Arsenal v Aston Villa Match Thread

[BoVillan esq]

Our squad is painfully thin and it’s showing.

We need this transfer window if we are going to hang on to top 4.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

Fuck this: let's school Forest on Saturday!

[PeterWithesShin]

People seem to forget  far too readily when Martinez has saved us

No one is saying sell him, should we ignore that corners are becoming an issue?

No it doesn't,, but there is a severe amount of overreaction here

What severe overreaction, has anyone said drop him or sell him?

[Smithy]

People seem to forget  far too readily when Martinez has saved us

No they don’t.
He has massive amounts of credit.
But no-one can turn a blind eye to the fuck ups either.

The issue is, teams now know we're vulnerable to a floated corner in the six yard box if you disrupt Emi's set-up.  So they're all going to do it.  Either he figures out a way to fix it, or we're going to concede a lot more goals from corners.

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

If we can nick one we're still in this

[NorthYvillan]

People seem to forget  far too readily when Martinez has saved us

No one is saying sell him, should we ignore that corners are becoming an issue?

No it doesn't,, but there is a severe amount of overreaction here

What severe overreaction, has anyone said drop him or sell him?

Yes - quite a few

[Chris_Jephcott]

This was always going to be the game I worried about. We’re comfy, we have enough of a margin. We finish this one and we’ve got one of the toughest teams played both home and away.

Arsenal will slip up later in the season. They always do.

[Toronto Villa]

Our squad is painfully thin and it’s showing. 

Look at their bench versus ours. A couple of injuries and suspensions we are down to the academy. They lashed out ten times wha we did just to reinforce what thy had, get deeper and stronger. It will take us many more years of consistent CL football and revenues to get there. And even then we may never catch up.

[rob_bridge]

Fuck this: let's school Forest on Saturday!

We need a quick reaction

[Holte132]

This is our 'blip', as the Arsenal loss at Villa Park was theirs

[JUAN PABLO]

too many suicide balls in the middle

[HolteLower]

Frustrating that we keep helping them out.

[BoVillan esq]

If we can nick one we're still in this

This is key if we can pull one back Arsenal will get very panicky.

[PeterWithesShin]

3-0

[andyh]

There was a push before that goal