lex talionis
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Meaningless result.
Keeper mistakes.
Shambolic refereeing.
Keeper mistakes.
Shambolic refereeing.
Not sure De Gea is done as such but he knows he won't get dropped no matter what. Drop him let him sit on the bench. Bring him back in next season. Form is temporary and he deserves a chance to show that. He's given us his best years.Poor game, we really lose our flow when we can’t play our main XI. It’s a big concern.
DDG what can we say, he’s done. At 1-0 we were still in it, as soon as it went 2-0 it was game over. You can’t build a successful team without a good goalkeeper, and at this point he’s costing us games.
Yeah good point. But the mistakes by Lindelof and Maguire are typically the ones which cost goals so they are the ones we as fans tend to focus on more.When we've been pressed in the last 3 games we've been pretty awful and it's really shown the limitations of some of our players when they aren't allowed time on the ball.
Whilst Lindelof and Maguire have (quite rightly) copped for some criticism, i think AWB has been the worst of the lot.
We were, however, pretty poor until that point, couldn't get going at all and that matters. That and Mike Dean gave Chelsea the confidence they needed.But that doesn’t make much sense given that we drew the first half 0-0 up until the injury enforced change in system
for as good as we’ve been going forward, the goals were conceding are gifts.De Gea could have done better for all 3, but that second goal adds another howler for the album.
Williams shouldn't escape blame for a criminal pass just before it.
That utterly killed any chance we had
Agree with the fouling comment, think Martial was just outside the box, but the ref didn't award a free kick when it was clear martial was fouled.Kicked off the park, snide fouls, Chelsea knew perfectly well what they were doing, joke of a Referee....DDG throwing two in, Martial stonewall penalty not given at 0-0...disaster of a day
it would be funny if it wasn’t so predictableRedcafe: we don't care about the F.A. Cup.
Redcafe: this is a disgrace we lost, Ole out and [insert players names here] are not good enough.
Not really. There was not a single hard challenge (except possibly Zouma on Martial, but that was missed from the referee). There is no 3 fouls and a yellow rule in football.21 fouls. 0 yellow cards. Amazing.
Only 5 outfield players played on Thursday, most of them defenders. What was the excuses for the lack of quality further up?Have to say Chelsea a player really well, they never gave us a second on the ball, worked none stop pressing us all over the pitch. We looked lacking in energy after playing Thursday. And now we play again on Wednesday. we made far to many mistakes today And couldn't cope with Chelsea’s press.
we clearly need some better Quality back up players to enable rotation without disrupting the way we play.
lets move on beat West Ham and get something at leicester and alls good.
No, the problem is he didn't rotate ENOUGH. Bruno has already looked dead on his feet for the past week, and now he had to play ~100+ minutes in an essentially meaningless game. If United miss out on Europe, serious questions need to be asked of Ole's choices.Can’t blame Ole really for rotating.
Agreed, though I'd add Chelsea did the ugly work far better than us and played pretty well at times.This sums it up. We had a plan to stop Chelsea and exploit their high line, which was starting to work for us as the first half progressed. Then Bailly got injured, and our lack of central defenders meant that Ole changed our shape. That threw the whole team off, and they took advantage of that. Once we conceded that first goal, the players' heads dropped, especially Brandon Williams'. Chelsea won because of our individual errors and injuries, and their extra days of rest.
We should just move on. We lost. Accept that, learn from it, and look to seal 4th place. There's no use breaking this match down any further as it doesn't give us much insight.
I was wondering what was happening and why our players were just not complaining about it. The ref just kept allowing fouls on our players across the pitch.21 fouls. 0 yellow cards. Amazing.
We were awful until Bailly's injury. Unable to make 3 passes together, under 40% possession, had one shot (from Bruno's free kick) and Chelsea was pressing us with 6 players in our own half.If Ole put out a weak team he'd be lambasted for not going for it. We weren't that bad until the Bailly injury, and then individual mistakes killed us.
Top 4 was always the goal at the start of the season. Anything else was a luxury.Wrong everything. Changing a system that worked was wrong. Resting players was wrong. And then you play that players who you were resting. Why?
When you reach 1/2 finals of some cup then you go for it.
I am fuming here. Just when i thought that maybe just maybe i was wrong about Ole...
We are new Arsenal under Wengere. Top 4 trophy is priority and everything else is secondary. feck that.
Mike Dean