UCL| Arsenal vs Marseille | Tue Nov 1st | 19:45

[Invincible]

Walcott was back his old self today. Saturday's performance was clearly a one off. Only positive was the back four.

 

[Bossa]

I was surprised that we didnt rest Walcott for Arshavin or Benayoun.

 

[eye4goal]

Song and Arteta are not mobile enough and lack that acceleration you need to keep it under pressure. Having less possession can work in the PL, but the CL is a different matter

 

[spartandre217]

Oh ffs, another lunchtime kick off.
They all should rot in hell.

oh ffs not again... I'm sick of waking up before the sun rises on weekends. Where are the 3pm (GMT) kickoffs?!

I hear ya mate, woke up at 730 for the Chelsea match.

 

[ebouenolike]

Are people really that pissed off - we took 4 points from Marseille. Bit wasteful, but not the end of the world.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

730, pffft thats pure luxury man. Chelsea game was 445am my time. Thank god for my buddy's pvr.

 

[spartandre217]

****ing hell blaze

 

[ricky1985]

I was pretty annoyed watching that. We lacked pace in our game, the passing was just too slow, and everyone's touch seemed to be off. I'll let them off tonight because they did look tired, but I'm not happy we didn't find an extra bit of quality and win the game.

Szczesny, as much as I love him, needs a bit of a slap. He's getting a bit too cocky and full of himself. Yes, you're extremely good, but you're not superman, and you will get caught out eventually and look a proper tit. Just gotta reign it in a bit.

 

[illmatik]

Thought Park looked well out of place, not a good showing from him...was very impressed with Mertesacker though

 

[mistaT]

Wenger needs to take some heat for today's line up, and worse bench.

I can't believe neither Frimpong or Coueqlin were on the bench as Song was dead tired from the get go. While he managed to have a decent game we really could have used one of those two on around the 60th.

Gervinho was also really off today, he's our new version of Koscielny in that you never know what you're going to get from him. He never looked like he was going to score and some of his decision making was awful.

Props to the defense though - and that includes Jenkinson who I though had a smart game.

Draw = meh

 

[yuvken]

@ ricky - that's what Imeant the other day about Chez - he's flying a bit too high (or scrap "flying a bit" in the last sentence). But at least he was good in the pure goali job, and organized the D (corners etc. - he really put everyone in place).
How good to have TV back. Beyond words. Encouraged by Mert, Jenkinson and Rambo as well.

Rosicky and Arsha - no fairy tales after all.

We paid the price for the VP gamble. What can you do - legit gamble in my book.

Park - big disappointment.

I am now officially worried about the LB situation: it's common knowledge we need to be attacked from there. And, with all Santos' beauty and "contribution in attack" (and some nice tackles) - we will pay for this if it continues.

bad result, not too worried all in all.

 

[yuvken]

Gervinho was also really off today, he's our new version of Koscielny in that you never know what you're going to get from him. He never looked like he was going to score and some of his decision making was awful

I can see a resemlance to Kos: they take time to settle in? This is a good player, one that leans a lot on confidence and "feel good" factor, but doesn't hold back anyway. Just started getting the hang of the VP situation, and he needs to find Park in the woods... I'm happy with him - he's on the right track (he was never going to be an immediate fit).
The bold part - outdated.

 

[Invincible]

Song and Arteta are not mobile enough and lack that acceleration you need to keep it under pressure. Having less possession can work in the PL, but the CL is a different matter

Spot on. Our midfield has let us down not for the first time tonight. Arteta looks a midtable player and Song is Song. It's sad to see how much we've regressed in midfield. Can't wait to have Wilshere back.

 

[AliBabaBrewer]

Arteta looks a midtable player.

He HAS come from a midtable team, but this is the player we all dreamed Denilson would be. When we thought Denilson could be good. All those years ago.

 

[celestis]

Song was probably our best midfielder today .

 

[redwhiteAustrian]

Song was frustrating yesterday.
For every duel he won, he misplaced a pass.

Ramsey was again our best midfielder, Arteta worked hard again but you could see all of them were quite drained.

Yesterday, we really lacked sharpness.
There was no handbrake, we didn't even have the power to pull it.

 

[celestis]

Gervinho was also really off today, he's our new version of Koscielny in that you never know what you're going to get from him. He never looked like he was going to score and some of his decision making was awful

I can see a resemlance to Kos: they take time to settle in? This is a good player, one that leans a lot on confidence and "feel good" factor, but doesn't hold back anyway. Just started getting the hang of the VP situation, and he needs to find Park in the woods... I'm happy with him - he's on the right track (he was never going to be an immediate fit).
The bold part - outdated.

I agree you always know what you are going to get , that is a bloke that is going to test defenders and isn't afraid of doing so , he still created our best oppurtunities apart from the Santos cross .

Dont know how anyone else feels about this but am really impressed by Songs ability to keep posession under pressure . It's just immense . His passing in the final third is off but at least he is brave enough to try the through ball when put in that position .

 

[redwhiteAustrian]

Yes, Song keeps the ball very well under pressure, but it's what he does with it afterwards which is often frustrating.

 

[Rain Dance]

Yes, Song keeps the ball very well under pressure, but it's what he does with it afterwards which is often frustrating.

Nobody's perfect...

 

[redwhiteAustrian]

I'm deeply shocked to read that.