by Forest » Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:15 am
by whee » Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:26 am
by Inchpräctice » Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:02 pm
friedslice wrote:A solid win but the lack of class in the midfield stands out a mile and we'd have dropped more points in the premiership. there's nothing coming from our midfield this season, and i wonder why, Wilshere, Nasri and Fabregas out of the side and no proper replacements
Starting Theo and Arshavin with RVP on his own is basically playing with 9 men (RVP left isolated).
friedslice wrote:What winds me up is our attacking tactics - as well as the defense - has gone to pot the past 5 years. It's like wenger only trains 2 touch mini football with possession the key to victory over goals scored. More than ever we seem to play sideways passes with no end product.
Re-watching the match as i speak, 54th minute we broke free through an empty midfield, Arteta released Jenkinson to run through the middle and he had theo in acres of space on the shoulder of the defenders just screaming for a through ball with a massive gap in the defence in which to play it and instead he held it up and got tackled.
Once upon a time Pires, Ljungberg etc would have thred that ball without needing to think about it and Henry would have been in on goal putting us 1 up. That was our major source of goals (defence splitting through balls) but even when they're available to play this current team choose a side ways pass. It's slow, it's aimless and it's the same old story with this current side.
The woeful defending masks the fact our attack is impotent.
I'm now 60 minutes into the 2nd time watching this match and I still don't think I've seen Theo touch the ball...please f**k OFF YOU USELESS ****.
friedslice wrote:Est83 wrote:Missed the game as I was at work... can anyone give me a short summary?
Sideways pass, sideways pass, sideways pass, pressure from defence, backwards pass....sideways pass, sideways pass, cross to noone.
Walcott and Arshavin annonymous throughout, Rosicky's passing poor, RVP isloated upfront and a general overall lack of creativity, innovation or intensity.
it was a battling performance and good 3 points, a fighting, defensive effort, but mostly the same old thing, in the premiership it'd have been more dropped points.
watching it again now it's just making me angry just how shit theo and arshavin are (as we're attacking and arshavin misses controls a simple ball inside the box to go out for a goal kick).
friedslice wrote:AHHH It's enfuriating the number of times we had their defence stretched on such a big pitch but the final ball or touch that would have taken us through clear on goal was lacking every time. I guess that's to be expected when you lose 3 top class midfielders from the team but the lack of quality showed. Arshavin has either given it away or miscontrolled it breaking up several attacks, jenkinson missed that superb passing opportunity to theo, RVP just messed up his control when a simple control and pass would have had the overlapping Gervinho through on goal and Theo when actually getting the ball one on one with the keeper miss controls it and falls over AS USUAL.
So frustrating, just glad i know we scored....in the end
by starmandb » Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:47 pm
SammyGunner11 wrote:Rosicky should start and either of Yossi or Theo. Not the type of game for Shava to start imo
Also, Ramsey should come off the bench (as should Shava) especially if we need a goal as I can picture them coming off the bench to give our game a bit of life.
by starmandb » Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:00 pm
Forest wrote:CynicalGooner wrote:Forest wrote:Heres the player ratings of the match against Dortmund, reading them it sounds like Dortmund were just out of their depth and got over run in midfield.
http://www.goal.com/en/match/65969/mars ... er-ratings
Players to watch out for are deffinatly Remy and Valbuena.
I watched the extended highlights of that match and those comments are not very fair. Dortmund dominated the entire game but their final ball was shit and Marseille caught them on the break a lot. They played like the away team even though they were at home, we need to be wary of them doing the same to us.
Ah right, i know its goal.com and i personally didnt see the highlights so cant give an opinion, it was just something i found that had a comment rather than just ratings.
Yes Marseille have the players to counter very well. We need to do what United did to them last season.
by starmandb » Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:02 pm
Dejan wrote:putted some money on us winning but my mind says marseille will get the 3 points
by Forest » Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:03 pm
starmandb wrote:Dejan wrote:putted some money on us winning but my mind says marseille will get the 3 points
well done mate.you can buy yourself a stoke ticket now on general sale
by Dejan » Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:59 pm
by Inchpräctice » Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:02 pm
Dejan wrote:So ramsey scored after I turned off the TV?
f**k off ramsey
Anyway, I still fail to realize that people say we were exeptional. We were solid in the back but
for the rest we were basicallly shit.
by Dejan » Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:08 pm
Inchpractice wrote:Dejan wrote:So ramsey scored after I turned off the TV?
f**k off ramsey
Anyway, I still fail to realize that people say we were exeptional. We were solid in the back but
for the rest we were basicallly shit.
Who said we were exceptional?
by Forest » Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:14 pm
by Inchpräctice » Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:17 pm
Dejan wrote:Inchpractice wrote:Dejan wrote:So ramsey scored after I turned off the TV?
f**k off ramsey
Anyway, I still fail to realize that people say we were exeptional. We were solid in the back but
for the rest we were basicallly shit.
Who said we were exceptional?
'TOTALLY DESERVE IT!!!!!!!!!! We've been exceptional!'
there ya go, few pages back.
by Dejan » Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:18 pm
Inchpractice wrote:Dejan wrote:Inchpractice wrote:Dejan wrote:So ramsey scored after I turned off the TV?
f**k off ramsey
Anyway, I still fail to realize that people say we were exeptional. We were solid in the back but
for the rest we were basicallly shit.
Who said we were exceptional?
'TOTALLY DESERVE IT!!!!!!!!!! We've been exceptional!'
there ya go, few pages back.
Like I said, who said that?
by Leody » Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:25 pm
Forest wrote:lol love Dejans quoting.
by whee » Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:25 pm