[mav_9me]

I will never understand how "experts" like Lee Dixon go on to set the narrative based on the result. Apparently Arsenal deserve to win, have been the sharper all over the pitch which is utter nonsense.

 

[Handsome Devil]

You got to remember, Arsenal are playing for their Fourth Place Cup.

 

[Sassy Colin]

We.

Better

 

[Schmeichel=God]

I was replying to the second part though.

Lukaku has missed a lot of chances today but his overall contribution has been good. Just one of those days.

ah ok. yep. unbelievably a "one of those days" matches. stay positive move on to the next one ey

 

[DavidDeSchmikes]

Jon Moss will be off to motorboat a chocolate cake at full time

 

[Ducklegs]

Punchline to this game... we will finish above arsenal

No, this was a must win game.

 

[championo]

Today, we were just making so many wrong passes, wrong decisions, first time I have questioned a lot of the passes, type of passes, timing of passes. It does not help that Pogba has had a terrible game.

 

[LingiBW]

He needs to be ruthless & severe when the time calls for it, he should have sent a message to every team member by swapping Rashford for Martial at halftime that no one is exempt from having a bad shift mentally.

Fully agreed. No player should underperform and still see a game out when there is a possibility of changing things

 

[ivaldo]

We'll have to disagree. It's a soft penalty but it was a foul.

It really isn’t a foul. This idea that contact means it’s a foul is nonsense. Conversely, there doesn’t need to be contact for it to be a foul.

 

[SirAnderson]

Think the attempt to play both Rash and Lukaku hasn't worked out much unfortunately. Maybe just needs some more work on it, not necessarily scrapping the idea altogether, try different formations and what not.

 

[Dudu]

Lukaku

 

[mu4c_20le]

I have never come across such a set of knee jerk lot than the ones that reside in this here thread... Terrible.

A lot of posters should be ashamed of some of the drivel they spout.

I think you are being melodramatic. When we were managed by Jose, a lot of people thought we should have sold off half the team.

 

[AJ10]

Hit the bar then post, missed so many good chances and how in the f is that a pen. can't believe we lost to these small timers but it happens.


They were singing "who are you" FFS you're suppose to pretend that you're a big club.

 

[mav_9me]

You got to remember, Arsenal are playing for their Fourth Place Cup.

So are we though.

 

[londonredmaniac]

Some big games coming up.

Move on, nowhere near the end of the world.

 

[K2K]

I hope we don't have a meltdown on the forum today

This is the caf

Expect calls for half of our squad to be sold after this and Ole to be shipped back to Norway .

 

[Cockney Phil]

Ole should not be having to tell them to pick up the pace in injury time. We never really raised our game and we were unable to take our chances. We need to take a time out and kick on.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Better

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

Bad day at the office this.

 

[7even]

Tired minds. Lack of focus. To many players delivering under par performances

 

[Marcus]

Mason has had a few good touches. Ah well.

 

[Rado_N]

feck off Neville you enormous cockwomble

 

[Jazz]

The lads need to move on swiftly after this result.

 

[Buster15]

Mason Greenwood looks at home already.

Why. Is he an Arsenal player.

 

[el3mel]

You got to remember, Arsenal are playing for their Fourth Place Cup.

We're playing for the same goal ?

 

[Garethw]

i don't think this is on Ole at all. Today is on the players.

De Gea over compensated for what he thought was the movement of the ball and then mentally gave up getting back across. In my opinion he didn't even slip or lose his footing. His mind was just slow. But so what. One bad game in how many years of keeping us in the top 6.

Lukaku reverted to type today. we couldn't not play him after his recent games. and he ended up with multiple chances, one of which he absolutely must bury. Perhaps we take him out again to teach him he needs to shoot first time.

So overall as a club everything went against us today. Players off day, refereeing. We were better than them and on another day this is a very different result.

Oh I totally agree mate. My only real issue with Ole is he seems to leave his substitutions a little too late.

 

[JonDahl]

Shit.

 

[DavidDeSchmikes]

Hopefully come the end of the season, this match will be a mere footnote

 

[Sassy Colin]

Sourness will be absolutely delighted with Pogba's below par performance.

 

[Anustart89]

Our defenders have been brilliant today along with Lukaku who should’ve finished 1 from the chances he got. But everyone else have been quite poor.

So in order to be "brilliant" you just have to get a ton of chances and miss them? Strongly disagree with that assessment. If you miss the amount of clear-cut chances that Lukaku has missed today then you definitely can't have had a brilliant performance.

 

[Litch]

Fred is a bit of an enigma, he’s kinda been good and kinda been poor. I quite like some of the things I’ve seen from him in this game. Gets his foot in, gets about and actually seems quite good at just nicking the ball and can esacape a press pretty well.
Then within about 10 minutes he’ll give examples of being terrible at these things, such a weird player.

When you take forensic look at players, people see what they want to see depending on their opinion of the player. All that you wrote could easily describe any of our players....

 

[Bloxy]

Arsenal better than us today. We did not deserve to win.

 

[Heinzesight]

It really isn’t a foul. This idea that contact means it’s a foul is nonsense.

Not a penalty in a million years.

 

[LingiBW]

We didnt lose this because Arsenal were better, but because we were poor and that is on Ole.

 

[mu4c_20le]

just not our day. we'll just have to fight till the end, no letting off now

 

[glazed]

Schroedinger's Fred.

 

[SirAnderson]

I agree with some who were saying Ole should have known Rash has been playing poorly lately and either subbed him earlier or gave him a sub role today.

 

[El Zoido]

Frustrating, Arsenal have created nothing all game and look a bit crap in general, but we didn’t take our chances.

 

[Schmeichel=God]

does Fred just somtimes reach into his bag of passes and whip out a pitching wedge?

 

[RonaldoVII]

Pretty pathetic display all round. If we play like that next weekend we’re out of the FA Cup

 

[Ban]

Nah, if we judge him by the same criteria as Matic, Pogba, Lindelöf and Rashford he hasn’t been good. Was ok but he has done a lot of stupid stuff we’d berate Pogba for. Rightfully so

Yeah no. Don't agree. What stupid stuff?

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

Credit to Xhaka, that strike took some skill.

 

[Patrick08]

Rashford has been shit since he has moved to the side to accommodate lukaku at 9