Olympiacos v Arsenal Tuesday 6th December 19.45 SS4

[Cripps_orig]

We've finished top so this is the team id play

Ach

Letters GB Flavs Syn

MS Maccy Ollie

CTG Niall Quinn Chamakh

10-0 Olympiacos

Ach for conceding 10 :pal:

[Niall_Quinn]

Are you seriously going to pick Chamakh?

[Cripps_orig]

Are you seriously going to pick Chamakh?I think him and NQ can make a great partnership

[Niall_Quinn]

Also Letters has managed to do ™ ONCE in his time here, but suddenly he's playing the the CL?

[Master Splinter]

I'm out for the season.

Diaby again.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

This is on the agenda now. Me as CM. :bow:

[milla]

I'll be the assistant manager :patrice:

[Master Splinter]

Will NQ and Chamakh put their differences aside for the good of the team?

:popcorn:

If I don't recover in time (Wenger said ten days, but I rounded up), MO will need to step in.

Although you'll now have a bog-standard water-carrier rather than a silky, gloriously gifted playmaker.

Or we could loan Rors from the Villa reserves, as McLeish will never utilise flair players.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

Didnt even make the bench :get coat:

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Flappyhandski

Santos Miquel Squid Jd

Arshavin, Coq, Frimpong, AOC

Ju Chamachk

[GP]

0-3

[Syn]

Can't have Santos travelling, let alone playing. Stick some other pub teamer there. Yennaris at RB and Djourou at LB?

If fit, both Rosicky and Benayoun must start instead of Chamakh and Arshavin.

Looking forward to this and to the other English teams fucking up :popcorn:

[fakeyank]

Can't have Santos travelling, let alone playing. Stick some other pub teamer there. Yennaris at RB and Djourou at LB?

If fit, both Rosicky and Benayoun must start instead of Chamakh and Arshavin.

Looking forward to this and to the other English teams fucking up :popcorn:

Thats bad for us tbh.. Less England teams in CL = less CL spots from PL and with us pretty much competing for 4th for the foreseeable future, this is bad news!

[Master Splinter]

Thats bad for us tbh.. Less England teams in CL = less CL spots from PL and with us pretty much competing for 4th for the foreseeable future, this is bad news!

I don't think one poor season for English clubs will bring it all crumbling down.

By that logic, Italy would have one team in the CL now.

And Scotland would have -5.

[Cripps_orig]

Have we ever won in Greece?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Thats bad for us tbh.. Less England teams in CL = less CL spots from PL and with us pretty much competing for 4th for the foreseeable future, this is bad news!

Nah they can still earn coefficient points being in the Europa League (Stoke are doing us proud in that one). And like MS intimated, the coefficents are amassed over the previous five seasons. Look at 2005/2006, apart from us it was a pretty awful competition for the English sides yet we haven't even come close to going down to three Champions League places.

[Cripps_orig]

Didnt even make the bench :get coat:

Wenger out tbh

[Marc Overmars]

Same team that started the City game I would have thought.

Dench man. :bow:

[Fist of Lehmann]

Stoke are doing us proudThe words us, Stoke and proud should never be used in the same sentence.

RE: This game. We should risk no-one is this deadest of dead rubbers.

[Cripps_orig]

Eighteen players have been selected for Tuesday night's Champions League tie against Olympiacos.

Squad (in alphabetical order):
Andrey Arshavin
Yossi Benayoun
Marouane Chamakh
Francis Coquelin
Johan Djourou
Craig Eastmond
Lukasz Fabianski
Emmanuel Frimpong
Vito Mannone
Ignasi Miquel
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Oguzhan Ozyakup
Ju Young Park
Tomas Rosicky
Andre Santos
Sebastien Squillaci
Thomas Vermaelen
Nico Yennaris

Fabianski

Djourou Miquel Squillaci Santos

Frimpong Coquelin Rosicky

Oxface Chamakh Arshavin

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sensible squad to take. Good to see Rosicky isn't completely dead.

Diaby though. :rose:

[Olivier's xmas twist]

We'll win and win, well

[LDG]

We'll win and win, well

That's a good old Syn favourite that.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

That's a good old Syn favourite that.

Syn top poster on GW tbh.

[Coney]

Syn top poster on GW tbh.

Well let's not jump to conclusions... ;)

[fakeyank]

FakeYank top poster on GW tbh.

:gp:

[Master Splinter]

Fakeyank top moaner on GW tbh.

:gp:

[Syn]

Right I think I'm up to speed on our group table. I think if we win and Dortmund win, Olympiakos still go through unless we and/or Dortmund win by a few. If we draw or lose and marseille win, marseille are through and olympiakos are out. Best case scenario: we win andDortmund narrow win such that olympiakos go through....and then the away fans should be celebrating with the Greeks at the final whistle. Hope our players bother with this - wouldn't really be fair on marseille if we didn't out up a fight.

[Marc Overmars]

We'll play very well but lose 1-0.

[LDG]

2-1 to the Arse.

AOC to score the first, Chamakh with a career saving overhead volley to piss of NQ.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

:gp:

Fakeyank :bow: what a man what a

[Olivier's xmas twist]

2-1 to the Arse.

AOC to score the first, Chamakh with a career saving overhead volley to piss off NQ.

:gp:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Right I think I'm up to speed on our group table. I think if we win and Dortmund win, Olympiakos still go through unless we and/or Dortmund win by a few. If we draw or lose and marseille win, marseille are through and olympiakos are out. Best case scenario: we win andDortmund narrow win such that olympiakos go through....and then the away fans should be celebrating with the Greeks at the final whistle. Hope our players bother with this - wouldn't really be fair on marseille if we didn't out up a fight.

Marseille shouldn't have been so negative at home; therefore, bollocks to them.

[Cripps_orig]

Arsenal have qualified for the last 16 as group winners.
•Marseille will progress to the last 16 if they win at Borussia Dortmund on matchday six. They will also go through as long as they match Olympiakos' result against Arsenal.
•Olympiakos can only advance to the last 16 if they beat Arsenal and Marseille lose at Borussia Dortmund. A draw will be enough if Marseille lose by exactly 2-0*, or by three goals or more.
* Based on criteria vi. of the tie-breaker, Olympiakos will qualify by having scored more goals in all group games as goal difference will be levelled.
•Borussia Dortmund will only make the last 16 if they beat Marseille by four goals or more and Olympiakos lose to Arsenal. Dortmund can move above Marseille but cannot leapfrog Olympiakos if all three teams finish level on points.


Come on Dortmund

[Syn]

Marseille shouldn't have been so negative at home; therefore, bollocks to them. Ramsey :bow:The one time he didn't blaze it over the bar. Turned out to be a pretty important goal.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Yeah what's with that? It's like he can't seperate his legs when he needs to shoot.

[LDG]

Yeah what's with that? It's like he can't seperate his legs when he needs to shoot.

Sooo much lol in that sentence.

But, I do agree. But like I said to the okd man 'tother day, I reckon he'll get loads of goals in future. Half the battle is getting in the position in the first place. The goals will come.

[Letters]

Couldn't give a stuff about this game tbh. Might keep an eye on it.

[Syn]

Well I can't wait for the game and I'll be making detailed notes in preparation for an epic post in the match reaction thread.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Couldn't give a stuff about this game tbh. Might keep an eye on it.

Now we know what Zimm changed his Christmas name too

[Cripps_orig]

This has a lot riding on it for Olympiacos so they'll hopefully go for it. Can see this being rather entertaining.

[Master Splinter]

The game with the Bartley error a few years ago was a bit shit.

If they do go for it, it should free up space for Oxlade-Chamberlain and Ju.

I'd say Arshavin as well, but he'll just be waddling around with his Dennis Bendtner-beating first touch and misplacing two-yard passes.

[Kano]

probably lose but more interested in watching chelsea fail massively, so think i'll go for that instead

[LDG]

probably lose but more interested in watching chelsea fail massively, so think i'll go for that instead

:gp:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fabianski, Djourou, Squillaci, Vermaelen, Santos, Coquelin, Benayoun, Frimpong, Oxocube, Chakma, Arshavin.

[Master Splinter]

Fabianski, Djourou, Squillaci, Vermaelen, Santos, Coquelin, Benayoun, Frimpong, Oxocube, Chakma, Arshavin.

Subs: Mannone, Miquel, Yennaris, Eastmond, Rosicky, Ozyakup, Ju.

[Cripps_orig]

Olympiakos: Megyeri, Torosidis, Papadopoulos, Mellberg, Marcano, Maniatis, David Fuster, Modesto, Mirallas, Djebbour, Holebas. Subs: Costanzo, Papazoglou, Pantelic, Fetfatzidis, Orbaiz, Potouridis, Abdoun.

Arsenal: Fabianski, Djourou, Vermaelen, Squillaci, Andre Santos, Coquelin, Frimpong, Benayoun, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Chamakh, Arshavin. Subs: Mannone, Rosicky, Park, Eastmond, Miquel, Ozyakup, Yennaris.

Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)

Good to see no Park

[tigerthesmurf85]

Disappointed to see Vermaelen starting tonight.

[Cripps_orig]

Our match coverage has started

[Cripps_orig]

Paul Merson is the pundit :bow:

[super kolo toure]

anyone got a strem

[tigerthesmurf85]

Try wiziwig.tv

[Asthmatic Kitty]

Paul Merson is the pundit :bow:

"yeah i know it was wigan, but"

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

[Cripps_orig]

Chance for the Greeks already

Fabianski :doh:

[Arsenal Royal]

SKY: sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/122911

[Master Splinter]

Saved from Arshavin!

[Cripps_orig]

Arshavin shot saved

[hymppi]

any working streams?

[Master Splinter]

Great ball by Santos across goal.

No-one attacking it obviously. :rolleyes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good play from Frimpong and good effort afterwards too.

[Cripps_orig]

Chamakh shot blocked

Keeps posession, lays it on for Frimpong who hits the side netting

Good play

[Master Splinter]

Chamakh fucks one up but then sets up Frimpong to hit the side-netting.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-0 Djebbour.

[Asthmatic Kitty]

goal for the greeks

shocking defending

[Master Splinter]

Good finish.

[Cripps_orig]

1-0 Olympiakos

Awful defending leaves Fabianski in no mans land

[Cripps_orig]

Djourou :doh:

As it stands, they are through with us

[Cripps_orig]

Wtf Arshavin?

Does a Heskey there. Well nearly as it went for a goal kick

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bloody hell Vermaelen and Fabianski. :doh:

[Cripps_orig]

Oh dear

Defensively we look so poor

[tigerthesmurf85]

Forgot how shit Squillaci is.

[Master Splinter]

Koscielny :bow:.

We're a one-man team tbh.

[Cripps_orig]

Fabianski looks hurt

Hope hes ok but not ok enough to continue

Mannone :bow:

[Syn]

Arshavin is fucking ridiculous. The goal came from him losing the ball...again. Djourou and fabianski didn't cover themselves in glory either. What's worse is that benayoun and co.keep going down the left side with arshavin instead of right.

[Cripps_orig]

Forgot how shit Squillaci is.Done nothing wrong.

Its Vermaelen whos having a shocker

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fabianski off, Mannone on.

[Cripps_orig]

Fabianski hauled off

Mannone on

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Not the best of starts from Mannone.

[Cripps_orig]

And he kicks it straight out of play :doh:

Keeper needed in Jan for sure

[Master Splinter]

Coquelin possibly hurt.

[Cripps_orig]

Holebas booked

Coq looks hurt

[Edinburgh Gooner]

That was a fucking shocker!!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Benayoun took that away from Arshavin I think.

Oxocube. :bow:

[Master Splinter]

Oxlade-Chamberlain :bow:.

Feed the Ox and he will provide?

[Cripps_orig]

Benayoun :doh:

Leave it for Arshavin you idiot.

Awful player

Great play by Oxlade

[Cripps_orig]

ANother player down :sleep:

What a shite ass game. Why couldnt Real be playing tonight?

[hymppi]

stretcher guys have run more than players

[Edinburgh Gooner]

ANother player down :sleep:

What a shite ass game. Why couldnt Real be playing tonight?

They have the lead, and are going all out to ruin the game.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Oh dear god.

[Master Splinter]

:haha:

Come back Almunia.

[Letters]

What the fuck was that?! :lol:

:doh:

[GP]

Holy hell.

[hymppi]

what a comedy by mannone

[GP]

I suspect that Mannone is mentally retarded.

[Cripps_orig]

Oh dear god

That was just embarrassing

And people had the nerve to critisise me when i called for a new keeper :doh:

[Letters]

I suspect that Mannone is mentally retarded.

That was both herp and derp.

[Thierrymon]

Our back up goalies trying to convince wenger to sell them.

Tbh its probably squillacci's fault.

[Ollie the Optimist]

tbh who gives a fuck? it is miles off our first team. we are through, nothing game. granted i still want us to win but meh

[Arsenal Royal]

Vito please, quit your Arsenal career and stick to bus driving :whistle:

[Ollie the Optimist]

Oh dear god

That was just embarrassing

And people had the nerve to critisise me when i called for a new keeper :doh:

well yes cos you said chesney was shit and should be replaced

[Letters]

tbh who gives a fuck? it is miles off our first team. we are through, nothing game. granted i still want us to win but meh

I don't want us to get a thumping but don't care much if we lose.
At least this time we've taken our foot off the gas AFTER we qualified and won the groups.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Chakma bringing the dives back. :bow:

[Cripps_orig]

well yes cos you said chesney was shit and should be replacedStill think we dont need a keeper?

Ollie :haha:

[Ollie the Optimist]

I don't want us to get a thumping but don't care much if we lose.
At least this time we've taken our foot off the gas AFTER we qualified and won the groups.


neither do i but the greeks need a win, we need nothing. we sent the kids out, none of the first team bar santos and verminator. hardly suprising. we are top and through so i dont give a fuck tbh

[Cripps_orig]

5 mins added

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Five added minutes.

[Master Splinter]

Are Benyanoon and Arshavin playing?

At least Chamakh tried a dive.

[Ollie the Optimist]

Still think we dont need a keeper?

Ollie :haha:

dont know where you think i said that?

[GP]

Jesus christ Djourou :doh:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Djourou. :doh:

[Master Splinter]

Djourou you imbecile :doh:.

[Asthmatic Kitty]

what the hell goes through djourou's head, seriously

[Cripps_orig]

Wtf is Djourou doing?

This has been embarrassing of Wenger proportions

[hymppi]

djourou is shit

[Letters]

Still think we dont need a keeper?

Fabianski looked pretty good last season, that goal was a massive cock up but I don't think I've ever seen him do anything quite that stupid before. I reckon he's OK as a backup. It wouldn't be top of my shopping list in January if I were Wenger.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Olympiakos will be shattered by the 70th minute onwards, surely.

[Cripps_orig]

Fabianski looked pretty good last season, that goal was a massive cock up but I don't think I've ever seen him do anything quite that stupid before. I reckon he's OK as a backup. It wouldn't be top of my shopping list in January if I were Wenger.I dont actually blame Fabianski for the first goal. That was the defence.

2nd was all Mannone though

Bottom line, our cover to Scdshfskdjfhny is awful and god forbid anything happens to him or we're fucked.

Not top of the shopping list but should be on the list regardless

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-0 half time.

[Cripps_orig]

2-0 HT

What a awful game

[hymppi]

oh dear! that was absolutely horrible first half.

[Master Splinter]

Mannone, Benyanoon and Arshavin off.

Ach, Maccy and Charlie on.

[Joker]

No real surprise tbh. Our squad is nowhere near good enough, there are far too many shit players who are not able to do a job when called upon. Sure, we played well against Man City but that was a red herring, and conclusions about the quality of our squad based on that match are inaccurate. The reality is that we have a very small percentage of quality players in our squad, and if at least a couple of them are out, performances will drop alarmingly.

No surprise to see Squillaci and Djourou defending like twats again. You can't have backup defenders of this quality and expect to succeed.

[Cripps_orig]

Harsh on Squillaci.

He got to the ball and had Djourou stayed in position, there'd be no problem but he didnt, the ball cannoned off him to some Greek pub teamer who scored

[GP]

Sure, we played well against Man City but that was a red herring.

:lol:

Nice one

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Squillaci, Mannone, Chamack and Arshavin need to go. No one helping ox, its 3 on 1

[Ollie the Optimist]

No real surprise tbh. Our squad is nowhere near good enough, there are far too many shit players who are not able to do a job when called upon. Sure, we played well against Man City but that was a red herring, and conclusions about the quality of our squad based on that match are inaccurate. The reality is that we have a very small percentage of quality players in our squad, and if at least a couple of them are out, performances will drop alarmingly.

No surprise to see Squillaci and Djourou defending like twats again. You can't have backup defenders of this quality and expect to succeed.

its not just a red herring though. coq, jd, frimpong etc have all come into first team and played well. this game means nothing, the greeks were bound to be more up for it because they can qualify. we are through so lets give the lads a break. if we took a full first team. it would be different

[Letters]

I dont actually blame Fabianski for the first goal. That was the defence.

2nd was all Mannone though

Wait, hang on, this is Mannone in goal? Our 3rd choice 'keeper? :lol:
Behave yourself, Fabianski was fine last year and we have Chesney. That's 2 pretty decent 'keepers. Unless you're Man City you're not going to have a top quality 3rd choice.

[Arsenal Royal]

I actually do care about our performance and I don't think it's "meaningless" at all. This is our B-side and if one of your 1st team players gets injured (which is 100% going to happen) we'll have to stick to those players we're seeing on the pitch tonight. And I don't like what I see right now!

[Cripps_orig]

Wait, hang on, this is Mannone in goal? Our 3rd choice 'keeper? :lol:
Behave yourself, Fabianski was fine last year and we have Chesney. That's 2 pretty decent 'keepers. Unless you're Man City you're not going to have a top quality 3rd choice.

Fabianski for the first goal

Mannone for the 2nd

Almunia for the 3rd?

None of the 3 above are good enough to come in for Sjsadhgaskjny should anything happen.

[Ollie the Optimist]

I actually do care about our performance and I don't think it's "meaningless" at all. This is our B-side and if one of your 1st team players gets injured (which is 100% going to happen) we'll have to stick to those players we're seeing on the pitch tonight. And I don't like what I see right now!

throwing 9 new players into a team is going to cause problems, throwing one or two into a settled team wont do much. when jenksion was rb, he fitted in well just like frimpong and coq have.

[Letters]

Fabianski for the first goal

Mannone for the 2nd

Almunia for the 3rd?

None of the 3 above are good enough to come in for Sjsadhgaskjny should anything happen.

Fabianski is fine as a backup. I didn't know he'd gone off injured, not really been watching tbh, only turned it on about 30 minutes in. I'd rather have a better partner for RvP than a top quality 3rd choice 'keeper.

[Syn]

Embarrassing performance all-round. Perfectly fine with getting beaten if we compete well like in the Man City game...but to gift the opposition two goals like that just shows that the learning process that the first-team seemed to have gone through hasn’t filtered through to the squad players. That panicky mess that we created about 5/6 times is not normal. Even on off days - shit like that doesn’t happen to good teams. It has nothing to do with playing ability and everything to do with an unstable mentality. Djourou and co. just start bricking it and so hesitation sets in. Grow a pair ffs.

I don’t know why Arsene chooses to play Arshavin. What’s he going to gain from it? Why not try out Park or some youngster we don’t know much about? At least we’d see somebody who might give a shit.

Second half, expect to see the opposition injured on the floor (read: time-wasting) and the game fizzling out.

[Kano]

I actually do care about our performance and I don't think it's "meaningless" at all. This is our B-side and if one of your 1st team players gets injured (which is 100% going to happen) we'll have to stick to those players we're seeing on the pitch tonight. And I don't like what I see right now!

this is what happens when a 'team' don't play together regularly, they can play well one game, shite the next. means nothing at all.

[Letters]

I actually do care about our performance and I don't think it's "meaningless" at all. This is our B-side and if one of your 1st team players gets injured (which is 100% going to happen) we'll have to stick to those players we're seeing on the pitch tonight. And I don't like what I see right now!

I'd say it's pretty unlikely, even with our injury record, that we'd ever have to put out a side like this in the PL. I've seen some of these players in PL games and surrounded by better players they do OK. All together and they're struggling. It's really not that important although I hope Wenger's giving them a bollocking and we make it respectable 2nd half.

[Rors]

I've never seen Vito Mannone and Ezio Auditore in the same room. In fact I think Big V was trying the 'jump-kill' move for what turned out to be the second goal....

[tigerthesmurf85]

Well that was crap. We can't cope with their pressing game. Djourou has had a mare. Mannone makes a huge mistake in his one chance.

[Arsenal Royal]

throwing 9 new players into a team is going to cause problems, throwing one or two into a settled team wont do much. when jenksion was rb, he fitted in well just like frimpong and coq have.

so next time when one of our regular defenders gets substituted by djourou you'll stay calm and confident he'll do the job? because clearly I won't!

[Ollie the Optimist]

so next time when one of our regular defenders gets substituted by djourou you'll stay calm and confident he'll do the job? because clearly I won't!

yes because he has done a job. chelsea he did well, norwich i htink he played and did well. players come in and around better players who are much more gelled together and are fine

[Kano]

so next time when one of our regular defenders gets substituted by djourou you'll stay calm and confident he'll do the job? because clearly I won't!
he's played a few times in the league recently and looked ok. you have to admit though, that manone was :lol:

[Cripps_orig]

Good save Mannone

[Syn]

can we get another replay of that Santos header?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I've never seen Vito Mannone and Ezio Auditore in the same room. In fact I think Big V was trying the 'jump-kill' move for what turned out to be the second goal....

Mannone. :rose:

Requiescat in pace.

[Cripps_orig]

Didnt realise Mellberg hit the woodwork :lol:

[Master Splinter]

Santos injured?

:rose:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Santos carried off, sat up though.

[Cripps_orig]

Santos off

Miquel on

Do we have any fit full backs left?

[Rors]

Mannone. :rose:

Requiescat in pace.

:haha:

"You are not Szczesny. Do not start behaving like him"

[Kano]

mannone will always have that game against fulham I guess...

[Master Splinter]

Mannone catches one.

:faint:

Then fucks up again.

:haha:

[Letters]

Good save Mannone

Then 5 minutes later he rolls is out to one of their attackers :doh:
This really is the shittest performance since Old trafford

[Kano]

at least we can say we got our arsenal back tonight

[Rors]

Mannone :wacko:

The Miracle Of Craven Cottage looks a very long time ago now.

[Cripps_orig]

The defending has been soooo bad. People might say its a nothing game but its worrying that the defence is this poor

[Ollie the Optimist]

The defending has been soooo bad. People might say its a nothing game but its worrying that the defence is this poor

just shows how good kos and merts have been then

[Letters]

The defending has been soooo bad. People might say its a nothing game but its worrying that the defence is this poor

Aye. I don't much care about the result but the performance does concern me.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

BENAYOUN!!!!!

A :bow: for Chakma too.

[Rors]

Fine goal!

[Letters]

Oh! :lol:

2-1!

[Master Splinter]

Great goal!

[Cripps_orig]

2-1 Benayoun

Great finish

Chamakh did well for the assist.

Miquel looks good

[Master Splinter]

That would have been a pel too. Chamakh was taken out.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Oh god. So lucky it's still 2-1.

Communication fuck-up between Vermaelen and Mannone.

[Rors]

For the love of God... :haha:

[Letters]

Ve Vill Vin VCL

:scarf:

Oh fuck off Mannone! :doh:

[Master Splinter]

Mannone :haha:.

What will he do next?

[Cripps_orig]

Just deal with it Vermaelen ffs

[Arsenal Royal]

yes because he has done a job. chelsea he did well, norwich i htink he played and did well. players come in and around better players who are much more gelled together and are fine

He (Djourou) passed the ball straight to an opponent in his own area. And it took him 3-4 seconds thinking-time before he decided to pass the ball. Such mistakes as an idividual can cost us games even when he's surrounded by better players. He's had a shocking 1st half but I admit he looked ok in the last games.
2-0 down in the 1st half should be alarming enough to work/train harder!

Still, I think some of our B-side players aren't good enough to play in the 1st team.

[hymppi]

vermaelen is having a bit of a shocker today

[Letters]

Mannone :haha:.

What will he do next?

Mazy run up the wing, cut inside and score I reckon.

[Cripps_orig]

Mazy run up the wing, cut inside and score I reckon.If he does that, il never WUM again

[Cripps_orig]

Frimpong booked

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goes to show how scgrsghg organises our defence, also how poor squid is, everyone panicks around him

[Olivier's xmas twist]

neither do i but the greeks need a win, we need nothing. we sent the kids out, none of the first team bar santos and verminator. hardly suprising. we are top and through so i dont give a fuck tbh

SO Vermalen/Squid/Chamackh/Santos,Fabianski, Djourou, are not kids they are 1st teamers but half are showing they are not good enough.

It might be a nothing game, does not mean we should go and loose or act silly because it means nothing. Wenger did not look pleased at all at HT and rightly so.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Going well, is it?

[Letters]

If he does that, il never WUM again

And I'll make you a mod.

;)

[hymppi]

AW was shouting to fringpong: "ah, frimmy, i told you to aim the studs at 'is balls!"

[Letters]

Going well, is it?

I think I may have turned on to Comedy Central by mistake.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

David Fuster off, Abdoun on.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Mannone :haha:.

What will he do next?

Sell him he's shit

[Cripps_orig]

And I'll make you a mod.

;)Already am the Peoples Mod tbh :)

Its like 2006 all over again. Might get to the CL final :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Arshavin. :rolleyes:

[Xhaka Can’t]

I think I may have turned on to Comedy Central by mistake.

Too many changes - couldn't even be bothered to find a stream.

Thought Fabianski was supposed to be in goal, bit much playing Mannone.

[Syn]

Surprised an Olympiacos player hasn't 'needed' a stretcher so far in the second half.

Don't think we'll be waiting too long for that.

[Thierrymon]

goes to show how scgrsghg organises our defence, also how poor squid is, everyone panicks around him

Yeah everyone seems to turn to shit when paired with him. He makes his team mates nervous.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Coquelin off, Rosicky on.

[GP]

Too many changes - couldn't even be bothered to find a stream.

Thought Fabianski was supposed to be in goal, bit much playing Mannone.

Fab was injured. By Vermaelen.

[Cripps_orig]

Too many changes - couldn't even be bothered to find a stream.

Thought Fabianski was supposed to be in goal, bit much playing Mannone.

He did, got injured.

Mannoe came on

Coq off, Rosicky on

[Cripps_orig]

Yeah everyone seems to turn to shit when paired with him. He makes his team mates nervous.

Vermaelen being shit tonight has f all to do with Squillaci

[Rors]

Even watching him take a looping header under no pressure is like accepting an invitation into the last refuge of the damned...

[hymppi]

Too many changes - couldn't even be bothered to find a stream.

Thought Fabianski was supposed to be in goal, bit much playing Mannone.
fabianski got injured.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Fab was injured. By Vermaelen.

Fuck.

Hope it isn't bad because if anything happens to szohcxoichj, we're fucked.

[Syn]

:haha:

[Letters]

Too many changes - couldn't even be bothered to find a stream.

Thought Fabianski was supposed to be in goal, bit much playing Mannone.

Think Fabianski went off injured (I only tuned in with 30 minutes gone). There have been a lot of changes but there were against City too and we were a lot better than this. The ease with which Olympiacos are cutting through our 'defence', such as it is, is somewhat alarming.

[GP]

Fuck.

Hope it isn't bad because if anything happens to szohcxoichj, we're fucked.

Just a gash on his knee, I think. Shouldn't be a problem.

[Kano]

Vermaelen being shit tonight has f all to do with Squillaci
verm has these games occasionally, where he goes barmy. thankfully its out of his system in a nothing game

[Xhaka Can’t]

Just a gash on his knee, I think. Shouldn't be a problem.

:good:

[Arsenal Royal]

Vermaelen being shit tonight has f all to do with Squillaci

Our defenders are all "underperforming" you can't really tell who's outshining who in being awful.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good chance for Rosicky.

[Cripps_orig]

Rosicky doesnt get enough on it to get it over the keeper

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mannone nearly ballses one up, now he's injured.

Cripps, we need you in goal after all.

Djourou. :doh:

[hymppi]

good try from rosicky

[Syn]

Oh that was a chance. Think Rosicky anticipating the keeper going for it...he needed to poke it downwards. Good burst of pace though.

[Letters]

:lol: More fuckwittery at the back and then Mannone hurts himself.

[hymppi]

WTF???

[Master Splinter]

Djourou rolling back the months.

[Asthmatic Kitty]

miquel looking pretty good. i didn't see what happened to santos, did it look bad?

[Olivier's xmas twist]

WTF???

What happend

[Letters]

Djourou rolling back the months.

:haha:

[Cripps_orig]

Like the look of Miquel

Best Spanish player we've had from Barcelona ever tbh

[Xhaka Can’t]

miquel looking pretty good. i didn't see what happened to santos, did it look bad?
WTF?

Can someone post the full list of casualties?

[hymppi]

miquel has been good.

[Arsenal Royal]

Vito :doh: What a joke!

[Kano]

Like the look of Miquel

Best Spanish player we've had from Barcelona ever tbh
whats his position? ive seen him out wide and in the middle

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Oxocube. :bow:

[hymppi]

What happend
i thought mannone was injured too. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Djourou. :haha:

[Cripps_orig]

whats his position? ive seen him out wide and in the middleHes a CB but asked to fill in at LB cos we have no fit fullback left

[Letters]

whats his position?

Bench.

[Master Splinter]

Dear God Djourou :haha:.

[Kano]

Hes a CB but asked to fill in at LB cos we have no fit fullback left
he's looked good. also did well against liverpool earlier in the season after a shaky start

[McNamara That Ghost...]

This is ridiculous.

[Cripps_orig]

WTF?

Can someone post the full list of casualties?

Fabianski - Knee
Coq - Cock
Mannone - arm
Santos - obesity
Wenger - head

[Letters]

Comediy slip from Miquel :lol:

[Master Splinter]

Oxlade-Chamberlain is definitely the real deal though.

He deserves to start if Theo/Gervinho are unfit.

[Cripps_orig]

Oxface booked

[Syn]

This is ridiculous.

We weren't this shaky in defence even in the 8-2 loss at Old Trafford. Olympiakos could've racked up a cricket score if they were composed enough.

[Kano]

Oxlade-Chamberlain is definitely the real deal though.

He deserves to start if Theo/Gervinho are unfit.
when gerv goes in jan, we'll see more of him

[Master Splinter]

This is a true pub team match.

So poor.

The GW team would have done infinitely better.

[Syn]

7 minutes left. Which means 1 minute of normal play and 6 minutes of casually walking to the ball when it goes out of touch.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Oh FFS. :haha:

How haven't they scored?!

[Letters]

:haha: Mannone, then handball. Oh this is brilliant.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Our defence has more holes then a connect 4 board ffs

[Globalgunner]

Unholy trinity of Djourou, Sqillaci and Fabianski coupled with the indolence of Arshavin= surefire recipe for disaster. I really do not know how a player like Djo having been at Arsenal for almost a decade can be such a woeful footballer not really improving one bit.

Oh i forgot to add....We also have Chamakh as good a footballer as a camel would be an architect

[Cripps_orig]

How have Olympicos not scored more?

Mannone :haha:

[Olivier's xmas twist]

:haha: Mannone, then handball. Oh this is brilliant.

Most entertaing match we have played this season tbh

[Xhaka Can’t]

Wish I'd watched this now.

[Letters]

Wish I'd watched this now.

We'll probably release a DVD.

[Arsenal Royal]

I want a draw! Not that we deserve one but it's good for our statistics :tongue:

[Cripps_orig]

Best move of the match that was

[Master Splinter]

You fat useless fuck.

[Letters]

Excellent dive from the Greek player :lol:
Real Tom Daley stuff.

[Letters]

You fat useless fuck.

Harsh on Cripps tbh.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

That was offside I thought. Ah well, they do deserve it.

[Cripps_orig]

3-1

Missed the goal as was watching something else

[Kano]

good marking there

[Cripps_orig]

Benayoun :doh:

[Letters]

Nice to see a player with a beard. Not enough of that these days.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Olymipakos :pal:

[Syn]

Olympiakos are going out!

:Haha:

Take that you time-wasting cunts.