Arsenal Banter Archive March 27 2016

27 Mar 2016 15:57:12
Based on the fact there are 20 teams in Prem~
Leicester would be 18th in terms of possession and 20th in terms of accurate passes completed.

That means, they are going to win the league without really touching the ball (Smiley face) .

27 Mar 2016 18:35:34
Loved that dags

Shows how much hard graft they've put in eh ;)

27 Mar 2016 20:14:36
It goes to show how crap we are that can win a leauge against a team with a similar style to rugby union lol.

27 Mar 2016 20:43:45
Absolutely Jeg.

Harsh Sanogo, lol.

27 Mar 2016 21:18:18
Thier fans must be gutted not one move that involved 32 passes in the opposition box before shooting?
Raneiri out :-)

27 Mar 2016 22:38:43
Yep G62,
They are definitely doing something wrong :-)

27 Mar 2016 23:27:20
Indeed 62.shows who has his tactics worked out . sod beliefs, 3 points is the goal.

28 Mar 2016 11:09:37
There is a goal at either end of the field; if you put more goals in the one at the furthest point and let in less at the one that is directly behind you, you get three points. The rest is all bull sheet really.

28 Mar 2016 12:00:13
We all want to see good football whenever possible but as Gardiola said a few months back tippy tappy football for the sake of it is pointless.

28 Mar 2016 17:00:41
Certainly is, 77 passes and no end result, what is the point.

I want 3 points firstly, performance comes next. Be hard to beat and get a winning mentality that is key.

Teams used to think " oh bugger its Arsenal next week" not anymore.

28 Mar 2016 17:57:07
True Banbury mate as Swansea and Southampton keep showing us each season both home and away they don't set out to try to hang on to the point they start with against us anymore.

29 Mar 2016 07:20:29
Maybe that's the answer Dags.
If we don't touch the ball we mat win the CL and PL and FA Cup etc.
Hold on! Aren't we doing that already so where are the trophies! -:)

27 Mar 2016 07:18:41
It will be interesting to see how Leicester and Tottenham's international players will cope with playing extra matches. Both teams were knocked out of the domestic cups in the early rounds and Tottenham conceded their Europa League match against Dortmund by playing a weakened team in the first leg, when they were thrashed. Leicester face a tricky home match against Southampton, whilst Tottenham have an even more difficult match on Saturday away to Liverpool. It will be interesting to see how many of the Leicester and Tottenham players, are selected again for the midweek international matches. We need to win at home to Watford and I am confident we will do so, despite the recent FA Cup defeat.

27 Mar 2016 08:46:44
RG,
Our problem at the moment, indeed the past 4/ 5 weeks, is that we are looking at Leicester and Spurs fixtures, and hoping they slip up.

We are looking at Leicester and Spurs players and hoping they pick up an injury.

We should be flying high, top of the league and other teams should be looking at Arsenal fixtures and thinking "Hope they slip up".

Poor season.

27 Mar 2016 09:19:42
Think it's been our worst season in years tbh, the fact the players have not been able to raise there game at crucial moments of the season when all the title rivals have dropped points is frankly worrying, have they lost faith in Wenger? Publically they back him but it doesn't feel like they do on the pitch.

Wenger just buying Cech in the summer was his biggest failure, did he really honestly think that's where we lost the league last season? he always says we wanted this player or that, offering half the market value player doesn't constitute a valid offer Arsene and nor doesn't it mean we are ' able to compete in the market place with our rivals' as you and Ivan like to bang on about.

If you'd have asked any football fan at the start of the season, City are fourth, Utd Liverpool and Chealse are out of the champions league spots, who's top of the league? I doubt there's many people who'd have not said Aresnal

Neither the manager or the players seem to be taking no any repsiblillty for what's one of the biggest failures if not the biggest failure of a season Wenger has had.

27 Mar 2016 09:35:29
Dagenham. Of course, I totally agree that we should be in pole position, but the fact is that we are not and we have to hope that both teams above us slip up. On the positive side, both teams have tougher run ins than we do. Both teams wil have had more players playing in the internationals, who are not used to playing as often and this season both have benefitted from having played less cup matches than we have.
Having looked at the remaining fixtures, if we have a decent run of form, I can see us finishing second, but overtaking Leicester may prove impossible, For us to do this we must win at least 7 of our remaining matches and draw one, which is a very tall order.

27 Mar 2016 10:00:49
Agree RG,
My post wasn't a pop at you or your original post BTW.

Just a general overview of the season we are having :-)

27 Mar 2016 10:12:44
Dags, I didn't take it as having a 'pop' at my original post. It was a correct and interesting observation, I enjoy your comments in general, as they tend to be constructive, opposed to many comments that simply criticise, but offer no intelligent response.
I hope we resume our recent better form after the international break and fingers crossed that we get some of injured players back soon.

27 Mar 2016 20:47:41
Agree on that mate.