EPL: Liverpool vs. Arsenal- 13/1/16- KO: 8.00pm- BT Sport

[Stoneh]

Just getting out of Anfield. Good to meet a few gooners but by god we made some noise.

Re game.. Ramsey and Flemini are no good in that role. Ox made no impact and we struggled in the last 15 mins with no threat at all, which put defence under constant pressure.

Still a point is ok, but dissapointing to lose with 2 mins left on clock. We dropped 2 points today.

 

[GoonerJeeves]

Giroud had a very good game.

 

[Jamrock]

It's time for Walcott to start getting some stick, he has been back from injury and has had enough games but how terrible has he been.. Absolutely terrible..

The OX has got to fcking start showing some improvement and development too, the times of always protecting him are over, he has been here for seasons.

Koscielny, I don't know, he is erratic he has been hit and miss for 2 and a bit seasons now.

 

[redwhiteAustrian]

That midfield was a....pointing disaster throughout the match, we're awful in the middle of the park. No control, too much space, no discipline....just shocking.
Elneny has to hit the ground running, otherwise we're doomed.

 

[Dennis_Bergkamp_10]

Rio is absolutely right: If you want to be champions, you see these games out.

 

[SA Gunner]

ALEXIS SANCHEZ NANANANANA

Top of the league.

Good to see you man.

Welcome back. @Lady_Gooner has been missing you.

 

[USArsenalFan716]

Yea that Arteta sub was awful (I was ****ing screaming at my tv with that one).. Özil is one of our best players at relieving pressure, plus our creativity sucks w/o him and you bring on a slow player without a lot of game time. That was mind boggling stupid to me.

 

[Jury]

Just getting out of Anfield. Good to meet a few gooners but by god we made some noise.

Re game.. Ramsey and Flemini are no good in that role. Ox made no impact and we struggled in the last 15 mins with no threat at all, which put defence under constant pressure.

Still a point is ok, but annoyed we dropped 2 points today.

The away support was particularly brilliant. Well done lad.

 

[CurryFlavoured]

Theo's form is a worry too - abysmal for a while now.

Too much expected in the build-up which he mostly can't do.

Dodgy on the first goal IIRC too.

He'll always be flaky as ****. He'll frustrate you 75%+ of the game with poor touches, passes and decisions but he brings a threat. Would've had an assist but for the miss of the season and had a nice run or 2 in the second half. He's not a great player though and he never will be, back to the bench when Sanchez gets back.

 

[A_G]

Just seeing the first goal again, what on earth was Theo thinking? Ridiculous.

 

[MutableEarth]

Murphy's Law with Arsenal when it comes to title chasing. Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

The positives for me were the performances of a few individuals. Thought Campbell was excellent, Monreal was a warrior and Giroud put in a performance he should be very proud of, extremely happy with Giroud's performance - despite his miss, dunno how he missed it tbh.

I actually thought our performance was quite dire and that we got something out of this game because Liverpool aren't very good. They put in a lot of hard work and graft against us and bullied our midfield. Our midfield was really poor today. Flamini was terrible, and Ramsey with every game nowadays looks more like an attacking midfielder being asked to defend, which is disappointing. There was no control in the middle and it made it difficult to get Özil into the game much.

Liverpool did an extremely good job in the early stages of hustling the two CBs and Flamini in possession, as well as Ramsey. We desperately need someone to drop in as an extra body when that happens to just maintain control in those areas and beat the initial press. With that many bodies committing to a press, once we beat it, we have the space of midfield.

Walcott had an absolute Weston-super. Like Ramsey, he now looks as though he's playing out of position when he plays wide. He often doesn't have sustained influence in matches anyway, but he was still disappointing any time he had something to do.

I cannot wait till we get some midfielders back. Elneny seems like a godsend all of a sudden and hopefully Coq comes back soon. I'd even bring in another extra CM if we have to.

A word on our subs who came on and were just awful. Gibbs and Ox were unbelievably poor when coming on, and Arteta was ineffective when Pool went for their equalizer. I'd have rather seen Iwobi and Chambers come on FFS. Even they'd have been more composed. All in all, a point seems pretty fair given both teams were poor defensively, but frustrated that we threw 2 points away that could have been extremely valuable. We must get 3 points in our next game.

 

[Jasard]

Its fine guys. Go sleep it off

 

[Batman]

Rosicky is back in training isn't he. Hopefully he'll be available soon. We need someone other than Özil who can keep the ball.

 

[Penn_]

The subs would of been fine until Özil was hauled off. Him and Giroud were really reliving pressure together.

Gibbs had the chance to take it into the corner in the last few minutes, not something I like but City would of done it.

 

[fabo]

The subs were negative but Wenger usually does this, no shock.

It was a nothing ball pumped in and we didn't challenge for it or win the second ball. That's on our first teamers.

Not as bad as the horrific Benayoun goal in the 4-4 against us, defending a 4-3 lead in stoppage time and 3 lads free in the box an easy goal.

 

[CurryFlavoured]

Yeah I'm a huge Theo fan but he hasn't been himself lately. Does some great things but seems to mess up the basics more often than not.

He still gives us that option of pace and movement up front which gives a nice balance to this attack but I think he'll be dropped for Alexis at this rate.

That's Theo in a nutshell, on or off form. He has been himself imo, bar being moved a bit out of position.

 

[Jamrock]

I hope Campbell can work on his fitness and stamina levels for next season, if he can do what Özil has done fitness-wise he has some talent in there..

 

[Jury]

ALEXIS SANCHEZ NANANANANA

Top of the league.

Waited for #NobodyIsSafe to die down

 

[RUS arsenal]

I don't care about the Arteta sub, that makes sense, but Chamberlain is not the guy you put on to tie a game up, ****ing hell that one is blatantly obvious, his decision making is so poor.

Ox was looking better of late so I was expecting him to do better to be honest, Wenger probably did as well.

 

[redwhiteAustrian]

I think you mean all decade, don't you?

“anything ever“