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.
Fuck off. Sarr hit Papa ffs.
Corrupt ref.
Slow mo clearly shows Papaa was fouled.
Now fucking 1 — 1
No chance with that
Too slow.. to make up ground.. and it leads to a goal.
Going to now to be tough when it shouldnt be
fuck, All going wrong
That was a rocket.. no saving that one..
Lol. Reminder that our defence is completely shit without Sokratis.
That is a disgusting decision from the ref
Not even a foul
Yet again. Referees are fucking knob ends
Same ilk as traffic wardens
Mugs
If that was Mustafi there’d be riots. Amateur hour on a yellow from Papa ffs
1-1 yay
These guys are just useless
We just love to sabotage ourselves… we are the specialists in shooting ourselves in the foot.
Well thats what we get for being wasteful, then shooting ourself in the foot. Arsenal love an embarrassment so keep your eyes peeled.
50 mins of the first XI playing away with 10 men. We’re going to lose against United on Sunday, and we’ll be lucky not to lose tonight now. Disaster.
Fucking hell Auba. What the fuck is wrong with him today.
Stupidity, does it not get tiring to constantly do stupid things?
And Auba really starting to work my nerves
And that’s the problem trying to be a bully player you have to have some nous.
Can’t believe people on here praising him his whole game is based on being a
Bully it just does not work at top level.
Yes the guy has strengthened the back 4 but opposing players love a guy like him.?
Auba is costing us dear here. He must’ve given up good opportunities about 7 times now
Auba is really disappointing.
Auba…
Nicky B style footwork
Auba has been useless tonight.
Sokratis has the mindset of a drunken pirate.
He has to take Ozil off quickly to compensate
I just wish we had Laca available
Slight criticism the wall breaks after the box and you know who turns his back on the shot
Aubameyang is testing my patience
Auba fucking shit. Jammy fee, again.
Just poo
Thanks but no thanks for Sarr
How could no one from that wall line rush the player when the ball was a rebounce? Auba is shittttttttt
Aubamyang has been garbage… has the touch and pass of rkelly
Mikki is not a RB.
We paid £55m for a player who has the mentality of a snowflake. Honestly. Man up and do your job.
I’d rather play without a striker than this fucking shit from Auba. Need Ramsey on but Ozil is opening them up at times.
Our defense is in serious trouble now.. looks like Miki is basically playing RB… with Mustafi moved inside.
No wonder no one else contested the Auba transfer with us.
Said so at the time.
Expecting anti-Emery fireworks here after the game
Put Nketiah on in place of Auba… frankly can’t do any worse.
Embarrassing.
AMN on at half time surely, Ozil off and Mkhi inside.
at least torreira is playing well.
Auba missed a pen recently??
Ffs. Poor form.
What is the point of playing Mesut Ozil?
Pierre ………………………are you there?
Our players are world class I have been told.
The only positive is that we have an away goal but there is still a lot left to play with 10-men in a very hostile away ground.
Been saying it from the start aubameyang is fucking toilet
Without lacazette doing the hard yards for him he’s ineffective.
£55m for a 28 year old tap in merchant. Who only does it against shite teams when the pressure is off. Typical modern arsenal bullshit mentality
Where are the men?
If your going to miss a pen that allows us to beat our most hated rivals at least come and make up for it the next game. What kind of performance is that?
Worst half I’ve seen from Auba in a shit green shirt. Papa aswell has put us up against it.
I meant to write:
What is the point of paying Mesut Ozil?
Pierre ………………………are you there?
Cc
Cantbagree with you
Papa didn’t even make contact. Fool of a ref fell for the dive. Without papa I see this being a loss.
Dissenter
What are you piggybacking Ozil for? He opened them up on a couple of occasions and Auba has been god awful
Monreal… Torrierra… Iwobi playing passably well.. Miki has been force to defend because of Mustafi.. The rest not so much..
Sokratis first yellow was never a yellow.
Un
I like Papa, but he’s got to appreciate its European football and he’s on a yellow. Absolutely no need to flirt.
Why have we always got to make it hard for ourselves?
True Benny.. but then he knew he was on a yellow.. cant make those challenges after that.. although to be fair that dude would have been in on goal.. was a professional takedown.. although it didn’t matter they scored anyhow.
A player of his experience should know how to handle himself on a yellow away from home. Blame referees a you want but our players make it easy for them
CC
“He opened them up on a couple of occasions and Auba has been god awful”
Come one man. We pay Ozil to “open them up” a couple of times.
His wages are enough to pay for half the Rennes squad
We knew auba to be only a tap in master before we bought him, we just didn’t know he’s this useless. Can’t do a simple pass, doesn’t have shot in his legs, can’t dribble, what kinda useless player is that? He keeps letting us down week in week out
Yeah have to say ozil has chipped in with a couple of lovely passes
Nobody else in our side plays those balls. Just shows what he can do. If only he applied himself
Vickingz
Couldn’t agree more
Been saying it from the start.
Marko, Bamford, I’m looking at you
Un
In games like this, you have to do more than just chip a couple of passes.
Emery has to just try to park the bus and play them on the counter.
Hopefully we don’t melt down because we have Mustafi in the middle now.
Torr was playing too high up. It allowed their striker ran directly at our CB.
As for Xhaka, he had the ball in the midfield. He turned and passed the ball backwards directly to an opponent. He can make those brain dead pass.
RH, you are completely correct. How these players became professional players sometimes seriously disturbs me. You were on a yellow, had no pace in your legs, went for an high line, u were caught out and all you could think of was to pull the player or allow the player sell you a foul? Haba, useless sokratis
Now that we have to defend, Ramsey for Ozil, AMN for Mikki
Dissenter
His wages aren’t relevant ffs, he’s in the side to pick the lock and he’s opened them up more than once. What is he supposed to do for you? Slalom their back 5 and rabona top bins?
Sok knows better just didn’t fancy it tonight
Sokratis suspended
Mustafi carrying an injury.
Mkhi at RB
Hahaha Dream what could go wrong right?
Our best defender isn’t that good after all, is he? Been saying it for months that he’s better at wrestling than he is at playing football. Both him and Mustafi are extremely error prone and would love to see both of them gone in the summer. Kosci is done too. Ideally it’s Holding/Mavrapanos going forward but one is gonna be coming back from a bad injury and the other is largely inexperienced. So in reality we probably need 2 decent CB’s in addition to other positions where we are short. And Cech – you gotta trust your wall, buddy. If… Read more »
lucky. Monreal can’t keep up with Saar.
Matteo getting a bollocking to get his kit off
#leavingneverland
Ozil and Auba have been shit.
10 men still have more quality individually but not as a team.
Guendouzi coming on…
Matty G coming on for someone.. looks like he is warming up.
Conserving Iwobi for the manure.
We’re on the ropes now. Getting opened up. The saucemonger needs to change it to kill the game.
shocked auba hasn’t come off given how terrible he has been
Iwobi..off. must be gonna play 4-4 -1.
Wrong change there……Ozil should be off and even if, I’d have brought on AMN
Actually.where the f** k is mavroponos these days? Thought he was back from injury? AFC the masters of giving underdogs hope!
We are playing 4 – 3 – 2 now. But I still don’t feel well with Mikki as FB.
Sell Auba. Has nothing other than tap ins…
Auba been awful nothing coming off for him, but you can’t bring Eddie on for him.
wow.. no idea how they missed that… Somebody clearly woke up that Sarr kid…. explosive acceleration.
Monreal can’t keep up, we need help on that side, and he takes off Iwobi…..
Cech keeping us in it.
Cech still got it at least in this game!
Unreal decision from Emery with that Iwobi substitution
In a week where our local rivals are creating positive news …
So many players just tooooo slow closing their players down. Like deer caught in lights with a lot of the players.
Ramsey should’ve come on for Guendouzi. Guendouzi can’t maraud foward without ending up on his arse every time.
We are soooooooo slow!!!!
Xhaka doing xhaka things. Idiot.
Why use the hand there???
Auba, Ozil non existent.
Playing and paying with 8 men.
Guendouzi wasn’t the right call…..don’t know what Emery was thinking of.
When you’re down to 10 men, Ozil is the first to be yanked off…PERIOD
When you put slow players in the squad against fast players, why Papas and now Xhaka are resorting to cynical fouls…
Fuck off auba
I thought he’d take Ozil out.
Xhaka off please! AMN in
What the hell is this?!?!? It’s like football with a lag! So slow and clumsy. Its like they cant string 2 passes together.
Is the pitch that bad????
Awful
We can’t afford more red cards. Already Laca and Sokratis suspended for second leg. Xhaka looking like he fancies a second yellow, too.
Monreal is another faithful servant that’s past his due date.
There’s a shelve life for every player, he’s past it.
Fuk sake.. Kos.
WTF???
All from xhaka stupid pass in the box that led up to it.
Told ya
Fucking jokers