Arsenal (H) League Cup - 1/10/20 - 19:45

[an tha]

The argument about fixture congestion and how it is right to rest players in this of course holds water....irony is though most of our best players will be asked to play 3 pointless international games in a week next week.

 

 

 

[MOGLET]

1 minute ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

As another song says...

Don't worry be happy
Was a number one jam
Damn if I say it you can slap me right here

 

The league is ours, so we can afford to look around and see what else we can win.  This trophy should be ours.  It was good enough for Bob, Joe, Roy, Ged & Kenny, so it's good enough for me.

Im with you, but, to be honest, when has the league cup been a massive draw?

I agree we should be in for everything, but the way the world goes, its all about the league and europe.

I would love us to win all the cups going, but, and its a big but, the way the game is these days, no team can put a team out to win everything any more. the days of treble/quadruple winners are sadly gone.

I wish we could but we cant, nobody can.

It doesnt mean im happy we are out of it, im just looking at it that we dont have yet another game to play that puts the team under more pressure.

anyway, onto the next......

[Redder Lurtz]

13 minutes ago, Josef Svejk said:

He's not Premier League standard.

He's barely championship standard on that performance. Sell him to fulham. 

[El Rojo]

I always liked Shaqiri before ever he joined us. Got some brilliant goals but clearly not fancied by Jürgen. He’s probably not an ideal fit for us in terms of our pressing game. 
 

That Jota chance where he chested a pass into him past the defender before Leno saved was pure Fowler/Suarez. He’ll be a joy to watch. 

[The Golden Eel]

1 minute ago, Jedd Drudge said:

That explains the kids v everton (yes we won) and the kids v Villa, we got twatted. 

He had no choice to pick that team v Villa though, that was during the World Club Cup

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 minute ago, Jedd Drudge said:

That explains the kids v everton (yes we won) and the kids v Villa, we got twatted. 

I don't know if anybody mentioned this to you, but we were in Qatar last December for the World Club Championship.

 

I'm surprised you missed it, to be honest.

[Anubis]

I don’t get why people think we’d have won with the Weeble. We created enough good chances to win the game twice over. Minamino, Grujic, Van Dijk and Jota could and should have scored. 
 

Arteta’s entire game plan is to ‘hang in there’ and hope his keeper has a worldie and he gets a break. He’s George Graham with plastic hair.

[Redder Lurtz]

8 minutes ago, Manny said:

I fucking hate Arsenal, and their seemingly bottomless vault of jam that they have when they play us these days.

 

Fuck off Legohead.

Apart from the kicking we gave them three days ago?

[DalyanPete]

1 minute ago, dockers_strike said:

The manager prioritises the competitions. Ive no doubt Jurgen picked a team he thought capable of winning.

I stopped going to those games when we decided we didn't give a fuck as personally I did and had some great weekends away winning it.

But I get the bigger picture

[Davelfc]

1 minute ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

I don't know if anybody mentioned this to you, but we were in Qatar last December for the World Club Championship.

 

I'm surprised you missed it, to be honest.

Fair point, I'd forgotten. My actual point is that no fans lost cash tonight and wouldn't have done had we progressed and a fixture pile cup caused a similar situation. 

 

I actually get the point of why Klopp does it and I am not giving him shit. Just the fans and the cash thing. 

[dockers_strike]

1 minute ago, Jedd Drudge said:

That explains the kids v everton (yes we won) and the kids v Villa, we got twatted. 

You seriously suggesting Klopp wanted to lose those games and tonight? Oh yeah, and we won the title for the first time in 30 fucking years. It's laughable people are complaining about being knocked out of the tie tonight.

 

I guess he could have played the same team that played arsenal on Monday so the players are well fucked for Villa on Sunday as an after thought though.

[TheDrowningMan]

2 minutes ago, Jedd Drudge said:

That explains the kids v everton (yes we won) and the kids v Villa, we got twatted. 

 

 

There was a massive difference between the FA Cup team and the one that played Villa (and which was, of course, the only team available to play Villa).

[Stickman]

3 minutes ago, Jedd Drudge said:

That explains the kids v everton (yes we won) and the kids v Villa, we got twatted. 

 

 

[FrenchEyeGlass]

3 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

I thought the blunting of our attack when Origi replaced Salah probably said as much about how important Salah was as it did about how poopy Origi was.

 

Agreed. You'd think it'd be easy for Origi to have more of an impact than Salah who was contributing the square root of fuck all but somehow he managed to be even less impressive.

 

The thing about Mo in them kinds of games is that he needs to be way more disruptive. In normal games he relies upon our general structure and control of a game and looks to hang on the defensive line to get in behind. That was never going to happen today because we didn't have our fullbacks or midfielders to retain possession like we normally do.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 minutes ago, MOGLET said:

 

I would love us to win all the cups going, but, and its a big but, the way the game is these days, no team can put a team out to win everything any more. the days of treble/quadruple winners are sadly gone.

I wish we could but we cant, nobody can.

 

City won the domestic treble two years ago.

[Davelfc]

1 minute ago, Stickman said:

When did we win that?

[cloggypop]

48 minutes ago, diamondjoe said:

I wonder what product Arteta uses in his hair. It's very black and shiny 

[Pidge]

Just now, AngryofTuebrook said:

City won the domestic treble two years ago.

How'd they do in Europe?

[DalyanPete]

10 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

As another song says...

Don't worry be happy
Was a number one jam
Damn if I say it you can slap me right here

 

The league is ours, so we can afford to look around and see what else we can win.  This trophy should be ours.  It was good enough for Bob, Joe, Roy, Ged & Kenny, so it's good enough for me.

Fazfuckinactly

[dockers_strike]

1 minute ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

City won the domestic treble two years ago.

Yeah and missed out on the CL. Again.

[Anubis]

Thought Neco was very good tonight. First few minutes aside he neutralised their one out in Pepe. Great response from him to all the dickheads giving him shit.

[Davelfc]

You all know that had we progressed tonight then we were at some point going to have to throw a load of kids out as the fixtures piled up. At least in that case no fans would be paying for it. Is my point. 

 

I'd have rather Klopp hadn't played any of the first team tonight. 

 

 

[The Golden Eel]

City had a ridiculously easy run in that FA Cup win, didn't they? 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 minutes ago, FrenchEyeGlass said:

 

Agreed. You'd think it'd be easy for Origi to have more of an impact than Salah who was contributing the square root of fuck all but somehow he managed to be even less impressive.

 

The thing about Mo in them kinds of games is that he needs to be way more disruptive. In normal games he relies upon our general structure and control of a game and looks to hang on the defensive line to get in behind. That was never going to happen today because we didn't have our fullbacks or midfielders to retain possession like we normally do.

I think it was probably one of those games where the fans at the ground get a different view to the telly audience.  Minamino and Jota got a lot more joy with Salah on the pitch than when he wasn't there; that's probably because he was doing stuff to defenders that the cameras weren't following.

[The Golden Eel]

Just now, The Golden Eel said:

City had a ridiculously easy run in that FA Cup win, didn't they? 

Just checked:

 

Home to Rotherham

Home to Burnley

Away to Newport

Away to Swansea

Brighton in the semi

Watford in the final