The FA CUP Sixth Round ** Spoilers ** [11th - 13th March 2016]

Agree with Scholes on the free-kick. It's a pin point free-kick but from that distance you'd have thought the keeper would get across to that.
 
Fair result.
Ref was pretty poor today. I think he got a lot wrong for both sides.
As for Man United I really hope this season is the last time we see Fellaini and Carrick. They are clearly not the sort of players that can play a part in taking the team forward. Schweinstieger actually made a positive difference but even he is past it.
 
Atkinson has been poor for more than just this one match, baffling how some referee's get continued work - I guess it is a sad indictment of just how poor the English pool of referee's are.
 
Seemed a fair result. Don't know what Scholes is on about with the free kick. The keeper protects the side the wall isn't. If you get beaten on the side without the wall everyone whinges. That free kick flew over the wall and went in off the post. It was an amazing free kick.
 
fez said:
Seemed a fair result. Don't know what Scholes is on about with the free kick. The keeper protects the side the wall isn't. If you get beaten on the side without the wall everyone whinges. That free kick flew over the wall and went in off the post. It was an amazing free kick.
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Exactly - amazed De Gea actually got as close as he did

(not exactly as though the ball didnt nudge the inside of hte post as it went in, just one of those things - even if its questionable Payet should have been on the pitch to get / take it in the 1st place)
 
drunkenmaster said:
He signed a midfielder in January, months after Coquelin was injured who was cup tied for Europe when everyone knew we needed DM cover in summer. Wenger was happy with Arteta and Flamini and their performances cost us multiple points between them. Something completely avoidable, Arteta should have been gone at least 2 years ago, Flamini should never have been signed, we should have signed a top DM at that time but failed to because Wenger saw Arteta as good enough.
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... Wenger addressed the problem? A 'holding/defensive' midfielder was something Arsenal have lacked, an anchor to the midfield. January comes around, player is available and Wenger signs him. He has literally addressed a problem here.

drunkenmaster said:
You're picking a single issue Wenger made a change on, but ignoring the 20 things he flat out refuses to change on a yearly basis. Changing one or 20 problems, refusing to acknowledge the other 20 problems and those 20 problems costing us every single year without fail... is not addressing those problems.
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I also highlighted how he upgraded the goalkeeper, along side signing Elneny.

drunkenmaster said:
WHo should we have signed, we've needed a top DM for 5 years, there have been loads available in that time.
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Who is to say those that were available; wanted to come to Arsenal/English football, or Arsenal felt were unrealistic targets.

drunkenmaster said:
We should have signed a new manager, because without one he will continue to ignore the biggest problems in the team.
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I think you (and many other Arsenal fans) are being overly critical of Wenger; he is a phenomenal manager. He has consistently challenged for league titles (on a smaller budget than Chelsea/Manchester United/Manchester City), won cup competitions and always qualified and progressed in Europe.

The football is not poor to watch either.

I think the Arsenal squad / team has problem areas; but I think Wenger's biggest fault is his relationship with his players, he trusts them and puts far too much effort in with players when they are not good enough.
 
fez said:
Seemed a fair result. Don't know what Scholes is on about with the free kick. The keeper protects the side the wall isn't. If you get beaten on the side without the wall everyone whinges. That free kick flew over the wall and went in off the post. It was an amazing free kick.
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It was an amazing free-kick but from that distance you'd have expected Dea Gea to get across his goal quicker. Look at the save he makes in the last minute - admittedly he's in the centre of goal rather than to his left but he only sees the shot at the last moment and he gets across comfortably to make the save. It wasn't as if Payet's absolutely smashed it and he has no time to react.

edit: watched the replay of it again and it looks as if he's dived too early/from too far out and simply couldn't cover the distance. If he takes another half step across his goal before the dive, he's saving it. It's not too dissimilar to Lallana's goal vs City - Hart slightly loses his footing and is forced to dive without taking that extra step and he just can't reach the ball.
 
Disagree. I've seen De Gea save free-kicks equally as precise and from closer distances too.

This 1 vs Mata springs to mind:


The big difference between today and the 1 vs Mata is his feet movement. He's dived too early and hasn't been able to get across.
 
I think we're been too critical lads, De Gea has been excellent for us and if it weren't for him we'd be easily losing more games than we are already.

Next :p

P.s I can understand Scholsy's frustration but he's just becoming a miserable sod now.
 
Annoyed I couldn't see either of the games I was driving back from Cardiff, but heard the second half of Arsenal losing on 5 live, made me very happy! :D
 
Nice to have a semi final lineup without an obvious favourite. It's wide open really, hope Everton or West Ham win it. Anyone but palace!
 
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