Arteta's long suffering jellied eels v Eddie's Stottie fuelled northern raiders (- Gemmill + Trips, massive net gain tbh)

[Dr Gloom 19822]

This arsenal crowd are right moaning bastard. 

[Ayatollah Hermione 12767]

1 minute ago, OTF said:

 

He's showing the yellows to try to control things, but it's clearly not working, if he escalates it won't bode well for us.

That only works if the fouls have actually been yellows and the game is getting niggly. Arsenal played for a couple of soft bookings, we’ve responded in turn, they can’t hack it and now he has to stay with the precedent he’s set. All of his own doing by being a useless gullible cunt

[OTF 6148]

Just now, ewerk said:

They’ve more yellows than us tbf.

I can't see him sending an Arsenal player off with a second yellow at home, more likely to find an excuse for one of ours.

[Gemmill 34442]

If we can get a point here, it'll be a great result.

[wykikitoon 16635]

Great ball that

[Gemmill 34442]

Howe looks like he's been on it over Christmas. Proper fucking cheese face on him. 

[ewerk 26326]

Fucking hell Joe! Should be doing better there.

[wykikitoon 16635]

Joe needs to at least get that on target.

Oh well. Happy we still have a clean sheet. This will be killing the pundits wanking over playmobil.  Arsenal do look good like.

[OTF 6148]

We've responded well to a strong Arsenal start, overall a good result for the first half, would have been amazing if we could have scored from that corner at the end.

[Dr Gloom 19822]

What a chance missed that is!!!!

[Dr Gloom 19822]

Could rue that one. Fuck me. Will we get a better chance? 

[Ayatollah Hermione 12767]

If these come out still raging, we could well shithouse a 1-0 here. The ref being card happy and sending them off the deep end has ruined their good start

[toonotl 2411]

Joelinton has to score there. Corner executed perfectly and he misses an open goal. Fuck sake. Perfect time to score too. Bad luck it came to him so quickly through a crowd I suppose but man that would have been perfect.

Edited January 3, 2023 by toonotl

[MrBass 2224]

Still in it at half time which is all we can really ask for. Should have nicked it just before half time mind, shocker from Big Joe. 

[Gemmill 34442]

I thought that looked a hard chance for Joelinton there. I'm behind people on here and expected to see him miss an absolute sitter. 

[Dr Gloom 19822]

Just now, wykikitoon said:

Joe needs to at least get that on target.

Oh well. Happy we still have a clean sheet. This will be killing the pundits wanking over playmobil.  Arsenal do look good like.

yeah, you can see why they’re top. We haven’t had to work like this in a game all season. I know Howe has got them fit but we could be blowing in the last 20 minutes if we have to keep this effort up. 
 

what’s been disappointing is we haven’t used the ball as well as we can when we have had brief spells of possession in part because of arsenal rushing us. Joelinton, Willock and Longstaff all losing it cheaply and Wilson struggling to hold it up. 

 

[Rosco 727]

Just had a look on SMB to get an unbiased view of our game😏 two comments stand out

 

Don't care if they're 3rd in the Prem, if this is how they play we're a much better side to watch

 

 

Barcodes are proper shite & dirty. At full strength, on our day I'd back us to beat them

 

 

[Craig 6302]

This referee has made a rod for his own back dishing cards out like sweets! Can definitely see a least one red coming.

 

were frustrating the fuck out of them mind. Arsenal do play some fucking good football.

[OTF 6148]

1 minute ago, Gemmill said:

I thought that looked a hard chance for Joelinton there. I'm behind people on here and expected to see him miss an absolute sitter. 

 

It definitely wasn't easy, that ball was moving, if that was a set play his timing was off.

[Ayatollah Hermione 12767]

Tbf, if Arsenal want a scrap, I think I’m betting on Joelinton and Botman over Ace of Base and Xhaka

[ewerk 26326]

Paul Merson: ‘Nercastle aren’t a fret’ despite just having the best chance of the match.

[Meenzer 14042]

3 minutes ago, Rosco said:

Barcodes are proper shite & dirty. At full strength, on our day I'd back us to beat them

 

 

[Craig 6302]

46 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

Probably why Howe knew not to start ASM.

 

100%! Neville called it out in commentary that Burn is benefiting from the support in front of him. No way he’d have got that from ASM

[Dr Gloom 19822]

Tbf, Burn has dealt with Saka well since that early scare. I thought he could be in for a tortuous evening after he skinned him in the first few minutes but it hasn’t happened since. 

Edited January 3, 2023 by Dr Gloom

[Dr Gloom 19822]

He took the ball off saka’s toes well another time he was one on one against him