Greenlizard0 PL & Championship Football Thread ** spoilers ** [13th - 19th January 2023]

[The_One]

every time have underperformed or lost a result, we have come back stronger and better, Arsenal better watch out.

Not slightest bit concerned extremely confident were gonna bury your title hopes at the emirates this weekend

Xhaka/partey/odegaard gonna have it easy with casemiro missing

 

[Robbo]

Fair result. We were comfortable in the first half but pretty poor in the second. Not much you can do against wonder goals like that other than have a few goal cushion.

Casemiro is a big loss on Sunday and he should have scored the winner there.

Agreed. Wasn't a good performance but not awful, just one of those things.

 

[Shamikebab]

That was a worldie to be fair. Palace didn't really have anything else of note.

What about the two world class saves De Gea made?

We were poor in the second half but the game should have been over with the penalty but we've been screwed over. Wonder if that will get as much news coverage as the equaliser at the weekend...

 

[Droolinggimp]

slightly concerned extremely confident you're gonna bury our title hopes at the emirates this weekend

Xhaka/partey/odegaard gonna have it easy with casemiro missing

Fixed that for you

 

[robfosters]

That was a worldie to be fair. Palace didn't really have anything else of note.

DDG pulled off a couple of top saves before that, so it’s a bit unfair to say palace had nothing

 

[scarps]

Bottled it, first game thinking they were in a title race.

 

[The_One]

Fixed that for you

So given the form of both teams your confident of utd beating us at emirates?

 

[Robbo]

Our squad is still lacking, don't think many people genuinely thought we were in a title race.

We'll see who has the bottle when Man City have their 10-15 game winning run, will Arsenal be able to hold on... that's what they have to prove. They've had good runs under Arteta before but choked it in the end.

 

[The_One]

Our squad is still lacking, don't think many people genuinely thought we were in a title race.

We'll see who has the bottle when Man City have their 10-15 game winning run, will Arsenal be able to hold on... that's what they have to prove. They've had good runs under Arteta before but choked it in the end.

City wont go on a 10-15 game run this season

 

[robfosters]

Our squad is still lacking, don't think many people genuinely thought we were in a title race.

We'll see who has the bottle when Man City have their 10-15 game winning run, will Arsenal be able to hold on... that's what they have to prove. They've had good runs under Arteta before but choked it in the end.

So is it absolutely certain that City will win every game then?

 

[Ayahuasca]

Can’t see City doing a 10-15 game win streak this season.

 

[Robbo]

So is it absolutely certain that City will win every game then?

Absolutely not, but that's the sort of thing they do. They are in a rough patch now so can only improve.

 

[The_One]

So is it absolutely certain that City will win every game then?

Mate everyone just wants to hate on arsenal let it continue the elephant is still sitting on top of the tree

City running away with the league and all that the fact city come to us in feb is massive imo the return leg at city might be irrelevant come april if we keep up our form

 

[The_One]

Absolutely not, but that's the sort of thing they do. They are in a rough patch now so can only improve.

They’ve already lost 3 games this season and were not even halfway through the season

 

[Ayahuasca]

City’s longest win streak so far in the premier league this season is 3 games…

 

[Robbo]

Mate everyone just wants to hate on arsenal let it continue the elephant is still sitting on top of the tree

City running away with the league and all that the fact city come to us in feb is massive imo the return leg at city might be irrelevant come april if we keep up our form

Are you really not seeing the irony here? You post more about Man Utd than Arsenal.

You are assuming Arsenal will maintain their form, and that Man City will continue struggling a bit - that's not how football works.

 

[robfosters]

I wonder if Casemiro is beating the **** out of Bruno in the dressing room?

 

[The_One]

Are you really not seeing the irony here? You post more about Man Utd than Arsenal.

You are assuming Arsenal will maintain their form, and that Man City will continue struggling a bit - that's not how football works.

So city currently have a best of a 3 game win streak but you reckon they will go 10-15 games on the bounce winning yet arsenal are the most inform team in the prem and you think we will drop

Wheres the logic in that, there is zero its just hatred for arsenal same as pundits like gary neville

 

[Shamikebab]

its just hatred for arsenal

What the **** are you talking about. Who is hating on Arsenal

 

[Calpol]

That won't do us any harm. It's a good reminder to the players that you have to battle for 95 minutes when it's only 1-nil. Eriksen was decent tonight, he worked hard but again he faded and thats a pattern we are seeing. 65-70 minutes plus, we are in danger of losing a bit of bite and energy. It shows that we really need another midfielder that offers more than Fred or McSauce.
I'm not worried about Sunday. It's a free hit for us and I think we are capable of getting a result but we have to match Arsenal in the first 15-20 minutes. They start really well and can easily be two up before you can blink.