Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[paulcomben]

The fact that the post match thread is not yet running to a dozen or so pages, suggests a certain resignation as to our fate.

And also many of us are watching the rugby, trying to forget Villa and wondering whether we could ever wean ourself off the exasperating round ball game.

[Ron Manager]

Say you were a neutral you would have thought that was an entertaining game between two well matched teams. Ok so we lost as we expected might happen but gave a very good account of ourselves. Played some good stuff and didnt look bottom three at all.

Alan Smith on Fox was willing us to win from the kick off. Just fell short of a badly needed point . Dawkins in his cameo shows promise.

Benteke was not on his game today.

[PaulWinch again]

I feel like it's going to come to Wigan on the last day. With us needing a draw and them needing to win to stay up. Imagine the nerves before that one!

What worries me is this.

Wigan won 3-0 away from home today. For all the improvement I can see in some areas, for all the promising football we can play, taking all that into account, I try to imagine us winning 3-0 away from home against any team, in any league, and it just seems to utterly impossible to imagine.

Yes any wins would be desperate hanging on at the end type games.

[ez]

Defeats at places like Arsenal aren't the results that get you relegated over the course of a season.

It is doing badly against teams you should hope to compete against that dooms you, and sadly, we do plenty of that.

What you really have to do is fight and scrap when you see points here and there that people wouldn't expect you to get. That is an area in which we have been utterly pathetic all season long, and it shows no real signs of getting any better.

Whether it is throwing away two points at Everton or a point today, or in numerous other games this year, we seem to show no indication we're tightening things up.

Did anyone on the face of the earth really think we'd hold on for a point once Weimann scored? Really? We didn't, because yet again, we look frail and utterly, utterly brainless at the back.

I still can not believe the act of wanton, short sighted stupidity that saw us not get a CB in during January. God knows how much that is going to cost us in the long run, because in other areas, there are things right about this team.

Unfortunately, we'll continue showing the same fucking weakness week in, week out, and we'll get relegated - at which point all the players who have improved over the course of the season will want (and get) out, and all the work we've done this year will just get pissed away.

Fucking infuriating, and a big fuck you to Lerner and his little poodle for mismanaging our club to this level of rubbishness.

Once i saw what the tactic was after that , no.

[olaftab]

The fact that the post match thread is not yet running to a dozen or so pages, suggests a certain resignation as to our fate.

No it does no such thing. Most of the H&Vers recognise that the team did well today and were desperately unlucky to lose.

[David_Nab]

I'm starting to worry again a bit. Wigan have probably got the easier run in with favourable fixtures... we all know what Wigan are like towards the end of the season not to mention how much better their GD is compared to our disgraceful GD.

GD of Eight so basically the Chelsea result

[Herman]

Same old, same old.
A mentally weak, leaderless team. The same old piss poor defending and poor decision making.
As full backs go, ours are both shite but I have a (maybe pretty much irrational) dislike of Lowton who is the weakest and frailest of the lot. Other than his powder puff crossing when we did manage to attack, he seemed to be having a competition to see how many preventable corners he could concede.

[PaulWinch again]

Lowton is really starting to struggle now, the fact we have him playing all season is insane.

[Brian Taylor]

No backbone..No backs!

[damon loves JT]

there aren't any positives apart from the fact that this match is now over. I just want the City game out of the way without destroying our confidence or injuring any players.

[Ads]

I thought Arsenal were there for the taking and I stand by that. They huff and puff on your 18 yard line but not much else.

They are also fragile at the back and I thought we caused them a lot of problems out wide, especially Andi. Benteke and Charlie didn't come to the party, with the former being particually ineffectual.

I thought Sylla should have come on and not Dawkins, yes we could have hit them and won it, but shutting up shop may have been the way to go.

The first was such a bloody poor clearence from Baker and it goes straight back down his throat.

So frustrating not to hold on for a point, but there were plenty of positives to take.

Big H really got the crowd going second half. He is bloody huge and was on his seat whipping up a frenzy! Cracking atmosphere.

[villa `cross the mersey]

Sorry it has to be said - Feck off Lambert - you have had all season to sort out the defence and you have failed miserably.
Losing at home to the likes of Necastle, and Wigan will cost us  - not losing at Arsenal.
Sick to the stomach tonight - how many times have we given up late goals? - VCTM



"Drink a cold glass of milk and lie down on a comfy bed". - Aftab





I refer you my 7th and 8th words above - I care passionately about this club as we all do and I desperately want us to survive - I am old enough to have witnessed this club in its murkiest depths and I am concerned we are heading the same way again.
I shall consume as much alcohol as my body will allow and go to bed when I am at that point...... oh and don`t be such a smart Arse ! 

[ez]

The fact that the post match thread is not yet running to a dozen or so pages, suggests a certain resignation as to our fate.

No it does no such thing. Most of the H&Vers recognise that the team did well today and were desperately unlucky to lose.

Each to their own. I thought Arsenal pissed all over us in the second half. The better side won.

[villa `cross the mersey]

The fact that the post match thread is not yet running to a dozen or so pages, suggests a certain resignation as to our fate.

No it does no such thing. Most of the H&Vers recognise that the team did well today and were desperately unlucky to lose.

Really? - My of my buddies has just text me from London on his way home and said we were lucky not to get stuffed -

so please consider your own advice ""Drink a cold glass of milk and lie down on a comfy bed" -

[arnie66]

I think we will be swapping places with Wigan regularly for the remaining 11 games then it will all be about who can win the last game at their place

Going to be a nervous few months