Also denied our goal of the season, with Gabriel's strike being ruled out for Havertz being offside.

Another terrible day for VAR. Apart from offside calls, it’s become completely pointless now. These clown refs need to accept they don’t know how to use it and have it solely for offside decisions.

As for City, well the season has become a bit of an anti climax. Said a few weeks ago they would win their last 9 games and they are 2 thirds of the way there without breaking a sweat. Boring. You really need to be hitting 90+ points to get the better of these robots

Would add City's first penalty was a nonsense too.

There's nothing you can do. Arsenal are exceptional and have been for a while, but you just know City won't slip up and they're almost making a mockery of dismantling the goal difference advantage too

What will be our GOTS?

Eddie against Sheff Utd? 🤔

VAR says it’s clear & obvious, the challenge on Saka comes under that definition. The rest, refs already made a decision on field so can understand why VAR would be reluctant to overturn as it doesn’t come under that definition. Howard Webb has made VAR worse.

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 2 minutes ago
What will be our GOTS?

Eddie against Sheff Utd? 🤔
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YES!!!!!

They are on a 32 match unbeaten run in all competitions. Only club in Europe on a longer unbeaten run is Leverkusen. 16 wins and 3 draws in their last 19 league games, that’s better form than their team that got 100 points. And the most frustrating part is they aren’t even playing well by their standards.

Yeah looks like we going to miss the title. City's run in should get them over the line. Still think that we can we proud of the second half of the season. We really stepped up and looking like the best team footballwise. Credit to Mikel Arteta for achieving it.

To the B'mouth game. We deserved to win the game but we made a meal of it. The foul on Saka is a clear red card and it's a shame that VAR didnt intervene. Thank god Saka survived that. Euro's ahead.

Not hiding that we got lucky with the decision for our pen and also with the B'mouth incident in our box watching the incident back later.

There is a lot we need to improve and learn.

Honestly, looking as a neutral, the only way you can beat them is build up a close to unassailable lead right from the get go. Liverpool dropped 2 points in close to 30 games when they won it. I'm not saying you need to be that good but you do need to break them and get an advantage of greater than 6 points at any given time to beat them. They're that relentless and that good.

I'd love you guys to win it this year but City are what they are

Regardless, Arsenal have been exceptional this year. Really enjoyed watching yous yesterday. A tough game against an opponent in great form and you played them off the park. You've been doing that as a habit and it's seriously impressive. If it doesn't bring the ultimate reward this season, you have all the tools to hopefully go one better next year.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
Would add City's first penalty was a nonsense too.
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Yeah extremely soft. As for the run in. Something is bound to happen. Spurs may do you a favour but they will have to show their early season form to do so.

There is also that nagging feeling that if the unlikely did happen and Fulham take a point from them then we would fack it up at OT 😂 That would be so painful.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 2 minutes ago
There is also that nagging feeling that if the unlikely did happen and Fulham take a point from them then we would fack it up at OT 😂 That would be so painful.
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Don't worry about that. You'd need to try really hard to not beat us 😂

The fact is that we are relying on Spurs to turn up again against City. They've had the beating of them at home in the last few seasons. Cannot see Fulham or West Ham troubling City at all. Would Spurs want to do us a favour?. Very unlikely.

Next season will be very interesting. A new top claass striker, replacement for Partey (if he moves on) and back up for Saka very necessary.

Raya wins the GG, but cost us the PL… by saving those pens in the Porto shootout.

I’m being facetious, of course, and going out at the last 16 stage would’ve felt like an underwhelming end to our first CL campaign in 7 seasons, but it does feel like the Bayern matches impacted our performance against Villa - even though we did more than enough to have won that match (as with the away fixture).

Nevertheless, it’s been impressive, and heartening, to see us improve on last season - which was brilliant itself - and prove it wasn’t just a one off.

Question will be… can we improve again next season?

Some key moments definitely went in our favour yesterday but it does feel like it will all be to finish 2nd. The worst thing about all of this is that we are putting ourselves through the ringer desperate to win our games and then going through the nightmare of watching City and hoping they drop points.

Fulham have lost 15 times in a row against City and Spurs are bad so can West Ham do it for Declan? Let's just win at Old Trafford though please for the Ten Hag meltdown.

With the disallowed goal, I think the ref made the right call. It looks soft as fack, especially in slow mo, but solanke clearly looks at Raya before nudging him as he's about to jump.

I'd completely understand if a goal was ruled out for us in the same scenario. I can see the frustration with it though.

Hilarious how Rice is getting all the plaudits now suddenly when we told you all how good he was. But when he was at West Ham he was overrated. He didn't become this player overnight and now a he'll of a lot of people look very silly

Not me. I always rated him very highly.

😳

comment by Tomkins (U1116)
posted 12 minutes ago
Hilarious how Rice is getting all the plaudits now suddenly when we told you all how good he was. But when he was at West Ham he was overrated. He didn't become this player overnight and now a he'll of a lot of people look very silly
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Honestly don't remember anyone hating on Rice, not until Arsenal signed him anyway.

I'm pretty sure majority of Arsenal fans were happy to sign him. I think GT was the only one against it.

There were probably lots of twaaats on social media that were against it.

Few of us balked at the £106m fee for Rice, but don't recall anyone that thought he'd be a bad signing.