Arsenal and Everton played out a tense 1-1 draw at Goodison Park in a physical game which for all the end-to-end couldn’t produce a winning goal in an action-packed second half. Theo Walcott gave the visitors a superb start in the opening seconds before Marouane Fellaini equalised midway through the first period with a calmly taken effort from the edge of the box.
Often this season Arsenal have been accused of starting slowly, it wasn’t the case this evening as the Gunners raced out of the traps to open the scoring before the minute mark.
Theo Walcott gained possession on the halfway line, played a bundled one-two off the retreating Phil Jagielka, fed the ball to Aaron Ramsey (in for the ill Podolski) who slipped it back to the onrushing attacker before a cool, clipped finish nestled in the top corner. There was a slight deflection, but you could almost say it was Henry-esque from the moustachioed Walcott as he claimed his 9th goal in the last 11 games. (1-0)
The perfect start was dampened inside a minute when Laurent Koscielny overstretched, seemed to pull something, and had to be replaced by Kieran Gibbs although with Thomas Vermaelen able to slip into the middle the formation didn’t require unorthodox surgery.
Everton made full use of the flanks to spread play and whip balls into the Arsenal box and Fellaini, as expected, threw his weight around with both Mertesacker and former teammate Arteta hitting the turf. The home side had the better of much of the first 20 minutes without causing Szczesny too much sweat, but just as we looked to be coming back into it, Everton scored.
While it was unsurprising that Fellaini was the source of the goal, it was totally self-inflicted. Ramsey was initially lucky that a stray pass ended back with Szczesny but when Sagna’s hacked clearance flew across the edge of the box the Belgian pounced to curl an early shot low past the Pole. A great finish, but Wenger will know it was a sloppy way to concede. (1-1)
Buoyed by the goal, the Toffees continued to pressure and Nikica Jelavic, following another head on by Fellaini, nearly gave David Moyes’ side the lead only to sky his effort after bamboozling Mertesacker with lovely quick feet on the edge of the box. The game was fast-flowing and physical, Wilshere our standout player, but aside from a wayward effort by Cazorla we didn’t really come close to threatening again before the break.
We started the second period with a bit more bite, both Walcott and Ramsey, who’d interchanged wings in the first half, crossed dangerously but as was the case in the first half Giroud got little change from Jagielka and Diston. After that it was all the home team.
Baines and Jelavic were a constant threat down the Everton left as the game moved end-to-end. Gibbs was forced into a fine last ditch challenge, Steven Pienaar squirmed an effort goalwards which Szczesny had to save down low at the near post, then the Pole was forced to produce a terrific instinctive stop at close range following a Distin header.
Mikel Arteta, having a challenging game in the centre of the park, was also lucky not to concede a penalty during a period in which the ball appeared to have a magnetic attraction to our penalty box To say we were under the cosh is an understatement.
Giroud nearly grabbed a goal against the run of play with a decent header which flew over the bar before Cazorla flummoxed Howard with a slight deflection on a Ramsey pass. The Welshman and Spaniard also had further efforts as we came back into it a bit.
Gervinho came on for the last ten minutes in place of Ramsey and was inches from connecting with a Giroud cross with what would have been his first touch. On the other flank Walcott gallantly tried to stretch the play, Fellaini did likewise for the hosts, but it was very scrappy as fatigue set in and the clock ticked down.
Injury-time saw frantic scrambles in both penalty boxes but the final whistle confirmed a draw which both sides will probably feel was deserved.
If a point didn’t feel like a good result on Saturday, it certainly felt more satisfactory this evening. It was a battling performance from the boys, Vermaelen and Mertesacker in particular were excellent, and when you take into consideration Everton hadn’t lost in their previous ten games at home in the league it puts things in perspective a bit. The unbeaten run continues, we look a bit more solid at the back and it’s two home games in a row up next.
Not good enough.
And here come the “boo birds.”
Of course, 3 wins in 10 games is simply BRILLIANT result. How can we not see this? It couldn’t be better.
sorry if we aint all happy.
i guess we should all just take in and not expect to win
getting to draws lets all be happy.
3 wins in 10 games is something we should all be okay with…..
the club has gone down hill.
same fans are just blind if they think this is okay.
Plus a substititon into 3 minutes of added time is a clear indication that we are on top of things. Makes sense to me!
Okay put it into perspective a little. A draw away at Everton on a cold November night is a good result for any club. Yes some of our previous results this season have been infuriating, but lets wait until January before we start saying we’re all doomed. Le boss apparently has money in Jan to bolster the squad. We have 2 home games coming up which if go to plan will be 6 points. The others around us have tough games so they should drop some points. Forget about the title, forget about the Manchester clubs – they’re in another… Read more »
Point at Everton would be decent, but I think everyone, even the guests on last week’s arsecast expected at least 4 points form Villa + Everton games. We got two. While Everton are a team that is fairly decent, we should’ve won against Villa. And saying that in the next 2 games we should get 6 points if everything goes according to plan is pretty rich, considering that virtually nothing goes according to plan for us lately. And we won’t go for the cups, because Arsene is stubborn in his quest for the CL qualification spots above all else, meaning… Read more »
We have forgotten the league, don’t you worry.
As for the Manchester clubs, it’s only citeh who are in a different league. Pound for pound, we have a better team than manure, the difference is:
1. A winning mentality.
2. They add 1 or 2 of these ‘top, top, top’ players and all we do is talk about them.
If we ever, or even just once (pre invincibles) added that missing quality link, Manure would shit themselves, if you pardon the pun!…and we’d have a half decent chance of winning something the mighty Gooners so badly want.
@No hair – I completely agree with you buddy. For the last few seasons I always think we just need a few additions etc etc. We lost RVP, we’ll probably lose Theo. Call me naive or maybe stupid but this time around I feel a little bit more confident about the future of the club. With the new commercial deal the board and Wenger have no excuse not to spend. Wages seems to be the real problem for us and I think this will finally be achieved to keep and attract top talent. With that, results will (dare I say… Read more »
You forgot perhaps the most important thing, they also have squad depth. 4 attackers, 4 wingers, 4 decent central defenders, 2 pretty good goalkeepers, maybe not so much in the midfield area, but they make that up in other positions (e.g. they have “gamechangers” – players who make the difference and single handedly win the game even if they play bad). Whereas our squad depth is virtually non-existant (because if you’re relying on fitness of Diaby and Rosicky, some youngsters who don’t have 30 PL games between them and sub par players such as Djourou and Chamakh who don’t even… Read more »
@He’s got not hair but we don’t care…
Pound for pound we have a better team than United? AHHAHAHAHAHAH you must be having a fucking laugh. There’s a reason we are 7th and united are 1st, with 12 more points.
We are shit, we’ve played shit, and our squad lacks any depth beyond the first XI.
The worrying thing for me is we are already just another injury away from seeing the return of djourou, santos or dare i say it………squiddly-diddly. please let the kos be ok.
I’m telling you. All we get from arsenal players nowadays ” We’ve got the mental ability blah blah blah”. When it comes to going out there and performing? Fuck I wish they’d just be honest and say they don’t have a chance and that we’ve become a mid-table team. Vermaelen has become a woeful defender I have to say.
before all the inevitable whingeing takes place here is a lovely dose of perspective courtesy of a tweet published at the BBC website:
“As a fan I gave Rafa a chance to win me over and he did absolutely nothing. I’ll look out for the results but I’m not watching anymore Chelsea games until next season when he is gone. I’m disgusted by the club at the moment and especially Abramovich.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA at least we’re not fucking Chel$cum, hey
I don’t care for Chelsea at all!
Couldn’t care less what’s going on at Stamford bridge. I’m more worried about the direction of this team when we are going out playing for draws.
Seems like absolutely noone gives a Fuck out there. Even Wenger. Our first attacking substition at 80 minutes? Which means he was happy with the first 80? Give me a fucking break.
I’d rather be in their position than ours.
Seriously though, we shouldn’t focus on other clubs or their fans. We are the Arsenal, but right now we’re shit. I’m not going to whinge and name individuals but something needs to be fixed, and soon, or we’re going to slip further and further down the table. 4th place doesn’t look so bad now – that’s how bad we’re playing and the direction we seem to be going.
Yes, I think Rafa has had long enough to settle in :p They need to get ANOTHER manager!
Sorry mate…but some might say its better to put own house in order first before pointing out others…
Chelsea won the CL last season. They’re currently 5 points ahead of us in 3rd position. If you tell someone that Chelsea can turn things around with their current squad, I doubt they’d laugh in your face. So basically, I don’t give a rat’s ass about Chelsea right now. Arsenal is the only club I care about and right now they’re worrying me.
heh i see the point flew a milion miles over the heads of those it was aimed at i’ll put it more simply if you are making a big noise about an away point at goodison park, like a self-absorbed idiot who thinks that the world revolves around your opininion, then you are just like the moron chelsea fan. that’s my point, not that i give a flying shit about chelsea but do carry on moaning and i look forward to seeing the dozen or so who have courage beyond the keyboard to make fools of themselves *in real life*… Read more »
So, our next game is against Swansea. Is it a 9 pointer game?
It’s a must win, simple as.
p/s someone shoot ron palmer in the face!
lol its a must win ?
all our games are must wins
oh unless this days getting a draw away to everton or aston villa. is a good result;.
Well it was same with Villa last week and today against Everton. Different games, but still – drawing sucks. Had high hopes for this team, still have, but these results are painful.
COYG.
Ive been out of college for 2 years…premier league math confuses me
Wilshere just came back and has completely stolen cazorlas thunder. Nothing worked for caz today, robbed of possesion countless times, failed turns, misplaced passes etc. okay on to ramsey now, ah no need.
I would have taken a point from this anyday but considering we drew with villa all these seems fucked up. Coyg still!
Wilshere was jogging the last 15 mins of the game.
Looked to me like we lost every 50/50 chance to get the ball.
Feel bad for Giroud , really seem to be trying,
No improvement rom the previous weeks, nothing much to add except maybe a lot of moustaches on display.
nothing work for any of our players not just carzola.
carzola looks tired tho, his played in every game he needs to rest
but ofc at our rich club we have no back up for him.
We have Arsharvin. A player, other coaches feel is good enough to play CAM and be captain for unheard of minnows Zenit and RUSSIA. Wenger’s refusal to play AA as CAM when Caz is clearly out of juice is beyond me (was he dropped or ill today?)
And rosicky. Don’t forget rosicky.
Please check your facts arshavin plays LAM for russia and he also did at zenit. did u not watch any of the euros he played on the left of a front 3 or the left of a secondary 3 behind the striker. All this wenger plays him out of position is a myth. Even when he played for zenit when they won the uefa cup he was out wide. That is his game coming inside or at least that was his game. his game now is sitting on his lard waiting for his £90k a week contract to run down… Read more »
I feel Wenger’s approach to positional assignments for his players has always been to decide very early on and not waver too much from the plan. Which is why I am sure Theo (if he stays) will eventually play a CF/ST, as Wenger intended him to, Arshavin will continue to play on the flank, and Cazorla will play the CAM role every ‘important’ (league and CL) until his other two CAMs (Diaby and Rosicky) are fit for rotation. He does have his young utility players in Jack, Ramsey and Coq who he feels more comfortable moving around.
The biggest concern with Cazorla is that he looks out of sync and simply worn out. Every opponent who plays us seems to have learned and understood how to nullify him on the pitch, and he simply has played too many games without proper rest. Along with the timing of substitution, a situation like this is where Wenger’s in-game management gets questioned. His stubbornness is the greatest source of his success but also the greatest enemy. What is up with the passing overall? I possibly cannot fathom how terrible and unnatural our passing has become. In certain situations, especially near… Read more »
Not a bad result, its the Villa result that stings.
Decent result in a vacuum. Bad result when considering the rest of the season. The problem with the current Arsenal lies in the expectations. The board, the manager, the players , and the fans all expect Arsenal to be a title challenging team. These expectations haven’t been met for some time yet the board, the manager, and the players still insist each and every year that Arsenal can realistically challenge for the title. The fans will always feel hard done when every year we hear how we can challenge for the title but end up falling flat. There seems to… Read more »
Amen
We should have won at villa damnit.
Santi played really badly today. Why was Podlski not on the bench?
Poldi was ill
We Sucked…. against Everton! 🙁
oh what have we come to 🙁
Everton are a good team…
A team we used to beat and can’t beat anymore, what would it take for you guys to wake up from your dreams.
If we had beaten Villa, this would be acceptable. But we didn’t. and then we had to deal with our managers arrogance with the “ I have been in the game for 30 years” bullshit. Saying it like it means his mistakes can’t be questioned. Fucking sick of it. We don’t even play good football anymore, not just jumping on the bandwagon but Ramsey would not even make the bench of any other top team. And the fact that he keeps making the same mistakes again and again makes me thing Wenger is doing nothing about it on the training… Read more »
oh the whingeing!
not a bad result at all. chelsea are in freefall, it’s the manchester teams we have to worry about. villa may have been a one-off, given the 3 matches in 7 days or whatever.
Not a bad result? It wouldn t be if we won more games then we did!
maybe I am Whingeing. I am only doing so because I don’t like arrogance. up to 1 or 2 weeks ago I was fully supportive of Wenger. but to see a manager use his experience and past success in the game as a defence for mistakes is just fucked up. It shows that he thinks he can get away with anything just because he was a fantastic manager in the past. and that is unacceptable because i love this club and it comes first. not Wenger and his ego
Don’t worry Aussie Gooner, we would beat the Swan next week by one odd goal and all the happy meal kids will be back to tell us about the great man again. I have been saying the man is finished for the last 3 years. Has been, stuck in the past but some wouldn’t let go as they think there will be no more Arsenal after him. Some happy kids even claimed he is an Arsenal fan and not doing it for the money while he is the highest paid manager and his world class players the lowest paid players.… Read more »
To Cygan’s magical LF:
If u really think Arsene’s the problem, then I’m sorry you have no clue.
I accept its his team & frankly his team isn’t good enough.
But when he leaves, that’s when you’ll realise how privileged we were to have him!
Mate I’m with you. I was up at 530am watching this Shit and at the end of it I’m sitting there going why the Fuck do I bother. 2 points from villa and Everton, not to mention ALL the teams above us dropped points this week.
Same old arsenal. Same old Wenger. Same fucking excuses
I have been up all night, havn’t gone to sleep yet so I make sure I don’t sleep in and miss the game. thats how excited i was to watch the Arsenal play. and then I watch this shit where half the players don’t even seem bothered that they can’t win.
Same here from China. Up at 330am to watch that game. I support this team 100% , but so far I have been 100% disappointed. It really looks like Arsene has lost it, his tactics this season have been very poor and player management is at all time low ( getting harder and harder to have players commit to the club – VP, Walcott, Sagna and now there are even talks about Wilshere … wtf! ) It’s just not about the draw at Aston Villa or the draw tonight, it’s about Arsenal not being able to win against teams like… Read more »
If we hadn’t drawn at villa I would hav thought this would have been an alright result. We are seriously under pressure now, two homes games in a row now we cannot afford anything under 6 points
Our woljiech, our szcaviour.
I hate to criticize Scz but how many times is he going to get beaten by a strike like that?
Gibbs’s return has added that stability back in our side! But our attack has become slow and shit, not our forwards but the build up play. This point would of been amazing if we had gotten all 3 at Villa, but we are lacking a new buzz in the team and it is really sad to see in an Arsenal team. Maybe a flair like player needed with midfield abilities ?
rosicky!!!
First piece of text I wanted to comment on, because you are dead on. Our BUILD-UP is very lacking, and I know I will get thumbed-down to death, but the reason can be part traced back to a player everyone likes, even myself, and if we would stop trying to build our attack from him, we would be faster… the BFG. Great defender, but slow, slow, slow in getting us going. I see it way too often: Arteta runs into trouble or pressure, turns, passes to BFG, who passes to Sagna/Jenks to relieve the quick pressure, who in-turn passes back… Read more »
Absolutely. I too have the same feeling. The BFG is really slow when it comes to initiating raids. If I can, I ll give two thumbs up to your comment. Our attacks are astonishingly slow. Frankly. the last 2 games, with Gibbs & Chezzers returning, I am relaxed about our defence. It’s the offence that I am worried about.
I agree about the build up play and that the problem is a player we all love, but I think it’s a different player (and I will actually get the thumbs down for it) — Arteta. He’s asways passing it back to Mert. But it’s the whole team’s fault — they are too scared of loosing possession to play with any speed. Look at how Man United just confidently run or pass the ball through midfield without even having very good midfielders, and then look at us with excellent midfielders stuck on the halfway line. But the middle three also… Read more »
Completely agree on the build-up play and the team’s inability to adapt to teams pressing Arteta. It seems that the only answer Arsenal has to Arteta being pressed high up the pitch is to pass it backwards. I don’t necessarily think that’s a knock on BFG but the system itself. It works wonders against teams that allow a perfect storm of lax pressing and not committing 8-9 behind the ball. Now that teams know to press Arteta and keep players back, I haven’t seen a solid offensive performance in a few weeks aside from Tottenham (but that falls into the… Read more »
If Walcott leaves in January…we can say goodbye to Top 4. But hey, we’ll make a nice tidy profit from it
oh shut up.
let me guess before the start of the seasion
you was saying theo was the most over rated worst player in the league
now theo is the best player in our team.
Yeah before the season I wasn’t as bothered as Gervinho had had a sparkling pre season and I was hoping the Ox would kick on from his debut season, didn’t happen and Theo’s been the best player in this team by a country mile, when we don’t play Theo Giroud gets isolated and we don’t play as well
From the multiple thumbs down, Im guessing some people still can’t accept reality & chose to live in denial!!!
letting Theo leave on a free instead of giving him £300k a week(for example) is bad business, makes more sense to give him what he wants now
& sell him to City/Chelsea or whoever wants him in the summer for £10M
If we keep up at this rate, we should atleast get 38 points guarantee safety…. But in all seriousness what has Happened to our arsenal. This team, the way they are playing, the constant turn overs, the lack of creativity, its fucking appalling. Since when have arsenal been the team happy to sit back with ten men crowding the box hoping for a draw…. I’ve seen crayons that draw less than this team. I really hope Wenger is smart enough to realise something needs to be done about this team In January. But if were out of the champs league… Read more »
Yes, wenger will bring in Henry
I’d happily take henry starting on the left wingtn ramRamsey
negatives – sagna’s crossing is woeful, wilshere can really do with some long range attempts, cazorla could not weave his magic, gervinho is well gervinho. Baffles me why the boss has more faith in him than the Ox..
positives – vermaelen, gibbs immense, wilshere, ramsey and arteta had tidy games, walcott looks our most likely attacking outlet, BFG bossing fellaini for the entire 2nd half..
A hard earned point away but then, I would’ve loved early and decisive substitutions by the boss..
At least Szczesny had a great game. A keeper like that who can win us games. Unfortunately we have no one to convert in the other end at the moment..
Right. Woj is way better than Vito. If only he was not injuried….we would have win more games ..
Yeah Ramsey played GREAT! If it wasn’t him we would loose heavily!
What does loose mean?
main attacking negative:
giroud plays with his back to goal.
slows all of the team down and gives carzola no movment to play a though ball to him.
He’s a holding Forward – supposed to play with back to goal. The attacking mid-fielder is supposed to benefit from him playing like that in close-quarters play (lay-offs, flick-ons, etc…). When play is not wide-open and not close-quarters, he makes the diagonal runs as he is supposed to (drawing defenders, creating space or running to space). When play is wide open, you see he clears the lanes for thru-balls, but we tend to start our attack too slow (or it’s gets held up halfway into the start of it), so the lanes close up real fast. This team has a… Read more »
Wouldn’t mind half Chelsea’s recent trophy haul though but hey fans not allowed to whinge any more so ill just sit here quietly and console myself with the knowledge that 4th (if we make it) is like a trophy.
uhmmm.. then go support the chavs? no one’s holding a gun to your head. unless they are, in which case moan away.
cannot count how many crosses were hit by Theo and Sagna directly to an Everton player… cant even clear the first defender…
its 3.30 am here in India and my sleep is Fucked.
If walcott leaves this team is screwed
this team is already screwed
aint you notcied that over the past 13 games.
Mertesacker what a BEAST
Yes- an awesome defending beast, BUT – should never be used as our back-line point man to start our attacking build-up.
WENGER OUT
Your name says it all
what a team we got!
Can we all just agree that today was Ramsey’s worst game in an Arsenal shirt? He was dispossessed after dawdling on the ball in our own box, another time to force a yellow card from Gibbs, and again in the buildup to the goal… all in the first 25 minutes. Didn’t improve much from there, either–he wants far more time on the ball than he has, and often holds it with his head down until it’s taken from him.
He needs a loan. Playing him out of position on the wings is not helping him or the team.
No it wasn’t worst. He won a corner and had a few passes. Dnt be so negative! He’s our future, He’s GREAT. but not for Arsenal.
In all seriousness someone gives us the stats on Ramsey. I cannot remember the last time he started in which we got the 3 points, west ham?? And before that? Manchester united 0- arsenal 1 2010? We have fucking 3 proper wingers on the bench Wenger. Stop trying to turn him into something he’s not.
he got a fuckin assist. was miles better than Santi today. and wasn’t the only one to misplace passes, esp. at the back in the first half. i’m not his avid supporter, but don’t make him a scapegoat again.
today was alright, we fucked up the game before that.
I honestly thought Ramsey was our second or third best player…Giroud did nothing except cross for from some floating forehead that’s not very good at floating, Walcott did little other than score, Mert was a beast as usual. Santi was terrible today, he really needs a rest. I don’t think Arteta was all that great either but to be fair on him it was pretty much him vs Fellaini and hes quite the powerful driving midfielder!
Probably Santi’s worst game for the club as well, but even as an attacking player, it’s difficult to be “miles worse” than someone who gifted two big chances and a yellow to a defender by dawdling on the ball. Besides, it’s not really productive to argue which player was better or worse when both played badly. If you want to make comparisons I would say this. We have seen much better, recently, from Cazorla. Ramsey, on the other hand, keeps making the same errors time and again, shows no signs of speeding up his decision making, and this cripples our… Read more »
i don’t know how can you compare Ramsey to Santi on the long run. the latter is playing week in, week out, is being played in his position, the team is often based around him, and he’s already an established player. compare Ramsey to Chambo. based on this season (and not the last), i’d go for Rambo.
Really poor performance although a point’s not a disaster at Goodison.I can’t remember us passing the ball worse than tonight,even Santi was struggling.
Lucky the ref was crap as well,Everton should definitely of had a penalty-mind you,they should’ve got about 25 yellow cards as well,swings & roundabouts I guess!!
you forgot the montpellier game. that game was 1000 times slower than this. still we managed to give the ball away.
this game was fast and naturally error prone.
Not a bad result against a good everton side.
I know I’m going to get thumbed down for this but… Ramsey needs to sort himself out. He was disposessed countless times. I have always defended him but I don’t know anymore.
Anyway, bring on the next game
(and the next pint)
we put on an effort to win. but this was against everton at their turf. remember MANUre lost here. we drew. draw is a fair result here.
yeah mate, but Man U managed to beat Aston villa after beating 2-0 down. thats the difference. their players give a shit, ours don’t
there. who changed the game? their striker-cum-impact sub. they fucking have 4 international striker. same with chelski and shitty. we fucking have one (maybe two but not four). the depth is a real problem.
Vermaelen played well today….hopefully back to the form we need him in. Need to really start to pick up points before the city game in the new year! We have a good chance with the fixtures coming up but the team is so inconsistent I’m not that confident.
Really hope we keep Sagna though! Love the guy….Gives 100% all the time is just SOLID
Self inflicted goal……yet again.Need to tighten up at the back still. Confident that we will be in top 4 by season end.It will all click together soon.
the goal wasnt becouse we was bad at the back..
they scored coz we lost the ball in midfiled more then once.
first it was ramsey, then sagna
thats how they created the goal…
our defending was good considering everton has a good attack.
Dead – on correct.
and Fuck Gervinho…
Pffffff. W5, D6, L3 tells you this team is pretty average. Can’t even be bothered to comment further. I’m going to bed.
Ramsey was anything but ‘tidy’. I’m not getting on the Ramsey hating bandwagon, but I am being honest.
He was not tidy. He gave the ball away a lot and slowed the attack down. At one point jack broke from our box, drove forward and fed Ramsey. Ramsey hesitated until the counter attack was off, then gave the ball away. He’s too casual.
5 wins out of 14. Enough said.
At least in previous seasons we didn’t have any trouble going forward, this season we look toothless as hell and our passing is so predictable and slow. None of the attacking flair from previous seasons were to be seen.
Whats even more worrying? Oh right, our only goalscorer in the game has 7 months left on his contract!
Sort it out Wenger. This season is quickly getting all the recipes to become a disaster.
why does Wenger leave his substitutions so late in the game? 15 minutes is not enough to make an impact. I don’t know what’s going on with the players or what tactics Wenger was trying to use but I still have the right to question such decisions that on the face of it are baffling… I can’t be the only one thinking this, right?
you can’t question him mate. remember he has been at the top level management for 30 years so he is allowed to do what he wants and no one can question it
He didn’t say no one can ‘question’ his decisions in the way you imply – he said you will judge his performance. He also said that he’s not going to explain every single one of his decisions as if he’s some up and comer with something to prove to the expert panel of fucking antagonistic journalists with their condescending shit about ‘the arsenal fans deserve to know’. Wenger is quite evidently a very smart man and is generally considered as one of the best managers in the world. He makes mistakes, but he has reasons for his decisions and he… Read more »
Better than at Villa and about what you would expect from a strong everton side. Baines was outstanding. Would not be a bad result if we were not in trouble. The problem is not failing to beat Everton away, it’s failing to beat Sunderland, Stoke, Villa, Fulham, Norwich, ect… Walcott pretty much disapeared after his goal, Giroud had a poor game, Ramsey got caught far to often. The team needs Rosicky and/or Diaby plus backup winger/strikers. Ramsey should not be playing on the wing and there is no backup for Giroud. Unless we put on a run like last year… Read more »
That was a 4th place derby. This is where we belong. Already 12 points behind f…n rvp. We don’t have a bench at all, even a players like you-know-who are playing in the starting 11. Crazy how average we are.
We must be satisfied with a draw.
Stop stop criticizing Aaron Ramsey it’s not the Arsenal way :'( (!) at FT… Fuck Gervinho!!!
@ Alex. Why the fuck do we have to worry about the Manchester clubs. Do you seriously think we are in any way contenders.
Bet their jumping for joy with our draw up there. Before this game fergie must have been shitting himself with our surge up the league.
Oh can we still afford to sell walcot. We can’t but we will.
On nights like this I’m glad I play 6 aside footy at 8.30. Reading the objective analysis on Arseblog news sounds so much more appealing than watching the actual game on some dodgy stream.
Sounds like a point won which is kind of frustrating but hey ho, two home wins, as bit of precious momentum and up we look.
Uggh.
I feel if we sliced off fellainis hair then he’ll stop being so influential. I feel it blocks the players off the ball.
this team is poor
something is not right.
attacking looks very very poor
over the past games we have created what one or two chances.
we need a center foward whos making runs
olivier plays with his back to goal
slows all the team down.
and it dose not give likes or walcott, carzola to give him a though ball.
I’m sure they’ll be the usual excuses “we showed a lot of determination etc etc” but the players don’t seem to give a crap against lower teams (Villa) and the manager can’t seem to motivate them anymore. Our squad is threadbare, and I’d imagine they’ll be no January business either aside from the cheap Henry move papering over cracks, will it take us falling out of the top 4 for things to change? Quite possibly, but I don’t want us to take that risk, most likely we’ll crawl home in 4th because the teams below us are too shit and… Read more »
‘Jaded’
we can blame Ramsey as much as we want but the whole team(except one or two) was absolutely sh*t today regardless of where we played. just very hard to defend a performance like this.
I’d love to know when the rotational fouling tactic came into play. I’m sure there have always been tough tackling teams, but now the likes of Stoke, United, Everton etc foul our players all the way through the game, get brought off when they get a yellow card, and the sub does the exact same thing. Frustrating…
Oh dear.
At least we got 3 points against Villa.
At least two of our first team players aren’t leaving in the summer.
At least we’re keeping up with the pack.
At least
At least the only fans who question the club’s direction are called “”
Fucking phone.
At least the sp *ds aren’t above us. Again.
Oh.
Even if we go buy the most expensive player there is, we will struggle.
The problem is & always has been Wenger’s lack of Plan B. For eg, we won a few games in the beginning because of Cazorla & Arteta’s partnership but the other teams have worked out that by closing them down Arsenal will struggle. Its the lack of tactics from Wenger that is hurting us the most.
Everton 1 – 0 Manchester City
Everton 2 – 0 Chelsea
Everton 1 – 0 Manchester United
Everton 1 – 0 Spurs
Everton 1 – 1 Arsenal
Get a fucking grip.
Villa 0 Man City 5
villa 2 man utd 3
Villa 0 Sp*ds 2
Villa 0 Liverpool 1
I’m sorry. I don’t get your point.
Different games, different opponents. I’m not denying Villa away was poor, because it was. This game however, wasn’t.
ours was the worst weather condition. plus it wasn’t a full strength squad.
…again I don’t get your point.
As a fan, it’s okay to get annoyed at the team from time to time.
Absolutely. When it is merited. I personally don’t think the Everton game deserves annoyance, they are a very tough side. Villa I would understand, it annoyed me as well.
“Different games, different opponents.”
Isn’t that your exact Everton argument? Or are you simply going to cherry pick the results that suit your agenda?
My agenda? Come off it.
What I’m saying is, we should have beat Villa. I am not disputing that, it should have been won. This result vs Everton, a different team to Villa, who are a much bigger handful, and have beaten both Manc clubs, Chelsea and the Spuds, is actually quite respectable.
You’d think we’d just lost 0-6 with 3 own goals or something with the way people are reacting. It was a tight and frenetic game that ended in a 1-1 draw away at Goodison Park. I think that is quite decent all things considered.
where are you getting these home results from? villa haven’t even played spurs and liverpool at home yet, and they lost to man City away.
seriously guys need to wake up and smell the coffee. an Arsenal fan contented with a point today just because man u didn’t get any at everton is being lame.can somebody remind me which position man u is compared to us.
I am missing RVP,he left because he want to win something and as things are going now he will win something and he is contributing a lot to make his dream come through.Arsenal will likely not make the 4th place,I doubt even 5th,this time SPUD will do better.If any one think that Wenge will do something that will change our situation,well sweet dreams.Honestly speaking we are not a top team any more,many are in our line up who will not make even the bench at Everton let alone the top 4,now we are getting satisfy even with a draw,the boss… Read more »
it wasn’t just ramsey giving the ball away. it was the whole fucking team. even ScSZ gave the ball away. sometimes I wondered if I was watching a basketball match considering the amount of fucking turnovers from our side. Feeling really sorry for giroud. he fucking tried to change the game.
I Feel for Giroud, its typical, we finally buy a BIG headerer of the ball in front of goal and he gets poor service….ppfffft
So we have officially become a team that competes for 4th place and it is not even december. Whatever happend to this great club of ours?
spurs victory has just gone to waste. typical arsenal, 1 step forward 3 step backwards.