Is OGS having a more profound impact on the world than Jesus?

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Oh my, I don’t quite know what to do with myself… Thomas, we were, you know, a thing…

What the bloody hell did you do to me last night? In front of the whole bloody world.

I am HUMILIATED.

Now the Emery Ultras are saying mean things like…

‘Thomas Tuchel has very mild levels of sauce, like, ‘Doritos’ levels of spice’

‘Emery’s Champions League loss was BETTER than Tuchel’s, fucktard’

‘You backed a manager with a weak hairline. That weak hairline is your opinion’

Upsetting words, I’m sure you’ll agree.

PSG really tanked. It’s going to be hard to explain that one away to the bosses in Paris. United didn’t field a good side, they played like shite, and they still managed to turnover an unbelievably expensive PSG side. No excuses. It was shite. Tuchel’s boys went out far too relaxed. No fire. No aggression. No respect for the CV of a man backed by Fergie, Phelan and the class of 92.

You’ve shown me up, Thomas. Sure, Pep the FRAUD exited in the round of 16 in his first season at City with a 6-6 draw, but you sir do not boast the serial sauce of the master! This is a blight. I don’t quite know how to reconcile this?

YES I DO

In reality, it’s fair to say Ole G channelled a big fat dollop of luck last night after his teams nothing burger performance managed to extract an away win in Paris. It was never a penalty, VAR was a total shambles, but that’s beside the point. United weren’t that good, but they won’t care as they sail on through to the next round of the Champions League. They shithoused Paris. If that were an Italian club we’d all be celebrating a masterful execution that ‘only the Italian’s know how to pull off.’

My main worry isn’t the broken rep of Thomas T, no, it’s what we do on Sunday and how last night impacts the race for #Top4 supremacy.

The real prize of the game is a few fold.

Firstly, United will have exerted a lot of energy chasing after PSG all night. It doesn’t matter how smart your High-Performance backroom team is, it’s going to be tough to recover to peak levels by Sunday.

Secondly, United must continue their little adventure in Europe. That’s two tough legs against a no doubt very good team.

All these little advantages could add up for Arsenal. I’d be very surprised if Rennes make us work hard tomorrow night. They have some good players, but we should dominate them. We should beat them early. We should be able to do it with a fairly second string-ish team. I’m hoping their extended time off (last played Feb 27th) works against them (just like it worked against BATE, lolololol). But we’ll see…

Thirdly, it means United HAVE to sign up Ole G. It makes sense, he’s brought back a bit of buzz to Salford, the fans love him, he conducts himself well in the media and he’s brought the old team back together AND Fergie has been working some magic from a mentorship perspective behind the scenes. It’s the perfect storm.

People keep saying it’ll come unpicked at some point, but I think that’s more hope than anything else. The man knows the club, lives its values and he has enough respect from the world of football to work with top players. I’d prefer him in the role than Poch or Jardim… but I wouldn’t jump to conclusions that this is a flash in the pan. There’s far more to setting up a club than simply having a good manager. OGS understood that well and all I can do is applaud the output.

Finally, United rode their luck SO hard last night. That’s going to come crashing down at some point. So fingers crossed Emery is the man to deal that blow to their season. Bit of a shit point, but fuck it, why not?

SO, all in all… it’s been another good week.

Arsenal have to work their way through Rennes tomorrow, avoiding injuries and tight hamstrings… then we’re betting it all on a Sunday afternoon massacre. We have to be careful of the counter-attack, we have to play aggressively and make their tired legs an advantage, and we have to work our way around the CORRUPT FERGIE MAFIA THAT HAS NO DOUBT BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE OFFICIALS.

Should be fun.

See you in the comments, I’m just going outside for a little walk… no… seriously, I’m ok. x

P.S. I looked up and saw Roma lost in the last 16. Face back down in the puddle.

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Champagne charlie

Someone answer or include Receding, he’s desperate for attention..

Champagne charlie

Look at the Emery fans banding together, tears.

Marko

Couldn’t avoid dropping yet more excuses into that rambling statement. We bought a winger instead of a defender in Jan, you say he doesn’t buy the players. We’ve won 2 in 10 on the road and you say ‘better than last year’. Keep doing your thing.

Charlie you’re a bit of a dumbass aren’t you.

Receding Hairline

“Charlie you’re a bit of a dumbass aren’t you.”

He prefers special

Marko

Look at the Emery fans banding together, tears.

Same. Love it when the xenophobe and the racist latch onto your every word. It’s adorable. Almost like you used to all be part of the same club

Paulinho

“What’s my view on those according to you? Because I can all but guarantee its some jumble of nonsense that you masquerade as my pov.” According to me? You gave him the big build up and he’s flopped. According to you, Xhaka had been dire under Wenger, and is performance level has remained the same. So despite his ‘characteristics’, he is not good enough. His characteristics are not as influential as you thought they would be. You also disagreed with me when I said he has flaws independant of the manager, which you’ve also been proven wrong over. He still… Read more »

Paulinho

*while the elite of Europe flashed their eyelashes at Ramsey

Pierre

Marko Tonight ‘s result is 90% on Emery . The other 10% was on Sokratis for the sending off. Tonight , Emery has shown Arsenal fans that when the pressure is on, he is found wanting . His management of today’s game after the sending off was so poor that It is difficult to imagine that a top flight manager could be so inept. If anyone thinks that tonight ‘s result wasn’t down to Emery then they are as clueless as he is. Wenger was often accused of being tactically inept, but the stupidity and ignorance of Emery’s decision making… Read more »

Dissenter

CC
You just read the people you call “Emery fans” criticize him and blame him partly for the loss.
Emery owns a big chunk of the loss, no one is denying this.

Emery is a fan-less manager.
We are just defending the principle of giving a new manager a decent amount or rope to either swing or hang himself. Changing him wont even change a damn thing unless is accompanied by major squad overhaul.

RedAn

Arsenal are out of top 4 and Europa its so obvious.

Receding Hairline

“Marko, dissenter,azed, Receding Hairline…I wish you well trying to defend someone as clueless as Emery , his incompetence exceeded all my expectations tonight.”

Pierre and expectations should never go in the same sentence

Champagne charlie

Paulinho I gave Xhaka the big build up? I said he has characteristics to be a good player for us and is being unfairly scapegoated. I still think that, because time and again his inputs are jumped on when darlings of the side get nothing said (Torreira). I also don’t particularly rate the manager so I’m still waiting to see him under a more competent coach. Early doors it looked positive, and I credited Emery with getting more out a number of players, but it seems that was more a reaction to change. Any change. He’s one of our better… Read more »

Dissenter

Pierre
“Marko, dissenter,azed, Receding Hairline…I wish you well trying to defend someone as clueless as Emery , his incompetence exceeded all my expectations tonigh”

I wouldn’t go as far as 90% but Emery deserves most of the blame. He didn’t make the right adjustments to the red card.
Our senior players like Auba, Ozil and Sokrates sucked tonight.

Marko

I assume Pierre is upset by Ozil being subbed. Actually a lot of the subs tonight while I thought stupid were right out of the Arsene Wenger handbook. We had two left backs on we had a midfielder covering at RB and a midfielder playing as a striker. The obvious thing someone might have had an issue with was Mhiki at RB but he wasn’t the issue. It was down the left where the game was lost

Pierre

I will mention that in the first half Aubamayang was put through by Ozil on a one on one with the keeper but the linesman wrongly flagged offside …..The score was 0-1 to Arsenal at the time .

Paulinho

Charlie – So, wrong then. On all three. Funny how management was never an issue when Xhaka first turned up, then it was being partnered with Ramsey and Coquelin, then it was Wenger’s management and wanting him to see him under ‘different’ management, and now that’s made no diffference you want to see him under more ‘different’ management, all the while distancing yourself from him as every season passes. He is not ‘quality’, as you said, he’s plodding dispenser of un-remarkable passes while being seemingly impervious to injury. “Before then it was a case of me hoping he was going… Read more »

Marko

Lads he’s off the hook he wanted Wenger gone since 2012.

Leedsgunner

Emery was supposed to be a specialist in understanding this competition and winning it.

The truth is despite spending £70m in the summer and £2m in the winter window we are no better off in reaching the Champions League than we were under Wenger.

Emery should have concentrated his effort in improving the defence and bringing decent fullbacks if this is how he wanted to play.

Utterly demoralising. Spurs beat BvB, Ajax beat Real Madrid, and we cannot even beat Rennes… a mid table team.

Wenger really left us in some mess.

Paulinho

Ozil is 30 by the way, not 35, and he’s same overrated liability I’ve always claimed he was. Revered or not (while he was shifting responsibility to the likes of Ronaldo and others under the guise of unselfish assister).

Marko

Emery should have concentrated his effort in improving the defence and bringing decent fullbacks if this is how he wanted to play.

Can’t improve some of the shit we have accumulated and he wasn’t behind the signings blame Sven

Dissenter

Leeds
Buying players is not within Emery’s ambit.
It was obvious we were restricted in spending in the January window and really there weren’t good players available.

Pierre

Marko I would have subbed Ozil off as soon as Sokratis was red carded although he was playing well up to that point. Should have played 2 banks of 4 , brought on either AMN or Kolasinac or both and played AMN, Mustafi, Kosielny Monreal at the back and played Mhkitaryan,Torriera, xhaka , kolasinac across the middle . The fact is , the decision to not have mavropanos in the Europa league squad was always going to be a clueless decision by the manager If he was on he bench tonight we could have just brought him on to replace… Read more »

Valentin

Unfortunately my predictions have come to realise. I think that we will still qualify but that will be much more difficult that it should have been. I have said it before PEA is not a striker who can hold the ball on his own. In situation like tonight he is a passenger, worse he can be a liability as he will try flicks that will never come up. He should have been substituted by AMN to play as right back. We should have switched to a 4-4-1-0 with Özil at the top to retain the ball and bring our midfield… Read more »

Dissenter

Emery lost the plot as soon as Sok got sent off. He shouldn’t have even waited till halftime to make a change [controversial, I know] Then how can you even let Ozil play on for one sec after that? He’s sucking up to his senior players who probably pushed top have Ozil re-integrated. That’s just bad stuff. Had he taken Elneny, he would have been a better fit that Guendouzi coming on. We are asking too much of a 19 year old who’s played too many games already this season. Auba should have been the one taken off and Iwobi… Read more »

Dissenter

A forward line of Giroud and Walcott would have beaten Rennes
That’s how much faith I have in Auba.
I’ve never stopped expressing my doubts about Auba. Maybe it’s all the bling that doesn’t seat well with me.

Pierre

Mavropanos not in the Europa squad .

All we need is an injury to kosielny or mustafi this weekend and that’s the defence knackered for the 2nd leg .

A rank poor piece of management for failing to see the obvious …what was the manager thinking of to omit Mavropanos.

Valentin

Removing Mavrapanos for Suarez from the Europa League squad looks more and more like the stupid idea a lot of us thought it was at the time.

With Sokratis banned, we will have to play Koscielny and Mustafi with Lichsteiner, and Zech Medley as backup. I can’t see us keeping a clean sheet, so we will have to score at least 4 goals to qualify.

Pierre

“Can’t improve some of the shit we have accumulated and he wasn’t behind the signings blame Sven”

Marko still defending the indefensible.

Pierre

“Leeds
Buying players is not within Emery’s ambit.
It was obvious we were restricted in spending in the January window and really there weren’t good players available.”

dissenter still defending the indefensible

Dissenter

Pierre/Upstate
I really think this whining over Mavros is bone headed and mean spirited.
Have you considered that he may not be ready for prime time? He may not be fully fit or not looking sharp enough in training.
You’re basing all your Emery bashing prose on ONE competitive game at Old Trafford, the same game AMN played like a god in central midfield and Chambers was like Maldini.

Dissenter

Pierre
You’re full of you know what.
Sometimes I wonder if all you have to do is squat and cough to get the inspiration to write what you’re posting. I’ve been as critical of Emery as anyone else here. What else do you want?
Arsenal tried more in this last January window than Wenger did the summer of 2015.
It was clear we didn’t have money to spend. We made derisory offer after derisory offer for every player that was drawing breath. We even tried cheekily to sign Almiron on loan. They tried and it’s clear there were restrictions.

Champagne charlie

Paulinho You offering up “wrong” isn’t actually confirmation of anything being wrong, you realise that I hope?.. Right, Ozil is overrated, and has been his whole career, because you say so. Glad that one can be etched into the history books. Dissenter You’re being naive if you’re taking the lip service offered up as any sort of acceptance of blame on Emerys part. You might well hold him responsible for certain aspects, but the aforementioned lot don’t share your view. Marko still harps on about our away form being better than last season despite us having 2 wins in 10.… Read more »

Marko

Charlie on anything Xhaka related is stomach turning. So it was simply change that brought about a slight improvement and you’d still like to see him under a proper manager. Never the player being shit

Dissenter

We need to sell off one of Laca or Auba
I really don’t care which of them leaves to be honest.
We don’t have a winger and we don’t have a Giroud like striker that can attack aerial balls or hold up the ball.

I just fear we don’t have the cojones or know-how to make it happen.
The extension of Monreal’s contract just says that we are prepared to keep on keeping on- doing the same crap and hope somehow change happens.

David Smith

A few reports saying Monchi leaving Roma in the next few hours. No such reports on Overmars!
Think Emery needs a little direction at times

Marko

Marko still harps on about our away form being better than last season despite us having 2 wins in 10. That’s not critique, that’s spin.

Some might call it a fact. But sure spin…

Paulinho

Charlie – You haven’t actually said anything to show that you weren’t wrong on those issues?

You realise that I hope. Unless I missed something other Ozil being revered by some fans or something,and Xhaka suddenly unleashing this not seen before talent under Wafa…….

Champagne charlie

Marko

Everyone’s shit to you, same dickhead who thinks nobody under 50 mil will improve us so let’s not.

Yea it’s a fact is it? But not what’s being addressed. Is 2 wins in 10 good away form? No. But fuck holding Emery responsible as long as you can crack out quips like “better than last season”.

It’s absolute shit, period. That’s on Emery, unless of course your flag flies for him. Ahh it does. Nvm.

Dissenter

There’s talk that Monchi has a public spat with Roma Ultras last night.

Welcome to Arsenal
Our fans wont go farther than carrying placards. They just stay away when shite hits the fan.

Dissenter

From Marca
“”You have to go,” ultras shouted, according to reports in the Italian media, while waiting for the team at the airport after the match.
“You’re wrecking the team.
“Monchi did not hold back, though, and had his own comments to make.”You’re fine,” he said.”In six months I’ll come to look for you one by one.”

Seems he’s a fierce man

https://www.marca.com/en/football/international-football/2019/03/07/5c81297c268e3e894d8b45c1.html

Champagne charlie

Paulinho

I don’t recall saying what’s right or wrong, or claiming I’m right 90% of the time. I have an opinion, you disagree, if you think I’m going to “prove” it to you because you claim I’m wrong that’s a bit awkward because I’m certainly not.

rollen

lol not sure why people expect 6 th team in PL to easy beat European teams away?
Arsenal are broken.

Paulinho

Charlie – I don’t need you to prove it. I already knew. You just failed to disprove.

Nice to see you’ve finally accepted you were wrong on the issues I claimed you were wrong about.

Marko

But not what’s being addressed. Is 2 wins in 10 good away form?

Oh we’re discussing something in particular? I thought you were just being an insufferable ass talking generic shite as per. Yes he along with the players are to blame for our recent poor form. They are also responsible for having a better away record than last season. Is that better?

Marko

You know people’s opinions can be wrong. It’s not some get out of saying some dumb shit card. Hey the Holocaust never happened. That’s wrong. But it’s my opinion man. Still wrong. For example.

Champagne charlie

Paulinho
I have a view, you have a view, but the burden of proof is on me because you claim my opinion is wrong? Lol

Marko
Right back to the spin. Forget looking at Emery and the work he’s doing in isolation as per a standard expected. Let’s just defer to marginal gains over absolute garbage, that’s the spirit. How to be team Emery in a nutshell.

I’m guessing these marginal gains are impressive because of the players he has to work with? Tell me if I’m warm…(I’ll ignore the standard of opposition and think players, players, players)

Paulinho

Charlie – The proof is already in view, already been laid out on Le-Grove. Your views were wrong.

You were in an impossible position to be fair, hands tied by your own words and subsequent events.

Champagne charlie

Paulinho

What are you going on about…

You’ve declared my views wrong, the reason being: because you say they’re wrong. Forgive me while I don’t exactly pay any mind to that.

Paulinho

Charlie – Reality(subsequent events) have proven you wrong. But you’ll probably pay no mind to that either……

Champagne charlie

Paulinho

Your perception of subsequent events isn’t evidence of anything. You’re free to view Ramsey signing a bosman with Juve as him being better than Ozil, it’s not my view.

See how that works? Perception. Your gaze isn’t the truth, it’s your truth.

Paulinho

Only perception? No not really. Your own words, unless you don’t value your own perception(which would be funny and unlikely), and actual tangible objective events, which support a perception or question it.

You keep claiming you’re being proven right on Emery. Is that just your perception, thus worthless?

Champagne charlie

Paulinho I’ve no interest in being right about Emery, I have an interest in commenting on what I witness, and that’s Arsenal not being good enough to an alarming level. Not sure how you equate a persons perception to being worthless, that’s not what I said. I said it isn’t the truth, it’s your truth (in the case of your perception). It’s you that has this fixation with right/wrong underlined in your self declaration of being right 9 times out of 10. You wed yourself to certain views and augment the reality around them to come out with your view… Read more »

Paulinho

Charlie – Well you’ve said the season so far as proving you right in regards to Emery so if you think so little of subjective perceptions then it begs the question why even state it? It’s merely your gaze after all…….

It’s daft, and indicative of how desperate you are to avoid admitting you were wrong on certain issues.

Xhaka is not as good as you thought he was. Ditto Ozil. Ditto Wenger. Simple.

Leedsgunner

Utterly pointless to play Mkhitaryan as a makeshift right back when we had AMN on the bench. As soon as we went a man down it was imperative that we battened down the hatches not give them a natural conduit to pour on their attacks…

Naive in the extreme.

Emery, in deciding to take the strong side he did, left himself no excuses. He needed to have won this game 20 minutes in with the chances Aubameyang had anyway… looks completely bereft of confidence.

Leedsgunner

Emery gambled his everything on the Europa League and he lost. Quite Wenger like really, leaving himself all to do in the second leg… except it’s not Bayern we’re facing but Rennes.

I’m fearful for the team facing Man Utd. We needed a strong win to boost our confidence but we received the exact opposite…

Pierre

Why was Torriera in the opposition box prior to Rennes 3rd goal . Why were Kolasinac and Monreal both near the opposition corner flag prior to Rennes 3rd goal. Why were a total of 5 players so far upfield and taken out of the game with one pass when we had a throw in prior to rennes 3rd goal. The thing is , we see Emery barking out his orders and pointing to where he wants the players to be on the pitch , so one can only assume that the players were following the manager’s instructions otherwise what is… Read more »

ddkingz

missed the match…. aubameyang is a worthless players… the guy can’t even create a chance from nothing to save his own life… arsenal is a shit club with a shit fanbase…. people just keep repeating the same arguments for 365 days a year…. worthless most clubs, after 22yrs with a single manger and a decade of decline, would have started a new era with almost a total revamp of their squad…. but no not arsenal, we kept the same headless chickens roaming around the emirates…. if missing out of top 4, and going trophyless for another 4-5 seasons, would force… Read more »

Tony

Pedro What a difference a day makes where I’m sure you’re thinking vengeance is a dish best served cold. But you knew that would happen, I wasn’t buying into your narrative Rennes is a nothing team – you nicely set Emery up for the fall, right? I didn’t see the match or pregame post about it; just knew we would blow it in Europe and last night we did it in style. For all Papa’s past heroics I’ve said several times he will get sent off and l felt the same about Kola, too, so no doubt will happen before… Read more »

Nelson

Here are some of my thoughts: – When Emery sets up a team defense first, like the game vs SPUDs away and Chelsea at home, the team looked solid. Every player knew what to do. – When we are playing an attacking formation and we falls behind, the players would get confused and Emery would lose control of the situation. Example is the second half of today’s game and the one against BATE away. – Today’s second goal was not Emery’s fault. It was down to Monreal and Guen. Monreal should react first instead of Guen. Guen is not a… Read more »

Tony

Joke Friday

UEFA want Wenger for their Technical Development role.

Seems no one wants him as a manger.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6784657/Arsene-Wenger-set-return-football-FIFA-want-head-technical-development-role.html

MidwestGun

Wow, Pierre… It’s embarrassing how gleeful you are to be ripping into Emery now that you don’t have to bite your tongue or the Wenger colored specs are off.. You could literally substitute Wenger’s name in for Emery’s in every criticism you have laid on thick the last half a day.. Wenger was doing the exact same things for almost a decade.. Schoolboy football indeed. Your happy as a pig in sh.it.. well guess what your boy Wenger and his enabler Gazidis are the ones who set us up to be circling the drain for years. I think many were… Read more »

MidwestGun

Marko Tonight ‘s result is 90% on Emery . The other 10% was on Sokratis for the sending off. Tonight , Emery has shown Arsenal fans that when the pressure is on, he is found wanting . ___________________ Wenger description to a T… found wanting all the time … flat track bully. His management of today’s game after the sending off was so poor that It is difficult to imagine that a top flight manager could be so inept. _________________________________- Same thing I thought with Wenger .. all the time.. how could anyone think he was a top flight manager… Read more »

Emiratesstroller

Tony is absolutely right. The way that Arsenal played in this game was shocking. The fact is that we scored a goal in first three minutes and no doubt our players thought that this game was a “walk in the park”. Instead of taking control we allowed Rennes back in the game through poor decision making, loose passing, but above all else the usual reckless and unintelligent defending, which is and has been the hallmark of our game in recent seasons. In reality Arsenal’s defence is one of the poorest and most brittle that I have watched in the sixty… Read more »

Moray

“If Arsenal lose on Sunday to Man Utd our season could well be over next Thursday with absolutely nothing to play for.”

On the plus side this is when we play best…:)

Pierre

Not gleeful, I can guarantee you that ..The opposite in fact.. Major disappointment for me was last night..The first 40 odd minutes I thought we was managing the game really well , solid in midfield and offensively looking good. I did think that we were making unnecessary fouls throughout the first half and the ref was taken in by the theatricals from the French . But there is no excuse for the poor decision making by the manager, I’m not sure what he was trying to achieve( maybe the sack). We all know wenger’s failings but we now have a… Read more »

Moray

“UEFA want Wenger for their Technical Development role.”

This is ironic as Wenger hasn’t developed anything much for years. Having said that, this kind of role would be perfect for him as he wouldn’t really need to deliver much. Just attend a few dinners, bullshit a bit, show his face around town and talk about the past.

He’s not going to get anything substantial on the club side of things. Even PSG aren’t that stupid.

Leftsidesanch

Arsenal could lose on Sunday and still make Europe. Teams will drop points of course but beating United is good for confidence and to halt their momentum.

How many times have we turned up at home only to play like trash away from home? The United game isn’t the be all end all we have some tricky away fixtures.

There’s also a club in London who wear Blue who are very much in the thick of things.

Not to worry Arsenal haters, theres plenty more for you to cheer over. We can’t help but be a dim error prone team.

Dark Hei

Well, we all said that this season is a write-off right?

Anyway, we might just beat Rennes away, Ben Arfa gets sent off maybe?

We are clutching at straws.

Lets just lay it on Wenger

Guns of Hackney

Poor team and squad.
Poor recruitment.
Limited manager.

This is the result.

I wouldn’t give emery any money this summer, that’s for sure. Either sack him or restrict him.

Tony

“We can’t help but be a dim error prone team.” Summed up perfectly. Yet most here blindly support the team, but no so much the club these days. Most will be hoping, praying and finger crossing for a win or just a draw Sunday knowing the likelihood is we’ll be let down again by certain players and an ever increasingly manager who seemingly is losing the plot. The worst of it is the owner only sees our club as an asset and the people Kroenke hires are only in it for their avarice and power egos. Until the head of… Read more »

Receding Hairline

Ranieri to Roma

He just keeps getting work…that Leicester triumph has paid off big time

Receding Hairline

“I think the biggest disappointment is the third goal because at 2-1, you go home and you know that there’s a result where you’ve scored away at home and you can overcome it.,” Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Czech said. “We can still overcome a two-goal deficit because in the end the goal we scored might play a big part, but we made it a little bit harder for ourselves.”

I think same too Petr

I personally believe that third goal will be our undoing. Just like Monaco’s third goal at the Emirates

MidwestGun

Pierre-
Don’t think you get it.. probably never will.. Nowhere was I defending Emery .. he gets what he deserves. You have every right to criticize him…. but you have no right to mock people who point out your hypocrisy given that you ignored the same exact things about the previous manager. Be as critical about him as you want… but the smugness and excitement about it …. no… not having it. Because bottom line.. we would already be more advanced if it wasn’t for the failure of the previous one.

Samesong

RH

He just keeps getting work…that Leicester triumph has paid off big time

Isn’t this like the 19th club he’s managed lol

Anyway…. people need to forget the game and now let’s focus on the United game.

Happy Friday all from me. Have a great day all.

Leftsidesanch

Rennes are garbage, we should feel embarrassed for last night. Emery made some poor choices once we were down to 10 men. I’ve seen more blame go to him that to Sokratis for his stupidity that you knew would take the game away from us.

This isn’t like the AC Milan and Monaco situations (was at both games). We’ll probably do enough to see us through.

Davey

Totally agree Receding,take the 1-2 defeat and get out of there, what you don’t want to see is your left back taking a throw on by their corner flag with 2 mins left and down to 10 men, apart from lacking effort tracking back etc naivety is our downfall yet again.

Receding Hairline

A win on Sunday will go a long way to remedy what has been a mixed week, disappointing result against Spurs and an implosion from player and managers against a team as average as they come. But this is Arsenal, we hand out freebies to the downtrodden.

If United win on Sunday even Spurs should be worried, they will begin to feel invincible

HighburyLegend

“they will begin to feel invincible”

And against Arsenal, it would be a huge performance!!
(lolz)

HighburyLegend

Mr Emery, I was one of your strongest defenders, but for every fan, patience has its limits.

Emiratesstroller

Frankly I don’t see Arsenal beating Rennes for one very good reason. I think that
we will concede as usual a goal.

That means that Arsenal need to score at least three to make penalties!! Can
you see us scoring our penalties?

We will be without Torreira against Man Utd and both Lacazette and Sokratis
against Rennes.

HighburyLegend

@Emirates : I would add the absence of Laca.

Mr Emery (aka Arsène Jr), any solution ?? Mesut as a striker ?? lol

HighburyLegend

Sorry, I didn’t saw that you’ve mentioned Laca.

Gbat

The substitutions were poor last night but I believe managers on the whole take way to much of the blame. A manager can only do so much. The greatest tactics in the world still need to be carried out by the players.

We have good players, not great ones. They are equally capable of putting in excellent performances as they are poor ones. And this has been going on for years. I don’t believe any manager could just come in and instantly transform this squad. A lot of the squad just aren’t good enough.

Valentin

The initial tactical and personnel setup was wrong. Rennes plays a very basic 4-4-2 on the counter attack with two speedy wingers and HBA with a free electron behind the striker. Torreira should have been tasked to follow HBA and block all his passes. A flat back four devoid of any pace was asking them to have a go. We should have either play 3 at the back or have a midfield 3 to protect the defense. The substitutions were ridiculously bad. Iwobi was our best player while Aubameyang was as usual useless as a lone striker tasked to held… Read more »

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