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mark87

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On the way back home. What a fucking result. Anything other than a win today would have been a travesty, the scum were terrible and deserved what they got, absolutely fuck all.

I was a nervous wreck at the free kick at the end though.

COYFS!!!!!!!!!
 

theShiznit

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Well for all the shouting Allbanghismum was a bit shit.

Still his starting made Lacazette even shitter and lacking confidence. So haha.
 

Chris Finch

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Just saw Arsene’s post match interview.... what’s happened to him?!
Took it all in good grace and agreed Kane’s goal wasn’t a foul and was a good goal
 

ardiles

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Overall, we've dominated in all our last three games against our top four rivals. The run in looks really bright.
 

gerishep

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Arse biggest problem is that they only had one Englishman on the pitch. but hey, who gives a fuck.
 

buttons

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That second half performance was absolutely exceptional, so so dominant. We should have won by 4 or 5 and it wouldn’t have flattered us. It was bloody nerve racking at the end, and the only possible critiscm of the team, is that we didn’t wrap it up earlier.

Dembele, on that form, is unplayable. He made Wilshere, Xhaka and Elneny look like children out there without getting out of second gear.

Kane was brilliant and bullied their centre backs all day, if he scored that volley then it’s goal of the season!

The rest of the front four (including Lamela) were excellent and their link up play was brilliant.

Back four and Dier were solid and didn’t give them a sniff, I’m not actually convinced Auba touched the ball?

Fantastic. The last 3 performances have been exceptional, maybe we’re peaking at the right time again.

COYS!!!
 

Blue

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Great result but we could do better in terms of finishing and game management in the last ten minutes of a match. Poch needs to take some responsibility for handing Arsenal the initiative at the end by taking Alli off and not replacing him with an attacking player. If Son had been still on the pitch I could have understood it a bit more.

Agree with this. Its good to see that Poch can make more defensive changes and try to see a game out (can't remember him have done this before) - but this was not that kind of game IMO. It worked well this time but Lacazzette could have destroyed our good performance at the end. If he had put on Moura (or another attacking player - dear i say sissoko) we could have countered and more importantly: they would have needed to show us more respect and not push all their players forward. Poch probably thought it was necessary nevertheless with more "fighting power" and therefore bringing on Wanyama. We were played deep at the end and it could have ended in disaster - but this time it didn't. Happy with the victory but if poch has a weakness that sure has to be he's in game management - or tactics in general? I love he's football philosophy (we don't bow down to anyone) but we do the same thing every game in terms of style of play. We do change formations though, and this is of course part of the tactical aspect as well, and i think Poch does better in this area. We set up to dominate in every game and as honorable this is it can be a little naive sometimes - the irony is that we did the opposite at the end in this match. Poch tried to make a tactical change (and not a very brave one) and sit back - that was wrong (IMO) in this match even though it worked out.
 

Qualsonic

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Just saw Arsene’s post match interview.... what’s happened to him?!
Took it all in good grace and agreed Kane’s goal wasn’t a foul and was a good goal
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger: "In the first half we missed three or four opportunities on the counter attack which is difficult to swallow, always the final ball. We contained them to very little.

"Once they scored you could see we were wobbling and they could have scored more but in the last 10 minutes we should have come back to 1-1.

"The first goal was key and we conceded it. Kane made the difference, that's what he's about. I have seen the replay, it is no foul, just good centre-forward play. We can only look at ourselves.

"It will be more difficult to finish in the top four but we have to fight for it. "
 
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