UEL Semi-Final 1st Leg: Villarreal v Arsenal | Thursday, April 29 | KO: 20:00 BST | BT Sport

[Pop Tart]

Partey: "Don't think it was a red ref."

Ref: "Right that's it sunshine, you're booked too!"

That kinda made me laugh during the match, poor Thomas

Ref was a bit card happy imo. Plus they seemed to go down all the time.

 

[Joestlaachmkr]

Ole's done better than Arteta, he's more worthy of a Europa League title.

But Ole Gollum Smeagol has never won a game against our poor version of a Pep-wannabe. Solskjaer also has a far better squad at his disposal, and Solskjaer has more experience as manager than what Arteta has.

I’m not a fan of Arteta. But i do think it’s a bit unfair to compare Solskjaer & Arteta as managers at this stage.

 

[mirrorstare]

Ole's done better than Arteta, he's more worthy of a Europa League title.

There should be a reaction emoji for "AM isn't ready for this conversation", don't know which of the current ones would work best.

 

[dashsnow17]

Also that simply wasn't or shouldn't have been a penalty, soz. Look at it and imagine it's not an Arsenal player, no way you're thinking that's a pen. He's moved his leg outward towards the opposition player's leg, which is stationary. Very very lucky to get that.

So a very dubious penalty, and an Auba shot at the end of the game. That's the sum of what we did in this game.

 

[dashsnow17]

But Ole Gollum Smeagol has never won a game against our poor version of a Pep-wannabe. Solskjaer also has a far better squad at his disposal, and Solskjaer has far more experience as manager than what Arteta has.

Yeah, and he's doing much better. He picks a simple formation, with players generally in their best positions, on a consistent basis, and let's them do their thing. We would score so many more goals under him than we are currently are under Arteta.

 

[Riou]

Who cares if Ole is higher in the table than Mikel, or plays better football...whoever wins the trophy, is the one who deserves it.

Even if you don't like Arteta, what about the players, especially the academy grads...they have been great if nothing else this season, imagine how they will feel if we win it?

Even if you don't care about the players, what about us fans...we have suffered badly this season, bantered by everyone more or less...ending the season with a cup, Champions League and possibly a new owner next season...even if it goes nowhere, we deserve a moment of happiness ffs

 

[rich 1990]

Who cares if Ole is higher in the table than the Mikel, or plays better football...whoever wins the trophy, is the one who deserves it.

Even if you don't like Arteta, what about the players, especially the academy grads...they have been great if nothing else this season, imagine how they will feel if we win it?

Even if you don't care about the players, what about us fans...we have suffered badly this season, bantered by everyone more or less...ending the season with a cup, Champions League and possibly a new owner next season...even if it goes nowhere, we deserve a moment of happiness ffs

Also, it's Manchester United. They deserve all the misery on earth.

 

[mirrorstare]

With **** football nobody deserves anything because the sport loses

Things like those are why the new generations prefer to overdose on tiktok than experience the beautiful game

 

[freeglennhelder2]

Partey: "Don't think it was a red ref."

Ref: "Right that's it sunshine, you're booked too!"

That kinda made me laugh during the match, poor Thomas

A few people are tweeting Partey didn’t actually say anything and the ref seemed to book him for looking at him. I can only assume this is fake news, I refuse to believe that happened.

 

[Baki]

My ideal outcome: Kroenke sells to Daniel Ek. Daniel Ek fires Arteta and we win the Europa league.

 

[Pop Tart]

I would honestly feel embarrassed if we somehow do win this tournament.

 

[SingmeasongSong]

Pepe with the best attitude there again - think I told you guys over and over

 

[MikeVinna]

Still can’t believe that starting line-up. False nine ffs. Also not subbing Dani off for his performance and yellow. Insanity.

 

[avenellroad]

I would honestly feel embarrassed if we somehow do win this tournament.

Why?

 

[TimoJens]

I would honestly feel embarrassed if we somehow do win this tournament.

You have nothing to worry about.

 

[Beany]

You have nothing to worry about.

Not so sure; there is a pattern emerging of our pulling entirely undeserved irons out of increasingly raging fires in this tournament, this year. It’s becoming rather comical.

 

[TornadoTed]

Say what you like about Elneny's sideways passes and negative general play but I've never seen him have a 0/10 game like Ceballos has in his locker.

 

[GoonerJeeves]

I went for a walk instead of watching the second half. If we somehow scrape through this, I'd expect United to beat us in the final, or at least be firm favourites.

Something is distinctly rotten with this team, and there are more to it than just the manager. All in all, it has been a horrible season, even by our latest standards. Last night was the first in ages where I just wanted to turn it off and do something else.

Total despondency.

 

[Beany]

 

[BigPoppaPump]

Anyway, bedtime for me, hope I wake up to an exciting draft in the morning.

Arsenal will be fun to watch next season, no Europe and Rodgers rebuilding.

Do you rate Rodgers? I don’t really buy the hype tbh.