The result is one thing. I think we all knew we were unlikely to get anything, and on the face of it 2-1 is a close scoreline. I’m not even that annoyed about that. I’m annoyed at the lack of desire from the team.
However, it’s a fking north London derby. As bad as we have been, arsenal haven’t been great recently and it was an opportunity to not get our league season back on track, but also severely dent theirs. SEVERELY.
How many times have the likes of chelsea & arsenal f’d our season, despite being crap? Immediately come to mind the Battle of the bridge and that 2-2 at the lane when lloris lets in Sanchez’s shot, despite arsenal being down to 10 men. Even West Ham dented our title & top 4 pushes in recent years.
It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally realised this team, or maybe it is the club, just do not have what it takes. Where is the pride? The professionalism? These lot beaten us 5 of last 6 games! Judas is putting out rubbish like that on the eve of a NLD.
There was no heart from the team yesterday, except for bergvall, gray & spence. The SENIOR PROS are an absolute embarrassment. Disgusting every single one of them. I’ve been a supporter of son for a while - fans said hes going downhill for the past few seasons but i’ve finally seen it - he needs the captaincy taken from him. So weak.
No composure on the ball. Arsenal pressed us and we did not have a clue. We are literally a team who play out from the back and should be experienced in dealing with the press but we couldn’t handle it. Spence & Gray targeted and to be fair they did alright but end of the day if you constantly invite pressure then eventually you make a mistake. The point of tactics is to try and mitigate opportunities for individual mistakes but our tactics encourages them. Bissouma I’ve had enough - top player on his day but that’s now once a year. Sick of it.
Second half he roles the dice. (Why is Maddison sub every fking game). Did we ever put Arsenal under sustained pressure once, or create a good opportunity in that second half? Only we can go gung-ho and not create a chance. Arsenal literally let us have the ball and we still did nothing. Worst thing is they looked average themselves but again, our players can’t take advantage.
Kulu & solanke absolutely run dry. Brennan - whatever. Funnily enough, Richarlison actually did more in 10 mins than most of the attack and that’s saying something.
Ange - in the match thread i said sack him, sack the whole team but at this point what is even the point of ange out? If we sack him I think season is over, this lot won’t respond to a new manager bounce. I think we just wait to the end of the season and hope we win a cup. If not, see ya
Lack of passion & hunger (Rant)
posted 1 hour, 59 minutes ago
Maddison is rightly a sub. He is a luxury player that only turns up 1 game in 5.
Spence and Gray have done well. But there is no fluidity down that left side with both having the check back inside on their right foot.
Bissouma I agree is a liability. We’d be best selling him and finding a proper midfielder to control the middle.
posted 1 hour, 55 minutes ago
Where was the marking for Gabriel at the corner. Should have had TWO men on him front and back because the world and his wife knew what Arsenal would do and what would likely happen and it did.
So you tell me Ange that you dont need to work on set pieces? Really???
posted 1 hour, 50 minutes ago
comment by Hezzman (U21558)
posted 3 minutes ago
Where was the marking for Gabriel at the corner. Should have had TWO men on him front and back because the world and his wife knew what Arsenal would do and what would likely happen and it did.
So you tell me Ange that you dont need to work on set pieces? Really???
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Dragusin lost him. Simply he isn’t good enough another that makes too many individual errors.
posted 1 hour, 45 minutes ago
comment by BelfastSpur (U15068)
posted 7 minutes ago
Maddison is rightly a sub. He is a luxury player that only turns up 1 game in 5.
Spence and Gray have done well. But there is no fluidity down that left side with both having the check back inside on their right foot.
Bissouma I agree is a liability. We’d be best selling him and finding a proper midfielder to control the middle.
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At least maddison will try get on the ball. Why not try him LW like Leicester & even England used to do, especially with Son in this state/form & Werner as the options?
RE corners - you know what, overall i can’t even blame them too much for the gabriel goal because how many fking corners & free kicks did we wanna give away? we defended most of them well, but our braindead players kept giving away stupid fouls/getting pressed from the back and giving away corners.
Again, goes back to purpose of tactics to try mitigate opportunities to make mistakes. We didn’t do that
posted 1 hour, 9 minutes ago
comment by BISS Bash BOSSED (U8366)
posted 32 minutes ago
our braindead players kept giving away stupid fouls
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posted 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
Players like Son and Maddison are to weak. Both need to be permanent subs.
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by BelfastSpur (U15068)
posted 1 hour, 44 minutes ago
Maddison is rightly a sub. He is a luxury player that only turns up 1 game in 5.
Spence and Gray have done well. But there is no fluidity down that left side with both having the check back inside on their right foot.
Bissouma I agree is a liability. We’d be best selling him and finding a proper midfielder to control the middle.
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We already have one. His name is Archie Gray. I've had enough now. The moment those defenders come back I want Archie in midfield. Whilst he might not have the ball carrying abilities of Biss, he'd be a hell of a lot more solid. Give the lad a chance in his favoured position. God knows he deserves it.
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by BelfastSpur (U15068)
posted 1 hour, 44 minutes ago
Maddison is rightly a sub. He is a luxury player that only turns up 1 game in 5.
Spence and Gray have done well. But there is no fluidity down that left side with both having the check back inside on their right foot.
Bissouma I agree is a liability. We’d be best selling him and finding a proper midfielder to control the middle.
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We already have one. His name is Archie Gray. I've had enough now. The moment those defenders come back I want Archie in midfield. Whilst he might not have the ball carrying abilities of Biss, he'd be a hell of a lot more solid. Give the lad a chance in his favoured position. God knows he deserves it.
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Yep, him and Kulu are the first 2 names on the team sheet for me. Bentancur would be the 3rd as he will fight for everything.
A fit VDV makes it as does Udogie and a fully fit Sarr. After that it’s slim pickings.
It’s a sub standard squad with a sub standard manager.
posted 11 seconds ago
We should be all over Liam Delap in the summer - Richy can go wide left, Delap and Solanke can compete in the middle. Kulu wide right with BJ make sub appearances. Odobert, Solomon, Moore, Hyuk can all play back up. I would move Son on.
If we could get good money I’d sell Maddison. Gray, Sarr, Bentancur and Biss for CM. 2 AM’s needed.
Sell Romero, Dragusin and Porro. We have Vuskovic coming in and Big Ben for one more season - we probably need to buy 3 CB’s though, plus a RB to compete with Spence and a LB to compete with Udogie.
That is a huge amount of work, but we’re going to be stuck in this rut unless we somehow land the next Fergie/Klopp