Bit embarrassing, right?

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I am leaving emotion at the door. Yesterday was hard for me. Firstly, being taken down by the Emery Ultras over my love affair with Thomas Tuchel (‘Who lost worse?’ the shortest lived attack of all time), secondly, having to bear witness to another Arsenal away day disaster.

Here are some of my opinions dressed up as bona fied facts.

Arsenal will win the return leg

Don’t fall for the drossy idea that Rennes are some sort of secret team of elite mercenaries that were placed in France just to show Arsenal up for one game. They are 10th in an inferior league, their squad cost about 50 pence to put together, and they are more than capable of being beaten by two goals in the return leg.

Emery has to rally the troops, get a decent game plan together, and make the magic happen. I can tolerate exiting the last 16 in the Champions League. The Europa League? No flipping way. Winning Europa is literally Emery’s only speciality. Make it happen.

Relaxed Attitude

Emery needs to inject a bit of fear into the players. Our lads make so many dim mistakes game after game, and it’s starting to look like a focus issue. Sokratis was sent off for what looked like a clumsy error versus an intent-laden foul, but when you’re on a booking, don’t do something rash in the first half of leg one, away, in a cup competition.

Mustafi is a lost cause, so why do we continue to play him? Could a youth child do any worse? Xhaka, a serial offender of ‘WHY WHY WHY’ moments, tends to drop a terrible performance that usually coincides with a Four Four Two hot take patronisingly headlined ‘WHY XHAKA IS UNDERRATED AND ARSENAL FANS ARE DUNCE PERVERTS.’ Wake up chaps, he’s not underrated, he’s an error terrorist that earns a pass from the ‘I WORE COPA MUNDIALS TO MY WEDDING’ journo crowd because who the fuck would dare challenge a pass completion percentage on the Stats Zone app?

Guendouzi being outpaced by a player 10 years older who has signed a deal with another club… shocking, really shocking. I love him, but that sort of carry-on is a very new issue. What’s going on?

We are in March. It’s hard to say that focus is beyond these players because they went 22 games unbeaten and put in a brilliant performance away from home against Spurs. Whatever the mental block, it needs to be addressed by Sunday.

Bad Strategies

Emery once again went all guns blazing in a cup with a first team, once again coming up woefully short. Why did he pick such a strong side? One would assume to DESTROY Rennes in the first leg. So what happened? I can understand that a red card against Manchester City is likely a death sentence, but Rennes? Embarrassing. Did the changes Emery make look smart or feel ambitious? Not to me. Auba didn’t have a great game, but why take him off for a full back when you could do with a second goal on the counter?

Bad Vibes

I heard whispers that the manager dropping Auba and LT for the Spurs game wasn’t communicated optimally. Whatever is going on, both players were utterly miserable. Auba looked like he’d just been sent down by kangaroo court for whistling too loud in the toilets at a Mick Hucknall gig. So much anger in his benched face.

I hope that the training camp is strong because if there are fissures appearing at this stage of the season, we’re in trouble when United come to play this weekend.

Consistency

Tough to call last night a freak accident. We did almost exactly the same against BATE. We’ve come off the back of a fairly glorious run against teams that are in bad form or just, you know, poor. Rennes wasn’t even a test and we flunked it. We’re not doing well away from home. Now we’re in a situation where our best shot at CL football is… qualifying via the top 4.

Here is the absolute craziness about it all. Who would be surprised if we dropped an incredible performance on Sunday? I wouldn’t. There’s no consistency or rhythm to our season. Our mental strength is determined on a whim. Our tactics are either bang on or non-existent. Sometimes there’s a style formed, sometimes it looks like cat faeces on a lightly toasted cream cheese bagel.

Who knows what’s coming… but unpredictable it shall be.

Anyway, like I said. No emotion from me (ish). You know my opinion. He’s not going anywhere, just pray that better players solve issues like defensive solidity, on-field identity, and squad mentality.

HUGE game on Sunday.

Let me know YOUR thoughts below. x

P.S. Monchi is heading over… more on him tomorrow.

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HillWood

Hoping The Scum moving into their ground in April completely fucks the rest of their season
Scummy cunts

Receding Hairline

Of course TR7 thinks Pierre has a wonderful mind football wise, 90% of his posts undermine Emery and we all know Emery is a fraud as far as TR7 is concerned

Spurs bottling it is blamed on spurs and not their manager, it’s amazing what being a media darling can do for you.

rollen

lol at Spuds and special sauce Poch.
Pierre is untold troll.

rollen

given both clubs players atm who is doing better Poch or Emary?

Victorious

Spuds are serial bottlers and it really wouldn’t surprise anyone to see them finish 5th/6th after laughably being touted ‘title challengers ‘ just a few weeks ago

Auba’s penalty miss really leaves a sour taste in the mouth and appears now more costly than ever

I mean We could be ending the weekend at 3rd if Auba wasn’t such a pygmy

He really should have blasted that pen in.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

As long as one of out players equalise the attrocity of rashords tackle on holding..

Nothing to malicious just a ACL or serious calf injury will suffice .

Dissenter

The officiating is really bad
How was that a goal when it was clear it was offside?

HillWood

Victorious
It’s taken you a week for the penny to drop
Well observed

Dissenter

Sterling went for the ball. .. offside, one he makes a move for the ball then the lad goes off.
Pierre has a point

These officials are bent.

Thomas

R.S.P.C.ArsenalMarch 9, 2019 18:34:07
As long as one of out players equalise the attrocity of rashords tackle on holding..Nothing to malicious just a ACL or serious calf injury will suffice

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Stay classy.

Graham62

If Liverpool don’t win tomorrow it will be game, set and match to MC.

Nelson

Last game against Rennes was bad in many ways. We fielded a strong squad and had to play 10 men for more than half of the game. Manure played a bunch of youngsters and has one more day rest. Tomorrow, I would try to defend first. We have an easier run in. Our team needs to recharge and starts again.

Graham62

I’m going to be brave(ok, stupid then). Prediction for tomorrow ………..3-2 win.

I know, ridiculous right?

Lacazette, Auba will both score.

Honestly, I’m not drinking.

Batistuta

Some very poor officiating at the Etihad

HillWood

Bat
It’s common place
Arsenal were mugged in broad daylight last week by the “officials “

Bunga Party

2-2 draw tomorrow

HighburyLegend

We will be spanked tomorrow.
Emery has lost his mojo long ago, Manure are full of confidence, it will be ugly.

G8

If manure scores 1st ,we have no hope imo..they have organised rejuvenated team and of course Da gea..
they can hurt us on the counter..like they always do..
We have to score 1st and then be smart in ball possession and pressing .
We have to take our chances as they come..
Aubama and Laca have to deliver..
6 pointer and all that..

Guns of sf

Auba as much as I like him better get his head out of his ass

Be active in the box and at least win a pen if anything

I agree we need first goal

Xhaka better watch the lunges

I can see a red card in this game don’t know which team

Leftsidesanch

You can set a team up as well as you like but when we field as many error prone imbeciles as we do there will always be a mistake. You can blame Emery for persisting with the same players but you can’t blame him for their silly mistakes. On Thursday, Emerys choices once we went down to 10 were incorrect but up to that point we were in no trouble. Last year we were poor away from home due to our silly regular defensive mistakes and nothings changed. The players also need to take responsibility its not as black and… Read more »

Pierre

Although Aubamayang struggled on Thursday , perceptions of his and the team’s performance would have been different if he wasn’t wrongly flagged offside when he was put through by Ozil’s exquisite flick to be one on one with the keeper on the half hour mark whilst we were 1-0 up. He was odds on to score in my opinion and a second goal at that time would have put Arsenal in strong a position to win the game and tie. Pity VAR was not in operation otherwise we could have been talking about a superb professional performance from the team… Read more »

Graham62

Auba has to come out from behind the sofa and show some balls.

Lacazette will be up for it……….no problem.

We’ll make mistakes galore but still fancy we’ll do it.

Ok, I’ve had 3 San Miguel.

Graham62

Pierre

“Ozil’s exquisite flick”

There’s just no stopping you Pierre.

10/10 for effort.

Graham62

Kudos to Raheem Sterling.

England’s future looks so much brighter these days..

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Let’s see what tomorrow bringsb

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Thomas

It was

Would have been trash if I said break a leg…
Or Macbeth

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Start young Effie tomorrow

As the two experts are doing fuck all

But give him Rambo
An ozil to feed him am he will score

Trust .

Pierre

Graham
It was a thing of beauty …

Graham62

RSPC

Who’s Effie?

Zimmie2652

Didn’t read through all the other pages yet. Anybody heard the Pep rumors? Same source who broke the Ronaldo deal early is reporting Pep has verbally agreed to join Juve in the summer in fear of a Champ’s League ban and FFP violations.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

3-1 let’s bee bold

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Sorry Graham

Eddie

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Reminds me of Ian Wright style player
Poacher

Barking Arsene

Slightly off topic but Piatek scores again for Milan tonight – 19 for the season I think now and level with Ronaldo.

Shame we weren’t in need of a CF when he was on the move. £35m is a bit of a steal to be honest.

Batistuta

Barking

He’s absolutely guns blazing at the moment, he’s gonna drag Milan back to the champions league at this rate, absolutely love him

Barking Arsene

Batistuta

Agreed, he is going to get them CL football I reckon.

Great thing about him is he was doing it for Genoa as well. Was absolutely smashing it even before the Milan move. Bargain.

Jay

So, let’s get rid of emery as he’s not the manager we’ve been looking for, hate or love wenger, emery will never give us that joy of football game that arsene has. Don’t give me wrong, I am more than happy that old cunt left, but can’t see any body taking us to the next level, especially not emery Still crying for arteta, he would have been a perfect match, look at man u, they’re still shit as they were under mourinho, but they believe in their coach, they are not any better, just enjoy their game, luckily for us… Read more »

Jay

I am Polish so not going to say much about signing piatek or about letting szczesny go for peanuts, just missed opportunities, like many we’ve made

Mick Kartun

Spuds always be spuds.

Unthinkable big opportunity for 4th.

Come on Emery, you blew this one up tonight against man yoo then you’re not worthy for next season.

gonsterous

TR7

I know Pierre has many detractors here but I really look forward to his posts. He reads the game well and unlike many others writes mostly about our performances, tactics and strengths/ weaknesses of our players.

joke Friday sure came early this week.

gonsterous

surprise, surprise, liverpool on the brink of losing the league so FFP comes into play and city gets investigated. Had it been arsenal competing for the title with city, no one would bother.

rollen

yep Piatek is great. Polish football getting some nice players lately.

Thorough

Good news: Since Kane returned Spurs have lost 3 and drawn 1 of their 4 epl games

Bad news: The only team that have refused taking full points from Spurs since Kane returned is Arsenal.

My Crystal Ball: Spurs will implode but only Chelsea and Manure will take advantage.

I hope I get proved wrong.

Graham62

RSPC

From what I’ve seen of Eddie, he is nothing like Ian Wright.

Pierre

He’s like Ian Wright without the goals …

Seriously though , he needs to be given a chance as he looks a decent player who is hungry for goals, however I have my doubts that under this manager any of our young kids coming through the academy will be given a realistic chance.

AMN, iwobi and holding were already blooded into the team before Emery arrived, maybe he feels that the likes of Nketiah, Smith rowe, willock, saka, Nelson , Medley etc are not up to standard….we will see.

Graham62

As for FFP, we all know that teams like Chelski ,MC and PSG have relied on these non-existent regulations to be where they are.

Christ, MC have helped redevelop half of Manchester and have still been able to finance a football club/team. Where’s the fairness and logic in that?

FFP is a complete and utter joke. I hope the authorities throw the book at them, but somehow you get the feeling a quick phone call from Sheik Mansour will sort the problem out.

A fair few Rolex watches set for delivery I sense.

Graham62

In what respect is Eddie like Ian Wright?

I’d love the lad to be given a chance and prove me wrong but I just don’t see the hunger and desire in his play to step up to the plate.

Graham62

If Ian Wright was playing today, we’d make top 4 no problem.

HillWood

Just hoping Arsenal turn up today and give it their all for 90 mins
No embarrassing defensive cock ups
And the officials do their job

Pierre

Gonsterous “surprise, surprise, liverpool on the brink of losing the league so FFP comes into play and city gets investigated.” To be honest, If I was a Liverpool supporter I would be feeling more than a little peeved at the decisions going Man City’s way in the title run in. The penalty decision last week in their 1-0 victory v West ham was dubious to say the least and the offside goal yesterday which was the all important opening goal was also a game changing position. Also, what do Tottenham have to do to get a player sent off ,… Read more »

Pierre

Decision(position)

Up 4 grabs now

Morning all,

Pierre the bindippers have had there fair share of dodgy decisions go for them as well.
The spuds have had a very easy time off it when it comes to refs. Can’t upset those pure and innocent England players!

Leftsidesanch

We will have chances. I just hope we take them.

They have some players who can hurt us but they’re still missing 5-6 first teamers. If they are to win I could take it better if it was due to their quality and not another idiotic mistake on our part.

Up 4 grabs now

We need to keep it tight at the back, no high line, and fullbacks/ wingbacks not to far forwards.

We don’t need to win the game in the first 20 minutes as long as we’re still in the game the last 20 minutes.

Up 4 grabs now

Watched the second half of the Southampton spuds game.

They really looked devoid of ideas, looked like a team that should be relegated, take there main player out of the side and there so ordinary. Look like a team of journeyman.

And Southampton wasn’t much better.

Freddie Ljungberg

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