Arsenal V Southampton | Premiership 15/09/2012

[EvAMY-CRAIGLEEAFC]

Southampton are very poor defensively. We can beat them in about 3 different ways.

Yes. And they will do well to get 20 points this season. We should paste them.

[StLGooner]

No game is an easy one in this league.

[gooner17]

To be fair we shouldn't have a problem in this game. City and Uniteds defences have been poor so far and ours have been quite good. If our defence keeps playing well we should keep Southampton out. Southamptons defence is quite poor as well so we should score a couple. Hopefully Giroud is one of them.

[StLGooner]

People say that every season about the new teams and we end up always having problems. 3 pts are never guaranteed.

[Inchpräctice]

People say that every season about the new teams and we end up always having problems. 3 pts are never guaranteed.

I agree, this fixture is tougher than it looks.
If we keep a clean sheet against them we'll have done better than Manure and City.

[StLGooner]

Another thing is, we ain't going to keep a clean sheet every game, so we're due to let a few in soon.

[Reverend Gooner]

People say that every season about the new teams and we end up always having problems. 3 pts are never guaranteed.

That's true, the supposedly easier teams often manage to get shock (not so shock) goals against us. It is the same with Champions League groups, last year we had a tough looking group and we were great, this year is looks easier and watch us struggle.

A silver lining is that many of these goals by bottom of the table teams which have put the wind up us have often had big elements of defensive mistakes which it looks like Bould is trying to remove from our game and so far successfully.

[StLGooner]

People say that every season about the new teams and we end up always having problems. 3 pts are never guaranteed.

That's true, the supposedly easier teams often manage to get shock (not so shock) goals against us. It is the same with Champions League groups, last year we had a tough looking group and we were great, this year is looks easier and watch us struggle.

A silver lining is that many of these goals by bottom of the table teams which have put the wind up us have often had big elements of defensive mistakes which it looks like Bould is trying to remove from our game and so far successfully.

Yea, I too am hoping that those silly mistakes we use to make are behind us mostly and that will be the difference. We need that killer "foot on the pedal" mentality for the full 90 minutes.

[Kyle?]

There's a difference though between supposedly easier and downright poor. Southampton are the latter.

[Massa]

no they really aren't

[Kyle?]

no they really aren't

They really are. They're a team of league 1 players (and i mean it), i really do think they could give Derby a run for their money. The way they got beaten at home by a poor Wigan side gave me all the evidence i needed.

[Reverend Gooner]

no they really aren't

They really are. They're a team of league 1 players (and i mean it), i really do think they could give Derby a run for their money. The way they got beaten at home by a poor Wigan side gave me all the evidence i needed.

So if we don't win what will you change your name to?

[Inchpräctice]

no they really aren't

They really are. They're a team of league 1 players (and i mean it), i really do think they could give Derby a run for their money. The way they got beaten at home by a poor Wigan side gave me all the evidence i needed.

They lost to Wigan and they're not picking up the points but on the other hand they scored 2 against Manure and 2 against City. Don't think we've ever scored 2 against City since Mancini took over.

[Massa]

their performances against man utd and man city deserve credit. if you think they are league 1 players then you are just plain wrong

[Kyle?]

no they really aren't

They really are. They're a team of league 1 players (and i mean it), i really do think they could give Derby a run for their money. The way they got beaten at home by a poor Wigan side gave me all the evidence i needed.

So if we don't win what will you change your name to?

I'm not doing that. This isn't a joke. They really are abysmal.