I'd much rather Montreal/Chambers replace Mertesacker at CB. So so so average this season and caught ducking AGAIN for Skrtels goal.

I think he needs the boss next to him . Bos complements merts alot and you can see we are stuck without bos' s organization

Made Arsenal Fan TV fun to watch :)

If we had a man on the post for the corner, we would have had three points.

agree . Zonal marking does work but for the life of me I dont know why we dont have players on the posts once in a while

Players on the posts has nothing to do with zonal marking.

Giroud is a fucking idiot, but my God can someone please sack Martin Atkinson. Fucking disgraceful.

I do t understand how that was a pen and why Ferdinand was able to grab Giroud by the neck without punishment.

Surely ferdy should get a ban for that?

Getting yourself banned for 3 games during the busiest period of the year. The most incredible stupidity.

:lol: God this is like the Suarez Rafael thing all over again when Utd fans were bitching because he grabbed his hair.

Grabbing his neck like that is not an issue, at absolute worst it's yellow.

Onuoha shocking too, piss week. Stupid from Giroud but Onuoha is a little bitch.

Agree it was at worst a yellow for Ferdinand, but that's where the frustration comes from, it should have seen him sent off, being his 2nd yellow.

Onuoha just proving once again that it pays to go down easily.

Get the feeling a headbutt wasn't Giroud's intention, but that forehead to forehead face off thing is, Onuoha going down is was turned it into a headbutt. Still incredibly fucking stupid, Arsene's look as he went off said it all.

Giri would've copped it . Stupid stupid brain fart by giri

It's unlikely but today could be the first game this season we start with our first choice back 4 I think.

As bad as things are, we do have to remember we've been playing without our best defender, midfielder's and strikers for the majority of the season.

I cant wait to see Mesut back.

hopefully we see the mesut that made him coveted by real madrid. The press can be harsh

Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Flamini, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Alexis, Welbeck

:lol: Still can't start our first choice back four.

Fucking one of the richest clubs in football and our midfield partnership is Coquelin and Flamini fuck me deaddddddddddddddddd

Who the eff is Coquelin?

Flamini doesn't fight in the UFC?

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And not one CM on the bench. Beyond a joke :lol:

Wheres Rosicky?

Rested I'd assume. Will probably be back for Southampton.

Surely with your injury problems this season he should at least be on the bench?

Le coq beasted it. But we need to learn to close out games . Fuck me our defending has been woefhl

I thought we closed out this and the QPR game pretty well tbh. I mean QPR didn't really have any massive chances and I was half asleep towards the end but only remember West Ham having that one big chance that went just over. Apart from that I thought we defended really well, especially against West Ham considering how many crosses we had to deal with. Szczesny was a big part of that, was outstanding coming for balls into the box, save for the one corner where he didn't get a good hand on it.

Was very surprised with Coquelin, was not expecting a performance like that. Santi has been outstanding the last month or so, back to the Santi we know. I thought Welbz had a great game, apart from that one really bad miss. That run from inside our half was incredible. Do think going forward we are best suited to having Welbeck start and Giroud come off the bench. Ox had a great game for the most part, excellent set up for Welbeck's goal, but my god can he rush things at times :lol:

And what a surprise, our defence looks 10 times as solid and Mertesacker looks much better with Kos back in there.

Nice little turn around after the loss against United, 9 games, 7 wins, 1 loss and 1 draw.

Le coq was a beast. Flam on the other hand . Also have seen the twitter reaction when we namwd le coq and flam as dm's :lol: also can we shut robson up . Whinge whinge whinge

Stewart Robson wasn't on the Fox commentary last night.

Really? Who's the bloke who sounds just like him then?

That was Tony Gale last night. He's also a bitter cunt, so him and Robson have that in common. Former West Ham player so his commentary this morning makes more sense

Automatically assumed it was Robson 'cos of the West Ham and Arsenal connection.