Arsenal 1:2 Manchester United

Mali_Zeus · Nov 22, 2014

Get herrera in,change sthing and we could somehow win... Or not..

Winrar · Nov 22, 2014

Awful first 30 mins, got a bit better towards the end but still need to improve in the second half if we are going to get 3 points out of this fixture.

Shyftyy · Nov 22, 2014

well...apparently we are shit, the ref is shit but it's still 0-0 to a direct competitor in their house.... Stay positive! We can win this based on the last 20 or so minutes.

inside left channel · Nov 22, 2014

I think the first 20 minutes made it painfully obvious that our players are just not calm enough on the ball. You can't blame a young defender Blacket, but Fellaini, Carrick or DeGea? We weren't able to string together a few passes and get into the game. Fortunately Arsenal has dropped off and it's still 0-0...

JustFootballFan · Nov 22, 2014

Raptori said:
actually I'd say it looks like he's taking a bite out of his head

Yeah amateur. Not even the master goes for the head. Then the master is from South America and knows only Jaguars can crush skulls.

Hed Zitin · Nov 22, 2014

If he doesn't make changes LvG has gone down in my books massively.
CM on RvP off at least. I want a back four.

Marcelinho87 · Nov 22, 2014

So excellent De Gea and a much better final 10-15 minutes.

I think we can nick this.

Makaveli · Nov 22, 2014

I feel sorry for De Gea. What a player he is.

Kevzter · Nov 22, 2014

At least we made it to half time 0-0. Maybe change of formation now to confuse them??

ThierryHenry · Nov 22, 2014

SqueakyWeasel said:
Arsenal have a lottery? What can you win?

You meet a few of the players after the game. It's to get people to buy the program.

George Beast · Nov 22, 2014

Herrera for Carrick not because Carrick's been bad but Herrera offers far more going forward. Absolute dog shite terrible opening 30 minutes from United though.

Clas Sified · Nov 22, 2014

Calling it now, 2-0 United at the end.

Also, the main highlight of the first half was watching Wilshere square up to Fellaini. Funniest thing I've seen in a while :lol:

bishblaize · Nov 22, 2014

Well at least we didn't concede...

mu4c_20le · Nov 22, 2014

Can't complain with the scoreline. Arsenal have to attack, their back line isn't exactly inspiring either and playing at home it is understandable that they are on top. Hopefully Van Gaal can see how high they are pressing and set up to punish them in the second half.

Smash n grab.

DevilRed · Nov 22, 2014

Furious with LVG right now. Thought he'd learnt his lesson early in the year that 3 at the back will never work in the prem.

This is absolutely suicidal football we are playing right now. Everytime they come forwards we are split apart too easily. Had it not been for DDG we would be down two goals.

The "extra" man in midfield has also done feck all for our possession or control of the game. The whole team looks so disjointed and unsure yet again.

LVG should know better than to throw two teenagers into a back 3 and expect them to play well against the likes of sanchez. Its fecking madness.

Smores · Nov 22, 2014

Mata on for RVP hopefully and Di Maria a little deeper.

Really feel like it's only a matter of time before we concede

bosnian_red · Nov 22, 2014

Decent last 15 minutes, awful start to the game. De Gea our saviour, Di maria has been dangerous when he got the ball too. Blackett isn't premier league standar, let alone united. McNair been better but still shaky.

Fellaini has been meh, but got better. Rvp anonymous. Valencia useless. Need a huge improvement in the second half, hopefully Herrera comes on.

blitz133w · Nov 22, 2014

Midfield is non existent. Why doesn't he play Herrera? Carrick is almost trying to control the game single handedly.

Old Ma Crow · Nov 22, 2014

Randall Flagg said:
Is RVP even getting boo'ed? Not sure since he has barely touched it

Yes, on the rare occasions that he's touched the ball.

Amadaeus · Nov 22, 2014

I am actually glad it is still 0 - 0. We can definetly get a win, but Van Gaal needs to make a bold decision. Perhaps take out van persie and add januzaj or mata.

George Owen · Nov 22, 2014

George Owen said:
Park the bus, kill them on the counter. Pay special attention to Alexis and Welbeck.

-------------------------DDG-------------------------------
-------McNair---------Smalling---------Blackett---------
Valencia-------Carrick--------Herrera------------Young
----------------------Fellaini------------------------------
----------------Rooney--------RVP------------------------

its a horrible team, but we have to be realists. We are not gonna control the game. They have better players to get the ball moving around and they know we are fecked with injuries so they will go all out.

its imperative we go 0-0 to the HT. Arsenal will drop their performance for the first 30 minutes of the second half, and thats when we have to make them pay. RVP will have his chances, so he better take them.

The last 20 minutes of the game, hold the fort.

Its up to Arsenal to do their part now.

this is on.

Sam · Nov 22, 2014

We're an absolute mess of a team.

£150 million spent and our only tactic is to hoof it to Fellaini. Oh Moyes would be so proud of this.

Dylan94 · Nov 22, 2014

Granted we did start to look better in the last 15 minutes. But if we're going to score a goal: Rvp HAS, TO, GO.

Dafydd · Nov 22, 2014

RVP shouldn't be taking corners.

WR10 · Nov 22, 2014

WOW we have been absolutely pounded. Is DDG human? Thing to note here is that the front three are playing exactly like the Dutch front 3 in the world cup. Di Maria is playing the Robben role, and rightly so, RVP is RVP and Rooney is playing the Sneijder role with slightly more workrate. We can get a break if our defence aka DDG keeps it up for another 20 minutes in the 2nd half.

GMoore23 · Nov 22, 2014

Second half formation hopefully diamond
Dea
Valencia smalling mcnair blackett
Carrick
Fellaini herrera
Di maria
Rooney van persie

LARulz · Nov 22, 2014

This is painful to watch from us. If we don't get De Gea signed up asap I'll be fuming.

Blackett is just way too casual at the back. He seems to underestimate the speed of their players pressing him, after the first time you should wise up

Piratesoup · Nov 22, 2014

BarstoolProphet said:
Age. Nothing unusual but still shame to see such a brilliant player on the decline.

It's not like age should reduce him from great or at least very good to rubbish in a mere 5 mounths, though. He looks completely out of it.

bosnian_red · Nov 22, 2014

DevilRed said:
Furious with LVG right now. Thought he'd learnt his lesson early in the year that 3 at the back will never work in the prem.

This is absolutely suicidal football we are playing right now. Everytime they come forwards we are split apart too easily. Had it not been for DDG we would be down two goals.

The "extra" man in midfield has also done feck all for our possession or control of the game. The whole team looks so disjointed and unsure yet again.

LVG should know better than to throw two teenagers into a back 3 and expect them to play well against the likes of sanchez. Its fecking madness.

Who would your back 4 be? serious question. The only reason we're using a 3-5-2 is because our fullbacks are all injured. It'd be even worse in a 4 man defence then this.

ForlansHair · Nov 22, 2014

I actually think Smalling has been very good. Blackett was all over the place for the first half an hour, Smalling has marshalled them through well. He's not a striker so what do you expect?

poisson · Nov 22, 2014

For the love of all that;s good and evil, take persie off, herrera into midfield, di maria to play off Rooney.

devil in me · Nov 22, 2014

LVG has to change something - the most obvious thing being RVP for Herrera. If he doesn't then I'll be extremely frustrated with him and start to believe that he has his favourites who he just won't drop.

LARulz · Nov 22, 2014

GMoore23 said:
Second half formation hopefully
Dea
Valencia smalling mcnair blackett
Carrick
Fellaini herrera
Di maria
Rooney van persie

Well that's not going to happen. He's not going to bring Young off who just came on

Jazz · Nov 22, 2014

Thank feck for Big Dave and that it's half time. How did we survive that? At least we got a little better towards the end.

the hea · Nov 22, 2014

DDG and Fellaini has been good, the rest needs to step up and we can win this.

Sid234 · Nov 22, 2014

Wonder if Van Gaal will switch to 4 at the back in the 2nd half..

DevilRed · Nov 22, 2014

Bloody disgraceful too how our so called "world class" attack consists of us lumping it to Fellaini for him to chest down and then pass to the wings.

Its sad how that seems to be our only plausible approach to attacking against a gooner side that isn't even known for defending particularly well.

Dobba · Nov 22, 2014

Sam said:
£150 million spent

To be fair, Blind, Rojo, Shaw, Falcao and Herrera have been dogshit so far. Might as well be watching from the stands or at home.

blitz133w · Nov 22, 2014

what the feck happened to De Gea's distribution today?

vibe · Nov 22, 2014

Winrar said:
Awful first 30 mins, got a bit better towards the end but still need to improve in the second half if we are going to get 3 points out of this fixture.

Or 1. After that first half, I'd take it.

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