Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [28th November - 3rd December 2014]
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Owen convinced he got a touch lol. The man needs glasses.
He clearly got the ball
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We deserved more out of that game, definitely could have done without losing players to injury.
Still can't quite believe that Arsenal didn't pick up a single card from all of that, more so how many soft fouls they were being given that we weren't getting everytime our players were getting knocked down whilst pressing Arsenal.
Still can't quite believe that Arsenal didn't pick up a single card from all of that, more so how many soft fouls they were being given that we weren't getting everytime our players were getting knocked down whilst pressing Arsenal.
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Poor performance in general helped massively by an incompetent ref, we got freekick after freekick of which most weren't anything. We finally got a winning goal against a 10 man and clearly frustrated/knackered team and even then it was relatively fluky.
Not sure if they'd have held up for the draw if they didn't go down to 10, not sure we'd have won if their most important player wasn't injured in the previous game. We looked toothless and pointless once again for the best part of what 70 minutes. Welbeck still looks a complete donkey, Giroud looks improved.... I'm not sure how much of that is his sudden willingness to shoot with more power and even run at the defence and how much is just because we get to compare him to Welbeck
Ox/Caz shouldn't be starting games, both entirely useless. Second game in a row, going into a busy period with worse weather when players often get injured that Wenger again used only two subs after naming pretty much the same starting line up.
Someone important will get injured, it will be due to no rotation and no resting and it will be entirely Wenger's fault. Monreal got a knock in the last game, he seemed to hurt himself within the first two minutes and continued to play the whole game even though he's apparently our only CB cover. Not only did he not give Bellarin a chance, he didn't bring him, or Rosicky on. He's asking for injury trouble, he refuses to sensibly rotate and ends up being an injury crisis every damn year and he's walking right into the same problem again.
Realistically we should have rested players for the last game and had a fresher first team to play in this game. Instead watch us name almost the same line up for a tough away game at Stoke.
Not sure if they'd have held up for the draw if they didn't go down to 10, not sure we'd have won if their most important player wasn't injured in the previous game. We looked toothless and pointless once again for the best part of what 70 minutes. Welbeck still looks a complete donkey, Giroud looks improved.... I'm not sure how much of that is his sudden willingness to shoot with more power and even run at the defence and how much is just because we get to compare him to Welbeck
Ox/Caz shouldn't be starting games, both entirely useless. Second game in a row, going into a busy period with worse weather when players often get injured that Wenger again used only two subs after naming pretty much the same starting line up.
Someone important will get injured, it will be due to no rotation and no resting and it will be entirely Wenger's fault. Monreal got a knock in the last game, he seemed to hurt himself within the first two minutes and continued to play the whole game even though he's apparently our only CB cover. Not only did he not give Bellarin a chance, he didn't bring him, or Rosicky on. He's asking for injury trouble, he refuses to sensibly rotate and ends up being an injury crisis every damn year and he's walking right into the same problem again.
Realistically we should have rested players for the last game and had a fresher first team to play in this game. Instead watch us name almost the same line up for a tough away game at Stoke.
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LOL.Poor performance in general helped massively by an incompetent ref, we got freekick after freekick of which most weren't anything. We finally got a winning goal against a 10 man and clearly frustrated/knackered team and even then it was relatively fluky.
Not sure if they'd have held up for the draw if they didn't go down to 10, not sure we'd have won if their most important player wasn't injured in the previous game. We looked toothless and pointless once again for the best part of what 70 minutes. Welbeck still looks a complete donkey, Giroud looks improved.... I'm not sure how much of that is his sudden willingness to shoot with more power and even run at the defence and how much is just because we get to compare him to Welbeck
Ox/Caz shouldn't be starting games, both entirely useless. Second game in a row, going into a busy period with worse weather when players often get injured that Wenger again used only two subs after naming pretty much the same starting line up.
Someone important will get injured, it will be due to no rotation and no resting and it will be entirely Wenger's fault. Monreal got a knock in the last game, he seemed to hurt himself within the first two minutes and continued to play the whole game even though he's apparently our only CB cover. Not only did he not give Bellarin a chance, he didn't bring him, or Rosicky on. He's asking for injury trouble, he refuses to sensibly rotate and ends up being an injury crisis every damn year and he's walking right into the same problem again.
Realistically we should have rested players for the last game and had a fresher first team to play in this game. Instead watch us name almost the same line up for a tough away game at Stoke.
Well I agree a tiny bit with your post. Performance wasn't great but I thought ox played well in the first half. It's Ramsey who was one of our worse players
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Ramsey has been poor this year for certain, but he's still produced more than Ox. One of the differences being there is reason to believe Ramsey can play better because he has done before. Ox is getting more and more game time despite producing nothing. 2 goals last year in one game against Palace, useless the rest of the time. He wasn't good in the first half, Wenger can't seem to tell the difference between on the ball a lot, moving a lot and being effective. The number of games he's genuinely effected the outcome of, not just scoring or assisting, but playing well rather than wasting attack after attack, it's tiny.
The other thing is, there are players who can play wide attacking/pacey roles in the team but not really any better players to take Ramsey's role. Caz has played wide, Ox often plays wide(even when not officially he runs down the wings a lot anyway), Podolski has been significantly more effective than Ox at any stage since he joined. He has barely played despite effecting way way more games than Ox. He's a player on a completely different level to Ox and can't get a game. Campbell... who knows how good he could be, without being given genuine starts and game time we won't know.
Things would be different still if Ox was improving over time, if the increased game time was helping him get better but the more he plays the more he stays the same. He isn't improving and hasn't really improved in the slightest since the day he joined. Campbell may fail, but I'd prefer to give Campbell 10 games instead of Ox so he gets a chance to prove himself one way or the other. We can keep him around and refuse to use him at the cost of millions in wages while playing someone we know isn't effective...... or we can play him, if he's great, great for the team, if he sucks, we can move him on quickly, save money and bring in someone else.
Spurs were quite good last might, for the first 15 minutes.
Remy bullying the best defender in the league for our 3rd was unexpected but good to watch
That was the icing on the cake.
We thought the lights had failed just before kick off. Nice effects though, surround sound and disco coming up for the next game.
Who is that?
Was that planned then?That was the icing on the cake.
We thought the lights had failed just before kick off. Nice effects though, surround sound and disco coming up for the next game.
I thought they had failed, especially when they seemed to stall in the tunnel for a while
Vertonghen, obv.
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I have picked liverpool to win this weekend so expect them to drop points.
Southampton need a point or they might go into free fall
Southampton need a point or they might go into free fall
I'm not sure if you are serious when saying this guy is a good defender.
I looked this guy up as I had never heard of him (I'm not a Tottenham fan, sorry).
The first news story on google was this.
Was that planned then?
I thought they had failed, especially when they seemed to stall in the tunnel for a while
That was for real. Being LEDs you can flick 'em on and off at will and you can also play around with the pitch perimeter boards as well. Some of that lighting was very good.