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Ladysmith wrote: ↑30 Nov 2024, 20:09 I thought the scoreline flattered Arsenal to be fair.

i also thought we redeemed ourselves in the second half.

Well done Hamners for that second half performance



 

threesixty wrote: ↑30 Nov 2024, 20:03

Sir Alf" wrote: ↑30 Nov 2024, 19:48 We dont have enough speed up top or a Rice type figure in midfield who can get up and down and run with the ball.

On the day, they were streets ahead because we look and have an ageing team for this league. Even Emerson is 30.  Soucek, Fab, Emerson, Antonio, and 33 year old Ings a sub.  Some of these players are not up to it physically and in the case of Soucek, Antonio they lack the technique too.  Arsenal gave us no time on the ball and we just could not keep it. When they had it we had no legs to effectively press them.   We were statues in comparison at times with for example Emerson and others failing to track Saka on their best goal, Antonio not able to keep with Gabriel on their first and although harsh 2 pens from being a fraction late with tackles / punch that a ref like Taylor will always give.

Still 4 better players short of a team that can give the best, quick teams a game and 7 or 8 better players to create a squad capable of competing at the top end of the league.  The coach Loppy is trying to get us to play more progressively with it but Arsenal and the better teams show we dont really have the players for it.

Best player for us was Wan Bassaka by a mile.  Soler was ok, as was Todibo ( 5s out of 10 ) but the rest were struggling to compete with Arsenal.   

The games coming up are about trying to see if we can compete more at our level which is currently mid table at best.

New coach?  I would go for Allegri simply because he will abandon trying to get ahead of ourselves and fit a system to the players he has or at least he has proved he can implement different tactical systems ( according to Wiki )

 

Why benchmark ourselves against Arsenal? Makes
no sense. 
no one expected us to get anything out of this one. 

yes we have old players, but the other side to that is experience over just raw energy. I don’t think it’s worth changing coach because we get spanked by arsenal. If we get spanked by Leicester , wolves etc. then by all means. But not Arsenal. 

I actually enjoyed the game because normally when we ship 5 goals we look like abject shit. We didn’t this time. That’s some level of progress surely?

Jaan Kenbrovin" wrote: ↑30 Nov 2024, 19:35 Disgraceful performance. 

Lopetegui needs to go and he can take that abysmal pile of shit Kilman with him.

45m and a seven year contract makes him easy one of the worst signings in football history. 

Sir Alf" wrote: ↑30 Nov 2024, 19:48 We dont have enough speed up top or a Rice type figure in midfield who can get up and down and run with the ball.

On the day, they were streets ahead because we look and have an ageing team for this league. Even Emerson is 30.  Soucek, Fab, Emerson, Antonio, and 33 year old Ings a sub.  Some of these players are not up to it physically and in the case of Soucek, Antonio they lack the technique too.  Arsenal gave us no time on the ball and we just could not keep it. When they had it we had no legs to effectively press them.   We were statues in comparison at times with for example Emerson and others failing to track Saka on their best goal, Antonio not able to keep with Gabriel on their first and although harsh 2 pens from being a fraction late with tackles / punch that a ref like Taylor will always give.

Still 4 better players short of a team that can give the best, quick teams a game and 7 or 8 better players to create a squad capable of competing at the top end of the league.  The coach Loppy is trying to get us to play more progressively with it but Arsenal and the better teams show we dont really have the players for it.

Best player for us was Wan Bassaka by a mile.  Soler was ok, as was Todibo ( 5s out of 10 ) but the rest were struggling to compete with Arsenal.   

The games coming up are about trying to see if we can compete more at our level which is currently mid table at best.

New coach?  I would go for Allegri simply because he will abandon trying to get ahead of ourselves and fit a system to the players he has or at least he has proved he can implement different tactical systems ( according to Wiki )

COOL HAND LUKE" wrote: ↑30 Nov 2024, 19:36 You would absolutely have to play out of your skin to get anything from that, especially with all their diving and cheating. Add Taylor into the mix as ref, and you don't have a snowball's chance in Hell...  Whoah whoah . I've seen way worse west ham sides . Beating better arsenal sides than that . The players clearly aren't playing for lopetegui. We've spent close on £500m In the last 3 summer transfer windows  . Yet we're getting worse . Surely even an imbecile like Sullivan must know we need a top class manager. 

twoleftfeet wrote: ↑30 Nov 2024, 19:31 I hope the club send a video to the PGMOL showing what Arsenal get up to at corners.

With a neutral ref we run them close.

Better second half.