as an out let and in the next breath he was saying that Ramsey should be back helping out bellerin to double up on Costa . Guys a moron and he is in love with Douglas Costa.

21 Oct 2015 12:04:03
Said it yesterday the guy is a joke along with Michael Owen, it wasn't until Wrighty pointed out at half time that I think the halfwit clicked onto it.

It worked perfectly, we didn't run ourselves into the ground and it was in fact them that tired.

More of the same at the Allianz with this time Walcott, Sanchez and Chamberlain for them to worry about.

I was wishing I'd watched the game in puncho-vision so I could have sparked Hargreaves out. ;-)

21 Oct 2015 13:06:27
You probably don't learn much about the game in the treatment room.

21 Oct 2015 08:58:48
It's not often you say this about a full back, but hector bellerin showed us last night that he is going to be an absolute world-beater in a couple of years time, him and per were on another level last night, best I've seen either of them play.

Here's hoping we manage to keep Barcelona at bay with hector, lads got the makings to become the best right back in world football, need to do everything we can to keep him a ways down the road.

21 Oct 2015 09:08:58
The experiences of Fabregas and Song should at least make him think twice and if we pay him the wages he can get elsewhere plus seriously contend for the big prizes over the next couple of seasons we stand a very good chance of keeping Hector Sanchez and all others who will be in big demand elsewhere.

21 Oct 2015 09:28:12
if we win nothing he will leave, if we win it all he will leave, its all part of the game, the idea is to keep him happy and win. eventually when he does decide to leave for the barcas or real madrids, we will have had a player we have utilized and there is nothing to wish him well at that point. players move, its business and life, no point thinking about it. let's enjoy these moments.

21 Oct 2015 07:41:49
As good as last nights win was, it will mean nothing if we lose to Everton on sat, our prob for many years has been consistency!

21 Oct 2015 08:28:37
Thank the Lord we won at Watford ;-)

21 Oct 2015 06:05:17
{Ed's Note - We have posted a new article entitled, Premier League Disappointments

21 Oct 2015 06:26:49
Good read, but like he said chambers hasn't had the chance this season to put a run of games together, so I wouldn't say he was a disappointing player so far, especially when you look at the players he has to compete against.

{Ed001's Note - but who has actually disappointed? Wilshere, but by virtue of injury, maybe. Other than that I am struggling to think of anyone who is not playing that well, now Sanchez has found his feet again.}

21 Oct 2015 07:57:17
For me it's gibbs, he seems to have gone backwards over the last season or two.

{Ed001's Note - I don't rate him to be disappointed by him to be honest. Very quick but far too weak and positionally poor.}

20 Oct 2015 23:59:47
I bet you lot already know the first rule of assumption club?

21 Oct 2015 02:29:21
You've just broken it.