Arsenal - Carling Cup

[Baldi]

Wiley was in homer mode tonight fat cunt, other than that we were on a hiding to nothing because listening to the commentary you would have thought Arsenal were playing little wittle 10 year olds against our best crack euro side. I hate the medias love in with Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs, Everton, Man U and citeh....why do the hate Rafa and us so much.

[Johnni]

I almost jizzed myself when Aquilani made that pass to Degen, kinda missed not seeing more of that from deep in midfield this season.

[Original202]

Thank god we dont need to bother with this mikey mouse cup until next season.

 

We're in no position to be blase about the carling cup seeing as we haven't won anything since 2006 - coming up to 4 fucking years.

[Anubis]

I was impressed with Aquilani's cameo. Some nice pass and movement, a good overhead effort, and, what surprised me, the chasing and tackling back. Let's hope we can get him the game time he needs in the reserves.

[Carlos Durninio]

No complaints about the performance, we played really well tonight, just a frustrating lack of quality up front. Kuyt is a great lad but he's just a workhorse, and the sooner that shithouse Babel fucks off the better. Someone should give him a baseball cap and mic and we see some enthusiasm.

 

The officials were shocking too.

[Crazyhorse7778]

Good save from Senderos at the end there.

[loadsoftrophies]

Could of won that, Voronin actually had a good second half as shocked as i am. Skrtel had a poor night and i'm not liking his form. Babel can fuck off.

[Cardie]

We're in no position to be blase about the carling cup seeing as we haven't won anything since 2006 - coming up to 4 fucking years.

 

The Carling Cup only ever matters to supporters when we go out, before a ball is kicked it's 5th priority, nobody cares, play the kids, don't risk Torres, it's the league that counts.

[TheBitch]

This is how I sum up the game.

 

Plessis is not fit to wear the Liverpool shirt.

Babel is not fit to wear the Liverpool shirt.

Degen is a terrible defender.

Voronin worked hard and surprised me with his constant pressuring and harrying.

Good to see 'Il Principino' get minutes on the pitch.

[Dirty Parry]

We're in no position to be blase about the carling cup seeing as we haven't won anything since 2006 - coming up to 4 fucking years.

 

makes you wonder why rafa put that team selection out then doesnt it.

[Delmar]

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[Chocoholic]

It's 'Il Principino'

[loadsoftrophies]

Have to agree with Plessis, i remember him passing the ball forward once, Spearing is twice the player.

[Guest Dog Chaser]

Reasonable performance by the team, thought N'Gog did well again despite being taken off. Great goal by Insua.

 

What winds me up is the commentators going on and on about Arsenal's youngsters. Also how lucky are the Arsenal players with bounces and clips that always seem to fall back into their path or one of their teamates.

[Delmar]

This game was lost in the midfield. Did we tackle once? There's a need for a 4th CM, at the moment we don't have one. We were watching the ball, letting Arsenal play. Someone should at least kick somebody...

 

Aquilani was good the little he played, Degen surprising, Insua played well, CM pair was abysmal, Ngog fine, but seems to have stamina for 60-70 minutes. That was that game.

[TheBitch]

It's 'Il Principino'

 

My bad.

[darnells]

Quite surprised about the views in here, i thought we were unlucky in the second we were the better team and had good chances. To be fair to Voronin he improved as the game went on, Degen did well in supporting the attack, NGOG was impressive, Plessis was solid, Spearing did well. People should be happy i thought we were unlucky not to score in the second half. I was impressed with the team, Skrtel is still not good enough for me. The greek did alright.

[Mickey C]

Didn't think we were too bad. Babel needs to be shot though, the shithouse

[Manny]

Good enough performance against an Arsenal side similar in strength to the side we put out. If we'd put in the same kind of application against Tottenham last season we wouldn't have been so shockingly embarrassed.

 

Spearing had a decent game, Plessis was pedestrian. Aquilani looked very tidy when he came on. It's difficult to judge this game til we get a bit of context. If we continue to kick on, then we'll forget it soon enough. If we don't win anything this season, there'll be further question marks over this one. Tonight though, I'm happy enough.

[Dirty Parry]

This is how I sum up the game.

 

Plessis is not fit to wear the Liverpool shirt.

Babel is not fit to wear the Liverpool shirt.

Degen is a terrible defender.

Voronin worked hard and surprised me with his constant pressuring and harrying.

Good to see 'Il Principal' get minutes on the pitch.

 

parliano italiano? no.

[Troubadour]

Arsenal's reserves (not youth team, reserves) are better than ours, are they? Gutted.

 

On the other hand, Aquilani seemed to do pretty well in the last 15. One really good pass, a couple of neat ideas, one or two that didn't come off and covered a fair bit of ground. Looks like he'll be pretty good when he's fit. Good of Rafa to give Eccleston a bit of time, too.

 

All in all, hard to get too worked up about it. From what I saw, looked a decent game, we gave as good as we got and could have equalised a couple of times. I even saw Philipp Degen! I thought he was a myth, like the Candyman. Turns out he's just a shit right back. Would have liked a run in the league cup, but to be honest it's no surprise we went out to Arsenal away. I'd kind of given up on it before kick off.

[Carlos Durninio]

This game was lost in the midfield.

 

No it wasn't. It was lost when Bender walked past Skrtel to score. Other than that the game was finely balanced in all areas.

 

Any chance for a dig at Spearing, though, in this ridiculous pissing contest over he and Lucas.

[Original202]

The Carling Cup only ever matters to supporters when we go out, before a ball is kicked it's 5th priority, nobody cares, play the kids, don't risk Torres, it's the league that counts.

 

It might be in some people's case, but not mine.

 

Of course it's not the main priority, but our rivals don't seem to do too badly out of it.

[BENIRL]

We were better than them for much of the game. If we had of won that we would of had to apologise.

 

The Arsenal wankathon goes on.

[Woo]

On the whole, a good spirited performance from most of the side. Everyone bar Voronin and Plessis showed a bit of effort and desire. Gutted to be out, but can't complain on the whole from the effort the lads put in tonight. Should've had a penalty at the end when Senderos handballed TWICE from Aquilani's overhead kick. Nice to see Alberto get a cameo, and he looked impressive. Thought Spearing and N'Gog did really well out of those who started, and it's nice to see the pair of them being rewarded with starts after impressing this season for the ressies.

 

Bring on Fulham!