PL: West Brom vs Arsenal | December 31, 2017 | 16:30 GMT | Sky Sports

[Goonerozil33]

Incompetent refereeing screws us. And when we need our squad half of them are out injured

 

[rich 1990]

You're complaining about the defence when we should have had a clean ****ing sheet. What is wrong with people?

 

[BobP]

Eh? he actually retracts his arms . We'll just have to disagree with you .

To me it looked like he placed his forearm between the ball and the rest of his body.

When I hear retraction I think of the player moving his ASAP into a vertical position beside his body.

There's a video on the Arsenal subreddit which I can't embed on here which I'm going off. It's a bad angle for checking distance though.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

Why did West Brom do for them to deserve to get a result then? Someone please explain to me

Doesn't work that way. Only applies to Arsenal not deserving things.

 

[Windowlicker]

Instead of concentrating in the damm refs and I prefer wondering why our staff seems to think that Iwobi, Chambers, Welbeck are good enough to compete for the league. You know

 

[kofigunner]

1984

Wow!! That’s where our real problem lies. Amazing that us armchair coaches all thought our defence needed strengthening before the season begun. Sadly predictable.

 

[<<reed>>]

Why the hell won't anyone just come out and say that the refs overall are not good enough and that Dean in particular has always been completely incompetent? All the fans know it, the pundits are scared to say the obvious.

Henry: "It was a handball"

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

You're complaining about the defence when we should have had a clean ****ing sheet. What is wrong with people?

Our defense was very today have no idea what they complain about

 

[blaze_of_glory]

To me it looked like he placed his forearm between the ball and the rest of his body.

When I hear retraction I think of the player moving his ASAP into a vertical position beside his body.

There's a video on the Arsenal subreddit which I can't embed on here which I'm going off. It's a bad angle for checking distance though.

Exactly, which makes no difference as to whether the ball gets blocked since his body is directly behind. The arm has to stop the ball where the body wouldn't have done so for it to be a pk.

 

[bingobob]

Some players need to look at themselves.

 

[A_G]

Henry: "It was a handball"

Well, he would know...

 

[Ceballinhos]

I'

But we only few points from 3rd place

True.
But I'm not optimistic at all because the more the season will go on the more vulnerable we are going to be IMO.

From tomorrow Özil & Sanchez are free to sign a pre contract with a foreign club.
What will happen if Özil signs for Bayern for instance and Sanchez for PSG in the dressing room?

I don't see any room of improvement in this team. It can only get worse. We have no foundations. Everything could go wrong very fast. As it did last year.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

Henry: "It was a handball"

Henry died in 2011.

 

[SA Gunner]

Well, he would know...

You have that qualiteee to create a smile on our dials mate

 

[tap-in]

This is an absolutely awful team in every department. There's not one area of the game where this side excels at. You could play the West Ham, and Southampton games side by side along with this one and they'd look almost identical.

Yep, poorest team we've had for years. No coincidence that we have conceded the most goals in Wengers reign, most since 1984. On top of that we have the worst away win record for years too. Even the bootom clubs now cause us problems on a regular basis. As I said, Wenger must recognise this and bring in a couple of player in Jan.

 

[BobP]

Exactly, which makes no difference as to whether the ball gets blocked since his body is directly behind. The arm has to stop the ball where the body wouldn't have done so for it to be a pk.

Ohhhhhhh I see, had no idea.

Cheers for the clarification.

 

[krengon]

Why did West Brom do for them to deserve to get a result then? Someone please explain to me

Exactly.. We had a poor performance, but were the better team, scored a legit goal and should have won if not for Dean. West brom barely created anything...

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

We have to pick ourselves up and prepare for Chelsea game its very important game even if we had won today

 

[Tosker]

spare a thought for Swansea, who thanks to Dean are back on the bottom after their heroics yesterday

 

[Ceballinhos]

Happy New Year

Another stat:

We've only won 13 points away from home in 11 games.
This is bad.