UCL: Marseille vs Arsenal | Wed 19/10/11 @ 19:45 ITV1

[Bossa]

Arsenal 8pts
Marseille 6pts
Olympiakos 3pts
Dortmund 1pt

If we win at home against Marseille then we will win this group.

 

[kalleTheMan]

I know we should expect a bit more attacking wise but Artetas defensive discipline is really good

 

[alboots101]

A clean sheet.....woooohoooooo.

Winning badly...love it.

 

[Hoya]

Sub puts a great ball in that another sub moves on and it falls to yet another sub who scores the winner. Wenger knows.

Koscielny should be an auto-starter in Europe, he really shines in these games. Song saved our behind a few times. Fair play to them.

And Djourou played waaaay better than he has in ages, plus a really good attacking ball to win the game. Did more than Jenkinson in half the time.

Santos, Arteta, Rosicky, Arshavin and Walcott all kinda sucked, but that's 3 points baby!

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Good result looks like i will cant watching arsenal game for next 2 months cuz my internet is s**t, but i want to thx you guys without you i dont know what i will do.

well done to the lads looks like its was a boring game but we got 3 points and thats what is important.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Is it just me or does Santos seem to have worse stamina than Shava? Looked exhausted to me tonight and he looked dead on his feet against Blackburn.

 

[DanielVale]

Kos and Merte both solid. Loved merte and arteta celebrating at the end. Good solid 2nd half, suspect 1st half, but a clean sheet away in Europe...one more win and that's our group sorted!

 

[IBL]

winning it boring and late, great feeling

 

[blaze_of_glory]

Ramsey certainly has a goal-scoring touch about him hey? If he can get his overall play back up to where it should be he will be a big player for us.

 

[lee1001]

Come on, everyone must be feeling good right now? Last minute winners and all that.

 

[Kroket]

You don't play well in European away games unless you're Barca or Real Madrid. Absolutely delighted with this, a great result and another tiny step towards recovery.

 

[kalleTheMan]

Very happy for Ramsey, you could tell that meant a lot for him. Hopefully his confidence returns now.

 

[Irish_Owen]

Loved that win...

Koscielny, Merte, Arteta and Song all impressive

And on a side note, Santos needs to hit the gym!!

 

[cuban]

Is it just me or does Santos seem to have worse stamina than Shava? Looked exhausted to me tonight and he looked dead on his feet against Blackburn.

noticed that too...he really should sort it out, so much ability going forward...now he plays like Cafu in last minute of ET except from 1st minute...

 

[Hoya]

Is it just me or does Santos seem to have worse stamina than Shava? Looked exhausted to me tonight and he looked dead on his feet against Blackburn.

It looks like he runs out of steam after about 50-60 minutes every game. I'm not sure what the problem is exactly but hopefully he can get into proper shape soon.

The good thing about him is that when he does get knackered, he stays back and defends more, so that's not so bad. But he needs to get in better shape clearly. I think he should still start in Europe, but Gibbs should get the nod in most domestic games.

 

[celestis]

I thought that was a really good performance, we were very solid , kept posession well . Yes we weren't expansive but we have to establish solidity before we can be expansive again .

Our first good cross ( apparently we attempted 28 and none reached an arsenal player ) and we scored . Great positioning from Ramsey btw.

 

[alboots101]

Roy Keane...what a ****.

1-0 TO THE ARSENAL.

Although Marshitte were f*ck*ng awful second half, I think we deserved that, we carried the game to them and I`ve been desperate for us to grab a last minute winner.

 

[celestis]

Is it just me or does Santos seem to have worse stamina than Shava? Looked exhausted to me tonight and he looked dead on his feet against Blackburn.

It looks like he runs out of steam after about 50-60 minutes every game. I'm not sure what the problem is exactly but hopefully he can get into proper shape soon.

The good thing about him is that when he does get knackered, he stays back and defends more, so that's not so bad. But he needs to get in better shape clearly. I think he should still start in Europe, but Gibbs should get the nod in most domestic games.

Same as Taarabt carrying the extra pounds is tiring .

 

[spartandre217]

Is it just me or does Santos seem to have worse stamina than Shava? Looked exhausted to me tonight and he looked dead on his feet against Blackburn.

noticed that too...he really should sort it out, so much ability going forward...now he plays like Cafu in last minute of ET except from 1st minute...

Some people are like that you know. Low stamina and very little can be done to fix it. Also has a lot to do with style of play as well. The medical team will definitely work on it as best they can though.

 

[McIntyre]

And Djourou played waaaay better than he has in ages, plus a really good attacking ball to win the game. Did more than Jenkinson in half the time.

The difference is that when Djourou put that ball into the box there were three Arsenal players in there.

For 62 minutes Jenkinson was putting crosses into the box to van Persie alone, while Walcott and Arshavin wandered around doing f*ck all to get into the box!