Arsenal (A) - FA Cup 3rd Rnd, Sun 7th Jan 2024 (4:30pm)

[Bjornebye]

20 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Wenger who in 18 years of qualifying never once was in danger of actually winning the European cup. 

 

I think they had the final in the bag until Barca brought Larsson on. 

[Lee909]

1 minute ago, Captain Willard said:

Yes but I still think it’s an overreaction 

 

Agreed

Though I think there issues are all on legohead trying to be clever. He's gone full Pep trying to change things and show how good tactically he is. He had a good balance with Xhaka,Partly and Odegaard but decided that he wanted a more attacking threat and bought a shit failed striker Havertz to play in midfield instead. Rice was a upgrade though he is far better playing in a 2, he's to slow to play as a lone 6 in big games imo. He's left them overexposed on the break and with little balance. They're like a latter day Wenger team, all nice touches and possession between the halfway line and box then a little toothless at times. Instead of missing 100ml up the wall on Raya and Havertz he could have bought a upgrade on xhaka/Partey and striker they'd look better

[Paulie Dangerously]

Just hear to say Arteta is a crybaby and dyes his hair. 

[Jordy Brouwer]

On Arsenal Fan TV they are talking about a fullblown "crisis". Its bizarre. 

[Chocoholic]

22 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

 

He was 15 minutes from beating Barcelona to be fair. It was a shit final and the Arsenal goal came from a Eboue dive and happily Tory blert Sol Campbell didn't get to score a winner

 

Fixed. to be fair, you were only one letter out.

[Reckoner]

27 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Wenger who in 18 years of qualifying never once was in danger of actually winning the European cup. 

Winning the European cup is easy though, Millwall making it to the FA Cup final is just as much of an achievement.

[Anubis]

Hey Caramac, you would t happen to have the gif of Ben White leaving the field after the final whistle, looking really miserable?

[Reckoner]

Just now, Anubis said:

Hey Caramac, you would t happen to have the gif of Ben White leaving the field after the final whistle, looking really miserable?

That’s so mean. How could you be so bitter, can’t you just enjoy the win? (I’d like to see it too, please).

[Barrington Womble]

50 minutes ago, TheDrowningMan said:

Thought it amusing that the BBC pundits were stressing how important it is that Arsenal sign players in January, as thought Arteta hasn’t lavished the best part of £700m on their squad in the space of four years.

And aren't they fucked on ffp, which is why they had to take Raya on loan?

[Pidge]

And somewhere down in Africa, Mo Salah is laughing his head off at Elneny's expense.

[Bobby Hundreds]

2 minutes ago, Reckoner said:

Winning the European cup is easy though, Millwall making it to the FA Cup final is just as much of an achievement.

Josemi has a European cup winners medal. 

[Reckoner]

4 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Josemi has a European cup winners medal. 

And he deserved it more than John Terry deserved his.

[Anubis]

Freeze framed it on iPlayer…

 

[Bob]

[Barrington Womble]

That was boss that. I didn't get the narrative about the chances they were creating. That through ball at the start was barely even a chance, then they had the big scramble after saka pinched it off Gomez and they should have scored there and a few long range shots. I don't remember them working Ali at all. Basically if they got the ball within 25 yards of goal, the commentators were claiming it to be a chance and they should score. They pressed us, but actually aside from one or two instances,.our problems were mostly because of our own poor play. 

 

We grew into the game I thought after about 30 mins. We did really miss VVD for his organisation, but we found a way to hold it together. Once we started giving them problems you could just see them mentally break down and I was expecting us to find the winner. 

 

And it's funny, if you'd offered me 3 points in the league and getting past Fulham, I'd have taken giving up that today. Until it happened. It was really gratifying. This team is showing some character, it's crazy to think how different it was just 12 months ago. 

 

Now to Fulham. Let's fuck this lot on Wednesday and get the tie as safe as we can. 

 

 

[Anubis]

Great work Bob. It’s going to take me ages to tire of watching it.

[an tha]

How it feels winning this today should IMHO make people who give it the 'i don't care about this' lark give their heads a wobble.

 

It always matters and we should always want to win and we should never play weakened teams against other top sides.

[Raymond Duck]

3 minutes ago, Bob said:

Forgot his false tan appointment, double whammy. 

[Chocoholic]

 

[Atticus Finch]

Please can we just draw someone shite at home in the next round….thanks 

[an tha]

3 minutes ago, Atticus Finch said:

Please can we just draw someone shite at home in the next round….thanks 

Mancs it is....

[Lee909]

21 minutes ago, Chocoholic said:

 

 

The genius came up with that a week after it was used to take the piss out the red mancs

[Lee909]

4th round draw prediction

 

Manchester City vs Maidstone

Manchester United vs Wrexham 

Everton vs Liverpool 

[Pete]

Arsenal should have watered the pitch better.

[Trojan1892]

This lad called it…… I can’t stand the nobhead either.

 

https://x.com/aftvrelated2/status/1744094918904053785?s=46&t=BtC0bvVDKv4XjaY-8HhvGQ