Liverpool v Arsenal Sunday 21st

[mr_brighterside]

Even with a recent (interrupted) string and a dubious Liverpool side I'm nervous

[Letters]

They're awful, but I don't trust us in 'big games'.
2-1 :(

[GP]

0-3

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Don't be silly.

0-4.

[adzzzbatch]

hoof 3-0 Arsenal

[Marc Overmars]

Liverpool are shocking right now, we really ought to be picking up a result here.

Lets hope we're not in a charitable mood. :rose:

[Letters]

Liverpool are shocking right now, we really ought to be picking up a result here.

Lets hope we're not in a charitable mood. :rose:

I like to think it was us to got the ball rolling for Utd, as the only game they'd won in the previous 4 before they played us was Palace at home.
I'm sure we'll be nice enough to do the same for Liverpool, as it's the season of good will.
No need to thank us, Xibbles.

[adzzzbatch]

I like to think it was us to got the ball rolling for Utd, as the only game they'd won in the previous 4 before they played us was Palace at home.
I'm sure we'll be nice enough to do the same for Liverpool, as it's the season of good will.
No need to thank us, Xibbles.

You just know it's gonna happen :(

[Niall_Quinn]

We will have 273% possession, 912 shots at goal, 1 shot on target (in the 93rd minute) and we'll lose 3-1 but will easily claim moral superiority.

[mr_brighterside]

We will have 273% possession, 912 shots at goal, 1 shot on target (in the 93rd minute) and we'll lose 3-1 but will easily claim moral superiority.

:gp:

although they did just have the same thing against united so who knows? could be neither side scores!

at least there is a weeks gap for recovery time

[Letters]

Luckily I'll be at a carol service during the 2nd half of it so won't have to endure it although no doubts adzz will keep me updated so I'll get the misery by proxy <_<

[mr_brighterside]

:console:

good point about it being a Sunday, I've started going to a church where the main service is 4pm so often miss footy too (although I only have freeview telly anyway).

it's much less painful to be find out the result than endure it during the match :D

[Letters]

Yes, it's like ripping off a band-aid, better to get it over with
Look up result. Roll eyes. Tut. Repeat.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Could be another 4-4

[adzzzbatch]

Could be another 4-4

No prizes for guessing who would get all 4 for us this time around if that were to happen.

[Letters]

No prizes for guessing who would get all 4 for us this time around if that were to happen.

Sanogo :bow:

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

3-0

[adzzzbatch]

Sanogo :bow:

:lol:

[AFC Leveller]

we have sunk so low this season that i honestly wouldnt be surprised if liverpool thump us and kick on from there.

[fakeyank]

1-1 draw written all over it.

Skrtel for pool and Sanchez for us.

[Harland]

Chambers is back for this game right?

Does that mean we will get Chambers and Merts in CB and Debuchy RB?

I think Debuchy and Bellerin are our 2 best attacking fullbacks and we have missed that in recent times.

[Bumble]

they have a tricky game tonight away at Bournemouth where they need to play their best players otherwise it will just pile more pressure on if they lose. They have no one who is scoring goals.

they only way I can see us conceding is from a corner or free kick. they are terrible. playing badly and no confidence.

we just had our best game of the season but we are away from home. so who knows.

we score first we will win. we concede first and we could implode as we chase the game in the 20th minute onwards.

0-2

[Injury Time]

We will do our bit for charity, like Man Utd and give them the boost they need, cos we're kind like that. 2-1 <_<

[Niall_Quinn]

they are terrible. playing badly and no confidence.

we just had our best game of the season

The ideal conditions, where have we seen this before?

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

If we play the Giroud, Welbeck, Alexis triumvirate again I fancy us to get the better of them. It's a somewhat unusual forward line but it really seems to trouble defences....

[Harland]

Could be 5-0 to either side and I wouldn't be surprised.....

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

I'd be surprised if we beat them 5 nil!

[KSE Comedy Club]

Rogers compared sterling to Sanchez because he scored two goals :haha:

[adzzzbatch]

Oh look liverpool and sterling finding some form just before the game against us, it's all coming together for them to beat us.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Winning one game is form?

We're on form too!

[Letters]

Winning one game is form?

We're on form too!

It was against Bournemouth, to be fair. They're on fire!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Top of the form guide charts. :bow:

[Master Splinter]

We've refused open invitations to ruin Spurs and United recently. I hope this won't be a third.

No doubt Oxlade and One Other will be out of the game to deplete our options to barely 10 outfield senior players. Even so, we should beat them on the basis they're actually worse than Spurs and United and we should have fucking killed those two.

They'll come at us like maniacs again from the start, but they haven't got their two most effective players from last season so if we can avoid capitulating, we should hopefully get a foothold and start controlling the game against a defence that is woeful no matter who plays. And we better test their keeper with constant shots and crosses because whoever it is, he's not very good at all.

[fakeyank]

I can see Balotelli scoring (if he is fit to play)

1-1 at best

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

I can see Balotelli scoring (if he is fit to play)

1-1 at best

He probably isn't fit, but is suspended anyway.

Lovren is also likely to miss out so Sakho or Kolo will come in.

Fuck knows whether we'll go 3 at the back with wing backs, in which case it might be both of them.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Brad Jones is one of the poorest keepers I've seen in the league so hopefully he plays.

[Dein-machine]

He probably isn't fit, but is suspended anyway.

Lovren is also likely to miss out so Sakho or Kolo will come in.

Fuck knows whether we'll go 3 at the back with wing backs, in which case it might be both of them.

Please can you ask if they can leave Lovren in!

[AFC Leveller]

I think the "capitulate option" we have can be activated at any given moment, esp at a big ground where recent history isnt to kind to us. I think Liverpool are a shite side though and we really have to be worse than at Stoke to leave without at least a point. We have to start strongly and we simply cannot concede an early goal. Liverpool almost conceded to Bournemouth in the first few mins and it could have been a different game but they got the first goal and looked a lot better afterwards.

we have to stay disciplined and not lose our shape and i think we have the attacking players to test them.

head says 2-2, heart says 2-1.

[Niall_Quinn]

I think we'll be much the better side, and lose by being incredibly stupid at key moments. In other words, the usual. Besides, if we don't kick off a Liverpool revival then who will? It's ridiculous considering the players we have, there should be any talk of any outcome other than a win. But the players don't do well in these games and the manager loses the plot completely. Our club motto should be Same Old, Same Old and Sunday will be more of it.

[rodders]

You cannot have confidence in any Arsenal side these days. Go into self destruct mode with alarming regularity.

[AFC Leveller]

I think we'll be much the better side, and lose by being incredibly stupid at key moments. In other words, the usual. Besides, if we don't kick off a Liverpool revival then who will? It's ridiculous considering the players we have, there should be any talk of any outcome other than a win. But the players don't do well in these games and the manager loses the plot completely. Our club motto should be Same Old, Same Old and Sunday will be more of it.

gift them an early lead
concede a 2nd before HT
play like shite and make trhe wrong subs
Pool get a third

post game: AW says we were not "efficient" defensively, the players admit we were not good enough and this place goes into meltdown.

[Marc Overmars]

Apparently Flamini is the only available midfielder.

Oxlade faces a late test but the rest are all out. :doh:

[Niall_Quinn]

Apparently Flamini is the only available midfielder.

Oxlade faces a late test but the rest are all out. :doh:

Any news on why Flamini isn't injured?

[AFC Leveller]

Apparently Flamini is the only available midfielder.

Oxlade faces a late test but the rest are all out. :doh:

442 it is then.

Ox and Sanchez on the wings, Flams and Santi in the middle. tell the FBs to stay back.

[Niall_Quinn]

So Ramsey's precautionary substitution has developed into an injury that will keep him out for the rest of his career? What do we do to the players when they are carrying slight knocks? Do we batter them with sledgehammers? Throw them off buildings? Ram their car when they are leaving the training ground?

[selassie]

we'll lose this one 3-1.

[AFC Leveller]

So Ramsey's precautionary substitution has developed into an injury that will keep him out for the rest of his career? What do we do to the players when they are carrying slight knocks? Do we batter them with sledgehammers? Throw them off buildings? Ram their car when they are leaving the training ground?

If the manager grows a pair before 4pm today he'll play 442 and go for it. Liverpool have a worse defense than us and cannot keep a clean sheet. Id play Giroud and Welbz and two wingers.

Otherwise, its another disappointing afternoon.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

If Liverpool have anything about them they will easily out number us in midfield for playing a 442 and control then game...

I think he is probably injured anyway but his reluctance to play Rosicky is strange.

[Niall_Quinn]

I think we should play a random formation with no particular shape and then apply a general indiscipline so we get dragged all over the place whenever the opposition has the ball. Just stick with what we do every week.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Jones, Toure, Skrtel, Sakho, Lucas, Henderson, Markovic, Coutinho, Gerrard, Lallana, Sterling
Mignolet, Enrique, Lambert, Moreno, Manquillo, Can, Borini

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

:d

[Niall_Quinn]

Jones, Toure, Skrtel, Sakho, Lucas, Henderson, Markovic, Coutinho, Gerrard, Lallana, Sterling
Mignolet, Enrique, Lambert, Moreno, Manquillo, Can, Borini

Early XMas pressie. If we don't beat that then everyone needs to be killed.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Jones, Toure, Skrtel, Sakho, Lucas, Henderson, Markovic, Coutinho, Gerrard, Lallana, Sterling
Mignolet, Enrique, Lambert, Moreno, Manquillo, Can, Borini

Arsenal: Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Chambers, Gibbs, Flamini, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Alexis, Giroud, Welbeck.
Subs: Martinez, Monreal, Coquelin, Maitland-Niles, Campbell, Walcott, Podolski.

Theo. :bow:

[Master Splinter]

Arsenal: Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Chambers, Gibbs, Flamini, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Alexis, Giroud, Welbeck
Subs: Martinez, Monreal, Coquelin, Maitland-Niles, Campbell, Walcott, Podolski

Liverpool: Jones, Toure, Skrtel, Sakho, Lucas, Henderson, Markovic, Coutinho, Gerrard, Lallana, Sterling
Subs: Mignolet, Enrique, Lambert, Moreno, Manquillo, Can, Borini


Theo back to get injured after coming on.

[Niall_Quinn]

Arsenal: Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Chambers, Gibbs, Flamini, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Alexis, Giroud, Welbeck
Subs: Martinez, Monreal, Coquelin, Maitland-Niles, Campbell, Walcott, Podolski

Liverpool: Jones, Toure, Skrtel, Sakho, Lucas, Henderson, Markovic, Coutinho, Gerrard, Lallana, Sterling
Subs: Mignolet, Enrique, Lambert, Moreno, Manquillo, Can, Borini


Theo back to get injured after coming on.

I think he could get injured trying to come on if he puts his mind to it.

[Niall_Quinn]

That team should be way, way, way too strong for the team Liverpool are chucking out. We'll need to really have a Wenger special to blow this one. But he can do it!

[Master Splinter]

Who's playing in the full-back positions for Liverpool.

Or are they playing a 3-7 formation?

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Who's playing in the full-back positions for Liverpool.

Or are they playing a 3-7 formation?

Henderson and Markovic will play as wing backs.

Henderson will likely be anonymous but Markovic found a lot of space against Bournemouth. The Mighty Bournemouth.

[Marc Overmars]

They don't even have a striker on the pitch but I'm sure our defence will somehow contrive to make them look like a well oiled unit.

[Niall_Quinn]

They don't even have a striker on the pitch but I'm sure our defence will somehow contrive to make them look like a well oiled unit.

Our defence will play like they're well oiled, for sure.

[Marc Overmars]

I don't think I've ever expected to win at Anfield but I do today.

So we'll probably lose. :rose:

[AFC Leveller]

Early XMas pressie. If we don't beat that then everyone needs to be killed.

Skirt ell to get a goal in the first minute.

[Syn]

It's weird that both sets of fans think there's any difference between the two sides. Their line-up looks every bit as strong as ours. Actually I'd rather have their midfield today. A draw will be a good result.

[Niall_Quinn]

Just incidental chit-chat. The ref will decide it.

[Master Splinter]

Let's shoot at Jones at every opportunity, please.

Well, maybe not Cazorla.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

"Another Christmas Cracker".

That is used for the 30538535838385984th time.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bellerin injured? FFS.

[Master Splinter]

Bellerin injured? FFS.

One back. Three out.

[Niall_Quinn]

"Another Christmas Cracker".

That is used for the 30538535838385984th time.

Yeah, I noticed they haven't used it as much this year.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Riiiiight lets get this over with.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

"Just go and play".

Sound tactics from Jamie.

[Niall_Quinn]

There's that brilliant USA/ PL hybrid anthem. It's fantastic.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ox has featured in ALL our games? Is that right or just made up shit?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sod off Neville.

[Niall_Quinn]

well we haven't conceded yet - great start!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Where the hell was your midfield?

[Marc Overmars]

Midfield gone missing again :rolleyes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Stevie Me passed it straight to Alexis.

Dive from Coutinho.

[Niall_Quinn]

Dives over his leg. Ref loves it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Stevie Me. :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

Fucking typical - stream rock steady for that dire shite from Newcastle, breaks down a minute in for the proper game.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Santi is drunk.

[RomfordPele]

Michael Oliver is ref. Oh fuck.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

They're a Championship team, Tyler.

[adzzzbatch]

So we're going for the misplaced passing approach interesting.

[Niall_Quinn]

That careless passing pisses me off. Lazy bastards.

[adzzzbatch]

That careless passing pisses me off. Lazy bastards.

:gp:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Send him off!

[Niall_Quinn]

We just need to get through the 300mph random blitz opening and we'll grab a bit of control.

No booking for Lucas. Let's see if that standard applies to both teams.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Stevie Me's header. :lol:

[crashley]

No Bendtner to save us :(

[RomfordPele]

The "let's play the right back at centre back, and the centre back at right back" approach is interesting too.

[adzzzbatch]

WTF is tyler waffling on about?

[Master Splinter]

Is Debuchy playing at CB because he's quicker than Chambers?

Or because Wenfer is mental?

[Niall_Quinn]

The "let's play the right back at centre back, and the centre back at right back" approach is interesting too.

And yet he doesn't have the guts to put Alexis in goal.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good turn from Lallana but shoots over.

[adzzzbatch]

our midfield is so easy to run through :(

[Niall_Quinn]

Is Debuchy playing at CB because he's quicker than Chambers?

Or because Wenfer is mental?

It's a tradition to play everyone out of position.

[adzzzbatch]

First foul and a booking :rolleyes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Flamini with the customary booking.

[Marc Overmars]

Flamini doing what he does best

[RomfordPele]

Instant yellow for flamini.

[selassie]

our midfield is so easy to run through :(

What Midfield? ;)

[Niall_Quinn]

There you go. There's a definite rule to book our players for everything.

[Niall_Quinn]

We've decided to give the midfielder with the ball zero support so we instantly lose possession. Not sure it's the best tactic but let's see how it works out.

[RomfordPele]

Welbeck and giroud need to work harder, press more.

[Marc Overmars]

Are we waiting for them to score before we start playing?

[Newguy]

I swear flamini is a liability...can see him geting sent off

[Niall_Quinn]

Liverpool have total control. Somehow we're making them look like an excellent, composed team.

[adzzzbatch]

Last year we were 4-0 down at this point, progress!

[adzzzbatch]

Liverpool have total control. Somehow we're making them look like an excellent, composed team.

It's what we do.

[RomfordPele]

Well this is shit, isn't it.

Wake up arsenal!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Christmas Do hangover. :bow:

[adzzzbatch]

gibbs :doh:

[Marc Overmars]

We strung 3 passes together, yay!

[Niall_Quinn]

That was fucking awful by Welbz.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Tame header from Bif.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Can someone let me know why Debuchy is playing at centre back and Chambers playing at right back?

Madness

That's also never a corner

[adzzzbatch]

What a fucking awful noise all those scousers screaming

[Niall_Quinn]

Worth a go by Giroud. At least it shows there are officially two teams in this match.

[Newguy]

That was fucking awful by Welbz.

Technically average

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Good tackle from Ox on Markovic

[RomfordPele]

Do we even have a central midfield?

[Niall_Quinn]

We turned a corner into a Liverpool attack. Nicely done.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Another Hollywood Stevie Me pass.

[Niall_Quinn]

This is terrible. We are wide open.

[adzzzbatch]

This is so toothless from us

[Niall_Quinn]

You can never legislate for just how incompetent we are tactically.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Four goals better off than last year!

[Niall_Quinn]

Ref has decided to let the crowd make the calls.

[Gooner23]

We must be the only team more likely to concede from our own corners than score.

[RomfordPele]

Ffs Oliver. They don't need 12 men today. We are shit.

[adzzzbatch]

we're letting being john markovic do what he likes

[Niall_Quinn]

25 mins in, Wenger sees us getting ripped to shreds. Isn't it about time he did something with his zip?

[Slacker]

Why are refs such tossers to Arsenal? Flamini wins the ball and gets booked - as someone said earlier he'll probably get sent off. Alexis just got hacked down by Sakho and ref lets it go. Nice to see Sakho telling the ref what to give - surprised he didn't book him for diving.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Because of who we dont have available the option is only there to press high up the pitch, but we are so afraid of being countered that we can't do that

[McNamara That Ghost...]

BFG. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Coutinho shoots, straight at Ches.

[Gooner23]

How many goals will we concede before Wenget changes our shape?

[adzzzbatch]

we give them so much fucking space!! FFS!

[fakeyank]

Why are we playing like Liverpool is real madrid?

[Niall_Quinn]

Are we doing this deliberately?

[RomfordPele]

Fucking chaos.

[adzzzbatch]

passing is woeful!

[Niall_Quinn]

How many goals will we concede before Wenget changes our shape?

This season or until he goes?

[Newguy]

The midfield is shocking

[adzzzbatch]

Are we doing this deliberately?

must be, no other logical explanation.

[Marc Overmars]

What the hell is this? A better side would have slaughtered us.

[RomfordPele]

None of our team look remotely interested. Fucking disgraceful.

[adzzzbatch]

WAKE THE FUCK UP ARSENAL!

[Niall_Quinn]

Anyone got any reasonable suggestion of what our "tactics" are supposed to be in this game?

[adzzzbatch]

Fuck off lucas

[Newguy]

Flamini is soo annoying....His positioning is horrid

[adzzzbatch]

Fucking hell

[McNamara That Ghost...]

How many goals will we concede before Wenget changes our shape?

None.

[Niall_Quinn]

Look at the (lack of) movement on the few occasions we get the ball. It's like they are all out for a stroll in the park.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Well done Ches!

[adzzzbatch]

we're the ones hoofing it :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

Well done Ches. He thwarted our defence brilliantly.

[Marc Overmars]

Markovic has done nothing all season but of course has his best game against us.

[adzzzbatch]

COME ON ARSENAL!

[adzzzbatch]

Markovic has done nothing all season but of course has his best game against us.

:gp:

Yep

[Niall_Quinn]

We somehow need to get to the break so we can hire a new manager.

[adzzzbatch]

fuck off chambers

[RomfordPele]

Chambers having a shocker.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bloody hell. :haha:

[adzzzbatch]

the scouse fans are worse than the mans screaming at everything the cunts

[Niall_Quinn]

37 minutes and we've had one tame header off target.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Markovic.:haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

It's like we're playing zonal defence all over the pitch. Like we're training dummies.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

What usually happens is we dominate, don't score and then conceded just before/after half time.

[Marc Overmars]

We normally decide to play as half time approaches.

[RomfordPele]

I literally can't believe how incompetent every single one of our player is at the moment.

Are they on the take??

[adzzzbatch]

we're losing the ball really well today

[adzzzbatch]

a corner to us, quick defend!

[adzzzbatch]

fuck off alexis

[Slacker]

This will be 3-1. Late consolation for Poldi.

Not sure why we're using Ox as a central midfield playmaker. He doesn't seem to have a clue what he's doing and keeps slowing things down or giving it away (like everyone else).

[adzzzbatch]

This is awful

[Niall_Quinn]

Players should be sacked for taking corners like that.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Our football has sunk to a new low.

[Marc Overmars]

Flamini :lol:

Go away

[adzzzbatch]

flamini will be off next.

[Newguy]

Flamini almost sent off

[Slacker]

Best get Flamster off now. Fuck off Neville, he hardly touched him.

[RomfordPele]

Flamini "lucky" not to be sent off for his second foul of the match. "Big talking point".

Take a bow, sky.

[fakeyank]

Flamini needs to be taken off at HT. Will Wenger do the obvious? Fuck no.. he is clueless!

[adzzzbatch]

they can all fuck off after this half of "football"

[Niall_Quinn]

No movement. This is the worst I have ever seen us play. Without a hint of exaggeration. This is the worst I have ever seen any team play.

Flamini lucky, He shouldn't have been booked earlier, but that was a booking. He's an idiot.

[adzzzbatch]

:haha:

fuck off arsenal

[selassie]

This will be 3-1. Late consolation for Poldi.

Not sure why we're using Ox as a central midfield playmaker. He doesn't seem to have a clue what he's doing and keeps slowing things down or giving it away (like everyone else).

Ox is probably injured.

[Marc Overmars]

Couldn't fluke it through to half time

Arsenal :haha:

[Slacker]

First player to take the game by the scruff of the neck scores.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Balls.

[fakeyank]

Finally the cunt is off his seat

[adzzzbatch]

we're embarrassing!

[RomfordPele]

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

Abysmal, unforgivable first half from us.

[Munchies]

Fuck sake!

[Master Splinter]

It came from giving it away in our own half again. Just so careless.

[Newguy]

Shitt bunch of players

[Niall_Quinn]

We just haven't turned up. We've handed them the game.

Wenger is so fucking clueless it's beyond belief.

[adzzzbatch]

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

What usually happens is we dominate, don't score and then conceded just before/after half time.

Close enough.

[Newguy]

Except dubuchy

[Munchies]

DEBUHCY!!!

:haha:

[adzzzbatch]

Fuck off Neville you disappointed cunt!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

DEBUCHY!!!!!

[RomfordPele]

That is hilarious. Wenger is the jammiest manager ever.

[Marc Overmars]

Debuchy!!!

What the hell? :haha:

We are such scrotes

[adzzzbatch]

fuck you Neville you cunt

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Skrtel helps us out. :bow:

[selassie]

Lol, we're so shite, so are they!

[Niall_Quinn]

As long as we don't get done for theft - GET IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unlucky Sky TV, unlucky Neville, hard luck matey.

[Munchies]

Debuchy!!!

What the hell? :haha:

We are such scrotes

He had no business winning that aswell, Skrtl thank you :haha:

get in!

[adzzzbatch]

Arsenal, stealing a living :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

Let's be clear. We're shit. If Liverpool had the same team as last year we'd be down 4 again, no lesson whatsoever learned by our totally incompetent non-manager.

However, it's not the same team. This Liverpool team is shite. And we've been played off the pitch by them. I can't ever recall seeing an Arsenal team play that poorly.

Also, who borrowed my claw hammer? Give it back you fucker, I need to go and see Gary Neville.

[Marc Overmars]

Arsenal, stealing a living :lol:

Pretty much.

We are awful but thankfully we're playing a team equally as bad.

[Slacker]

Always good to see the full backs notching headers in the six yard box. Glad Flamster wasn't there to nut it into row z.

[adzzzbatch]

Let's be clear. We're shit. If Liverpool had the same team as last year we'd be down 4 again, no lesson whatsoever learned by our totally incompetent non-manager.

However, it's not the same team. This Liverpool team is shite. And we've been played off the pitch by them. I can't ever recall seeing an Arsenal team play that poorly.

Also, who borrowed my claw hammer? Give it back you fucker, I need to go and see Gary Neville.

That cunt really was gutted when we scored, he couldn't even bother trying to hide it.

[Niall_Quinn]

I wonder what Wenger will do at half time following that get out of jail free gift?

Apart from steaming some broccoli I mean.

[RomfordPele]

Will wenger have the sense to take flamini off at half time - before Oliver watches the half time carpeting he's going to get from sky and duly sends him off for his first non-foul of the second half?

[Master Splinter]

Surely Flamini has to be replaced? The crowd will get him sent off.

We could do with one of our 45 injured central midfielders about now.

[Niall_Quinn]

Surely Flamini has to be replaced? The crowd will get him sent off.

We could do with one of our 45 injured central midfielders about now.

Wouldn't it be better to move him to CB and put him up against Sterling?

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

It's a perfect example of how you can best your opponent with tactics despite having a poor team. Liverpool, didn't really need to do much because their set up allowed them to out number us almost everywhere and recycle possession of the loose ball constantly. The space is obviously going to be behind their midfield so we need to make runs into those areas far quicker and work the play from there on...

Our forward line are just getting tired out there for nothing right now. Like I said before the game....Brad Jones is a bang average keeper and he only has 3 defenders directly in front of him....

[Niall_Quinn]

Wow, that's pretty disgraceful by Lalana - the way he rolled around trying to get the man sent off.

[Marc Overmars]

Flamini needs to be killed.

[Niall_Quinn]

It's a perfect example of how you can best your opponent with tactics despite having a poor team. Liverpool, didn't really need to do much because their set up allowed them to out number us almost everywhere and recycle possession of the loose ball constantly. The space is obviously going to be behind their midfield so we need to make runs into those areas far quicker and work the play from there on...

Our forward line are just getting tired out there for nothing right now. Like I said before the game....Brad Jones is a bang average keeper and he only has 3 defenders directly in front of him....

We're so badly set up you just look at it and think, what can we do? There's nothing we can do. Wenger doesn't have a clue, he really doesn't. How could he sit through 45 minutes of that without reacting?

[Slacker]

Wouldn't it be better to move him to CB and put him up against Sterling?

:lol:

Yeah. Take off Debuchy for ignoring orders for scoring in the first half and stick Chambers out right.

[RomfordPele]

Wow, that's pretty disgraceful by Lalana - the way he rolled around trying to get the man sent off.

Bang on - that would have been sky's line if it had been the other way round.

[Niall_Quinn]

Flamini needs to be killed.

To be fair, if he didn't play for us he'd be a gritty, determined and unbooked team player.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Starting with Flamini away to Liverpool who is a wlaking red card....

....a player who is only here because he was afforded our training facilities to get fit, trained real hard and refused to park where the rest of the players did.

Heck I should do circuit training around London Colney and cycle home afterwards indefinitely and see if I can get a contract with the club.

[Ernesto]

A lot of Liverpool-Arsenal games at Anfield tend to pan out like this. They always, understandably, dominate the first half and we come out stronger in the 2nd (happened in the 4-4 game, the one the following season where Arshavin got the winner and the 1-1 draw in late 2007.)

We need now to push on.

As for Flamini. Wenger won't sub him. He'll get sent off. It's Chambers from a fortnight all over again.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

We're so badly set up you just look at it and think, what can we do? There's nothing we can do. Wenger doesn't have a clue, he really doesn't. How could he sit through 45 minutes of that without reacting?

Apparently we shifted to 442 midway, though I'm not sure who initiated it or what we were going to gain......

[Niall_Quinn]

A lot of Liverpool-Arsenal games at Anfield tend to pan out like this. They always, understandably, dominate the first half and we come out stronger in the 2nd (happened in the 4-4 game, the one the following season where Arshavin got the winner and the 1-1 draw in late 2007.)

We need now to push on.

As for Flamini. Wenger won't sub him. He'll get sent off. It's Chambers from a fortnight all over again.

We need a new manager. If we have one by the time the second half kicks off then... it's on!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal you pubbers.

[Niall_Quinn]

Apparently we shifted to 442 midway, though I'm not sure who initiated it or what we were going to gain......

All that did was shift Giroud to the left, the exact place you don't want him to be. But I get your drift, probably better if Wenger doesn't do anything as it can only be even worse.

[adzzzbatch]

What a joke of a ref!

[RomfordPele]

Sterling "draws the foul". Dangerous this.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Debuchy booked.

[adzzzbatch]

the cunt knew he'd over run it

[Niall_Quinn]

We give so much confidence to everyone we play. Even those ball boy kids in the kickabout before the game.

[Slacker]

Debuchy gets booked for a Sterling dive. Commentary team don't see it. Blind cunts...

[Niall_Quinn]

Why doesn't the ref book all our players at the start? It would save delays.

[adzzzbatch]

fuck off cazorla

[adzzzbatch]

why is flaming still on the pitch?

[RomfordPele]

Is welbeck even on the pitch?

[Niall_Quinn]

why is flaming still on the pitch?

Because he'll be sent off for his next foul and then we'll be down to 10 men. Although I sort of see your point. It would be bad in some ways if we were a man down. But anyway, it's worth the risk and besides, the computer said no.

[Slacker]

Ox runs with the ball being pulled and kicked all over the place. No foul.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Agent Kolo. :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

Is welbeck even on the pitch?

Yeah, his role is to stand as still as possible as far away from the ball as possible. It's a new Wenger project.