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Re: Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Surrender Thread
« Reply #195 on: September 22, 2019, 09:46:59 PM »
Well their penalty was definitely harsh. ******!

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Re: Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Surrender Thread
« Reply #196 on: September 22, 2019, 09:48:26 PM »
And who fucking lined up the wall for that free kick?🤦🏻‍♂️
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Re: Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Surrender Thread
« Reply #197 on: September 22, 2019, 10:05:21 PM »
I've just listened to Dean Smith's post-match interview.  I bet he was glad to get away from the cameras. Even with an interviewer who was fairly tame.

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Re: Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Surrender Thread
« Reply #198 on: September 22, 2019, 10:16:50 PM »
We don’t seem to be learning very quickly

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Re: Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Surrender Thread
« Reply #199 on: September 22, 2019, 10:17:12 PM »
What I want us to learn from, playing against 10 men, is the fact that, in both cases, they lost a full back and then made a substitution to ensure that West Ham and Arsenal had four at the back, meaning that they take a player off the pitch, further forward.  Surely, the right thing for Villa to do today was to flood the midfield and overload it, so they couldn't play through us? And yet, we didn't, we brought on a full back to play on the right wing and swapped one midfielder for an other.  Poor decisions.

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Re: Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Surrender Thread
« Reply #200 on: September 22, 2019, 10:20:35 PM »
What I want us to learn from, playing against 10 men, is the fact that, in both cases, they lost a full back and then made a substitution to ensure that West Ham and Arsenal had four at the back, meaning that they take a player off the pitch, further forward.  Surely, the right thing for Villa to do today was to flood the midfield and overload it, so they couldn't play through us? And yet, we didn't, we brought on a full back to play on the right wing and swapped one midfielder for an other.  Poor decisions.

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Re: Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Surrender Thread
« Reply #201 on: September 22, 2019, 10:27:08 PM »
Yeas and they  also pushed their full backs on to us.
Go 4 4 2 or 4 5 1 and you have countered it.

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Re: Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Surrender Thread
« Reply #202 on: September 22, 2019, 10:51:08 PM »
Watching Jack jump out of the way on the free kick in the wall....bad stuff.

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Re: Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Surrender Thread
« Reply #203 on: September 22, 2019, 10:53:04 PM »
DS not blameless today, but if we had avoided a couple of individual errors for their first two goals and had a more favourable pen decision at the end, it’s a different story.

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Re: Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Surrender Thread
« Reply #204 on: September 22, 2019, 10:58:36 PM »
Piss poor penalty decision. Should have been, without question.

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Re: Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Surrender Thread
« Reply #205 on: September 22, 2019, 10:59:19 PM »
Watching Jack jump out of the way on the free kick in the wall....bad stuff.

Some effort from our captain alright

Heaton takes responsibility for the wall though, seemed badly set up.

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Re: Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Surrender Thread
« Reply #206 on: September 22, 2019, 11:00:37 PM »
Just saw on MOTD the VAR-not-given penalty. When even Smurphy says it was a blatant pen you just know we've been robbed of a probable point by poor officiating again.

Straws, clutching and all that but even so...

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Re: Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Surrender Thread
« Reply #207 on: September 22, 2019, 11:06:17 PM »
Just home, still seething. Will we ever f*cking learn? Forget that handball, it shouldn’t have even mattered, we should have put the game to bed before then but we threw it into reverse after going ahead. In my opinion, we lack mental strength and physical fitness, and that needs addressing as a matter of urgency.

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Re: Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Surrender Thread
« Reply #208 on: September 22, 2019, 11:08:53 PM »
DS not blameless today, but if we had avoided a couple of individual errors for their first two goals and had a more favourable pen decision at the end, it’s a different story.
Exactly. Pant wetters please take note. All this talk of game management and formations ignores this. Engles hasn't put a foot wrong all season but 2 goals came from his poor distribution and decision making and the other from a piss poor header from Mings. Couple all that with the ref and var missing a blatant penalty and the result could've been so so different. Those ripping into Dean Smith at this early stage are being a bit harsh imo. The fickle lable will be coming our way again soon.

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Re: Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Surrender Thread
« Reply #209 on: September 22, 2019, 11:14:41 PM »
I'm hearing from a reliable source certain players are getting a little frustrated with DS, one being Mcginn and his post match interview would confirm this.

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