Arsenal come so close to taking all three points against Man City, only for a late John Stones goal to break our hearts.
City went ahead early through Erling Haaland, but a brilliant debut goal from Riccard Calafiori and a Gabriel header put us 2-1 up, before Leandro Trossard was shown a second yellow for ‘delaying the restart’.
It meant the Gunners had to play the entire second half with 10 man, and the lads put in a huge defensive effort until that late goal saw the spoils shared.
Here’s how the players rated this afternoon.
Read the Man City 2-2 Arsenal match report and see the goal here
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Two minutes from our biggest win in 20 years. It hurts.
But once the dust has settled, it will be seen as a great point
I nevr wnat to hear anyone asking what Martinelli brings to this team. What a team we have!
Need someone who produces on offense. We have enough defenders..he can sub when we need extra defensive pressure but he should not be put in to help us score.
He did get an assist…
You mean the LB who has his first start for us scored a worldie and gave Martinelli a stat..
Listen I know we love him because he works hard but we’ve been ruthless with other players and let them leave the club so by that same rule, Martinelli should be seeing the bench until he can produce.
Oh fuck off you misery.
Do you mean attack?
He assisted the Califiori goal
OK.
Biggest win in 20 years? We need to stop this nonsense. It’s a regular league game, sure against a tough team but we’ve had multiple finals we’ve been in in the last 20 years
Which one? Name a bigger win than where we were away against City in a close title race and playing 45 minutes with ten men? FA Cup wins sure, but the league is the ultimate. The other finals were losses so they don’t count.
Yeah FA cup is a trophy. Finishing 2nd doesn’t mean anything. We need to stop putting Man City on a pedestal and treat it like another game and we will win them a lot more regularly.
You’re missing the context
Thank you!!!!
We should not allow click baiters and media to gaslight us so easily!
We win this year. You can see how much the players want it.
Over my dead body says Oliver Twisted
Yes. All the team excellent. Can’t believe ref and league. Felt that having done everything pre game to tire the team out, they would have kept the extra time going until City scored. Interested to see if anything happens to Pep for attacking his chair. If Mikel did that, we know what would happen.
Remember Wenger being sent to stands for kicking away a water bottle?
*2 minutes beyond the allotted.
Savage, how dare you talk sense to me in my current state!?
So does it make 116 charges now?
Actually, 132 now
131*
And counting
I love this team so fucking much
The fact that I feel disappointed that a 10 men Arsenal just got a point at arguably their toughest match of the season, speaks a lot about this team. Massive!
I love this team so fucking much
We really should exclusively be here celebrating Gabriel scoring that wonderful goal after the provocation from that worthless cunt, Walker. Sad that we aren’t, but I love this team so much. Well done, boys!!
Watching him poke around Gabi and than loses him only seconds later, and then frustated by his own mistake 🤣
Thought five for Trossard was a bit generous. Spot on with the others though. Massive shifts all round. Proud of the boys.
I’m rate them all 10 for playing 3 back to back, hard, away games. Also for put up solid defending against 115team and his bit*c Oliver
*I rate
Irate is right.
watch city bleat about “wanting to win more” and arsenal “bottling it”
the fact that even liverpool and united fans want to see us fail more than city is astounding
Liverpool is still our rival i guess, but Man Utd ? That shit club isn’t even our level anymore 🤣
Saliba & Martinelli ratings are currently mixed up
So is Trossard and saliba
Monumental effort. Extremely proud of this team. COYG !!!!
Rodri Last year – “they Came here to not lose, not to win.. you can’t be champions like that”
5 seconds into his next meeting with Arsenal… He got Taken out.
Don’t think I love Havertz as much as Is do right now!
Hope that bastard gone for long time, and got serious, recurring injury 🤪🤣
Arsenal, as a club, for the most part, as a fan base, are classy. We don’t stoop to wishing other pro’s ‘long term, serious Injuries’. We don’t need to and it isn’t right.
agreed
Yeah but the guy didn’t back his talk. His lips is stronger than his knee, which is weird considering he is a “pro” footballer
Normally I’d agree with you, but this is the same c*nt that deliberately injured KT and tried to injure Ødegaard during the same international break, just to try to get an edge. I hope he rots in hell
Whats the point of doing ratings when its 10 by default? Seems like a waste of time,
Well it’s blogs’ time to waste if so
What’s the point of your comment? You can rate the players yourself if you disagree
Because its the best place to go for ratings when its serious. Rating all ten because of the result is not.
I think what Arsenal did with 10 men was extraordinary. Hence the ratings.
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#arseblogout!
You have somewhat really missed the point! Enjoy the performance in terms of mentality, strength and resilience, esp given the dark forces we seem to be up against. Also, (not patronising here) enjoy the humour!
I think Andrew is making a point rather than analyzing every detail like an ice skating judge. It was an immense effort from the 10. If you didn’t see that the. You clearly weren’t an Arsenal fan when guendouzi Pepe and auba played for us.
If the roles were reversed and we created so little against 10 men then all the pundits would be lauding city’s titanic defence and what a good point it was and how blunt we were in attack. Instead all we are hearing is that we could have done more in possession? Each player gets 10 out of 10 for second half performance.
Eek! I think the Saliba has been inadvertently given Trossard’s rating. 🙂
Should be fixed now
I am shattered. I aged about 45 years. I am so impressed by our efforts collectively. That ref should be shot out of a cannon into the sun. What a match.
If I aged 45 years I’d have to switch allegiance, because I’d be 115. (Only joking!)
I wonder if pep is going to host pgmol at one of his restaurants as a thank you. They won’t have far to drive, as all those cunts are local.
That bald cunt definitely sucked Oliver’s dick after match
Learn some euphemisms please friend- “fellate” and “serviced” are right there.
And I really don’t know what he was screaming out at the 4th official face after the whistle.
Pep knows he’s a fraud. His team paid the head of officials one million a year when he was at barca. He could not bribe the German refs and didn’t have unlimited spending in Germany so he sold his soul for the unlimited funds of abu Dhabi. And he knows his club have cheated. There will always be an asterisk next to his City years.
That would be cheap. He hosts them in UAE.
At a 27-star restaurant/hotel
because that rating, like everything else associated with the UAE, is totally legitimate
Well pep isn’t really known for spending his own money
I enjoy that City players were so happy after equalising at home against the 10 men Arsenal. Mid table mentality. 😂
Can you imagine how much Richard Keys would be wringing his ape hands if this had been the other way around and we were celebrating.
I’m lucky not to listen to the games in English.
Can slush-fund the club out of mid-table, can’t take the mid-table out of the club.
It is heartbreaking, but I’m just so damn proud of the lads.
All 10’s from me but big shout out to Mr. Oliver for ruining what was shaping up to be a very entertaining match. You killed the spectacle all to fulfill your biases.
Or directives.
Proud of the team. Great point in hindsight. Disagree on Trossard, disgraceful decision. We need to show aggression, which he did , and there’s nothing justifying such a soft yellow.
Word. Again – Getting tiring to repeat, but if you’re booking Tross for that you’re also booking Docu earlier.. Such inconsistency is unacceptable when the consequences are so huge. 🙁
Soooo… It has now been confirmed by the Premier League Match Center that Trossard was sent off for delaying a freekick and not for the soft shoulder poke. I mean, Trossard kicked the ball a split second after Oliver blew the whistle. Somebody please tell me I’m dreaming because they can’t be serious???
And yes, the boys in red deserve nothing but praise after today’s heroics!!! COYG
Also remember it was after the six extra minutes, timed at 7m13. If it was for violent conduct, well Haaland did the same. If it was for kicking the ball, well Doku did the same.The league needed Arsenal to win.
Yeah it would be interesting how long after the whistle the kick was, surely less than a second. And if you watch, the kick was a continuation of play where he kicked it into space that Martinelli (I think) had space to run into. They can say that everyone knew it was going to be called a foul but if it doesn’t get called (and can’t be 100% sure) he’s continuing play to start a counter. As bullshit as the Rice one was, play had clearly stopped. Being expected to stop your action within milliseconds of the whistle is crazy.
Reminded me of when RVP got a second yellow at barca when we were winning on aggregate.
The refs are blatant cheaters
Criminals
Really frustrating result. Again the referee not only influenced the outcome but effectively ruined the game.
BTW Blogs, I think you’ve confused Trossard with Saliba in the ratings list.
There was at most half a second between the whistle and Trossard kicking the ball. He was already on the move and full of adrenaline. This rule is ridiculous by itself but the specific decision was beyond ridiculous. The officiating in the Premier League is so bad, it’s truly baffling.
It was very rvp against barca wasnt it? And again, like against brighton, a player i think it was doku, booted the ball away earlier in the game but didnt receive a yellow? I get the rule but the inconsistencies in implementing it are ridiculous. The fact that trossard kicked the ball away a split second after the whistle is very very harsh
Saliba appears twice, the second time in place of Trossard?
That sums up his defensive effort in the second half
Fuck City
Gonna give Michael Oliver a nice pay bump his next refereeing trip to Dubai
Weird that they play multi ball system.yet someone gets sent off for kicking THE ball away ???? Just a thought and while I’m thinking ??? I’m proud of the lads today & my final thinks are: Oliver is a corrupt tw*t “allegedly” ? City players cry like the old “Tiny Tears” doll if you pull their strings Oh and I think we have the best keeper in Europe playing behind THE BEST defence !!! Sorry could I just add that Michael Owen should never again be a pundit ! Thanks Gooners !
This game really suited Partey well being so compact and his positioning controlled the top of the box. For someone who is much maligned and on his way out after this year, we better seriously consider how we will replace what he does bring.
Merino will do! Looking forward to seeing what he brings tactically..
Well said. He’s being critiqued and rightly so but some are being just abusive. I keep saying he’s a very important player for us and particularly going forward in transition.
I think there is now a template for less capable teams to take points off Citeh. I think it was Inter mid week, and that battle of Thermopylae we saw today.
This game reminded me those old time, when we went to the battle against United. We showed great spirit and passion. No one can bully us anymore!!! So proud.
Stolen.
but it’s clear the 115’s don’t have much of they don’t have rigging and theft on their behalf
I’m willing to hear what that d*ckhead Howard Webb has to say about Michael Oliver and his willingness ‘to have a negative impact on the game by overreacting’
That’s said, today I’m more proud than ever of supporting this team. COYG
I’m not. He should go into punditry if he wants to be a television personality so badly and let someone who is serious about the game reshape the officiating. What he’s done is damage the league’s brand beyond repair.
An extra point to Partey for Rodrigo’s injury.
Hoping it’ll be an ACL, thereby taking him out for a very long time
1 pt today, but 10 pts for the first person who gets the oppurtunity to slap Michael Oliver and takes it. Muppet.
It’s worth the charge, shame I’m 10k miles and an ocean away
Fuck PGMOL.
That’s all.
Harsh ratings by blogs….I thought the entire team were 12 out of 10!
City deserved nothing from that game. Couldn’t be prouder of the second half effort and overall game from the lads.
What is left for us to say about the refs after what Wenger said: there is a reason why prem refs never take charge of European finals or semis or the WC matches in the later stages.
They are incompetent.
It’s not rigged but clearly refs will card arsenal players for delaying a restart but not other teams. Doku did the same thing before Trossard. And we know what happened at Brighton. It’s a bad joke.
As I slowly stop seeing red about Trossard seeing red I start to think about how the best defense in the league just added Calafiori and Timber. They are both fucking ballers. Miles too.
So proud of the performance today. And enraged. And happy. And disappointed. And, and, and…