(The not-so-temporary quite-official) Gooner Thread (Part 2)

Fudge , fudge , fudgeing fudge

Welbeck <3

gee we are horrible. Deserve to be down by more. theo gabby and Bellerin having mares 

Haven't turned up at all . No intensity. Would take off Theo asap

Pretty much.....worst man u team I have seen

Losing to that United team.

For fudges sake.

Absolute shambles.

worst performance of the year

terrible result

They probably deserved the win given LVG's sideline efforts

Pathetic defending.
Zero intensity. 

Looked like we showed up expecting a cruise. 

So farked off. 

That might be it now. 

That is the worst game of football I've seen from this Arsenal side in a long time. Piss poor defending, no ideas up front. An absent striker, an energy less midfield, and a pair of CB's who don't seem to have met. 

We (still) can't perform under pressure.

The song remains the same (no pun intended).

The definition of insanity.... ra de ra... head - wall. FML.

Two horse race now. Come on Leicester. Best we can hope for now is to try and win the FA Cup and cling on to 4th.

Still raging. 

Gabriel, Koscielny, wtf.

No one tracking Herrera for that third goal. 

Walcott completely missing at CF after being given a big chance today. 

Team has regressed massively since we battered ManU at home earlier in the season, when they had a much stronger starting side. 

Varela got the early yellow against Sanchez, Monreal had the one on one (very similar to the one he scored last year in the FA Cup at the same ground), we shoulda had them over the barrel early. Instead we fluffed around and they punished us. Even then they were weak at the back and we had all the time in the world to turn it around. The third goal was unforgiveable. 

We have not been able to recover from the loss of Cazorla in midfield, but we should have, we have the players to cope with it, but they've not stood up. 

No surprise and sadly my worst fears look to be coming true The next few weeks are going to be pretty miserable. Bit annoyed at myself for going so berserk over Welbeck's winner the other week.

We were dire as usual in a big game and they could have beaten us 8-2 again with a team like they had back then. Class as always from their fans with the usual "sit down you paedophile" chant in clear full swing.

The worst thing is AW's comments in the presser... the man is in la-la-land. This makes me sad. We've blown it. Again.

Today's result doesn't diminish the significance of that moment, cheer up chap.

Ozil looked like a man who was consigned to losing from the beginning of the game. Strange stuff.

Actually, we all did.

Can't believe I stayed up for that horsesharke. Just didn't seem like we put the effort in at all.

Absolutely deluded. He's gone back to the money excuse again. "They spent a lot of money." You don't get to make that excuse when you had money and chose not to spend it. Be accountable for once.

It doesn't matter how much they've spent either. They had Michael fudgeing Carrick at centre back and a right back and entire bench made up of football manager regens.

Watch the actual comments and press conference. It's pretty mundane, standard stuff, responding to direct questions. He doesn't offer any excuses, just answers to questions. 

I never understand why after-match or pre-match comments are considered important at all. 

What Arsene will be saying to the players now will be entirely different. 

The performance was absolutely disgusting in any case. Worst we've played for a long time and it probably shows how bad that United side were that we still scored 2 goals and could have snatched a point. By far the worst United side I've seen.

We effectively played with 10 men for most of it:

"Against United, Walcott was atrocious. No shots, no chances created and six passes completed in 63 minutes. He touched the ball 17 times and managed to lose possession on ten occasions. It would be hard to do worse deliberately." - F365

Agreed.

Regardless of everything else, there is just no way we should be conceding 3 goals in that game. All three were just basic lapses in concentration by various players. 

Mertesacker and Cech are the best at that, both of them should've been on the pitch today imo. 

Walcott was poor but I'm not so miffed about the selection decision, he was excellent in the reverse fixture in that position and also against Man City earlier in the season. Just annoyed that he was so sh*t today. Bet that would've annoyed Giroud too. 

You'd think he'd be busting a gut to up his form with the Euros approaching too. As it stands, he probably misses out on yet another international tournament.

Good point, hard to see him getting in at this stage. Even Welbeck has come back and promptly overtaken him for either a striking or wide role you would think. 

Bit of a shame after feeling so proud about having so many players in the England side (5 or 6 in the early stages of qualifying), a mixture injuries and poor form mean we may not even have 1 in the final squad.

Come back asap Santi pls

I don't know where to start with last night - frustration, anger, somewhat expected.

To put in that performance against that United team is nothing short of embarrassing. We've bottled it again and this is our best chance in years. To make things worse the yids are in with a proper chance now too and we play them this weekend.

If Wenger doesn't win the league this year, he needs to step down. Money an issue? Poor old Leicester.

At least your parents are not Spurs fans too Hawk. Though mine haven't said anything about the race this season yet, probably learned their lesson from "mind the gap" and "super Bale again" etc every week the other year. Only comment I've had so far was "we're really enjoying the Premier League this season, it's exciting" a couple of weeks ago.

It's been a cracking season, best one in ages IMO

Will the Cocks deflate? Hopefully starting this weekend. Certainly we need to pants Swansea midweek

Reportedly he raged at them after the Barcelona game which was actually a pretty decent performance, then they came out this morning with that. I hate to think what United's full strength side would have done to us.

We battered them 3-0 when they had all their players. This loss was all us, regardless of opposition. 

Not dissimilar to Soton and one or two other results this season. It hasn't been great, but we're still only 5 points off the top. 

Fair sh*tting my pants about spurs, and in the meantime we've got swansea who have been a bogey team of late. If we don't sort this out we could be in a world of the worst sh*t ever a week from now. 

9 points from the last 21 is relegation form and the fact we're still only 5 points behind shows how big a chance this season is. 

Still absolutely fuming with yesterdays performance. Hate hate hate losing to ManU as people at work all come out as united fans and give me shark even though the last united game they watched was when SAF was in charge!!!!

Mildly worried about Swansea and have taken the morning off to watch. Absolutely sharkting myself about Sp*rs.

Think we can still win the title but need a huge improvement on recent results. If we don't win it I hope Leicester do

Yea heard from my old man yesterday, first time in years he's mentioned football. Doesn't watch any of it at all, but obviously saw the result on the news so he felt compelled to text. 

We are so lucky it's a mental season and we are still in the hunt, despite only having 51 pts from 27 games. We probably had more at this stage last year when we were miles off the top.

Need need need to beat Swansea well first before even contemplating the NLD.

Who do you send out for Swansea?

I'd be refreshing/resting like this:

               Giroud

Walcott Iwobi Campbell

        Ramsey Elneny

Gibbs Kosc Per Chambers

              Cech

Giroud needs to start to find form and do what he does best, hold the ball up and piss people off. Ozil needs a rest to be fired up for NLD, same with Sanchez. Le Coq & Welbz need a breather given they're still finding fitness post injury. Our full backs also both need a rest, and we desperately need the Mertiscielny combo firing to make sure we don't leak goals.

Starting Walcott on the left and Campbell on the right to make sure Chambers has support, Gibbs can probably handle the Walcott absence of tracking better than Chambers can.

Oh & while Iwobi looked pants, he came on when we were 3-2 down and expected to win the game. He's got a future, but not ready to be a clutch saviour yet. 

Thoughts?