I think digby's love in for Cech is clearly clouding his judgement...

comment by Sir Digby - The Quadruple is ON (U6039)
posted 24 seconds ago
its oxs fault not cechs
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It was a very tame shot, Cech should have saved it

Not sure if Ramsey is the right choice today. Expect him to play on the wing again and that leaves Giroud isolated.

Ramsey is hardly defensively astute nowadays. His average position is probably higher than Giroud's

comment by TUX (U5315)
posted less than a minute ago
I think McArthy in goal could be our weak link as many have not been impressed with him at all so far. Here's hoping i'm wrong.
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He'll probably have the best game of his life today

cech could have done better but it was still oxs fault, people are just desperate for him to do well so nignore it

*ignore

I'm shocked no one has even mentioned Cazorlas refusal to close down the scorer last week. That was just unacceptable!

Cazorla can do no wrong to most fans....

Cech was wrong footed so couldn't move that way

All our midfielders sucked last week on the defensive side.
Atleast Ox looked bright on the offensive side.

No digby, obviously it was poor for Ox to lose it where he did, but there's no way in hell Zarate's pea roller should have gone in. It was embarrassing.

It was one match guys

The whole of pre season he was on the ball

Let's just see how he does today and in the next few weeks

it wasn't a pea roller but still, wrong footed due to not expecting it, poor from both

sh !t happens move on, Palace are getting smashed today to begin our title charge

Cech's fault on both goals. The second goal was at the near post and Cech has to stop this shot. End of.

Zacate goal was Cechs fault

Won't stand for that all season

Fack me, how has pace become so over rated these days? What ever happened to simply being good at football?

We're so much better than Palace in every position it's unbelievable. What let us down last week was slack passing and poor ball retention, no amount of pace will resolve that.

OX (even if he roamed like a snail) should start though, because Ramsey will spend the whole game thinking he's facking Ronaldinho. Giroud needs a goal today.

As for the first - hardly Cechs fault I know he was caught in no mans land but a tall powerful WH player should never have been given a free header as first man at the edge of our 6 yard box

Second goal was poor from Petr

Looking at the highlights a few times. The defending was not acceptable on both of the goals. Yes cech was poor, but our defensive play was pretty shocking on both goals. Can't just blame it all on cech.

comment by Ronalvinho (U6117)
posted less than a minute ago
Fack me, how has pace become so over rated these days? What ever happened to simply being good at football?

We're so much better than Palace in every position it's unbelievable. What let us down last week was slack passing and poor ball retention, no amount of pace will resolve that.

OX (even if he roamed like a snail) should start though, because Ramsey will spend the whole game thinking he's facking Ronaldinho. Giroud needs a goal today.
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Ron

giroud and alexis will both score

Win lose or draw, the wrong team has been picked yet again and my optimism for this season has already vanished. Wenger clearly cannot see where we need to improve in the team and where our strengths are. In 3 Games with Walcott up front we scored 9 goals with him scoring 4 of them and assisting another. The 5 games with Giroud up front we have scored 1 goal, a Tyler Blackett OG resulting from Walcott coming off the bench. But to then not only leave out Walcott but our only genuine wide player in Ox is criminal. Giroud and Ramsey have been awful for a long time and do not warrant a place in the starting XI. We may win today but we won't win anything this season playing this team.

Both goals had numerous players at fault

Ultimately the GK takes the heat, but the high line for the first and the pizzing about with the ball for the second all contribute.