Arsenal (N) Charity Shield - 29/8/20 - 16:30

[Scooby Dudek]

Exactly the same as last year.

 

Done well to get a draw considering Arsenal have brilliant world class players in every position and a brilliant manager, according to the commentators anyway. 

[A_S]

Good omen. 

[Leyton388]

We lost it last year as well and did pretty well. 

[Red74]

Allison been studying Peter Shiltons penalty shoot out technique there 

[suzy]

Shows how much Clinton Morrison knows (on the radio) saying how shocked he was Mane didn’t take one. I wasn’t, he often doesn’t!

[Grinch]

Shite, didn't deserve to win it anyway. 

 

Allison was away a few seconds before every penalty was hit, made it very easy for them. 

[Jairzinho]

Completely takes the shine off being champions, for me.

[Butch]

Lost the charity shield last season and went on to win everything. Would have been nice to win but it doesn't really matter. 

[Redder Lurtz]

Weirdest substitution in history. 

[johnsusername]

Hmmm. Long season coming up. 

[BeefStroganoff]

Well it just confirms to me that this team still needs work. Theres no way we are retaining the title with this same team.

 

Williams is not ready, Brewster will go out on loan, Firmino needs a serious kick up the arse and we need a plan b against low block teams with fast forwards.

[Captain Howdy]

4 minutes ago, 1892-LFCWasBorn said:

If there's a pen shoot out to lose, it was this one. Zero fucks given.

I’m gutted tbh. This squad needs a shake up imo, we need to freshen it up with a couple of top signings 

[BeefStroganoff]

1 minute ago, Butch said:

Lost the charity shield last season and went on to win everything. Would have been nice to win but it doesn't really matter. 

We won the CL, Fa Cup and Carabao? Must have missed that.

[dockers_strike]

Didnt see most of the 2nd half, went out for a run.

 

Achterburg excelled himself on coaching the keeper on arsenal's penalty takers.

 

This isnt on the Walk of Champions for a reason.

 

Usual suspects going on about Williams and a 'drop off' from Trent. Yeah, when you have world class players in positions guess what? You're going to have a drop off when those players are missing.

 

It's always the same with these people, "We're not asking for £80m players, we just want decent back ups." Then when the back up plays, he aint good enough and "we want someone for £30m instead," blah, blah, fucking blah.

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

Allison must have been watching the pens being taken on a stream.

[Section_31]

I'd like to not be arsed about this but I'm worried we're gonna be too predictable if we don't get some different attacking options in the squad.

[clockspeed]

1 minute ago, BeefStroganoff said:

Well it just confirms to me that this team still needs work. Theres no way we are retaining the title with this same team.

 

Williams is not ready, Brewster will go out on loan, Firmino needs a serious kick up the arse and we need a plan b against low block teams with fast forwards.

Bobby has no competition simple as we need to wait a while once again to find form 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Would have preferred to win it. But, it's not a huge miss not to. Some good signs. Minamino looked decent. Mané's still boss. As is Robertson. And Gomez had a good game too. We created chances and got more competitive minutes in the legs. 

 

Negatives were Williams still looking a bit raw. And Keita was relatively poor when he came on. He tried to be a bit more progressive with the ball than the rest of the midfield, but he gave it away a fair bit. We can't really knock a Champions League and domestic league winning midfield, but I still think we need someone with a bit more creativity, as an option. 

 

 

[an tha]

Not arsed about losing that shoot out.

 

But definitely arsed about our squad depth - Fabinho having to play centre half....No proper cover for front 3, we can't run them into the ground again this season.

 

Those things need fixing minimum.

 

It seems wrong to me we seem to not be interested in doing so.

[Wicket]

Kissing the charity shield, wtf?!

[BeefStroganoff]

2 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

Didnt see most of the 2nd half, went out for a run.

 

Achterburg excelled himself on coaching the keeper on arsenal's penalty takers.

 

This isnt on the Walk of Champions for a reason.

 

Usual suspects going on about Williams and a 'drop off' from Trent. Yeah, when you have world class players in positions guess what? You're going to have a drop off when those players are missing.

 

It's always the same with these people, "We're not asking for £80m players, we just want decent back ups." Then when the back up plays, he aint good enough and "we want someone for £30m instead," blah, blah, fucking blah.

Yeah we just can't do any better than the 11 we have. How did you survive the 70s and 80s?

[Stickman]

Proper scraping the barrel from the Beeb....I’m sure one of the girls in the ticket office also left City for Arsenal as well 

 

@BBCSport

For the second year in a row Liverpool lose the Community Shield on penalties to Mikel Arteta (he was Manchester City assistant last year).

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Means fuck all. Glorified friendly these days. Move on.

[Jordy Brouwer]

Disappointed to be honest. Was really looking forward to that but it was a bag of arse. 

 

The best thing by far was our goal (of course) but not just because we scored - because we passed it through them, 90s Arsenal style. 

 

I really hope Tak and Keita get some games so that can happen a bit more. 

 

Speaking of Keita I'm a fan of his but he needs to cut some of that wierd shit in our own half out. Right out!

 

[dockers_strike]

1 minute ago, BeefStroganoff said:

Yeah we just can't do any better than the 11 we have. How did you survive the 70s and 80s?

Clearly better than you did.