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.
Here again
For
The
Trofee
99% of the post about Tuchel and Manure.
Awesome…
The game vs. Rennes is TONIGHT, Pedro.
Pedro
Don’t worry mate. It’s nit Tuchel’s fault.
Emery left such a shit side at PSG for Tuchel, how could you possibly blame him? Yes I know he’s the current manager but you’re only as good as the team you inherit and currently England’s 4th best side is better than the side emery left behind.
lol
I think all too often people create a narrative after the event in a football match that is just completely wrong. PSG didnt bottle it. They were fucked over in injury time by a dreadful decision. UTD had 27% of the ball, and scored 3 times from 5 shots. One opponent that no team can beat is incredible luck, and UTD have been unbelievably lucky since OGS took over. They have scored 10 more goals than their xG, they have conceded 10 goals less than their xGA. They have had 7 penalties in 7 games. Its not dissimilar to our… Read more »
We should be beating Renne’s tonight, in spite of the few decent players they have.
Further evidence that a young, fresh ideas driven coach is the “special sauce” we need. Not an old dried up Spanish moyes.
If united do us at the weekend we are europa bound again
The chavs appear to be getting their act together south of the river
Jesus H Pedro. Do you have no national pride? You are English aren’t you? Give Man U some credit for actually turning round a 2-0. Hope they go on to win the event (although most unlikely TBH).
“Hope they go on to win the event”
This is a place for Arsenal fans mate.
Any talk of PSG bottling it and united pulling off a masterclass is bollocks. United never created a thing, they were given two gifts and a penalty that should never have been.
However, it could work out to be good for us in the race for top four. My only concern is that spurs are still in it and some teams that are normally the elite in this competition are going out, Madrid and PSG are out, and imo Bayern probably will go out too.
‘this is place for Arsenal fans mate’
Have been Arsenal since 1950 & always support British teams in Europe.
Pedro
Why are you talking about fatigue? The players on the pitch yesterday have been on the bench all season.
The big players who are injured will walk back in to that utd team all fresh after a couple of weeks out injured. Martial,matic,herrera,lingard,pogba etc.
Add to that a rejuvenated lukaku,in form rashford and kids with confidence sky high it is a worry.
Fuck supporting English teams in Europe.
“Hope they go on to win the event”
Iv’e seen it all now, hope United win the champions league
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
This for me is a lot more about referee’s decisions when presented with a second opportunity to make an informed decision that has a potentially huge impact.
And I am a lot less inclined towards VAR now.
Horrendous decisions will still be made and it’s easier to excuse a human error than a mistake made after being presented with a second chance to make a correct decision.
…cheer up. Roma losing should mean Monchi will be here before June (I think)
I love the face in the puddle pic
The question is, will Emery set the team up to play pragmatic or expansive football in the next couple of games . The Mourinho style of football worked well at the weekend, it helped getting the early goal as it gave us something to hold on to . Sitting deep and relying on counter attack v Rennes tonight is a possibility , the only problem with that is we will be surrendering possession which will put our defence under pressure for long periods of the game. Playing with 2 very disciplined full backs for the first time this season v… Read more »
It’s difficult to determine the nationalities of most of the commenters (Gambon could be a clue though), so I can only assume that most of you are distance fan boys who waggon jumped during the Wenger glory years and would obviously hate all things British.
Best of luck with that.
OGS showing what pizazz can do for an ailing football club.
“My only concern is that spurs are still in it and some teams that are normally the elite in this competition are going out, Madrid and PSG are out, and imo Bayern probably will go out too.”
Not really a concern for me, i think Spurs will more likely panic against an English team than a continental team
Well I consider myself English, not British.
But I’m not a fan of supporting other clubs. Ever.
Wouldn’t beat yourself up too much over Tuchel.
The defeat was down to individual player mistakes.
The German kid Kehrer set the tone for the night with that awful giveaway to Lukaku inside a couple of minutes.
United sat and just waited for PSG to beat themselves really.
No surprise that Porto knocked out Roma. The winger for them Corona shows some good quality and laid their second goal on a plate for Marega.
Lol
Being accused of being a “fan boy” by a guy that supports Arsenal, and UTD, and Man City, and Liverpool, and Spurs, and Chelsea.
Masterstroke
So by your reasoning you’d also like spurs to go on and win it? LOL SMH melt.
“With Arsenal and Emery no one really has a clue how we will set up and sometimes one wonders if our manager has a clue what his best team and best formation is.”
A squad as unbalanced as ours should not be setup one way for all games, nothing wrong with having different plans for different opponents
Masterstroke It’s difficult to determine the nationalities of most of the commenters (Gambon could be a clue though), so I can only assume that most of you are distance fan boys who waggon jumped during the Wenger glory years and would obviously hate all things British. Best of luck with that. All very nice and very british supporting English clubs in Europe, but let’s be honest football is a tribal game and we hate our rivals and don’t want them to succeed apart from exceptions like Masterstroke and our very own David Seaman, personally I do not want any of… Read more »
Any idea about why Pedro talk to us about Tuchel and Manure, while we’re supposed play tonight ??
*to play
Davey
David Seaman is a twat
Amen to that.
I wonder if Masterstroke was cheering for Chelsea when they became the first London club to win the Champions League?
Not the best comment Mr Seaman made on Talksport yesterday, ‘ I swear if Tottenham reached the final against a foreign club I would want them to win it’
Thanks for that Dave
Pedro
Guest writing le Trafford…
Christ. Ex players for England will always talk up supporting other English clubs in Europe etc. It’s been the same since I can remember. Nothing to see here.
If we don’t beat the pub side from Rennes…emery has to go tonight. OGS is making him look like a chump.
Imagine Emery going to PSG and winning. Lolz.
Liverpool will win in Germany next week and MC will cruise past Schalke.
Play 4 4 2
Tonight …
Best way to play rope a dope…
Play lac an pea up front
With pace on the wings…
“Play lac an pea up front”
Lacazette suspended for both legs
GoH
Not arsenal club legends supporting spurs, and you don’t see Ferdinand wanting Liverpool to win it, or any of the Liverpool pundits wanting united to do it for that matter.
Graham
Hope so
Then uefa will pair them English clubs up next round..
Same as us n Chelsea..
Imagine both Euro cup all English affairs…
Meltdown at uefa ….
Hairline
Young Eddie then,…
Jdavey
They do mate. They may not actually say the words but they insinuate that they want ‘British clubs to do well’.
Cech
Amn
Kos
Papa
For real
Xhara
Torreira
Iwobi
Mikkhi
Pea
Eddie
There we go
David Seaman talks crap in every comment on Arsenal affairs and isn’t the brightest yorkshire lad.
I like Pedro’s cloths and the hat too. 🙂
You could take every northerners IQ, add them together and you still wouldn’t make double figures.
I want the White Walkers to win.
Good post Pedro, top lols too.
I’m English, 42 and have supported Arsenal since 85 and I never support other English clubs in Europe, fuck that, especially Man Utd, Liverpool or Tottenham, no fucking chance.
If I had to choose one I could just about stomach City winning it but it would gaul me because they would have essentially bought it like they have all their success, just like Chelsea.
Everybody calm down about Ole G, he’s just the mouthpiece, it’s essentially Phelan and Fergie doing the work and that comes from my Manc mate.
Pedro, does this mean you will be singing along with Emery? I guess not. For me the PSG/Man U game re-emphasised the critical importance of man-management: the Man U players love Ole, the PSG-ers don’t care much for Tuchel. After Jose, no doubt anybody with a smile on his face would have won the hearts of Pogba and Co – and Ole never stops smiling. After the excitement of CL, the Europa seems decidedly dull. A tiny sigh of relief if we win or draw at Rennes, nothing more. The big question is: can Unai do to Ole what no… Read more »
Receding
“A squad as unbalanced as ours should not be setup one way for all games, nothing wrong with having different plans for different opponents”
Would you say that bringing Saurez into the squad in January helped to re address the imbalance in the squad .
according to your expert opinion , Saurez was brought in to be a winger who could help out defensively.
I said at the time , the loan signing of Saurez could be on par with Kim kallstrom in the cock up department..
Man Utd’s odds have dropped from 28 to 1 to 10 to 1 to win the CL. My mate stuck £20 on, that’ll be £560 plus his £20 back.
“My mate stuck £20 on, that’ll be £560 plus his £20 back.”
Well, no.
He’s lost £20
@RSPC : Laca is suspended.
But who do you calling “for real” ?? Ozil ?? lol
To answer all…yes I support ALL UK teams in Europe (including Spurs). It’s national pride…something rare on Arsenal blogs.
Domestically… gloves off.
OGS has at least proven one thing and that is you can still be respectful and humble and yet create a winning formuler.
He wasn’t called the baby face assassin for nothing.
“Would you say that bringing Saurez into the squad in January helped to re address the imbalance in the squad .”
One post you complain the technical players like Suarez are on the bench, the next you ask why he is here on LOAN. Suarez was brought in as an extra body by Arsenal who were not willing to spend in january. Quit obsessing over his transfer.
“according to your expert opinion , Saurez was brought in to be a winger who could help out defensively.”
That wasn’t what was said. But if that’s what you understood good for you
Yep the jammy b’stards rode their luck again.7 penalties in7 matches.you couldn’t make it up.only them hey.still as peds pointed out.let’s hope we run them ragged from the off Sunday.& as for spunky seaman,not the brightest tool in the box.u never.ever want hated rivals.& manure def come into that category,to do well FFS!
Yep, Uefa will be having kittens after next week with four teams in the quarters.
Watch out for a bit of skullduggery in the draw process.
Another reason for Brexit.
I really want to see our team tonight picked based on the UTD game.
UTD just played a tough away game, despite the fact they have won 300 games in a row, they arent playing well, and luck has to run out sometime.
Emery needs to be smart, and not run our players into the ground.
Ozil & Suarez wont start against UTD, so play them. Torreira cant play against UTD. Give old men Koscielny and Monreal a rest, bring them back for UTD.
I don’t think Man. Utd did much running yesterday. The PSG players were, as you rightly said, disrespectful. Don’t know how the support was from the home team but against a weekend side, there is really no excuse. They were too dramatic with the tactics, forcing passes, playing to the gallery. They are telling the world they are no European elite. Shameful, another team might have been grateful in their stead.
I’m with gambon on this.v.sensible.
Looking at the travelling squad, Emery is going to play his strongest team. There is no Jenkinson, Lichtsteiner, Elneny, Willock. I think Emery is treating this game like another EPL game with the standard rotation; Torr for Guen, Ozil for Ramsey, Kola for Monreal. Maybe AMN for Mustafi. Suarez will sub in for Mkhit or Iwobi, Ramsey for Ozil. Guen for Xhaka. You can already see how Emery is going to use his manpower. Hope we can get an early lead and just go through the motion to rest up.
RH. “One post you complain the technical players like Suarez are on the bench, the next you ask why he is here on LOAN. Suarez was brought in as an extra body by Arsenal who were not willing to spend in january. Quit obsessing over his transfer.” it was you who said the squad was unbalanced not me but you haven’t answered the question . Has the Saurez signing helped to ‘re address , what you called , the imbalance in the squad. And yes , I like technical players , not sure that Emery does though , and Saurez… Read more »
Masterstroke
March 7, 2019 10:37:06
To answer all…yes I support ALL UK teams in Europe (including Spurs). It’s national pride…something rare on Arsenal blogs.
Domestically… gloves off.
You obviously live in a bubble Masterstroke or smoke some serious shit because if the spuds were to win it my life would be hell on earth and I would seriously contemplate leaving the country!
Just for the jokes I’d love to see spurs win it.
To see Arsenal die hards weeping into their lattes would be priceless.
Maybe, just maybe, a spurs win might be the kick up the arse we need to stop being content with being a shite club.
Catalyst for change.
Not taking Elneny was a silly decision.
Would have been a perfect opportunity to rest both our CMs that are playing on Sunday.
In fact we couldve realistically rested Laca, Iwobi, Mykhitaryan, Ramsey, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Monreal, Koscielny, Leno – 9 of our 11 starters on sunday.
Just for the jokes I’d love to see spurs win it.
This must be the most stupid thing anyone has ever posted on here. Congratulations Guns Of Hackney
Anybody that would love to see Spurs win the CL when we haven’t won it ourselves obviously aren’t true Arsenal fans.
Imagine if we get to the EL final against Chelsea.
Masterstroke will be cheering whoever scores.
Chelsea beat us 10-0
“Honey, get the good champagne out”
True gambon, totally. Really not sure what Emery’s doing here – it’s like he sees the Rennes game as tougher and more important?
Yes, I am not an arsenal fan. Yawn.
Arsenal are garbage. We need change.
Perhaps if something so cataclysmic as spurs winning the CL woke us up…I’d take it.
Others won’t because of their ‘loyalty’ to arsenal. Any minute now someone will pipe up and say ‘I bleed red and white’.
Knobheads.
There is only 1 knobhead on here with a comment like that on an Arsenal site
Masterstroke, are you lost my friend?
Do you need a link to the Man Utd fan forum?
Davey
That’s very honest of you. I’m glad the therapy is working. First step is always admitting who you are. Well played.
“Cut me and I bleed red and white”.
“My grandad was an Arsenal fan”.
“I’d kill people for Arsenal FC”.
“Everybody calm down about Ole G, he’s just the mouthpiece, it’s essentially Phelan and Fergie doing the work and that comes from my Manc mate.“
😂 hope this is tongue in cheek
Guns of Hackney
No surely being an Arsenal fan on a Arsenal site is enough justification for not wanting Spurs to win the CL. Now jog on to Spursweb.com you confused man and take your mate Masterstroke with you. I despair!
Why the OGS love on an Arsenal blog? If you love Arsenal why would you want Tottenham and Man United to win anything? Really?
As for Arsenal, Emery needs to ship out that disastrous footballer known as S. Mustafi this summer. Along with Granit Xhaka those two clowns have caused our team to throw away a ridiculous amount of points. If we are going to be as restricted in transfer funds as it is being touted we need to try to cover £80m from their sales and buy younger smarter and hungrier.
@GOH ‘I bleed red and white’.
Isn’t we all have red blood cell and white blood cell?
“In fact we couldve realistically rested Laca, Iwobi, Mykhitaryan, Ramsey, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Monreal, Koscielny, Leno – 9 of our 11 starters on sunday.”
Yep.
This would have been the sensible brave decision but it’s clear Emery is placing all his eggs in the Europa League basket and hoping to win it. Bearing in mind we lost to a very rusty BATE Borisov I’m not holding my breath.
We’re in the same predicament as we were under Wenger, our squad is nowhere good enough in quality and depth to do decently in more than one competition.
Leeds
How many points have they cost us? Because it’s not much of an argument if you can’t quantify it and are relying purely on emotion.
More points than Auba/Laca have cost us with their misses say? Or Licht has cost us? Etc.
Nelson
You’re right. That’s why that bloody statement is nonsense.
Anyway, off to spurs.com
I need a shower after reading Tory boy’s nonsense
Not tongue in cheek at all.
Phelan does a lot of the coaching and oversees the other coaches. Fergie’s been advising Ole G, on lineups, squad rotation and tactics and is working with the hierarchy on next season’s signings.
Fuck Spurs, fuck Man C, fuck Man U, fuck Chelsea and fuck Liverwank.
In a nutshell – fuck ’em all.
“I’ve supported since 1950” – then time to grow up!
How anyone thinks Spurs winning CL for the first time in their history before us would be good for Arsenal is beyond me.
We will never live it down.
Even if we went on to win 6 in a row to surpass Liverpool’s record Spurs will always Lord it over us that they won it first.
Would be terrible.
Champagne That’s a fair enough point but I don’t have time just now to compile such a depressing list. An experienced defender should know better than to make a stupid tackle when his team is up and the game is closing down. Mustafi is far too prone the rash tackle when things are on tenderhooks… that’s my point. In the same way, a WC striker should be composed enough to put away the gift of a last minute penalty. That’s a mental fault as much as a footballing one. On both ends of the pitch out team is still prone… Read more »
gambon
Have you ever seen Rennes play before?
It’s possible that Emery really thinks this one is a banana skin
United have to come down from the sky after their big win. They will be tired and will want to play in the counter.
Pogba didn’t play yesterday but he expended as much energy rejoicing.
Ajax winning the Champions league would be a departure from only rich clubs winning the Champions league
I reckon Emery is much more interested in tonights match than the Man U one. I mean mathematically of course we can at the moment get top 4 but with our defence away from home against the likes of Everton, Leicester, Watford etc then our best shot for him is the Thursday night cup.
Leeds I agree, would be interesting to know where we’ve “lost” the most points this season as per the data, though I’m sure some of that would still be up for debate given what makes a chance a chance, a foul a foul etc. You’d imagine the usual suspects would feature though, just curious if any unusual one/s would crop up. @benny Oh cmon mate, you’ve got to be taking the piss with that? United have broken United records in this little run, and you think it’s down to Fergies WhatsApp prowess, and Phelan doing an Arteta? Give Ole his… Read more »
This is a place for Arsenal fans mate.
Ironic this, if you speak up about the team you support on here the regular argument starters will be on your neck
No clean sheet tonight.
Ben Arfa vs. Mustafi and Kos.
(lol)
Pressure will be on Solskjaer when he finally signs a contract, at the moment he is in nothing to lose mode.
gambon
March 7, 2019 10:59:20
Imagine if we get to the EL final against Chelsea.
Masterstroke will be cheering whoever scores.
Chelsea beat us 10-0
“Honey, get the good champagne out”
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Classic gambon!
and I’m born in London (does that make me Engurlish) and you wouldn’t catch me cheering on Chelsea, Utd, Liverpool, City and especially not Tottenham in Europe.
Does that make me less Engurlish than you? Eff it, I’m not Engurlish then.