Goonerfromafrica wrote:starmandb wrote:billie86 wrote:friedslice wrote:first thing i read in the papers is the headline "wenger not happy with referee". same old excuses then.
he feels we were "unlucky" because the "first goal was a set piece"....i think that in itself is a major concern. we concede 20+ set pieces a season and he still considers them to be 'unlucky' goals...how about recognising the faults and doing something to fix them.
that really is a worrying mindset.
He probably means unlucky because we should have had a free kick in the build up to their goal, they didn't score a set piece as far as i am aware unless you count the penalty . Its the same old crap defending that has cost us dear over the past few seasons, it needs to be addressed, you can't go 2-0 down and come back every time, we used to be able to but we aren't good enough anymore. Tbh i wasn't even annoyed about the result its just become expected these days, wenger may say we were unlucky and it seems like it was a close game ending 2-1 but they should have been out of sight in the first half they had that many chances. For those on about spurs over achieving and us under achieving i would have to disagree, spurs have a better overall squad than we do, sandro is out for the season but they have parker to fill in, they gave man united a good game yesterday as they had at old trafford, when was the last time we genuinely competed against man utd in a match? We have been comprehensively beaten by tham every time we have played then in recent years, we are in free fall and way off the pace, everybody better be prepared for europa league next year because thats the reality.
last season we came back from 2-0 down to beat spurs 5-2
this season we came back from 4- 0 down at reading to win 7-5
walcott scored 5 goals in those 2 games
we beat man utd 1- o at the emirates at the end of the 10/11 season
if we are in the europa league next season i will be there wanting to win it
So would I, but winning that is a poor excuse for not being able to win anything. It's like taking a step down
the champions league is the elite tournament but all this bollocks about cups not mattering is complete anathema to me as a football fan who has had some of my best days/nights in a football ground watching league and fa cups
uefa and cup winners cup
winning is a habit and a great 1 to adopt
of coarse i want us in the elite tournament but i don,t buy the media driven nonsense that it is the be all and end all
clubs playing weakened teams coz they are more worried about a balance sheet.
shit being spouted yesterday about not wanting bradford in europe because an early exit would affect our co-efficient.
please... what the f**k has the game become?
1 want to win the lot
i want everyone associated with our club to feel the same.
and as gutted as i am that bradford knocked us out i am glad that i love a game that a 4th tier team can get to a major final. long may it continue to be so