Arsenal

[The Fox]

Welbeck for Theo the only change, makes sense from a containment perspective and despite his goal I don't think Theo was quite there vs Villa really.

[The Fox]

Brilliant from Welbz.

[Mars]

Yesssss.

[Rev]

We really should just get shot of Ozil. Useless.

[pinholestar]

Oh yes.

[Mars]

Bellerin needs to tighten up, drifting inside too often. Lots of space out there which is being exploited.

[Pavey]

We really should just get shot of Ozil. Useless.

Say it again, it seemed to work.

[The Fox]

Spurs' pressing is fairly intense. Not particularly comfortable atm

How has Mason not been booked ffs?

[BlinkyBear]

More bullshit referring today. Hoping the nonsense yellow cards don't end up costing us, but only being one up means I'm worried about Eriksen smashing in some last minute free kicks.

[Petrousgyre]

His run for the goal aside, Welbeck is looking pretty poor. Keeps giving the ball away in dangerous positions.

[The Fox]

It's all well and good ceding possession and retaining defensive shape, but we need to be much better with the ball when we get the chance. Santi, Özil and Welbeck are giving it away far too easily at times.

[Jonathan_Kerr]

Game has a different shape now...

[g wings]

Yes, cheaply giving up possession and Ospuna suddenly looks shaky

[Larsen B]

Exposing the key thing about the counter-attacking "template" for big away games: we need to be effective with the ball, otherwise we're under pressure for the majority of the game.

Hoping Rosicky can make the difference here.

[Jonathan_Kerr]

Always hard to play against 12 men.

[Jonathan_Kerr]

Fucking hell. Kane has been a menace all day today.

[g wings]

Nothing to do with the ref. defenders need to clear, midfield need to contest and keep possession, keeper needs to stop flapping

[The Fox]

Great header. No pressure on the ball and not great from Koscielny or the keeper.

Hard to argue we've deserved much from this really.

[BlinkyBear]

Fucking hell. Kane has been a menace all day today.

Yeah, it's almost as if he's a decent footballer. He's a quality striker; I can only assume the Arsenal fans who've been digging him out of late are just having a go because of who he plays for.

We've been utter shit today though.

[KRP]

We looked like shit shadows of the performance against Liverpool in this game. Nobody was really clicking which made it impossible.

[Rev]

We're just not good enough defensively to sit on a 1-0 lead, but it was midfield where we lost the game. Coquelin can't do everything, we were just ridiculously weak in the centre of the pitch.

Weird one where we were subject to a bunch of awful decisions, but I don't think they ultimately made any difference.

[The Fox]

Don't think there was anything wrong with the setup, was like Anfield where we just basically played like shit and couldn't string three passes together.

They pressed intensely and efficiently and we didn't have an answer. Coquelin is always going to struggle against good pressing. Great midfield terrier but not good enough on the ball to cope with that. It's a problem.

[Jonathan_Kerr]

Nothing to do with the ref. defenders need to clear, midfield need to contest and keep possession, keeper needs to stop flapping

Agree, the loss wasn't down to the ref. Our possession took care of that but it was frustrating to watch Spurs get away with lots of grubby shirt pulling and grabbing. It worked because it frustrated the shit out of our players.

Pretty poor result but probably a fair one. They deserved the win and honestly looked like they wanted it more... Just a shame to lose when we were starting to get a string of results together.

A few players were anonymous today -- especially after the first goal, it looked like we thought we had already won it.

Ah well, that's football. I'm off to bed.

[anders limpar]

Harry Kane is a police informer.

[pinholestar]

Bollocks. Outplayed all over the park today & our momentum grinds to a halt. Good job we're playing Leicester at home next & we've got a decent run-in. But yeah, fucking bollocks.

[Silent Runner]

Didn't deserve anything today. Midfield was a shambles, couldn't believe how bad Cazorla was and Ramsey wasn't much better. We missed Alexis and the Ox so much it was painful.

[Jonathan_Kerr]

Yeah, it's almost as if he's a decent footballer. He's a quality striker; I can only assume the Arsenal fans who've been digging him out of late are just having a go because of who he plays for.

We've been utter shit today though.

It's good for English football. There's quite a few good players coming through and you might have a pretty decent team for next world cup.

As a neutral, I quite like watching England when they're good, unlike at the last two tourneys.

[hercules]

Ramsey is really grating on me this season. He's trying way too hard to score to the detriment of the team. He is also over complicating things which means we cede possession too often. The guy needs to keep things simple

[The Fox]

Ramsey is really grating on me this season. He's trying way too hard to score to the detriment of the team. He is also over complicating things which means we cede possession too often. The guy needs to keep things simple

Swear this is a post from 2011

Coq's limitations exposed a bit today, he's done well but has had a lot of help (more than we ever afforded to Flamini or Arteta), and long term we need someone better at passing I think.

[hercules]

Swear this is a post from 2011

Coq's limitations exposed a bit today, he's done well but has had a lot of help (more than we ever afforded to Flamini or Arteta), and long term we need someone better at passing I think.

Think that says more about ramsey than me.... The guy needs to stop trying to be the hero and just fit into the way we play. Don't get me wrong, we didn't play great today but he has been mediocre all season.