The Arsenal Society VIII

I'll answer by paragraph (just to keep this clear)

I was watching on the TV and saw several replays, I honestly don't think it was a penalty. It his Kompany almost under his arm, or right on his shoulder anyway, as he was turning away from the ball. He did have his arm stuck right out (horizontally), and if it hit that it would have been a penalty, but it didn't. No pen imo.


I don't think they were playing Tevez to hit you on the counter. If they were, they would have played pacy wingers to actually counter-attack. Imo their plan was to hold the ball up with Tevez. He did do really well at this, at the pub I was watching at everyone was amazed, you guys just couldn't tackle him at times, he was just turning one way and the other, playing simple passes...he was amazing I thought.


You guys played good attacking football, but - maybe slightly controversial here - you didn't actually have that many clear cut chances. I don't think you had a single one-on-one, for example, and Hart didn't have to make many great saves. He saved one from RVP from outside the box, probably the only 'great' save he made. Right near the start one of your players was sliding in on goal and the ball went in front of him - close, but he didn't put it in. You hit the woodwork three times - two of them Hart had covered, the other he was well beaten, fair enough. But although Arsenal had lots of possession they didn't actually have many clear-cut good chances, imo - you'd have to look at the stats for that, but I don't count shots from outside the box really as good chances (unless it's RVP or someone, which Hart saved well), you didn't have any one-on-ones or anything...

You guys dominated the game at times, especially in the first 20 minutes, but City played well as well, and they executed their plan more effectively than you executed yours. It was a great game to watch as a neutral

Think it shows citeh's attitude to the arse, they knew they couldn't win so went anti-football. Their fans were possibly the worst away fans I've seen at the emirates (blackpool fans were louder 5 goals down) but who can blame them having to watch that bs I guess..

Honest to God. Can these cunthammers not just leave our team alone

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11670_6638009,00.html

Honest to God. Can these cunthammers not just leave our team alone

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11670_6638009,00.html

Meh, its just rumours. Not really happening now tbh. Thiago will break into the first team soon enough.

They are currently scouring his family tree looking for a reason to pull out the ol' Barca DNA bull****

I knew you were gong to say that. I was tempted to say it myself tbh.

Although a Nasri, Iniesta, Xavi and Messi midfield would be ffs.

Fair enough, like I say, I've not had the benefit of replays, at the time it looked like it hit his arm rather than under it, but I can't argue otherwise.

still cant believe how we managed to draw this.

Good post mate, I agree with most of the stuff written there . I'm trying to find a video of the penalty appeal but I can't, you'd think this stuff would be available on youtube or whatever but I can't find it :/


I definitely get what you mean about it being difficult to create good chances when they just sit with 7 players in/around the box literally the whole game, and Milner and Jo getting back most of the time too

Not finishing your chances. Same old Arsenal.

I'd have shot you if you did

So sell us Xavi, Iniesta and Messi

I'm very much of the "well, we [Arsenal] played an attacking strategy and were unlucky to hit the post 3 times, but well done to City they defended well and Hart played well" opinion, as you put it, but I don't agree that Mancini executed his plan that well at all, let alone brilliantly. City got a point, in the end, due to a combination of poor officiating - we should have had a pen, and luck - we really should have and easily could have put some of our chances away. Also, Tevez didn't really have a single proper chance that I can think of, so the pump it long to him strategy failed as well. Had the result remained the same but they'd looked defensively solid, I'd be wholeheartedly agreeing that it was a good, if somewhat obvious gameplan, that had been executed well and we'd witnessed a defensive masterpiece, as it stands though, I'm sure City feel lucky to have come away with the result they did, and there's a reason for that.

Not finishing your chances. Same old Arsenal.

Its becoming better. At least hit the post, no?

And yes, Jo was a better choice than Adam Johnson. Johnson offers nothing defensively and is not good in the air. Jo was meant to be a threat from set pieces and to provide flick ons to Tevez (which I think he did once, but no more). That said, he didn't really work, and Jo was City's worst player by a mile. I still think he was a better choice than Johnson though...if City were attacking Johnson would obviously have been a better choice with his pace, crossing etc, but when they were just pumping it long to Tevez none of that was really applicable.