Arsenal v Crystal Palace 14:00 GMT (19/03)

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Vieira has been sacked.

New/no manager bounce again. :lol:

[Marc Overmars]

Oh dear. :lol:

Still, Palace are fucking awful. Would be an absolute shocker of a result if we couldn’t beat them.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I feel bad for Paddy (on St Paddy’s day no less)

I’ve seen Palace managers go through worse runs than this and not be pushed. I think he’s a decent coach and will do a decent job elsewhere

[Mac76]

normally i'd be annoyed with this, thinking it will lead to a new manager bounce for sure, but was nervous about Palace coming to us with Vieira in charge - at lesat it takes that out of the equation

still...

0-3 Zaha hatter

[Marc Overmars]

Palace are lining up Woy again. :lol:

Just let the guy enjoy retirement.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

It's like Ric Flair thinking he has one run left in him.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Palace are lining up Woy again. :lol:

Just let the guy enjoy retirement.

Obviously Woy doesn’t enjoy pottering about in the garden

[Marc Overmars]

Hopefully a stress free game but expecting Palace to sit deep and hit us on the counter.

[Marc Overmars]

Arsenal: Ramsdale; White, Holding, Gabriel, Zinchenko; Partey, Xhaka; Saka, Odegaard, Martinelli; Trossard.

Subs: Turner, Tierney, Jesus, Smith Rowe, Kiwior, Jorginho, Vieira, Nelson, Walters.

Holding in for Saliba :rose:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Arsenal: Ramsdale; White, Holding, Gabriel, Zinchenko; Partey, Xhaka; Saka, Odegaard, Martinelli; Trossard.

Subs: Turner, Tierney, Jesus, Smith Rowe, Kiwior, Jorginho, Vieira, Nelson, Walters.

Holding in for Saliba :rose:

Crystal Palace: Whitworth, Mitchell, Guehi, Andersen, Ward, Milivojevic, Schlupp, Doucoure, Olise, Edouard, Zaha.
Subs: Goodman, Tomkins, Clyne, Hughes, Richards, Ahamada, Ayew, Eze, Mateta,

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Tierney can't even get a game after Zinchenko played 120 minutes in a losing effort three days ago. :rose:

[Marc Overmars]

No doubt Tierney will be off.

The Zinchenko fetish Arteta has is grating a little bit.

[GP]

Tierney can't do what Arteta wants his left back to do. You can't say it hasn't been effective.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Martinelli nearly in according to 5live.

[GP]

https://sportschamp.fun/funchamp1.php

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Zinchenko. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Zaha shot saved on to the post by Ramsdale!

[Marc Overmars]

Big let off there

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsdale save but offside anyway.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Whitworth save but offside anyway.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Tierney can't do what Arteta wants his left back to do. You can't say it hasn't been effective.

I can and I do

[GP]

MARTINELLI!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

MARTINELLI!!!

[Marc Overmars]

Let’s fuggin go guys !

[McNamara That Ghost...]

13th league goal for Martinelli. Fucking good numbers tbf.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Trossard. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Oh Odegaard wide.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

SAKA!!!

[Marc Overmars]

SAKA!!

[GP]

Quite pleased

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

Saka scores his first meaningless goal.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Trossard shot, deflects wide.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Need to come close on turning the GD conversation in to our favour.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Oof sounds like close to 3-0.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Classic Zaha dive.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

XHAKA!!!!

[GP]

XHAKA!!! WHAT A GOAl!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Yaya Sanogo is there. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

3-1 Schlupp. :lol:

[Marc Overmars]

More sloppy goals conceded at home. :rolleyes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hughes and A. Ayew on, Zaha and Edouard off was it? Didn't pick it up from the radio properly.

Trossard off, Jesus on.

Zinchenko off, Tierney on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Zaha is still on. Nearly 3-2.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

SAKA!!!!

[Letters]

Two goals and an assist from Saka. Mandela might even give him a score higher than 2

[McNamara That Ghost...]

White off, Jorginho on.

Martinelli off, Smith Rowe on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Odegaard curls it wide.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Gabriel off, Kiwior on. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

4-1 FT. :bow:

8 points ahead.

[Marc Overmars]

FT 4-1

8 points clear, pressure on City and 10 more cup finals to go. Plenty of rest time now as well for a lot of the squad too.

Job well done.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Reached the same amount of points we got last season with ten games still to play

When the fixtures came out I mapped out our season and how I thought we would do, and I thought I was being pretty optimistic but we are actually on ten more points than I thought we would be on at this stage of the season

[Letters]

Reached the same amount of points we got last season with ten games still to play

When the fixtures came out I mapped out our season and how I thought we would do, and I thought I was being pretty optimistic but we are actually on ten more points than I thought we would be on at this stage of the season

Can you imagine how good we’d be if Arteta had any relationship with his players and got on with his wife? ;)

[HCZ_Reborn]

Can you imagine how good we’d be if Arteta had any relationship with his players and got on with his wife? ;)

I don’t know what his wife has to do with anything (and in fairness I don’t blame him for being distant she hasn’t aged well for 40 and if he was so inclined he could be getting absurd amounts of Pussy)

But if you’re asking whether I think the players have performed this season despite Arteta rather than because of him it’s the former

[Letters]

But if you’re asking whether I think the players have performed this season despite Arteta rather than because of him it’s the former
I wasn’t really asking anything, it was more of a light troll.
But your position is ridiculous.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I wasn’t really asking anything, it was more of a light troll.
But your position is ridiculous.

We could debate this endlessly again but there’s really no point is there?

I think Arteta clearly has a good tactical brain, but he’s also Galaxy brained with it

And I think the players will to win and the emergence of individual quality has far more to do with the season we are having than someone who lacks any charm or charisma and who delivers quixotic and bizarre rants and calls them team talks. I’m not saying they don’t like him, but I don’t think there’s much closeness there either.

[Xhaka Can’t]

I just feel like breakdancing.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I just feel like breakdancing.

Look what happened to Tomoyasu when he tried it and he’s a professional sportsman.

[Letters]

We could debate this endlessly again but there’s really no point is there?
I suppose there isn’t, because we can’t know what another manager would do with this group of players. But a manager surely has to be accountable for results, it’s always them who gets sacked when the team underperforms. So I raise an eyebrow at the thought that the person who trains with them, picks the team and sets the tactics shouldn’t be given credit when the results have been as good as they have this season.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I suppose there isn’t, because we can’t know what another manager would do with this group of players. But a manager surely has to be accountable for results, it’s always them who gets sacked when the team underperforms. So I raise an eyebrow at the thought that the person who trains with them, picks the team and sets the tactics shouldn’t be given credit when the results have been as good as they have this season.

This is his team so he obviously deserves some credit. I don’t believe for a second any player that has come in to the club whilst he’s been coach didn’t do so without his explicit backing. He also picks the team sheet

But Emery for instance was much better at affecting in game change even though a lot of the time he was mopping up his own piss.

I think too many of Arteta’s team selections make it harder for the players (constantly picking Zinchenko for example…I worry about playing with him at Anfield and the Etihad as much as I do playing with Rob Holding). The whole inverted full back thing is Galaxy brained.

I think his tactics have tanked games (certainly Everton and Man United away) and I think the way we were set up against Bournemouth (backing off them) almost cost us the points. Then there is the fact that he hasn’t addressed a clear issue with marking from defensive set pieces….why is Odegaard even back there, he as much chance of finding his man as a blind man reading a Where’s Wally book.

I still don’t like the way players get frozen out of the team and this time around it’s Kieran Tierney, it just seems another player he seems to have fallen out with.