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Re: 28/12/2015 | Arsenal 2-0 Bournemouth | Premier League

Postby S.African Gooner » Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:18 am

Cornish Gooner wrote:Now we are sitting on top, will Wenger go out and strengthen the squad in the January window, or will he sit back like he did a couple of seasons ago thinking he could win the title with what he had?

My money is on him sitting back. He always seems to do so in January. If he does buy, it will probably be some unknown attacking midfielder from Estonia, or somewhere similar.
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Re: 28/12/2015 | Arsenal 2-0 Bournemouth | Premier League

Postby greengoonerie » Tue Dec 29, 2015 10:00 am

Having watched everyone over Christmas at this point (football fans should be on their knees thanking God for the Christmas period! :sneaky2: :sneaky2:) Arsenal lie best placed to win the league IMO.

However, the match tonight will reveal much about Leicester and City. Leicester looked like their league exertions were catching up on them against Liverpool and were very poor.

United (Rooney aside, they're incredibly ordinary) and Chelsea are too far off the pace at this point. Neither should be winning the league this season.

Spurs - not a chance.

A City/Leicester draw tonight would be the ideal result (i'd even be happy with a win for Leicester as we have them to play in Emirates still) but if City win it could galvanize them again, and to me they have the strongest squad in the PL this season.

I don't see Wenger buying another player for the sake of buying another player TBH. He will (with some justification) point to the fact that the team are top of the table and have a number of players coming back from injury in the coming weeks/months/years. - I don't agree with this POV however.

For me, the thing which might stop Arsenal finally getting PL success is as ever, "ze mental strength". The team and manager showed no mental strength again against Southampton and I fear that, as the title race moves along, there will be other "Southamptons" further down the track.

just as good players don't become bad ones overnight, neither too do crap defenders become good ones overnight.

Ozil demonstrates where the benchmark of "world class" truly lies in football. Alexis aside, there is nobody in the same division as Ozil at Arsenal, IMO.

Congrats to Cech on the record - but again, he's neither as great or as terrible as his recent performances have shown. His World class days are behind him however. Better than Ospina this season? I wouldn't say that TBH. However, he does exude more confidence to his teammates - having won all there is to win in club football.


Finally, Arsenal are the best placed team to win the title this year at this point in time. Whether they can go on and deliver it is really down to Wenger, the team spirit and "Ze mental strength". All 3 will be tested in the coming months.

Speaking of Mental Strength, I fear for us getting a thumping in the CL, given how poor our defence is without Coquelin to cover. Regardless of who plays in the middle - any of Koc/Merts/Gabriel/Chambers/ will struggle to contain Neymar/Messi/Jaws - and any such hammering could have knock on effects in the PL.

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Re: 28/12/2015 | Arsenal 2-0 Bournemouth | Premier League

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Postby Zedie » Tue Dec 29, 2015 11:15 am

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Laughed so hard when this happened!

Don't blame him at all though, he couldn't really do anything from there with the speed the ball came back at his face it could have gone anywhere.
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Re: 28/12/2015 | Arsenal vs Bournemouth | Premier League

Postby starmandb » Tue Dec 29, 2015 12:21 pm

Mike Dean wrote:Going to get our ass kicked again.

As I predicted...6 points dropped in a span of 3 days.

And your prediction was wrong
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Re: 28/12/2015 | Arsenal vs Bournemouth | Premier League

Postby starmandb » Tue Dec 29, 2015 12:22 pm

gooney wrote:There is no way this team will recover from tonights beating. Sure wenger will talk about mental strength and desire as he does everytime he knows the season is going downhill. we will probably see that c*** Theo do an interview about how we have to show character. Match starts and they will sh1t themselves. Bourmouth is a simply direct team who has a go at everyone. At home they will be nightmare for us as they wont fear us, and ourr players will get even more scared when tehy realize this. 1-3 loss

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Re: 28/12/2015 | Arsenal vs Bournemouth | Premier League

Postby starmandb » Tue Dec 29, 2015 12:29 pm

QPRSENAL wrote:Also Flam not even on the Bench??

He picked up an inflamed ankle at southampton
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Re: 28/12/2015 | Arsenal vs Bournemouth | Premier League

Postby starmandb » Tue Dec 29, 2015 12:33 pm

CrimsonGunner11 wrote:Bellerin needs to shape up. hasnt had a good game in a while now

He had a good game against man city last monday
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Re: 28/12/2015 | Arsenal vs Bournemouth | Premier League

Postby starmandb » Tue Dec 29, 2015 12:37 pm

GoonerAlexis wrote:
TOP wrote:chambers is so shit actually

We conceded 3 goals when Chambers was not on in just 70 minutes

In so many games as a sub, we have only conceded one goal when he's been on

Prior to southampton we had not conceded in 5 games after chambers had been subbed on
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Re: 28/12/2015 | Arsenal vs Bournemouth | Premier League

Postby starmandb » Tue Dec 29, 2015 12:50 pm

TOP wrote:this is dreadful can't even get to a promoted teams box in a home game

too many crap english players on at the same time

Not lost to a newly promoted team since 2-1 defeat at qpr in 11/12
Our goal was scored by Englishman theo walcott
French sagna Belgian vermaelen and ivory coasts gervinho were all below par
Dutch van Persie was average
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Re: 28/12/2015 | Arsenal vs Bournemouth | Premier League

Postby starmandb » Tue Dec 29, 2015 12:58 pm

GoonerAlexis wrote:Ffs, score some more, this is sort of game we dominate for ages before conceding a shock goal on the counter with the CB's and FB's high up in the 90th minute despite being 1 up

Not conceded a goal while 1 up in the 90th minute since the 2-2 at liverpool last season
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Re: 28/12/2015 | Arsenal vs Bournemouth | Premier League

Postby starmandb » Tue Dec 29, 2015 12:59 pm

TOP wrote:ozil is too good for us

Is he bollocks
Nobody is too good for this great club
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Re: 28/12/2015 | Arsenal vs Bournemouth | Premier League

Postby starmandb » Tue Dec 29, 2015 1:01 pm

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isaisdso wrote:Just a reminder: Manchester United has lost at home against this team :lol:

It was at home mate
They did win at chelsea though
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Re: 28/12/2015 | Arsenal vs Bournemouth | Premier League

Postby starmandb » Tue Dec 29, 2015 1:06 pm

Godlop wrote:When was the last time we trashed a team in a game like this?

Aston villa 5-0 in feb
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