‘NO Moura, less than two points’
Legend of Le Grove’s 1st comment… DM… had a first of his own yesterday as he welcomed a new baby girl into the world. Everyone raise a FIRST to him in the comments today to celebrate. Congrats, Thierryrina is a beaut of a name!
ONTO SERIOUS FOOTBALL STUFF 👇👇👇
How many articles did you read yesterday about the erosion of civil society because two dickheads ran onto football pitches? Our press LIVE for a moment in which they can condemn every living/breathing person and wrap it in a football narrative. Idiots are always a byproduct of something they don’t like. Social media, Brexit, porn, cats…
Dickheads have always been a part of modern culture and they always will be. Don’t try and make sense of it. Just let it be and make sure that if the person sitting next to you suggests running on the pitch, you demand they get naked or sit the fuck down. Do the same if the person next to you at work asks if you want a tea, see how that works out.
UNITED COLD TURKEY
As the joy subsides post-United, the stinging slap of reality has set in for some.
We’re back in prison, we’ve been locked in a cage with 3 other big boys, we’re now fighting it out in the #TopDog race, with a whole bunch of nasty weirdos looking to shank us along the way.
What I’m trying to say is this… let’s not get carried away thinking this race is done. Things have fallen into place very nicely over the past month. Spurs, Chelsea and United have all slipped in and out of ecstasy. Now we’re on high #Top4Life, but things could get testy very quickly.
I liken this moment to the Champions League semi-final when the club first gave us flags, we started waving them like lunatics, then CR7 stepped up and spoiled the party. Away form is our CR7 brooding over a free kick.
When you look at our easy run, you realise it’s actually not easy. It’s really hard. Our struggles have generally come on the road this season, and against the unsexy teams.
Everton, Watford, Leicester and Wolves are the big worry for us. They are Xherdan-Shaqiri-in-a-Borat-one-piece levels of sexy. They are tough, gritty, tiring games to play. This is where the weakness of our season has generally sat. BATE, Brighton, West Ham, Rennes are the games we should have won but didn’t
Is it a talent thing? No. I think it’s a focus thing.
Unai Emery has to take the same sort of attention to detail he had for Spurs/United and channel it into the games that aren’t as interesting. He has to keep the players interested. He has to make sure they feel the fire of importance. He has to make the end goal feel important to the players.
That could be super basic. Maybe a little reminder there’s serious money in it if we make top 4. It could be flashing the excitement of elite football next season. It could be the threat of getting booted out if the socks are not pulled up hard enough. Or it could just be the hit of adrenaline from United that carries us through.
Each game is now a Cup Final… but, before we turn the league into a cup, we have to deal with Rennes on Thursday.
We are more than capable of taking them down by two goals. The challenge is they are protecting a lead and as a counter-attacking team, what better position to be in than waiting for Arsenal to overextend themselves?
I’ve read some people say we should throw the game. I think that’s silly. Emery could really do with a cup win to bolster his rep going into the summer. It’d also be smart to keep both routes to the Champions League firmly open. I’d also personally like to see Emery give it some back to Ben Arfa for his premature gloating the other day.
The real work starts now. We have momentum with us. We have two routes to the promised land of Champions League football. We look like we’re firing on all cylinders.
Let’s make the run in something special!
Unai – the Game of Thrones metaphor might be a little over-blown -I never personally saw any dragons or beheadings- but GoT is as good a metaphor as any for the corporate world!
Excellent 45 that. Marko What happened to the guy who use to post intelligently about Wenger? Unai is capable of mistakes, they all are. If you’d like to insert “frozen out” for “ban” by all means. But lets not reinvent, Ozil and Ramsay were most definitely frozen out and now reintroduced. Unai took the long road in proving a point. Currently were a better side with them in it, so yes my gripes with Emery stem from his not utilizing whats at his disposal. For now were good, he’s corrected in right direction. But if Unai has us linked with… Read more »
But if Unai has us linked with a host of medicore dross this summer, i’m going in studs up.
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Hahaha Or what we like to refer to on Le Grove as the Gambon.
Chiellini is such a pest.. Got to love him… You want him on your side but hate to play him. This is why I have some love for Papa Sok. those type of CB’s always make a defense stronger.
Game on now..
Ronaldo again – again!!!
At least Goal line technology works.
How does getting top four effect our summer window?
Discuss and speculate
London, it won’t affect it at all… unless people believe Stan will reach into the overdraft before prize money is handed out.
I just so expect Szczesny to fuck up at some point.
Well in theory .. it attracts higher caliber players who want to sign for us.. and gives us more money to put towards transfers.. but it still remains to be seen what the new management setup will do.. Surely it wont be like Wenger… era.. were we dither and make excuses.. I hope.
Dissenter
True, City will be favourite over 2 legs against a good many of teams still in it but just think their lack of experience in the European stage has got to make Barça the team to beat
Klopp also seems to be doing a good work on Pep recently by sussing out his game but don’t honestly think there’s a prospective fixture there
Bayern are currently buzzing and I think the dippers will be dispatched by the Bavarians honourably.
Uefa reduced 3 game ban to 2.
Laca eligible to play Rennes @ Emirates!!
About time…
Lol
Cr7 the GOAT at it again
Athletic must hate the man so much.lol
If Ronaldo scores here… …
Getting top 4 increases our budget, of course it does.
All revenue streams dropped when we fell out of the CL
Tv money is £20-30m down
Commercial fell £10m
Gate money fell by £5m
That’s £35-45m
Our financial year runs from June 1st so we spend based on our revenue for the coming 12m.
Pedro, for the most part I agree, you need ambition and a desire to succeed but that goes for every potential candidate for any of our positions, why is that a problem?
Anyway, I’m cautiously optimistic about the future but I do understand why others aren’t, it’s been a tough few years.
Schalke given a proper shackling here
Technically, City players are superior to other teams. I like their passing. They seldom overhit a pass. If Auba and Laca can have their passing skill, they’ll score many more goals.
PK… This might be game set match..
Hat trick
Christiano again again again
Has to be considered greatest CL player ever.. unreal.
AM really needed to set up to get that away goal.. before they attempted to park the bus.
Diego blew his load with that celebration in the first leg.
Atletico fans goaded the wrong player with a game to play haha
It s the manager’s job to select a team that is going to win football matches and the fact is , the decision by Emery to marginalize Ramsey and Ozil for 3 months cost us dearly results wise .
Hard to select Ozil when he calls in sick. Hard to start him when he’s playing so poorly. Ramsey I’ll admit should have played more but he’s leaving us so it’s understandable that we didn’t continue to start him.
Total bottle job by Simeone tonight. Went there tonight with zero attacking ambition and was just hoping to defend the lead.
To be honest, I’m not convinced about Simeone tactically.
He’s exactly like mou, very clueless setting up a team to attack.
Any allardarce, pulis can do what they do if they have Godin or Terry. With a Costa or Drogba. Just defend and load it to the big man.
Juve wasn’t that great neither was CR7, but Simeone just set them up to defend when a single goal from them would have won it
Juve city game would be interesting.
All the Italians around my hood gonna be unbanterable for a few weeks.
Old Lady.. gets revenge.
City will murder them to be honest. No team can stop city except pool (due to familiarity). City will win by at least 2 goals against this juve
Looool, Rinaldo never tires of bending over Atletico Madrid does he?
How fucking stupid do those plonkers goading him 1st leg feel now?
Remember when a few on here were dredging up some twitter discord about Allegri after the first match?
Back under your rocks, he’s HP.
If you’d like to insert “frozen out” for “ban” by all means. But lets not reinvent, Ozil and Ramsay were most definitely frozen out and now reintroduced. Frozen out makes more sense. One player is leaving us come the end of the season and the response to it seems fairly generic kinda reasonable when you see what’s happening to Rabiot at PSG. As for Ozil why the fuck wouldn’t you freeze out a player who’s been so poor this season and who’s been faking injuries. He’s unwanted. I would say the only reason they were allowed back in was because… Read more »
But if Unai has us linked with a host of medicore dross this summer, i’m going in studs up
He doesn’t do the signings it’ll likely be Monchi doing that
This is exactly why juventus bought ronaldo for cl football..
Not saying he can grab them a cl but he is the most crunch time clutch player possible.
Emery on the other hand is very tactically adept but can’t manage sulking superstars. Arsenal is his best fit. Reasonable funds for almost superstars.
Forza Juve, went out and grabbed it back.
Relentless.
Messi is the greatest but Ronaldo is certainly the most clutch player I have ever seen in the CL, not even close.
Calm down CR7 fans, he did not do anything today that a Lukaku can’t do. Not that he was superb. It was 2 headers and a pen
CC
“Diego blew his load with that celebration in the first leg”
That just got me laughing so had that I released a load of gas per rectum.
Congratulations DM on the birth of your baby girl..
Sanmi
Its the fact that he steps up in crunch time in the CL KO stage time and time again, 66 goals now. Messi is next with 40 KO goals.
Lukaku will do well to halve Messi’s total never mind CR7.
Calm down CR7 fans, he did not do anything today that a Lukaku can’t do. Not that he was superb. It was 2 headers and a pen”
This quite a disturbing comment.
Guinness is the only beer I drink now days
It is officially classed as being red not black
“Calm down he only scored a hattrick”
lol
Marko struggling to find the banter in “Ban”.
Messi doesn’t need to score 66 KO goals. He’s the undisputed GOAT
Sanmi serving some stupid exclusive to the good folks of Le Grove, keep on trucking brotha you’re dead right…..
Lukaku is famed for his clutch hat tricks in the latter stages of the CL after all.
Best player in that match is Bernadeschi
Are you watching maaaarkooooo
Sanmi
Bernadeschi was the engine, insane performance but there’s no denying CR7 and his hat trick MOTM.
City really do have an embarrassment of riches. There squad is sooo fucking stacked with quality. For god sakes gundogan even zvchenko are beasts and noone even talks about them.
I know Messi has many fan boys but he’s not got the athleticism,mentality,physicality,fight and utter arrogance of Cr7, basically attributes of an elite talent.
Actually rate Cr7 higher than Messi
Generally despise Ronaldo and look forward to him going to prison for rape but he’s indisputably elite in the CL.
Messi is still king though, be real.
Ronaldo is inspired by high tempo pressure moments in fact that’s when he excels he doesn’t have normal wiring up top.
Just with that penalty or the one he took ij the cl final ge loves taking them he believes utterly in himself.
What about city v Schalke?
Fuck me they are cruising now.
Gonna be some big big games in the next round
Marko and receding seem to have a real problem with Ozil coming back into the side and proving Emery wrong for marginalizing him. One would have thought they would be pleased now Arsenal are back on track thanks to Ozil’s considerable influence on the team’s improving performances over the last 6 games. we are now watching an Arsenal team playing the Arsenal way and long may it continue…..no more headless chicken football . Emery has come to his senses just in time for The Arsenal to have a strong finish to The season…..better late than never. One gets the feeling… Read more »
Victorious
I actually disgaree that he is not athletic player (maybe not so much now)
Guy imhas riddick levels of acceleration, best balance and agility in world football and is strong as fuck… yes Messi is strong he has that low center of gravity hard to shrug off the ball.
He also has riddic levels of pgstical constitution hw rarely gets injured despite always playing.
Messi is a combination of both god lije technique and physical prowess.
@Sanmi
Calm down CR7 fans, he did not do anything today that a Lukaku can’t do. Not that he was superb. It was 2 headers and a pen”
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Embarrassing comment really.
Inwas right
Laca will play Thursday,.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/8621545/lacazette-free-rennes-europa-league-arsenal-suspension-reduced/
RSPC
How’d the bets hold?
Headers don’t count as goals?
People don’t seem to understand wgy ronnie gets so many headers it beca7se he has the verticle leap of a chimpanese on steroids.
Guy is a fucking machine
Amazing stuff from Rapenaldo tonight.
One would have thought they would be pleased now Arsenal are back on track thanks to Ozil’s considerable influence on the team’s improving performances over the last 6 games.
Might want to look up the definition of considerable and influence
Juve turn back the situation in their favour…
Ajax do the same vs Real…
Manure as well – even if psg gave them the game lol
Over to you Gunners!!
That’s true.
Ozil hasn’t done much to shout about in the last 6 games. Or this season. Or last season. Or the season before. He’s got world class talent but he isn’t a world class player. A great performance every now and again isn’t enough.
Lol @ considerable influence… Good one Pierre
Paulinho will tell you I’m an Ozil fanboy myself Pierre but he needed that treatment. Man has been mailing it in for two seasons now and you expected a manager with a difficult job to do as it is to tolerate sickies and coasting during games.
He hasn’t done anything worth crowing about since he was brought back in by the way, still shirking taking responsibility hiding behind his chance creation stat, of the four allegedly created against united not one comes to mind. Tells you all you need to know about that stat
Marco- your anti Ozil perception is clear. Just refute Pierre’s stats of our play
It’s pure coincidence Arsenal winning when Ozil is in the side
Özil bar a handful of games hasn’t contributed much this season. Pierre will have you believe he’s been instrumental but we know he hasn’t been. A handful of goals and 3 assists all season shows that
Pierre is just an Ozil fan-boy at this point.
It ain’t over until the perfectly manicured CR7 steps off the pitch.
Undoubtedly the greatest player in the history of the Champions League. What’s that now 25 goals against At. Madrid alone in this competition?
Talk about a nemesis…
“I know Messi has many fan boys but he’s not got the athleticism,mentality,physicality,fight and utter arrogance of Cr7, basically attributes of an elite talent. Actually rate Cr7 higher than Messi.”
Well, let the friday’s drawing be Juventus vs Barca in the CL QF, then we’ll see whose the best, Messi or Ronaldo.
ES/Bob N15
Going off topic for a moment what are your thoughts on Sara’s Spencer whose been brought into the squad with Robson out with illness?
Is he a real contender for Japan?
How does he compare to Youngs, Care and Robson?
The Scotland game will be very significant for England’s mental resilience and momentum in their build up to Japan, and also could win them the 6-Nations if Ireland do England a favour and beat the Welsh.
“athleticism,mentality,physicality,fight and utter arrogance of Cr7, basically attributes of an elite talent. ”
Cr7 is a rapist.
And thanks to his legion of lawyers, he will never be proven guilty.
They can’t even serve him his papers because he is so walled up.
I don’t understand. I thought it was a given that CR7 was not a “ladies’ man”. Now there are these sexual assault allegations from women dating back years. What did I miss?
On second thoughts, perhaps the abuse issue here is that he used them in ways God intended for clergymen to pleasure young boys…
Tony
I am not a great fan of Spencer. I think that his decision making is suspect.
Wrigglesworth despite his age is a far better SH.
Tony
England will beat Scotland.
The question is whether Wales can/will beat Ireland. If they do then of course
they will win Champs. If not England will win it because their points difference
is considerably better than both Wales and Ireland.
England are the best team/squad despite their defeat by Wales in Cardiff. They need however to get back in team both Mako and Itoje. Also the SH position needs an upgrade on Youngs and Care.
Let’s all agree that both CR7 and Messi are exceptional talents.
Lyon will be cursing Ronaldo because we all know what tends to happen after one of these players turns it on the night before the other.
I fancy Lyon to get a score-draw 2-2 and qualify on the away goal rule.
Suarez is having an off season and Messi has not reached the high that he used to.
Lyon midfield has a density that Barcelona does not have. With Barcelona Dembele injured and Messi not having one of his magical night, there is not a lot of goal scorer in that Barcelona team.
ES
Agreed England will beat Scotland and we need Itoje and Mako back. Itoje is out of the 6 Nations with a knee problem.
I like what little we saw of Robson; he seems to be a blend of Care & Youngs.
Ireland are at Cardiff so will be tough but I think they should win by a narrow margin especially as Sexton did well against France and seems to be back to his best.
Valentin
To be honest, I would love Lyon to go through. I definitely think they’ll score but still think the Messi factor will edge it for Barca.
2-1 or 3-2 Barcelona.
What about BM against Liverpool?
Ronaldo never raaped that woman she qqs a model/glamour model who went back to his apartment in las vegas no less at night time… what to hold hands and quote poetry?
She pbviouslt went for sex, ronaldo hit it once spurned so she called rape in order to get money/fame. There are women who use hooking up with fqmpus wealthy males as a meal ticket and this is a classic example.
That’s not to say there aren’t true creeps our their like bill cospy ect
I hope that Arsenal will select tomorrow a team similar to that,which played on Sunday. The one exception will be that Sokratis will not be able to play. I would play Xhaka, Ramsey and Ozil in midfield with both Aubameyang and Lacazette playing up front. Arsenal do not need to concern themselves with a weekend game as our next fixture is against Newcastle at home in two weeks time. Rennes will almost certainly put everyone behind the ball and try and hold onto the ball. So it is imperative that we play with width [Kolasinac and Maitland-Niles ] and craft… Read more »
LG
Der Spiegel got their source material via Football Leaks.
http://global.espn.com/football/soccer/0/blog/post/3794488/six-months-after-ronaldo-was-accused-of-rapewhy-is-the-case-in-legal-limbo?src=com
Pierre obsession with everything Ozil is just as disturbing as bob with his Wilshere comments. But I must say bob hardly mentions Wilshere anymore, guarantee you Pierre will mention OZIL name today more than twenty times. Like crackhead candy man. 😉
Samesong
Arsenal played well on Sunday with Ozil in the team.
Whilst he is no longer the player who played for Real Madrid and Germany he
is nevertheless someone who still offers creativity and meaningful passing game.
Let’s be clear we are paying him £350 K pw to PLAY and not sit at home like a
couch potato. This is absolutely the right game for him to be selected.
Stroller “I hope that Arsenal will select tomorrow a team similar to that,which played on Sunday. The one exception will be that Sokratis will not be able to play.I would play Xhaka, Ramsey and Ozil in midfield with both Aubameyang and Lacazette playing up front.” The team selection for tomorrow night’s game is a bit of a conundrum for Emery. If Mhkitaryan is fit then he will be difficult to leave out , that would probably mean playing 4-2- 3-1 with Aubamayang,Mhkitaryan, Ozil and Mhkitaryan starting with Ramsey and Xhaka holding in midfield with a flat back 4. The conundrum… Read more »
news going round that we have 40m summer budget if we don’t qualify for the CL. Goes to show we need to offload a lot of dross players to get a bit more dough.
My list
Mustafi
Ozil (sorry pierre)
mhiki
Auba
Kos
elneny
Licht
Jenkinson
Add to that, we lose cech and ramsey and welbz.
The lot above can at least fetch us upward of 30m
Promote some youth, get in a few good players and we may just look better as a team.
Arsenal played well on Sunday with Ozil in the team.
Emirates I said the same during game and after game on Sunday also.
I am no Ozil hater.
He need to play tomorrow also.
Pierre
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The fear is that Emery will revert back to his favourites , Iwobi and Guendouzi who are good players but don’t take care of the ball well enough for my liking and tomorrow is a night for keeping the ball and being patient and putting pressure on their defence without being wasteful in possession..
@Dark Hei
”Cr7 is a rapist.”
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Do you have any evidence of this claim? I thought it was innocent until proven guilty.
@Graham, I would love Bayern to beat Liverpool and their absolutely horrible fans. However I suspect that Bayern will be eliminated on the away goal rule as I don’t see them stopping Liverpool from scoring again. I must admit that I have build a dislike of Klopp. He came and looked like a bit of fresh air with his bonhomie. However that has been revealed to be completely fake. When things don’t go his way, he behave like a spoiled prat: screaming, shouting, blaming everybody and everything (even the wind) for his mistake or misfortune. The manager goes hand in… Read more »
Ozil needs to go in the summer. Talented player but he’s not right for the direction the club is going in. He sums up the Arsenal of recent years. Flashes of brilliance but inconsistent and weak.
gonsterous I wonder how much money we need to bleed in order to sell the likes of Mustafi and Ozil. I think Arsenal’s transfer budget actually increases if you keep them at the club. Consider Ozil. He is at 350k a week. We loan him to say Juventus; they pay 150k and we pay 200k because thats about what they are willing to pay because his stock ain’t high nowadays. So we free up 150k in wages…….but that only works, if we are not looking for a replacement. But say, if we get Ever Benega as replacement. We will have… Read more »