Welcome to Tuesday, a fine, crisp winters morning with a Carling Cup match against the richest team on the planet the only thing bar a coat to warm you.
I don’t know whether I’m excited about this one. The thought of playing a team with a second string that probably earn close to what our entire squad is raking in is quite a daunting prospect. Mancini talking about the domestic campaign hindering England as a whole is giving me some faith. I don’t think he’s fussed about the game and if your manager is thinking that, those negative vibes tend to seep into the players mindsets. I mean, it’s not like Samir needs and excuse not to put a shift in. He totally bottled the second half of last season because it felt a little too much like responsibility. Still, he is earning £180k a week at the moment, which I’m sure is a fine salary to sit on the bench.
He’ll be playing tonight. We do have to remember there is talent in the boy and we’ve just got to hope we don’t give him too much space this evening. Also, remember not to give him too much attention. Who is he? Why would someone who gave us 3 good months in 3 years be worth the energy of booing? He’s a nothing. Just another fly by night player like Alex Hleb. We enjoyed patchy moments of brilliance, but I don’t yearn for him back in the team.
He wears a snood, which is the technical term for the flap of skin over a turkeys beak. I have nothing more to say on that. I just wanted to shoe horn it in so you can tell your friends at high class dinner parties.
Back to the game… Rumour has it their front three could be Johnson, Dzeko and Samir. Their midfield might have De Jong and Yaya in it!
Still, we know from seasons past that it doesn’t matter who you’ve got on the pitch providing the attitude is bang on the money. Oxo will be given a chance to shine tonight. He’s been slightly relegated in our thoughts of late due to the superb form of Theo Walcott. I totally agree with this stance. All the hype and clamour for him to start was beyond ridiculous. We don’t want another over used 18 year old who’s in the damaged goods room 90% of his career because he wasn’t given the chance to grow. Still, tonight is showcase night I’ve no doubt he’ll be humbled after being kept out of the limelight. His last game was very poor, so I’m looking to see more focus on sharp, fast passing than I am on over the top tricks and flicks that amount to nothing much.
Ryo Miyachi. Yeah. He should be called Ryo Miyinjured. Totally. Where is he?
Oh right? Are you serious?
He’s on tour with the effing ladies! Are you kidding me? Well, I hope he’s out in Japan doing that because he’s injured and not just because he fancies living the sexiest dream going.
Wenger intimated that we’ll be seeing a run out from Benny this evening. A super talent that hasn’t been given a fair crack at the whip according to the coach. Am I fussed about this? Absolutely not. Why should any football manager feel bad about not being able to play someone because there are players in better form? The boss always has this fear that he’ll sign a player then not be able to play them every week. That’s why we end up with a squad that has a great 11 then not much outside. An example of that is what we’ll be playing up front. Park Chu-Young looks ok, but is he top class? Can he trouble City this evening? Or have we just bought a cheap stop-gap that will be even more casual about being on the bench than Chamakh?
Fabianski
Yennaris JD Squillaci Santos
Frimpong Benny Coquelin
AOC Park Arshavin
I’m rubbish at predicting line ups, but that’s my best bet at what it will look like. I’d prefer to see Miquel given a run out over Squillaci but I guess we have to be realistic about this one, it’ll likely be the more experienced, if slightly more erratic Frenchman. I have Arshavin out wide, but we might see him drop into the hole again and a bit of a reshuffle. We could also see Chamakh playing outwide, something he used to do quite well for his last club.
I think we’ll have to contain City for large parts and we’ll have to play a disciplined game. If we leave ourselves open, we’ll find ourselves multiple goals down within minutes. The two holding midfielders have a massive part to play in the outcome of this evening, Frimpong needs to keep a cool head and be positionally aware at all times. Fabianski will have to be on his toes, he’ll be dealing with a lot of dangerous crosses and a City that aren’t afraid to shoot.
Transfer news…
Word has it PSG are stumping up £10million to sign Chamakh. If Wenger is planning to move there at some point, it could be an awkward first board meeting explaining how that transfer happened. Interest is hotting up regardless, that is good news for all parties!
The other exciting story is Podolski has been scouted by us. The German wideman or striker comes with pedigree on an international stage, but he did bomb out at Bayern. He’s super fast, very direct and a bit of a no-nonsense player. He’d be a great addition to the squad if we picked him up for £10mill in January.
I have no idea how the match will pan out, I won’t be heading up this evening, but I’m sure if you are it’ll be fun. Just don’t be too downbeat if the worst happens, I doubt any club in the league would be able to honestly say they’re capable of turning over Manchester City’s reserves.
Crazier things have happened though… just ask Ryo Miyachi… the lucky sod.
See you in the comments and make sure you let me know how your team is lining up!
P.S. I have one spare, let me know if you’re interested via e-mail.
i was talking about your 21.27
Boolocks – caught on the counter. That’s it, all over.
FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
fuck
VP must be gutted
It was a nice try on our part though.
one of the only trophy we could win, and he isnt even playing
Gervinho is shit
Come on, it’s not over yet, we can still come back, believe
yeah yeah.
we’re all thinking it.
Chamakh must be sold the Moroccan League soon
look at it this way lads
we’ll be in the champions league after xmas and they’ll be in the carling cup
Fuck, Gerv on the left even with Arsha in? wtf?
fuck gervinho, fuck, why
GERVINHO IS POO POO
Honestly no way they fucking deserved that, fucking cunts.
Also Aguero’s a dopey shit, Squillaci checked him, he thought it was Koscielny.
no. striker?
wenger keeps chamakh on. serves us right.
What a fucking Morroccan cunt he is.
This is really a pity, we outclassed city! Good work from our young boys! Chamakh and Park fucked it up, with walcott and RvP as strikers we would have won this easily. Still happy with the performance.
jon: and Europa League lol
and at least wenger has to buy a striker now.
Come on, Verm or Squil to score on that corner
fs
Was that shitty’s only shot on target?
gervinho is being like chamakh, if he participates, the play goes down
nice work from Kosc. should go on his own and score that goal
It won’t be a very poor loss though. The Crapmakh bells are ringing. I wonder what attracts Wenger to that parasite Chamakh
AN: yeah
Sit down you……………
chamakh could have that aguero chance 10 times and not score we need a striker wenger
Comon Damit
Jon
They’ll be in the cl next season, we won’t.
its amazing, gervinho teansforms anything in shit
chamakh you cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunt
mtf chamakh. out.
that was the last hope I had for him.
he misses a huge chance
out!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dont ruin it gambon
Gerv got us couple of corners though and threatened more than most our players for 70mins
this looks like Chamakh and Arshavin will be sold in Jan hopefully for big profits!!!!!!!
FFS! 2 in the box and not one of them made a decent effort. Chamkack must be sold or given away I just don’t care anymore.
and that my friends was chamakhs p45
no shame in that performance.
Gambon: fair enough
Aguero’s a litte cunt. Quality player, proper thick cunt.
WENGER OUT!!
besides chamakh’s that is.
lol dench giving the ponce a serve
Another year without a trophy
Frimpong wanted to have a rather direct word with Nasri…
Out fuckin played and they still fuckin won!
This is what we teach our youngsters to lose!!!!!!!!
Proud of some of those boys. Played with heart and passion. City did nothing to be honest. Chamakhs a cunt. I hope Nasri dies a slow death
ChamCAC40
AOC, Coquelin,Frimpong and Koscielny were brilliant.
We really have to keep Coquelin.
40 days
Decent game.
Chamakh is garbage still. Who’d a thunk it….
shit fuck cunt!
GUNNER786 says:
November 29, 2011 at 21:54
WENGER OUT!!
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+1
fuck, its amazing
we were so close
Hero’s Kos Miquel JD Frims Lecoq OX .The futures bright I tell ya.
did not think i could rate chamack any less…
le coq and the ox really showed well.
there is shame in wenger only having one decent striker lurch and chamakhs performance. What a failure of a player
he should really buy 2 forwards in january if we have any chance this season
Wenger’s fault. Stupid fucking cunt of a man he is.
All aggrieved on the touchline when he was one who waited two years for Chamakh, useless fucking gimp who plays like he’s been bitten by a Brown Snake and basically ruined any chance we had of scoring a goal.
like so many times, we, that are said to have defensive problems, were let down by a dry attacking
kapslock says:
November 29, 2011 at 21:55
Proud of some of those boys. Played with heart and passion. City did nothing to be honest. Chamakhs a cunt. I hope Nasri dies a slow death
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Would have thought recent events would put comments like these into focus. Its just football, no need for that.
what did we have to expect really when we play cripples like chamakh? we were not only one man short but the overall effect of the guy in this match was equivalent to two extra men for city. for fucks sake, does Wenger draw some sort of saddistic pleasure from seeing the poor guy suffer? we really shouldn’t have lost this game. was ours for the taking. this shiteh team had nothing on us. well done to the youngsters all the same. props to Chambo, Le Coq, Frimmers but guess what, JD did what he does best..
Good game, brave performance, despite the loss
Fuck Chamakh Fuck Park. All to be offloaded back to Morroco and France respectively. Muppets who have infested our club with their average displays. To think we got Park as an alternative for Hazard makes you think Wenger is massively cheap. That Park is even worse than Chamakh, at least Crapmakh performed for a few weeks before his real self materialized. That makes it two strikers in January we are going to need. I’ll be praying every morning for RVP’s fitness, because I wonder what I would look like with these street leagu strikers we have.
Gervinho missed a good chance over elaborating and was tackled. Best chance gone
kids did well tho, oxbo can replace arshavin no probs
chamakh. rope. I beam.
Yeah true zeus said in the moment of frustration. Obviously don’t wish death upon on anyone. I take it back. He is a number one cunt though
Its all Gervinho’s fault…
we should have had VP on the bench
unlucky goonz next time… i thought that coq, ox yossi and frimmers did a really good job though.
Hmm….expectations are low, so we can be happy with the effort…top4 is THE trophy afterall
Good game by the young boyz and also Benayoun. Dzeko is excellent in counter attcking play. I got my hopes up when we were holding them with 10 to go. Our back up strikers are crap that’s what let us down and Gervinho needs to look up more and improve his shooting.
Lurch your a fucking prick
Arshavin, Park and CHamakh, they can all go! Buy podolski and Gotze! Chamakh really can’t play for arsenal anymore after this performance. But guys, we ouclassed Man City with our youngsters! Be proud.
If wenger keeps chamakh and arshavin and won’t buy a replacement, then he need to go. Fucking wenker!
Great effort from the guy’s outplayed them fucker’s all over the pitch apart from the quality striker’s they have!! surely Wenger will see we need addition’s in this window? if not wtf is he playing at!!
we need a better striker right away!!! how many chance did our strikers got to score today, and Aguero with chance and movement put us to z sword
What do you expect when you got some of the shitiest players in the league holding back the rest.
If anything we over performed with those cunts in the side.
park and chamakh spent all the first half losing the ball on the silliest ways possible
dont they know that if you have your back to the goal someone might come and try to steal the ball from the deep?
they are at fault and didnt mastch the rest of the team’s good hardwork football
right. less games to play. cool.
expect a truckload of excuses from Mr Wenger
hell, even squillaci was not bad tonight
there, said it
Song’s to blame fffs
Chamakh is a huge problem. As it is, only PSG can solve this problem.
At least Squillaci showcased why Espanyol should buy him
I think Chamakh nearly throwing up after a hour is one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen in my life
Heh, Chamakh wasn’t even that bad, I wonder if Citeh still had a chance of qualifying for the Champions League, Yeah I know they kind of still do, Mancini would’ve rested players.
Citeh are fucking annoying, basically shite all game, with a hard working and very promising performance from some of our younger players and because they have a 40 million pound player they can bring on in the Carling Cup they go through.
wonder if wenger will keep chamakh basically forever untill he scores a couple, then claim he always had faith in him
park is shit too
It would****
and with the stubborness of AW, I see nobody coming in winter
unless its a really shitty unknown striker
Whoever said Koscielny is shit is a fuckin moron.
lurch
i must admit i’ve softened to the idea since he didnt throw himself at that chance at the end
someone should have fouled Aguero before he got anywhere near our box
Ju needs to eat more dogs…he could do with a bit more bite
I blame Song for this result
Chamshit and AA dont deserve to be on the bench from now on IMO
Lurch – Come on, glass houses and all that.
and the bad news is that gervinho continues to have those days
he is like a fucking woman in PMS, dammit
where is the accuracy of months ago???
This way, he is the new arshavin
i am not going to lay that one on gervinho; he played 20 minutes. the fact that it was necessary for him to play at all suggests where the blame should fall.
wenger needs to bring in a quality striker come january. if price proves quality, then we observed what price brings: 2 essentially free strikers-0 goals and hours of frustration, 1 very expensive striker-classy counter attack.
Everyone agrees, we lost because of Park and Chamakh.
It really can’t that wenger not sees that he needs to buy a striker in january!
Ah well its only the carling cup who wants to win that.
I blame gervinho, for not being a killing game machine
chozzer – i’m starting to think Kozzer is our best CD at the club along with TV, we have to start with those two in every EPL game if we want to finish 4th
Chambo needs to take Arshavin’s place now.
We really need to go for the FA Cup
you have to blame vermalean for the goal or whoever dived in at dzeko really
oh well
Mark Hughe – City deserved it.
What an inbred prick.
WENGER OUT!
Chamakh was fucking awful.
He is fucking awful.
arseblog arseblog
Told there’s been a fight in the tunnel. Nasri threw a punch at Frimpong then ran off into the away dressing room.
DENCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
kwik-
i do, and i bet you do as well.
Frimpong should kill and eat Nasri
Yeah Mancini deserves a lot of credit though, got his team through, lots and lots.
kwik fit
the thing is it’s the only cup we can realistically win…
frenchie the fact that he’s good at getting into good positions but also equally adept at fucking up easy chances makes him so frustrating…
I’d lock him in a room with chezney and a goalpost evry week until he can hit the target… sczc wouldnt get too much practice though.
why didnt we have a stronger bench though?
kaps-
if true, that puts frim in demi-god status. must have been over the “c’mon, jack” comment.
Who listens to Mark Hughes? The same guy who backed Tevez after his fiasco at Bayern.
We have 4 shit strikers. I haven’t such mediocrity for a long time. Players to offload
Crapmakh
Park
Vela
Bendtner
We really need two strikers at this moment if we are serious about challenging. Who do you reckon we sign although we won’t get them?
shitty will get exposed soon enough
kwik fit says:
November 29, 2011 at 22:05
Ah well its only the carling cup who wants to win that.
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Wenger, cause that was of the only 3 trophies possible with FA cup and 4th trophy
haha mankini admits nasri was shit.
Shit goal to concede really
Two new forwards in Jan, Jack/Sagna back and we may have
have a team.
come on Chamack was not as bad he usually is.
Hey, all you Forehead lovers. He’s brain dead twat and he showed that again tonight.
Such a pity , Shitty were shit…
As for oily abdul – out of this world bad.
Didn’t like that korean as well, lazy and disintrested…
Kos was a moster!
Frim – a very solid game too.
keyser open your eyes chamakh was shit all game. toothless striker. it means the defenders can mark our midfielders when we attack rather than paying him attention
Haven’t seen****
one thing out of this game, doing a double over manshitty in league is a real possibility….
our 2nd string defense + coquelin + frimpong kept aguero+Dzeko+Nasri+johnson queit….
out first team should be able to draw or nick it and do a double over shitty….omen is good…Up the gunners….
The disappointing thing is that while we’ve had injuries and we’re a bit stretched in the league the Carling Cup would’ve given Frimpong/ Coquelin/ Ox and Miquel some extra games to hone their talents.
I dunno whether it’s something or nothing, but our right side looked solid, Chamberlain worked hard and didn’t look as susceptible defensively, though maybe Coquelin and Frimpongs hard work helped him.
Thought we had it sussed tactically aswell.
Very disappointing given the way we played. Except obviously Cham and Park. Park was maybe a bit better actually.
hum-
it is frustrating, i agree. however, had the camelface cunt and park finished their chances there would be no discussion regarding gervinho. they played 90 and 70 respectfully. i think laying the failure to advance at gervinho’s feet is a bit much. i stand by my assessment of him, as i do of my assessment of dave. he is good.
Wenger “game of few chances”
depends for who
When we win our next trophy I want it to be a big one. Fuck the micky mouse cup.
This time last year people were excited with the Carling Cup, with so many changes you expect things to be a little disjointed but at being at home helps although I think we used to have a unbeaten run at home in cups until now.
If we had a half decent striker we could have won that game pretty comfortably.
Once again Wenger makes everything a massive struggle. Getting near their goal was like reaching some sort of mountain peak, and yet City on the other hand had that look of just being in cruise control, knowing we would shoot ourselves in the foot and leave gaps.
Basically sums us up under Wenger for the last six years. Buys cheap and inexperienced players, tapers down expectations, and puts out teams with no pressure on them put with ultimately no punch. No lose situation for him.
Now I fucking wish the Chavs will disgrace Man City. The unbeaten teams in Europe have all received their dishes of defeat afterwards. I hope City’s comes sooner enough.
nite all….proud of the performance,hence the feel good factor remains…no matter our unbeaten run stopped…
lets kick some ass at wigan..
Nite
On that last chance.
Arent you Just glad we practice Set Pieces.
I hate to iterate on an already much lauded point…but how totally fucking shit is Chamahk? And Park? Did he even play? What a waste of space. On a VERY positive note, OXO was awesome, Frimpers is a beast, Coquelin good solid performance. Back to some negatives…Gervinho…I do like marmite…I do…
Arshavin, just fuck off.
PLEASE let us sign Gotze and Podolski in January.
Ze Germans are comink
we were at home?
AW really is in lala land if he thinks we love Nasri and its disappointed love.
roaasey – They both worked hard up front, they’re just not Bergkamp and Henry but as a team, as a whole we worked very hard defensively and they tried when they could up front.
They played with De Jong and Hargreaves in midfield anyway, Kolarov to give balance out wide and to keep OX busy, Benayoun worked hard helping out Miquel with Johnson.
Since neither Coquelin and Frimpong are the playmaker type we just kind of cancelled each other out.
I’m guessng we were going for defensively stability until the later stages of the game and then Benayoun would get the freedom to move inside.
Many of those players need game-time, we just didn’t have enough in the end and Citeh were pretty lucky.
if rvp gets a big injury im giving up footie and getting into scag
nite Sabeel, Im off too. nite Grovers
@Sabeel
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doing a double over manshitty in league is a real possibility….
our 2nd string defense + coquelin + frimpong kept aguero+Dzeko+Nasri+johnson queit….
out first team should be able to draw or nick it and do a double over shitty….omen is good…Up the gunners…
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Yeah, but put David Silva and Yaya Toure in the mix…
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not sure i like the new formation 440
Far too much was made of Chamaberlain’s lack of defensive focus in the first place.
A bit rich considering the numerous bellends we’ve put out over the last few years who have slow to track back. Denilson, Diaby, Walcott, Arshavin….
disappointed love?
more like fat, money grabbing, lesbian hate
*enough qualitee
Frenchie- see i’ve neva rated any of them (park and chamakh)… i know theyre both very average… gerv has sooo much potential but he needs to just get a brain. i wont call him good till he starts putting away his chances
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Looking at this objectively it was a good performance and we held our own, one counter attack it happens and when you look at city’s “2nd squad”
As IG said less games now. focus on the FA cup and the CL. its not the end of the world
COYG
@goonermart..
haha. it’s funny coz its true
That’s a bit silly isn’t it, so instead ofb eing a rounded player that he undoubtedly has the potential to be he should be the sort of spoiled player we’ve had in the past.
Mancini deserves loads of credit though.
keyser you really are a silly wanker i have been saying the rest of the team done well even squid. but chamakh was shocking and if you disagree with that then re-watch the game again……this time with someone who understands football and try and draw some positives from his game. not even positional work was good from him. bloody hell he was throwing up on the pitch he is so unfit