Burnley vs The Arsenal | Saturday April 11th - 17.30

[GP]

A great chance to pull a gap on the chasing pack. A must win game.

0-3

[Marc Overmars]

I don't care if this is one of our away day pub specials. Just get the 3 points then we can sit back and watch our rivals slug it out. Even though they're 2nd bottom Burnley have got results against a few of the top sides this season so I'm not taking this for granted.

1-2.

[Niall_Quinn]

3-0 Ozil hattrick

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Probably more worried for this than I was for the Liverpool game (easy to say in hindsight though). Burnley are the classic "raise it up against the big teams" side and they do actually play good attacking football and aren't a side who'll simply just bend over for you.

Mark my words, it's going to be a fight and you've got to hope Wenger and the players don't get complacent here.

0 - 1, 1 - 2, 0 - 2 ....... whatever, I'll just take a win no matter the score. Keep it calm in the first and don't conceed and hope that our quality is enough to score goals when we inevitably create chances which we should do as Burnley's defence has been a bit shit this year.

With the Manc Derby on at the same time, it's imperative we make ground on both our rivals for 2nd to 4th place.

[Letters]

Hmm. They did beat City at home and then draw with Spurs. They've won very few games all season though so we really shouldn't lose there.
With Chelsea next (who will come for a draw, and get it IMO), we do need to win this one.

[AFC Leveller]

Burnley are a good side at home and have covered more miles than any other team in the league (i think) so we should expect a typical FA cup style clash and with this being a 5:30 kick off, a couple of cunts in the commentary team hoping tiny Burnely beat big bully Arsenal.

1-2. Classice wenger style sitting back after getting two goals ala Palace and Leicester.

[GP]

Ospina

Debuchy
Mertesacker
Gabriel
Monreal

Diaby
Wilshere
Arteta

Alexis
Giroud
Walcott

[AFC Leveller]

Ospina

Debuchy
Mertesacker
Gabriel
Monreal

Diaby
Wilshere
Arteta

Alexis
Giroud
Walcott

Those 3 in the middle have scored about a goal between them this season.

[Marc Overmars]

Debuchy, Diaby, Arteta and Wheelchair available.

Kos a doubt and faces late tests.

Oxlade out.

[LDG]

Burnley are a good side at home and have covered more miles than any other team in the league (i think) so we should expect a typical FA cup style clash and with this being a 5:30 kick off, a couple of cunts in the commentary team hoping tiny Burnely beat big bully Arsenal.

1-2. Classice wenger style sitting back after getting two goals ala Palace and Leicester.

Well hello Classice

fth fth fth fth

[Master Splinter]

They've only scored one in five games.

And their only win in ten is the 1-0 over Citeh. Citeh :haha:.

They've conceded the most headed goals and the most goals from corners. We have to target those weaknesses with Bif/Welbz/BFG/Gabriel, etc.

Or alternatively, play it like a training session and hand them their end-of-season boost.

If we control their early bluster and play it professionally, it should be about 0-3. Nervy, edgy, annoying 1-2 otherwise.

[Master Splinter]

Arsenal XI: Ospina, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Cazorla, Ramsey, Ozil, Alexis, Giroud
Subs: Szczesny, Gibbs, Chambers, Flamini, Rosicky, Walcott, Welbeck

Burnley XI: Heaton; Trippier, Duff, Shackell, Mee; Boyd, Arfield, Jones, Barnes; Vokes, Ings
Subs: Gilks, Keane, Ward, Ulvestad, Jutkiewicz, Taylor, Kightly

[adzzzbatch]

Henry :bow:

[milla]

The King is commenting on Sky :coffee:

[Munchies]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCUqzs_WgAAgrpw.png

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

[Edinburgh Gooner]

any sky sports links?

[Edinburgh Gooner]

any sky sports links?

got one: http://vipbox.biz/soccer/watch-1ht9l-burnley-vs-arsenal

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Coquelin the police officer. :haha:

[Marc Overmars]

Come on you Gunners!!!

[Munchies]

any sky sports links?

HD ones

http://www.ronaldo7.net/video/sports-live/sports-live-stream.html

scroll down

Im using this one but expect it to go off soon
http://hdfootballlive.uk/englishhhh.html

[Master Splinter]

Burnley should have a yellow already.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Alexis freekick, easy for Heaton.

[adzzzbatch]

Merts is so slow!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ospina a bit hesitant.

[Master Splinter]

Nearly brilliant there.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Alexis. :lol:

[Maestro]

get it together mertesacker

[McNamara That Ghost...]

wtf bif?

[A Gunner]

0 - 1 Ramsey

[Master Splinter]

RAMSEY!!!!!!!

[adzzzbatch]

YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS

[Marc Overmars]

Ramsey!!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

RAMSEY!!!

[Maestro]

yesssssssss

[Niall_Quinn]

Fuck. Finally, after everyone else had a shot first.

Ramsey!

1-0

[Munchies]

Ramzeeeeeeeeeeee

[Maestro]

well done coq

[adzzzbatch]

Well this isn't going to Sky's script.

[Niall_Quinn]

If Giroud had actually touched him, which he didn't, that might have been a foul.

[adzzzbatch]

what a dive

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Freekick to Burnley.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Nothing from it.

[Niall_Quinn]

Jones needs to be booked for that. Will he be?

[adzzzbatch]

burnley diving everywhere! :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

No. No card even though the ref saw it. He's changed the rules there because that's an automatic yellow.

[adzzzbatch]

wtf was that Ramsey?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Was that Kos?

[adzzzbatch]

Fuck off ref!

[Maestro]

what a shit ref

[adzzzbatch]

the crowd cry then the ref gives them free kicks

[McNamara That Ghost...]

well done ospina!

[adzzzbatch]

a burnley booking :faint:

[adzzzbatch]

ooooooooooo

[adzzzbatch]

Hilary :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good effort Cazorla.

[Maestro]

we may have just paid our ref bribe for a change

[adzzzbatch]

"Oh look Arsenal are all foreign" Fuck off sky

[adzzzbatch]

Bellerin :doh:

[adzzzbatch]

We need another goal.

[Master Splinter]

Bishop Of Burnley :bow:.

[adzzzbatch]

Jesus loves Arsenal

[Maestro]

Bishop Of Burnley :bow:.

undercover divine intervention

[Marc Overmars]

Scrappy game

[adzzzbatch]

burnley should form their own swim time with all the diving they do.

[adzzzbatch]

We've been sloppy.

[adzzzbatch]

burnley fans :lol:

[adzzzbatch]

boooing giroud for being hit in the face :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bif. :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

That should have been red. It was deliberate. It was the hand.

[adzzzbatch]

Mertesacker slows everything down.

[adzzzbatch]

"that was a proper tackle" :rolleyes:

[Niall_Quinn]

That "proper" challenge by Jones didn't break anyone's leg. This time.

Therefore, by English standards, it is an excellent tackle.

[adzzzbatch]

How are we cheating exactly?

[Maestro]

we're dicking around now, need to push on

[adzzzbatch]

giroud :doh:

[adzzzbatch]

"everyone in the country want burnley to stay up" :lol: fuck off.

[adzzzbatch]

Alexis has been poor.

[adzzzbatch]

some nasty fuckers in burnleys side.

[Niall_Quinn]

Pass completion can't be much above 50% Really careless stuff.

Some real pub brawl challenges coming in. Hopefully we don't lose anyone.

[adzzzbatch]

hilarious supporters :haha:

[LDG]

Fuck off Dike, you fat potato upsidedown head.

[adzzzbatch]

fucking ref needs to start booking these cunts

[adzzzbatch]

booooooooooooooooooo :haha:

[A Gunner]

0 - 1 HT Nothing spetacular, played quite sloppily.

[adzzzbatch]

Shit half of football.

[Niall_Quinn]

HT 0-1 Ramsey.

Really poor half.

We have been careless with our passing. Burnley are just shite - really, really, shite. The crowd is their best player.

[fakeyank]

Horrible football ground.. we need to pub in another goal

[Marc Overmars]

All set up for plucky little Burnley to fight against all the odds and claim a result because it would be no more than they deserve. Plucky, honest Burnley.

[adzzzbatch]

Thierry Henry is a joy to listen to :bow:

[Master Splinter]

Burnley's best player - the whiny, bitchy, precious crowd - will take over soon if Dean continues to to allow them to kick, punch, elbow, scythe and trip at will. Which he will.

Just play a bit better FFS and score a few more past a limited side. A five-minute burst will do.

Same old little team's crowd, always crying.

[LDG]

If Stoke is Mordor, Burnley is Mirkwood.

[Maestro]

we dicked around in that half, these cunts are shite and we need bury them quick before we have a problem on our hands

[Marc Overmars]

Come on you Gunners!!!

[adzzzbatch]

back to the fucking keeper come on arsenal FFS!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

wtf bif?

[Maestro]

come on team, stand up and get a grip on this bitch

[adzzzbatch]

barnes is a cunt

[Niall_Quinn]

If Stoke is Mordor, Burnley is Mirkwood.

More the Prancing Pony at Bree tbf.

[adzzzbatch]

boring.

[adzzzbatch]

Ospina :doh:

[adzzzbatch]

looks like we're doing it the hard way today.

[Marc Overmars]

I think it's time to turn off auto pilot now and start playing properly.

[Slacker]

Gotta start putting some possession and penetration together. The pub game we're being dragged into suits them and this shithead of a ref. If they equalise, by fair means or foul, we'll have their fans, the ref and the commentators whipping up a frenzy and our boys will need to show character.

[adzzzbatch]

what are the tactics?

[Niall_Quinn]

What's up with Bellerin? 3 opportunities to take on the man or cross, three backpasses.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Trippier helping out.

[Niall_Quinn]

Had to be first time from Ramsey.

[adzzzbatch]

waste from cazorla

[adzzzbatch]

This is crap

[A Gunner]

Bellerin has been really bad this match

[adzzzbatch]

should be 1-1 we're fucking around

[Marc Overmars]

Come on Arsenal FFS.

[Maestro]

this is getting worrying very worrying

[Niall_Quinn]

72 mins coming up. Time for computasub.

[adzzzbatch]

mertesacker :doh:

[adzzzbatch]

they're getting closer...

[Niall_Quinn]

If Wenger is watching the game rather than the GPS tracking stats maybe he'll react to this?

[adzzzbatch]

tippy tappy shit

[adzzzbatch]

Coq :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

Welbeck would be ideal in a game like this. I suppose we'll get Flamini though.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ah, so that's why Bellerin hasn't been crossing. :doh:

[adzzzbatch]

Fuck off cazorla

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cazorla volleys over.

[adzzzbatch]

:patrice:

[Niall_Quinn]

Patrice :bow:

[KSE Comedy Club]

God...what a dire fucking game this is!

[Marc Overmars]

It's only taken us 75 mins to start playing.

[KSE Comedy Club]

Have the team made a pact not to shoot :shrug:

[adzzzbatch]

Kos :doh:

[Niall_Quinn]

LOL - Sky want to know if Kos dragged him down. Maybe. After he had been dragged down himself. But they missed that bit.

[A Gunner]

Welbeck on
Giroud off

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Coq. :haha:

[adzzzbatch]

like for like sub

[Niall_Quinn]

Welbeck coming on. Giroud off.

Wow. That's the ONE thing he could have done to fuck up that sub. Welbeck would have been useful in support of Giroud, now he'll be alone up top and half as effective. WUMger :doh:

[Maestro]

we played a shit game, against shit scrotes, shit ref and shit home fans .....let's just get the all important 3 points and go home in one piece please

[Marc Overmars]

3 mins of this shit fest left

[Niall_Quinn]

Terribly frustrating football. We are 10x better than this. But WUMger knows best, with another one of his barest minimum performances. He's an irritating bloke. Knows nothing about momentum.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Three mins.

[Niall_Quinn]

WUMger Borecrow bringing on Chambers. Probably bringing Welbeck off.

[A Gunner]

Alexis off
Chambers on

[Maestro]

keep chambers off the pitch

[LDG]

Bellerin has been woeful today.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-1 FT! :scarf:

[Marc Overmars]

Full time! :dance:

God that was dreadful.

[A Gunner]

My commentator just called Burnley's manager the Ginger Mourinho???

[Maestro]

brilliant 3 points, we were utter shit

[Niall_Quinn]

FT 0-1

A win. But it really could have gone any way because we played with WUMger's handbrake stuck on. Horrible. But 3 points in the bag and a relaxing afternoon tomorrow watching the mancs hack each other's chances to bits.

[LDG]

We were poor, but sometimes you need to rough it up and sneak out with a shitfest.

8/8 :bow:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

My commentator just called Burnley's manager the Ginger Mourinho???

That's his nickname.

Just another way of saying Ginger Twat.

[Niall_Quinn]

12 clear of the spuds :haha:

If they fall any further behind they might miss out on making it into our shadow.

[Niall_Quinn]

Khaleesi :bow:

[Letters]

12 clear of the spuds :haha:

If they fall any further behind they might miss out on making it into our shadow.

:haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

Good post match interview from Aaron

http://denofgeek.net-genie.co.uk/siteimage/scale/0/0/325353.gif

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Coq. :haha: