HAPPY MONDAY MY FRIENDS I AM FIT AND HEALTHY AND READY… to… you know… go to work and be a good citizen.
Did you like my headline? I was trying to be motivational. I say that sort of shit when I get paired with my GF in table football. Never helps, but you gotta sound the big man in front of the lads.
Anyway…
The Monday MEGA GAME is here!
The next level in sports entertainment.
Arsenal vs Watford.
A clash of the Titans.
A matchup of good vs evil.
Winner takes… well, nothing. But if we win, it’ll put us in mighty fine shape to finish the season in the top 3 of all places.
Imagine?
Liverpool put Chelsea at a disadvantage in the race, defeating them in a 2-0 victory. There were no Gerard like slips yesterday. Sarri is once again a massive fraud.
Now it’s over to Arsenal to crank up the pressure and keep pushing on in this very exciting race.
What adds even more importance to this game now is that Spurs play City this week in the Champions League then the league at the weekend. Both games are AWAY. We could genuinely bring top 3 into play again.
… or we could bottle it and make things really difficult for ourselves because we’re weak minded and feeble.
I have no idea how Emery is going to operate.
This evening, unless Mavrapanos has had some sort of Maldini like transformation in training, will likely see Mustafi in defence. A huge worry for everyone involved. There’s a great Getty image of Emery looking at the German the way we all look at the TV screen when he careens into an unnecessary slide tackle or throws out an elbow for no meaningful reason.
I don’t want to guess how he’s going to take on the starting 11. I think we need to be careful about how we line up, but I think I’d gamble on a strong starting 11 and then take players off once we’re ahead… vs start weak, go a goal down, then chase a game with our best players.
One thing worth noting is we had Napoli beaten early and took off Laca and Ozil on 67. I actually thought that was a more interesting point when I started writing it. I think I was hoping Ramsey had also come off, and closer to 55 minutes. Ignore that… but know we could do it against Watford if we have a strong first half.
Despite the worries, our record at Vicarage road isn’t that bad. We lost last season, but we’d won our previous 4 in a row before that. This is a good Watford team, no doubt, but if you want to fight for CL, you have to be able to beat a team that’s sitting in 10th. They’ve lost 3 of their last 6, dropping full points to United, City and Liverpool. Sure, they can be impressive on their day, but I think things are going to have to go really well for them for that to happen tomorrow. Key for us is to not let their physicality get into our heads.
My one worry with them is they’ve had a full 7 days to prepare for us… not pesky midweek game to deal with. They’ll be packed full of energy, they’ll be revved up and they’ll have a game plan they’ll be confident of executing. We’ll have a bit of rust in our legs after the win on Thursday that we’ll have to shake off quickly if we’re to overcome them.
Momentum is hugely important now. Tensions are up, confidence should be on-point… all we need is a focused week of victories. We really need the best of Emery here. We need the best of our players. We need the best of luck.
COME ON ARSENAL x
Fuck me mkhtaryian
jeepers – Miki left foot about 50 yards wide!
Guendouzi definitely one of the positives of the season.
Mkhshitcunthead definitely not.
Lol Mhki what a player lol
1-0 after 50 mins against ten men utterly poor
oof really why overload the left side that much
Why are all the chances for to Mkhi??
We should be out of sight by now.
However the season ends for us, we need some serious work this summer.
If not for the red card, we would have been trailing by now, shocking away performance yet again.
lel Mustafi more like calming himself there almost been punished
Samesung, you really are a div aren’t you!
Get rid of Mikki. He is doing only shit….
Stupid cross field pass
Mkhi is on a mission to sabotage us and he needs to go off.
Guen has natural gifts and talent of that there is no doubt. He just seems to. Play as if he has no clue on what he’s trying to do at any one time, should he be positive or negative, what areas to play in who to mark.
Learning for sure, just no need to do it when we need 4th
Should take off Mikki for Lacazette.
seriously stop being cute and just go direct already
We are never going to win anything of note with xhaka and mustafi
“If not for the red card, we would have been trailing by now, shocking away performance yet again.”
Same as the United win against Westham at home or the Chelsea win against Cardiff away
We take them like it comes.
Emery bringing on AMN, we can’t defend why not go to kill the game off?!
Bit risky making the last sub now.
Sometimes he makes some dumb decisions
Fuck me, we are getting schooled by the 10 men of Watford.
Iwobi is pure dogshit as is Mhitkitarian.
Good atmos in Vicarage Rd..puts ours to shame
Good decision that. No point giving Ramsey 90 minutes
Yeah Mustafi at CB good stuff there with 20 minutes to go
Ramsay being saved for Napoli perhaps?
Suarez LOL
Troll Emery lol, We’ll I guess he’s saving certain players and wasting players like Mhki on this.
Do not trust these players at all.
This game aint safe, we’re shit away from home and making a meal of it against 10 men Watford for everything holy.
I want attacking subs to kill the game off.
christ we wanna hope Leicester go down to 9 men judging by this. we’re just not great away from home are we.
Aubameyang ffs! Stay on side!
Coq fact is dacoure capoue is probably a more secure as well as dynamic midfield than we have.
Both are really tidy footballers.
Great ball Miki
Thank God Maitland Niles has replaced Mkhi at right back.
Might be some joojoo hex put on us away from home, makes no sense we can’t bury Watford here
See that’s why Iwobi is shit. The moment he received the ball, he should have cut inside. Instead he carries on in a straight line letting other Watford players to get back in to their position and then a nothing pass to kill everything off.
Bob
My question was do you moan at the fans when they criticize the players if and when you go to games? Wasn’t whether you been to more games or not you prick!
yep the usual suspects again can’t rotate at all with the current state of the squad
We literally have liabilities in every single position on the pitch.
This is pathetic struggling against ten men Watford, well done Emery
Man spare yet 1 ball out the back and they are on our back 4?? What in hell
One of guen or xhaka need to sit 5 yards in front of our back 4
How df is Emery to blame for this performance?
Was it his fault Mikki missed 3 decent chances in succession, or Auba can’t stay onside?
is there any other attacking options other than low cross to the box?
can’t mix it up with ball through the middle?
oh forgot Auba can’t hold the line at all
‘We literally have liabilities in every single position on the pitch.’
I concur with this
Emery is t to blame for the shit show he has inherited. He’s had 2 transfer windows, and we already look a lot better. Give him a fucking chance.
How many system did we play in that game?
6 ?
Back to a back 4 AMN Mustafi Koscielny Monreal.
Emery is really trying to confuse his players and the opposition.
If you went to games Samesong you’d appreciate on the whole fans are supportive and get behind the team. I accept it’s not the same commenting on a blog where people tend to bitch a whole lot more.
that is one big boy
Weak minded players everywhere.
Left side
“”””Sometimes he makes some dumb decisions”””””
Only sometimes!!!!
Arsenal are diminishing under our own eyes on a weekly basis- with this nondescript man in charge.
We are so bleeding dull….
Pitiful entertainment.
He had 1 eye on napoli I suppose but as soon as you play mustsfi right back you are basically telling Watford double up on iwobi as fuck all is coming down the right channel
Capoue is some player.
yeah that was begging for Xhaka screamer
‘Arsenal are diminishing under our own eyes on a weekly basis- with this nondescript man in charge’
Not remotely true but what does the truth mean on Legrove CG?
That was a nasty fall
In some quarters, this performance would be called PROFESSIONALLY SEEING OUT GAME, moreso when we have a cliff hanger in Naples in less than 72 hours.
People need to calm the eff down.
Not all Wenger shite players Gwen poor.
They will probably score a late pen
Haha Charlie George what an utter load of bollox.
10 more minutes of this shitfest.
Fuck this is average
Dis
Football should be fun, entertaining and exciting.
This is a snore fest..
hmmmm it’s coming any minute now
inevitable really
This team we have out at the moment is arguably the worst in our history.
AMN saved the day…. good on him..
Well said Charlie
Great from AMN!!!
Stay strong and FOCUSSED for the last 10.
we see this so often after a red card. the ref gives literally everything to the other team.
These players are spineless and prideless, a win is a win if we manage to secure points but this has been as poor as it could be considering we’ve had chances and played most of the game against 10 men.
Horrible performance
OMG
Dissenters – it’s just not though, it’s a team playing the same way they would v 11 and having a lot of difficulty. Don’t mind it being boring if we looked secure, we look far from it
Unreal this is Emery really is a dick
Leftside
Charlie George in no way typifies Le Grove as a whole.
You’d think we’re the team with 10 players.
This is the time of the jammy penalty.
its really not hard to see Watford getting a last minute howizter equalizer.
We are crumbling with every Watford attack, are we a man up??????
They are throwing the kitchen zink.
And when you know we are fucking shit at home you don’t try to sit on a lead when we can’t defend.
Napoli will fancy their chances against this unprofessional team to shreds, who can only turn up at home for the last two years.
I don’t think people are accounting for the number of games we are playing over a short period.
What will be ,,, will be
We look jaded and I think Emery is determined to rest certain key players regardless because he knows Thursday night will be a sterner test.
Guendouzi was not needed at all.
*away from home
this mint green kit really is terrible
There is always some ladt minute drama at vicarage road.
Did anyone think this was going to be an easy away game?
we’re on the up when Ozil was introduced shame we didn’t profit from that as after Emery did more of his tinkering we are being sieged again
What is emerys footballing style?
I have not a clue!!!
He is an imposter.
(Exposed tonight against 10 men Watford.)
Why no 2 centre forwards on in tandem to kill the game???
We really look like we are going to concede. Sky showed a stat that we haven’t had a single clean sheet in any away game so far. We literally have 0 so far this season.
Then again with the law of probabilities we are due a clean sheet, right? Right?
Monreal slow to distribute
More like Miki was exposed… he missed an absolute stone cold sitter don’t forget that.. not even mentioning his other 3 attempts that were awful.
Be professional. keep the ball. nothing silly.
No doubting that we have been utter utter garbage, but Watford are playing like men possessed. What is driving them? Could you imagine our little darlings playing like this for the chance of going into 8th pos?
Gwen a real plonker
Indeed Charlie.
Auba fairly isolated. We have a lopsided squad but I would support us finding a way of getting both our strikers in as they combine well.
Yeah its 6 points from 10 away games and think its 30 in as many home games.
Watford are treating this game like Stoke do, ever since Deeney took it on himself to wage a verbal war with us you could see they step up a notch whenever they play us.
How did Guendouzi not lift that high enough?
Staying onside too much effort for Ozil.