Highbury Rock City
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Argh, that was a bitter moment, but a good game all in all. Giroud was more or less outstanding today imo.
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EPL: Liverpool vs. Arsenal- 13/1/16- KO: 8.00pm- BT Sport
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Giroud
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If you want to be champions you also don't find yourself scoreless at home against Everton who concede well over a goal a game on average.
Funny how no one ever mentions that sort of stuff.
Bould14
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We really do need some our more technical guys back. Bringing on average Chambo + no legs Arteta can't be seen as long term options.
TheLoneFalcon
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Never wanted Coq so much in my life.
Mitch
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Flamini, The Welsh OJ and Theo deserve to be dropped for Elneny, Chambers and Alexis for Stoke.
MaraDon
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post match wenger quotes?
Kroket
Trusty and Sensible
Back just in time before the season gets epic, great stuff.
I'm still gutted.. Our chances to win the league depends on getting our injured players back and not losing them again and hope that our new signing(s) settle in quickly. Team as it is right now is not good enough, although they have been able to grind out results.
Jury
A-M's drunk uncle
His fitness and stamina levels are fine imo. What didnt help was having to play RB, RWF and DMF for 60 minutes.
What do you mean no need to go off? Liverpool kept up their intensity and we were running on fumes. Campbell as a lot of people noted was tired, you could see it. Özil too seemed absolutely knackered, he was hardly running before he was subbed off. Areta, Flamini and Ramsey should have been enough to see the game off.
Had you analysed the match situation, you would understand that to keep up with Liverpools intensity, we needed to get some fresh legs. Our players were visibly tiring and once you consider our injury crisis, risking key players when you are leading is not wise. He subbed those players with the intention of killing the game off. What else? Send more attackers or not make substitutions?
Ox did not do much wrong in this game, yes he wasn't everywhere on the pitch like Joel was but Gibbs was on the left to compensate for that. Theo was absolute poverty this game and should have been subbed off sooner. Gibbs was brought on to close that side off and offer a burst of energy if required. Good subs.
Özil like I said, was looking tired. He was barely doing his attacking work towards the end let alone come back and defend or have the energy to act as an outlet. Arteta was a safe bet, because he had the experience, is a great passer of the ball, has good vision and most of all offers some defensive protection. Good sub.
CurryFlavoured
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Campbell's been a big bonus and now that I've gotten over that miss I can admit that Giroud was very good. Bar Sanchez Campbell is way outperforming the other wingers, always seems to make the right decisions.
Dennis_Bergkamp_10
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Oh I absolutely agree, the league is still there for the taking. But look at Chelsea last year, they won with a massive distance. Winning these games, when you're 3 minutes away from the final whistle, is huge.
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Thought we'd draw before the game and after the way we started I though we'd lose by 4 or 5 again so happy we got something from the game.
Alexis needs to come straight into the team against Stoke if Shad hasn't torn his other hamstring, Walcott has been hopeless since the City game, needs a kick up the arse.
Don't get Wenger throwing Arteta on by the way, he had Chambers and Gabriel on the bench...
Alexis needs to come straight into the team against Stoke if Shad hasn't torn his other hamstring, Walcott has been hopeless since the City game, needs a kick up the arse.
Don't get Wenger throwing Arteta on by the way, he had Chambers and Gabriel on the bench...
Batman
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Yeah and there's a good reason for it. The core of that City team has won 2 titles in the last 4 years and Cech is the only player at our club with a PL title. Makes perfect sense. We know those City players can win the title. We've seen them do it. We have no clue if our players can.
Bould14
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We need to start getting some big away wins.
I will defend Wenger on the subs because you could see the players were tiring and we needed fresh legs. If we had kept the same 11 on for 90 it's likely they would have scored anyway. I think it shows our lack of options really that Gibbs is having to come on and play on the left wing. He and Ox contributed nothing - granted, it's not easy to come on in these sort of games - but Gibbs needed to take the ball to the corner flag and Ox to release it on a counter attack we had. Simple things, really. I honestly thought we would get a chance on the counter at 3-2, but we didn't get near. Can only hope we have more options for the weekend.
Dennis_Bergkamp_10
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Difficult first 20 minutes, huge commitment, unlucky in the end and made some bad decisions in the final third. That's about it, in a nutshell. You can add the 'look' and 'overall' in there somewhere yourself
Shambles defensively errors for all of their goals.
Arsène: "It was a difficult start but we were the most disappointed. But at 2-3, I felt we made wrong decisions on the ball."
Arsène: "We really need to look at ourselves as that shouldn't be happening."
Arsène: "We really need to look at ourselves as that shouldn't be happening."
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Mertesacker should have blocked it. Mertesacker should have made a better clearance for the second as well.
Can't blame Cech, like strikers keepers will make mistakes but even then I don't think he made too many mistakes, tonight or ever for us.
He should have done better with the shot he palmed, we didn't not win due to a Cech mistake, as an equivalent Giroud's miss is ten times worse and more of a reason why we drew and I'm a fully paid up member of the GDL.
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