Unai Emery

[Toronto Villa]

Stevenage defeat will piss me off till I die. Unai is stained with that and nothing can correct it. 

he sent out a team against a league 2 side more than capable of winning the game and the team fucked up.

A team with Robin Olsen in it stands a good chance of losing any game of football.

Olsen did nothing wrong for the vast majority of the game. We should have been 3 goals up by the time we needed to ever get involved. If Stoke can score 3 against Stevenage no reason why couldn't. The whole Olsen thing is entirely irrelevant when you consider the other 10 players we started with.

[clash city rocker]

Stevenage defeat will piss me off till I die. Unai is stained with that and nothing can correct it.

I don't believe I have just read that.The best manager we have had in years and gets critical comments because players fucked up. Would you rather still have SG at the helm who may have got us past stevenage but would also have had us in a relegation battle.

[Risso]

Stevenage defeat will piss me off till I die. Unai is stained with that and nothing can correct it. 

he sent out a team against a league 2 side more than capable of winning the game and the team fucked up.

A team with Robin Olsen in it stands a good chance of losing any game of football.

Olsen did nothing wrong for the vast majority of the game. We should have been 3 goals up by the time we needed to ever get involved. If Stoke can score 3 against Stevenage no reason why couldn't. The whole Olsen thing is entirely irrelevant when you consider the other 10 players we started with.

Keepers quite often do nothing wrong for large parts of the game, it's the bits where they have to keep the ball out of the net that counts, and he was part of the fuck up.

[Clark W Griswold]

We literally might as well have not had anyone in goal for the second. He wasn't the only fuck up that day but he was one of the worst.

[pauliewalnuts]

Olsen contributed to their second, he shouldn’t have got beaten so easily at the near post.

[Toronto Villa]

Stevenage defeat will piss me off till I die. Unai is stained with that and nothing can correct it. 

he sent out a team against a league 2 side more than capable of winning the game and the team fucked up.

A team with Robin Olsen in it stands a good chance of losing any game of football.

Olsen did nothing wrong for the vast majority of the game. We should have been 3 goals up by the time we needed to ever get involved. If Stoke can score 3 against Stevenage no reason why couldn't. The whole Olsen thing is entirely irrelevant when you consider the other 10 players we started with.

Keepers quite often do nothing wrong for large parts of the game, it's the bits where they have to keep the ball out of the net that counts, and he was part of the fuck up.

He did. It was much more embarrasing that we were 1-1 vs a league 2 side at home that late in the game.

[Ian.]

I’m not sure it Emery’s fault we bought the Sweden number one and still can’t blame him for that cup exit. That team should have beat Stevenage.

A team with Ings and Coutinho on the pitch should have had a field day.

[eamonn]

The Stevenage winner - being caught-out by a short corner and the daisy-cutter into the near post, happened in the league against Arsenal too the following month.

I don't know if that's players being stupid and not learning from mistakes or the coaching staff not drilling it into the team. Those goals are awful ones to concede as they're easily avoided.

[olaftab]

Stevenage defeat will piss me off till I die. Unai is stained with that and nothing can correct it.

I don't believe I have just read that.The best manager we have had in years and gets critical comments because players fucked up. Would you rather still have SG at the helm who may have got us past stevenage but would also have had us in a relegation battle.

How did you deduce that I would rather have SG as manager? As good as Unai appears to be he is not behind criticism. He fucked up in both cup games by poor selection and sending players out with wrong mindset.

[olaftab]

Stevenage defeat will piss me off till I die. Unai is stained with that and nothing can correct it. 

What if he wins ya a cup double next season? Go on, have a heart.

Well actually I would. I will polish his shoes forever if he does that😊

[olaftab]

Stevenage defeat will piss me off till I die. Unai is stained with that and nothing can correct it. 

he sent out a team against a league 2 side more than capable of winning the game and the team fucked up.

No, he didn’t. He sent out a team lacking in drive and ambition and total disrespect for the lower league opposition.

[Toronto Villa]

Stevenage defeat will piss me off till I die. Unai is stained with that and nothing can correct it. 

he sent out a team against a league 2 side more than capable of winning the game and the team fucked up.

No, he didn’t. He sent out a team lacking in drive and ambition and total disrespect for the lower league opposition.

Utter nonsense. He sent out a team full of professionals expecting them to perform professionally. The starting line up included 10 players who had international experience including two that just returned from the WC. You could see after the game just now much it fucked him off to lose and it taught him how much work he had in front of him to change the attitude and culture at the club. Something we starting to see much more now. But he showed no disrespect for the tournament by picking that side. A team that at home that should have won comfortably. Every PL team, irrespective of who they played in Rd 3 made a number of changes to what might be considered their best XI. And when you consider he had only been at the club a couple of months I don’t think he even knew his best XI. What his experience and knowledge probably told him was that 10 internationals and one player in Chambers that had plenty of top flight experience should have been more than enough to win that game.

I get it. We lost. It fucked us all off. We haven’t won it in an eternity and it would be great to do it again. But this is such a shit example of us not taking it seriously. Have some perspective. Something that absolutely can be levelled at former managers over the years.

[Clampy]

Exactly right Toronto. Stoke managed to beat them in the next round, the team we put out should have done the same. He showed no disrespect at all. It's done now, there's no point being angry about it.

[Nunkin1965]

There isn't a single manager out there that hasn't dropped a massive clanger selection wise, and anyway, this will all be forgotten when Unai leads us to Cup glory one day.

[Baldy]

Losing to Stevenage in the very early days of Unai's tenure, is the very reason we will win the FA Cup next season.

Not all doom and gloom.