Premier League Festive Season

duffer

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Shocking first 30 minutes, the early sub and change of system made a huge difference.

Obviously Jorginho should have had a second yellow but lets not forget he gave Ozil a pass for the same foul a little earlier and also let Luiz off when he tried to do the Hulk Hogan big boot on Kante in the first half.
 

Andersons Dietician

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Same old Arsenal. They should have finished that. First half Ozil looked the buisness and Auba was putting in a shift.
 

roonster09

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Very poor by ref, should have sent off Jorginho which would have changed the game in Arsenal's favor.
 

Pyro19

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The officiating in this league is a fecking farce. Mike dean in our game yesterday and today the Jorginho incident.

I really hope someone blasts the referees
 

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Arsenal were really good for about 30 minutes.

Then it was a dull even game for the next 50 minutes with Chelsea having all the ball but not looking a threat. And then Arsenal did an Arsenal and threw it away.
Tbf helped by the referee.

Don't think Arsenal should be too disheartened though because they definitely look more structured now than they did at the start of the season.
 

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A real poxy win for Chelsea, goalkeeping howler turned the result on its head and the goal scorer should have saw red earlier.
 

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Jorginho should have seen red. Cowardly ref. Wonder if Arteta will say something in his press con.
For a second foul? Then Lacazette should have been off as well. Our players didn't surround the ref to ask for a second foul and concentrated on scoring instead.
 

OohAahMartial

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At the final whistle you could see all the Arsenal players bent over, head in hands. After bending over and taking it up the Arsenal for the whole 2nd half.
 

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More managers should do the 30 minute substitution when the plan going into the game is clearly not working. Seems like it has a positive impact almost every time
 

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Again we perform away and get a result, looked better than against Southampton or Bournemouth at home. Leno Howler helped of course. We should have had a pen in first half, evens out with Jorginho let off.

Will we try something massively different in next home game? Think we've got to.

What a strange season this is.
 

U99ted

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Run out f steam. But if the ref did his job we wouldn’t have lost this one. I know it’s annoying when players tell ref what to do. But to make a point against a player and say no one tells me what to do is horrible
You actually drew away to Aldershot.
 

ZolaWasMagic

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Let's focus on Jorginho like and not Luiz big boot attempt first half, Ozil not having a booking for exact same thing.
 

charlenefan

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Wolves sending the reserves out. fecking joke this season is.
Came to post the same, WTF is with their team

Coady the Liverpool fan will no doubt out through his own net or give away a pen or something as well