GOOD MORNING AND WELCOME TO BIG GAME SUNDAY.
Yes, we have to play Crystal Palace at home in a HUUUUGE game that is going to go a long way to deciding where in the top 3 we finish.
Spurs shat the bed when they played City for the 3rd time in 10 days. That’s great news for us because it gives the opportunity to move into third by two points. It’ll also be super funny to laugh at how their greatest ever season saw them potless and a place behind us in the league (dream big).
Chelsea are level points with us now, so things really are getting tight…
Palace has lost 3 of their last 6. They sit 14th in the league. This shouldn’t be an ordeal.
However, you have to be real. We just went away to Napoli and Watford this week, we’re going to be drained and Palace is about as exciting as a trip to B&Q with your da when you’re young. Amirite? Wasn’t that shit?
‘Be a real man Pete and pick up that brick for me’
‘Bitch, back the fuck up… I just want to play computer games. One day, people will sit on the internet and watch the best gamers and it’ll be a thing. They’ll literally make millions from the ad revenue’
‘Pete, no one is ever going to make money from gaming, now show your dad how manly you are by loading up 10 bags of sand onto this trolley you absolute pussy’
Anyway, my point is that Palace is a banana skin because they aren’t interesting. They also have a good away record at the minute, sitting 4th in the table over the last 6 games.
The manager isn’t worried, which is grand.
I didn’t use this excuse in my career. I worked a lot in similar situations in France and Spain. Here, we came back last night at three o’clock and we came in this morning at 10am. But really, today I am coming here with a small smile because the players worked very well and gave me confidence for Sunday.
The players who didn’t play yesterday, today after this travel, they were working good and with the focus for Sunday and knowing that today in training, some players are going to play Sunday. After the last match, some players need to rest or to do a rotation with them, or with one player like Aaron Ramsey, he is injured. Also, Sokratis continues to be suspended. But this is the spirit I want. Like this morning, after the travelling yesterday. How we trained this morning and how we can have confidence to use players against Crystal Palace.
That said, we have a terrific home record, if we win today it’s our 11th on the bounce which is a record for us. We are defending better as a team, since March 10th, the only person to breach our back line is Phil Jagielka (6 clean sheets in 7 games). We are a much better team than them and the players can literally taste top 3 blood in the water (that taste isn’t blood, it’s bonus money fam).
We need to see a strong start tomorrow. The fans are going to be a massive help to the players, and hopefully, we channel some of that fight we’ve been showing of late. The only real worry is the lack of a Ramsey, and the auto-inclusion of Mustafi because of the Sokratis suspension. Still, Mustafi was pretty safe against Watford. Also, you saw that clip of him being fancy? Do I like him now? No. But that was cool.
Just @MustafiOfficial magic 😱 @Arsenal pic.twitter.com/NFtPw99jR5
— 433 (@official433) April 19, 2019
Finally, some Wenger cucks were giving me grief about my post yesterday about Wenger cucks, a few mentioned that my traffic must be down. WRONG. Post Wenger traffic has been fucking amazing, more people are coming to the site than ever before… and to make things even rosier, the comments section is having a record year on a comments per day basis. You know why? People like football more when things are going well, which is all this site ever wanted.
Thank you for not abandoning me, I love you all very much, even the Wenger cucks that are desperate for us to fail. #MerciIvan
P.S. The Sun reckon we’re in for Joan Jordan to replace Rambo. Daily Mail reckon Edu is back on the radar… just wish we’d bite the bullet and nab Luis Campos or Paul Mitchell. Paul looks like a proper facking geezer. Not that that matters of course.
What’s the top 4 matter anyway.. We are not gonna win it anyway..
I’m sure that was the attitude when AW did 20 years in a row
TR7 feel free to do as you wish.
How many games did Mustafi start this season and we kept a clean sheet? Very few.
One of the valid and justifiable criticisms that have been made about Emery is the failure to identify promising academy talent and take a chance on them.
Wenger used to give at least one academy player a chance in a season.
I concur with that critique that we have better or comparable players to Elneny and Mustafi in ourU-23s. Valentin has been beating this drum all season.
Willock couldn’t have done any worse than Elneny who hides in plain sight all the time.
Zach Medley cannot do worse that Mustafi at this stage.
And you were having a pop before the game assuming that Emery was rotating with the EL in mind, I simply pointed out that our next game is a Premier League fixture but carry on TR7.
“I think Emery did the right thing [100% ]by rotating and don’t disagree ,much with his selection“ Guess you missed the part where we lost 3-1 at home to Palace after being on a good run of results? He tinkered and we blew it. Of course you’re not going to “go with that”, because you’re contrary as can be on here for the sake of it. Palace didn’t have either of their first choice Cb’s, and two teams vying for top 4 lost before kickoff. Our tactics were guff too, it was a criminal result and nobody walks away from… Read more »
Well said Red. Match spuds’ results the next 4 games and I think we make top 4. I did not see us at this position start of the season from finishing 6th and 5th in consecutive seasons.
Sorry Dissenter but CC says exactly what I’m thinking, that was a terrible result. I expected United to at least draw today, that should have been a boost for this side. I can understand rotating 2 players out of the side but why 5 in a game that we must win.
He needs to hold his hands up for that.
I have just been ridiculed by my Palace supporting son-in-law to be. Thanks Mustafi.
Here we go for the anti-Emery raid…
TR7, ddkingz(of morons), Pierre, CG, Champagne Charlie, they are all on the rampage, so better move on Untold.
The loss is not a terminal injury though
It’s more of a missed opportunity.
Leno was right to stay on bis line because it seemed Mustafi had dealt with the ball. He was on the right side of Zaha and was just going to pass it back…and then he stopped.
Third match in 6 days, 2 wins away and a loss at home. As the squad showed today, shouldn’t be a surprise.
3-2
G,
You have a point. I don’t see the obsession with Top 4 as well.
For most other top teams, it might be seen as a sign of progression. But it’s all a bit irrelevant for Arsenal, cause with or without it we are still gonna behave the paupers in the transfer market.
Shit signings, flitting between 3rd and 5th again next season. And again.
This is Arsenal’s past, present and the foreseeable future.
Sad but atleast there’s a new game of thrones episode to look forward to in few hours’ time.
we are going nowhere with Mustafi Elneny Iwobi and Guen is not ready.
Iwobi is a complete mental midget.
Away at Huddersfield he smacks the ball into the top corner when he knows he is offside.
Away at Napoli he hits the post with a curling effort when he knows he is offside.
If he was onside he would’ve barely made decent contact on both strikes.
Emery out!
I said weeks ago
U can’t rely on shit cunts Mustafa elenny jenks
We needed to have vowed youth
Poor manager decision
Clear case of disrespecting the opposition. Jenks, Elneny, Mavrapanos, Mustafi. This one is as much on the players as it is on Emery. He thought he could get the result at home with those players and it backfired. Why was Torreira on the bench? He just came back from suspension. Why not play 4 in the back with Kosc and Monreal in CB positions? Just a handful of games remaining, get your best guys out there. Utterly disgusted by some of the individual performances. Elneny, Mustafi, Iwobi, and even Guendouzi to some extent. No positional awareness, no composure, dwelling on… Read more »
Tank the league and rest up for Valencia.
RedtruthApril 21, 2019 17:04:47
Since when has Ramsey become a key player.
The guy is from the past and toilet
My goodness! I agree with redtruth!
CC
You’re way too honest to have ignored the rest off my comment[s] leading top to the one you cherry picked.
Earlier on I stated that
“I think the manager has to take some risks sometimes
Today was one of such a risk and it back fired The blame comes with the job I guess”
The blame is understandable I get that
However we were still in a position to get something from the game until Mustafi happened
We could have played a “strong” starting 11 and still got Mustafi-rized.
That’s my point.
Does any of you guys know a very good lawyer ??
I’m gonna cut Mustafi in several pieces with a rusty chainsaw.
Shit result but palace are decent on the road. They beat city away and scored 3 at anfield. We’ll not make top 4 but that’s ok this squad would be an embarrassment in it. Sad to see wengers last remaining rim crew on here after a liss. Fucking embarrassing the lot of them.
Players that cannot play any role next season if we want to progress in some way:
Iwobi
Guendouzi
Mustafi
Elneny
You can bet that all of those players will still be at this club next season so we may as well pack it in now
All Emery knockers should keep schtoom as they have no viable replacement.
Emery showing once again that he hasn’t got a fucking clue how to manage a league season.
Decided beating Valencia and Chelsea is easier than beating Palace and Leicester.
Cunt is obsessed with the EL
If we win the EL he will probably ask to forfeit the CL and try again.
Another thing to consider is they were better rested and the better players we have started against Napoli 60 hours ago in Naples.
It’s a case of damned if you do…damned if you don’t.
Left
Yes, if EPL were to be our only pathway to CL, Emery would have picked a better starting 11. Knowing we have a chance to make the CL through Europa too, he took a risk in what he thought would be a relatively easier game at home against a 15th placed team.
I said earlier that it would be a very difficult game, even if we started with our best 11.
Palace have been playing very well away from home. They beat City at the Etihad I recall.
TR7
You do know that managers have to take risks, right?
Today, the risk didn’t pay off so people will say the manager is the fool of the week.
I still think we were on the path to victory when we equalized early in the 2nd half and were on the up…until Mustafi happened.
I think we could have played our best 11 and Mustafi could still have sunk us.
The biggest joke is Benteke scoring against us. He literally never scores.
TR7 I dont think we have the quality of squad, or players fit at this stage of the season to properly rotate and prioritise any competitions. I can understand changing 1 or 2 players in the name of rotation but to rotate 5 in a potentially tricky game is just silly.
It brings additional pressure on the Wolves and Leicester games. Before today we had a chance of finishing 3rd but that’s not likely now. Chelsea are now in a good position, if they can beat United away from home I think that seals it.
gambon
How is your beast team Man Utd doing lol
Hey gambon how the fuck are you doing ?? Of course we lost, so here you are!!
Pathetic scumbag.
Lol I was expecting Gambon at some stage, all is right with the world
Torreira has had a fucking month off, yet he keeps being rested since returning. Elneny should be nowhere near this starting XI and neither should that buffoon Mustafi.
gambon’
“Decided beating Valencia and Chelsea is easier than beating Palace and Leicester.”
That doesn’t make sense, surely you see this.
Our next two games are league games away at Wolves and Leicester
Emery was rotation his squad for the immediate coming games which are league games
It should have read “Decided beating Leicester and Wolves away is just as important as beating palace at home”.
Any one would say Palace at home is the one to take a risk on because it is at home.
Were you not a fan of Guendouzi Paulinho?
Barring a couple of games here and then he’s been pretty poor for us, I have never understood the hype behind him.
Less said about Iwobi the better, he’s going to be another Walcott type that we can’t get rid of for years.
Arsenal 2 Crystal Palace 3
Dithering in the ball when Up against tough competition or chasing the game
It’s the same
We have no players skilled enough one on one to make a difference
We have mega passers only
We need a hazard type player who can dribble create score we miss that in the center of the park
We needed a goal in the first half
Leftside
Do you recall that Torreira has been kicked around in every game he’s featured. At Naples, he was grabbing his hammies at some point.
I don’t think it’s as clear cut as “being well rested”
That was supposed to be a home banker, we’re shit away from home and now we likely have to beat Leicester and Wolves.
WE
Guendozi stays too long on the ball. Almost every time.
WE
What if we beat Wolves and Leicester ?
I hope Emery has learned a lot from the first season to be honest.
We are underplaying the learning curve that a new manger to any league has to make.
I hope her has learned a lot about the league.
Olu
He’s a liability defensively and he offers little going forward as he’s not a goal threat, barring being a decent runner and possessing vision he doesn’t have much more to his skill-set.
CM needs to have a lot more than that.
Charlie George is happy… Good for him.
Tough one today.
After Thursday, Emery had to rotate.
We just don’t have the depth though.
There’s still a decent chance we can make top four despite this.
Guen is too young and raw to start games
Loan him
We need a better creative option in the center when resting xhaka or Lucas
Two away wins and a home loss siggests Arsenal.have addressed their away day blues.
Unlikely this team beats both Leicester and Wolves away. Valencia is a good technical team, I think we will lose to them over two legs.
Dissenter
We’ll likely shit the bed against one of them, my guess is Leicester with Vardy punishing us.
We need two qualify central midfielders this summer.
We don’t have a central midfielder that has the thinking cap of a manager on the field.
Guen is showing how hard it is to step up from French division two to the premier league.
I give Mystic props because he called this one right very early. I have egg on my face for that.
Torriera has issues with his groin.
Ramsey and Xhaka are injured.
Elneny and Guendozi played because they are fit.
In this league, as we all know there are no easy games. Torreira and AMN start for me, and once we are in a position of ‘comfort’ then we can start to make changes with a view to the remaining fixtures.
I’m all for keeping players fresh but the two games we’ve seen Guen and Elneny in the middle of the park we have been woeful.
Posters asking for us to prioritise the EL conveniently are omitting that we have to navigate ties with Valencia and Chelsea to get the prize. It’s far easier prioritising the league.
Just returned from Emirates. What a shocker!!! 1. Manager made some seriously bad team selections. Whilst I understand that he needed to rest some of the team today playing Jenkinson, Mavropanos and Elneny in starting lineup was asking for trouble particularly with Zaka and Benteke in their lineup. 2. Guendouzi for all his energy is not good enough for our starting lineup. He is too easily dispossessed. 3. Mustafi needs to be offloaded this summer. He is an accident waiting to happen in almost every game he plays. The tragedy is that with our game schedule we have no option… Read more »
I agree with the poster who said that there were too many changes made for this one game
Some yes but Jenks mavro elneny and guen was like putting the b team to play with
Ozil is b team but good goal
I wonder what swear words Leno will use to communicate with Mustafi after that second goal.
Benzema hat-rick today, has very quietly scored 30 goals this season now.
Just one goals less than his previous 2 seasons combined [31 goals] with 5 matches still to play.
Ozil was exceptional even in the first half
He couldn’t have done more because he was forced to play central midfield and attacking mid.
WengerEagle
“We’ll likely shit the bed against one of them, my guess is Leicester with Vardy punishing us.”
You’re sounding like bird brain gambon who said the same thing just before we faced Spurs and Man Utd.
On my way to do the job for Mustafi… there will be blood all over the place.
WE – Yep, pre-season I liked the way he tried to play forward or delay instead of immediately passing backwards like Xhaka. Exactly the same with Elneny when he first joined. That plank Xhaka has had me pinning hopes on average players simply because they don’t crap themselves under presssure. Ha ha.
Been saying since October Guendouzi doesn’t have it though. Palace away.
Paulinho Yeah and look he’s still a kid, who knows he may turn into a player but right now he offers nothing to the first XI and needs to be loaned out. Torreira seems to take games off himself, have high hopes for him still but losing Ramsey is a real blow as they played very well together and we would have been one more CM away from a formidable unit in there. We need at least 2 CM’s this summer, should loan out Guen and sell Elneny for whatever someone will pay for him which will be fuck all… Read more »
Funny how people who were critical of the manager not playing Mavopranos are also critical of him playing him.
For the record, the only unforced change today was Jenkinson
WE – Torrieira – Ramsey would’ve been great. Playing next to Rambo seemed to invigorate Torreira and give him some encouragement to go forward and show some of the stuff he showed at Sampa. He seems uninspired playing with so many awful players and he’s looking underwhelming as well.
Leftside and ES Spot on HL I’ve always maintained that I’ll judge Emery at the end of the season, but as many posters have stated he got his selection wrong. I saw us winning this game yesterday until I saw the line up with Jenks, Elneny, Mac’s and Guendouzi as well as Mustafi and I knew it would go tits up. Dissenter To repeat other posters Emery should have fielded our first Xl and best youth if need be, and then rotated as we were able during the game. This team selection was a disaster waiting to happen and it… Read more »
Elneny is shit but he’s the least of our worries as he’s hardly figured.
The regulars should be first out the door
TR7 April 21, 2019 17:35:08 “Unlikely this team beats both Leicester and Wolves away. Valencia is a good technical team, I think we will lose to them over two legs.” Yeah, we’re going to lose against Valencia over two legs so says Octopus TR7. I hope Emery gets the memo so he and the team don’t even bother to put in a shift trying to get into the finals. They’re doomed already. Of course, you’ll be quite pleased especially if we don’t get top 4 so you can remind us all how we haven’t really progressed after firing Wenger. And… Read more »
I guess we’ll see how well the rotation has worked in the next 2 games.
I genuinely hope we win but I’m not holding my breath.
Bottom line is Emery will be our manager for next season anyway so no amount of judging him this season will change anything.
Next season will really be the time to judge him and see what he has learnt from his mistakes and his successful decisions.
Pedro
Overmars or your 2 choices seem our best options for the TD position not Edu.
Club stinks with no ambition
Shit to clear
Kos
Mustafa
Element
Montreal
Jenkinson
Xhara
Welbeck
Aubaang
Kacszette
Belerin
Massive. Change in personell n attitude
Can we get the FA to ban Mustafi for that dive?
**Yesterday** VersusApril 20, 2019 20:25:06 “The players everyone said were Wengerfied stuck a big middle finger up to the world and showed the way forward.” -pedro I guess this is a shot at me and those like me. I usually use the term ‘wengerized’ but ‘Wengerfied’ is fine too. Ok so yes, the players done well and proved alot to us and themselves. However I’d like to nit pick a little and say, the term for me describes the inevitably factor of the players. They won’t fuck up all the time. They may even go so many games without a… Read more »
Guendouzi and Iwobi are squad players. Nothing wrong with that except you’re 2 or 3 other sides in the PL. Mustafi and Elneny on the other hand shouldn’t be, even Arsenal can do better.
The problem is Guendouzi has been overplayed. He was, arguably, our most consistent player first 12 matches of the season. Completely stupid to write him off at this stage. Folks get too menstrual on here especially after a defeat.
As always when the going gets tough
Arsenal choke.
Arsenal lose at home to Palace. Emery is bound to get the blame. all those second-raters brought in, thought it might happen the moment I saw the team-sheet. But be4 we start blaming him, lets remind ourselves who acquired Jenks, Elneny, Mustafi & Co – Wenger, not Emery. And evidently the players not used needed a rest with a huge game soon against Man U. Plus a few injuries (like Ramsay). of course. The truth is there are too many duds in the squad. If I seem laid back it’s because I am. Even if they lose all the remaining… Read more »
gambon complaining about Emery in the Europa league when Wenger’s players have always fucked up in Europe
Emery post match comment that Mustafi
has been consistent during the season is
more worrying than the defeat.????????????????????????????
Winning Europa league and finishing outside the top 4 would top anything Wenger achieved with Arsenal.
This defeat is all on Mustafuck
Cost us so many points ,he has to go pronto..
Can’t fathom how we paid 35 million for this clown
Gabriel was 3 times better and he was pants!
I also blame Pedro he has been too positve lately..lol
Tony
The main issue for arsenal at the moment is a lack of quality players.
The club needs to acquire those players if it wants to finish top four on a regular basis, let alone actually win thePL.
James Wood
Emery post match comment that Mustafi
has been consistent during the season is
more worrying than the defeat.????????????????????????????
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Were you expecting Emery to throw him under the bus. Look at Emery’s actions instead. If Sokratis wasn’t suspended today, Mustafi would likely be on the bench.
G8
Hand wil cone back n bite us in the arse
Our strikers need to take their share of the blame as well. £110m in transfer fees and north of £400,000 a week in wages. Are they truly earning it?
Terrible individual mistakes from Mustafi and we should have had a penalty. My biggest gripe though is why change a winning formula? Why didn’t we play the same team that played only 3 days ago in Italy and will play again away to Wolves in 3 days time? Why didn’t we play the same team for 3 games in 6 days? And if you count Watford, 4 games in 9 days? Why change the players around when we can play the same 11 fir 4 games in 9 days? It doesn’t make sense? Why didn’t we play Ramsey, Xhaka and… Read more »
Alexanderhenry “The main issue for arsenal at the moment is a lack of quality players.” And do you think Emery is the right manager to bring in quality players ? Personally,from what I have seen this season , I don’t think Emery is interested in quality and to be honest , I don’t think any real quality players will want to come to the club whilst he is at the club. Players will look at the managers treatment of Ramsey and Ozil earlier in the season and his handling of other quality players at his previous clubs and will give… Read more »
Quite Simply. Unai Emery will never be a manager of Arsenal calibre. Quite Simply He makes decision for what’s best for his CV and not our great club. Eg Rambo Withdrawal Eg Europa Cup over Prem The team he picked today ( following the Everton debacle) was contemptible to the hordes of worldwide Arsenal fans. We could have gone third above Spurs We could have cemented CL ( after Man Utd loss) I am indeed much wealthier after the predicted Palace goal barrage . I would give it all back and more to get shot of this menace. Gambon- totally… Read more »
Apart from when he was injured, Rsmsey has played all season.
What a thicko.
Apart from when Captain Fortnite was calling in sick and slacking off in training and going missing in games, Ozil has played all season.
What a thicko.
It’s not up to Emery to sign the players – that is Raul’s job.
What a thicko.
The reason we don’t have many quality players at the club presently and Mustafi who fucked up today is because of Wenger where last season we finished 6th.
What a thicko.
Lolz. What was it today?
1. The referee
2. The hot weather
3. Tired players
4. Nasty palace
5. South east london
6. Brexit
7. The eco warriors
This garbage might pull the odd result out of the bag but with the amount of shite plying their trade at The Arsenal, this club goes nowhere.
Really bad result today. Being an optimist I still see top four as acheivable. We absolutely have to beat wolves and not lose to Leicester.
benny
What’s the point?
Emery can just run the same starting 11 into the ground until they drop like flies.
wow unai
team selection as consistent as moostaafi
wolves 3 points
brighton 1
burnley 1
leicester 0
5 more points. NOT making the 4th
CG are you being deliberately thick? Ramsey was fucking injured you thick idiot. Xhaka was fucking injured you thick idiot. Torreira is nursing a fucking groin strain you thick idiot. Sokratis was fucking suspended you thick idiot. How was today’s FORCED changes because of INJURY for the benefit of the EL when our next 2 games are in the premier league you thick idiot? How does Raul pulling Ramsey’s contract that he could have signed LAST SEASON benefit Emery’s CV you thick idiot? You say Emery will never be Arsenal calibre yet his first 50 games is the best record… Read more »
calibre yet his first 50 games is the best record
Are you counting Vorlska and Qarabag on that 50?
I’d like CG, Pierre, Bunga and anybody else saying Emery needlessly rotated to answer why he didn’t play Ramsey, Xhaka or Sokratis, or why Torreira needed to start on the bench?
Answer that first and then say Emery needlessly rotated you thick retarded mong cunts.
https://talksport.com/football/530273/unai-emery-arsenal-record-first-50-games/